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HAWAII FIVE-0 has the perfect remedy for those winter blues every Monday on CBS. Don't miss the next episode titled 'Ha'awe Make Loa featuring Victoria's Secret Model Behati Prinsloo, actress Rumer Willis and actor C. Thomas Howell. Get a sneak peek below!
In the episode, Max and his crush (Rumer Willis) get put in harm's way when a botched bank robbery leads the team to determine that the criminals had very unexpected motives. Meanwhile, Danny is stuck with the tough task of coming to the rescue of the most beautiful women in the world when a stalker goes after a Victoria's Secret model. The episode airs Monday, Dec. 3 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
HAWAII FIVE-0 is a contemporary take on the classic series about a new elite federalized task force whose mission is to wipe out the crime that washes up on the Islands' sun-drenched beaches. Detective Steve McGarrett, a decorated Naval officer-turned-cop, returns to Oahu to investigate his father's murder and stays after Hawaii's former governor persuades him to head up the new team: his rules, her backing, no red tape and full blanket authority to hunt down the biggest "game" in town. However, now there's a new governor in office with a stricter rulebook that McGarrett and his team will need to contend with.
Joining McGarrett is Detective Danny "Danno" Williams, a relocated ex-New Jersey cop – a working man in paradise who prefers skyscrapers to the coastline – who's committed to keeping the Islands safe for his young daughter; Chin Ho Kelly, an ex-Honolulu police detective and former protégé of McGarrett's father, who was wrongly accused of corruption; Dr. Max Bergman, the quirky coroner; and Chin's cousin, Kono Kalakaua, a beautiful and fearless native, eager to establish herself among the department's elite. Assisting the team is Lt. Catherine Rollins, a dedicated military officer with romantic ties to McGarrett. McGarrett vows to bring closure to his father's case, while the state's brash FIVE-0 unit, who may spar and jest among themselves, is determined to eliminate the seedy elements from the 50th state.
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First, unknown would-be Tiger Woods were using the grass at the East Union Cemetery to practice their golf swing. They left several dozen evidences behind which rather ticked off cemetery cleanup volunteers.
First there were the Seniors Helping Area Residents and Police.
Scenes from Saturday's United Bacarreneos of America's annual membership meeting conducted at Stonebridge's Sangalang Park in Lathrop.
Manteca is receiving at least $4.8 million in federal stimulus funds with efforts underway to secure even more.
LATHROP – Not even the drive from Elk Grove would have kept Loyd Helmick from his chance to meet some of the stars of the FX action/drama 'Sons of Anarchy.'
On the opening night of the 2009 Manteca Idol's debut at Chez Shari restaurant, the trio of Robin Glover, Judi Hoagland, and Katelyn Johnson impressed the judges enough to earn themselves a spot in the next round.
The bleakest stretch of the Tidewater Bikeway that doubles as a 34-acre linear park through Manteca's heart may soon sport 250 trees.
The Highway 99 at Main Street overcrossing in Manteca will have ramp delays next weekend to accommodate Caltrans landscaping work.
LATHROP – You aren't going to find the California city of Charming by looking on any conventional map.
Photos from the vigil held Sunday at First Baptist Church for Tevanie Deanne Lutz.
RIPON – It's been almost a decade since Charles Harris first approached the Ripon City Council with the idea of using a 23-acre parcel he owns as a water bank and recharge station to replenish the groundwater supply in the area outside of Ripon's city limits.
Low-income residents of San Joaquin County will be able to obtain free government-surplus food, Thursday, Aug. 20, at locations throughout San Joaquin County. Distribution will continue until supplies are exhausted.
Pedestrians no longer have to walk on the edge of travel lanes to avoid large pools of water during the rainy season or cross rutted ground during dry weather while walking on the northern side of East Yosemite Avenue between Cottage Avenue and Powers Avenue.
RIPON – Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will help make traveling Highway 99 through Ripon safer.
RIPON - Dollars don't stretch quite as far as they did when Ripon Police Chief Richard Bull first took over the reins of the Ripon department.
A woman in her 60s is the first San Joaquin County resident to die this year after it was discovered that she had contracted West Nile Virus.
For the first time ever, East Union High School has a student book club. The campus club is taking part in the annual Great Valley Bookfest set for today at the Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley.
For the last 51 years Janis Music has been a generational go-to for families with musically gifted children – offering lessons to help them make it to the next level on their given instrument.
New Melones reservoir is now 15 percent lower than it historically has ever been in mid-October
Two vintage hand grenades created something of an adrenaline rush when they were discovered Thursday evening by staff of a storage facility cleaning out an abandoned storage unit.
Most downtown merchants are happy with the location of their businesses.
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Sister Ann Venita Britto and her Ministry of Caring are loading up the candies.
The northwest corner of South Airport Way and Daniels Street should be devoid of all political campaign signs by the end of the day on Friday.
Dr. Jeffrey Becker got his start in dentistry in a first grade class at Nile Garden School 21 years ago when his dad and dentist Jim Becker used him to show his classmates the procedure of taking a "gooey" impression of his teeth in Ms. Robin Wilson's class.
Rick Deutsch is Mr. Half Dome for good reasons.
Dave Thompson has spent the past 14 years helping struggling families and single moms get off the streets.
The two nuns serving St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church will be the guests of honor at a luncheon hosted by the Manteca chapter of the Young Ladies Institute.
Sometime in 2015 the Highway 99 corridor's transformation through Manteca will be complete.
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Popular TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance? have captured the attention of viewers across the nation. But come Friday, the real question is do you think you can watch?
That's because television stations are set to switch from an analog broadcast signal to a digital signal Friday, and reports are indicating that millions of unprepared people still do not have the needed converter box, or an alternate service of cable or satellite. Those left without the proper equipment will lose their television signal and only see the dance off between black and white ants: static.
A tractor-trailer wrecked Thursday morning when the driver lost control of the rig on the rain-slick pavement of I-64 eastbound.
Shelbyville Police Officer Bruce Gentry said the driver, who was going up the exit 32B ramp at about 40 miles per hour, was not injured and that no other vehicles were involved in the accident.
