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Parking on campus will be at a premium for all six football home games (August 31, September 7, September 14, October 5, October 12, November 9)
- All entrances to campus will be closed five hours prior to kickoff, at 7 am, except for the main entrance and east entrance off John Kirk Road.
- Game-day entrances will be opened four hours prior to kickoff only to Game Day permit holders at the designated entrance for their permit.
- On the Friday prior to game day, signs will be placed in all tailgating lots and parking decks as notification that those lots and decks are closed and must be vacated.
- Vehicles parked in lots/decks designated for Football parking after midnight on Friday will be towed at the owner's expense.
ALL parking for the game will require a specific Game Day parking permit
- FSL holders will be provided with pre-printed Game Day parking permits. For questions concerning FSL Permits, please contact the Athletics foundation.
- Single Game Day permits will be available online for Union Deck (Yellow) or West Deck (Purple) through Click and Park at $15 per vehicle. (UNC Charlotte Football event parking will be listed on the Click and Park site after August 12.)
- Cash parking will be available in Cone Deck (Pink) for $20 per vehicle.
- ADA Parking permits will be available through Click and Park for the CRI Deck. (Both an Orange CRI Deck ADA Game Day Permit and a State Issued Disability Placard must be presented for admittance.)
- Employees and volunteers who are working the event will be provided a specific validation code by their supervisor to obtain a permit through Click and Park. Validation codes are game-specific and may be used only once.
- When a Game Day permit is obtained through Click and Park, directions to the proper entrance are given.
- All parking permits will be collected upon entrance to the parking area; there is no exit and reentry.
Student Tailgating and Parking
- Student tailgating will be in Lots 5, 5A, and 6; space is on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Students must go online to Click and Park, the Tuesday prior to game day, to obtain a student tailgating permit using their student ID number as a validation code.
- There is no charge for a student tailgating permit.
- When student tailgating permits are issued to capacity, students must park in East Deck 2, East Deck 3 or South Village Deck using their UNC Charlotte student parking permit.
- Students who do not have a UNC Charlotte parking permit will be required to park in East 1 Visitor Deck or South Village Deck and pay the associated Visitor fee.
- Students needing ADA Parking may obtain an Orange ADA permit for CRI Deck in lieu of the white tailgating permit. (Only one permit will be issued per game; you can't have both). Both an Orange CRI ADA Permit and a State Issued Disability Placard must be presented for admittance.
Phillips Road will be closed to all vehicular traffic, with the exception of service vehicles with the appropriate access permit.
- Service permits are available on Click and Park with an authorization code provided by Parking and Transportation Services (upon request with proper justification).
Non-football parking information
- East Deck 2, East Deck 3, and South Village Deck will be open to those with a valid UNC Charlotte parking permit who are not attending the football game.
- Faculty/Staff, Commuter or Resident permits will not be valid in any parking decks or lots designated for football parking.
- Faculty/Staff reserved spaces in game day lots will be used for football parking for home games. Reserved permits are not valid in football-designated lots on home game days.
- East Deck 1 and South Village Deck will be the non-game Visitor parking area. Gates will be down and established Visitor rates will apply.
Additional information for Resident students
- Student Resident lots, with the exception of Lot 25, will not be affected by football.
- All vehicles parked in Lot 25 must be moved by midnight, the Friday before a Saturday home game. Vehicles not moved will be towed at the owner's expense. Alternative parking is North Deck or any other R-designated lot or deck.
- Resident (R) permits will be required to park in any resident lot.
- Please tell any friends/relatives who plan to visit you on home game Saturdays, that they will be required to park in East Deck 1 or South Village Deck Visitors parking and pay the normal Visitor fee ($1/half hour - $10 max) unless they have a Game Day prepaid permit or park in the Cash Lot at Cone Center.
Football Parking Designations:
- Gold Tailgating Lot; enter campus at N Tryon (29) and Snyder
- Green Tailgating Lot; enter campus at N Tryon (29) and Snyder
- Black Tailgating Lot; enter campus at Mallard Creek Church and Mary Alexander
- Red Tailgating Lot; enter campus at WT Harris and Toby Creek
- Blue Tailgating Lot; enter campus at WT Harris and Toby Creek or University City Blvd (49) and Cameron
- Silver Tailgating Lot; enter campus at Mallard Creek Church and Mary Alexander
- Orange Lot - ADA Game Day parking and approved FSL Holders; enter campus at N Tryon (29) and JW Clay
- Yellow Lot – Single Game Day tickets purchased online and Staff; enter campus at Mallard Creek Church and Mary Alexander
- Purple Lot – Single Game Day tickets purchased online and Staff; enter campus at WT Harris and Toby Creek or University City Blvd (49) and Cameron
- Pink Lot – Cash parking for Game Day only; enter at University City Blvd (49) and Broadrick
- White Lots for student tailgating; enter Campus at John Kirk and Van Landingham


text: Kwizatz 1392 Report post Posted January 8, 2013 I keep my transformations as a scale vector, a rotation quaternion and a translation vector (SRT) rather than a single matrix, when I need a matrix I do some conversion and get a 4x4 matrix out of the 2 vectors and quaternion. To add or concatenate 2 transforms what I do is generate the matrices from the 2 SRT transforms and multiply them together, which is fine since I rarely require to convert back from Matrix to SRT. In the long run I think there are some matrix multiplications that can be shaved off if I could "add transforms", so I am trying to do that, but I ran into some issues. My basic approach is as follows: I have 2 SRT structures which I want to concatenate. I do a element wise multiplication of the scale vector (S = S1[0] * S2[0],S1[1] * S2[1],S1[2] * S2[2]), this seems to work, but for now I have no scaling, so all values are 1, I just need to know if this is correct or if there is something wrong there. I do a simple quaternion multiplication with R1 * R2, again this works as expected as the 3x3 sub-matrix is the same as when I convert to matrix and multiply matrices. I to an element wise addition of the translation vectors so T = T1[0]+T2[0],T1[1]+T2[1],T1[2]+T2[2], and this is where it all goes wrong, the values on the matrices are different, and now that I think of it, this may have to do with the last element in the matrix, the 4th element of a position vector.... TL;DR version: So anyway, long story short I want to concatenate/add transforms in Scale, Rotation, Translation format and then convert the result to a 4x4 matrix rather than convert the SRT's to matrices and then multiply the matrices, but the translation vector addition is giving me trouble. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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THERE is still time for Bromsgrove and Redditch daredevils to sign up for a parachute jump.
Townsfolk are being invited to do a parachute jump for the Primrose Hospice on a choice of four dates - all Saturdays; July 19, August 16, September 14, and October 26.
Brave volunteers will jump from a height of 10,000 feet, and freefall through the air at 120mph before releasing the parachute to begin a relaxed descent from a mile in the air.
The hospice is looking forward people to make the sponsored 10,000 feet freefall jump.
For a free jump all participants have to do is raise a minimum of £395 for the charity, which supports people facing an end of life situation and their families during this difficult time.
Katie Willington, from the hospice, said: "Make 2014 the year that you face your fears, take on that challenge, do something you have never dreamed of."
For more details or to register visit primrosehospice.org/parachute_for_primrose_2014 or call 01527 889796 to speak to a member of the hospice's fundraising team.


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DORSET County Council has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on consultants to advise it how to save money. It more than doubled its bill for external experts in the first three months of this year.
Spending on temporary staff during January to March was £360,000 more than the same period in 2013.
And the bill for 'consultancy and self-employed workers' excluding the Dorset Waste Partnership has jumped from £366,500 in Quarter Three to £748,000 in Quarter Four.
The council says it is 'spending to save' as it enlists the help of experts to hone cost-cutting measures.
Some of the money was spent on advisers for the Better Together business plan, a shake-up of adult social care, and the Forward Together Programme, a bid to save millions over the next few years.
Corporate resources director Paul Kent said: "The point of this expenditure is to try to engage experts in the field to help us deliver savings in the future.
"When you think of what we spend in total on employment, the bill for consultancy and agency staff is only a fraction of that; something like four per cent.
"Expenditure on consultancy now is intended to save us money in the long-term.
