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You might know Alicia Witt from her body of work as an actor on shows including Friday Night Lights, Law and Order and Cybill, and from the films 88 Minutes, Two Weeks Notice, Last Holiday and Mr Hollands Opus to name a few. But she is also a classically trained pianist and accomplished singer/songwriter. for the last 3 years, she's been performing her original songs at venues across the country such as Hotel Cafe and Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles, and Joe's Cafe and The Living Room in New York.
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Caroline sets out in her car on a journey. Scott is out on his scooter that afternoon too. Each of these graphs represents a journey they could make. The horizontal axis shows the number of minutes that have passed since noon, and the vertical axis shows the distance each vehicle is from Caroline's house.
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GASTONIA � For the past three seasons, local football coaches have derisively called the state playoffs �a conference tournament.�
On Thursday, the N.C. High School Athletic Association got the message and changed the format for upcoming playoffs.
Instead of the regionally-based �pod system� that was designed to reduce playoff travel, N.C. Class 2A, 3A and 4A will revert to a simple regional concept. N.C. Class 1A will continue using the �pod system� since its teams tend to be from more sparsly-populated areas.
The change in 2A, 3A and 4A means that those classifications, which are sub-divided based on enrollment figures, will feature two 16-team regional brackets with the champions of the East and West region meeting for the state championships.
In the past three seasons, the state had four eight-team brackets before semifinal meetings for regional titles and a state championship game.
�That�s great news,� South Point coach Mickey Lineberger said of Thursday�s decision by the NCHSAA Board of Directors. �The last two years the North Carolina Coaches Association (NCCA) recommended at our January and July meetings to do away with the �pod system� � and it was almost a unanimous vote.�
The reason coaches like Lineberger and others in the area didn�t like the �pod system� was because it created so many regular season rematches between conference opponents. In each of the three years of that playoff format, Big South 3A Conference teams played rematches in the opening round every year.
�When you just play somebody you�re already played, especially from your own conference, the playoffs just aren�t as special. This will make the playoffs special again.�
Added Kings Mountain High coach Greg Lloyd: �It�s the right thing to do. It�s been a Big South tournament once you get in the playoffs.�
The change to the �pod system� was the major development of Thursday�s meeting, which also included several other topics, including revealing plans for next year�s 100th anniversary celebration of the NCHSAA.
After defeating nearby Berry Academy of Charlotte in this year�s opening round, South Point defeated league rival Crest for the second time in three weeks in the second round.
Crest athletic director Guy Suttle, also a football assistant, said the rematches weren�t just an issue for this area.
�I don�t think it was just unique for us,� Suttle said. �That situation was reoccurring all over the state.�
Lincolnton coach Scott Cloninger said he understands why the �pod system� was adopted, but as coach of a school that�s made 13th straight playoff appearances, he thinks his team and fans enjoy visited places they wouldn�t normally visit.
�I�m like a lot of coaches who didn�t like the way it had been,� Cloninger said. �I�ve always enjoyed � and I think the people of Lincolnton enjoy � the trips and the travel we�ve made in the playoffs over the years.�
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -The Council for Advancement and Support of Education has named the winners of its 2006 Distinguished Service Awards, one of the association's most prestigious honors.
The five individuals, selected for their extraordinary service and leadership in advancement and education, will be honored on Monday, July 10, during a luncheon at the CASE Summit for Advancement Leaders conference in New York City.
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The U.S. Open Tennis Championships is the top stand-alone annual sporting event in the world. It expects to draw more than 700,000 fans and rake in about $200 million in revenue and more than $100 million in profit. The grounds of the 46.5-acre USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York boast two stadium courts, 20 side courts and a soon-to-be-completed $60 million indoor training center, which will also house a new hospitality complex.
Operating the tournament is a major endeavor, with 10,600 people staffing the event. The Open may be the only event that has its own Federal Aviation Administration deal to divert airplanes (the first call the tournament referee makes before play each day is to the control tower at LaGuardia Airport, and the last to the same tower). It also has its own on-site meteorologist.
The following is a look at some of the behind-the-scenes challenges the event confronts.
Description: The Open has worked hard to be more than just a tennis event. Indeed, despite there being few top Americans in tennis, the spectacle continues to be a major draw. Some say it has a Disneyland appeal. There are more than 100 types of plants, including three kinds of chili peppers. Three upscale restaurants, a wide-ranging food court and a Heineken bar keep fans fed, and the Polo, Wilson and Lacoste stores are usually packed. Fountain displays, a hall of fame area, an interactive zone (open next year), and musical bands are part of the fun.
footprint and many amenities that cater to more than 700,000 fans.
What's new: Part of the new $60 million, 245,000-square-foot U.S. Tennis Association training center will be open, including a spacious membership office; clearer wayfinding signs have been added through Infinite Scale Design; green initiatives; a new wine bar.
Our request: Hard to find fault, but what about an Internet cafe, business center or meeting rooms?
Fun fact: Legend has it that the idea of moving the Open from its ancient home in Forest Hill, Queens, to the current site in Flushing came when USTA President "Slew" Hester noticed the property while landing on a flight into LaGuardia in January 1977. The center, the largest public tennis facility in the world, opened 20 months later.
Description: 240 singles players, 240 doubles players, not to mention girls and boys junior singles and doubles tournaments, and that's a lot of egos, nationalities and languages. The tournament spiffed up the locker rooms last year in an $8 million renovation, added a new workout room, and, in a nice touch, put the name of past champions on their lockers. Players can request their own music when they go on court, and the tournament downloads it from iTunes. If a player requests a song with offensive lyrics, a clean version is played.
to renovate the locker rooms.
What's new: The entire scheduling system is finally going digital. Until this tournament, the figurative man-behind-the curtain followed the action by using magnets and moving them ahead through the brackets, and at the end of the day figured out the next day's schedule, which players and media eagerly awaited. While it sounds simple, with only five courts available to TV, scheduling courts with foreign media in mind is a complicated process. This year, the control room has 16 large computer screens managing the action.
Our request: The players already got the media kicked out of the locker rooms last year, so if we were a player, we'd say more prize money.
Fun fact: In 2002, Pete Sampras complained to tournament director Jim Curley about being scheduled first on semifinals day before Andre Agassi, ranting that the last time he played so early he was a junior. The extra rest is largely credited with giving him an edge the next day over Agassi in Sampras' final match.
tournament's hospitality center.
Description: In addition to 90 luxury suites in the main stadium, the U.S. Open has a $5 million corporate hospitality business that will entertain 140 companies this fortnight, with 80-100 staff members. For the third and final year, the current tent complex is located outside the grounds, a short walk from the southern entrance. Next year, hospitality will be moved to the new training and entertainment building.
What's new: The hospitality center is stepping up the foliage with 3,000 plants this year.
Our request: The temporary hospitality village has proved so popular, the USTA looked at staying put instead of moving into the new training center building. Maybe it should do both.
Fun fact: The number of companies using Open hospitality has tripled in recent years.
travel a total of more than 94,000 miles.
Description: Transporting players and VIPs between Manhattan and the site is a major undertaking (most of the USTA employees stay at the nearby Crowne Plaza). The 150 cars, provided by tournament sponsor Lexus, travel an estimated 94,468 miles during the event. That's not to mention the 64,378 miles the buses for media and other credentialed holders the USTA estimates will cover. As for the average fan, 57 percent arrive via mass transit.
What's new: More than 60 percent of the cars are hybrids this year.
Our request: How about arranging with the city for a U.S. Open express subway to run once an hour, the way Long Island Railroad does?
Fun fact: Each year, tournament referee Brian Earley is on the phone four or five times talking to cars stuck in the midtown tunnel with players late getting to the grounds.
Description: The U.S. Open will sell about $12 million in merchandise this year through its own branded apparel and third-party vendors like Nike, Polo and Lacoste (the Open's net is about half). New this year is Under Armour. The merchandise business is handled by Facility Merchandising Inc. Its CEO, Milt Arenson, is there each day of the tournament, including tallying up the receipts deep below Louis Armstrong Stadium, usually at 5 a.m. He then lets USTA merchandise chief Sarah Cummins know what needs to be restocked.
in merchandise this year.
What's new: With the U.S. Open carrying 850 products with its own brand — aside from, say, the Polo and Lacoste products — it's always hard to figure out what the hot item will be. Our bet is on the baseball cap made from two Coke bottles, part of the USTA green initiative.
Our request: How about a tennis version of the dollar store, say the $10 store: Nothing costs more than $10. And for good measure, put it up by the cheap seats in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Fun fact: Almost every year, electricity problems knock out one vendor's cash register, leading to much counting of handwritten receipts.
Description: With more than 1,300 credentialed media, the Open is a major global happening. There is no main broadcast center; instead, television production and feeds run through trailers or modules parked outside between the stadiums and next to a railroad track. This area is city land that can only be used during the tournament.
been issued for the tournament.
What's new: The modules are essentially upscale TV trailers. A small cafeteria is now alongside them, and next year, on the USTA side of the road, several trailers will be stacked and kept there year round in an effort to accommodate new partner ESPN, which begins coverage in 2009.
Our request: The main media room, where hundreds work, has one men's and one women's rest room. Enough said.
Fun fact: The USTA's advanced media unit during the two weeks is housed beneath the stands of 44-year-old Louis Armstrong Stadium, which is the second show court. Because of a history of flooding, the floor is made of thick wood squares and there is no carpet. Beer dripping in from the stands continues to be a problem. On the plus side, the space, which will be crammed with 60 to 70 staffers, may have the coolest temperature on the often hot and humid grounds.
Description: You can't talk U.S. Open without gabbing about the food, considered among the most upscale in sports. There are more than 60 concessions and the Open expects $18 million in sales. Concessionaire Levy Restaurants anticipates selling 230,000 hamburgers, 4.5 tons of crab and lobster, and 26,000 pounds of beef tenderloin and steaks. With three exclusive restaurants, one of which is open to general ticket holders, take your appetite and your wallet (yes, American Express is the official card of the Open).
hamburgers during the event.
What's new: The biggest change is what fans won't see, or taste, as the case may be. The national training center, with its 15,000-square-foot food commissary, is now attached to the main row of restaurants in the food court. Previously, refrigeration was limited to concessions just for beer, and now it should handle most needs. This should improve stocking and freshness.
Our request: Limited vegetarian and organic food offerings. With New York City full of these kinds of trendy restaurants, the USTA should find one to set up shop for the two weeks.
Fun fact: Ben and Jerry's expects to sell $1 million in ice cream and shakes on-site this year, up from $850,000 last year.
Description: The Open boasts 22 sponsors and each year they seem to promote more than ever at retail and on-site. The years of companies sponsoring the Open because the CEO liked tennis are over, said Pierce O'Neil, the USTA chief business officer. JPMorgan Chase, perhaps the top sponsor, gave away 16,000 tickets in New York this summer as part of a promotion. American Express on-site will hand out free TVs and radios featuring the tennis action. Evian will boast more than 80 large Evian bottle recycling bins around the grounds (all recycling sorting had been done by trash collectors previously).
on getting the most exposure.
What's new: New sponsor Juvéderm has a booth on-site for anyone desperate to hear about getting rid of their wrinkles.
Our request: It's not a sponsor issue, but the full name of the site is the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Spelling out USTA, that's 63 letters, and tennis is used twice. Something should give.
Fun fact: U.S. Open sponsor contracts are written so that companies with courtside signage have their lettering within 24 inches of the exterior doubles line. One year a CEO sitting courtside insisted his company's sign was farther. The Open measured it and the USTA was right.
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|Celebrity watch
|Confirmed celebrity guests for this year's U.S. Open
|Hank Aaron
|Steve Guttenberg
|Tony Bennett
|Wayne Knight
|Ellen Burstyn
|Michael Kors
|Chevy Chase
|Chazz Palminteri
|Glenn Close
|Rosie Perez
|Oscar de la
|Stephen Root
|Sally Field
|Neil Sedaka
|Rod Gilbert
|Charlize Theron
|Jeff Gordon
|Jann Wenner
Description: When the USTA in 1999 hired former Radio City chief Arlen Kantarian to run pro tennis, it was not hard to figure out that music would be part of his plan. Now the USTA has an opening night ceremony — The Jersey Boys will sing tonight and the host is Forest Whitaker — and a finals act. Staff led by Kantarian, managing director Michelle Wilson, and general manager of entertainment Michael Fiur make the choices. Celebrity fans are booked through Flying Television, and between 100 and 200 are expected this fortnight (70 percent come unsolicited).
What's new: One of the entertainment acts on the grounds during finals weekend will be teams of rope jumpers. Wilson concedes it is not the most obvious fit for the Open's 35-and-above demographic, but says people love watching young people having fun.
Our request: The smaller music acts on the grounds can bother the players competing, who are the core product. Perhaps more nonmusical entertainment, like comedians, author Q&As, acrobats?
Fun fact: The nine video boards on the grounds have their own production team and TV trailer.
— Compiled by Daniel Kaplan


