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Pressure mounts on C.Y. Leung over illegal structures
he Buildings Department on Tuesday asked Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to break open a brick wall at his home on The Peak so its inspectors can look behind it for illegal structures.
Leung had the brick wall built in November last year to seal off a 200-sq-ft extension built by the previous owner.
Last Friday, Leung said in a written statement that this area had been expanded by the previous owner.
In a statement on Tuesday, the department said it had to carry out further inspections and asked Leung "to arrange for the opening up of that wall as soon as possible" to allow officers to examine the space.
Buildings officers had found that the wall's position did not match its location shown on approved building plans during an inspection on June 26.
The department suggested that Leung had repeatedly ignored its requests for information about the wall. It had sent one letter on June 27 and three reminders afterwards, to Leung and his appointed buildings professional, asking for information about the construction and purpose of the wall, it said.
Last Friday, Leung disclosed the existence of several more unauthorised works on top of the six identified by government officials in June.
Leung said he had concealed nothing to do with the illegal structures at his home, which he believes "do not exist any more" after he dealt with the problem. Most of them have been removed, he said.
However, critics – pan-democrats in particular – said Leung's explanation was inadequate.
They questioned whether he had knowingly suppressed information about illegal structures during his campaign for the chief executive election in March, when he strongly criticised rival Henry Tang Ying-yen over a luxurious 2,250 sq ft basement at Tang's Kowloon Tong home.
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Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are moving forward with competing solutions for the guidance section of a future joint air-to-ground missile (JAGM) under a continued technology development (CTD) phase. Restructured in response to reduced funding, the Army-led effort will initially focus on the missile's front-end guidance section, leaving the warhead, motor and control actuation to a later phase.
On August 17, Lockheed Martin said it received a $64 million contract from the U.S. Army for a 27-month CTD program to design and demonstrate a JAGM guidance section, including seeker, dome and housing. The contract was initiated as an "undefinitized" contract action with a not-to-exceed value, which allows the contractor to begin work before contract terms are finalized. At the same time, Raytheon was negotiating a similar agreement with the Army's Aviation and Missile Lifecycle Management Command (Amcom) at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.
The award of CTD funding extends the now five-year-old JAGM program to develop a single missile to replace the AGM-114 Hellfire, AGM-65 Maverick and BGM-71 TOW missiles used by the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The CTD phase is using Army research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) funding for 2011 and 2012. Lockheed Martin will continue development of a guidance section with a dual-mode seeker, incorporating a semi-active laser (SAL) and millimeter-wave radar (MMR) to guide the missile to its target. The company has fielded missiles with both JAGM seeker modes: SAL on the Hellfire and MMR on the AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire.
Raytheon will develop a tri-mode seeker with SAL, MMR and uncooled infrared imaging sensor based on the system used in the GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) under development for the U.S. Air Force. The Army has expressed ideas about "what a unit cost ought to be" for the missile under the restructured JAGM program, said J.R. Smith, Raytheon JAGM business development manager. "Our objective is to get to those unit costs by offering the same tri-mode seeker that we use with the small-diameter bomb."
On July 17, the SDB II scored a direct hit of a moving target after being released from an Air Force F-15E during testing at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The SDB II engineering and manufacturing development phase "will be 75 percent complete by the time JAGM CTD is complete, and we'll be in our second year of production for SDB II seekers," Smith told AIN. "That leverages a lot of things, not only the unit cost but reliability and confidence in your solution."

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ELYRIA — A Lorain man who tried to pay a Lorain County Jail guard $250 to smuggle marijuana into the jail for an inmate who was in the midst of a murder trial has pleaded guilty.
Maurice Palmer, 24, entered guilty pleas Monday to charges of bribery, attempted illegal conveyance of drugs onto the grounds of a government facility, conspiracy to traffic in drugs and trafficking in marijuana.
Lorain County sheriff's Chief Deputy Dennis Cavanaugh and Palmer's defense attorney, Brian Darling, said the person who Palmer was trying to get the drugs to was Bohannon Miller, who at the time was on trial for aggravated murder and other charges for killing Marquis McCall during a June 2009 drive-by shooting in Lorain.
"Bohannon Miller was the inmate who first approached the guard to see if he might be interested, so it started from the inside," Darling said.
Miller, who is now serving a prison term of 40 years to life, gave the guard a phone number to call, Darling said. The guard then went to law enforcement and cooperated in a sting operation that led to the arrest of Palmer and three other people during a Feb. 10 meeting.
It was the same day that Miller's defense attorney rested her case after calling a single witness in a trial that had been marred by allegations of witness intimidation. The jury heard closing arguments and began deliberating the next day. Miller was found guilty Feb. 12.
County Prosecutor Dennis Will said the investigation had to be timed properly so that Palmer's arrest wouldn't interfere with Miller's trial.
Miller has denied killing McCall and is appealing his conviction.
Cavanaugh said Miller had been a disruptive presence at the county jail and that after he was sentenced he was moved to a state prison the next day.
Will said it's possible that Miller will still face charges for allegedly trying to have drugs smuggled into the jail, but he has not made a final decision.
County Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski indicated he plans to sentence Palmer, who was set to be released from jail on bond Monday, to two years in prison during a sentencing hearing scheduled for Monday. Will said his office will push for additional prison time.
That sentence will include two unrelated drug possession cases from 2013 that Palmer also pleaded guilty to during Monday's court appearance, Darling said.
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849 F.2d 610
William R. VIRGIL, Petitioner-Appellant,
SUPERINTENDENT, CAMPBELL COUNTY JAIL, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 88-5172.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
June 16, 1988.
Unpublished Disposition
NOTICE: Sixth Circuit Rule 24(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Sixth Circuit.
Before BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., MILBURN and RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judges.
Petitioner appeals the district court's judgment dismissing his petition seeking habeas relief filed under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254. This appeal was referred to a panel pursuant to Rule 9(a), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. Upon examination of the certified record and the parties' briefs, the panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed. Fed.R.App.P. 34(a).
Petitioner claimed that he was illegally extradited from Ohio to Kentucky to stand trial for murder. After properly construing the petition as one filed under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2241, the district court dismissed the petition for failure to state a cognizable claim for relief.
Upon consideration, we deny the petitioner's motion for counsel and for the reasons stated by the magistrate, and as adopted by the district court, we hereby affirm the judgment of dismissal. Rule 9(b)(5), Rules of the Sixth Circuit.


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Danica Patrick writes about relationship with Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Danica Patrick became the second athlete to write for Derek Jeter's new website, The Players' Tribune, with a first-person account about her relationship with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and being a woman in racing.
Patrick said she and Stenhouse are "the opposite in almost every way," and a lot of people ask her why she would date another driver or take on that extra scrutiny.
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"I race better when I'm happy. And Ricky makes me happy, even if he pisses me off on the track every now and then," she said.
From Patrick's account:
The sports media prefers simple narratives: Good vs. Evil. Teammates vs. Enemies. NASCAR can be a lot more complicated. The truth is that there are more misunderstandings than understandings between Ricky and I, because our only mentality is to go flat-out. Hard, hard, hard. I want to take care of him out there just like I would a teammate, but at the same time, I want to beat him because I respect him so damn much as a driver. Right now, only 13 points separate us in the standings, so beating him means beating someone who is really good, which is my job.
Patrick also talked about being a woman in racing. She said she knows she gets extra positive attention because of her gender, such as getting more praise than her male counterparts for a similar finish, but she gets detractors because of it as well.
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"My position as a woman in racing has always been anything but normal," said Patrick.
Last week, Russell Wilson became the first athlete to write a piece for the Tribune. Wilson wrote about domestic violence in the NFL and his own bullying past.
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The 7500 ton West German freighter Hamburger Vliet had to steam 220 miles last night to get from the Jordanian port of Aqaba to the Israeli port of Eilat which are only four miles apart. The vessel, which discharged cargo at Aqaba, was scheduled to load 7000 tons of phosphates for Singapore at Eilat. Both ports are at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and within sight of each other. But Jordanian authorities will not clear a vessel bound directly for an Israeli port. The Hamburger Vliet obliged them by steaming 210 miles down the Gulf to the mouth of the Straits of Tiran and then turning around and steaming back the same distance to Eilat.


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NEWPORT BEACH – The warm glow of fire pits and aroma of toasted marshmallows on Orange County's beaches may not become a distant memory after all.