"If you spend one-off now and we get £6million to £7million per annum savings in the future, that's a really good investment.
"We get the money we spent back very quickly."
He added that some of the bills, such as those for the Better Together consultancy, were funded by central government.
The Non-Directly Employed Contract Workforce Quarter Four report, which will go before councillors today says: "Spending on consultancy and related staff over the year is a little higher than in the previous year.
"In common with the previous year, there is a peak at year end reflecting the processing and accrual of invoices in March to account for work in the correct year.
"The increase is also partly attributable to resources needed to support transformation."
But critics say it is not good enough.
Cllr Janet Dover said: "Agency staff is one thing because they are invariably covering for sickness and so there's some justification. But spending so much money on consultants is just unbelievable.
"In this day and age when we are trying to save money, they are spending all that money on consultancy in an attempt to save money – I don't think people who pay council tax would understand the rationale for that."
The overall bill for agency, consultancy and self-employed workers works out at £12,754 a day.


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THE Goodman Cup Bogey Competition at Taunton and Pickeridge GC attracted a good entry.
Kevin Gidley on +6 who came out the winner in Division One, one better than Steve Comber on +5, with Neil McWilliams third on +3.
Division Two was won by Matt Gaskin with +7. Martin Sawyer was second on +4 and John Wall third with +3.
There was a three-way tie at the top the Division Three but following countback it Richard Hatcher with +3 who was the winner, just ahead of Adrian Howe and Chris Puckett.
Sunday's Stableford was won by Tom Sloman with 43 points, while Andy Clark was second on countback from Nick Larcombe after both scored 36 points The Three Ball Open was won by Roger Neale, Kieron Hector and Lee Hellier who were the winners with 79 points.
Second place was claimed by Paul Deal, Matt Bettridge and John Davies with 77 points, while Chris Maggs, Richy Barker and Rob Allan were third on 76.
The T&P Ladies turned out in force on Tuesday to take part in their Captain's Charity Medal.
In the Silver Division it was Lennox Heath with net 70 who was the winner, one ahead of second placed Louise Worth, while Mary Guy claimed third spot with 75 after countback.
The Bronze Division was won by a storming round of net 61 by Jane Salter, 10 shots ahead of second placed Liz Davies. Patsy Morgan was third with 74 on countback ahead of Judy Powell who ended with the same score.
Jane Salter was the winner of the Ladies' Captain's Charity Trophy.


text: Rowan Kavner DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer IRVING, Texas – It seemed like DeMarcus Ware would avenge his zero-sack performance a week prior after delivering a hit on Eagles quarterback Nick Foles on the first play from scrimmage Sunday. But Ware's shoulder and neck began to give him problems later on in that series, and the linebacker finished his second consecutive game without a sack. "It's always week to week," Ware said about his injuries. "When people always tell me how my body feels, I say good enough to play on Sunday." With so many injured players on defense, the Cowboys can't really afford to lose Ware or linebacker Anthony Spencer. Ware gritted it out the rest of the day, but for the first time this season he was held without at least half a sack in back-to-back games. The linebacker still leads the Cowboys with 10 sacks this year and said in the last couple weeks he's still affecting the quarterback. "I haven't been getting sacks the last two or three games, but I've been hitting the quarterback, getting pressure on him," Ware said. "But I've got to step it up this week, get those plays, make those big plays this week to win the game." Read the rest: http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/a...-Sundays/96744f27-7129-4893-bde0-2faa481260f9


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Some pictures from my trip to Portland to attend the Towards Carfree Cities conference. I didn't take many photos of the conference itself, because those would be boring, but I do have a bunch from the events surrounding the conference. These were taken with my iPhone.
Pride Block Party
McMenamins Kennedy School
Waiting to Zoobomb
Elevator To Zoo
Performance Art Toad
Mostly Depaved
Bamboo Brakeless Fixie
Street Conversion Workshop
Street Design
Arched Entry
Street Sketch
Car Piñata
Portable Bike Racks
Undrivers License
Backyard Party
Main Ballroom
Learning To Dance
Athletics With Sprockettes
Sprockettes Dancing With Friends
Jump Rope
Chopper Bike
BC Clettes
Eastbank Esplanade Performance
Square Dance In The Street
Square Dance
Street Open To People Dancing


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Opera News Centre
Prokofieff: new reduced version of The Fiery Angel
(January 2011)
Prokofieff's opera The Fiery Angel attracted rave reviews in an intimate yet intense new production at the Odeon Theater in Vienna last April. With its expressionist ferocity and challenging lead soprano role the work has frightened many opera houses, but the new reduced scoring by Wolfgang Suppan offers the opportunity both for casting with lighter voices and for performances in smaller theatrical venues. The Vienna staging by Philipp Harnoncourt, focusing upon the opera's central tension between religious and sexual fulfilment, powerfully belied its 'chamber' scale.
"Renata is on the search for her youthful sweetheart, the fiery angel Madiel, whom she believes she recognises in Count Heinrich… A drama revolving around desire, magic, visions, religion and delusions, in the course of which Mephisto and Faust, an inquisitor and nuns in ecstasies are involved… Prokofieff's vividly expressive music and Suppan's treatment of it form the ideal setting for Renata's stirring story which finally ends with burning at the stake. Stern stuff, thrillingly delivered and unanimously acclaimed!"
Wiener Zeitung
"Wolfgang Suppan really knows his craft as an arranger: over long passages he succeeds in translating the shimmering music, conceived for large orchestra, virtually intact to a version for just fifteen musicians… With the sonic intensifications and tightenings which the scoring for seven wind, six strings, piano and percussion allows, he turns the screw of modernism half a turn tighter still, without actually compromising the sounds."
Die Presse
"An opera which conjures up religion, excess and exorcism, mysticism and hysteria as well as deep feelings, excessive drama and malicious humour in order to whip up a barely surpassable crisis at the end. This is thrilling music theatre… The 'reduced' version, made by Wolfgang Suppan for 15 musicians, doesn't sound at all like chamber music, but as a fully valid version in its own right, especially in this interpretation, invested with seamless suspense… a special evening was acclaimed with genuine enthusiasm."
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White Sox prevail on Beckham's 10th-inning RBI
Sale whiffs 12 over eight innings in no-decision; Dunn hits two-run HR
SAN FRANCISCO -- After each start this season, Chris Sale has been assigned a specific word to mention during postgame interviews. Tuesday's was "susurration". For the game's hero, Gordon Beckham, the operative word was "fun".
It took one inning more than it appeared it would, but Beckham saved the White Sox on Tuesday night. His sensational diving stop in the ninth inning temporarily preserved a lead. After the Giants proceeded to tie the game one batter later, he put Chicago ahead for good with an RBI single in the top of the 10th as the White Sox defeated the Giants, 3-2, at AT&T Park.
After seeing his batting average plummet nearly 80 points in the last two months, it's easy to understand why Beckham used the word multiple times to describe his performance Tuesday night -- it'd been a while since he's had much on the diamond.
"I'll get satisfaction out of anything positive after my last couple months," Beckham quipped. "It was fun to make that play, and I wish it would've ended there. To get the hit in the tenth was just as much of a thrill. They were both awesome."
After back-to-back-to-back singles off Jake Petricka loaded the bases with nobody out in the ninth inning of a 2-0 game for Joe Panik, the Giants' second baseman drilled what looked like a game-tying grounder in Beckham's direction. AT&T Park's thick infield grass slowed the ball just enough to allow Beckham to make the fantastic diving stop, and then from the ground flip the ball to Alexei Ramirez to start a double play. Giants manager Bruce Bochy called it one of the best he's ever seen.
"As soon as he hit it, I knew I could," Beckham said when asked if he thought he could snag the grounder. "There was definitely a chance I wasn't going to be able to get to it, but I was able to glove it. It was just reaction."
A half-inning later, with two outs and Moises Sierra on third, Beckham responded to Brandon Crawford's ensuing RBI single by knocking an 0-1 offering from Santiago Casilla into left field to secure the victory.
"(Jordan Danks and Sierra) were able to get on and force the issue; luckily, I was able to come through," Beckham said. "It was fun."
That's not exactly the word Giant hitters would use to describe facing Sale.