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OSLO — An Oslo court on Monday found two men guilty of plotting "a terrorist act" for a planned attack on the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Norwegian national Mikael Davud, a member of China's Uighur minority considered the mastermind behind the plot against the Jyllands-Posten daily, was sentenced to seven years behind bars, while Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd residing in Norway, received a three-and-a-half-year prison term.
The two men had in liaison with Al-Qaeda planned to use explosives against the offices of the Danish newspaper and to murder Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the most controversial of the 12 drawings of the Muslim Prophet published in September 2005, according to the prosecution.
Westergaard's drawing, which has earned him numerous death threats and an assassination attempt, showed Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.
The prosecution had demanded prison sentences of 11 and five years respectively.
David Jakobsen, an Uzbek arrested at the same time as Davud and Bujak in July 2010, was acquitted of the most serious charges but was sentenced to four months behind bars for helping the two others to procure the materials needed to create the explosives.
The three men had all pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Davud however did confess to planning an attack, but said it was directed at Chinese interests in Norway and not at Jyllands-Posten.
The member of the oppressed Uighur minority in China said he had been acting out of purely personal motives and that he had manipulated the two others so they would help him get hold of chemicals, including hydrogen peroxide, that he needed to build a bomb.
Bujak meanwhile admitted that he had spoken with Davud about the possibility of punishing Jyllands-Posten and Westergaard for the cartoons, but insisted the comments were vague and did not constitute a terrorist plot.
As for Jakobsen, who contacted police voluntarily in November 2009 and was the only one of the three to have been released from custody until the verdict, he categorically denied any intention to participate in the plot.


