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Taiwan-American doctor performs double-arm transplant on US vet
AP and The China Post news staff Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 12:07 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The first U.S. soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has received a double-arm transplant by a Taiwanese-American doctor.
Brendan Marrocco had the operation on Dec. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his father said Monday. The 26-year-old Marrocco was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009.
Those new arms "already move a little," Marrocco tweeted a month after the operation.
He also received bone marrow from the same dead donor who supplied his new arms. That novel approach is aimed at helping his body accept the new limbs with minimal medication to prevent rejection.
The military is sponsoring operations like these to help wounded troops. About 300 have lost arms or hands in the wars.
"He was the first quad amputee to survive" from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there have been four others since then, said Brendan Marrocco's father, Alex Marrocco. "He was really excited to get new arms."
The Marroccos want to thank the donor's family for "making a selfless decision ... making a difference in Brendan's life," the father said.
Surgeons plan to discuss the transplant at a news conference with the patient on Tuesday.
Alex Marrocco said his son does not want to talk with reporters until the news conference, but the younger Marrocco has repeatedly mentioned the transplant on Twitter and posted photos. On Facebook, he describes himself as a "wounded warrior...very wounded."
"Ohh yeah today has been one month since my surgery and they already move a little," Brendan Marrocco tweeted Jan. 18.
Responding to a tweet from NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski, he wrote: "dude I can't tell you how exciting this is for me. I feel like I finally get to start over."
Brendan Marrocco has been in public many times. During a July 4 visit last year to the Sept. 11 Memorial with other disabled soldiers, he said he had no regrets about his military service.
"I wouldn't change it in any way ... I feel great. I'm still the same person," he said.
The 13-hour operation was led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgery chief at Johns Hopkins, and is the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant done in the United States. Lee led three of those earlier operations when he previously worked at the University of Pittsburgh, including the only above-elbow transplant that had been done at the time, in 2010.
Lee was born in Taiwan and left for U.S. when he was 15, according to the United Evening News.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine website introduces Lee as "heralded for his successful hand transplants and breakthrough research on overcoming rejection in composite tissue grafting.

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|Postage Stamp Quilt, circa 1910. This quilt was made by Rosa Ana O'Riley Whitworth. Almost 8,000 tiny squares of shirtings, checks, and chambray were stitched together by Rosa Ana.
|scrap quilts
|by Sue Reich
|Quiltmakers have always had a fascination with quilts containing multitudes of fabrics. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many quilters strove to outdo one another by using the most pieces, the tiniest scraps, or the greatest number of stitches. Newspapers fueled the fervor by reporting quiltmakers' achievements.
|Target Quilt, circa 1910: This quilt was discovered during a Texas quilt search in 1985. Made by Lorah Sasser Clark, it contains 42,000 folded triangles, stitched down at their base. Lorah started to work on it at age 16 and finished it fifteen years later.
|Many quiltmaking fads swept the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two popular quilt types from that era easily recognized by most quilters today are the crazy quilt, with its silks and fancy stitches, and the one-patch charm quilt, boasting no two fabrics alike.
These quilt genres, as well as a third, lesser-known style that used thousands of pieces, reflect a historical period of abundance and financial well-being. In addition to plenty of fabric quiltmakers had leisure time to pursue their projects.
Participants in the third style, blessed (or cursed) with highly competitive personalities, strove to outdo one another in sheer numbers of individual pieces used to make their quilts. These patchwork Olympians incorporated thousands of pieces into a single quilt.
Intrigued by the oddball nature of the quilts, newspapers across the country printed articles about the quiltmakers' Herculean efforts.
News accounts kept tabs on the number of pieces (sometimes tens of thousands), their minuscule size, and, on occasion, even the number of stitches used. Some writers expressed amazement at the quilters' achievements, some derided the activity as a waste of time, and some encouraged the stitchers to one-up each other.
|Hexagon Quilt, 65½" x 82″. The hexagonal pieces in this quilt are each the size of a penny. Over 8,000 hexagons span generations from the 1870s-1920s.
|These "multitudinous" scrap quilts were usually one patch quilts of postage stamp squares, mosaic hexagons, brick-shaped rectangles, flying geese units, oblongs, clamshells, or diamonds. They might be randomly designed or combined in nine patch sets, lights and dark, Trip Around the World, or other simple patterns.
The tiny pieces used in such quilts would probably be discarded by today's quilter, but the "use up, waste not" attitudes of earlier times still prevailed in the late nineteenth century. Often, these very scrappy quilts reflect a multi generational fabric stash. Centennial prints from the 1870s are used with the indigos, clarets, conversation prints, and shirtings produced decades later.
As we all know, styles in fashion and quiltmaking come back around every so often. Perhaps we ought to be saving our tiniest leftover fabric pieces for a future revival of the "multitudinous" scrap quilt craze!
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Samsung has announced a partnership with Khan Academy to begin a pilot program to provide classrooms with new Galaxy Note 10.1 tablets. In a press release, the company wrote that the two organizations are "committed to bringing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, with the intent of fostering deeper educational engagement through use of new classroom technologies for teachers and students."
The pilot program will begin with Mountain View Whisman School District. Nine teachers representing three elementary schools in the district will use the Galaxy Notes in the classroom, tablet devices which run 1.4GHz processors and Google's Android operating system. Unlike other tablet devices these days, the Notes feature stylus pens for more precise interaction.
The Notes will be preloaded with a new Khan Academy app developed by Samsung Media Solutions Center America.
"Khan Academy is excited to partner with Samsung and MVWSD to enable students in elementary and middle schools to have access to technology that can bring self-paced, personalized and mastery-based learning into the classroom. We are also excited that Samsung is helping increase access to technology, demonstrating a great way for corporations to get involved in public education," said Sundar Subbarayan, Khan Academy School Implementation Lead.
"Samsung MSCA is committed to defining the best combination of software, services and hardware solutions for stronger, more personalized educational experiences. The Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet provides a more natural way for students to not only access content, but also to take notes and capture their ideas using the innovative S-Pen. We are excited to participate and also learn from the teachers and students on how their experience and engagement is augmented," said, Curtis Sasaki, Senior Vice President of Samsung MSCA.
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- April 19, 2007, 11:48 AM
This week Cessna celebrated two major turbine fleet milestones. The Caravan fleet reached 10 million flight hours and its Citation line has reached double that. The company also announced that it has addressed some teething problems and resumed deliveries of the Mustang, its entry into the VLJ market. Garmin has fixed a software glitch that wouldn't allow users to alter an arrival after one was already selected on the G1000. Cessna says it will still be able to deliver 40 aircraft this year and 100 next year. This year Cessna is marking its 80th anniversary with delivery of the 5,000th Citation and a total backlog of $8.5 billion.


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Lee County finance committee discusses 2013-14 budget
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:31:59 GMT —
The Lee County Finance Committee held a special called meeting Wednesday morning to review the fiscal year 2013-2014 budget calendar.
Officials say the budget is currently out of balance; it is over $2 million dollars more than the projected revenue.
The budget is a combination of all the department heads' budgets throughout the county. Members say the department heads need to be more efficient when planning their budget.
Lee County Commissioner Greg Finch says the finance committee will be setting up meetings with each department head so they can all work together to try and get the general budget back to what it should be.
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Thou Shalt Not Sue
In the world of religious radio, WAFG-FM (90.3) is the voice of mighty Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, a "friend of the family," the station proclaims, existing "to glorify God and to further His purposes."
"Isn't it wonderful to live in a country where Christians are freely allowed to worship, speak our minds...," station manager Dolores King tells listeners in the program guide, which lists such inspirational shows as "Genesis Connection," "Truths That Transform," and the more secular "How to Manage Your Money."
Until last month WAFG also aired a Thursday-evening, call-in program, "Women of God," hosted by Melanie Lashbrook, daughter of one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church in America and one-time Coral Ridge staff member, who promised the station she would not speak her mind.