In his second start against them this season, Sale flummoxed the Giants for eight shutout innings. He allowed just four hits, while reaching double-digit strikeouts (12) for the sixth time in 19 starts this season and sixteenth time in his career.
With two outs in the top of the first, Adam Dunn blasted a 91-mph fastball from Giants right-hander Ryan Vogelsong into the left-center bleachers to provide Sale's only run support. The two-run shot wouldn't have been possible if not for Jose Abreu, whose hustle one batter earlier allowed him to beat what would've been an inning-ending double-play ball.
But, for the fourth time this season, Sale eventually left a game with a lead just to be saddled with a no-decision. Petricka's blown save was his third in 11 attempts and the team's 18th, which is tied for the Majors' third-highest mark.
"We ended up winning, so it's not who gets it," Sale said, "it's that we get it."
It's a game that last year's White Sox wouldn't have won, according to Beckham. Unlike last year, the 2014 South Siders -- an average but resilient bunch -- didn't get the here-we-go-again feeling after the bullpen's latest meltdown. Manager Robin Ventura agreed.
"These guys, offensively, they compete," Ventura said. "We find a way to just fight back, and tonight it was some guys you normally don't hear about."
For Beckham in particular, that was a fun change.
Ryan Hood is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Air Force unveiled a sweeping list of voluntary and involuntary force management programs it hopes will reduce the ranks throughout 2014.
The force reduction measures — which will be the Air Force's broadest since the drawdown of the early 1990s — are being put into place to help the service adjust to steep budget cuts known as sequestration.
"This has pretty much every tool in our toolkit at our disposal, both voluntary and involuntary," Brig. Gen. Gina Grosso said in an interview. "Our strategy is to use the max use of voluntary programs that we can. Everywhere where we've been able to incentivize people to leave monetarily, we're going to."
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh has repeatedly warned that sequestration, if left in place, could force the service to cut roughly 25,000 total force airmen over the next five years. Grosso could not say exactly how many airmen the Air Force plans to cut under the 2014 force reductions because a final budget has not yet been passed for the year, but said it could be in the thousands. Grosso said the latest fiscal 2014 budget deal — if it passes — would leave the Air Force with an end strength of 1,900 fewer billets than it had in fiscal 2013, which match the end strength the administration's proposed 2014 budget.
According to a timeline provided by the Air Force, the 18 programs will include reductions in force beginning in June, two rounds of date-of-separation rollbacks in January and May, and 15-year retirements for both officers and enlisted beginning in January. A selective early retirement board for colonels and lieutenant colonels is underway.
But the Air Force is also rolling out several new involuntary force management programs for the first time as part of this effort.
A new authority called the enhanced selective early retirement board, or E-SERB, will consider even more officers than under the regular SERB process. The E-SERB, the authority for which was granted in the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, will meet in June and consider colonels with between two and four years time in grade, lieutenant colonels who have been passed over for promotion once, and retirement-eligible active-duty officers between the rank of captain and colonel.
The regular SERB applies to colonels with at least four years time-in-grade and lieutenant colonels who have been passed over at least twice. And under the regular SERB, officers can only be considered once during any five-year period, but the E-SERB has no such restriction.
Another new force management program, called a quality force review board, will meet in May. This board will consider separating airmen who have gone absent without leave, who have received a referral on their enlisted performance report, or otherwise screwed up. Airmen who have between 18 and 20 years of service will be excluded from the quality force review board.
The Air Force also is, for the first time, planning retention boards for chief master sergeants, tech sergeants, staff sergeants, senior airmen and senior noncommissioned officers.
Grosso said the Air Force Personnel Center will email airmen who are eligible for these force management programs, and also urged airmen to keep checking the MyPers website as more eligibility information on these programs is rolled out over the next two weeks.
She also said airmen should start talking to their commanders, career assistance advisers and other mentors to find out whether they may be separated under one of these involuntary programs.
"Our goal is to make sure that every airman in the United States Air Force understands, if they fit into any of these buckets, and if I [do], how do I make a good decision for my family?" Grosso said. "Am I eligible for any voluntary programs, and which ones? We'd like for everyone eligible for these programs to immediately sign up for transition assistance. We think that will help them make a better life decision."
And airmen should check their personnel folders to make sure their duty history, medal records, deployment records and other career information is up to date before separation boards begin reviewing them, Grosso said. Sometimes records are accidentally omitted, she said, and an omission could hurt those airmen's chances of staying in.
Grosso said the Air Force and Defense Department are already preparing to handle increased numbers of airmen exiting the service. That could include approving overtime for civilian personnel employees, increasing that capacity of civilian transition programs and preparing to issue even greater numbers of DD 214 records.
On the way out
Important dates for voluntary retirement and separation programs:
|Application window:
|Selected airmen retire or separate in:
|Chief Master Sgt./Senior NCO Voluntary Phase
|December through March
|January 2015
|Temporary Early Retirement Authority (Enlisted)
|January through April
|Temporary Early Retirement Authority II (Officer)
|January through April
|Enlisted Voluntary Separation Pay
|January through April
|Officer Voluntary Separation Pay
|January through April
|Enhanced Selective Early Retirement Board Voluntary Phase
|January through April
|January 2015
The dates for involuntary programs:
|Review board meets:
|Selected airmen retire or separate in:
|Selective Early Retirement Board
|Date of Separation Rollback I
|January through February
|Quality Force Review Board
|Date of Separation Rollback II
|May through June
|Chief Master Sgt. Retention Board
|Senior NCO Retention Board
|June through July
|December 2014
|Enhanced Selective Early Retirement Board
|June through July
|December 2014
|Tech. Sgt. Retention Board
|June through July
|January 2015
|Staff Sgt. Retention Board
|June through July
|January 2015
|Senior Airman Retention Board
|June through July
|January 2015
|Reduction in Force
|June through July
|January 2015
|Force Shaping Board
|December 2014
Source: Air Force


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The tomato harvest has begun for Oceanside, Calif.-based West Coast Tomato Growers, owners of the Oceanside Pole brand, and volumes are expected to be up this year.
Harvest began at the end of June and should continue through the fall, according to a news release from Vancouver, British Columbia-based The Oppenheimer Group, marketer of Oceanside Pole tomatoes.
Volumes should be up due to increased acreage and a return to the original Oceanside seed variety, according to the release.
"Growing conditions have been ideal throughout the last few months," Aaron Quon, Oppy's greenhouse and vegetable categories director, said in the release. "We made a few adjustments in the off season which we believe will enhance our customers' experience even further. We're really quite proud to bring these tomatoes to market knowing the effort and expertise that has gone into their productionâand having tasted the result."
West Coast is growing vine-ripes and romas this year.


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BAKER — Fire Chief Danny Edwards said the Baker School Board's recent refusal to give his department five old, run-down school buses has thwarted plans to use them for police and firefighter training.
Edwards also said the refusal is indicative of larger problems in the relationship between his department and the School Board.
"It's frustrating," the fire chief said.
Edwards said the School Board's fleet manager called him more than a month ago and asked if he again wanted some buses to use for emergency response training, as the department did more than a year ago with old Baker buses.
"They asked me; I didn't ask them," Edwards said, but added he replied that he would accept them and started thinking about training scenarios in which the buses could be used.
The disposal of the buses came before the School Board on April 9.
Board members discussed whether Superintendent Ulysses Joseph went over board members' heads to offer the buses to the Fire Department. A suggestion to put the buses up for sale also was made.
Board member Doris Alexander moved to give Joseph the authority to dispose of the buses, with the Fire Department given first priority in their use, but none of the other three members present — board President Shona Boxie, Elaine Davis or Dana Carpenter — would second her motion.
Board member Troy Watson was absent.
An asset disposal request form shows the buses are 1986 to 1991 models with zero value.
Edwards said he planned to turn one or two buses on their sides and let firefighters practice extricating injured passengers from the buses.
He said he had a preliminary discussion with an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office official about sheriff's deputies using them to practice responses to an intruder holding hostages on a bus.
Edwards said he would have invited school personnel to participate.
"We could have done a lot of training and education. We try our best to work with them. They don't want to do much to cooperate with us," the fire chief said.