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Ft. Riley BRO League
Club News
Tom Lowman November 10, 2012 at 2:57am
Alternate Sundays with Warner for Winter hours
Moon Lake will begin alternating with Warner Park to host league play on Sunday afternoons. Warner will be the venue for the 1st and 3rd Sundays; Moon Lake for the 2nd and 4th Sundays. See you at Moon Lake this weekend.
Tom Lowman October 9, 2012 at 5:28am
Tee pad maintenance
As you play please take note of which tee pad markers have been thrashed by the mowers. Just shoot me a note so I can keep up with repairs. I have plenty of the plastic markers, but I need to make a run to Home Depot soon to pick up the 10" spikes. Mowing is probably done for the year so we should be good. MTF soon on tee signs....
Robert Adams April 29, 2012 at 4:24am
Sunday's League
Repost for anyone who's not following the "talk" thread:
Bro league is still on for tomorrow for anyone who wants to come play. However I'll caution those that come that the grass in some areas in ankle/shin high due to the landscaping contract for the year not being renewed. Which of course is a good thing, it gave us moon lake. Looking forward to seeing anyone who comes out. There's an option of going up to Moon Lake afterwards to take a look at the potential new course.
Mathew Williamson August 1, 2011 at 12:24am
Basket and tee placement
We will soon have new basket placement on the course. Holes 1,9,10,&11 will have new, more skilled shot homes. We are currently refining tee placement before final placement of tees. All input welcome!
Mathew Williamson August 1, 2011 at 12:20am
New weekly game time
Sunday August 7th we will implement our new league time of 1700. See you then!


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Tony Abbott tackles 'the benefit of the doubt' on YouTube.
Sydney [AAP]
The federal government is set to crack down on who qualifies for residency, citizenship and welfare in a bid to tighten national security.
Prime minister Tony Abbott has taken to YouTube to warn there will be no more 'benefit of the doubt' for those who might want to harm Australia.
He's also indicated tougher enforcement of bail laws.
'It's clear to me, that for too long, we have given those who might be a threat to our country the benefit of the doubt,' Mr Abbott said.
'There's been the benefit of the doubt at our borders, the benefit of the doubt for residency, the benefit of the doubt for citizenship and the benefit of the doubt at Centrelink.
'And in the courts, there has been bail, when clearly there should have been jail.'
The comments come with Mr Abbott to next week make a detailed national security statement.
He is also expected within days to deliver the government's response to an inquiry into the handling of the Sydney Lindt cafe siege.
News Corp Australia says one item being considered as part of the statement is a proposal by newly appointed government whip Andrew Nikolic for Australia to follow moves in Britain, France and Canada on suspending the citizenship of anyone involved in terrorism or revoking the citizenship of dual nationals.
Parliamentary secretary Steve Ciobo said the idea of stripping dual nationals, who engaged in terrorism, of their citizenship was a step in the right direction.
'Many Australians have zero tolerance when it comes to those who are willing to murder civilians,' he told ABC radio.