"I just thank God no one was hurt," said truck driver Allan Winnings of Tennessee. "I don't even want to think about what could have happened if somebody had been behind me."
Despite money being tight for a lot of people these days, the 56th annual WHAS Crusade for Children fundraising saw only a 3 percent overall decrease in Shelby County. Better still, this past weekend saw three of the seven participating local fire departments actually improved upon their 2008 totals.
The total raised by all local fire departments this year was $157,217.70 - compared to $162,077.18 in 2008.
The fire departments from Mt. Eden, Shelbyville, and Waddy all gathered more in 2009 than they did last year.
James Collins stroked the head of "Willie," a cuddly Yorkie with a blue ribbon in his hair, as he talked about an email that had a caused a stir in the community.
His email, which had been sent out community wide on Wednesday, read, "With tears flowing, I have made the decision that we must euthanize on Friday if we cannot move the animals currently listed on Pet Finder. Please help us now."
Collins said that email has accomplished what he hoped it would: Enough animals were adopted so that euthanization will not be necessary.
When trying to follow budget estimates during the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the City of Shelbyville could feel the tough times of America.
On Thursday, the Shelbyville City Council approved the first reading of an amendment to that budget to show actual spending was about 20 percent higher ($500,000) than originally had been estimated, mostly because of overtime for the police and fire departments.
Four days before her high school graduation, Samantha Mathus-Cooper, 18, a bride of only 58 days, was looking forward to a bright future and a lifetime of happiness with her new husband.
Then - in an instant example of life's worst fates - she was gone.
Mathus-Cooper died just after 9 p.m. Tuesday in one of those tragic automobile accidents that leaves her family, friends, classmates and her husband struggling to believe and understand.
FRANKFORT - Memories, laughter and tears were in abundance Friday night at the Frankfort Convention Center during the commencement ceremonies for Shelby County High School's Class of 2009.
After the national anthem and the stirring strains of "Pomp and Circumstance" died away, a packed auditorium listened to remarks by several speakers, including interim Principal Michael Rowe and Valedictorian David Baxter Matthews.
Special music included "Sweet Memories" and "Like an Eagle."
Small, quaint downtown Simpsonville could look much different 20 years down the road.
Speaking before the Triple S Planning Commission Tuesday, Amy Williams, with the engineering firm HNTB Corporation's Louisville office, presented the plan for the downtown Simpsonville development, which has been branded "Village Center at Simpsonville."
Triple S accepted the plan and will recommend to the Simpsonville City Commission that they adopt it in a future meeting.
Fielding Ballard was elected unanimously to replace Nathan Riggs as Shelby County Democratic Party Chairman.
Ballard said Riggs previously advised the committee that because of his already busy schedule he felt like he didn't have time for the duties of the chairman position.
In a press release, Riggs said he's confident Ballard will be a good fit as his replacement.
The contract is signed, new soil is settling, and it is beginning to look as if Shelbyville Fire Station No. 3 could be completed within 165 days.
Located on Warrior Way between West Middle School and Painted Stone Elementary, this building of approximately 5,000 square feet most likely will contain two pieces of apparatus and a living quarters, Fire Chief Willard "Tiger" Tucker said.
Architect Quintin Biagi has designed the station to fit in with a look similar to the surrounding schools.
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And you are obviously someone who hates Obama. You have not cited any facts proving that Sheriff Joe is accurate. You only say that you think that he is, yet the cited articles show that he is wrong.
Moreover, you claim that the birth certificate is forged, and you do so only by citing "birther experts"---whose expertise has not been proven, some of whom are nutty, and the others are zealots who hate Obama, often to the extent of claiming that Obama did not attend Columbia College despite the fact that Columbia University says that he did, and graduated.
When Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck and the National Review call call birthers crazy, and when the CONSERVATIVE secretary of state of Arizona asks Hawaii to confirm that it has Obama's birth certificate on file and to confirm various facts on the birth certificate, and it does (and in fact confirms ALL of the facts on the birth certificate), and the CONSERVATIVE secretary of state of Arizona rules that that is evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii, then you have to realize that your cause is lost.
It so happens I voted FOR obama. I don't hate him, but I realized long ago that he is a creature of habit: lies, forgeries like he and his friend Ayers bragged about, his connections and upbringing, in fact his whole life story, are filled with constructs, like his books, which talks about his "girlfriends", all made up, etc. He does this for a living, and has been ripped so many times for his lies it is sickening. The debate last night was classis...he lies about everything, from the oil debates with Mitt, he cut them 62% and 35% on the permits, drilling, etc. He lied. He also lied about the coverup on Libya. Now he is trying to create another lie which Mitt got on the record, and now will be obama's undoing on the next debate. He lied so hard, he made Crowly reiterate it. The transcripts already showed he lied about Libya being terrorism, he never mentioned it, and if he did know on dayone in the Rose Garden, why did he then spend the next 14 days saying it was the movie 6 times at the UN, sending out Ambassador Rice on 5 shows on a Sunday saying it was not terrorism, had Clinton do the same, and take out TV time in Benghazi saying it was not terrorism but a movie, and going on the View to lie again in front of millions.
Well lade, your here just perjured himself in front of the world, that will all be item #1 next debate.
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15 Black Friday survival tips from 'The Walking Dead'
Black Friday is just a zombie apocalypse in disguise.
Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), control human health and emotion.
People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e., to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour induced by humour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person will find something humorous depends upon a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context. For example, young children may favour slapstick,...
Black Friday is just a zombie apocalypse in disguise.
They're guilty, all right. Guilty of being delicious.
Only the Internet can save Barbie from misogyny.
Take a few pointers from the god of sexiness himself.
The holidays would be so much nicer without all those pesky relatives coming around.
Sometimes you just can't find the right words to tell your friend that you'd love to sit through her boyfriend's five-hour experimental one-man show. Or to let your mom know that you're totally not mad that your uncle keeps posting videos in favor of catcalling on Facebook. See also: 20 cat pranks for when humans aren't enough Until there's an emoji created that truly captures your Liz-Lemon-worthy eye-roll, the sarcastic GIF is the perfect way to convey how super excited you are.
Good, old-fashioned communication. Now handcrafted in solid oak.