"I don't really care where the buses go because we can't use them. They're kind of out of service," Joseph said.
"If I can work it out, I'm going to try it again."
Boxie did not return a phone call to her office Friday.
The buses are parked at the rear of Baker High School's bus parking lot.


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Researching your family's history has never been easier, thanks to the World Wide Web.
Many comprehensive sites offer last name searches across many databases-vital statistics, cemetery records, ship's
passenger lists and more. Other sites offer training and advice on getting started, documenting your family's history
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ethnic communities. However, the best innovation that the Web has introduced is the ability to collaborate with others.
Many sites are interactive, with people responding to questions and posting new information daily.
Use this guide to genealogy sources to explore what the Web has to offer to explore and document your family's history.
Billed as "the largest collection of family history records on the web," users of this site can search the U.S.
Census and other records by surname, state, etc. Interactive services include the ability to build your own family tree
and a message board for sharing information. Requires a subscription, although free trials are often offered.
A Barrel of Free Genealogy Links
A comprehensive list of linked genealogy websites is maintained by the Team Roots volunteer at Genealogy Today.
Beginner's Guide to Family History Research
A useful beginner's guide for researching your personal family history. Also provides guidance on organizing your family's artifacts and documents
CDC - National Center for Health Statistics
Guidance on purchasing birth or death records from various New Jersey governmental sources
Camden County Library System Genealogy Resources on the
An excellent guide to genealogy resources on the web, including resources for getting started, genealogy megasites and more.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
More than 241,000 links grouped into alphabetical categories. Cyndi's list includes a helpful Beginner's guide with links for those just getting started with genealogy research
Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records
Searchable directory of passenger arrival records for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island
A website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch provides a beginner's guide for new genealogists,
the opportunity to share research and find other genealogists, and the ability to search the Family History Library Catalog, a
large genealogy library maintained by the Church.
This site includes an excellent learning center with advice on getting started, developing research skills, free genealogy courses and a genealogy glossary.
Genealogy Gateway
A gateway to 42,000+ resources by surname or by type (e.g., military, obituary, etc.). Includes the ability to post queries, download software, etc.
Genealogy Help and Guides
A listing of many excellent genealogy sites. An excellent beginner's manual and how to guide from the UK that is equally relevant in the US.
Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
75,000+ resources that can be browsed by people, places and categories that include beginners' guides, books, gravestone rubbings, etc.
HeritageQuest Online
Many public libraries have subscriptions to this commercial database, which includes complete US Federal Census records, from
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Files. HeritageQuest is a commercial database available for registered library users, generally for in-library use only.
Check your local public library for availability.
Hints for Researching Your Family History
An excellent guide for getting started with family history research. Provides simple and useful first steps as well as
definitions of types of records (vital records, military records, etc.) and what they contain. Also provides links for many vital records sources.
Provides a name search for ancestors through multiple databases, advertised as "more than a billion names." Requires
registration to download the relevant family trees accessed via the search. The site also provides ability to develop your own family tree.
National Archives and Records Administration Genealogy Page
This comprehensive site from the nation's archive provides geneaology resources, guidance on searching census records,
complete links to military records from the civil war through the Vietnamese Conflict, access to relevant databases and
links for ordering records online.
RootsWeb includes a wealth of resources under useful categories, such as "Getting Started," "Search Engines &
Databases," Websites," "Mailing Lists," "Hosted Volunteer Projects," "Free Genealogy Newsletters" and more. The large
database may be searched by surnames, keywords and includes World Connect and GenWeb Projects, SSDI, WW I Draft Records,
California vital records, Immigrant Transcribers Guild data and the Obituary Daily Times in the main "quick search." The
search result is often accompanied by the name and email address of the information contributor. You can subscribe to
an email update that will periodically provide you with information about new databases and information sources on the
web. This well-organized website is a useful starting point for anyone, whether a beginner or an experienced researcher.
Social Security Death Index
Available via RootsWeb.com. The Social Security Death Index provides brief information about deceased people who were eligible for social security.
Additional information, including information about family of the deceased, can often be obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
Surnames.com: Legacy & Lineage
A website providing step-by-step instructions for surname research, as well as Internet search engines for conducting surname research.
Treasure Maps
A treasure trove of genealogy information, including links to family tree software, articles on deciphering old handwriting, coat of arms, tombstone rubbings, the U.S. census, and more.
VitalRec.com: United States Vital Records Information
Provides an ancestor search through vital records, as well as the ability to order birth or death records online.
Your Past Connections
An interesting site that is "dedicated to helping people find lost & found original resources and memorabilia from their
family's past." This site bills itself as a 'free service" that will help you locate family artifacts such as bibles,
diplomas, marriage certificates, photographs, funeral cards, postcards, etc. A searchable database of available items,
with entries listed by category and surname is provided.
DeadFred, the Original Online Genealogy Photo Archive
A free searchable database of thousands of identified and "mystery" photos of potential ancestors and long lost family members.
AncientFaces: Where the Past is Your Present
A very interesting site that puts the "human face" on genealogy research with searchable and browsable photographs, family stories, family recipes, etc.
AfriGeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy
"A site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats."
The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker
Provides the ability to search for towns in Central and Eastern Europe, using exact spelling or Soundex phonetic spelling, as well as by latitude and longitude. The search will display latitude and longitude, the distance/direction from the country's capital city and a link to a map. A very useful specialized resource for discovering your family's physical roots, particularly for Jewish settlements that may no longer exist.
Access Genealogy: New Jersey Genealogy
A website of free New Jersey genealogy websites and links, including cemeteries, military records, church records, immigrant records, census records, etc.
FamilySearch Research Guidance New Jersey
Provides guidance on locating and obtaining birth, death and marriage record by time period, beginning in 1638 and continuing through the present.
The Genealogy Shopper: New Jersey, the Garden State
Links to vital records, censuses, cemetery records, obituaries and more. Some resources require a subscription or a fee.
New Jersey Documents
A listing from the New Jersey State Library C41 of the primary documents (Birth Certificates, Death Certificates, Marriage Certificates, Wills and Inventories, and Court Records) useful for a genealogy search and where to find them.
New Jersey Genealogy
A compilation of resources to research New Jersey genealogy. Includes resources available at the Rutgers University Libraries, including a detailed guide in Acrobat PDF format to genealogical resources at the Archibald S. Alexander Library, the main Rutgers library on the New Brunswick campus.
New Jersey Genealogy Forum
A bulletin board where New Jersey genealogical queries can be posted and answered.
New Jersey Historical and Genealogical Societies
A directory of societies in New Jersey with links to home pages.
New Jersey State Archives Reference Services
Provides links to the Bureau of Vital Records, including a Vital Records Search Form, and fees, for obtaining birth, death and marriage records, wills and inventories, military records and other official documents of interest for genealogy research
NJ Genealogy BMD Project
NJ Birth Death and Marriage Project at RootsWeb. This search engine of Births. Deaths and Marriages is updated every Monday and can be browsed alphabetically by surname. Emails of information submitters are provided for each entry.
NJGenWeb Archives
New Jersey GenWeb provides rich genealogy information by county, including links to libraries, archives, and other information sources. This interactive site features a bulletin board where requests for information can be posted and answered and information by surname submitted by amateur genealogists wishing to share their research.
Roots-L New Jersey
A comprehensive website with information on daily life, geography, history and data sources, as well as links to archives, libraries and publications. A useful starting point for New Jersey genealogical research.
Cemetery Junction: New Jersey Cemeteries
Alphabetical listing of cemeteries enables you to browse inscriptions by cemetery name. Includes family, religious, municipal and national cemeteries.
Interment.Net: New Jersey Cemeteries
This site supports searching cemetery records and markers by name or browsing cemetery listings by county. Includes links to other cemetery websites and vital records information sites.
NJGenWeb archives: County resources
Genealogical information specific to each county is provided in numerous categories, including school information, local biographies, local history, tombstone images, and more. Contributor names and addresses are provided for each entry, to facilitate followup.