Specifically, Lashbrook agreed not to discuss another WAFG talk-show host, lawyer Perry W. Hodges, Jr., who's active on the religious right of Broward County Republican politics and counsels listeners with his Wednesday-evening hour, "Know Your Legal Rights."
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Among the rights on which Hodges is expert is the right of a lawyer to sue to collect unpaid fees. For more than three years, he and Lashbrook's husband Larry have been locked in bitter combat, firing away with both law and Scripture, over the more than $24,000 owed Hodges by Larry in the aftermath of Larry's divorce from his first wife, whom Hodges represented and now employs. The assistance to his ex-wife "bugs the snot out of Larry," Hodges says with some glee. "I became Satan personified in his mind."
Last month the Lashbrook-Hodges feud drew blood inside WAFG. Station management, whether furthering His purposes or favoring Hodges, killed Melanie Lashbrook's "Women of God."
According to Lashbrook, station manager King told her that influential friends of Hodges in the church wanted Lashbrook removed, and "I can't take the pressure any more. I can't protect you from being taken off." Lashbrook also remembers being told to accept the decision, that "I should be more of a Christian and turn the other cheek. But Christians do not sue other Christians. Why not take Perry Hodges off too? If Larry really owes him the money, shouldn't it go back to Perry Hodges to turn the other cheek. That's how I feel: It's a double standard."
King would not discuss the Lashbrook issue. Hodges, while adamantly denying he had anything to do with the decision to silence Melanie, added, "There is a large contingent that goes to Coral Ridge [Presbyterian Church] that believes in doing things the right way. Larry has not done anything the right way."
For Hodges, a member of the Sheridan Hills Baptist Church in Hollywood, the path to rightness led to the Broward County Courthouse, where on December 10, a week after WAFG banished Melanie Lashbrook, Hodges foreclosed on the Lashbrook house. The Lashbrooks retaliated with a media fax attack, headlined, "CHRISTIAN ATTORNEY PETITIONS COURT TO TAKE HOME AWAY FROM FAMILY RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!"
The house, appraised at about $70,000, is tucked away among auto dealer back lots on NE Second Avenue just south of Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. It includes a rear shop for Larry Lashbrook's guitar-repair business. The house is scheduled to be auctioned at the courthouse February 3 to pay Hodges' legal fees.
As that date approaches, the Lashbrooks and the lawyer play dueling Bibles.
"Biblically, a Christian should not take another Christian to court," but instead should submit to church authorities to settle secular disputes, Lashbrook argued. She paced in their living room on New Year's Eve, in front of a Christmas tree and under a sign asking God to bless their home, as Larry reached for his Bible to find a supportive passage in I Corinthians. It begins: "Dare any of you having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?"
In response Hodges emphasized that he tried for years to abide by I Corinthians. He also suggested that if patience is a virtue it has a statute of limitations, which has run out in the Lashbrook case. "He wants me to do the 'Christian' thing and just walk away and forget the whole thing. I'm not willing to do that, not at this point."
Hodges also drew support from the Bible, noting, "There's a proverb that says the borrower becomes a slave to the lender."
Aligned with the conservative Christian faction of Broward's Republican party, Hodges has run unsuccessfully for party chairman, school board, and state legislature but has been a winner on WAFG for ten years.
On "Know Your Legal Rights," which airs Wednesdays from 9 to 10 p.m., he dispenses general legal advice in response to caller questions on such issues as wills and debt restructuring, advising one caller last week to prioritize his bill payments. "A lot of people who get in financial difficulty, it's really easy to let your house go," Hodges observed. "If you don't pay your mortgage payment, you're living under a bridge."
Whatever the lawyer's star status, Melanie Lashbrook argues that WAFG, housed in the tower of Coral Ridge Presbyterian, should not have sacrificed "Women of God" for station harmony with Hodges. After all, she is not exactly a bit player among Presbyterians.
With more than 9000 members and the international media ministry of its pastor, the Rev. D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Presbyterian is a showcase church in the conservative Presbyterian Church in America. Melanie's father was one of the founding members of that denomination and her minister brother is editor of a national PCA newspaper.
"We are well rooted in that denomination," Lashbrook said. "We're very much involved in Christian conservative circles."
Besides, when it came to Hodges, Lashbrook had already promised to keep her mouth shut. In September 1996, as she talked with WAFG about hosting a show "dealing with issues Christian women face today," one issue station management insisted she face was taking a vow of silence toward Hodges. She agreed, stating in a memo, "I was under submission to the church and would in no way use WAFG to air disputes between my husband and Perry Hodges...."
With that promise WAFG welcomed "Women of God," first from 9 to 10 p.m. on Tuesdays, then moving it to the same time slot on Thursdays. The hour featured interviews with such major religious figures as Shirley Dobson, who hosts a national radio program, "Focus on the Family," as well as local Christian women testifying about their ministries and what God has done for them.
Lashbrook hosted the show for more than a year and says she kept her word, never mentioning Perry Hodges. "I'm a professional. I would never do that, and I never did."
At least not on WAFG. Melanie and Larry Lashbrook, however, are something of a talk radio juggernaut, hosting a one-hour evening show called "On the Move," Mondays through Fridays on WNN-AM (1470) with simulcasts three nights a week on WSBR-AM (740).
Although Melanie's guests range from religious conservatives to a psychologist discussing the Christian approach to weight management (eat less, exercise more, reflect on the Scriptures), she boasts, "We uncover a lot of corruption that's going on, mostly in the legal system." Coincidentally, their guests last week included a Palm Beach County couple fighting a seven-year battle against foreclosure on their house. The couple went to trial the week before Christmas, leading Larry to interject that Perry Hodges had done the same thing to him, "and the guy claims to be a Christian."
At the end of the hour, Larry asked listeners, "Pray for us.... We're going into court in Fort Lauderdale. We've got them dead to rights on the law."
The legal dispute centers on a mortgage Hodges took on Lashbrook's house in 1990. After the divorce from his first wife, Lashbrook was under court order to pay her legal fees, about $17,600. He agreed to pay Hodges in installments, with interest, with the lawyer holding the mortgage as security. Lashbrook claims he made payments totaling $14,800; Hodges says most of that was for the monthly interest on the money owed, not payment of the fee bill itself. Lashbrook stopped making payments in 1994.
The following year Melanie and Larry, both divorced, both members of Coral Ridge Presbyterian, were introduced and began dating. They were married in 1995 in a historic church in Savannah and that October were given a wedding reception at Coral Ridge Presbyterian.
Larry received a less-than-warm reception from the Coral Ridge Presbyterian ethics committee, which acts as a sort of church court in disputes involving members. In July 1995 Hodges, though a Baptist, asked the committee to resolve the fee dispute with Lashbrook, "in the interest of peace and unity within the Christian community."
When Lashbrook sought ground rules for the ethics hearing -- permission to tape-record, witnesses, right of appeal -- the committee, arguing Lashbrook was refusing to submit to its authority, refused to arbitrate the dispute.
Hodges filed suit to foreclose in January 1996 and won a $24,255 judgment in January 1997. Settlement negotiations fell apart, the Lashbrooks lost their appeal of the judgment, and Hodges returned to court last month, winning a final foreclosure date of February 3.
"There were numerous situations where I said to Larry, 'This needs to be resolved within the confines of the Christian community,'" Hodges said. "He never did. Mr. Lashbrook wants to hide behind his Christianity to make Perry Hodges out to be the bad guy in this situation but does not want to be bound by anything that the Christian community or the Bible says. That's the Christian perspective."
At WAFG, meanwhile, station ads for "Know Your Legal Rights" began airing where they had not aired before: during the hour once occupied by "Women of God." Melanie Lashbrook received those words with something less than reverence.
"The first night I was off, there were promos put on for Perry Hodges," she fumed. "He had never ever run there. That was a real slap in the face.
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Ferrovial lowers holding in BAA
THE major shareholder in Heathrow airport owner BAA has cut its stake to just below 50 per cent.
Spanish giant Ferrovial sold a 5.9 per cent stake in the firm to investment firm Alinda Capital Partners for e325million (£283million), valuing the airport operator at e5.5billion. The move means Ferrovial can remove BAA's debts from its balance sheet.
