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The Okaloosa County Department of Public Safety announced the following road closures today. The roads will be closed as listed below for maintenance and improvements due to recent storms.
- Woodland Street, Crestview: 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 26 and 27, just south of Pinewoods Drive so crews can replace the cross drain. Access will be available up to the closure on this dead end street, so minimal traffic will be impacted.
- Poplar Head Church Road, Holt: 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 28, closed at Bone Creek for bridge repair and maintenance. Access will be available up to each side of the bridge, but no through traffic will be permitted. Locations north of the closure will need to use Fire Lane to Bone Creek Road to Lighthouse Church Road instead. Please plan accordingly.
- Eglin Parkway, Shalimar, will be shifted to the west side of the roadway the week of Feb. 25. The construction team will also close the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Eglin Parkway to allow crews to continue replacement of the drainage system.
Access to Sixth Avenue will be restored once the drainage system replacement is completed. It is currently scheduled for the March/April 2013 timeframe.
Access to Eglin Parkway businesses will be maintained at all times, and two lanes of traffic will be open in each direction. Left turns and U-turns will continue to be permitted only at the Shalimar Drive/Cherokee Road and Ninth Avenue/Erwin Fleet Road traffic signals.
The planned construction activities are weather dependent and may be rescheduled in the event of inclement weather.
Crestview roads closed due to flooding are:
- Old Dorcas at Shoal River
- U.S. Highway 393 at Shoal River, Shoal River Relief Bridge and Pond Creek.
- Lake Ella Road at Pond Creek
- Okaloosa Lane, dirt portion
- Boat ramp and entrance road at Ray Lynn Barnes Park, U.S. Highway 90 East.
Hazardous weather outlook
Persons living in flood prone areas near creeks and low lying areas should be alert for the potential of flash flooding. Residents and business interests located along river basins should monitor the rivers for possible flooding conditions due to heavy rain.
Also there is a slight risk for severe thunderstorms with downburst winds large hail and isolated brief tornadoes this afternoon through this evening. A cold front will move east across the region late this evening with the back clearing edge of the rain and thunderstorms advancing east of the Laverne, Andalusia and Destin areas shortly after midnight.
Widespread heavy rain and periodic strong thunderstorms will continue to impact the region through the late afternoon and evening hours. A flash flood watch is in effect with widespread rainfall amounts from 3 to 5 inches expected to fall through late this evening ahead of an approaching cold frontal system. Localized rainfall amounts to near 7 inches remain possible through tonight.
Blackwater River flood stages
Currently the Blackwater River near Baker is predicted to exceed the flood stage of 11 feet. The river is currently forecast to crest at 13.5 feet on Tuesday, Feb 26. At this level the following impacts could occur:
- 9.5 feet — Kennedy and Peaden Bridges flooded upstream.
- 11 feet — some minor flooding of secondary roads and lowlands from around Baker downstream will occur.
- 12 feet — flooding of secondary roads and lowlands will subside as the river drops below 12 feet.
- 14 feet —flooding of East Park in Baker occurs at 14 feet and West Park becomes flooded at 14.5 feet.
Shoal River flood stages
Currently the Shoal River near Crestview is predicted to exceed the flood stage of 8 feet. The river is currently forecast to crest at 12.9 feet on Tuesday, Feb 26th. At this level the following impacts could occur:
- 8 feet — Some minor flooding of low lying areas will occur.
- 8.5 feet — Lowland flooding in the area will diminish as the river drops below 8 feet.
- 10 feet — Some flooding of trailers north of the Okaloosa Correctional Institute occurs as the river rises above 10 feet
- 10.5 feet — Flooding to trailers north of the Okaloosa Correctional Institute will subside as the river level falls below 10 feet.
- 11 feet — Flooding becomes a threat to the Trevor Court and Rattlesnake Bluff areas as the river rises above 11 feet.
- 14 feet — residential flooding in the Trevor Court area will likely occur as the river rises above 14 feet.
Yellow River flood stages
Currently the Yellow River near Milligan is predicted to exceed the flood stage of 12 feet. The river is predicted to crest at 13.5 feet on Feb. 27. Below are potential impacts if the river exceeds this level and floods:
- 5 feet — Right bank overflows, mainly into swamp and marsh lands.
- 5.9 feet — water over Ellis Road at trellis.
- 9.9 feet — Some minor overflow of low lying areas will occur. Water will enter some yards along Antioch Road in Milligan.
- 11.5 feet — water in yards on Ellis Road.
- 12 feet — Extensive overflow of lowlands will occur and a few rural roads in the area will become flooded.
- 12.5 feet — Flooding of lowlands will gradually subside as the river level drops below 12 feet.
- 13 feet — Threatens homes on Ellis and Antioch Roads.


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New DVD Releases: Tuesday April 7, 2009Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
These are the movies arriving on DVD this Tuesday:
Bedtime Stories (Comedy)
An adventure comedy starring Adam Sandler as Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter's life upside down.