There are never too many cookies for Cookie Monster.
A coffee cup is worth a thousand words.
Bryan Cranston has the ultimate dad voice.
How many "can't evens" can you fit into a catchy music video? We can't even begin to count. Like literally, we can't.
Get in on the Dinovember fun, before it goes extinct.
Comedian Elon James White started the hashtag #DudesGreetingDudes to help combat street harassment.
Learn vicariously through Waffles on how to be a considerate customer and friend.
Nothing says totalitarian dictator like an adorable, plastic tea set.
Moms, this is what your family is up to while you're gone.
Not even your average Halloween pumpkin can deny the allure of social media or a good dating site.
You're the moon in my life. You're my sun and my stars. You're the peanut butter to my jelly.
Put down the batteries and step away from the tiny vehicle.
Go ahead, and ask anything.
No one will ever believe you.
Beware, pranksters. Kitty always finds a way to reap their revenge sooner or later.
Even at a party for ghosts and ghouls, eating people's faces is just plain rude.
"Like, when you're dying, what's the best way to please everyone around you?"
"Ya ya ya I am Lorde. I am Lorde Ya ya ya Ya ya ya!"
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Mädchen Amick's Chace Crawford Kiss-and-Tell
Chace Crawford: Cougar magnet.
Between Jennifer Aniston and Crawford's latest on-screen Gossip Girl love interest, Mädchen Amick, the 23-year-old actor is sure to have all the elder dames of Hollywood's tongues-a-wagging by year's end.
"He's a very good kisser," Amick, 37, tells People. "If anyone gets the opportunity to kiss him, he will not disappoint."
Get your voyeuristic kicks watching Chace and Mädchen paw each other in the five-minute preview of Gossip Girl's upcoming season, which kicks off Monday night.
As for her younger co-stars on the show, Twin Peaks star Amick says, "They seem to be very mature, savvy, young actors...They all seem to have level heads."
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What are the forces moving the Minnesota economy? Adam Belz tries to identify the trends and show the connections between Minnesota and the larger U.S. and global economies. You can connect with him on Twitter: @adambelz
I spent a few minutes scrolling around and looking at neighborhoods on this. Figured I wouldn't be the only one who's interested.
Turns out the map is incredibly powerful. Zoom in close enough, and it shows you the block groups that make up the Census tracts. Zoom in further, and it shows you the streets. Zoom out, and it shows you median income by county. The map covers the entire United States.
U.S. Bancorp is hiring about 1,500 people in 2014 and will hire up to another 3,000 by the end of 2015, CEO Richard Davis said in an interview with Bloomberg in New York.
Many of the new jobs are in compliance and audit, as the company tries to meet regulatory needs. Hiring veterans and the long-term unemployed are also a priority, Davis said.
"Big time on veterans, that's a really big deal for us," Davis said. "Now we're working on long (term) unemployed."
U.S. Bank had 65,500 employees at the end of 2013. Davis said the company will end 2014 with 67,000 employees, and either 69,000 or 70,000 by the end of 2015.
"I don't bring people on until I'm sure that I can keep them all," Davis told Bloomberg.
(Protesters outside the Home Depot in Richfield on Tuesday. Photo by Adam Belz)
Janitors who work for companies that clean Home Depot, Best Buy, Kohl's and Sears stores are setting a Black Friday deadline for a strike unless the cleaning companies negotiate with workers trying to organize a bargaining unit under the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Several dozen supporters and four workers who are members of the worker center CTUL held a protest in the snow and cold near the Home Depot in Richfield just off Highway 77 and 66th Street on Tuesday.
Only four working janitors made Tuesday's protest, but CTUL says "dozens" of workers are ready to strike on Black Friday if their demands aren't met, and released a video of some of them saying as much. Low wages are among the workers' grievances.
"The wages that we make are so low, we can't survive on these wages," said Luciano Balbuena, a janitor, as the wind whipped through the gathering just north of the Home Depot.
On Tuesday, the janitors were joined by several dozen health workers from the National Association of City and County Health Officials.
Janitors in the Twin Cities and CTUL won a victory in June 2014, when Target Corp. created a "Responsible Contractor Policy" that requires companies contracted to clean Target stores to engage with workers to improve working standards in the industry. CTUL had protested Target several times.
Many other retailers haven't adopted a similar policy, however, and CTUL said in a statement that the company's Target pays for cleaning services "have not seemed to take workers' concerns seriously." Other cleaning companies have refused to talk with the workers, CTUL said.
The protest on Tuesday will be against both large retailers who don't have a policy similar to Target's, and against cleaning contractors.
CTUL (pronounced SAY-tool) stands for Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha, and is a workers' association that works closely with the SEIU. CTUL has been organizing retail janitors for four years.
Worker centers like CTUL have begun to irk some businesses because of their resemblance to organized labor. But the National Labor Relations Board concluded in 2006 that one large worker center, the Restaurant Opportunities Center, was not a union.
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I had a story in this morning's paper about the shortage of rural housing in places like Roseau, and why it doesn't make financial sense for developers to build new apartments in these towns, despite what city officials describe as a housing shortage.
It really is a complicated problem. I solicited opinions from people I correspond with regularly, and thought it would be interesting to share them. Here are five takes on the rural housing problem, from a writer, a financial planner, a co-op organizer and two former journalists who pay attention to rural issues:
Charlie Quimby, writer, Minneapolis and Grand Junction, Colo.
"If you look at other states with significant rural economies, you'll hear the same stories, but not necessarily an explanation. Here's one example:
Harris said the complex problem was fed by the inability of modest-income Kansans to afford a down payment on a house and credit issues some people carry. In addition, lenders are reluctant to get involved with new single-family homes in rural areas due to concern about resale values or new apartment buildings due to potentially high rents.
Here are some of my thoughts:
1. Rural areas don't have a tradition of financing, building or managing rental housing. It's rare to find commercial apartments in small towns. Because land is cheap, plentiful and lightly regulated, it's more likely trailers become the default rental or low-income housing unit.