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Mr. Hans-Peter Röthlin, the President of the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), spoke yesterday in Rome about the recent papal Lenten message saying that, the Pope's central point is that "the mystery of almsgiving is love."
In his address Mr. Röthlin spoke about the life and work of the founder of ACN, the late Father Werenfried van Straaten, who died in 2003 and who was known to millions by the nickname of the "Bacon Priest".
During his lifetime, said Mr. Röthlin, Father Werenfried had been described as "the greatest beggar in the Church's history". He had hastened through the world in order "to dry the tears of God, wherever He weeps", and to "bear witness to the sufferings of the children of God". In the Western world above all, he had sought to "reawaken the conscience of the people", Mr. Röthlin continued. Almost his sole method had been preaching, whereby he had told his own story which was "a synonym for the history of his charity", Mr. Rudkin added.
The president of ACN underlined the fact that the Holy Father had said in his Lenten message that everything must tend "not to our own honour, but to the honour of God". Father Werenfried also emphasized this point by reminding people of the poor widow in the Gospels, and in his Spiritual Guidelines admonished those who give away donations that "they must never forget that they are administering not only the money but above all the love of our benefactors".
Mr. Röthlin stressed that in speaking of administering love along with money, Fr. Werenfried had hit on the "central point" of the papal message, namely that the mystery of almsgiving is love.
Turning to the fourth point in the papal message, which speaks of the joy in giving, Mr. Röthlin said that it had made him think of just how many people had gone away from Father Werenfried and from ACN with "their eyes full of happiness and joy" after having "emptied the entire contents of their wallets". The president of ACN recalled how Father Werenfried, after having preached during Holy Mass in the churches, would stand at the door with his legendary hat in his hand. People had "rushed up to him with banknotes in their hands, and had often striven to be the first in this contest of love".
Mr. Röthlin explained that while ACN has only now begun to write Father Werenfried's history, …they can confirm already that "this story is a story of love, love that has not diminished with the death of our founder".
Mr. Röthlin concluded his address by outlining the essence of ACN today. He did so with a quotation from Father Werenfried himself: "Our charity is a meeting place of the Universal Church, where God's children from every nation on earth meet together in supernatural love and mutually enrich one another."
The international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need, which has its headquarters in the town of Königstein, near Frankfurt in Germany, is a charity of pontifical right, and therefore directly answerable to the Holy See. It has national offices in 17 countries -- in Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia and Latin America -- and supports over 5,000 pastoral projects annually in some 140 countries around the world. The charity was founded in 1947 by the Dutch Norbertine priest and religious, Father Werenfried van Straaten and helps the Catholic Church wherever she faces persecution or discrimination or is too poor to fulfill her pastoral and social mission.


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Tennessee was the seventh most miserable state in the union last year, according to a new study.
The results are from polling firm Gallup and Healthways, a Franklin, Tenn.-based health care company. They are based on surveys of more than 4,000 in Tennessee on 55 measures of well-being, like body mass index, sick days taken, history of disease, work habits, and more.
Tennessee's company on the list is a cluster of states including, West Virginia (50), Kentucky (49), Mississippi (48), Alabama (47), Ohio (46), Arkansas (45), Missouri (43), Oklahoma (42), and Louisiana (41).
Tennessee's average rank on the list has been around the 43rd mark since the companies began the survey in 2008. The state did rise three positions from its fourth-place finish in last year's report.
The top 10 for the 2013 were North Dakota (1), South Dakota (2), Nebraska (3), Minnesota (4), Montana (5), Vermont (6), Colorado (7), Hawaii (8), Washington (9), and Iowa (10).
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I just found out that one of "The" Shinto shrines in the USA is located in Granite Falls, Wa.
Why Granite Falls? It's a fascinating question. But that question is for another thread on a another message board....
However, the thought of a Shinto Shrine in Granite Falls made me search for "restaurants", "near" Granite Falls, hoping for Japanese, Vegetarian, etc. type of restaurants with no luck at all.
Might there be some hidden gem in Granite Falls?
No matter, I will be heading up to Granite Falls to check out the Grand Shrine, next free day.
Are there any restaurants I should punch into my Garmin to check out for lunch or an early dinner?
Has anyone here been to the Grand Shrine?


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I want to just enter some notes now about how I plan to add 12 million jobs to the U.S. economy. I mean, it's time for me to figure all this out. I'm a business icon, after all; a veritable one-man, company-producing, job-manufacturing machine.
Getting my calculator out now. OK. Let's look at the typical McDonald's store. If you figure it's open 24 hrs per day, and there are 6 full-timers in the store per shift, that's 24 full-time jobs per store.
Now if I, Mitt Romney, personally start 500,000 new stores, that's 12 million jobs right there! Hey--maybe this isn't so tough. OK--thinking here. 500,000 stores seems like it might be a lot, though if you divide that by 50 states...using the calculator here...that's only 10,000 stores per state. (Wonder if we can add more states?)
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Ben has yet to fill out a bio.
Hey buddy, how ya doing? :) Please don't let this go any further because I certainly am not looking for sympathy but a few months ago, I was diagnosed with Leukemia and I just started my fifth round of chemo. Because of this, I am sometimes unable to reply in detail so forgive me if I short shrift any of your thoughtful comments, it is not my intention.
On the plus side, I am completely blessed in that I am responding extremely well to my treatment and I only have one more round to go. Thanks for your understanding...
Hi Ben, thanks for the comment. If I had to do it all over again, I probably would have included McNeal. But I knew what he was capable of because I have seen him up close in the past including once when he played at Venice high. Still, he did exceed expectations didn't he? :)