Cast: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Russell Brand, Lucy Lawless, Jonathan Pryce, Aisha Tyler, Dana Goodman; Directed by: Adam Shankman
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2009 Sci-Fi)
The Day the Earth Stood Still" is 20th Century Fox's contemporary reinvention of its 1951 classic. Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor's appearance, a woman (Jennifer Connelly) and her young stepson get caught up in his mission – and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described "friend to the Earth."
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Jaden Smith; Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Doubt (Drama/Thriller)
I t's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Lloyd Clay Brown; Directed by: John Patrick Shanley
House (Horror)
In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac (The Tin Man) bent on killing them, they flee deep into the woods and seek refuge in a house. They soon realize the killer has purposely lured them to this house and that they are now trapped. As they huddle around an old fireplace, a tin can falls through the chimney. Scrawled on its side is a message from the killer, establishing his House Rules. The rules call for their deaths unless they kill at least one of the four.
They have less than 12 hours to find a way to survive. At sunrise the game is over and everyone dies if the killer's demands aren't met. What they quickly learn is that the only way out . . . is in. But going further into this house–where unknown challenges await them–is equally deadly.
Cast: Michael Madsen, Allana Bale, J.P. Davis, Leslie Easterbrook; Directed by: Robby Henson
Not Easily Broken (Drama)
Director Bill Duke steps behind the camera for this adaptation of the T.D. Jakes novel concerning a newly married couple that finds their union threatened by pressures involving faith, family, and finances. As the couple exchanges their vows, the minister lays a cord around them while uttering the blessing, "a threefold cord is not easily broken." Later, during their darkest hour, the minister's advice to always keep God at the center of their marriage could be the only thing that keeps this troubled pair together.
Cast: Morris Chestnut, Taraji P. Henson, Maeve Quinlan, Cannon Jay, Gregg Bello; Directed by: Bill Duke
Yes Man (Comedy)
A man (Carrey) who finds himself very depressed, and is always saying no. When friends ask him out, he always says no, "Yes Man" will explore what happens when he decides to say YES to every thing that comes his way.
Cast: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Danny Masterson, Bradley Cooper, Terence Stamp, Sasha Alexander, Molly Sims, Patrick Labyorteaux, John Michael Higgins; Directed by: Peyton Reed
Tale of Despereaux (Animation/Adventure/Family)
Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthwatering soup. But an accident left the King broken-hearted, the Princess filled with longing and the townsfolk without their soup. Sunlight disappeared. The world became gray. All hope was lost in this land…until Despereaux Tilling was born.
A modern fairy tale from visionary filmmaker Gary Ross, together with directors Sam Fell & Rob Stevenhagen, The Tale of Despereaux tells the story of several unlikely heroes: Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), a brave mouse banished to the dungeon for speaking with a human; Roscuro (Dustin Hoffman), a good-hearted rat who loves light and soup, but is exiled to darkness; Pea (Emma Watson), a Princess in a gloomy castle who is prisoner to her father's grief; and Mig (Tracey Ullman), a servant girl who longs to be a Princess, but is forced to serve the jailer (Robbie Coltrane).
Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a Princess named Pea and learns to read (rather than eat) books—reveling in stories of knights, dragons and fair maidens. Banished from Mouseworld for being more man than mouse, Despereaux is rescued by another outcast, Roscuro, who also wants to hear the tales. But when the Princess dismisses Roscuro's friendship, he becomes the ultimate rat and plots revenge with fellow outsider Mig.
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Lloyd, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, William H. Macy; Directed by: Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen

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- Can't remove git tag on remote: Anyone know how to ensure that a git tag is removed on the remote repository? We've tried to remove the tag locally, then push to remote. The tag is removed for a while, but at some point in the future it magically comes back.
Soap4r (courtesy of Adam Milligan):
If you're using soap4r in a Rails app, you know that it generates a module based on a WSDL that you feed it, so you can make SOAP calls by calling Ruby methods. Simple and nice, right? Right. Be careful where you require the generated files though. If Rails loads them too soon they won't have the necessary information from the WSDL, and your SOAP calls will fail in subtle and frustrating ways.
If you require the generated files in the class that uses them, your SOAP calls will work in development mode but fail in any environment with class caching turned on (it may work if you have eager class loading disabled, but why take the chance?). If you require the generated files in an initializer, your SOAP calls will fail in every environment. We made this work by including the generated files at the very end of the environment file. An after_initialize block may work as well.


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WASHINGTON, May 20, 2014 The U.S. Department of Agricultures Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Barenbrug USA, Tangent, Ore., has paid $6,500 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
This settlement resolves six cases that involved one shipment of red clover seed to Texas, one shipment of a wildlife food plot seed mixture to Missouri, and four shipments of lawn grass seed mixtures to Indiana. The alleged violations were as follows:
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The company settled the case in agreement with AMS officials. The company neither admitted nor denied the charges brought against them.
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The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
The world's most comprehensive resource on Eastern European Jewish history and culture and over 1,000 digitized images, documents, sound clips, and videos from YIVO's collections.
Guide to the YIVO Archives
Access basic descriptions of over 1,800 archival collections and detailed finding aids for selected collections.
YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
Access to over 50 archival collections with Polish materials, including finding aids, digital images, sound recordings, and rare films of Jewish life in pre-WWII Poland.