VitalRec.com: New Jersey Vital Records Information for Counties
Provides links to vital records offices, County GenWeb pages, and more, for obtaining vital records within New Jersey. Many vital records can be ordered online
Atlantic County New Jersey 1850 census
Text Files providing basic census information (Last Name, First Name, Age, Sex, Race, Occupation, etc.).
Burlington County Library System Genealogy Web Guide
Burlington County Library Genealogy page offers links to seven historical Burlington County newspaper indexes, information on the Library's New Jersey Collection of local history and genealogical materials, and web guides to researching your family history in Burlington County and elsewhere.
Burlington County Library System Newspaper Notices Index
A project of the Burlington County Library System. A continuously updated index with 30,000+ references to obituaries, death notices, marriage and birth announcements from 22+ historical and current area newspapers. References date back to the mid-1800s.
Camden County Library System Genealogy Resources on the Internet
This excellent and comprehensive genealogy guide includes resources in the Camden County Library System and other local resources for genealogy research in Camden County, including Camden County phone directories from 1960 to the present.
Central Jersey Genealogical Club
Includes a schedule of meetings, a "how to" page entitled "Diggin' for Roots," a local query board for Mercer County and a local researcher who will perform ancestor research for a fee.
Remembering the 20th Century: An Oral History of Monmouth County
Provides transcripts of oral histories from 100 Monmouth residents.
MCL Reference: Records in Morris County and New Jersey
Includes information about obtaining birth, death, marriage and divorce records in Morris County and New Jersey. Also includes sources such as library access to high school yearbooks.
Belvidere Apollo/Intelligencer/Apollo-Journal Obituary Index
The Belvidere Apollo was a weekly newspaper, published in Belvidere, NJ from 1826-1953. This comprehensive index, created by Mr. Robert Evans, a volunteer at the Warren County Library System, documents obituaries, death notices and news accounts containing death announcements. The first two volumes of the index, covering 1826-1882, can be browsed alphabetically by last name. The user is referred to the date of publication and the page number. The newspaper itself is available on microfim at the Warren County Library System and potentially at other New Jersey libraries. The user may also request a photocopy of an obituary notice.


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American Honda Motor Co., Inc., delivered a zero emissions hydrogen-powered FCX Clarity fuel cell electric vehicle today to its latest customer, 2010 Canadian Olympic hockey team captain, Scott Niedermayer. Also a team captain for the Anaheim Ducks National Hockey League team, Niedermayer is a leader both on and off the ice, promoting an environmentally responsible lifestyle and the protection of natural resources.
"My love for nature and the outdoors developed while growing up in Canada and I hope the generations after me get to experience nature as I have," said Scott Niedermayer. "Everyday actions, like driving the zero-emissions Honda FCX Clarity, will help to make this dream a reality."
Honda's FCX Clarity produces electricity onboard from hydrogen via Honda's innovative V Flow fuel cell stack with water vapor as its only emission. Significant advances include exhilarating performance, futuristic sedan packaging and a driving range of up to 240 miles*. FCX Clarity's fuel efficiency is three times that of a comparable, modern gasoline-powered automobile.
"The FCX Clarity demonstrates Honda's commitment to developing zero-emissions vehicles, and we believe that having drivers like Scott Niedermayer behind the wheel of a Honda FCX Clarity is a great way to reach out to a new audience of drivers," said John Mendel, executive vice president of sales for American Honda. "We hope that Scott's example of driving the FCX Clarity will inspire fans and other athletes to consider more environmentally responsible products."
Niedermayer and his wife, Lisa, reside in Orange County, California, with their four sons. The family enjoys the outdoors together by camping and mountain biking. Their love of nature has inspired the family to seek a greener lifestyle that includes changes such as adding insulation around the family home and installing a radiant barrier on the roof to conserve energy. Niedermayer already carpools to games with his fellow teammates and promotes a recycling program around his team's dressing room.
Honda's advanced fuel cell electric vehicles have been tested and proven through a series of successful partnerships over the last seven years with various fleet users and retail customers. A small but growing network of hydrogen fuel stations in Southern California allow for vehicle refueling in about five minutes and offer a clean, domestic energy supply for transportation. Honda has gained extensive experience from the deployment of several generations of its fuel cell electric vehicle technology with the ultimate goal of achieving the mass-market commercialization of zero-emissions fuel cell vehicles.
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16 February - 19 August 1930 — Nicaragua
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to First Lieutenant Lewis B. Puller (MCSN: 0-3158), United States Marine Corps, for distinguished service in the line of his professional while commanding a Nicaraguan National Guard patrol. First Lieutenant Lewis B. Puller, United States Marine Corps, successfully led his forces into five successful engagements against superior numbers of armed bandit forces; namely, at LaVirgen on 16 February 1930, at Los Cedros on 6 June 1930, at Moncotal on 22 July 1930, at Guapinol on 25 July 1930, and at Malacate on 19 August 1930, with the result that the bandits were in each engagement completely routed with losses of nine killed and many wounded. By his intelligent and forceful leadership without thought of his own personal safety, by great physical exertion and by suffering many hardships, Lieutenant Puller surmounted all obstacles and dealt five successive and severe blows against organized banditry in the Republic of Nicaragua.


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PHILADELPHIA – No. 15 Penn needed a while to rev its engines against Columbia, but from the latter part of the first half on, Penn's attack was firing on all cylinders as the Quakers dominated the Lions, 17-4, at Dunning-Cohen Champions Field at Penn Park.
Penn (9-4, 5-1 Ivy) went on a 7-0 run over the final 5:54 of the first half and the opening 5:25 of the second half, breaking open a 3-2 game to take a commanding 10-2 lead. Senior Tory Bensen was top of the class during that stretch, scoring four of her career-high six goals in that run. She now has 28 goals, a new career high for a single season.
23 different players saw action for the Quakers in the game, and 10 different players registered at least one point. Joining Bensen as a focal point of the attack was Nina Corcoran who tallied three goals and two assists, reaching the five-point mark for the fourth times this season and the second time in two games. Three of her five-point games have come in Ivy League competition and 20 of her 34 points this season have come in League contests. Bensen has been just as dominant in Ivy games with 21 of her 36 points coming against Ancient Eight foes.
Brooke Kiley opened the scoring for Penn with her first career goal just 0:39 into the game. After winning the draw, Kiley earned a free position and sent in the eight-meter, one of five free position goals on six attempts for the Quakers. Columbia would win the ensuing draw and employ an attack centered around ball control, looking to limit Penn's possessions. The ploy worked as Taylor Quinn tied the game at 5:19. Penn would answer with goals from Iris Williamson and Tory Bensen 1L20 apart to give the Quakers a 3-1 lead before Quinn connected for her second of the game at the 11:26 mark to make it a 3-2 game.
It took almost 13 minutes for another goal to register on the scoreboard, but once Bensen found the back of the net with 5:54 to play in the first half, the switch governing Penn's offense was firmly in the "on" position and Penn rattled off three goals in 2:32 to take a 6-2 lead into halftime. Bensen had two of the goals, and Lely DeSimone added the third.
Out of the break, Penn's offense picked up where it left off with four goals before the half was six minutes old. All of those goals came in a span of 2:40, starting with a Nine Corcoran free position 2:45 into the half. Bensen followed 32 seconds later and then goal-scoring duties flipped back to Corcoran who connected 34 seconds after. Bensen would finish the four-goal run 1:34 later and Penn would find itself ahead, 10-2, and would cruise from there.
Kendall D'Amore would add her first collegiate goal with 5:00 to play in the game, and senior Allie Martin would score her first goal since the fifth game of her career back on Mar. 16, 2011 to cap the scoring for the Quakers.
The Quakers, who have already clinched a spot in the Ivy League Tournament, can clinch the second seed with a win Saturday at Cornell. First draw is set for 1 p.m..
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Fourteen years ago today, the pioneering developers at id Software released QTest, the first public beta of the original Quake.
Contained within a massive 4.1mb package, QTest served as the first glimpse of many groundbreaking gaming features that we now take for granted. Realtime 3D graphics, mouselook support, built-in TCP/IP multiplayer; Quake ushered in an entirely new era of shooters, and we're still feeling the aftershocks.