After widespread opposition to a proposed ban on wood-burning beach fire rings, officials with the South Coast Air Quality Management District are getting ready to present several options to their board members this week that may help preserve fire rings along the coast in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
AQMD spokesman Sam Atwood said Wednesday that staff members will present three options to board members – maintaining a minimum distance or buffer zone between the fire rings and homes, requiring that the fires be fueled by propane instead of wood, or implementing an enhanced enforcement and education program to ensure that only untreated wood is burned instead of warehouse pallets, construction debris, plastics and other materials that contain toxic chemicals.
"These options will be considered in lieu of a complete and total ban," Atwood said.
The issue of whether to ban beach burning altogether or implement one or more of these options will most likely be considered during a July 12 special meeting, Atwood said. Board members are expected to vote on finalizing that hearing date during their regularly scheduled meeting Friday.
The air-quality district is also planning two more community meetings, one at the Hyatt Regency in Newport Beach on June 13 and the other at the Embassy Suites in El Segundo on June 14.
Atwood would not say how big the buffer zone may be. But he said that ongoing studies by the AQMD in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach are showing that the concentration of pollutants from the fire pits decreases with distance from the source, which is what led staff members to come up with the buffer zone option.
Last month, the AQMD released the results of its air-quality studies in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach stating that wood-burning smoke from beach fire pits is increasing levels of particulate matter, which could have adverse health impacts for beachside residents.
The proposed fire-ring ban was triggered by Newport Beach's application to the California Coastal Commission asking to remove its 60 fire rings after beachside residents complained about smoke from the fire pits. Huntington Beach officials expressed an opposing view, stating that their 200-plus fire rings are a source of revenue for Surf City.
Newport Beach officials have said that their only intention was and has always been to remove the fire rings within their city limits, not to spoil the party for others.
AQMD's proposal for a total beach burning ban has been met with public outcry not only in Huntington Beach, but in other Orange County cities such as San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and Costa Mesa. The Orange County Board of Supervisors and the state Assembly have also taken the side of the fire pits.
On Tuesday, the city councils in Costa Mesa and San Juan Capistrano voted to oppose the removal of beach fire rings.
Costa Mesa Mayor Jim Righeimer, who asked that the resolution come before the council, said he's trying to build regional support for keeping the fire pits.
"We get along very well with our neighbors in Newport Beach, but sometimes they're just wrong," he said.
Also on Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors cast a vote to send a letter of protest to the air-quality board opposing the proposed ban.
According to a CBS Los Angeles report, board members want the issue to be left to the discretion of local officials.
"From the time of the beach parties of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, beach campfires are a low-cost, time-honored tradition and recreational pastime in the Los Angeles County area," Supervisor Don Knabe said.
He said fire pits are the least of Los Angeles County's environmental headaches, citing other polluters such as airplanes taking off from LAX, cars driving on Vista del Mar atop the Dockweiler State Beach slopes, the Hyperion sewage treatment plant and the Chevron oil refinery.
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A rickety wooden catwalk suspended a mere 10 feet above a rocky beach is one of the prime locations on Alaska´s St. Paul Island for scientists to study northern fur seals. So that´s where some field biologists go in summer to observe a breeding colony of the marine mammals, often evading territorial bulls with sharp teeth on the way to the ladder. Once on the catwalk, researchers are surrounded by the fur seals jam-packed around the structure. "If you fall, no one can help you," Colorado State University pathologist Terry Spraker warns newcomers to the site, which is strictly off-limits to the public. "The bulls will tear you apart."
It is mid-July, the peak of the breeding season in the Pribilof Islands, 500 miles west of the Alaska mainland. Cold, dusky fog rolls in from the Bering Sea and shrouds the rookery. Barnyard noises emanate from thousands of dark, wet humps. Occasionally the chorus of bleats, barks and roars suddenly swells, whirlpools of movement spread with explosive energy and the rookery goes on full alert.
A sleek female emerges from the sea and runs a gauntlet of menacing jaws to reunite with her bleating pup. Other pups engage in free-for-all combat, lunging to nip folds of skin or flippers. A large bull rushes into the thicket of bodies, invading the established territories of breeding males. Enraged, several of them blast through masses of cowering females, trampling inattentive pups under their giant foreflippers, to sink their canines into the interloper´s 500-pound bulk. His eyes wild, he endures punitive bites until he can scoot away, blood oozing from the lacerations. A bull grabs an escaping female one-fifth his size and throws her back into his territory: Stay put! Her torn skin exposes shredded muscle.
As all of this activity indicates, nearly all relationships among northern fur seals include aggression, fueled by the surging hormones of breeding season and made all the more potent by the size and athletic abilities of the combatants. Yet biologists studying the boistrous life of fur seal colonies have been discovering order rather than chaos, and economy of aggression rather than senseless bloodletting.
Callorhinus ursinus--which roughly means "bear with a beautiful nose"--has been studied for more than a century, by scores of researchers. German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller first described the seals as "sea apes" when he observed them in 1741 off the coast of what would become Alaska. Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus praised their "flesh succulent and tender; fat and skin useful."
The animals´ long-sought breeding grounds in the Bering Sea were found by Russian navigator Gerasim Pribilof in 1786. The Russians soon relocated enslaved Native hunters from their homes on the Aleutian Islands chain well south of the Pribilofs to St. Paul and St. George Islands and put them to work killing the animals for their exquisite fur. After Russia sold Alaska, Pribilof residents continued the work as wards of the U.S. government.
Millions of harvested pelts, with 300,000 soft hairs per square inch, filled first Russian and then American coffers with enormous profits. Russian and U.S. government scientists who spent summer months on the Pribilofs focused on the seals´ population dynamics and life cycle to make sure the herds thrived. When the United States called a halt to its commercial seal harvest in the early 1980s, scientists were already studying many aspects of the animals´ biology, including seal-on-seal violence.
Northern fur seals spend most of the year at sea, distributed sparsely over a vast area of the Pacific Ocean. Their range includes the Bering Sea in the north, offshore waters south to California and Japan and all points between. In winter and spring, the seals have been seen traveling singly or, more rarely, in pairs. This solitary life-style changes dramatically in summer and autumn, when the animals crowd onto a few oceanic islands. Approximately 70 percent of all northern fur seals migrate to the Pribilofs, located within one of the world´s most productive marine ecosystems.
St. Paul Island, the largest in the archipelago, is home to nearly one million of the animals. The Bering Sea provides vast quantities of small schooling fishes and squid eaten by the seals. Fur seals of all ages use the island´s shoreline for everything from mating, to rearing young, to simply surviving unscathed. All of that means aggressive interactions among seals with competing interests. Yet more violence does not beget greater success. Bluffs, threats, ritualized displays and mock duels turn out to be the rule; outbursts of grievous violence are the exception.
Adult males arrive on the rookeries in late spring to establish territories before the females appear. Powerful and robust, they are clad in a thick layer of blubber that nourishes them while they protect their domain and fast during the next two months. The breeding bulls defend resources critical to the females: birth sites on prime real estate.
Breeding occurs on crowded beaches, mainly during a few weeks in July, and the success of a male fur seal is largely related to the number of times he mates. Since the opportunities are so condensed in space and time, the disparity between the "haves" and "have nots" is immense. A male that can defend several square yards of boulder-strewn beachfront at the right time of year might couple with as many as 50 females. A hundred yards away, on the periphery of the rookery, the same male could fail entirely, spurned by females that don´t like the location.
This disparity leads to intense competition. Most males fight to obtain their territories and then remain vigilant to the machinations of their neighbors and intruders. Any photographer who tries to capture the head movement of fighting seals on film finds that a shutter speed of a five-hundredth of a second is too slow: The twitch muscles of the neck make an attack seem as fast as that of a striking snake. Typically the largest and most experienced males prevail, and since larger bodies are metabolically more efficient, bigger bulls can fast longer before exhausting their fat reserves.
For the past six years, biologist Masashi Kiyota of the National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries in Shimizu, Japan, has studied the social structure of a small colony of northern fur seals on St. Paul. The seals occupy a rocky cove where roughly 100 pups are born each year on perhaps 10 male territories, and Kiyota has focused on how males achieve territorial status and what behavior patterns make them successful.