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5TH ANNUAL SUMMER ACTIVITY GUIDE ART CONTESTThis year's theme is "Sun, Sports & Other Summer Adventures!"
Berkeley, California (Monday, February 07, 2011) - Students from kindergarten to 8th grade are invited to submit their artwork to the 5th Annual Summer Activity Guide Art Contest. The Grand Prize winner will receive a $50 gift card and have their artwork featured on the cover of the Summer 2011 Activity Guide.
Youth are invited to submit artwork that showcases all the fun activities youth participate in during the summer. This year's theme is "Sun, Sports & Other Summer Adventures!" Awards will be given to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category (Kindergarten - 2nd grade, 3rd - 5th grade and 6th - 8th grade), with the grand prize winner being featured on the cover of the Activity Guide.
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BALTIMORE -- So much about the Baltimore Orioles' run to the playoffs has been confounding.
For most of the season, they were handily outscored by opponents. When they entered the home stretch, injuries deprived them of key players. Still, they stormed to their first playoff berth since 1997 and a date in the ALDS with the Yankees, thanks to one of the game's best bullpens.
While the Orioles plugged holes in their starting lineup and their starting rotation -- adding pieces along the way -- it was the bullpen that never wavered. The relievers have been the constant.
"There's power, there's deception, there's lefthanders, there's righthanders, and I think it takes all those things,'' Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Saturday. "You have guys that have the ability to get double-play balls, guys that have the ability to get strikeouts, so I think they work well together.''
As a group, the Baltimore relievers finished third in the American League with a 3.00 ERA. Their performances look even more impressive considering their heavy workload. Orioles manager Buck Showalter coaxed 5451/3 innings from his bullpen, the third-highest total in the AL.
"We've been able to put them in a position where they do what they do because we've gotten deeper in the game with our starters,'' Showalter said.
The relievers have responded by giving Showalter the ability to mix and match. "We have a little bit of everything,'' lefty Brian Matusz said. "So far, it's been working out. We've been able to have certain guys for certain matchups.''
In closer Jim Johnson and set-up man Pedro Strop, the Orioles have a pair of high-octane fireballers. In Darren O'Day, they have a sidearmer whose deception makes up for a lack of velocity. In former Yankee Luis Ayala, the Orioles have a sinkerballer capable of generating valuable ground balls. And in Matusz and Troy Patton, the Orioles have two lefties capable of neutralizing power-hitting lefthanded hitters late in games.
"We have a good time down there in the bullpen,'' said Matusz, a former first-round draft pick who endured ups and downs as a starter. "We keep it loose, we joke around, so when it's time to go, we're loose. We go out and we just play free. It's just a great group of guys all around.''
The final ingredient resides in the dugout, where Showalter has maximized his bullpen's versatility. Said Strop: "You've got a manager who knows how to use those weapons.''
Those weapons have come from different places. Some, such as O'Day and Ayala, once were castoffs. But with the Orioles, they're part of a unit that could shape the course of the ALDS.
"We are big-leaguers,'' Ayala said. "Every player that makes the big leagues can do something great. The only difference is we don't have big names.''
From this collection of imperfect pieces, the Orioles have achieved one form of perfection. They have yet to lose a game in which they held the lead after seven innings. In their wild-card victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday night, the Orioles improved to 75-0.
"No names,'' Ayala said. "Big men. That's the most important thing.''


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Published 6:30 am, Thursday, December 20, 2007
Three Houston-area men have been indicted on federal child pornography charges, including pressuring children into sexually explicit behavior that was broadcast online.
Perry Gobel Adkins, 58, and Victor Saavedra, 54, both of Houston, and Keith Hernandez, 23, of La Marque, were indicted Dec. 13 by a federal grand jury, according to information from the Department of Justice. The three were arrested this week.
Adkins was indicted on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Saavedra was indicted on charges of sexual exploitation of a child.
Hernandez was indicted on charges of possession and receipt of child pornography.


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Nelson Durán
Nelson Durán was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, in 1942. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the Universidad Católica de Valpariso and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Porto Rico, Porto Rico, USA, in 1967 and 1972, respectively. He serves as an Associated Professor at the Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile (1973-1975), and carried out Visiting Professorship at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (1975), investigating enzymatic generation of excited states intermediates. In 1978, he joined the Chemistry Institute of UNICAMP (Brazil) working in biological chemistry and biotechnology. His present research interests are biotechnology, nanobiotechnology in cosmetics and in pharmaceuticals, besides metallic nanoparticles as antibiotics carriers. He worked as the Director of Environmental Science Center and Biochemical Research Center at Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes, SP, Brazil (2001-2007). He was the Coordinator of the Brazilian Nanobiotechnology Network and now is Member of the Brazilian Nanocosmetics and Carbon Nanotubes Networks and of the Committee of Brazil-Argentina Nanotechnology Center. Now, he is a Retired-Invited Professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and serves as an Invited Senior Professor at the Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil.
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Hi, I'm trying to create a gallery in the Coalition One Page Portfolio but the 'gallery' element is not showing in the Coalition template builder. Could this have to do with the WordPress 3.6 update issue? (all the other elements are available..)
Please update your theme to the latest version (v1.8). It should be compatible with wp3.6. If the issue still persists please deactivate all third party plugins – maybe a plugin incompatible with wp3.6. If the issue still persists please post a link to your website.
Everything seems to be working. Except the portfolio page. It doesn't show in the standard Coalition layout but it's there though. Shouldn't have any problems integrating it I think..
Regards, Xenia
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Portuguese midfielder Bruno Gama is familiar with winning at the international level.
Gama was a member of the side that won the European Under-17 title in 2003.
This year he led Portugal back to the Under-20 championships for the first time since 2001.
A player with incredible speed, Gama is the catalyst of the Portuguese attack playing just behind the two main strikers. Along with his speed, Gama has exceptional vision and passing ability.
He also has a thunderous shot which he can hit with either foot.
The 19 year old was born in Vila Verde, Portugal, and is considered the country's next big star.
Currently on loan from FC Porto to Sporting Braga, Gama scored three goals for Portugal at the Under-19 European championships last summer to help book a spot at this year's World Cup.
Portugal drew all three of its games at the European championship, with a 2-2 tie against Scotland and thrilling 4-4 encounter with Turkey and a 1-1 stalemate with Spain.
"Qualifying for the World Cup gave us a huge amount of satisfaction," Gama told FIFA.com.
"That was our main objective at the European Championship and the team is delighted to have achieved that."
Drawn in a group with New Zealand, Mexico and Gambia, Portugal is a good bet to get beyond the first round and into the quarter-finals.
They'll play their first two group matches in Toronto, and then head to
Montreal for their third. Portugal has twice won the world title at this level, claming the World Youth championship in 1989 and again in 1991.
"I think we can get through to the next round," Gama said. "Then it's just a question of taking each game as it comes."
Born Nov. 15, 1987 in Vila Verde, Portugal ... He started playing with Sporting Braga on their youth side when he was 10 ... Following Portugal's victory in the U-17 European Championships in 2003, Gama was signed by Portuguese powerhouse FC Porto. He played mainly with Porto's B side before being loaned back to Braga last season ... Considers Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo as and Brazilian Ronaldinho as his main inspirations ... Would like to repeat what Luis Figo and Portugal's golden generation accomplished by winning two consecutive World Youth titles in 1989 and 1991.