People of A Thousand Towns: Online Photographic Catalog
Search and view over 50,000 images of Jewish life in pre- WWII Eastern Europe.
Milstein Family Jewish Communal Archive Project
View documents and images from YIVO's collection of organizational records for the 92nd St Y, the Educational Alliance, the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA), FEGs, and Surpise Lake Camp.
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Rare films of Jewish life in prewar Eastern Europe on an online exhibition by YIVO and Yeshiva University Museum.
YIVO Online Exhibitions
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The Department of German and Russian offers courses in language and literature. By following a carefully designed program, German and Russian students learn to communicate; to think and write critically; and to appreciate the literary, social, and cultural traditions of the language under study. The department is committed to the concept of foreign study and strongly encourages students to participate in overseas programs in Munich, Berlin, or Simferopol. Major and minor programs are offered in German; a minor is offered in Russian and students are sometimes able to complete a Russian major by completing a semester of study abroad.
Requirements for the German Major (8 Credits)
German majors are required to complete 8 credits of course work beyond the intermediate-level language courses, including Composition and Discussion, at least 1 credit in Civilization, 3 credits in Literature and a Senior Year Experience.
Core courses
Three credits in German literature, from the following (3)
- GERM 340 Introduction to German Literature (1)
- GERM 431 (TH) Changing German Realities Since the Congress of Vienna (1)
- GERM 432 Realism and Naturalism (1)
- GERM 433 Modernism in Vienna and Berlin (1)
- GERM 490 and 491 Reading and Conference (1)
Three additional credits in German, numbered 300 or above (3) including either
Requirements for the German Minor (5 Credits)
- GERM 232 Intermediate German II (1)
- GERM 331W German Composition and Discussion (1)
- GERM 333 Contemporary German Culture (1)
- GERM 340 Introduction to German Literature (1)
- One additional German credit at the 400 level (1)
Requirements for the Russian Minor (5 Credits)
- RUSS 232 Intermediate Russian II (1)
- RUSS 233W (TH) Russian Culture: Russian Ways and Views of Russia (1) or
- RUSS 320W (IT; 4th Sem Lang Req) Introduction to Russian Literature in Translation (1)
- RUSS 325 (IT) Topics in Russian Literature (1)
- RUSS 331 Russian Composition and Discussion (1)
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The Aiken Department of Public Safety responded to shopliftings over the weekend at Walmart on Richland Avenue, Dillards in Aiken Mall, Reids on York Street and CVS Pharmacy on Richland Avenue.
Vehicle break-ins were reported to Aiken Public Safety over the weekend on University Parkway, Horry Street and Mimosa Circle.
One man was charged with disorderly conduct and another with possession of crack cocaine after the two were caught by Public Safety officers fighting on Sumter Street over a woman that they were both seeing, according to a public safety report.
The Aiken County Sheriffs Office responded to break-ins over the weekend on Edgefield Road in North Augusta, Ponderose Drive in North Augusta, Canary Lake Road in North Augusta, Oakhurst Drive in North Augusta, Ridge Crest Road in Aiken, Main Street in Graniteville, Cedar Road in Aiken and Charleston Highway in Windsor.
Vehicles were reported stolen from Leitner Street in Graniteville, Pinewood Park Circle in Beech Island and Goodman Road in Beech island.
Vehicle break-ins were reported to the Sheriffs Office that took place on Audubon Circle in North Augusta, Jefferson Davis Highway in Clearwater and Jerusalem Branch Road in Salley.
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Friday, April 4, 2014
A man accused of a 2008 murder in the Oatland community was found guilty of the crime after a four day trial.
A jury deliberated for about three hours Thursday and found Terron Gerhard Dizzley, 35, guilty of shooting and killing 31-year-old Aundry Nathaniel Evans, Jr.
He was facing 30 years to life in prison. Circuit Court Judge Roger Couch sentenced Dizzley to 35 years.
It was the second time Dizzley was on trial for the charges. In 2012, the trial ended with a hung jury after 12 hours of deliberations.
The shooting took place at about 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2008 inside what was then the Paradise Club in Oatland. Evans was shot several times.
Assistant Solicitor Erin Bailey, who prosecuted the case, said its believed the motive of the shooting was business-related.
She said Dizzley is believed to have invested money in the Paradise Club, which Evans co-owned.
Bailey said she feels the jury was able to reach a verdict this time because she presented the panel with everything she had. She said during the trial in 2012, only the evidence that pointed to Dizzley as the shooter was presented.
She said she called 18 witnesses to the stand and presented more than 350 exhibits during the trial.
I gave them everything. Every crime scene picture, whether they were blurry or not. I told them I was hiding nothing from them, Bailey said.
Even after being found guilty, both Dizzley and his mother maintained his innocence, Bailey said.
It was very satisfying to finally get justice for the victims family, Bailey said.
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It's here again. The annual Pet Photo Contest is starting and submissions are beginning to come in.
Submissions run from July 22 through September 9. Voting begins July 29 and will run until September 9.
Go to The Ripple's website and click on the "Cutest Pets" link to the right to view other pet submissions, to vote, or to add a picture of your own pet to submit for the contest.
Register through the website or sign up using your Facebook account so your friends can see your activity.