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When Erica Quiding was growing up, she had no relationship with her biological mother. She was placed in the foster care system as an infant, and was adopted at age three. But then at ten-years-old, her adoptive parents decided they could not keep her, and she went back to foster care. She bounced around the system for years. By the time she was matched with volunteer Ann Harding as part of the Court Appointed Special Advocates program, Erica was a troubled 13-year-old. But she was also resilient. And with Ann Harding on her side, available day or night for phone calls and support, Erica made it out of the foster care system, graduated from high school and is by all accounts a success. She's 24 now, taking classes at Portland Community College. She says she can't imagine that she would be where she is today without Ann in her life.
Of course, not all children in crisis end up in foster care. And some child advocates say the direction to go is to provide help to families so kids can stay with their parents and avoid the separation that can be so devastating for children. Oregon has just passed a law to set up a system called Safe Families. It's worked well in Illinois, providing a way for parents to get temporary relief from the pressures of parenting without losing custody of their kids. In Chicago, the program boasts that it's helped reduce the number of kids in foster care from 50,000 to 15,000.
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A virus belonging to the family poxviridae morphologically similar to vaccinia virus, which occurs as a latent infection in laboratory mice, but which may be activated by stresses such as irradiation and transport to cause disease; inoculation into the footpad results in oedema and necrosis.
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The much publicized "global research analyst settlement" is reshaping the ways brokerage firms conduct business, with significant consequences for companies contemplating initial public offerings. Changes are being undertaken not only by the firms subject to the global settlement, but also by most other brokerage firms as industry best practices. Based on our initial experience, we offer the following guidance:
Cultivate independent relationships with analysts.
The global settlement limits interactions between research analysts and investment bankers in order to avoid inappropriate influence by banking personnel over research decisions. The settlement, for example, prohibits an analyst's "participation" in efforts to solicit investment banking business.
Expect to meet with research personnel separately from bankers.
Analysts will no longer join bankers in "dog and pony shows." Some brokerage firms are banning all joint conference calls and meetings among analysts, bankers and issuers, including early-stage companies. Prior to engaging a brokerage firm for an IPO, you should expect that the firm's analyst will focus on conducting due diligence and discussing your business and industry, but will avoid discussing a potential offering.
Obtain commitment from research management to initiate coverage.
Research management will now make all company-specific coverage decisions, with little or no input from bankers. You may wish to contact research management directly to request a commitment to initiate coverage, subject to analyst diligence. Although such a commitment is permitted, neither research management nor any individual analyst may undertake to issue a favorable rating for your stock.
Prepare for duplicative due diligence.
Analysts will perform a diligence review in order to screen your financing for their investor clients and to assist their firms' commitment committees. They are likely to conduct their diligence review without the involvement of investment banking and then provide feedback to bankers in the presence of a "chaperone"-typically a member of the brokerage firm's legal or compliance staff. As a result, background presentations and analyst diligence calls may need to be made outside the presence of bankers.
Finalize the managing underwriter group early.
Analysts may no longer "piggyback" on diligence procedures completed by bankers. You should engage all of your co-managers sufficiently early in the process to give their analysts time to complete their diligence efforts without delaying the offering timetable.
Understand analysts' role in preparing and marketing IPOs.
Analysts' ability to participate in the selling of securities has been significantly circumscribed.
Expect less help from analysts in drafting.
In the past, drafting sessions provided a company with an opportunity to benefit from an analyst's views of the company's industry and business. Under the global settlement, an analyst may assist in "confirming the adequacy" of disclosure, but may not comment on the prospectus in the presence of bankers unless a "chaperone" is present. Uncertainty about this process, as well as general caution about interactions between analysts and bankers, seems to have chilled analyst participation in drafting sessions to date.
Prepare your road show presentation without help from analysts.
Previously, analysts played a key role in helping companies prepare road show presentations. Now, analysts may not review or comment on draft road show slides or attend road show presentations or "dry runs" of those presentations.
Outperform on the road show.
The global settlement has eliminated the ability of banking to direct analysts to initiate contacts with prospective investors. Road show presentations therefore are likely to play an even more important role in post-settlement offerings. You should work closely with your bankers to ensure that your road show presentation communicates your key messages and value proposition effectively, and with equity capital markets to ensure the presentation reaches an appropriate investor group.
Prepare for the new post-IPO environment.
The global settlement also affects public companies, even when they are not pursuing a financing. Management may no longer be able to meet simultaneously with analysts and bankers, for example, at investor conferences or in social interactions. Because analysts may no longer suggest potential transactions to bankers, a public company will need to regularly update its bankers about the company's business, so that the bankers can help identify market opportunities.


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On a Spanish island, an ancient whistling language that once seemed to be dying out is now undergoing a revival.
The night has not yet fallen in La Gomera, one of the smallest Canary Islands.
From the top of the hill I can see, scattered in the distance, a few old houses. To my right, a row of black trees is a stark reminder of the fires that struck this Spanish island off the coast of Morocco last summer.
I close my eyes to avoid being distracted by the landscape and make an effort to hear. I'm trying to discern, among the echo of the wind and the noise from the cars that from time to time drive along the road, the sounds of silbo gomero or Gomeran whistle, an ancient language the locals have assured me is still in use.
This method of communication, in which the Spanish language is replaced by two whistled vowels and four consonants, has a peculiarity perfectly suited to this landscape of deep valleys and steep ravines. It has the ability to travel up to two miles (3.2km), much further and with less effort than shouting.
There are no certainties about its origins. It is known that when the first European settlers arrived at La Gomera in the 15th Century, the inhabitants of the island – of North African origin – communicated with whistles.
These whistles reproduced the indigenous language. With the arrival of the Spanish, the locals adapted the whistling language to Spanish.
So the most likely theory is that the whistle came with the settlers from Africa, where there are records of other whistled languages.
Some locals recall its widespread use in the 1940s and 50s.
"In the old days, when the mountain caught fire, something that happens quite frequently in the island, the Guardia Civil came to pick us up," says Lino Rodriguez, an old whistler with a cracked smoking voice.
"And no matter what we were doing, they put us in a truck and drove us to put out the fire.
"So, to avoid them, we passed a message between us whistling: 'You have to hide, the Guardia Civil is coming!' And because they didn't whistle, they didn't understand what we were saying and couldn't find us."
The council and the mayors were paid to put out the fires but would not pay any locals who helped, he explains.
"The thing is that here, learning to whistle wasn't a matter of pleasure. It was an obligation, a necessity. If you didn't know how to do it, you would have to walk to give a message. And as the houses are far from each other, and there were no roads or phones, whistling was easier than walking," he says.
Whistling began to decline in the
1950s, when economic difficulties forced most of the whistlers to emigrate, mainly to neighbouring Tenerife and Venezuela. The growing road network and later, the development of the mobile phone, deprived silbo of its practical function.
By the 1970s and 80s, there were only a few whistlers remaining, but at the end of the 90s there was renewed interest in silbo, in part due to an initiative to make it a compulsory subject at primary school.
This came about, says Juan Carlos Hernandez Marrero, a researcher from the Archaeological Museum of La Gomera, despite it being largely "reviled" by the vast majority of inhabitants who viewed it as "something from peasants".
However, I must admit that after travelling for hours around this volcanic island whose landscape and climate changes at every corner, I still found no traces of silbo gomero.
That is because silbo is mostly heard in schools and in restaurants that provide whistling demonstrations for tourists. …
Wow, the real R2-D2 language. Here's a translation of English to Silbo Gomero. A human bird language having as much data content as English makes me wonder what the birds are really saying.


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Top oil regulator shouldn't also be promoter
GRAND FORKS — This year, North Dakotans will celebrate our state's 125th anniversary. Throughout our history, we have shown time and time again that economic development and good stewardship are not mutually exclusive.
The State Industrial Commission — made up of the governor, attorney general and agriculture commissioner — was created based on this tradition. Among its most important duties is oversight of oil and gas development.