According to Kiyota, juvenile male seals are simply curious, trying to make contact with females and pups. Excluded from the rookeries by territorial bulls guarding their turf, these nonbreeding males congregate by the thousands in adjacent haul outs, dividing their time between sleep and play, and developing their social skills. As they mature, the young adults become more ambitious and attempt to take over territories, but in a cautious manner. Loitering on the periphery of the breeding area, they pace, snooze and watch senior males for weeks, often during several seasons, and wait for a chance to jump into the breeding arena.
And mature bulls? They seem to know that fights may cause serious, even fatal wounds, while an indignant sideways glance or threatening bellow usually stifles impudent activities at the frontier. Each male regularly performs ritualized boundary displays that entail lumbering up to the invisible edge of a property, dropping to his chest and directing a series of coughlike warnings, called chest puffs, toward the adjacent sovereign. The behemoth recipient of this blast reciprocates with an identical display. Both males may end up with their heads inches apart, but usually no contact is made.
In July, after male territories are well established, most of the females arrive. They tend to choose pupping sites located near where they were born, while the reigning males on those sites often vary from year to year. Still, even on a good site a bull can lose females, and being the meanest bull around is not necessarily the key to success. Maintaining stability is more important. "A newly established bull spends too much time and energy responding to every intruding male and every movement of his females," says Kiyota. As a result, the animal´s territory is always in an uproar, and females tend to move away. Adds Kiyota, "Many females prefer to stay in less stressful territories held by old boys."
Having secured their territories, males regularly inspect the females therein, eagerly checking wheth-er each is in estrus and therefore receptive to sexual advances. Keeping unmated females within their domain is almost as important to them as retaining a territory itself. Any movement by a female suggesting that she is trying to leave his territory provokes an immediate response from the male, which threatens, bites and shoves her back into the fold.
Mature bulls seldom manage to hold territories for more than a year or two, but territorial acquisition and maintenance is a lifelong pursuit. And it is never too early for a young fur seal to begin practicing and honing the necessary skills. Tiny black pups strike comical poses and awkwardly skirmish with one another, playing endless rounds of "king of the mountain" over a 10-inch-high cobblestone. Rarely is an animal seriously hurt in this baby play, yet the pups display the characteristic body language and fighting techniques applied with serious consequences by adults.
A mother and her single newborn pup rapidly imprint upon each other´s calls and scents. Approximately a week after the birth, the female begins a series of several-day-long foraging trips far out to sea, interspersed with brief visits to shore to deliver several quarts of rich, warm milk to her hungry pup.
Adult female fur seals, though 4 to 10 times smaller than mature males, are every bit as scrappy and can be extremely aggressive as they guard their offspring. All mothers are stingy with milk, the costliest component of producing viable youngsters. Newborns that stray too close to a strange female often find themselves bitten and flung several yards through the air. That can prove fatal if thin skulls crack against stone or tooth punctures become infected, and pups soon learn that their mother´s breast is the only safe haven in a perilous world.
How perilous can it be? One misty morning, University of California researcher Mary Donohue noticed that a lone male on the rookery´s periphery had acquired a female, obviously by stealing her. Employed mainly during the peak of breeding season, the strategy of abduction involves the kidnapper dashing into the territory of another male, seizing a female in his jaws and carrying her back to his dominion. The female is often injured but not fatally, and if the abductor is fast enough the other bull cannot retaliate without risking a chaotic fracas and losing even more females.
Yet this time, something had gone terribly wrong, and the injured female lay scarcely moving. "It was remarkable she could move at all, with the gaping breach of skin and muscle on her back," recalls Donohue. "She was split deeply from shoulder to shoulder and could barely respond to her pup."
Donohue thinks that during the assault both bulls grabbed the female, and the ensuing tug-of-war nearly tore her in two. Even after she died, her abductor continued to threaten and prod her putrefying corpse. Donohue helplessly watched the starving pup for more than a week until he finally died too, by his mother´s side. All around them, the rookery resounded with a chorus of threatening roars, rhythmic warbles and raucous bellows.
Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott spent three summers on St. Paul Island. Their most recent book is Mustang (Rufus Publications, 1996). National Marine Fisheries Service zoologist Jason Baker studied marine mammals in Alaska and the Russian Far East for more than a decade. He now works for the conservation of endangered Hawaiian monk seals.


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The Wander's Illusion - Poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
When I came from my land
if I really came from my land
(am I not dead there?),
the rippling of the river
murmured faintly to me
that I sould remain
there where she parted from me.
The pale dead
not vanishing in the afternoon
they seemed to tell me
that it was impossible to return
because everything is the result
of already having been born there.
When I came, if I really came
from somewhere going to somewhere else
the world turned, alien
to my small self
and in its turning I realized
that no one ever goes away
or comes back from anywhere.
That we carry things along with us
the treasure box of our life
a rigid frame of bronze
around our most anonymous cell
and a call, a laugh, a voice
resounds incessantly
inside our depeest walls.
New things which happen,
whet our hunger for basic food.
Our discoveries are masks
over an even darker reality,
that wound we bear
on the skin of our souls.
When I came from my land,
I didn't come - I got lost in space
in the illusion of having left.
Poor me, I never left
I'm still there, buried
beneath the gentle words
beneath the black shadows
beneath the golden ornaments
beneath the generations
beneath my own self. I know,
this living being, deceived
and deceitful.
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How are you? 1/8/2013
How are you doing today? Is there anything you need to talk about?
doing good! the puppy is at work today, so I've gotten to play with her some, I just ate a delicious salad for lunch, and I'm doing good focusing on drinking more water and less sodas.
this morning my day started off pretty rough. i didnt feel good. i layed down and took another nap and when i woke up i felt better. i have been talking to my dil today and we have had a good time. no crying episodes so far today.
Im doing ok today! I was a bit on the lazy side this morning but was able to kick into high gear before the kids got out of school....
Feeling depressed, anxiety, anger and mad. My sister was going to take me to U.C. Davis tomorrow to see a neurosurgeon for my leg and knee. Last Thursday she calls and says can't do it. Other things she had to do. One going to the mustang club. Then I find out she is coming on Thursday for things on the house. They are buying dad's house. She said they didn't have the money to travel uphere(northern California). They live in Bay Area. They have money for that. It is two hours from my place to Sacramento. She knew of this appoinment for three months. She promised she would take me. How can I ever trust her again? I can see if she had an emergency, but it wasn't. Thank God, my pastor will take me. There is a chance I could loose my leg..I lost my other one due to the same disease.38 1/2 years ago.Other sister could not doit she has taken a lot of time off on her job for dad(who is in nursing home)No other family here. I an hurt and angry. This is not the first time my family wasn't there for me. My therapist says not to have anything to do with them. I always end up getting hurt. My friends are my family. Anxious about appointment. I may be facing a great challenge. I know God is with me and whatever the out come, he will never leave my side, my family has, but I know he is there.
There is always something to talk about. I had a good day and decided to put all of the issues on the back burner today.


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NPAECT would like to recognize past and present recipients of the Extra Mile Award.
Once a year we take time to recognize teachers, administrators, community members and others in the region who have gone the "Extra Mile" with educational technology.
Nominations for the EMAs can be made at any time throughout the year. We welcome nominations from Technology Directors, District Administrators, community members and peers. Names should be submitted using the online submission form. More than one nomination from a district is acceptable. Please include all requested information.
2015-2016 Award Recipients
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Can Toast 9 convert AVCHD .MTV files to .MOV or any other file type Final Cut Pro will accept? If so, how quickly will it do it? I have a non-intel Mac.
.mts To .mov Conversion
Started by Dynamite , Sep 08 2008 09:08 AM
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Posted 08 September 2008 - 09:08 AM
Posted 08 September 2008 - 09:22 AM
Someone else will have to answer your question about Toast although it will convert to a wide variety of QuickTime playable formats. I just want to suggest your asking about this (or searching for an existing thread) in the Final Cut Pro forum at discussions.apple.com. You'll learn what is working best for others.
I'm just a fellow Toast-user so please don't blame Roxio for any misguidance I may provide. And do let me know if your issue gets solved. Cheers from Eugene, Oregon!
Posted 09 September 2008 - 09:03 AM
QUOTE (Dynamite @ Sep 8 2008, 01:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Can Toast 9 convert AVCHD .MTV files to .MOV or any other file type Final Cut Pro will accept? If so, how quickly will it do it? I have a non-intel Mac.
Yes - but it is fraught with difficulty.