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Djokovic Wins Epic Australian Open
Five hours and 37 minutes. That's how long the Australian Open final was between world No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia and second-ranked Rafael Nadal of Spain. It was the longest final in a major in the Open era, with the previous longest Grand Slam final being 1988's U.S. Open match between Mats Wilander and Ivan Lendl that clocked in at four hours and 54 minutes. Oh, and Djokovic was the winner, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5. He's now won three straight majors and five overall. Nadal, on the other hand, has now lost three straight major finals.


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ProFootballTalk reports that the NFL has resumed efforts to get the NFLPA to agree to an 18-game regular season.
The union's refusal to expose players to additional injuries has been a roadblock to expanding the NFL's regular-season schedule. A possible approach could include the NFL reducing preseason games to two and adding two regular-season games -- but limiting each player's participation to 16 games.
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Injuries would make those decisions easier. Lions running back Reggie Bush, for example, already would have one of his two games off in the bank after Sunday's decision by the team to play it safe with his knee injury.
Likewise, exceptions could be made for specialists and quarterbacks, who already have greater in-game protections and compensation than other players.The concept would cause strong reactions, in both directions. Though a union source has described the possibility of an 18-game season with a 16-game limit per player as "fascinating," many fans would disagree. Loudly.


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When an outsider moves to take control of a long-established local business, the process can be about as amicable as a custody fight in family court. Right now, two modest-sized U.S. banks, one in San Jose, Calif., the other in Pontiac, Mich., each with assets in the $300 million range, are embroiled in takeover proceedings that are even more acrimonious than usual. The reason: in both cases, the would-be investors are Arab nationalsthe forerunners, as some impassioned local citizens see them, of a full-scale economic invasion by Middle East oil sheiks.
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I saw this blurb on Pitchfork today and was kind of taken aback and of course very saddened to hear the news.
Boilermaker was one of those bands that really gave me a sense of purpose when I was in my early high school years. Terrin's voice is incredible, they were doing "emotional" music before all of the egregious and pitiful bands considering themselves "emo" these days, and there was just something about the trio that clicked for me on every piece of music they wrote. They weren't afraid to get loud. But they seemed equally unapologetic about writing music that was beautiful amidst all the heavier stuff.
I didn't know Terrin was sick, but apparently he's been battling cancer for 10 years, something I can't even imagine.
A foundation has been set up to help out the family on Myspace.
It's amazing how you can be so affected by people who've you never met, and in some cases will unfortunately never get to meet.
I'll be blasting all of my Boilermaker records in his honor and memory.


text: Pietermaritzburg - A 30-year-old police sergeant from the Kokstad Stock Theft unit was shot dead while investigating a crime in the Harding area of KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Saturday.Colonel Jay Naicker said Sergeant Leche Kokjass was alone, investigating stock theft in the area, when he was shot on at around 15:40 on Friday."Members of the community at Gundrift heard the policeman screaming for help," Naicker said."When they went to investigate, they saw two men running into the bushes.""They found Sergeant Kokjass screaming in pain lying not far away from his police vehicle."Sadly he passed away from his injuries a short while later."Kokjass had sustained a gunshot wound to his lower back."At this stage the motive for the killing is unknown," Naicker said."We cannot rule out the possibility that he was killed because of his investigation into stock theft in the area."Kokjass' gun was taken by his attackers.


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Her-Terng Yau
Her-Terng Yau received the B.S. degree from the Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 1994. Then, he obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1996 and 2000, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. In addition, Dr. Yau is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, where he currently teaches in the areas of automatic control and signal analysis. Dr. Yau's research interests include robust control, nonlinear system analysis and control, fuzzy control, and nano- and microengineered system.
Biography Updated on 2 December 2012