But for all practical purposes, the current membership of the Industrial Commission has delegated a substantial share of its powers to the director of mineral resources, a position presently held by Lynn Helms. Under this delegation of authority and pursuant to current law, Helms has the dual responsibility of acting as both a promoter and regulator of our state's oil industry.
Recent high-profile incidents across the state confirm that the public is ill-served by these conflicting duties.
Take last fall's spill of more than 20,000 barrels of oil from a pipeline near Tioga, N.D., which was one of the largest overland oil spills in U.S. history.
Lawmakers and the public initially were kept in the dark about the existence of the spill. An open-records request by the media later revealed that while the public scrambled for answers, Helms shared detailed opinions on the spill in a private email to a relative.
Even taking into account the Department of Mineral Resources' lack of jurisdiction over pipelines, our state's oil regulator first should have shared that information with legislators and the public. Perhaps Helms stayed uncharacteristically silent because he was afraid that speaking out would detract from his statutory duty to promote oil development.
On the other hand, Helms was not silent on the issue of using existing rail cars to ship the vast majority of North Dakota oil by train. On Dec. 16, Helms promised to write a state government report that would, in his words, "dispel this myth that [Bakken crude] is somehow an explosive, really dangerous thing to have travelling up and down rail lines."
Two weeks later, an oil train derailed outside of Casselton, N.D, and set off a series of horrific explosions, forcing the evacuation of up to 3,000 North Dakotans and spilling more than 400,000 gallons of oil.
Since the Casselton incident, the work on that promised report has been discontinued.
The siting by Helms (under the authority of the Industrial Commission) of an oil-drilling waste pit on top of water supply for Ross, N.D., also is troubling.
While Helms pled human error in the siting of the Ross waste pit, the chances for such error would be meaningfully reduced if the role of promoting oil development were separated from the regulation of oil development.
This is why North Dakota Democrats will be proposing legislation in the 2015 legislative session that once and for all would separate the duties of regulator and promoter. In the meantime, we've called on the governor, attorney general and agriculture commissioner to use the broad authority of the Industrial Commission to establish a firewall between these two functions.
Doing so would help ensure continued support for oil development and restore public trust that our resources can be developed safely.
We value the oil industry's impact on North Dakota's economy. In fact, it is because of the importance of the industry to our state that we must take common-sense steps to restore citizens' faith that we need not trade public health and safety for the sake of development.
North Dakotans are familiar with the debate between promoting economic growth and protecting our land and people. We decided long ago that we will do both.
Separating the regulation of oil development from its promotion will ensure we continue to live up to this North Dakota tradition as we enter an exciting new chapter in our state's history.
State Sen. Schneider, D-Grand Forks, is minority leader of the North Dakota Senate. State Rep. Onstad, D-Parshall, is minority leader of the North Dakota House.


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Prior to the housing bubble burst, builders could rely on the majority of new-home buyers following a "bigger is better" mindset. Since then, oversized and inefficient homes sitting idle on the market is a clear indication that bigger is no longer considered better.
But in the new less-is-more era, builders still need to find a way to stand out from their competition. Builders are using a few strategies to impress mid-market homebuyers, without pushing prices too high or margins too low.
As buyers move away from larger inefficient homes with excess square footage, they are discovering the joys of large, multi-use rooms. Discrete spaces with fixed purposes, such as mud rooms, media centers, home offices or theater rooms, are on the way out, and demand has shifted to open spaces that offer more possibilities.
"Buyers are looking to integrate functions across existing rooms, for rooms that can serve multiple purposes and [rooms] that allow for a more flexible use of space," says Kermit Baker, chief economist for the American Institute of Architects and senior research fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. "There's a growing desire for informality and flexibility. Homeowners now don't want you to limit the ways they can use the space, so [builders and architects] aren't using a lot of hard partitions, and are trying to increase more open space."
Even if homebuyers tighten their belts, they are aware that buying a home is a long-term commitment. New homebuyers are expressing interest in features that don't cost them anything now, but give them opportunities to upgrade their homes later. One popular example is smart-home wiring, a highly advanced automatic wiring system through which people can control everything — lights, Internet, intercom, temperature, etc. — from one area of the home.
Most mid-market home buyers aren't willing to spend big on elaborate, multi-room electronics systems, but will be happy to know that their home is wired to accommodate such a system in the future.
"People like knowing that the technology infrastructure is there, because if they want to go wild later on, they don't have to rip apart the walls," says Greg Eldridge, a real estate consultant with @properties in Chicago. "The cost of bundling and routing those extra cables is marginal when the walls are studded, but buyers know that it's a huge number if they want to do it later. So this is something that carries a minimal cost for developers and can yield a tremendous result."
The clean lines of contemporary style should come as good news for developers, as it means they can present a cutting-edge look without the expense of ornate molding or rough stone, Eldridge says. The standard bearer for affordable high style is porcelain tile. "It's man-made, so it can be reasonable, cost-wise, and there are so many things you can do with it," he says. "A lot of the buyers across medium and high price-point segments have migrated toward these very cool, contemporary porcelain looks. If you're a builder, you can offer a lot of options that are cool and sophisticated, not hugely expensive, and create what's really important — a sense among buyers that what they encounter in your residence is something they didn't see anywhere else."
Buyers are also interested in eco-friendly, energy-efficient features, but only if they make sense financially. A green roof or solar panels may save a homeowner money after a recoupment period of several years, but the high upfront cost could deter buyers, according to the AIA's Baker. However, features such as spray-in insulation and energy-efficient windows are major selling points, he says.
Selling homes today is challenging because homebuyers have changed the way they shop. Builders who understand how buyers think — and how their concerns can be addressed in a cost-efficient manner — have a head start on the market.
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Week of June 4
Simple assault: Roma Bazhutin, 30, of 3735 Myrtle Ave., Pittsburgh, was arrested for simple assault at 9:37 p.m. May 18, on Myrtle Avenue, police said.
Drug violation: A 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy were charged with violating the drug act at 10:10 p.m. May 16, on Linnie Lou Drive, police said.
Underage drinking: Nathan Stevens, 20, of 821 Sleepy Hollow Road, Castle Shannon, was sent a summons for furnishing alcohol to miners for an incident at 12:20 a.m. May 20, police said. Additionally, a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl were issued a citation for underage drinking at the same time for the same incident, police said.
Drug violation: A 17-year-old boy was charged with violating the drug act at 9:02 p.m. May 21, on Willow Avenue, police said.
Theft of services: Police investigated a report of a television being illegally placed in a Dumpster on May 18, police said.
Criminal mischief: Police responded to several incidents of criminal mischief including car tires punctured at 8 a.m. May 16 on Greenridge Drive; road signs tagged with graffiti on Hamilton Road at 4:30 p.m. May 17, road signs with graffiti at 5:30 p.m. May 17 on Elm Street, and at 5:52 p.m. May 17 on Broadway Street.
Ladders stolen: Two extension aluminum ladders were stolen from an unlocked shed, township police said. The ladders, valued at $450, were last seen about six months ago and were reported stolen by owner Larry Jones, 17 Sylvan Drive, Cecil, at 2 p.m. May 26, police said.
Warrant pick up: Jessica Ellen Miller, no age given, of 323 Western Ave., Houston, was stopped for speeding at 3:29 a.m. Saturday, in the 1800 block of Route 980, township police said. The officer learned Miller was wanted on an outstanding bench warrant from Henrico, Va., for a probation violation following a grand larceny conviction. She was taken before District Judge Robert Redlinger and placed in the Washington County Jail, police said.
Theft: Brandie Grosskinsky, 22, of 2761 Philadelphia Ave., Pittsburgh, was charged with theft for an incident on Cedar Boulevard at 11:10 a.m. May 13, police said.
DUI: Frank Truzzi, 45, of 500 Donaldson Drive, Pittsburgh, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, simple assault and terroristic threats following a stop at 2:40 p.m. May 13, on Fruithurst Drive, police said.