2. Small towns have long memories, especially company towns. Polaris years ago nearly folded under the the ownership of Textron, and I'll bet you'll find local bankers, workers and officials who remember that, either directly or because their parents/relatives lost jobs. They've also seen the company expand elsewhere as it grew. There may be a reluctance locally to place too big a bet on rental housing (which has a longer-term payoff than single family housing) in a company town that does business in a global economy.
3. How would outside investors look at the opportunity in a remote region with few amenities and a not very diverse economy when there's money to be made (with higher rents, familiar markets, experienced construction firms and greater density projects) right here in Minneapolis?
4. How tied to the region are the people brought in for the work? It takes a special person/family to relocate to a rural community for work. They have to embrace the lifestyle, the schools, the distances, etc. Will they stick if the jobs at the dominant employer go south?
5. The oil patch has "solved" this with man camps and moving highly paid workers in and out of where the work is. (I spent two summers with that life during college. In those days, the career guys had homes elsewhere and hauled trailers to new locations.) Most communities aren't going to want that sort of housing unless the industry is cranking out a lot more money than recreational vehicles do. So the economics and standards of the particular industry also come into play."
Richard Longworth, fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs who blogs at The Midwesterner
"I've seen this in a few other Midwest towns where people feel a lack of housing, including executive housing, is hurting chances for investment and development. Often, this seems to be a mystery.
But here are some questions:
Polaris is bringing in temporary workers, which is no incentive to create housing. They say they want to hire more permanent workers. But will this demand continue? If Polaris' growth and employment demand stalls or wanes, will this create empty houses? This would seem to be a problem endemic to one-industry towns. If that industry flags, there's nothing else to take up the slack.
What's the recent history of Polaris output and employment? How much did it suffer during the recession, and do those memories persist?
Possibly the big question – what financing is available? How is Roseau fixed for local banks? Are these banks willing to finance this housing? Possibly, any local banks may be absentee owned, in Minneapolis or somewhere. We've seen that when local ownership of small-town banks vanishes, so does a lot of the willingness of the new owners to finance local development."
Kelly Guncheon, financial planner, Minnetonka
"Regarding the Roseau housing situation, I think that sustainability is an issue. It's the ripple effect of companies having zero loyalty with employees. So when the economy starts heading south, the first thing they do is lay off employees. They would much rather hoard cash than keep their staff working, so they have layoffs. That means those who are in whatever new homes have been built will move, leaving those houses empty. If they're renters, the landlords are left footing the bill. If they own, the houses will be foreclosed. Either way, it's a losing situation. It why you find few line workers and middle managers that are loyal to their employers, and job mobility and short tenures are so commonplace. It will happen in a big way in Williston, ND. They will build for the boom, but once supplies are depleted, it will be a ghost town."
Kevin Edberg, Cooperative Development Services, St. Paul
"(I noticed) the juxtaposition of the Roseau housing story ("local firms can't grow because the region doesn't have housing") and other recent stories about "local/regional businesses can't find skilled workers". The storyline in both cases is that demand (for labor or for housing) is going unmet; an implication in both is that the public should pay more to subsidize skills development or housing stock. What's not being discussed with clarity is "at what cost?". Demand being a whole series of relationships between price paid and volume supplied, it would seem reasonable to ask if businesses are willing to pay high enough wages to entice people to work for them. There are a number of economists that suggest that the skills gap goes away if wages increase, and that the whole business argument about the skills gap is a rent-seeking attempt by business to move the cost of worker training from a traditionally private expense to a public expense. Is the same true of housing? Do the jobs (that are going unfilled in NW MN) pay enough to allow a prudent worker to rent/buy a home in the region?
I don't have a particular ax to grind, and I am not particularly prone to conspiracy theories. The fact that wages have been so sticky for so long causes me to wonder about why we are not seeing wage increases in the face of unmet demand."{
Bob Franklin, long-time Star Tribune reporter, now retired
"This was a good story when I wrote it in 1996 and it's a good story now.
The basic problem is that the jobs don't pay enough to afford whatever can be built.
The problem dates to the 1980s, when hard times spurred small towns to chase any jobs they could get. So what they got often was low-paying jobs for folks who then couldn't afford housing.
The very best expert is Warren Hanson, who runs the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund (and he can lead you to others). He took me on a tour of some towns in SW Minn. when I wrote the announcement of the fund's formation by the McKnight and Blandin foundations. Hanson is a very bright guy, very approachable, former St. Paul planning official of some sort. He built on work by the Southwestern Minnesota Housing Partnership in part, figuring out some ways to build cheaper housing and do some better financing. (A byproduct of some of the success is that it lowered prices of some existing housing in some towns.)
As for Roseau County, folks have been commuting -- I think -- 50-60 miles for years, perhaps as far away as Grand Forks. There's also a huge mobile home park in Warroad that I found when I wrote about the Loatian community of Warroad a few years ago. One trailer was a Laotian church. Working for Marvin Windows beat the heck out of working in food processing somewhere -- clean work, training and promoting from within. The Laotian kids played a lot of basketball but hadn't graduated to hockey at that time."
Job aggregator Simply Hired, a firm that tracks job openings, has released its November Employment Outlook, and the Twin Cities has the 15th most job openings of any metro area in the country.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area has about 60,000 openings, a 4.3 percent increase from September.
Here are the five employers with the most openings, according to Simply Hired:
1. University of Minnesota
2. Fairview Health Services
3. Target
5. U.S. Bank
Here are the top 10 metros in the country by population. They are also the ten with the most job openings:


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Action key redefinition displays one key at a a time. The keys are Fuego(fire), Salto(jump), Abajo(down), Izo(left), Der(right), and Pausa
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The player arrives in the lift, the doors open, the character steps out, and the game commences. The game starts with 4 lives
Not very far in and Gremlins on pogo sticks drop from the ceiling behind the character
Contact with a gremlin costs a life - the falling ones on pogo sticks have taken two already. Here the character is positioned to stand and shoot them as they land
Not too much further on and there are more and more Gremlins. Even when the skateboarding Gremlin is killed contact with the skateboard costs a life
There are lots of places to jump onto, the backs of the chairs is not an obvious one
This looks like a bonus item but to get it the player must turn their back on a cascade of pogo-ing Gremlins
Bonus item retrieved, though it costs a life. Now the character seems to be shooting cherries or hearts at them
Moving on - on top of a filing cabinet. The drawers move in & out to make steps and this is a bridge to the next gantry
Beset by Gremlins in roll-cages and with jet-packs
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Open Plan and family friendly, 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom semi detached holiday home.