To mark the occasion, I asked the guys at id to share some of their memories of February 24, 1996. Read on for comments from John Carmack, Tim Willits, and more — along with a few stories from the team here at Bethesda.
John Carmack, Co-founder and Technical Director, id Software:
We were watching a live online chat when the upload went live. When the first person got it, there was a great clamor for reports about what it looked like. Unfortunately, one of the first things reported was "There is a turtle in the corner of the screen." I had a check in the code to draw that icon as a sign that you were running at 10 frames a second or less, so you should reduce quality settings to get a more playable experience. Quake was one of the first PC apps where floating point performance was a critical factor, which meant that Intel's Pentium processor had a huge lead over the competing AMD and Cyrix processors of the time, which had FPUs that were more similar to the 486. A lot of systems weren't really up to it.
We eventually removed the "turtle check" from our games, because some people felt that we were insulting their systems, but there was also an interesting effect that was a product of the times — we found that a lot of people would crank up the resolution until the frame rate dragged down to about 10 fps, regardless of their CPU speed. Competitive gamers may disbelieve this, but for players that were more interested in the then-novel experience of exploring a modeled virtual world, getting the visual fidelity up above 320×200 resolution was important enough to make the game only barely-interactive. Most people had to wait a bit longer for glQuake and the 3DFX Voodoo to start getting the best of both worlds.
Tim Willits, Creative Director, id Software:
I don't personally have any good stories about releasing Qtest. I was too nervous to really enjoy the experience. 🙂 I did like kicking everyone's ass online in Quake before I was quickly bypassed in skill by any self-respecting Quake player.
Pat Duffy, Lead Artist, id Software:
I was 2 months out of college, attempting to make a living with an art degree. I had played Doom before, having discovered it hidden on a server in the college computer room, but it was Qtest that set me on the path to becoming a video game developer. I had landed my first job as a graphic designer and was working late hours when Robert told me I had to stop everything and go over to see Qtest. I didn't know what it was, but when he said it was by the Doom guys I was on my way.
I remember sitting there looking around in-game after he loaded it up, I didn't care about the networking model he was talking about, I just couldn't believe how big a visual leap had been made from Doom (and everything else out there). While he began to dig deeper into what id was doing I kept looking at the game, walking around, shooting the walls, and being amazed by the lighting, art, and 3d rendering. I knew right then that this is what I needed to do with my life…and nowhere but id Software would be an acceptable studio, these guys KNEW what it was all about. It took me 5 years to get my foot in the door at id, and every day since then has been another day at my dream job, working with some of the most talented people in the industry…all thanks to Qtest. 🙂
Adam Pyle, Community Manager, id Software:
I was seventeen years old, an avid fan of id Software and NIN. Before the release of QTest there had been preview coverage in gaming magazines that piqued my interest, which made me keep my eye glued to any news coming out of id. The day of its release became the start of a passion yet to be matched within my gaming universe. I found the unique blend of tech and gothic themes and the unparalleled detail within a 3D world to be mesmerizing. But it was perhaps the soundscape that took me in like no other.
William Shen, Associate Designer, Bethesda Game Studios:
Looking back, seeing the NiN logo on the box of nailgun ammo for the first time is my sharpest memory. I think there's something definitively 1990's about all that. Quake and NiN. It was like a revolution of young male nerd anger.
Also, Quake dude had an axe. A bloody axe. That's hardcore.
Jason Bergman, Senior Producer, Bethesda Game Studios:
What I remember most about the release of QTest was the anticipation behind it. It was going to be INSANE. There had been some screenshots released, but really, there was so much we didn't know. The community that had sprung up around Quake (well before its release) was enormous (or at least, it was by our standards at the time). People were waiting for QTest not just to play it, but also to start hacking it and working on level editors and other utilities (this was long before games shipped with modding tools, so people had to write their own).
It was really exciting to be part of that community. As a huge fan of Doom, and a fairly active member of the burgeoning Quake community, I was constantly refreshing sites like Blue's Quake Rag (now Blue's News), Redwood's Quake Page (sadly defunct) and sCary's Quakeholio (now Shacknews) for the latest news. When it was finally released, I was hanging out in the Java chat room on a site called Aftershock (run by Joost Schuur, who moved on to work at GameSpy fairly early on and has been there ever since). John Romero (THE John Romero!) hopped on the channel and announced that it was out.
I downloaded it as soon as I was able to get through to an FTP site (probably either CDROM.com or one of its many mirrors), rounded up some guys in my dorm and we played deathmatch for many, many hours. For a test release, there was a LOT of content in that thing…awesome weapons like the nailgun, full 3D graphics (!) and an early version of one of the greatest deathmatch levels of all time (DM2 forever!).
A lot changed between QTest and and that initial retail version of Quake, and I guess it probably seems quaint to people who are used to the constant stream of news over Twitter and the many big gaming sites these days, but the release of QTest was huge for the community back then. And those guys who couldn't wait to start hacking the game? They're now a Who's Who of the gaming industry, and you'll find their names in the credits of games like Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead, Borderlands, Gears of War…pretty much any of the major shooters from the last few years (including subsequent games from id). The Quake community was tightly knit and very, very motivated. It was a pretty unique time in the gaming industry.
Also the game was awesome. Did I mention that?
QTest can still be downloaded over at FileShack. Share your own memories of 2-24-96 in the comments.


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One of the enjoyable byproducts of the Mets winning Wednesday night, Homer At The Bat-style, was that it allowed us to recall the only other time in Mets history a game ended with a New York batter getting hit by a pitch.
The batter was Daryl Boston, and I remember that game well, though I hadn't thought about Daryl Boston in years. He was a Mets fan's consolation prize after Darryl Strawberry, my favorite player from the moment I had the wherewithal to identify one, had been allowed to leave for the Los Angeles Dodgers following the 1990 season. Boston had been a waiver wire pickup from the White Sox in April 1990, and it felt like the Mets let Strawberry go because one Daryl was every bit as good as another Darryl.
To my 11-year-old mind, that was how it seemed, anyway. Was it possible that my favorite team simply assumed the nearly-identical first names would result in nearly-identical production? My doubts on that score were reinforced by that 1991 season, when Strawberry hit 28 home runs for the Dodgers, and Boston hit just four home runs for the Mets. Upon closer examination, Boston was a solid performer with the Mets over three seasons. But to the young me, who'd tried with very little success to mimic Strawberry's swing in Little League, he was nothing more than a missing R.
Still, his surprising record led me to wonder: was he the second best Darryl in Mets history? Here for your ranking pleasure, my list of Mets Darryls, best-to-worst:
1. Darryl Strawberry – clearly the King of All Darryls, and subsequently, the preferred spelling of the name in my opinion. 252 career home runs as a Met easily tops the Darryl List. His 145 OPS+ over eight seasons in New York had him on a Hall of Fame track, and I mean the Hall of Fame for people with all names, not just Darryl.
2. Daryl Boston – would you believe that in his three seasons with the Mets, Boston's OPS+ marks were 110, 116 and 117? That he did a lot of things well, including steal bases? Put it this way: Boston would have been the best outfielder on the 2000 Mets, and fairly easily. He signed with the expansion Colorado Rockies for their inaugural season, and hit 14 homers for them- the Colorado air masking his decline at age 30. Truly, an underrated Daryl. I'm sorry prepubescent me was so hard on you.
3. Darryl Hamilton – Before looking, I'd have bet anything that Hamilton was a better Darryl than Boston with the Mets. The reality is far different. Like Boston, Hamilton played three seasons with the Mets. But he was neither as effective nor as prolific as the Daryl of yore. He did post an OPS+ of 129 after coming over in a trade with the Colorado Rockies on July 31, 1999 for the remainder of the season. However, that dropped to 86 in 2000 and 68 in 2001, leading to his release. Overall, his mark with the Mets was just 98, well off of Boston's Met pace of 114. So why did I prefer Hamilton at the time? The aura of winning teams? That extra R? I guess we'll never know.