Each picture is given a title and description and includes the submitter's username, city and state.
Contestants must be 18 years old and may submit multiple entries. Only the owner of the pet may submit the subject of the photo, so do not steal your neighbor's dog to take a quick photo!
Each user account requires a valid email address. Each account can place five votes in a 24 hour period.
View the entries and vote for your favorite before it's too late. Submissions and voting can occur any time inside the dates above.
One grand prize winner will receive $250.
This year's sponsor is the Animal Ark Veterinary Hospital in Elkin.
Official rules can be found at the bottom of the contest's site.
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Different Dogs: Different Exercise Needs
All dogs need to be exercised everyday in some form or fashion. The most common method is through the walk around the neighborhood, but is a short walk around the block enough exercise for your particular dog?
What Happens if a Dog Isn't Exercised Enough?As a professional dog trainer, I often find that many of my clients think they are exercising the family dog enough simply because the dog has access to the backyard for a few hours a day. In most cases, this doesn't constitute as exercise because many dogs just don't do anything when in the backyard.
I'm called in for training and behavioral work with these clients, and many times one of the roots of the issue is the dog not being exercised enough each day. My motto is that the goal should be to have a happily tired dog each day. How much exercise that might be is directly related to the individual dog, but the goal is the same for all dogs.
When a dog isn't exercised enough, that energy becomes pent up and it has to go somewhere! Most of the time it goes into behaviors that are possibly entertaining for the dog, but the same behaviors are inappropriate or annoying to us. For example, some behaviors that might be caused by lack of exercise or be contributed to by lack of exercise include: digging, excessive barking, escaping from the yard, jumping on people, running around, chewing and destruction, pestering for attention non-stop, and obsessively asking to play. Some neurotic behaviors can also form like chasing its own tail or self licking.
Why are Exercise Needs Different?Every dog is an individual so exercise has to partly be judged on that individual. Some dogs are simply a higher energy level individual and require more exercise and playtime, and some are more low key and couch potato-like.
There are also huge differences in breeds. An English Bulldog doesn't have the same exercise requirements as a Belgian Malinois. Giant breeds, although huge in size, normally have smaller exercise requirements, and people are normally quite surprised to find that racing greyhounds make fabulous house pets that are calm. Why do these differences occur?
It truly comes down to what a dog was originally bred for. A dog like a greyhound is bred for hunting by sight. They are excellent running dogs, but they are sprint runners so that they can quickly chase and catch prey. It also means they exert a lot of energy quickly.
A dog like an English Bulldog as he is today is short, stocky, and has compromised breathing. He is not a dog built for swimming, and although he enjoys taking walks, he might be tuckered out in just a couple of blocks.
Dogs that are bred to have jobs that require stamina simply need more exercise. Bird dogs normally require a lot of exercise because they were bred to work alongside a hunter in the field all day long, and herding breeds like the border collie were bred to go all day long never taking time off from the herd. Dogs like this need a job to do or something that mentally and physically drains them each day.
How to Exercise a Dog Enough?Exercising a dog has two components: mental exercise and physical exercise. It's just like you. You are likely very worn out after a hard day at work that required a lot of mental thinking and concentration. You often feel as if you ran a marathon! This means that for our dogs we need to try to balance both of these components for the best effects.
1. Mental Exercise: This is just asking your dog to use his brain. How you choose to do that is entirely up to you. It might be through training and different sports. It is mentally challenging for a dog to work an agility course, herd sheep, track, or other tasks.
Outside of sports, you can challenge your dog in a number of ways:
Be creative! You might find that there are lots of other options open to you and your dog. Consider your lifestyle and create exercise that works with what you have available to you.
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PRAIRIE CITY, Calif. – Just shy of 100 karters were welcomed to All Star Kart Track in Prairie City, CA for the 3rd round in the 2012 WKA West Super Series, presented by Bridgestone, RLV, and Grand Products. Drivers were eager to take to the track Sunday morning and beat the inevitable heat.
Starting the day off at All Star Kart Track was the KPV1 class which attracted 15 karters from ages 9 to 12.
Jason Pettit and Roy Fulmer set the bar early with Pettit Qualifying pole with a 46.708 and Fulmer a 46.784. Going into the Heats, this class made it clear that there was no shoe in for 1st position today. Roy Fulmer, Jason Pettit and Chase Farley remained your top 3 during the Pre Final and began to pull away from the rest of the class making this a battle for 4th position and that going to Horatio Fitz-Simon with Nascimento hot on his trail. Rounding out the Main Event, Fulmer, Pettit and Farley once again broke away from the pack leaving Roy Fulmer to take the First place followed by Jason Pettit, Chase Farley, Horatio Fitz-Simon and Richard Stock to complete your top 5.
Kid Karts
Kid Karts would follow KPV 1 onto the track with Sam Wood laying down a poll time for qualifying at 57.330, more than a two second gap between Wood and the 2nd place qualifier of Alec Acevedo. Wood kept his top spot throughout Heat 1 and the Pre Final but ran into some trouble in the main, spinning on lap 2 Wood saves himself only to end up in the barriers in the Snake Pit in lap 3. Cody Batterton was left to defend his 1st place spot but the real battle was between Alec Bridgman and Alec Acevedo for 2nd position. Batterton took the 1st place win in the Main Event followed by Alec Bridgman, Alec Acevedo and Race Godelson.