The ideal way to do this is to take the .mts files from your AVCHD camera, add them to the Convert section of Toast and select Video Files. Then select QuickTime movie and under video settings and select Settings. Choose Apple Intermediate Codec. Under size select the size of your file (most likely 1920*1080 HD). Then under Sound settings select Linear PCM.
Why is this a bad idea? Well, for some reason QuickTime conversion limits converting into AIC at any quality higher than "Medium" and I have not found a way to change that. The better option is to use Voltaic. Google it, it produces much better looking (aka higher bitrate) files that are Final Cut ready.
Posted 21 February 2011 - 12:36 AM
In Final Cut you would open your log and transfer window and import the footage as Pro Res 422 which, while it creates larger files, is a great codec to edit with and I do so with most everything.
Article about mts to Prores422:http://camcordervideoshare.com/convert-mts-apple-prores-codec-final-cut-studiopro/
Article about mts to Prores422:http://camcordervideoshare.com/convert-mts-apple-prores-codec-final-cut-studiopro/
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We demonstrate a high-power cladding-pumped Er–Yb codoped fiber laser with 74% efficiency. A pump-limited output power of 264 W is obtained using in-band pumping at 1535 nm. We compare the efficiency of 1480 and 1535 nm pumping through numerical simulations and experimental measurements.
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Printed letters, January 28, 2014
Grand Junction should be applauded for finally pursuing the collection of methane gas from the Persigo plant to be used as a motor fuel for the transit and service fleet.
While this technology has been around for years, the abundance of cheap liquid gasoline and diesel has kept it on the back burner (pun intended).
My critique of the current plan is the proposed pipeline from Persigo to the compressed natural gas fuel island by the city shops. My thinking is that the popularity of this energy source is bound to escalate and eventually become commonplace on the public market.
I would seriously explore the option of placing the fueling station, as well as processing and cleaning mechanism, on site at Persigo. There is an abundance of room on site, and vehicles could refuel there and avoid congestion at the existing station. This would also save an estimated $1.5 million and traffic problems associated with building the four miles of pipeline along River Road and Riverside Parkway.
I applaud any attempt to create the infrastructure and use of such an abundant fuel as methane and compressed natural gas. This clean-burning fuel trumps any liquid fuel on the market, besides reducing the raw methane released into the atmosphere.
U.S. must change laws, policies that favor wealthiest 5 percent
I am a fan of David Brooks, but I take exception with his column, "Inequality argument attacks the effect, not the causes of income differences," published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Daily Sentinel.
Brooks distorts the focus of the majority of Americans who are concerned about the small percentage of wealthy Americans growing disproportionately richer at the expense of the middle class and poor Americans whose income shrinks or remains static.
Brooks makes his case based on the assumption that the battle of fighting income inequality is being waged over raising the minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage is just a secondary battle to help the working poor who presently, with full-time jobs, qualify for government welfare.
The primary fight, which Brooks never addresses, is how do we change institutions, laws and policies that favor the very wealthy over the 95 percent of the rest of the American public? Examples include tax policies that favor the rich with obscene tax breaks that allow billionaires to pay lower taxes than their secretaries and the organized effort to destroy the union movement, historically a strong American institution that helped create a reasonable distribution of wealth through the 1970s.
And, I'm sorry, there is growing economic class conflict in America. It will only change with substantial legislation through assertive government that ends corporate welfare and attacks economic distortions like the growing power of bankers that are too "big to fail."
And, for those conservatives who love to talk about the intent of the founders of the Constitution: "The rich will always strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did … they will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not by (the power of) government keep them in their proper spheres." — Gouverneur Morris, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Long-time energy worker attests to fracking safety
As a follow-up to the Jan. 1 letter from Floyd Diemoz, I, too, am a child of Wilson Creek and many other oilfields as I grew up. I was born and raised in the "Patch."
I began working in the Patch when I was 14, and, as a 30-year employee of Halliburton Colorado, I was directly involved in the drilling, production and stimulus of oil and gas wells throughout Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Texas and Alaska until 1992. That gives me more than 40 years of direct involvement.
I have been covered with those nasty frack fluids and breathed all of the fumes that could be found in and around the well sites and frack jobs. We fracked a well in 1963 in the Silt area. I have been involved in fracking from shallow wells, 5,000 feet to 20,000 feet deep. We used crude oil, diesel, water and numerous combinations of all of the above, along with liquid CO2.
Wells in the Pavillion, Wyo., area that the EPA found were not damaged by fracking actually are contaminated from existing natural gas from shallow coal zones that the water wells are exposed to and not cemented off to prevent this problem.
As for the dangerous chemicals used in fracking, most can be found under the sink of your residence. Some of the proprietary formulations are patented and therefore protected.
I am a healthy, living example that fracking is not the boogieman that the anti-energy greenies make it out to be. Some of them actually believe that the propane that is used for heat and cooking comes from the tanks at the storage facility and have no clue as to the actual source. If these individuals would actually figure out how important the nasty oil industry is to their way of life, they would be astounded. No cell phones, no computers, no batteries, etc.
There have been no confirmed and documented cases of surface water contamination ever, as per the EPA. Many lies by Hollywood, but no facts.
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I'll be honest, I didn't think he would add much to the team this year but I didn't outright denounce him as having no value. He has been pretty damn great lately though. He's not as quick/athletic as he once was but damn is he a smart player. I'm amazed that his body has allowed him to play as much as he has recently. He logged 30 minutes last night against a really fast paced offensive team, and has been over 25 minutes in our last 3 games.
Last 3:
@Golden State - 3 points, 15 rebounds, 1 steal (30 minutes)
@Los Angeles (C) - 4 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal, 1 block (29 minutes)
vs. Chicago - 6 points, 15 rebounds, 2 steals (26 minutes)
I never would have thought before the season started that Jeff Foster would not only play significant minutes this season, but also increase his trade value in the process.


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Dotted with ancient Mayan caves and cities, azure waters, exotic wildlife, largest barrier reef, lush rainforests, melting pot of cultures, as well as palm-fringed, white-sand coastlines – Belize in a nutshell.
Adventurers, beach and history lovers – they all head to Belize, a small yet diverse Central American country sandwiched between captivating jungles and the Caribbean Sea. Listed as one of the top ten hottest destinations in the world by Travel & Leisure Magazine, its attractions lure tourists year after year to discover and experience this truly spectacular destination!


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The Libra cat is born between September 23 and October 23 and they are the charmers of the zodiac. All cats are beautiful but Libra cats are ruled by Venus the planet of love and beauty, giving them an extra sparkle. They know they're beautiful and carry themselves with a diva grace. Vanity is their middle name. They won't turn up their pretty noses at monogrammed cat collars and purrsonalized cat food bowls or beds like this one from catsplay.com
These charming and elegant felines can be manipulative, batting their paw at your sleeve and giving you the look no one can resist. A little more fishy flakes? Oh alright, just a little more. They'll reward you with a melodious purr, meow and head bonk. Don't forget to say how beautiful they are while you stroke their fur. Not just beautiful, but that they are the most beautiful cat in the world. They get a bad rap for being lazy. They aren't. They just prefer lounging about looking divine.
These cats like attention and enjoy both human and feline companions. If you're having a party, don't be surprised if your Libra cat saunters into the room looking to be the center of attention and lap hops from guest to guest. They are fastidious about grooming which you can help with regular brushing and claw trimming.
Libra is all about balance but can be indecisive. They can be fussy about their food. The worst thing you can do is try one variety of food after another trying to please them. This is the classic cat who can't decide between going out or staying in and when they go out, will want to come back inside. They're sensitive souls who like order and routine with no extremes. Please don't blast heavy metal or stay out too late. If you're feeling under the weather, these sweet kitties will purr and coo until you feel better.


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If i had more than 3 days, the weapon could've been made thicker (like it's supposed to be) and painted. The donuts(?) that are supposed to be hanging on my sides were left in the hotel room.. so were my leg gear. Go me..... orz||| Also, next time i'll make sure to secure the arrows inside the holder, so people walking behind me don't have to constantly pick them up.....
If i had random purple fabric, i'd have done the default version, which could've been much easier. Eventually i'll start doing default versions..... eventually.
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Conolog Corp. (CNLG) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2012-07-31.
Conolog Corporation has a market cap of $0.6 million; its shares were traded at around $0.03 with and P/S ratio of 6.6.