4. Darrell Sutherland – The forgotten Darryl used the more phonetic-friendly spelling of the name en route to pitching three seasons with the Mets from 1964-1966. While he struggled mightily in his rookie year, posting a 7.76 ERA, he rallied in 1965 to give the Mets 48 innings of 2.81 ERA pitching. After his ERA ballooned to 4.87 in 1966, however, the Indians selected him when the Mets left him unprotected in the minor league draft (the forerunner to the minor league portion of the Rule V Draft). True, he's the least valuable Darryl in Mets history, but he's also the Darryl Cy Young Award winner- by dafault, of course.
Other Darryl notes: the Darryl with the most home runs against the Mets was the slugger Darrell Evans, who hit 25 long balls against the Mets in 584 plate appearances. By contrast, Darrell Porter, a solid hitter in his own right, had just seven against the Mets. Meanwhile, the finest Darryl pitching performance against the Mets of all time absolutely came from Darryl Kile, who no-hit the Mets on September 9, 1993 in Houston. Sadly for Darryl aficionados, Kile did not face Boston, who'd left for Colorado by then.
The Mets have an opportunity to carry on the Darryl tradition with Daryle Ward, bringing the spelling of Darryl to strange new places while currently hitting .378 with the Newark Bears. If he seeks major league employment, he can hardly do better for tradition than the Mets. The Mets are to Darryls what Georgetown basketball is to centers.


text: PSC staff concerned utility reliability plans inadequate By Ken Ward Jr. July 10, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As West Virginians deal with the aftermath of a series of thunderstorms that swept through the state over the last two weeks, state regulators are quietly considering the first targets for how utilities should minimize power outages and quickly get electricity back on for their customers.But officials from the state Public Service Commission's staff and Consumer Advocate Division are concerned that plans proposed by the industry will do little to improve the reliability of West Virginia's electrical system.Just last month, PSC staff warned commissioners that utility proposals would simply require companies "to complete work which was neglected for the past 10 years.""Very little, if any, improvement over the current issues causing outages will change and the infrastructure will continue to deteriorate," wrote Donald E. Walker, a technical analyst with the PSC staff's engineering division.Walker's report was filed with the commission on June 14, two weeks before much of West Virginia was pounded by a "derecho" that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of residents -- many for a week or more.Since January, utilities, PSC staff and other parties have been debating in commission filings proposals for power companies to comply with new agency rules aimed at setting electrical system reliability targets.The targets are based on three indices that grade how frequently electrical systems go down, how long those systems are down, and how long customers themselves go without power.West Virginia was one of only 12 states listed in a 2005 Edison Electric Institute study as having no targets for utility reliability as well as no requirement for power companies to report reliability data to the PSC. It's not clear when the PSC will finalize West Virginia's new reliability targets.Utility officials said they aren't sure how the case will turn out, but argued in PSC filings that staff and consumer advocate proposals for tougher reliability standards are not achievable. Some utilities also argued for company-by-company standards, rather than statewide targets."We're still working our way through that proceeding to try to reach a point of agreement," said Jeri Matheney, a spokeswoman for Appalachian Power. "We need targets that, if not achieved now, are achievable at some point."The lack of reliability standards came to light most recently in 2010, when the commission investigated widespread blackouts across West Virginia following a winter storm in mid-December 2009. Two months after the incident, senior PSC engineer James Ellars questioned whether utilities properly prepared for and responded adequately to incident.Among other things, Ellars testified that some of West Virginia's southern counties, including Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo and Wayne counties, received the smallest amounts of snow, but took the longest to have power restored. Ellers said those areas were the subject of frequent reliability complaints to the PSC, and that most of those complained stemmed from Appalachian Power inadequately maintaining power line rights of way.Also, Ellars testified that PSC rules about system reliability were inadequate. "While this section does contain some minor provisions, it does not contain reporting requirements or standards of service that can be measured and assessed in meaningful ways," Ellars said. "Electric reliability in West Virginia is regulated without the benefit of any measurable, codified set of standards."As a result of that investigation, the PSC in July 2011 rewrote its statewide rules to require new reliability targets. The commission is considering utility proposals for what those targets would look like.Setting such targets involves complicated formulas that include averaging power outage frequency and duration, and accounting for acceptable deviations from those averages.In generally, utility proposals to the PSC would allow more frequent and longer duration outages than what commission staff and the PSC consumer advocate believe are appropriate.Utility officials argued this week that the PSC proceeding isn't really relevant to the recent storm-related power outages, because such outages would be exempt from reliability targets as "major events." But officials conceded that many steps that would be used to meet tougher reliability targets -- upgrading equipment or better line maintenance, for example -- would also help with protecting electrical systems during major storms.In a written filing, PSC consumer advocate attorney David A. Sade reminded commissioners that it was the major power outages during the December 2009 winter storm that prompted the agency to start the process of requiring reliability targets in the first place. "Make no mistake," Sade wrote, "the outages were calamitous for many of the thousands of electric utility customers affected by the snowstorm that was an entirely predictable event."It snows in West Virginia, sometimes accumulations are significant; sometimes that snow is wet," Sade wrote. "The ability to predict the type and severity of storm that landed on West Virginia in December 2009 might involve meteorological science, but it sure ain't rocket science."Sade noted the report submitted by Walker, the PSC staff engineer, and commented, "Maintenance of, if not simply catching up to the status quo, should not be the 'target' which satisfies the requirements of the commission's 'electric rules' and best protects utility customers from the disaster which befell them in the winter of 2009-2010."Reach Ken Ward Jr. at email@example.com or 304-348-1702. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 WV Gov. Justice discharged from Johns Hopkins Hospital after two-day stay 2 Kanawha magistrate facing judicial misconduct charges 3 Driving during Monday's solar eclipse? 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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
My name is Jonathan Morello. I'm inviting you to learn with me, explore with me, and grow with me as we embark on a journey that is the 2013 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). This year's theme is MOBILITIES.
However, before we submerge completely in ideas ,films, music, art and politics, I would like to invite you to get to know me. I'll be keeping the Fresh at FLEFF blog updated, and working on community outreach for the festival.
I'm currently a full-time graduate student pursuing a master's of science in communications at Ithaca College. My studies here started last spring. I focus on corporate and organizational communications. Once I complete my degree in summer 2013, I hope to start a career in marketing or public relations for a corporation or agency that handles clients within the entertainment industry. So FLEFF is a perfect transition for me--a great way to contribute to a major festival.
Before I decided to attend graduate school, I had just received my bachelors of arts from Hofstra University in May of 2011. I majored in print journalism and minored in music. I was also extremely active on campus, so I am hoping to share time-management skills with interns, mini-course students, and festival course students as they embark on their FLEFF journey this year.
I wrote for the university's student- ran newspaper. I worked as a resident assistant (R.A). I played for the men's club ice hockey team. I was a leader in my fraternity. All of these activities gave me something very special: joy. These extracurricular activities are the reason I hold my alma mater dear to my heart. And they motor my interest in working on building social relationships within a festival like FLEFF. Community outreach and community building are two goals I have for my work with FLEFF this year.
My involvement with FLEFF began a few weeks ago when Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann, codirector of FLEFF and professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca College, contacted me via e-mail. She informed me that I'd be working as the assistant to the co-directors for this year's festival! This would be my graduate assistant in the Roy H. Park School of Communications--a step toward my goal of doing marketing, public relations and community outreach.
This news ignited feelings of excitement and intrigue. I immediately began researching everything I could about FLEFF. (tip for intern applicants: RESEARCH!)
Reading the vast array of blogs, supporting documents and film descriptions on last year's website helped me understand the fundamentals of FLEFF, the diversity of those involved and the international recognition and impact of the festival.
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Jeremy Narby on "The Cosmic Serpent"
In the 1980s anthropologist Jeremy Narby went to the Peruvian Amazon to investigate the plight of indigenous people. Narby's experience with the Ashaninca Indians transformed his life, especially once he tried their powerful hallucinogen ayahuasca. He says the experience forced him to question the reductionist, materialist paradigm of Western knowledge.
refreshing perspective
we appreciate anything that will make the narrow and stuck western mind open up to the mysteries and huge unknowns that we humans still face. very interesting interview.
refreshing and inspiring perspective
I totally agree with this comment. Please give us more of this type of mind-opening programs!