KPV 2 proved to be a greatly anticipated race with Sonny Cervelli making his comeback after losing steering in WKA Round 2 in Davis last month. Cervelli delivered by qualifying 3rd with a 44.287 just shy of six tenths off of our poll setter Blake Murdock. Cervelli made his move in Heat 1 and finished 1st with Blake Murdock, Blaine Rocha, Cole Davis and Isaac Martin making up the top 5. In a shocking turn of events, Murdock was sent into the barriers in turn 4 on the second lap, making Cervelli followed by Blaine Rocha, Cole Davis, Michaela LaSpina and Grayson Browne the group to beat. Into the Main, Cervelli puts a huge gap between himself and his competition and setting fast lap for that class at 44.532. Rocha, Murdock, Davis, and LaSpina all put the pressure on in the Main Event and we can't wait to see them in the next round of this series!
Clone Sr.
Continuing their rein of being the biggest class with 20 karts were the Clone Sr drivers. It looked to be an easy day for Jon Ban, qualifying poll at a 35.797 followed just one tenth off by Brad Delk but Brain Hill was not going down without a fight and he took the top spot in the Heat 1 with Rob Nascimento just itching to battle it out later in the day. A battle was starting in the Pre Final with quite a few spun karts coming out of turn 1. Making their way out of the wreckage were Brian Hill, Rob Nascimento, Justin Henry, Lizzie Tidwell, Chad Nascimento, Jon Ban, Carol Brown, Wayne Bundy, RJ Kahler and Shane Szuh. Ban looked to the inside to take 4th place from C. Nascimento and he did it making a great pass only to be met by a popped chain and taking him out of the Pre Final. Giving the Clone Sr drivers a run for their money, Hill pulls away from the pack but the real taker would be Justin Henry who made his way from last all the way up to 2nd place! Henry was DQ'd in tech but we will give credit where credit is due for his great driving! Brian Hill takes the win for the Main Event and having held 2nd throughout the finale was Brandon Shaw and Rob Nascimento not far behind him. Jon Ban climbed his way back up through the field giving him a 3rd place finish, not easy to do with RJ Kahler and Nick Grossi not making that a walk in the park for Ban.
Clone Jr.
Jake Pipal may have been the only Clone Jr of the day but he ran with the Sr drivers all day showing that he will not be pushed around and he was here to drive! Keeping to the back of the Sr pack, Jake Pipal threw down a qualifying time of 52.164 and took all the points for this race and we are all looking forward to seeing him shine at the fourth round in the WKA West Series.
Sr. Super Sportsman
Bryan Parmenter showed his skill in the Super Sportsman Qualifying session putting out a poll time of 45.825 just one tenth ahead of Anthony Snow, setting the scene for a very close race day. Snow came out on top in the Heat 1 with a gap over Parmenter and Bryan Gallagher who was followed closely by Jarred Wolff. After a complete Restart in the Pre Final, Snow shot into first with Parmenter coming for him and Gallagher not letting either of them forget that he's there. Snow made this look like a piece of cake giving himself a 4 kart gap between himself and the pack. Battling fiercely resulted in Parmenter and Gallagher taking themselves out and putting Wolff, Nick Robertson and James Brussard to start the Main in 2nd, 3rd and 4th where Parmenter and Gallagher knew they needed to put some work in to get back to the top. Working his way through the field, Parmenter took the 2nd position from Wolff and didn't give Snow the distance on him this time and toward the last few laps really closed that gap but finished 2nd to Snow, making 3rd Wolff followed by Robertson, Brussard and Gallagher.
Jr. 1-2 Cycle
Jr 1-2 Cycle drivers are ages 9 – 12, and with a 12 kart field were eager to have their chance at seat time. Matthew Martin made a name for himself qualifying with a 48.853, two tenths over Wyatt Couch and three tenths over Richard Stock. Martin held that lead in the Heat 1 and the Pre Final sessions with Couch and Gino Gigliotti hot on his trail and making sure Martin felt the pressure by staying right on the back of him. The green flag flies in the Main Event and Gigliotti jumps into 1st place for the first few laps only to be passed in turn one by Martin. Matthew Proud did a great job holding his 3rd place spot for a great portion of the race only to succumb to the pressure he was feeling from Wyatt Couch and Richard Stock who followed suit to come into the 4th place finish. Just when we thought Martin was in the clear, Martin comes up to the group of lappers in the distance, looking back to see Gigliotti reeling him in fast and in one smooth move Gigliotti takes 1st place just in time to see the white flag fly! Gigliotti holds off Martin in the finish with Couch, Stock and Proud right behind him.