Highlight of Business Operations:The majority of the Companys sales revenue has been generated from sales of the PDR-2000 Teleprotection products. Our total sales revenue decreased $860,134 or 50.8% for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2012 to $831,718 compared to total revenues of $1,691,852 for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2011. Our PDR-2000 sales decreased approximately $858,324 or 58.2% over the prior year due to a decrease in demand. The decrease is thought to be a reduction in projects by our customers for the 2012 fiscal year. PTR-1500 sales increased $9,741 or 27.8%. Telemetry sales decreased $13,164 or 15% due to the natural rhythm of our markets. We expect this category to further decline in the coming years. Military sales decreased $10,163 or 13% due to cut backs in the governments military spending for 2012. Repairs and sales of spare parts increased as a result of the life cycle of some of our products.
Total product cost of goods sold for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2012 amounted to $429,427 compared to $1,175,038 for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2011, a decrease of $745,611 or 63.5%. The decrease in cost of goods sold is primarily a result of the sales volume of the PDR-2000 decreasing 58.2% versus the prior year.
The Company recorded a net loss of $1,802,235 for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2012, as compared to a net loss of $4,322,733 for fiscal year ended July 31, 2011. For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2012 gross profit decreased $114,523 and general and administrative decreased $667,537 compared to the prior fiscal year. Research and development was up versus the prior period by $12,411, as was selling expense by $50,174. As a result of the
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Mom Struggles to Love Twin Born with Half a Face
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(LONDON) — The Machin boys are identical twins, but Harry was born with a rare disfigurement: his left eye, ear and nostril never fully developed.
Now that they are 7, Harry's face makes no difference to his twin Oliver, but their mother struggled for two years to love them equally.
"When I cuddled him for the first time, waves of terror swept over me," said Charlene Machin, 33, of Staffordshire in Britain. "How could I possibly love this little boy when he looked like this?"
"People assume that maternal instinct kicks in as soon as you hold your child for the first time — but mine didn't," she told the Daily Mail newspaper. "I just couldn't love my son when he looked like this. Instead I just felt grief — grief for a life that I felt had been taken from me, a normal life that should have been Harry's."
ABC News talked to Charlene's husband, Mark Machin, who did not want to participate in an interview. He said his wife was out of the country.
Today, her bond with Harry is loving and strong. But Charlene's initial response, then her adjustment, illustrate the ways in which parents deal with the surprise of having a child who is disfigured. Advocates say that honest stories like theirs help others to accept the disabled.
"Being surrounded or having contact with people with disabilities could have made the transition easier for her," said Lawrence Carter-Long, a spokesman for the National Council on Disability. "Part of the problem is [the disabled] are segregated, if not by institutions, then by attitudes. We don't see them in the work place or in school, so the fears and the worries are more pronounced. It's not an issue of malice, but of proximity."
In the first stroller rides around town, Harry faced unwelcome points and stares. Some even screamed after seeing the child, Charlene said. She blamed herself.
But things changed when the twins were about 18 months old. Charlene was in a mother's store when children surrounded her to look at the twins.
"I felt like the Pied Piper as I walked through the store with them behind me, staring and pointing," she said. "I'd had enough. It was time to help Harry face the world. I swung the buggy round and said, 'This is Harry'. The children asked what was wrong with him, so I told them. And afterwards I felt stronger. Instead of trying to hide my son away, I'd faced it head-on, and I felt better."
Harry has now had three successful surgeries to reposition his eye socket. Next year, doctors will stretch his eyelid and fit it with a prosthetic eye.
His mother said she recently overheard Oliver say to one of Harry's tormenters, "He's my brother. It doesn't matter what he looks like."
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If you're spending St. Patrick's Day in Hawaii, it appears the luck of the Irish has already been bestowed upon you! And you're about to get even luckier because if there's one thing that Hawaiians do best, it's show visitors a good time—especially when a holiday rolls around. The Irish down in Hawaii love St. Patrick's Day, and there's no better place to celebrate than among the breathtaking Hawaiian scenery and world-class Oahu attractions, complete with a tropical vibe and the friendly people of the island known as "The Gathering Place."
The Parade
The most popular St. Patrick's Day even for visitors and locals of all ages is the Honolulu St. Patrick's Day Parade. The Friends of St. Patrick Society of Hawaii host this jovial parade which is in it's 4th year, making it a true Hawaiian tradition. The 2014 parade starts at 12:00 noon on Monday, March 17th and will run for about two hours. Nearly 800 participants will march down Kalakaua Ave from Ala Moana Blvd to Kapiolani Park. The procession will include marching bands, community organizations, decorated floats, military groups, dance troops, and more.
Post-Parade Fun
Murphy's St. Patrick's Day Block Party, sponsored by Murphy's Bar & Grill, is the most popular post-parade celebration. It's billed as "the last place on the planet (this side of the dateline) to celebrate St. Patrick's Day," and we can't imagine they'd let the occasion pass without the party to end all parties. This will be Murphy's 27th year sponsoring the St. Patrick's Day Block Party, which the brewers of Guinness labeled "the single biggest St. Patrick's Day party any one bar throws in the United States." That's quite an accomplishment!
The open-air festival kicks off at noon, featuring a variety of Irish food and booze, but the real party starts at 6 PM when Merchant and Nuuanu Streets close down and the live music commences. This year's acts will be Doolin' Rakes, a Celtic rock band, and Elephant, a local hard rock group. As always, crowds of people decked out in green will flood the streets, which, by the way, are lined with kegs and spirits.
If Murphy's sounds like too much of a party for you, plenty of other local pubs offer special St. Patrick's Day programming of a tamer variety. Kelly O'Neils, the Irish Rose, and Anna's have all promised live Irish music.
Other Oahu Attractions
With St. Patrick's Day falling on a Monday, you have the whole weekend before the big day to explore other Oahu attractions and experience the traditions that make Hawaii such a culturally and historically rich place. You can save money on admission with an Oahu attractions pass, and check out cool offerings like hula dancing and spear throwing at the Polynesian Cultural Center, feasting at Germaine's Luau, or experiencing the great outdoors with the Diamond Head Hike—a trek up the world's biggest volcanic crater. Just imagine the views!


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A decision on whether to draw up residents-only parking permits will be made in a meeting on Monday.
Berkhamsted Town Council has proposed that they be drawn up around the town's train station and Charles Street to stop commuters' cars clogging up residential streets.
But the plan has been criticised by businesses, who fear their staff will be left with nowhere to park, and householders, who fear they too will have fewer parking spaces.
A public consultation on the plan was held last month, and the for and against responses have been counted by the council's clerk.
Councillors decided not to shell out cash to have the responses analysed externally.
Instead, straight after an emergency meeting of its transport and environment committee at 7pm on Monday, the full council will vote on whether the permits should go ahead.
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Petter, Rodolphe Charles (1865-1947)
Petter was one of the most outstanding missionaries and linguists working among American Indians. He created a dictionary of the Cheyenne Indian language (see bibliography), reduced the Cheyenne language to writing, produced a grammar, and translated Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, portions of the Old Testament, and the entire New Testament. He became a nationally known ethnologist, and his numerous works are found in all leading libraries in this field. His reports about his mission work were published primarily in Christlicher Bundesbote and The Mennonite. The Rodolphe Petter Collection is on display in the Bethel College Historical Library.
Books by Petter
Petter, Rodolphe. Assetosemeheo heamoxovistavatoz no hosz Maheoneeszistotoz = "The Pilgrim's Progress" and Some Bible Portions. Cantonment, OK: Printed for the Interest of the Mennonite Mission Among the Cheyenne Indians, 1904. 264 pp.
Petter, Rodolphe. Cheyenne Grammar. Newton, Kansas: Mennonite Publication Office, 1952. 70 pp.
Petter, Rodolphe. English-Cheyenne Dictionary: Printed entirely in the interest of the Mennonite Mission among the Cheyenne Indians of Oklahoma and Montana. Kettle Falls, Washington: The Mennonite Mission among the Cheyenne Indians of Oklahoma and Montana, 1915. 1126 pp. Web version: http://www.bethelks.edu/mla/holdings/scans/petter_dict/
Petter, Rodolphe. Hosz Maheo Heeszistoz: Portions of the Old and the New Testaments, translated and arranged by Rodolphe Petter. Cantonment, OK: Mennonite Mission, 1913. 145 pp.