Holiday Home In Mosman
One of the best features of this Bella Bond holiday home in Mosman is its position. Located in a quiet little spot this property is a 10 min walk to Mosman village and handy to Grosvenor St district (full of great little wine bars). Balmoral Beach is a short minute drive and there is easy access to Sydney's CBD by public transport. Last but certainly not least Countess Park (a staff favourite) is literally a 5 min walk down the street. This classic family residence provides wonderful "easy living" spaces for guests to enjoy.
Core Features and Benefits:
- Lovely, 3 bedroom semi detached home
- Wonderful free flowing open-plan kitchen that effortlessly extends outdoors
- Child secure deck and backyard
- Full travertine bathroom
- Polished timber floors
- Bus stop to the city at the end of the street
- 10 min walk to Mosman Village and conveniently positioned to - Grosvenor St restaurant district
- Steps away from Countess St park
- Less than 5 min drive to beach
Owners Top 5 – Things they love about their home
1- The pavilion style rear living area that allows you to enjoy the tranquil gardens and cooling sea breezes day and night
2- The 5 min walk to the best Mosman has to offer
3- Entertaining in this house works sooo well!
4- Cooking in our kitchen with friends and family around
5- A sensational location, Balmoral Beach is only a five minute drive away or buses at the end of the street run to the beach or back into the city
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N,184,894. Patentea Nv.28,1a76.
Speoification forming part of Letters Patent No. 184,894, dated November 28, 1876; application flled October 10, 1876.
To all whom it may camera! Be it known that I, ELIsHA G. W. PARKs, of Rock Falls, in the county of Whitesides and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in vegetable- Washers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawngs, making a part of this specitication.
My invention relates to novel improvements in potato or vegetable Washers. It has for its object to give a whirling and rotary motion to the potatoes or vegetables, to effect the perfect cleaning, and also to preventan y jamining or clogging of the same.
With these objects in view, my invention consists of a bucket or tub provided with a central shaft having arranged at its lower extremity intersecting arms fiat on their bottoms, and increasing in size in curved lines from the shaft toward their extremity, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.
To enable those skilled to more fully understand my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation, referrng, by letters, to the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure 1 is a central Vertical section of a potato-washer embodying the features of my invention, and Fig. 2 a top view of the same with the handle removed.
Similar letters indicate like parts in both figures.
A represents an ordinary bucket or tub of suitable or convenient size, with a Permanent half-cover, B, cut away at O, to form an escape for the water when it is desired to pour the same oif, the cover B serving as a guard to prevent the escape of the potatoes. D is a halfbearing secured to the cover B, and through which the shai't E passes, and has its lower extreniity resting in a step or other suitable bearing centrally located in the bottom of the bucket A. Secured around the shaft E at its lower extremity are arms F, the under sides of which are flat and lie close to f/O r the bottom of the bucket. These arms F, aa will be clearly seen by reference to the. drawing, increase in size in curved lines upward and outward from the point of connection with the shaft E toward their outer extremity, so that pot-atoes or other vegetables to be washed, resting upon the same, are lifted by the rotation of the shat't E from off the bottom, and out toward the staves or outer circumference of the bucket, descending again to the center and toward the bottom, thus acquiring a rotary and whirling motion, and thus effectually cleaning the same when immersed in water. When the vegetables have been subjected to the action of the revolving radial arms for a suitable length of time, which I have found, by experience, is as short as a halfIninute for a peck of potatoes, the dirty water is poured oif, leaving the clean potatoes in the bucket to be pared for use.
In a washer constructed as above described, the vegetables are not subjected to a'ny pounding motion, and there is no liability of their being clogged or jammed, and the machine is eq'ually efficient and eifective, whether operated as a right or left hand machine.
What I claim as new, and, desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-
In a vegetable-washer provided with a suit` able cover, and having acentral step-bearing inits bottom, and rotating shaft, the radia! arms F, flat on their under side, and adapted to work close to the bottom of the washer, the exposed portions of said arms tapering in curved lines upward and outward, whereby the vegetables resting thereon are given a rotary and whirling motion, and the arms adapted to rotate in either direction, substantially as described.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of October, 1876.
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New Under Armour Uniforms will be introduced at try-outs for the 2014-2015 travel club season. BYSA is excited to be the exclusive uniform partner of Under Armour in the state of Rhode Island. Read all about the new uniform kit from our Club President...New Uniform Kits
BYSA understands there is a growing and needed discussion about concussions in youth sports, and we want to provide our players and parents some resources that you will want to read and review. BYSA firmly believes that concussion education is definitely the first and most important step in maintaining the health and safety of our youth soccer players. Concussion Resources
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Although we at BYSA are so very sad that the weather wreaked havoc on our tournament this past weekend, we still want to thank every player, coach, parent, referee and volunteer who was a part of this years BIT, and who braved nor'easter conditions for the games that were played. We thank you for your support and understanding, and we hope to see many of you again next November!
BYSA winter soccer Academy registration is now open!
Our winter Academy dates have been announced and registration is now open for session 1 or both session 1 & 2 together. The BSYA winter indoor academy is designed for U7-U12 players who desire to improve their skills and soccer knowledge and either already play or anticipate playing competitive soccer. These indoor sessions are held on Tuesday nights from 6p-7p at Sherwood Ultra Sports in Seekonk, MA.Where: Sherwood Ultra Sports, Seekonk, MAWhen: Tuesdays, 6pm - 7pm Session 1 Dates: Nov 18, 25, Dec 2, 9,16, Jan 6, 13, 20 Session 2 Dates: Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 24, Mar 3, 10, 17, 24Who: U7 - U12 (DOB: 8/1/02 - 7/31/08) Cost: $150 per child for 8 weeks (includes T-shirt) for Session 1 $275 per child for both Session 1 & 2Registration: CLICK HERE
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How can your business benefit from using the cloud? We hear the term all the time in the tech world, but it's never really clearly defined. Those of us who are using social media or saving data with online sources are already using it. Perhaps you just didn't know it. Amazon is one of the largest cloud service centers. It houses information on behalf of Netflix, Dropbox and Autodesk. Other remote servers are Google, Microsoft and Rackspace.