Formula 80 Masters/80 Senior
A small field for the shifters showed no short of excitement starting the day with the Formula 80 Sr driver Adam Booker qualifying two tenths above Jon Ban and Josh Cole who was DQ'd from Qualifying. Formula 80 Master driver Steve Nagai qualified 44.407 and stayed close to the Sr drivers throughout the day. Heading into the Heat 1, Cole held the top spot for awhile but was feeling the heat from Booker and Ban was also closing in hard. Booker takes it down the front stretch and takes the 1st place finish from Cole and following that line was Ban who slides to the inside of Cole with three laps to go and takes the 2nd place finish. Cole attempted to redeem himself in the Pre Final and really put the heat on Booker trying to get by. Booker and Cole get tangled, Cole pulls through but Booker is left on the sidelines to start 3rd for the Main Event. Booker didn't go quietly and threw himself quickly into 2nd in front of Ban and Nagai but still two kart lengths away from catching Cole. Winding down to the last six laps Cole missed a gear and gave Booker the opportunity needed to regain his 1st place finish and taking himself out of the race.80 Senior 2nd place finish going to Jon Ban and Steve Nagai taking 1st place position and points for the 80 Masters.
TAG Masters/TAG Senior/ TAG Junior
With a mix of Seniors, Masters and a Junior driver was our TAG class. Corey Mitchell put in the work throughout the day to hold everyone off and after a qualifying time of 44.090, 6 tenths faster than Ray Zarick, Mitchell dominated the day with 1st place finishes throughout for the Masters, leaving Zarick and Dennis Goodson to battle it out for 2nd and 3rd places. Zarick steadily held 2nd but Goodson saved the best for last and sent Zarick down to 3rd in the Main Event. Qualifying 1st for the Seniors, Chris Mugnaini set the poll at 44.392 leaving Wayne Ash two tenths behind and Andrew Colombini one tenth off of Ash who in the sessions to come left Mugnaini and Colombini to fight for 2nd and 3rd positions. 1st place finishes in the Heat 1 session, Pre Final and Main Event, great accomplishments being that this is Ash's second race ever, Great driving Ash!! Our TAG Junior driver Isaac Martin qualified at 44.668 and took home the 1st place trophy and points for his class for the day.
Spec PRD
The most anticipated class of the day, the Spec PRD drivers who had spectators on the edge of their seats all day! With a 14 kart field they head into the Qualifying session with Shelby Sander laying out a fast time of 44.103 and Matt Chase not far off of Sander at a 44.151 and Ryan Sisemore just 3 tenths off of Chase. Heat 1 got exciting from the second the green flag flew with Chase taking pole position from Sander who was all over Chase's bumper making sure he knew that she was coming for her spot back! Sisemore saw an opportunity and took over 2nd place above Sander who returns the favor by taking her spot back and creating felt pressure for Sisemore from Brandon Tomko who makes a successful pass on Sisemore. Back in 2nd place Sander looks anywhere she can to get around Chase and with the white flag flying, makes her move and brings the crowd to their feet as she makes a great pass coming out of turn four, starting her 1st for the Pre Final and sending Chase into 2nd! Showing she has what it takes, Sander dominating the field in Pre Final and the Main and setting fast laps in each of those Sander takes home the 1st place trophy! Chase held tight on the back of Sander all day and finished the Main Event in the 2nd position followed by Ashlie Couch in 3rd who fought her way through the field all day. Sisemore remained toward the front of the pack all day but in the Main Event ended up tangled with Tomko and ultimately not able to finish. The 4th place finish went to Brandon Tomko followed by Amber Friedberg, Ryan Casner and Arielle Kuntz.
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Thoughts on the loss to Wofford
"We lost a tough one last Saturday. I thought our kids played really hard all the way across the board, especially defensively. I thought we played excellent defense. It was probably as good as we've played since I have been here. I am proud of our guys. We didn't get it done but we have to find ways to get that part done. I think the only thing we have to focus on right now is to win the game on Saturday and then move on from there."
On what it takes to win the close games
"Last year the big thing was our second half play. If you look at it, we have played really well in the second half this year. We have won games in the second half. We're 1-7 in games decided by three or less. Whether it's three points or one possession games, it's the same. We've won one-possession games. We have won games and gotten better in the second half during the year, and we can take that and move forward. We have to play well this week. We have to play good enough to beat Elon, and we'll figure all the other things later on down the road."
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On facing the Elon offense
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On what it takes to win the close games
"You can look at it as a positive that we are even in these big games, playing Wofford and Georgia Southern and going to overtime against both of them. We haven't really put together a complete game. There are always a few things we could do better or differently playing or coaching. When we put those things together, that's when the Mocs will be on top in those types of games."
On how the team regroups for the final regular season game
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The Goose Creek basketball teams swept Fort Dorchester Wednesday night.
The Goose Creek boys earned a 50-37 win at home to improve to 4-1 on the season.
The Gators took advantage of their size to jump ahead early. The Patriots (3-2) tried to counter by setting a fast tempo, but the pace didnt bother Goose Creek.
The Fort is tough, Goose Creek coach Blake Hall said. They have some kids who really play hard and coach Wheaton does a good job of preparing his team. But we were prepared and our kids are getting better each time we play. We have a good rivalry going with them and there was an exciting atmosphere here tonight.
The Gators took a 12-2 lead in the game and finished the first period ahead 14-5. They extended the lead to 28-17 at the half.
The Patriots went on a run early in the third to pull within six points, but then allowed the Gators to regain the momentum.