Petter, Rudolphe. Maheo Henitae-Histanovestoz: Zeoxtoese-Hesetovaomohettoz Vovoe-Histanova na Maheonoxtoenoe-Manhastova = The kingdom of God: in its development from the creation down thru the history of Israel: Literal and Paraphrastic Translations from the Old Testament Together with Their New Testament Connections. Lame Deer: R. Petter,1926. 282 pp.
Petter, Rudolphe. Nivova-Pavhosto = The Four Gospels, translated by Rodolphe Petter. Lame Deer, 1928: 273 pp.
Petter, Rudolphe. Pavhosto--the Gospels of Luke and John / translated from the original text by Rudolphe Petter. Cantonment, OK: R. Petter, 1912. 295 pp.
Petter, Rudolphe. Zemona hoemao maheon-hoestomohestova. Zeēnano ninitaehaman na nivostanevstomanehaman Jesus Maheonxostaanasz. (The New Testament in Cheyenne). / Trans. by Rev. Rodolphe Petter, from the Greek, with careful comparison with the Latin Vulgate, and other versions. New York: American Bible Society, 1934. 666 pp.
Petter, Rodolphe. Zesenemeoxtox: Cheyenne Songs. Kettle Falls, WA: Mennonite Mission, 1916. At least seven editions. pp. 40.
Petter, Rodolphe. Zistxuistō, or, Cheyenne reading book. Quakertown, Pa.: U.S. Stauffer, printer, 1895. 36 pp.
Petter, Rodolphe Charles and Petter, Bertha Elise Kinsinger. Einiges aus meinen Missionserfahrungen in den vergangenen Jahren. [Lame Deer, Mont.: R.C. Petter], [1936?]. 72 pp.
Petter, Rodolphe Charles and Petter, Bertha Elise Kinsinger. Reminiscences of past years in mission service among the Cheyenne. [s.l.: s.n., n.d.]. 79 pp.
Books and Articles About Petter
Petter, Mrs. Rodolphe. "Kurze Lebensgeschichte Dr. Rodolphe Charles Petter." Christlicher Bundesbote (April 1, 1947): 10.
Petter, Rodolphe Charles. "How I Became a Missionary." Mennonite Life X (January 1955): 4-13.
"Nachruf des Dr. Rodolphe Petter, Apostel der Cheyennen Indianer." in Bundesbote Kalender (1947): 1-32.
Unruh, D. J. "Rodolphe Petter, Absent from the Body, Present with the Lord." The Mennonite (January 1947): 5.
Who's Who Among the Mennonites (1943): 191.
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Krahn, Cornelius. "Petter, Rodolphe Charles (1865-1947)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 25 Sep 2017. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Petter,_Rodolphe_Charles_(1865-1947)&oldid=121277.
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Krahn, Cornelius. (1959). Petter, Rodolphe Charles (1865-1947). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 25 September 2017, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Petter,_Rodolphe_Charles_(1865-1947)&oldid=121277.
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I can see my breath when I go outside, I've had to scrape ice off of my car windows and I've cleared snow off of my front porch. This can only mean one thing – it's that time of year again. It's also time to list my favorite tech gadgets and games that I've been keeping an eye on this year and hope to play with come December 25.
ASUS Transformer Prime Tablet
When Amazon announced its Kindle Fire tablet in late September for $199, I was sure that that would be the tablet at the top of my Christmas list. The modest $199 price tag for features like a 7-inch IPS display, a 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4 dual-core processor, 8 GB of internal storage, 512 MB memory and a unique version of Android's 2.3 Gingerbread operating system seemed pretty decent, but after looking at the Transformer Prime, I've decided to go for a full-featured tablet. Mainly, I need a camera and a microphone because I have family all over the globe and two of my close friends moved across the country, so Skype has become an essential part of catching up with one another. Kindle Fire lacks both a camera and a microphone.
ASUS Transformer Prime
also has some impressive specs compared to the likes of other Android-powered tablets and the iPad 2. It offers a 10-inch screen, NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 8 MP rear camera with a f/2.4 lens and back-illuminated sensor along with a 1.2 MP front-facing camera, 12-hour battery life, and Android's 3.2 Honeycomb mobile operating system (which will be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich in early December).
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For those of you who don't feel like dropping $500 to $600 on a tablet, Best Buy will offer the
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ASUS Transformer Prime Keyboard Dock
The ASUS Transformer Prime Keyboard Dock adds a USB 2.0 port, a full-size Secure Digital slot and increases the battery life to 18 hours. I like the idea of transforming my tablet into a laptop if needed, since typing a message or document on a tablet screen can be a pain.
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Star Wars 4 GB USB Drive
These aren't brand new, and of course you could buy a plain 4 GB USB drive for much cheaper, but these are pretty awesome and are perfect presents for the "Star Wars" fans in your life. The available characters that I've seen are Storm Troopers, Darth Vader, Yoda, and Boba Fett. I'm partial to Yoda, but wouldn't mind collecting them all.
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"Jurassic Park" is one of my favorite movies of all time, so of course I want to check this out. The game launched November 15.
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
Who doesn't love "The Legend of Zelda?" I've been playing it since the NES version, and hope to find it under my tree Christmas morning. It will be released November 20.
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Xbox 360)
I can see most of my winter being spent jumping between this game and "Skyrim" (which I already bought last Friday and spent my entire weekend playing). It was released November 15.
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Nikon Coolpix S6200
Nikon announced the COOLPIX S6200 back in late August. It offers a 10x optical zoom, a pixel count of 16.0-million pixels, motion detection, flash control, special effects, filter effects, a battery life of 250 shots, NIKKOR lens 4.5-45.0mm (angle of view equivalent to that of 25-250mm lens in 35mm format), and a small, sleek body.
I'm not looking for a high-end camera, but I'm also not looking for anything cheap. The price is reasonable for what I'll be using it for, which will mainly be trips, family get-togethers, and occasional videos.
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For those of you who didn't know, I'm a type 1 diabetic. I've been using insulin pens for my daily injections for a while now, but love reading about all the technological advances in diabetic medical devices. Right now, I'm waiting for the JewelPUMP to hit the U.S. The JewelPUMP is an insulin pump made by Debiotech, which is a developer of medical devices from Lausanne, Switzerland. It's a small, disposable patch pump that can carry up to 400 units of insulin. It's much more comfortable and discreet than most pumps, and uses a futuristic microfluidic MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) that puts all the "brains" on one small chip.
Here's what's really cool about the pump: it does not require a separate controller unit. Instead, an Android-powered cell phone can be used to control the pump. A controller app with a bolus wizard and correction wizard are available right on your Android phone, and a secret PIN is required to access it. Once the app is opened via the correct PIN, the phone goes into "Pump Mode" and you can no longer send or receive calls/texts/emails. You must exit Pump Mode to get back to your other phone features.
I've placed this particular device under the "Potential Gift" category because it is currently undergoing FDA approval before it can be released in the U.S. It was predicted that it would be approved by mid-2011, then new reports indicated late 2011. I'm not sure if it will be available by Christmas, and I certainly wouldn't expect my family members to pay for what I assume will be an expensive piece of equipment as my Christmas present, but it would definitely be a helpful Christmas present from myself. If any of you are diabetic or know someone who is, this is definitely worth looking into at some point in the future, if not the holiday season.
I hope you all have an enjoyable holiday season with your loved ones.
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Were you hoping to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this November, as announced by Warner Bros. just a short time ago? Too bad. They've pushed it back to July 17, 2009, Reuters reports.
The studio says it made the change in order to take advantage of the big money summer movie season. Thanks a lot, makers of The Dark Knight.
"We know the summer season is an ideal window for a family ... release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest grossing film in the franchise, behind only the first installment," WB president Alan Horn said.
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Events and times that Rains County Remembers
The following stories, most of them taken from the Rains County
Leader, were definately stories of the times.
1915 Storm
66 Years Ago from the Rains County Leader
Attempted Robbery in Point ---- May 9, 1913
Courthouse Fire - (NOTE: Dates are a little confusing)
Courthouse news --- 1909 and prior, fire and new building
Deputy Sheriff Samuel E Lindsey
- was shot and killed in the line of duty on Wednesday, November 3, 1886
Emory Cyclone --This is from the Greenville Banner, date unknown -- Thanks to Emily Adams - the date of the cyclone was March 17, 1894. Note from Emily, "This was the cyclone in which my grandfather's brother,William Brasses Henry, was killed. He is listed in the article under "The Dead" as Bras. Henry, clerk for Henry & Peeples store.