The Cloud Explained
The cloud is basically a network of remote servers provided by various companies. IT departments use to handle their own data storage for various businesses and companies, which required a lot of responsibility and maintenance. The cloud is similar to a power company providing a service, and there sole focus and responsibility is the upkeep, repair and sustaining of information, which can save businesses money.
When you take a photo with your phone and then upload it to a site like Instagram, you've just uploaded that photo to the cloud. It's the same with various software applications like Adobe Creative Suite. Gone are the days of buying the actual box CD. Now, you have to pay a monthly subscription to access Photoshop or Illustrator, which is downloaded from the cloud. If you've used Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Google Docs, you have been using a cloud service. Cloud storage is an excellent resource for small and large business data storage.
Benefits and Drawbacks
Cloud computing is a convenient way to access information and files anywhere or at anytime. There's no limit to the amount of data that can be stored. Companies also only pay for the service when they use it. Managing your own personal data center can be costly, and you need the space in which to operate it. Cloud storage can offer a business long-term solutions that save money. Also, companies no longer have to purchase hardware equipment that will need updating and replacing in order to combat its depreciating value. It creates efficiency and access to resources quickly.
However, there are some concerns with cloud computing and security is at the top of the list. Many cloud services tout that they are safe, but there is still a vulnerability to viruses. There are many antivirus services available such as these, to help combat this issue. Privacy has become front and center with the recent Edward Snowden leaks; companies like Google have opted to automatically encrypt data for users who pay for cloud services. Sadly, not all cloud computing services considers security risk when deciding to use remote data storage. Some service providers don't reveal to customers where there sensitive information is being stored. Encryption is one of many ways to protect data, but there are other services that are available to protect privacy on the cloud.
Though the cloud can make accessing data extremely convenient, what about if there's a service outage? If your business relies on accessing its data around-the-clock, then technical issues could be a big problem. In this case, consider a fail-safe for you information, which utilizes a cross-cloud backup system. The reliability of your own internet connection is another consideration to take into account. If you have an outage, accessing data becomes impossible.
Cloud computing is a great way to share and store data. It allows for ease and access from any device from any where in the world. As with all technologies, there's the good and the not so good. In the end, do your own research to make sure your needs are met reliably and safely.
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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Southeastern Conference runners Brandon Lord and Hannah Jumper from Baylor School were the overall winners of the Turkey Trot 8k road race Thursday morning from the Sports Barn East on Lee Highway.
When the Georgia Northwestern Technical College men's basketball team pulled out its third win in a row Tuesday night, edging the LaGrange junior varsity 71-69, it gave David Stephenson 500 victories in a 29-year coaching career spanning elementary, high school and college programs.
Luken Communications has signed a multi-network affiliation agreement with WBXZ in Buffalo, N.Y.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has climbed to No. 20 in the latest National Wrestling Coaches Association poll.
In time for Black Friday, Kelley Blue Book has named the Chattanooga-made Volkswagen Passat as the best car deal nationwide.
Girls Preparatory School began the McCallie Invitational swim meet Saturday with a record-setting 200-yard medley relay and had two events with the top two finishers on the way to second place behind Harpeth Hall out of 24 teams.
CALHOUN, Tenn. — The mayor of Calhoun was arrested Saturday night on charges of aggravated burglary and theft over $1,000.
Chattanoogans Cory Hall and Jason Murrell teamed to win the inaugural Pangorge Adventure Race held Saturday along the Tennesee River and on Raccoon Mountain.
• Riverside High Class of 1966 is meeting today at 1 p.m. at the Veteran's Club, 2114 Wilder St. For more information, call Wilma Brown at 423-602-8332 or Louise Pruitt at 423-255-7786.
• Jim Ricketts and Crystle Elam, 6 p.m. today, Praise & Worship Family Outreach Center, 100 Cannon Ave., Jasper, Tenn.; also 11 a.m. Sunday, White Creek Baptist Church, 131 Abels Valley Road, Rockwood, Tenn.; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Short Creek Baptist Church, 892 County Road 50, Athens, Tenn.; 7 p.m. Friday, Cooke Ministry Center, 714 Walter St., Athens, Tenn.; 775-2806.
• Reality Check Monday from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Hixson High School, 5705 Middle Valley Road.
Volkswagen AG is to plow about $107 billion into its business over the next five years to fuel expansion and develop new models and technology as it tries to top Toyota as the world's sales leader.
Covenant College senior soccer player Snoopy Davidson was named to the Capital One Academic All-America second team for NCAA Division III, as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Stars: Cougars have used five backs in the past, but it was Aaron English last week and he scored all three of the Cougars' TDs including one on a fumble return.
Emileigh Swafford had 26 points and five steals as Lee University defeated visiting Tennessee Temple 80-64 in women's basketball Thursday night in Cleveland, and the Lee men won 105-74.
Volkswagen, whose Super Bowl spot "The Force" in 2011 for the Chattanooga-made Passat made huge waves, will sit out the game this year, according to Ad Age.
Four players scored in a dominant 4-0 win for the Lee University women's soccer team in the National Christian Collegiate Athletic Association Mid-East Region championship match Wednesday night in Cleveland.
Dade Gas Co., which supplies natural gas to 2,200 customers in Dade County ,Ga., and a portion of Jackson County, Ala., has a new owner.
Soddy-Daisy — A portion of Montlake Road will be closed between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. for the next two weeks for repairs, according to a news release from Mayor Jim Coppinger's office.
No University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball players made the All-Southern Conference teams announced Tuesday, but homegrown Moc Nicole Sumida was the defensive player of the week for matches of Nov. 10-16.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is seeded seventh for the Southern Conference volleyball tournament and will face No. 2 seed Samford at 5 p.m. Saturday in the quarterfinals at UNC Greensboro's Fleming Gym.