Drug arrest: Christina McNeese, 36, of 15 Bower Hill Road, Mt. Lebanon, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, and Miguel Sague, 34, of 4277 Verone Road, Verona, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, at 2:55 a.m. May 17, on Kenmont Avenue, police said.
Terroristic threats: At 10:30 a.m. May 16, Sylvanius Flowers, 55, 806 Mt. Pleasant Road, Pittsburgh, was charged with terroristic threats for an incident on Bower Hill Road, police said.
Simple assault: Alexis Williams, 21, of 1214 Lakemont Drive, Pittsburgh, was charged with simple assault during an incident on Arden Road at 12:52 a.m. May 20, police said.
Criminal mischief: Police investigated several incidents of criminal mischief, including graffiti spray painted on vacant property on Lemoyne Avenue at 7:43 a.m. May 20; pond damage on Castle Shannon Boulevard, at 10:15 a.m. May 19; damage to a new construction area of the municipal recreation center on Cedar Boulevard, at 3:30 p.m. May 20; and graffiti spray painted on a building on Castle Shannon Boulevard at 6:25 a.m. May 20.
Thefts: Police investigated several incidents of theft, including items taken from a store on Washington Road at 7:13 p.m. May 10; a planter removed from in front of a residence on Castle Shannon Boulevard at 6:39 p.m. May 16; a wallet stolen from a purse at 11:23 p.m., May 17 on Washington Road;, and rings taken from a residence on Haverhill Road at 2:58 p.m. May 20.
Retail theft: Sabrina Eisenberg, 41, of 642 Tingley Ave., Pittsburgh, was charged with retail theft and receiving stolen property related to an incident at 3:48 p.m. May 17 on Washington Road, police said.
Underage drinking: Dean Haggerty, 22, of 831 Ella St., Mt. Lebanon, was charged with furnishing alcohol to minors at 10:38 p.m. May 21, on Ella Street. Receiving citations for underage drinking during the same incident were Carla Landy, 19, of 46 Cynthia Drive, Carnegie, Samantha Westrick, 18, of 1406 Raven Drive, Pittsburgh, Candice Coughenour, 18, of 612 Garfield St., Heidelberg, and Maura Teti, 18, of 353 Elmbrook Lane, Pittsburgh, police said.
Terroristic threats: Louis Torcasi, 38, of 1226 Round Top St., Pittsburgh, was charged with terroristic threats, at 8:48 p.m. May 24, on Bower Hill Road, police said.
Drugs and underage drinking: John Hoglund, 23, of 265 Orchard Drive, Mt. Lebanon, was arrested for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia at 12:38 a.m. May 22, on Orchard Drive, police said. Receiving citations for underage drinking at the same time and location were James Crews, 20, of Madison Ave., Pittsburgh, Jordan Jackson, 20, of 1241 Illinois Ave., Pittsburgh, Emily Kaysztofowicz, 19, also of 1241 Illinois Ave., Pittsburgh, and Sara Murphy, 20, of 343 Fourth Ave., Pittsburgh, police said.
Criminal mischief: A 15-year-old boy received a citation for criminal mischief for an incident on Cooke Lane, at 7:34 p.m. May 25, police said.
Burglary: Police are investigating a attempted burglary on Ridgefield Drive that was reported at 3:14 a.m. May 24.
Wallet stolen: A wallet was taken from a purse before 10:10 p.m., May 25 on Washington Road, police said.
Theft from vehicle: Items were stolen from a vehicle that was parked in a parking garage on Washington Road, police said. The theft was reported at 1:55 p.m. May 23.
Gun stolen: A gun was removed from a residence on Lemoyne Avenue before 5:40 p.m. May 26, police said.
Criminal mischief: Police are investigating several incidents of criminal mischief, including glass doors that were shattered on an entrance to a school on Cochran Road that was discovered at 9:30 a.m. May 18. A vehicle was damaged while it was parked on Church Place before 9:44 a.m. May 21 and graffiti was sprayed painted on school property on Moffett Street before 2:15 p.m. May 25. Graffiti was also spray painted on Greenhurst Drive before 2:15 p.m. May 25. A fire alarm was pulled in the municipal parking lot on Washington Road at 11:33 p.m. May 24, and graffiti was spray painted on a vehicle parked on Greenhurst Drive before 2 p.m. May 25.
Sign damaged: An Orchard Hilands Drive road sign was struck by a hit-and-run driver who fled, township police said. The damage was reported at 4:43 a.m. May 25. The sign was at the intersection of Orchard Hilands Drive and Bebout Road with the driver of the blue vehicle entering through the yard on Orchard Hilands and fleeing north on Bebout Road. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 724-942-5030.
Drug charges: Steven R. Baron, 33, of Fairmeadow Drive, Washington, was charged by summons with possession of drug paraphernalia following a traffic stop at 12:32 a.m. May 24, township police said. Baron's vehicle was stopped after officers found it speeding on Washington and East McMurray roads. The stop was made in the 500 block of Valley Brook Road, police said. Officers saw needle tracks on Baron's right arm and a check of the car found a couple of empty stamp bags of heroin, used needles, and two spoons, police said.
Drug charges: Reid C. Amand will be charged by summons with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia when, during an ambulance call to his residence at 6:22 p.m. May 24, police found the items in his residence, township police said. Amand, 27, of N. Heidi Lane, McMurray, experienced difficulty breathing and a rapid heart beat and called for an ambulance and when members of the fire department reached the house first, police said he told the firefighters he had injected cocaine, police said. When officers arrived, suspected cocaine, used needles and empty stamp bags were found in the residence.
DUI: A 17-year-old township boy was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, a minor with alcohol in his system, underage drinking and operating on a junior license after 11 p.m., township police said. The boy, whose name was not released because of his age, appeared to have vomited beside his vehicle as he was traveling west on Ivy Lane, police said. When he began to drive away, police stopped his vehicle and detected an odor of alcohol at 1:45 a.m. May 24, police. The boy told the officer he was not feeling well and denied he was drinking. His blood-alcohol-level was .115 percent. For any driver under the age of 21, the state presumes intoxication at .02 percent.
Institutional vandalism: Several holes were found on the exterior doors on the side of Center Presbyterian Church, 225 Center Church Road, township police said. The vandalism occurred between May 7-19 and was reported at 9:37 a.m. May 24. Damage is estimated at $100-$150.
DUI/drug charges: Township police noticed two unoccupied vehicles in the parking lot of the Montour Trail, west of Valley Brook Road, at 12:35 a.m. May 25, and, because of recent vandalism, drove to a nearby lot, township police said. A half open case of beer was observed in the rear passenger seat of one of the vehicles, police said. Not finding any vandalism, the officer returned to the trail parking lot and saw the two vehicles leaving. A traffic stop was made on one of the vehicles on Valley Brook Road, while the other left. The driver, James L. Taylor, 18, of Matide St., Pittsburgh, denied drinking or that alcohol was in the vehicle, police said. The officer saw suspected marijuana in the center console and a number of bottles of Visine used to clear red eyes usually experienced after smoking marijuana, police said. Taylor was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, possession of alcohol under the age of 21, underage drinking and violating a township ordinance that closes the trail at dusk, police said. Taylor's blood-alcohol level was .098 percent. The state presumes intoxication at .08 percent. Several beer cans and prescription pills were found inside the vehicle, police said. Juvenile allegations will be filed for possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and underage drinking, against a 17-year-old boy from Bradford Cove, Venetia, police said. A third passenger, also a juvenile, was not charged.
Cellular phone stolen: A man, whose name was not released, told police his cellular telephone was stolen while he was a patron at El Campesino, 4175 Washington Road, McMurray, township police said of the incident reported at 10:34 p.m. May 27. The man said a woman, also a patron, was being very friendly while the man dined and when the Mexican restaurant closed, the man realized his cellular phone was missing. As the unidentified woman was driving from the parking lot, police said she stopped and handed a set of the man's keys to the man's friend and left. The phone in a case, valued at $187, was not found.