Fugitives on the run from Rains County - this may be controversial, but contains information that may be important to researchers.
Ginger Brick Plant Destroyed by Fire Tuesday Night June 5, 1925
Fire originating in one of the pans destroyed about $100,000 worth of the Fraser Brick Company's plant at Ginger, about 3 miles East of Emory, early Tuesday night. The fire alarm was given in Emory and some twenty or thirty loaded autos made a quick run to Ginger but there was nothing that could be done and the fire just had to run its course. Several of the residences near the plant were in danger for some time, Mrs. Shaw's residence catching fire twice, but with energetic work the flames were confined to the brick plant which was almost completely wrecked. The plant employed from 50 to 60 men regularly.
To Rebuild – Mr. Wynn, the manager, now has a force of some fifty men clearing away the debris and getting ready to rebuild the plant. In a telephone conversation with a representative of this paper, Mr. Wynn stated that they had not yet determined whether they would just rebuild the old plant or build a larger one, but that they expected to be in operation again within 60 days.
Ginger Fires -The brick plant in Ginger 1925 & in 1922 one that destroyed several buildings.
Glass Murder & Robbery 1916 copy of newspaper clipping
Moving Pictures Come to Rains County - This also includes a list of people who participated in a recital.
Patton, James Wheat - 1913 story from the Rains Co Leader
Rains County Leader - Pioneer
Edition August 11, 1939
Rains County in 1880 --- From the Rains County Leader Pioneer Ed. Aug 11, 1939
Rains County Leader
May 14, 1909
Shooting Scrape
Last Sunday evening a serious altercation occurred between Cap Daniels and Henry Woodall, in the Reeder community about seven miles south of Emory, in which the latter was shot a glancing lick on the jaw and left side of the neck with a shotgun and then knocked down with a lick on the head with the gun. It was reported here Sunday evening that Woodall was dead, but this proved to be a mistake and no doubt grew out of the fact that the blow from the gun rendered him unconscious. Woodall was badly powder burned and the wound in his jaw and neck is ugly, but the attending surgeon says he will be all right in a few days. Daniels surrendered to the sheriff Sunday night and was placed in jail, and the matter is being investigated by the Grand Jury.
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May 28. 1909
Accidentally Killed
While playing with a shot gun Tuesday evening one of Mack Luke's (colored) boys shot his 4-year-old brother in the shoulder and arm inflicting a wound from which he died about midnight Tuesday night. Drs. Faulk and Pearson amputated the boy's arm and dressed the wound, but the shock, when reaction set in, proved fatal. The boy who fired the shot is about five years old.
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Nov 5, 1909
Eye Shot Out
Lonnie Leggett shot Ike Hawkins in the eye last Saturday, destroying the sight. Both are Negroes. Leggett came in and surrendered to the sheriff and was placed in jail. However, he has since been released on a $750 bond. The wounded man is said to be getting along all right.
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"First National Bank 50th Anniversary Section"
July 10, 1903
Vault Keys Locked Inside on First Day
On the first day that the First National Bank was open for business, July 4, 1903, the keys to the bank vault door were locked on the inside. S.K. McCallon, who ran the bank, locked the vault with the keys on the inside when he went to dinner. Upon returning to the bank, he found that he could not get into the vault, and had to call on M.A. "Millard" Vincent, who was handy with tools, to try and open it. After working for an hour or so, Mr. Vincent succeeded in getting the vault door open.
Rains County Leader ---- wonderful articles and pictures from "Looking Back" that have appeared weekly in the RCL (these go back to 1999 editions). Lot of great information here.
Rains County Fairs 1930 - 1934
Senate Resolution honoring Kathleen Hill Becknell - May 3, 1995
Shumate, W M Murder
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Abby's Pizza turns 50: 'It's a huge milestone'
ROSEBURG, Ore. - Fifty years ago, the first Abby's Pizza opened on Stephens Street.
There are now 35 locations across Oregon and Washington.
Abby's staff says community involvement has helped them continue to grow over the years.
"For us it's a huge milestone," said Doug Phillips, VP of marketing. "There other pizza places, other businesses, other restaurants certainly that make it to 50 years, but for us it's a huge milestone."
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SANTA CRUZ - City department heads would like to continue making improvements to the wharf and intersection of Highway 1 and 9, as well as building several affordable housing communities in coming years.
But when, and if, the city could tackle some of those initiatives could rest with state finance officials, who have said the city cannot spend proceeds of $36 million in bonds sold a year ago as lawmakers were mulling - and eventually approved - the elimination of redevelopment. The city hopes to appeal the ruling.
In the meantime, the city has laid out its three-year capital improvement program funded by the bond proceeds, as well other taxes, developer fees, user fees and grants separate from the city's main operating budget. The council did not vote on the list Tuesday, but will approve it as part of the 2013 fiscal budget in July.
For 2013, the Economic Development Department has requested $3.8 million in bond funds for affordable housing units to be built as part of the Metro Center Project, and eyed $1.1 million for a senior housing project this year.
The Parks and Recreation Department has requested funds to make improvements in 2013 to the Bike Park at Depot Park, renovate the Town Clock and do an environmental study at moving the Homeless Garden Project to Pogonip. But it may not be able to undertake rehabilitation at the Municipal Wharf in 2014 because $1 million in redevelopment bonds funds are connected.
Dannettee Shoemaker, parks and recreation director, said staff is researching possible state and federal funding for the work instead.
"We're still moving ahead looking for alternative sources out there," she said. "We have to make sure it's structurally sound."
The Public Works Department wants to undertake several major projects, including replacement of the Highway 1 bridge over the San Lorenzo River, and sedimentation removal from Pogonip Creek and improvements to the garage at River and Front streets. The department is working on improvements to the Highway 1 and 9 intersection, but $1 million of the $5 million cost for 2013 is tied to the bonds.
The city also has a long list of unfunded projects, including work on the Civic Auditorium, renovating Frederick Street Park and the Pogonip Club House, replacing the DeLaveaga Golf Course Club House, and making Ocean Street improvements from Soquel Drive to East Cliff Drive.
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Pete Wentz: I can't believe FOB made it
Pete Wentz felt as though he was learning to ride a bike again after reuniting with Fall Out Boy following their hiatus.
The Chicago band formed in 2001 and six albums later they've become one of the most popular rock acts on the planet.
After their hiatus ended in 2013 the quartet - also made up of Patrick Stump, Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman - are stronger than ever, much to Pete's surprise.
"It was - and still is - weird [being back as a band]. Like, there are parts of it, for example the live show, that are like remembering how to ride a bike! But there are parts of it that are quite a bit harder, like being away on the road," he told Kerrang! magazine.
"I think Fall Out Boy in 2001 would be shocked to learn that we are still a band at all! I think we would be impressed by the evolution in the same way that a caveman would be impressed by Zippo lighter tricks!"
One of the reasons it's hard for the guys to be on tour is that they're family men; frontman Patrick welcomed son Declan last October, while Pete is a dad to sons Bronx and Saint and Joe is a father to daughter Ruby.
It gets tough being away from home and Patrick admits to having down periods. But he has a few remedies which never fail to make him feel better.
"I always say the best way to handle a bad day is to try to make someone else's day better... but when I can't manage that, I'll turn to doing something creative," he explained. "So, probably something like composing, writing, playing an instrument. Those things have a way of making everything better to me."
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ibm has announced that it will begin shipping some of its most popular thinkpads with linux installed. the laptops will ship running caldera system inc.'s openlinux 2.4 and are expected to be available by the third quarter.
read more about ibm's linux plans here.
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ibm is making some interesting in-roads lately. first it introduced a new consumer thinkpad priced far below previous thinkpads, then it made an announcement that it would be showing off a thinkpad with a crusoe processor from transmeta shortly. now it's planning on rolling out a line of thinkpads with linux installed.
i'd have to agree with ibm's move here. the company faces a lot of competition from dell and others as of late and needs to stay as current as possible with its offerings.
previously, i had no interest in ibm's thinkpads because i thought that they were priced much higher than its competitors. nowadays the price of a thinkpad is dropping and the options of what's inside the thinkpad are changing with the times as well.
i'm excited to see how the new thinkpad running the crusoe processor performs. in addition, it'll be interesting to see how a thinkpad already pre-configured to be optimized for linux catches on.
one more thing: too bad corel couldn't get the thinkpad contract. that really would have helped out its current financial situation.