Goose Creeks Dantez Bennamon led all scorers with 14 points. Shaquille Patrick added 11 for the Gators while Deshawn Evans chipped in 10.
Jalen Hooks led the Patriots with 9 points and Drederick Singletary finished with 7.
The Patriots host Wando Friday while the Gators travel to Hanahan.
The Fort girls were down a starter at Goose Creek and it proved to be costly as the Lady Gators cruised to a 65-36 victory to improve to 5-0 on the season.
I was pleased with our hustle tonight, Lady Gator coach Tim Baldwin said. However Im still looking for us to put together a complete game where we get our offense going and we execute our half-court set the way we should.
Goose Creek jumped ahead 14-0 and took a 16-3 lead into the second period. By halftime, the Lady Gators were up 33-12.
Fort Dorchesters Erica Martin led all scorers with 16 points and Erica Cobb finished with 15. However, only two other Lady Patriots scored and Goose Creek had three players in double figures.
Ashley Fields led Goose Creek with 14 points while Semoine Frasier and Jalvin Jones both added 11 points.
The Fort girls dropped to 1-4 on the season.
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Katherine Bennett, a physical therapist at Roper Hospital who works with Wallace and two other patients who used the new Exoskeleton, said there are physical and psychological benefits associated with the therapy. Patients use muscles that they normally don't, especially in their trunk, she said.
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The technology is not brand-new, but it is new to South Carolina, said Dr. Jeff Tubbs, a physical therapy and rehabilitation physician at Roper St. Francis Healthcare. He said Roper Hospital is the first in the state to purchase a machine, which was paid for by a grant from the South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund. The Exoskeleton is not approved by the FDA for home use. The hospital will primarily use the machine for research, he said.
"Regardless of everything else we'd like to accomplish, just the fact of being able to stand up and look somebody eye-to-eye is just psychologically pretty, you know, it's a big event, definitely," Tubbs said.
The hospital will demonstrate how the ReWalk Exoskeleton works for the general public at 10 a.m. Friday in the Irene Dixon Auditorium at Roper Hospital. The event is free.
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He worked with his parents at Liston's Grocery while in high school and started managing the store after graduation. He later owned the store with his father.
"Liston's Grocery as been in existence for 49 years. We still own it, but now it is leased," Liston said.
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Well, I thought that I could get away with no more articles in 2008. I guess that I was mistaken. I just read a good article by Chuck Goolsbee on SearchDataCenter.com titled: "Don't buy cloud computing hype: Business model will evaporate" and I figured that I would put in my 2 cents on some of the items mentioned within.
Goolsbee takes a very pragmatic approach to "slicing through" traditional datacenter hosting (using Occam's razor to boot), so that he could evaluate each and every aspect of what is contained in a physical environment. To summarize (and I'm paraphrasing, hopefully accurately), he mentions:
- Payment Card/eCommerce systems – hard to audit the purchased virtualized hardware within the Cloud
- Security – this works with auditing, but is the environment physically secure? Is there "data mingling?"
- "Fully acronym-compliant" – is the Cloud HiPAA, SOX, SAS70, GLBA, etc compliant?
- Data retention – for legal purposes, how can you ensure data retention?
- Cloud Computing Success Stories – pure cloud solution successes are marketing driven
- Margins for Cloud Providers – how can a cloud provider keep a good profit margin?
- Data Center On-Demand – that is what Cloud Computing is
- AWS is only real "successful" cloud provider – they are selling unused capacity
- "Buzzword overlap" – SaaS is NOT a cloud
Those are just a few points that I wanted to call out and respond to from my own perspective. First of all, I don't disagree (completely) with the items that are listed above. Any company looking at the Cloud as the end-all solution for their IT needs may be disappointed unless they fully think it all out. To address the points above:
- I somewhat agree with this assessment. It is impossible to fully audit what I call "disposable IT." However, the shift from CapEx to OpEx means that auditing methods need to be re-evaluated. In the past (and currently), if you wanted to requisition hardware, there was a process for doing so. It took time and had rigorous approval processes built in. Now, with the Cloud, you can do this "on the fly" and servers in the Cloud can be created and disposed of extremely quickly. With data in general, you can never fully have "absolute certainty" with an audit. Compliance requires a "reasonable certainty", especially since data isn't persistent in or outside of the Cloud. So, saying that the Cloud model will fail because it isn't compliant or can't be audited is erroneous.
- Physical security is left to the hosting provider or even to an outsourced 3rd party whose specific job is ensuring security and complaince therein. This is true with traditional datacenters, "cloudcenters" (a term that we at GoGrid are using to describe our Cloud Infrastructure), and even shared hosting. Just as Credit Card fraud initially got a lot of hype due to the launch of eCommerce, security in the Cloud will undergo a similar scrutiny. There is (unconfirmed) more Credit Card fraud that happens over the phone or physically at merchants than with eCommerce. When you choose a hosting provider, cloud or traditional, you need to think about data mingling anyway. Just ask your provider those questions. As standards arise and Government and Enterprise adopt Public and Private Clouds, security, as I have said previously, will be as robust if not more so than traditional centers. As in the Credit Card example, it's probably safer to use a credit card online now than over the phone, but that depends on the site.