Cosmic Serpents
Narby seems oblivious to the very long history and literature on investigation of altered states of consciousness. His naivete is striking...he seems to think that he's the first person to make such a journey and undergo such experiences, which ignores and fails to acknowledge the work of many before him. His lack of depth and ignore-ance of prior work is immediately obvious to anyone who has sought and experienced different (plant- or self-induced) experiential states; his brief dabbling is a pale imitation of the 1970s reports of "Carlos Castaneda" and thousands of reports from mystics over the years to Coleridge and Poe to Aldous Huxley to Albert Hofmann to every hippie for decades, to... You get my point; this guy is so clueless and shallow regarding the field of altered consciousness that it's irritating to listen to his sophomoric findings.
I think Narby was speaking
I think Narby was speaking about HIS personal experience, merely sharing his own journey and mystical experience. I myself being a novice at the time I read The Cosmic Serpent very much appreciated it being a jumping off point. Yeah LOTS of people have had the same awakening if you will... who was first and said this or that first is irrelevent. The point is that as much info as possible about the true nature of humanity needs to be available, from many different view points and in many different voices so as to reach us where we are. I think I can now understand Castaneda thanks to Narby... Peace Love and Magic!
Quite to the contrary Thomas, and let me just start off by saying that the fact that you mention Castaneda as the first person on your list, together with your arrogant dismissal, makes it pretty clear that you're the shallow and clueless person here with regards to the states and substances in question. Narby is WELL versed in all of the people you mention (although Carlos I'm sure he don't really count, as any serious psychedelically informed person will only admit to some slight literary achievement in his first book, and little if any value beyond that) He also isn't pretending that he is anywhere near the first person to either investigate ayahuasca nor to propose certain of the things he's proposing, but his perspective still adds new material to the matter, which is an ongoing development in both anthropology, biology, psychology, philosophy, ecology and so on. It's not just about being the first or only person to try exotic drugs and ranting about the experience. He acknowledges plenty of previous writers on the subject in his book, way more that the ones you mention. Also these are far from a hippie's toys that have played out their part in our culture long ago, and even if you yourself is (slightly) well-informed on these matters and it so severely irritates you to hear something that you already know, it doesn't change the fact that most people, even university graduates whom are well versed in history and politics and the various pomo perspectives on knowledge and being and the rest of it, still have redneck-like reflexively dismissive thoughts and simplified biases (much like your contentions about Narby) against these subjects, that must continuously be challenged and further investigated if any real progress (in the healthy sense of the word) about the real nature and functions of psychedelics are to replace the fear, misunderstanding and otherwise total dismissal that still constitutes both the mainstream, academic and scientific positions and attitudes towards them.
No actually, you're clueless, judgmental, and oblivious.
Who cares who else has gone through these journeys. You have completely missed the point! Your judgement is nothing more than a "transference" of "your" reality. Did he state his expertise? No! he did not. Your comment was a wasted crappy babble. You completely and utterly missed the entire point of his experience. Your comment was sophomoric.
Tommy Dummie
Tom, why don't you jump into a river?
le serpent cosmique
Il est surtout respectueux ,et ne se vante pas de culture ou de savoir....il fait une expérience avec un esprit scientifique digne d'être le fils de Lévis Strauss ,à aucun moment il ne gène le lecteur qui peut s'identifier au voyageur ,évidemment rien à voir avec la "défonce" des années 70! et puis quand on dit conscience altérée c'est que peut être on est dans une conscience altérée (voir le dico.pour altéré) il semble que la "conscience de Jérémy N.soit un peu plus éveillée que ça pour ceux qui peuvent l'entendre....
Cosmic Serpents
I guess you must be a great Shaman researcher, maybe with more experience than me .. (50 years) and I'm from South America. Geremy Narby is a great Scientist, a great professional. I would like to know your knowledge about the Shamanism from .S.America.
Gee Tommie gib the guy a break.
I fully agree with the other
I fully agree with the other positive comments in this section. Any information of this nature, helping to dissolve the unjustifiable stigmas that continue to surround the issue of exploring consciousness is a wonderful contribution to the airwaves. @Thomas: If you even read Narby's book, then you would understand that he is an anthropologist before he was ever psychedelics explorer—and he never claims to be an experienced explorer at that. His discoveries, as we know are not original by any means and his true value comes in continuing to bringing this knowledge into the lens of science... And hopefully bring entheogenic/psychedelic knowledge more credibility within the human culture as a whole. I'm sure all the past mystics you mentioned would all be very pleased with his intentions—I imagine they would not be disappointed that their names were not mentioned in Narby's manuscripts; the absence of any self-centric ego in their own work is a signature characteristic of the successful psychedelic journey.
I found the interview annoying as well
the anthropoligist gives cover to all sorts of psuedo-science. Does he really think the natives could know what plants might be helpful for curing disease xyz by looking at them while high? Or did they learn these things from oral histories of shaman? Sure, the shamans want you to think they know things they don't. As Carl Sagan and others have said, "Before claiming something is out-of-this-world, make sure it isn't of-this-world. Brain chemistry can create lots of weird shit. Doesn't mean it is real.
Let's Stop Debating
We'd be better off spending our hard-earned time doing creative writing rather than stay glued to the very left-brain indulgence of criticizing people, unless there is a specific use for doing such, as when I criticize people who call MDMA "psychedelic".. so, seriously, what on Earth would be the use of bashing this guy? I mean other than deflecting your own impotence to write anything nearly as interesting
Jeremy Narby is obviously one of the more humble of the people who have gone here, certainly not an arrogant person who deserves this criticism and certainly he deeply respects his elders.
Jeremy taught me a cool thing.. I was a teenager eating peyote, reading Castaneda and soon afterward feeling resentful that a book about spirituality and peyote embraced such nonsense and fiction ("levitation", etc).. when I mentioned this, he remarked that Shamans use words this way for a reason, and I realized it was not supposed to be anything other than fiction. I mean I may still think Castaneda is lame, I'm not sure hehe.. but it made me stop and look at it differently now as an adult rather than as the teenager whose intelligence felt insulted. So Kudos to Jeremy, and and if he can get me to actually second guess my condemnation of Castaneda, you may want to second guess your condemnation of him, as it only speaks to your insecurity.
And obscures the actual subject which this column would seem to suffice to be about:
less human and more interesting Things
The dismiss
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift the rational mind a faithful servant, we have created a society that honors the servant and has neglected the gift. Albert Einstein. These debates are on another dimension, one the servant has never experienced. The rational wants to debate thereby pitting all on its level. The intuitive and the experitial outside the rational system of thought is nothing but nonsense to top rational thinking. So, stop the dichotomous debate and let the rational mind think it jas triumphed once aGain in its arrogant way. Arrogance has never been becoming on anyone, let alone a servant.
Redundancy; academic plagiarism; pop culture; stupidity.
This "author's" willingness to espouse alleged knowledge of a topic as though he has discovered something unique, compelling, or in any way of value to the human condition and introspective(s) awarenesses of things that mainstream culture(s) have a need to hear about today, when in fact all he has done is repeat informational material that has been published and discussed to such an extent that it's old hat in many circles, is insulting to the conscience. He has merely exploited the historical foundation of numerous other persons in order to gain attention, and this only belies his incompetence as a writer, explorative scholar, and so on. He is high finagled bum. End of story.
Everything You Know is Wrong . . .
Taking a-huasa or any on the major plant or fungi-based p-delics at therapeutic doses will challenge beliefs and things we take for granted. And this can shake your foundations and rattle your windows. If you are not prepared to build some new footings for your life or see through different lenses, you might want to stay away from p-delics. Another experience that can often occur is to see yourself as others see you. And this may not be a pretty picture - think Scrooge. This can be very therapeutic, but also very disturbing.
Our species is sick and needs this pharmacological intervention. It is the only effective therapy which has half a chance of working in time (which may already be too late).
And Carlos Castaneda wrote his book in the basement of the University of Arizona library basement. So if you are basing your conceptualization of p-delics on don juan you might want to broaden your reference sources. Try Terence McKenna for more accurate info.
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Thank you, TTBOOK, for this fascinating interview of Jeremy Narby. I appreciate it and your many other program features. I always look forward to listening to you on public radio. More power to your program.


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