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(NEW YORK) — Ever wanted to get inside the mind of the opposite sex? Ever wonder exactly what attracts men and women? A new survey by MarketTools Inc. for the dating website Match.com offers some answers.
The survey, as reported by USA Today, asked 5,500 unattached adults 21 and older what qualities they judge most in the opposite sex. The survey also asked singles to rate their "must haves" when it comes to relationships.
The survey said 48 percent of single women and 38 percent of single men research a date on Facebook, and 38 percent of singles said they would cancel a date because of something they found about the person on the Internet. Forty-two percent of singles would not date a virgin and 49 percent would get into a committed relationship with someone who still lived with their parents.
Check out the findings below:
Ten things on which men judge women most:
1. Teeth: 58 percent
2. Grammar: 55 percent
3. Hair: 51 percent
4. Clothes: 45 percent
5. Having/not having a tattoo: 40 percent
6. Nails/hands: 37 percent
7. Accent: 19 percent
8. Shoes: 18 percent
9. The car they drive: 13 percent
10. Electronic devices they carry: 9 percent
Ten things on which women judge men most:
1. Teeth: 71 percent
2. Grammar: 69 percent
3. Clothes 58 percent
4. Hair: 53 percent
5. Nails/hands: 52 percent
6. Having/not having a tattoo: 34 percent
7. Shoes: 29 percent
8. The car they drive: 24 percent
9. Accent: 22 percent
10. Electronic devices they carry: 10 percent
Men's top "must haves" in a relationship:
- The person is someone I can trust and confide in: 63 percent
- Treats me with respect: 57 percent
- Is physically attractive to me: 40 percent
- Has a sense of humor/makes me laugh: 37 percent
- Is comfortable with her own sexuality: 36 percent
Women's top "must haves" in a relationship:
- Treats me with respect: 84 percent
- The person is someone I can trust and confide in: 77 percent
- Has a sense of humor/makes me laugh: 58 percent
- Shares the same values as I do: 47 percent
- Is comfortable communicating his wants, needs and desires: 46 percent
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VERO BEACH — USF sophomore OT Mark Popek was diagnosed with a second degree sprain of the MCL in his right knee Thursday. He is expected to miss 3-6 weeks.
"Well, it's better than worst-case scenario," Bulls coach Skip Holtz said. "When you look at it, when you saw it on film and you saw what happened to him, I think it's best case. He's a great young man. We need him on this team. We're just hoping for a speedy and healthy recovery."
Popek, who was on crutches Thursday, was injured when a player rolled into his knee Wednesday. Holtz said Popek had begun to rehabilitate the knee.
While Popek will miss some time, T Jake Sims returned to the field. Sims had been held out of practice since Sunday as a precaution due to concussion-like symptoms.
"I feel good — fresh legs," Sims said.
Holtz said having players get nicked up during two-a-days is to be expected and actually allows second- and third-string players to get more experience. Sims echoed Holtz's comments.
"I think this has been good," Sims said. "(Freshman tackle) Quinterrious Eatmon has been getting a lot of reps and it's building great depth."
OFFENSE COMING AROUND: Holtz has been pleased with the improvement of the offense so far. Sophomore QB B.J. Daniels said he has been feeling more comfortable in the new system.
"I'm getting comfortable, but I'm not 100 percent there yet," said Daniels, who threw for 1,983 yards and 14 touchdowns. He added another 772 yards and nine touchdowns on the ground. "No matter what system I'm in, I just want to focus on helping the team get better.
"It is similar in a lot of ways to the old system. I'm just under center a lot more now."
Holtz said the receiving unit was taking shape, mentioning Evan Landi, Dontavia Bogan and Isaac Virgin.
NOTABLE: The team will practice in shorts today before scrimmaging Saturday. Holtz said the coaching staff will wait until after the scrimmage to evaluate possible position changes and which freshman might redshirt. … CB Kayvon Webster had a nice practice, breaking up two passes in seven-on-seven drills. … In 11-on-11 drills, CB Tyson Butler intercepted a Jamius Gunsby pass and returned it 20 yards for a touchdown, and Terrence Mitchell made a diving interception on a tipped ball. … Daniels connected with Landi on a catch and run for 25 yards.


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(CHICAGO) — The Blackhawks got their starting goalie back on Sunday, and he didn't miss a beat.
Andrew Shaw scored the game's only goal to help the Blackhawks past the Columbus Blue Jackets, 1-0 to extend their streak of consecutive games to open a season with at least one point to 18.
Corey Crawford spun a shutout in net for Chicago (15-0-3) in his first action since missing four games with an upper-body injury.
"He was quick," Blackhawks coach Joe Quenneville said. "(He was) big, especially on the side-to-side plays on the power play. He tracked the puck well, looked like he wasn't off for any time at all."
Shaw came in from the left side of the net and got a pass from Bryan Bickell that he put in for his fourth goal of the year in the second period. "He saw me coming," Shaw said. "But I wasn't sure, so I gave him a holler and he put it in a perfect area."
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It might seem like a drop in the bucket now, but subtle pushes by local governments to implement systemic change in how residents use water are growing.
Joining 37 counties, cities, tribes and districts across California that have already enacted emergency proclamations during the ongoing drought, the Mountain View City Council April 1 activated Stage 1 of a four-stage Urban Water Management Plan. On the same day, state snowpack measurements registered 32 percent of normal. Although the ordinance does not mandate cutbacks, residents are asked to reduce water consumption by 10 percent voluntarily.
With the dry season just around the corner, the state teeters on a pivotal precipice.
"Heavy rain and snow would have to fall throughout California every day for the remainder of April to reach average annual rain and snowfall levels," according to the April 7 Governor's Drought Task Force Statewide Drought Summary. "Even with such precipitation, California would remain in drought conditions, due to low water supplies in reservoirs from the two previous dry years."
Mountain View's recently enacted policy takes steps to eliminate nonessential water use. Under the Water Conservation section of the city's municipal code, serving water unrequested at a restaurant, using hoses without shut-off devices, wasting potable water or failing to fix broken plumbing and irrigation systems is punishable by fines and possible discontinuation of water service. Before cutting off a water connection, however, Mountain View offers a public hearing to enable offenders to defend their excess water use and appeal to rescind the directive.
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Supported by the town's Water Conservation Committee, members of the Los Altos Hills City Council are considering policies that would boost conservation efforts. Although the council's authority to influence residential water use is limited, the gesture may carry clout with residents who look to the town for direction and leadership.
"We're not the enforcers, but we can write ordinances in our town," said Mayor John Radford at the March council meeting.
While the supplier that provides approximately one-third of the town's water – the Santa Clara County Valley Water District – has already imposed a 20 percent reduction on users, the supplier of the other two-thirds, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), has not yet prescribed mandatory water cuts. Water Conservation Committee Chairwoman Kit Gordon said looming water cutbacks could hamper the town's most voracious users.
Los Altos Hills residents consumed an average of 268 gallons of water per capita per day in 2011-2012, surpassing the average level of 78 gallons of water per capita per day for all communities served by the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency. Inefficient irrigation systems and leaking fixtures persist in the community despite rebates and incentives from the water district to switch to more efficient options and repair leaks.
"For many years, we've been so over our allocation and we have such a high percentage for irrigation that if SFPUC announces the next stage of drought, we'll be hit with a 48 percent mandatory reduction," Gordon said.
To enforce any potential mandates, the Purissima Hills Water District – the distributor of SFPUC water – would impose price increases for the top tiers of users to achieve a 48 percent reduction in water use over the entire district. Users falling into the bottom two tiers would remain unaffected. Although an SFPUC representative said mandates remained unlikely unless the drought worsens, voluntary water reductions of 10 percent are expected to continue through 2014.
Although the Los Altos City Council has not placed water conservation on its agenda, city staff report that they are following the California Water Service Co.'s lead, asking residents and businesses to reduce water use by 20 percent. Staff also noted that they are evaluating the city's water use and assigning priorities for park turf maintenance.
As the current situation generates interest from local municipal leaders, water districts view the attention as an opportunity to influence permanent consumer behavior.
"While we are undoubtedly in a crisis, this is an opportunity to do a lot better," said Santa Clara Valley Water District Vice Chairman Brian Schmidt, director for District 7, which includes Los Altos Hills.