- Yes, the ever-persistent acronyms are important. GoGrid and parent company, ServePath, are SAS70 Type II certified, for example. But, these regulatory organizations will ALSO have to adopt to this new business and technology model. This could prevent some traction of the Cloud for a few corporations but I don't think it will slow down others that much. And audits like we have, like SAS70, are widely-accepted industry standards for showing reasonable assurance and allowing auditability.
- I agree with the assessment that the Cloud will make it difficult for Law Enforcement to ensure data retention. Cloud Storage and/or backups can be used to allow for data retention to take place. However, if data retention is a requirement due to compliance or legal issues, processes can be built in to any IT infrastructure, cloudy or not. The other thing to consider here would be "hybrid solutions." Since GoGrid is run by a traditional managed hosting provider, ServePath, we understand that there are certain items that are better fit for physically residing somewhere. To that end, we developed Cloud Connect. Corporations or businesses that are concerned about data persistence and the physicality of that data could opt for a solution like Cloud Connect to meet this need.
- Success Stories generated by providers are great. But what is better is blog posts or end-user reviews of the service. There aren't too many reviews on successful implementations with datacenter deployments, mainly because it takes a very long time to roll out fully within a data center. And, it's not "sexy." Deploying a full IT infrastructure in the cloud in a matter of hours (vs. days or weeks in a datacenter) IS sexy, and people are talking about that. Time is money. If you can reduce your time to market by using the Cloud, then you will be many steps closer to monetizing than if you took a traditional method. Again, this could be where hybrid clouds (e.g., Cloud Connect) might come into play. I don't agree with Goolsbee's statement that "the cloud cannot contain anything critical". Just look at SalesForce or EC2 or GoGrid. Plenty of critical data is contained within those Clouds. I do agree that Cloud Computing IS great for start-ups, but if you stop there, you are missing many larger opportunities.
- Margins for traditional data centers is a topic unto itself. I will only scrape the surface here. GoGrid, for example, was born from traditional managed, dedicated hosting provider experience. In order to roll out and deploy servers, there is a large capital and operating expense. When new clients come on board, servers have to be configured to their needs, hard drives formatted, memory installed, cables connected, etc. The man-hours spent to roll out a single customer is quite large. We saw these inefficiencies as well as the fact that once deployed, servers sat idle and under-utilized. GoGrid was developed to combat these internal and external cost and labor inefficiencies. Not only could more "servers" be "contained" within fewer larger physical servers (reducing datacenter footprints, power, cooling, etc. metrics), but also, automated deployment reduced the human capital needs. Coupled with the fact that the control was now in the hands of the end user (in terms of scalability and configuration, for example), time to deploy was reduced (equating to less grumbling on all sides). If you read between the lines here, there are better margins for a hosting provider to convert some internal infrastructure over to providing Cloud "services" than not. Once the technology is created, rolling out Cloud infrastructures within a hosting provider for end users to later use is better than rolling out a handful of customized dedicated servers.
- Some Cloud Computing providers are data-centers on demand, but very few. As I mentioned, we now refer to GoGrid as a CloudCenter, the equivalent of a DataCenter but in the Cloud and using the requirements of Cloud Computing: dynamically and rapidly scalable, paying for what you use and using only what you need, programmatically controlled through an API (or web interface), and somewhat "virtualized". To be a true "datacenter in the cloud" you must have all of the components of a datacenter (servers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, storage, multiple network pipes, internal and external networks, etc.). Only those Cloud Providers that give out Infrastructure solutions (e.g., GoGrid and potentially EC2) can be considered "data-centers on demand" and even then, EC2 doesn't quite fit.
- AWS had a few things going for it to get it on its way to being considered a "successful provider": its name, its size and the fact that it was first to market (or appeared to be). Don't get me wrong, their entire suite is very impressive and they have a lot of extremely happy customers. Also, they have truly cut the ice for other Cloud providers to come along (to which we are thankful). I'm not sure about the accuracy of what Goolsbee says (that they are "selling unused capacity"). This may have been true initially, but I believe they are their own business unit by now and their data centers have nothing to do with their "book selling." Also, the mention of uptime and security guarantees being lacking will change (they recently released an SLA for EC2…it's not as robust as GoGrid, for what it's worth). The general pessimism about AWS not being good for mission-critical IT functions is not really warranted, I don't feel. Datacenters fail, as do servers. This is not specific to the Cloud. If you are worried about your data, back it up! That is the best practice and not something that you should only do if you are using the Cloud.
- I agree that Cloud Computing as a general buzzword is over-used and vague, but it is here to stay until something better comes along. We are already seeing segmentation within it. It is a general encapsulation of many different things. I do think that SaaS belongs as one of the Cloud layers (Cloud Applications) provided it meets the Cloud checklist. Google IS a cloud provider (Google App Engine as a Cloud Platform; Gmail as a Cloud Application). Buying application time (specifically "hosting" your Python application within their datacenters) IS using the Cloud, but not Cloud Infrastructure but rather Cloud Platforms. In fact, you will be able to buy additional capacity on App Engine soon.
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