Domestic arrest: Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute in the parking lot of St. Benedict the Abbot Church, but were unable to locate the vehicle, township police said. Shortly afterwards, the vehicle was located at the entrance to Rolling Hills Country Club at 1:25 p.m. May 28, where officers found a husband and wife, John and Lisa K. Six of Rock Run Road, Venetia, inside. Police said John Six told them his wife was kicking him in his hands and at the steering wheel as he drove west on East McMurray Road. He also said Lisa K. Six, 36, kicked him several times in the stomach. When the officer asked Lisa Six to leave the car, she remained inside and had to be removed by the officer, police said. She was taken to the police station where she was charged with reckless endangerment and simple assault, and released, police said. John Six did not require medical attention.
Couple charged with DUI: Police will charge a couple from East McMurray Road with driving under the influence of alcohol after a witness notified police that at one point, a man was driving and a woman was riding on the hood on McDowell Lane, township police said. The initial tip came in at 12:16 a.m. May 30. As the witness followed the car, police were able to intercept it on East McMurray Road near Lindenvale Drive and stopped the car near a garage of a residence where the couple live, police said. By then, the woman, Elayne Jo Ferguson, 25, of East McMurray Road, was driving, and after an altercation, Ferguson was placed in handcuffs. Her blood-alcohol-level was .12 percent, police said. The man, Robert J. Duritza, 29, of the same East McMurray Road address, was a passenger at this point and he admitted to driving the car on McDowell Lane. He was also handcuffed after making strange movement inside the car, police said. Duritza was charged with DUI and refused a blood or breath test, police said. Both were taken to the police station and later released. Charges will be sent by summons.
DUI accident: Steven M. Rubosky will be charged with driving under the influence of alcohol following a two-vehicle accident at 11:54 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Bebout and Bower Hill roads, township police said. Rubosky, 25, of Windsor St., Pittsburgh, was not injured and neither was the other driver nor any of the passengers in the rear-end collision, police said. The first caller to police was for a driver all over the road on Bebout Road and the second call involved the accident, police said. Officers said Rubosky appeared confused and believed he was in West Mifflin driving on Route 51. His blood-alcohol level was .279 percent, police said. The state presumes intoxication at .08 percent.
Public drunkenness: Rebecca S. Penatzer, 28, of 501 Center St., Carnegie, received a citation for public intoxication following an incident on Center Street at 2:07 a.m. May 18, township police said.
Criminal mischief: A backhoe at St. Joseph's Cemetery, off Magazine Street, was damaged between 2 p.m. May 14, and 5:33 p.m. May 18, township police said.
Simple assault: Brendan O'Toole, 45, of 123 North Star Road, Imperial, was charged with simple assault and harassment following a domestic dispute in the 500 block of Bluff Street at 8 a.m. May 19, township police said.
Public drunkenness: Jerome J. Boea, 30, of 1733 Royal Oak Road, Pittsburgh, was charged with public intoxication following an incident on Royal Oak Drive at 6:05 p.m. May 21, township police said.
Burglary: A computer tablet was stolen from a residence on Campbell Street after the residence was entered, township police said. The burglary and theft occurred between noon and 3:30 p.m. May 22.
Simple assault: Chester Crothers, 50, of 1722 Washington St., Carnegie; was charged with simple assault following a domestic with a woman in the 500 block of Carothers Street at 4:53 a.m. May 24, township police said.
Drug charges: Leonard Friedman, 33, of 120 Strausser Road, Jackson Center, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia in McDonald's restaurant parking lot at 3:05 p.m. May 24, township police said.


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POMONA -- Hillary Will and Matthew Hines were married on Feb. 16, 2013, at the Pomona Valley Mining Company by the Rev. Larry Smiley of Racers for Christ.
Kimberly Will of Eureka, the bride's sister, was the maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Jessica Will of Fortuna, the bride's sister; Michelle Medina of Fortuna, the bride's cousin; and Abby Cirincione of Southboro, Mass. The flower girl was Adyson Hines of Avon, Ind., the groom's daughter.
Andrew Hines of Avon, the groom's brother, was the best man. The groomsmen were Ronnie Drale of Lakewood, the groom's cousin, and Jeff Garvin of Daytona Beach, Fla. The ushers were Austin Will and Kevin Will of Fortuna, the bride's brothers.
A reception was held at Pomona Valley Mining Company following the ceremony. The couple reside in Avon, Ind.
The bride is the daughter of Ruth Dullanty and Ron Buckland of Eureka, and Steve and Chris Will of Fortuna. She is a 1998 graduate of Eureka High School and a 2002 graduate of Wheaton College. She was a top fuel dragster winner in NHRA, IHRA and ANDRA. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics and is an Indianapolis Teaching Fellow. She will start teaching mathematics in the fall.
The groom is the son of Byron and Janice Hines of Avon. He is a 1990 graduate of Villa Park High School. He is a three-time world champion in NHRA Pro Stock Motorcyle. He is the crew chief for Harley Davidson Pro Stock motorcycle team and is employed by Vance B. Hines.


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Charles Barkley's golf swing is so bad that if you were in attendance over the weekend to watch him play at the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe, he may have given you a crisp hundred dollar bill. Really.
According to BuzzFeed who rounded up a bunch of tweets from the event, the former Philadelphia 76er and all-around badass may have given out as much as $3,000 in hundred dollar bills.
Yeah, that's like one hand of blackjack for the Chuckster.
Charles Barkley just gave out 3,000 for no reason. I got a $100 #awesome
— Ben Martinez (@bmart702) July 18, 2013
Charles Barkley handed out $100 bills to everyone on the 7th green. pic.twitter.com/EoqAyXA3uk
— Rachel Murphey (@Rachel_Annnnne) July 18, 2013
Charles Barkley foursome gave girlfriends son AJ a $100... Why? Just because he can. #AmericanCenturyChampionship pic.twitter.com/JKf6GdHQNv
— Derek Nan (@derek_nan) July 19, 2013
Charles Barkley told me my dress was cute and then his friend gave me $200... #itscasual #thanksman… http://t.co/mDV6lPcRZ6
— Carli Hinkle (@carhink) July 18, 2013
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CORAL SPRINGS -- St. Augustine High junior sprinter Brandon James did not leave Saturday's FHSAA Class 2A State Track and Field Championships empty-handed. In fact, he left with one medal for each hand.
James finished fourth in the 100-meter dash and eighth in the 200 at Saturday's 2A state meet at Coral Springs High. He was one of several locals who came home with medals.
Nease picked up three. Michael Buchholz finished third in the pole vault, Daryl Brown finished fifth in the shot put and Ryan Ellis finished eighth in the 110 hurdles.
James just made it into the finals in the 100 and 200, seeded ninth in both.
But he improved his position in both races.
"I didn't really come out of the blocks good in the 100 prelims," James said. "I just wanted to come out and compete. I ran as hard as I could and the place I came in was what I got."
All this after recovering from a strained hamstring that had bothered him through most of the track season. On Saturday, he finished the 100 in 10.84 seconds and the 200 in 22.46 seconds.
"It was killing me at regionals," he said. "And I was in therapy all this week big time trying to get it better."
The judges didn't make it easy for the sophomore Buchholz at his first state track meet. They wouldn't let him use the two poles he was used to, saying both were too light, and that put damper on his warmup time.
But he borrowed a heavier pole from silver medalist Kyle Ingram of John Carroll and cleared 13 feet, 6 inches with it.
"It was pretty nerve-wracking," Buchholz said. "I usually get a couple of shorter jumps in, but I had to go straight to full jumps. In the first couple practice jumps, I was just feeling out the pole, but my coach felt confident I could get it done."
Brown improved his distance from the regional championships by more than six inches with his Saturday throw of 48 feet, 2 1/2 inches. It came on his sixth and final throw of the day. It also was the final throw of his high school career, so he said he had nothing left to lose.
"I made a couple of bad throws, so I had to get a good one," he said. "Shot put's a strange event. You have to stay kind of relaxed at the back of the circle. Then, when you get to the point of release, you have to put everything into it.
"That's what shot's all about," he added. "You stay relaxed and then go after it when you get to the middle."