Chattanooga native and Baylor School graduate Rob Robinson has been promoted to associate athletic director for business affairs for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic department, and Kenneth Jones was introduced last week as the director of compliance.
Stephan Jaeger, who played golf at Baylor School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, advanced to the final stage of Web.com Tour School.
Dalton State has lost 6-foot-8 senior transfer Isiah Massey from Louisiana Tech for the season because of a knee injury, but the basketball Roadrunners cruised without him Saturday to their third win in three games, 91-77 against visiting Morris College.
J.Crew will open a signature store in the historic Warehouse Row in downtown Chattanooga next Wednesday at 10 a.m.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior cross country runner Amanda Cotter made the all-region team with a 19th-place finish in the NCAA South Region meet Friday at Tallahassee, Fla., and Auburn's Ty McCormack won the men's race after having worked in Chattanooga this summer and having won the Riverbend 10k in June.
CBL & Associates Properties Inc. will raise its dividend 8.2 pecent in January for shareholders of record as of Dec. 30.
BB&T, the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based banking company that operates both banks and insurance offices in Chattanooga nad Dalton, Ga., is buying Susquehanna Bancshares in a deal that will broaden the bank's reach into the Mid-Atlantic region.
David Helton, the Duke University linebacker who prepped at Baylor School, has been named a semifinalist for the Ronnie Lott Impact Trophy.
A memorial service is scheduled for this Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for a man who was born in Chickamauga, Ga., and starred in football at LaFayette High School before earning worldwide acclaim as a swimming coach. Jack Nelson died last Wednesday in Delray Beach, Fla., at the age of 82 from complications from Alzheimer's disease.
A new employment staffing company is coming to Chattanooga, and it plans to start helping a manufacturer fill 300 jobs that were previously announced.
CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. on Monday opened 115,000 square feet of new retail space at the Fayette Mall in Lexington, Ky.
Hixson resident Ron Lane was the Super Pro class winner Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip, taking the $5,000 top prize with a 4.94-second run on a 4.94 dial at 137.25 mph in his new "undercover" dragster.
Daniel Brantley scored four goals as sixth-seeded Bryan College hammered third seed Union College 7-2 at Barbourville, Ky., in the quarterfinal round of the Appalachian Athletic Conference men's soccer tournament Saturday night, and fourth-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan also advanced with a convincing victory, 4-0 at home against fifth seed Bluefield.
Second-seeded Covenant College won the USA South men's soccer tournament Saturday with a 2-0 win over fifth seed Maryville.
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USA South player of the year Snoopy Davidson scored twice for Covenant College as the No. 2-seeded Scots defeated North Carolina Wesleyan 2-1 in the men's soccer tournament semifinals Friday at Martinsville, Va.
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Petunia's Silver Jalapeño closed Friday at Warehouse Row after nearly four years of operation.
Barely into the 2014-15 basketball season, Cleveland State opened TCCAA play Friday night with a sweep of visiting Dyersburg State, 77-63 in the women's game and 81-73 in the men's.
J.D. Kyzer has resigned after 15 seasons as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer coach, vice chancellor and athletic director David Blackburn announced Thursday morning.
Covenant College senior forward Snoopy Davidson from Rome, Ga., was voted the USA South men's soccer player of the year and joined on the all-conference first team by Scots midfielder Joel Friesen and defender Builder Brock.
Miller Industries, Inc. earned $3.5 million, or 31 cents per share, on sales of $118.4 million in the third quarter of 2014. Sales were up 12.6 percent over a year ago and profits were ahead by 35 percent from the same period a year ago.
Sunbelt Bakery has donated $50,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has three wrestlers listed among the top 20 in the latest InterMat rankings. Corey Mock is No. 8 at 165 pounds, Nick Soto 12th at 133 and Sean Boyle 16th at 125. All three are seniors. The Mocs open the season Sunday at the Hokie Open. Their first home meet isn't until Dec. 12 against Purdue.
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|The Movement. Volume 1, Class Warfare by Simone, Gail, author.
"Coral City is infected by corruption and crime and its up to the citizens to fight back! The Movement sees a young group of super-heroes rise up and take back the streets of their corrupt city. But when one of their own is captured by the police, its Coral City's finest against the citizens they have negelected to protect. Title collects The Movement #1-6"--
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|Macanudo No. 1 by Liniers, 1973- author.
""Anyone can draw a cat, anyone can draw a little girl or a man with a hat, but not everyone can make that cat, that little girl and that man with a hat different from any we've ever seen before and have them become part of our world, as if we knew them personally. Liniers draws characters, and his characters are macanudos, which is to say extraordinary and awesome. And he draws them so well that they're all lovely, even the ugly ones are so perfectly ugly that they're beautiful. Loners, with a
|Nov 26, 2014
|Les miseÌrables by Silvermoon, Crystal, author.
In a new graphic novel adaptation, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris while Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues him for a minor crime.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Kick-Ass. 3, #1-8 by
With Hit-Girl now in prison, Kick-Ass must step up to lead the demoralized crime-fighting team Justice Forever just as the police have outlawed superheroes. Kick-Ass must hold the group together as the terrifying mafia boss Rocco Genovese returns from exile with a grand plan to unite all the East Coast crime families.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Harbinger Wars. Volume 3 by Dysart, Josh, author.
"Before the Harbinger Foundation, before Project Rising Spirit, Toya Harada spent decades circling the globe, recruiting empowered individuals to his cause through coercion, intimidation, and influence. But how is one deal brokered in secret between Harada and Rising Spirit Securities forty years ago now wreaking havoc in the modern day? And when the past comes roaring back, how will Peter Stanchek and the rest of Harada's most wanted react to the revelation of Rising Spirit's secret mission and
|Nov 26, 2014
|Guardians of the Galaxy. Prelude by
"Who is Nebula? What tragic events forged her unbreakable allegiance to her dark lord? And how does Korath the Pursuer fit in? Then, as Gamora begins her quest for the Orb, see firsthand why she is the considered the most dangerous woman in the universe! Plus, relive the Guardians' individual debuts as Gamora and Star-Lord burst onto the scene, Drax and Iron Man take on Thanos, Rocket Raccoon meets the Hulk...and Groot tries to enslave the earth!"--P. [4] of cover.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Empire of the dead. Act one by Romero, George A, author.