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Baidu Wallet collects one billion yuan investment within hours
Deposits in Baidu Wallet, the wealth management service run by China's leading search engine and web portal, reached its investment limit of one billion yuan (HK$1.27 billion) in less than five hours after it launched on Monday.
"Please stay tuned for future products," the company said on its Sina Weibo microblog as it announced a temporary stop on offerings on Monday afternoon.
Baidu, often called China's equivalent to Google, is the latest tech giant to use its online resources to offer financial services, challenging investment products offered by the traditional banking sector.
Demand was so high that complaints about the website being inaccessible circulated online. Baidu Wallet found an initial 120,000 buyers, company spokesman Kaiser Kuo wrote in an email. On average, these initial investors put 8,333.33 yuan into the new financial service, which plans to achieve eight per cent returns on investment annually. The minimum investment in the portfolio of bank deposits and bonds was one yuan.
The tech company's new product is widely seen as a challenge to Alibaba's online personal finance service Yu'ebao, which has collected 55.7 billion yuan since its launch in June, according to a statement by Tian Hong Asset Management, Yu'ebao's asset manager, last week. The company predicted Yu'ebao assets to exceed 100 billion yuan by the year's end, with an additional 500 million yuan on average flowing in every day.
The company said on Monday that the service already had more than 13 million customers. Its annualised return on investment was 4.7 per cent, according to its website.
Earlier this month, Alibaba, the company also controlling China's largest online marketplace Taobao, acquired a majority hold in Tian Hong.
Baidu, listed on the NASDAQ stock-exchange, is scheduled to report its third-quarter results later on Tuesday.
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Marussia fixes issue, sends car to Jerez
28 January 2014 – Marussia has finally sent its new Formula 1 car to Jerez after fixing a last-minute technical glitch.
Late on Monday, it came to light that the Banbury-based outfit would miss the start of the four-day gathering in southern Spain, with mechanics uncovering a problem during the final assembly of the MR03 chassis.
Having worked on a solution back at the factory, the team has now confirmed that the car is on its way to the Andalusian circuit, although it is not yet clear when it will be ready to take to the track for the first time.


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Just in case anyone cares, I've updated my Wishlist. You know, cuz my birthday's coming up and stuff.
One thought on "Wishin', Wishin', Wishin'"
Who is the sugar daddy is going to buy you that $700 camera?
And how funny would it be if you recieved the speaker set and not the sound card?
Man, you are hard to shop for. Love ya anyway. Hope you love me still after your birthday.


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I think I found a snapshot of the code on github located here:
However I can't access the current source code. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi everyone,
Just dropping a note to let you know, we've taken the mercurial repository offline for the time being. We're in the process of moving the code over to github. This process will hopefully be completed in a short while.
Hello Clinton and All,
First of all I would like to say that all you guys at ClearCanvas did a fantastic job. This is a great product. 5 months ago I came across a request for a cloud pacs. And after some research I found ClearCanvas.
After some long analysis and development I have managed to convert the system into cloud which Works of a single website (http://www.pinmoto.com). The system works like this.
1-) You sign up and create a pacs cloud (dicom server) for your organization (Clinic) .
2-) The organization can create their own users and groups. (I developed my own user management modules)
3-) Referal physicians and others can view images.
4-) Evrey organization pays a monthly fee for each study.
That's about it. I spent long hours on the cloud part , redesigning the structure. The advantages the system brings is that the organization (Clinic) gets up and running in a short time without no initial hardware, software and network costs. You pay as you go. And the system also gives a low cost method for sharing and viewing dicom studies securely from anywhere.
Here is a demo account you guys can try out
UserName: demouser
Password: 123456
I have also designed an Iaas service which I added to PlusClouds store
You buy the Image of the server and it sets up in 4 minutes. In return you get a fully working Pacs Server with a User Management system.
The Project has exceeded me and I don't have the time and resources to continue. We have tested it with a few clinics and evreything went fine. But the concept is really new to Turkey, and its hard to convince people. I don't want the project to go to waste, so I'm looking for other developers, investors, buyers etc. to continue the Project.
If anyone is intrested, please let me know.
And also please give me feedback on what you think about this system.
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I ordered two jerseys from the Scudo online store last 16 Dec and paid via Paypal. They shipped Dec 26.
Jan 2, I checked tracking on USPS and it said my package was undeliverable as addressed and was being returned to sender. Double checked on Scudo's site and yup, I had my correct address there (it is also PP verified). Called Scudo yesterday, was told they will call USPS and will get back with me via email or phone. They didn't. Called again today and got a voicemail. Left a thorough message and asked for them to get back with me. Once again no one contacted me. Checked around in Google and found a thread in a tri forum about several users having problems with Scudo delivering goods. Anybody here in RBR have any issues with these guys? I am not familiar with PP's dispute time constraints but I think I am awful close to it.
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Everyone these days seems to be raving about Firefox, and how it should be used over Internet Explorer. I totally agree with these people, however Firefox isn't anywhere near the best browser out there. Opera outperforms Firefox in basically all tests. The goal of this article, isn't to get you to switch. I simply wanted to write a quick article giving facts on why Firefox isn't the best. If you want a detailed report, stop reading. This is just a few quick facts.
Which browser uses less RAM?
I opened 9 popular websites in 9 different tabs in each of the browsers. The websites were as follows:
I then minimized all browsers, and checked their memory usage. Firefox using ~22 MBs was by far using the most. Most browsers release their memory when you minimize them, however Firefox does not by default. If I didn't configure it to do that it would be using ~50 MBs. If you're interested in configuring it to release its memory see this article. In this test, Opera and IE were considerably less.
The next test was restoring all windows and checking their memory usage. Firefox used the most memory at ~31 MBs. Opera used approximately half as much as Firefox.
PC Requirements
Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz
52 MB hard drive space
Windows 98 or higher
66 MHz processor
16-32 MB ram
12 MB Install size
Windows 98 or higher
20 MB of free disk space
Any system running Windows 95 or higher
Cold and hot start times
Firefox 1.0 – 11.54 seconds.
Firefox 1.5 – 17.26 seconds.
Firefox 2.0 – 11.64 seconds
Opera 7.54 – 4.90 seconds.
Opera 8 – 3.66 seconds.
Opera 9.01 – 2.47 seconds.
IE 5.0 – 5.25 seconds.
IE 6.0 – 6.99 seconds.
IE 7.0 – 7.80 seconds.
Cold start was the amount of time the browser took to start up after you logged out and then back in. These tests were taken on an 800 MHz P3 Box with 256 MBs of ram.
Hot start times
A hot start is the time it takes to open your browser after the original opening of it.
Firefox 1.0 – 2.52 seconds.
Firefox 1.5 – 2.74 seconds.
Firefox 2.0 – 3.05 seconds
Opera 7.54 – 2.40 seconds.
Opera 8 – 2.38 seconds.
Opera 9.01 – 2.24 seconds.
IE 5.0 – 3.11 seconds.
IE 6.0 – 1.77 seconds.
IE 7.0 – 2.40 seconds.
Rendering times
Rendering CSS and tables. Simply the most part of using your browser is its ability to render websites. Opera is far faster than Firefox or Internet explorer at rendering. For the full list of rendering times and the hot/cold start times see this site
Which browser is more web compliant?
Simply put, Opera. Taking the Acid2 browser test reveals that Opera is the ONLY browser to pass the test. Internet Explorer doesn't even come close, while Firefox is on the right track.
Opera's perfect rendering.
Firefox is on the right track but nowhere near correct.
"¦Uhm..Mr. Gates, care to explain?
See for yourself. For more detailed statistics on how compliant each browser is, view the chart. Opera wins in all categories. To be fair Firefox's new version (3.0) which is currently in development passes the Acid2 test.
Since Firefox 1.x has been released there have been over 125 vulnerabilities. Opera is the most secure browser out there. Firefox users might say Internet Explorer's ActiveX is insecure, and should be removed. In IE7 on Vista it runs in restricted access mode, meaning any harmful AvtiveX installed, is not in fact harmful at all. The fact is Firefox extensions pose an equally dangerous threat to the users PC. Most people criticize Microsoft for being slow to patch its vulnerabilities. Well Firefox isn't exactly perfect either, as shown here.
Some people are still living back in time when Opera wasn't free. For over a year now, Opera has been without ads, and is 100% free for anybody. The only difference is that Opera is closed source while Firefox is open source. If you don't know C++, then that shouldn't make a difference.
A lot of Firefox fanboys will claim that Firefox has extensions, and they can't do without them. Stated the most is ad-block (which Opera has built in). Well opera has widgets, which is basically the same thing as Firefox's extensions. They also offer a documentation to start making your own widgets.
It's not an opinion that Opera is by far the best graphical browser out there, it's fact. It's incredibly fast, secure, resource light, and the most web compliant. I'm not saying Firefox is a bad browser, all I'm saying is it's simply not the best.