Ellis was seeded fourth going into the finals but struggled in the last race. After finishing in 14.83 seconds in the prelims, he finished in 15.21 seconds in the finals.
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text: Grant Lopez used a 2001 Suzuki GSX-R1000 to break the motorcycle track record at Homestead Miami Speedway en route to winning the Unlimited Grand Prix race during a CCS regional event Sunday. Lopez, who had set the previous record at Homestead in December of 1999 on an 840cc GSX-R750 Formula Xtreme bike, broke the record three times during the six-lap race, eventually setting it at 1:26.62. The old record was 1:27.00."If I had another 30 minutes on it I'm sure I could have gone another second quicker," said Lopez after the short race, in which he started well back on the grid, which was set by entry date. Lopez had gotten just three laps on practice on the machine Sunday morning, sharing it with teammate John Hopkins during the single 15-minute practice session. Team Valvoline EMGO Suzuki mechanics changed the machine's front end and altered its set-up Saturday evening after practice, replacing the stock front forks with a set of Ohlins racing forks."This thing is going to be fast," Lopez continued. "Those other guys in Formula Xtreme are going to be in trouble this year."Lopez broke away from strong challenges by local stars Shane Prieto and Mauro Cereda and pulled away to a several-second margin of victory. Local star Marco Martinez was fourth followed by Texan Ben Spies, local star Manny Manusuthakis, California's Chris Ulrich, local stars Mike Ciccotto and David McIntyre, and AMA 250cc GP Champion Chuck Sorensen of California. Carlos Macias of Florida was 11th, with Jason DiSalvo 12th.Lopez also won the Heavyweight Superbike race on a Formula USA-spec GSX-R750 ahead of Cereda and Spies.In other action at Homestead, DiSalvo won the Lightweight Grand Prix race, marking the first victory for a 2001 Honda RS250, with Sorensen three seconds behind at the finish on a TZ250 Yamaha. The Expert GTO race saw Shane Prieto take his 2001 Suzuki GSX-R750 to victory ahead of 16-year-old Ben Spies, with Hopkins, who had collided with Ciccotto on the first lap and had been delayed aboard the GSX-R1000, coming close to catching Spies at the line. Prieto repeated this victory pattern twice in the short, six-lap races, taking advantage of better grid positions, stronger starts and near-flawless riding to beat Spies again in both Expert Unlimited and Heavyweight Supersport. Riding his 2001 GSX-R600, 17-year-old Hopkins was unstoppable, winning three Middleweight races with Prieto, also on a GSX-R600, second in both the Middleweight Supersport and Middleweight Superbike. Martinez was second in Middleweight Grand Prix, followed by DiSalvo.


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Had a question concerning job queue managers We are running a two node cluster ( 4100s ) and there are some requirements to run batch jobs on specific nodes. Would I gain anything by creating specific queue managers on each node for the batch jobs wile still maintaining a COMMON queue manager for printers and generic batch job queues. - Will be upgradding to VMS 7.2 soon. Thanks Mike Walker
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The OpenVMS Wizard would maintain one queue management file for the nodes in this configuration and would target specific batch queues for execution on specific nodes. You can run multiple queue managers from the same queue management database -- up to five queue managers are supported per database -- but this is not particularly related to the targeting of individual batch queues to specific nodes.


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Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon held his yearly storm season press conference today, urging residents to get ready for
While hurricane experts are predicting a less active storm season, Commissioner Donelon warns that residents should still be prepared. "All it takes is one," said Commissioner Donelon. "When forecasters say they expect a less severe hurricane season based on weather conditions in the
As an example, Commissioner Donelon pointed to the 1992 hurricane season.
"There were only six named storms that year, but the first of those was Hurricane Andrew. This August marks the 20th anniversary of that devastating storm that hit
Commissioner Donelon also noted that other Category 3 storms to severely impact
Commissioner Donelon warned that
Every property owner in
Standard homeowners insurance does not typically cover flood damage, but flood insurance covers damage that residents would otherwise have to pay for themselves, according to Commissioner Donelon. Flood insurance is provided by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for home and business owners, as well as renters. According to the NFIP, the average cost for a flood insurance policy in
Typically, a flood insurance policy takes 30 days to go into effect after purchase, so don't wait until a storm is coming to buy flood insurance.
Flood insurance policies also offer a maximum coverage of
Although storm surge caused by hurricanes and tropical storms can wreak havoc on coastal areas, some of the most damaging floods occur hundreds of miles from the shoreline, days after the storm's initial landfall. As hurricanes and tropical storms move inland, torrential rains and high winds intensify the risks of flooding by rivers and streams. In fact, rains associated with Hurricane Gustav in 2008 caused extensive flooding in areas as far north as
The risk of hurricanes and related flooding includes the entire
Be Floodsmart - Reduce your Risk
Know your flood risk. Visit www.FloodSmart.gov to rate your risk and estimate your premiums by entering your address at the "One Step Flood Risk Profile." Your insurance producer can also assist you with this information.
Plan for an evacuation. Plan a flood evacuation route, ask someone out of state to be your "family contact" in an emergency, and ensure everyone knows the contact's address and phone number.
Move important objects and papers to a safe place. Store your valuables where they will not get damaged in a flood or take them with you when evacuating.
Conduct a thorough home inventory. Thorough documentation of your belongings will help in the event you must file an insurance claim. For more information, visit www.knowyourstuff.org. The
Build an emergency supply kit. Food, bottled water, first aid supplies, medicines, and a battery-operated radio should be ready to go when you are.
Visit www.ready.gov for a disaster supply checklist.
Don't forget to purchase a flood insurance policy. Most homeowners insurance does not cover floods and there may be a 30-day wait before a flood policy becomes effective. If you already have a flood policy, remember that your policy needs to be renewed each year.
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Last year the world stood baffled as Paramount announced it would remake Michael Hoffman's 1991 comedy Soapdish. It's not like Soapdish, though actually a pretty funny movie, has the legions of fans or even the name recognition to make a remake seem like a hot property. Frankly, the announcement – coupled with the news that Rob Reiner would be producing – seemed like a joke. I guess Paramount thinks that it's a pretty funny joke: they've hired Emmy award-winning actor and Robot Chicken writer Ben Schwartz to pen the screenplay. Hollywood Reporter had the increasingly perplexing story.
Speaking of perplexing stories, Soapdish's elaborate behind the scenes satire of daytime soap operas seems out of place these days, when soap operas are getting cancelled faster than that one blind date after you found Valtrex in her medicine cabinet. Hopefully Ben Schwartz – who won an Emmy for writing that pretty funny opening musical number back when Hugh Jackman hosted the Academy Awards – will incorporate the current state of lamented soap opera industry into the remake, while leaving in all the secret babies and sex change operations that made it so entertaining, if forgettably so, in the first place. No cast or directorial talent has been announced yet.
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If the newly formed Netball South - a merger of Netball Otago and Netball Southland - is going to be a success, both regions need to buy into the concept, chairman Paul Buckner says.
The 52-year-old Dunedin lawyer is, in a sense, a sort of Laura Langman figure. But instead of linking the defence with the attack, it is his role to bring Otago and Southland together under one happy banner.
That is a big challenge and he is a realist. The rivalry is firmly entrenched.
"There will always be a rivalry and that is how it should be," Buckner said.
"But people have to accept that Otago and Southland are together now."
Netball New Zealand's decision to move from a regional structure to zone-based model meant Otago and Southland was forced to merge.
There is now just one governance structure rather than the three previous organisations which used to run the Steel, Netball Otago and Netball Southland.
The delivery of netball to the community has been streamlined but Buckner is confident the service will not be compromised and the game's grassroots will continue to be well-served.
Still, he was surprised by Netball New Zealand's decision not to separate the professional and amateur wings of the sport.
Rugby, of course, has gone the other way and Buckner wondered whether netball should follow suit.
"It is interesting. I asked the same question up in Auckland to the New Zealand board. They've done a lot of research and believe they have got it right, which means rugby has got it wrong. We'll have to see where that goes ...but I actually like the idea of the franchise being owned by the two regions.