A quarantined Manhattan scrambles to keep the undead plague at bay, but the Big Apple is rotting from within. Not only do flesh-eaters still shamble through unclean areas, but the surviving zombies are also evolving. It's the undead vs. the dead with humans caught in the crossfire!
|Nov 26, 2014
|Durarara!! Yellow scarves arc. 1 by Narita, RyoÌgo, 1980- author.
"The serial slashings in Ikebukuro have come to an end, and Anri is steadily recovering from her injuries. But life is far from 'back to normal' for Kida. Enraged at the random violence that has shattered the peace of his neighborhood, Kida and his middle school crew, the Yellow Scarves, reunite to address the rise of organized gangs in town-the Dollars, the followers of Saika, and now the Yellow Scarves. When all is said and done, who will hold the power on the streets of Ikebukuro?"--Amazon.co
|Nov 26, 2014
|Deadpool vs Carnage by Bunn, Cullen, author.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Brick Shakespeare. The tragedies - Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar by McCann, John (Photographer)
Whimsical visual adaptations of four Shakespearean tragedies, rendered in LEGO bricks, feature scene-by-scene reenactments accompanied by captioned excerpts from the plays.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Attack on Titan. 14 by Isayama, Hajime, 1986- author.
"Commander Erwin has finally come to a decision: Putting their own wealth and position ahead of the survival of humanity, the royal government is no longer fit to lead. To execute their leader's most audacious plan yet, Eren and Krista will have to put themselves in peril yet again, and Armin, Mikasa, and the rest of the Survey Corps will have to turn from humanity's guardians into traitors. If they fail this time, they'll face not a Titan's gaping mouth, but the gallows..."--P. [4] of cover.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Alice in the country of Joker - circus and liar's game. Vol. 6 by QuinRose (Firm), author.
Alice Liddel has now entered a new realm--the country of Joker--where she is reunited with old friends. Yet new challenges abound, as Alice must unravel the mystery of the Circus and the Prison Realm, and deal with the enigmatic Jokers.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Absolute Justice by Krueger, Jim.
"Not the shining examples of heroism you were expecting? The fabled members of the Justice League of America are just as surprised, as their greatest enemies begin to make sweeping, worldwide changes that appear to be noble acts to the public at large. But sinister forces are at work, and only the true heroes of the world can stop them."--Dust jacket.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Simpsons comics. Simpsorama by Groening, Matt.
In this collection of comics, faithful followers can catch up on the latest goings-on in Springfield, as the Simpson universe leaps from the screen to the big color comics pages. Ned Flanders, steadfast citizen and devoted father, has gone on a rampage, committing shocking crimes (it's not his fault -- he's been kidnapped by aliens). The Simpsons try out for membership in a biosphere, with catastrophic results. Then it's off to a new adventure as Bart skateboards headlong into the evils of the p
|Nov 26, 2014
|Simpsons comics. A go-go by Groening, Matt.
A collection of five comic books featuring the television cartoon family, the Simpsons.
|Nov 26, 2014
|Original sin. Who shot the Watcher by Waid, Mark, 1962- author.
Who shot the Watcher? Uatu, the mysterious space-god who's been watching mankind from the moon for as long as we can remember...is dead. Thus begins the greatest murder mystery in Marvel history! As Nick Fury leads the heroes of the Marvel Universe in an investigation, other forces are marshaling and other questions are arising. Why is Black Panther gathering a secret team of his own, including Emma Frost, the Punisher and Dr. Strange? Who is the Unseen? What was stolen from the Watcher's lair?
|Nov 26, 2014
|Alice in the country of Clover. Knight's knowledge, 3 by QuinRose (Firm), author.
After finally settling in the Country of Hearts, Alice's world is turned upside-down yet again when the landmasses shift into the Country of Clover! Alice isn't the only one mourning the loss because Ace was dragged to Clover alongside her, leaving him without Julius, the one confidante who seemed able to hold him together. Now, Ace's newfound mental instability has made him extremely dangerous and although Alice is drawn to him, her desire to help may be her downfall.
|Nov 26, 2014
|My love story!! 1 by Kawahara, Kazune, author.
Giant Takeo Goda's love life takes a surprising turn when he saves a girl named Yamato, but will she be drawn instead to Takeo's handsome best friend, Sunakawa?
|Nov 26, 2014
|How the world was - a California childhood by Guibert, Emmanuel, author.
In 1994, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert befriended an American veteran named Alan Cope and began creating his new friend's graphic biography. Alan's War was the surprising and moving result: the story of Cope's experiences as an American GI in France during World War II. How the World Was is Emmanuel Guibert's moving return to documenting the life of his friend. Cope died several years ago, as Guibert was just beginning work on this book, but Guibert has kept working to commit his friend's s
|Nov 26, 2014
|Skip beat!. Volumes 25-26-27 by Nakamura, Yoshiki, author, artist.
|Nov 26, 2014
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That was fast.
Just days after Owen Wilson announced he and girlfriend Jade Duell were expecting a child, the latter has already given birth to a baby boy. The blessed event took place this afternoon in Hawaii.
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7 bedroom detached house for sale Sodston House, Sodston, Narberth, Pembrokeshire
Sodston House is a wonderful Grade II listed 7 bedroom, Georgian gentleman's residence. Situated in the middle of 79 acres of good pasture land, there are numerous outbuildings, original coach house & stables, hard tennis court, a three bedroom cottage, and a one bedroom gate house. (contd...) More details ›
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A 106 acre property suited for dairy purposes, beef, sheep, equestrian or similar having a former dairy unit with 6 abreast parlour, cubicle shed and silage shed. Also more traditional buildings including a stone range which could be suitable for conversion subject to the necessary planning conse... More details ›
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Pleasantly located dairy/livestock farm Considerable residential appeal with traditional buildings having potential for conversions, subject to planning consent Extensive range of adaptable modern buildings 105 acres or thereabouts of productive pasture land on red sandstone with excell... More details ›
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