text: Mahr Wins PBA South Region title July 23, 2012 PBA CommunicationsSpring Hill, Fla. – Former member and past champion Jason Mahr of Spring Hill, Fla., defeated hall of famer Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Ocala, Fla., 259-234, to win the Professional Bowlers Association South Region Spring Hill Cheetah Championship at Spring Hill Lanes Sunday.Mahr, who won his only PBA South Region title at Spring Hill Lanes on the very same day five years earlier, posted an 8-4 match play record to qualify second for the stepladder finals and nipped Lee Vanderhoef of Greenville, S.C., 213-212, to advance to the title match. He earned $2,500, but does not receive credit for a PBA title because he is a non-member.Williams, who led the third of the PBA South Region's four "animal pattern championship" events from qualifying through match play, earned $1,300. He also earned a paid entry into the PBA World Series of Bowling as the highest finisher in the optional "animal pattern" entry program.In the first stepladder match, Vanderhoef defeated amateur Jeremy Mooney of West Palm Beach, Fla., 211-207. Vanderhoef earned $1,000 for third while Mooney earned $900 for fourth.The South Region's next tournament will be the Anderson Senior Open at Boulevard Lanes in Anderson, S.C. on July 27-29.PBA SPRINGHILL CHEETAH CHAMPIOSHIPSpring Hill Lanes, Spring Hill, Fla., SundayFinal Standings: 1, a-Jason Mahr, Spring Hill, Fla., 472 (two games), $2,500. 2, Walter Ray Williams, Ocala, Fla., 234 (one game), $1,300. 3, Lee Vanderhoef, Greenville, S.C., 423 (two games), $1,000.4, a-Jeremy Mooney, West Palm Beach, Fla., 207 (one game), $900.Stepladder Results:Match One: Vanderhoef def. a-Mooney, 211-207.Semi-final Match: a-Mahr def. Vanderhoef, 213-212.Championship Match: a-Mahr def. Williams, 259-234.Final Match Play Standings(after 20 games, including match play bonus pins)1, Williams, 8-4, 5,206. 2, a-Mahr, 8-4, 5,146. 3, Vanderhoef, 10-2, 5086.4, a-Mooney, 7-5, 4,986.5, Kyle Troup, Taylorsville, N.C., 8-4, 4,985, $800.6, a-Anthony Colosimo, Pembroke Pines, Fla., 9-3, 4,963, $700.7, Jason Sterner, Riverdale, Ga., 4-8, 4,947, $625.8, Connor Pickford, Charlotte, N.C., 5-7, 4,917, $615.9, a-Vernon Peterson, Winter Haven, Fla., 7-5, 4,887, $605.10, David O'Sullivan, Sanford, Fla., 5-7, 4,767, $595.11, Jeffrey Mersch, Orlando, Fla., 5-6-1, 4,760, $585.12, Rhino Page, Dade City, Fla., 3-8-1, 4,746, $570.13, a-Chris Polizzi, Spring Hill, Fla., 5-7, 4,746, $570.14, Dave Sill, Titusville, Fla., 5-7, 4,714, $555. 15, Frank Gallo Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., 4-8, 4,549, $545.16, a-Robert Stone, Lake City, Fla., 2-10, 4,500, $525.300 Game: Frank Gallo Jr. a-denotes amateur


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Burglar scared off by homeowner
A would-be burglar was scared off by a homeowner in Schuylkill County.
State police at Schuylkill Haven said the incident occurred about 5:45 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, at the home of Andrew Weaver, 193 Grove Rd., village of Pitman, Eldred Township. Troopers said the suspect used a gardening tool to smash the glass on the rear kitchen door of the home to gain entry. Once inside the suspect began to rummage through the kitchen but was scared off by Weaver, who was home at the time.
The suspect ran out the front door on foot. Nothing was apparently taken in the incident, troopers added.
Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call troopers at (570) 593-2000.