"We've got the one structure now and we've got the opportunity to promote the Steel and get the buy-in in Otago."
One of the first jobs for the newly formed board will be to appoint a chief executive. That appointment is expected to be announced early next week.
There was a shortlist of three candidates and Buckner was confident the board had found the right person for a key position.
"The CEO will be based in Invercargill but we need to see that person in Otago and to move around the region."
The Steel has been guilty of not doing enough to build its profile in Dunedin and the board of Netball South is determined not to repeat that mistake.
The headquarters has to be based in Invercargill so Netball South can dip into the funds of the Invercargill Licensing Trust.
But, while there is no agenda to shift camp to Dunedin, Buckner did not rule out a move at some time in the future.
"Invercargill is where our funding is but it doesn't mean it is forever.
"It would be a lot easier if that funding could be used throughout the region. But there are other funders out there who we might come across.
"There is absolutely no agenda to move ... but where it is in two or three years' time is not set in stone."
Buckner is married and has three adult children. As well as his work with netball, he is a commissioner for New Zealand Cricket and is a former president of the Otago Rugby Referees Association.


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- Categories: Entertainment, Games, Native, Puzzles, Universal
This colorful puzzle game with 400 puzzles along with 2D gameplay is pure addicting fun for the family. Plus, one thing I like is that when you play on one device, it syncs with iCloud to match your other devices when you set that option. Expect to enjoy great gameplay with colorful puzzle pieces in this universal iPhone puzzle game:
• 400 hand-crafted puzzles, more to come
• Realistic 2D gameplay - move, turn, and bump
• Designed for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
• Play in portrait and landscape views
• Scores: earn stars for each solved puzzle
• Can't solve puzzles? Use hints
• iCloud - automatic sync all your devices
• Guest players: get your friends to play
• Game Center achievements and leaderboards
For the younger ones in the family (or the lazier ones now reading!), take on puzzle fun with only 3 pieces. However, if you want to really turn your brain to mush, you can create puzzles using up to 9 pieces. The game's objective is to fit the pieces within the shape on the board, and you are able to accomplish this by moving, rotating and flipping them. It's simple to rotate pieces as all you have to do is press a corner. If you want to flip a piece, just tap twice. You can rearrange certain movement options in the Settings. To remove ads, you will need to purchase the 99 cent option.
A handy favorite of mine, of course, is the Hints (lightbulb icon) option. Another creative item is the "moving and bumping to get around" feature which makes the game more exciting. Naturally, you'll see the timer counting down as you progress throughout the game though you could turn this option off. So get cracking and move those little bits of fish around while you challenge your brain to unknown heights!
COOL CONCLUSION: Fish Crackers twists your brain around hundreds of colorful puzzles that look deceptively simple, but really require a fair amount of brain power to solve!--Date/Version: Updated 6/24/12 - Version 1.1
--iOS/Age Rating: This app requires iOS 4.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: Universal: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: The Grabarchuck Family
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Hawkeyes are 8-0 at the half
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Here is the company with which Iowa's football team is running: Alabama, Baylor, Florida State, Louisville and Missouri.
In one regard, anyway.
Those are the only six teams that have led at halftime in every game this season.
Nebraska and Oregon fell by the wayside last week. Nebraska really fell. It trailed Minnesota 17-13 at halftime on the way to a 34-23 loss to the Gophers. Oregon was tied at 14 with UCLA at halftime, then remembered it was Oregon. The Ducks won, 42-14.
Alabama, Baylor, FSU, Louisville and Mizzou have a combined record of 36-2. Missouri lost to South Carolina in overtime after leading at halftime, 14-0.
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Last month, Gelen Robinson picked up an offer from Purdue despite having to scuttle plans to attend its junior day.
Robinson, a four-star defensive end from St. John, Ind., decided to take Wednesday night as an opportunity to follow up. Before attending the basketball game to watch his brother, Glenn Robinson III, play for Michigan, the younger Robinson met up with the football coaches.
Their father, former Purdue basketball star Glenn Robinson, also made the trip and spoke with head coach Darrell Hazell.
"It was great," Gelen Robinson said. "He's a great coach. I can tell he's got a great personality. He's just one of those type of guys you like to be around. He was mainly just seeing what I like in a school I would go to. Basically he got a chance to talk to my dad and everybody about what he's trying to bring to the school and what they're building right now."
Along the way Robinson met with linebackers coach Marcus Freeman and took a brief tour of the facilities. Hazell offered the 6-foot-1, 230-pound as a linebacker.
Robinson also linked back up with former teammate David Yancey, a running back who stayed committed to Purdue through the coaching transition then enrolled early. Yancey caught Robinson up on how offseason workouts have been going.
"I was just finding out more about how they do things around there and how the players feel about them," Robinson said. "I got a chance to talk to one of my old players, David Yancey, who went there this year. He was just telling me about how good of a staff they were and how much they've been improving everybody."
Once the recruiting part ended Robinson watched on as Michigan grabbed an 80-75 win on the road. His brother scored six points and grabbed seven rebounds.
But the major takeaway for the younger Robinson was having the family all in one place.
"My whole family came out to see my brother play," he said. "It was real close, obviously, so everybody was nervous. But it was so great having them there. They came out to see my brother and show support but they also came for me on the recruiting visit."
Next up for Robinson is a planned trip to Michigan on Sunday for the regular season basketball finale, although right now there isn't a football component attached to the trip. Right now there are no other spring visits scheduled.
Illinois and Minnesota are other offers on the table. Checking out a possible college destination in Purdue gave Robinson perspective moving forward.
"It was great being up to a school I know I could play at," Robinson said. "They showed me around, they treated me very well. It was a great experience and it gave me a better look at what they're really about. Overall it was just a great day."
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Before hosting the Fourth of July party at Delano Beach Club, U.S. national soccer team players Jozy Altidore, DaMarcus Beasley, and Fabian Johnson—who played in the FIFA 2014 World Cup Brazil—were spotted having dinner Thursday night at Myles Chefetz's Prime 112.
Stand-up comedian and actor Damon Wayans also hit the restaurant for dinner on Sunday.
On June 28, other familiar faces stopped in for dinner, including New York Knicks power forward Amar'e Stoudemire, Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall, University of Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, and rapper Rick Ross.
Jason Momoa, who played Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones, was spotted at Lucky Strike Miami on Saturday evening while in town for Supercon. Momoa drank Sam Adams and watched the UFC 175 fight with a group of guys, posing for photos when fans approached.
Actor Shemar Moore swung by Bâoli Miami last week for the weekly Wednesday-night party. Shemar and his entourage dined on tuna tartar, wagyu carpaccio, lobster, and a godzilla roll. As the evening continued, he took photos with fans and sipped vodka-cranberries and Avión Reserva 44 tequila.
Spartacus star Manu Bennett was also seen at Bâoli having a quick bite, sampling the Bâoli tuna tartar, spicy tuna, and sea bass.
Los Angeles Kings center (and sports reporter Erin Andrews' boyfriend) Jarret Stoll kicked off Fourth of July weekend Friday night at E11even Miami with a group of friends, ordering bottles and shots until 6 a.m.
New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith and a friend were seen at the club on Monday, June 30, going incognito in baseball caps at a VIP table.
Comedian Kevin Hart was also at the club that night and returned again a few nights later, partying into the morning. Hart was seen making jokes with the waitresses in the VIP area.
Chef Masaharu Morimoto, whose restaurant will soon be opening at the Shelborne, was spotted at Zuma on Monday, June 30 sampling the entire menu and snapping photos.
Actor Dan Castellaneta, who is the voice of Homer Simpson, was spotted at Zuma on Saturday, June 28, having a quick meal with his wife.
Over the weekend, New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes spent July 4 with a friend on Zuma's riverfront terrace, sampling the Japanese restaurant's latest dishes and washing them down with the new Green Goblin cocktail of Avión tequila, kiwi, aloe, and absinthe.
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