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California Genealogy and History Archives
Sonoma County
|Peter Matzen
Not the least noticeable among the farms of Sonoma county is the Adobe Knoll Ranch upon which Peter Matzen is engaged in the breeding of Belgian and English shire horses, a business which he has successfully prosecuted during the entire period of his residence in the region. Throughout the county and even in localities beyond the limits of the county his name is known by reason of his identification with the raising of pure-bred animals. No better judge of horses than he can be found in the locality. At a glance he decides as to the value of an animal. A very brief inspection enables him to ascertain all the good points and to determine in what respect, if any, the animal errs from the ideal standard of perfection. His judgment concerning horses is regarded as final by people cognizant of his ability.
Descended from a long line of German ancestry, Peter Matzen was born in Fohr, Schleswig, Germany, in 1858, and received a thorough education in the excellent schools of his native country. His father, Martin P. Matzen, was a farmer, and as a boy he too learned all the details of farming, but a special liking for horses became apparent and he determined to give this subject particular study and attention. This occupied his time until he came to the United States, when, during October, 1887, he landed at San Francisco. From there he went to Haywards, Alameda county, and immediately took up ranch pursuits. After a residence of seven years on the Meeks ranch, in 1894, he came to Sonoma county and settled near Stony Point. There he engaged in farming, and two years later began breeding horses, and from that beginning he has worked his way up to the prominence which is his today.
In 1900 Mr. Matzen located on the Bliss ranch, and as the old Adobe house is still standing and now owned and kept up by the Native Sons, he gave his place the name of the Adobe Knoll Ranch. Here he enlarged his breeding stables and has now the largest stables of full-blooded and graded Belgians and English shire horses in the county. He leases five hundred and thirty-five acres of the Bliss ranch for farming and stock, besides which he owns fifty-one acres one and a half miles north of Petaluma, well improved with buildings and other appurtenances necessary to the poultry business, to which the latter property is devoted. Here he has a large flock of white leghorns.
The marriage of Mr. Matzen was solemnized in 1880 and united him with Miss Theresa Duer, who was born in Fohr, Germany, in 1854, and died in October, 1881. One son, Martin, was born of this marriage; he married Miss Sallie Hendrickson and has two children. Politically Mr. Matzen has been independent, voting for the man rather than the party and always supporting those whom he considers best calculated to represent the people. To some extent he has made a specialty of dairying and on his ranch he now has ten head of blooded Jersey cows. An enormous flock of chickens, aggregating a total of about eight thousand, brings in an annual income of gratifying proportions, while the ranch receipts are further increased by the sagacious supervision of the stock. The Berkshire hogs are of the finest strain of full-bloods and the output of port is large. There are also forty-five head of horses on the ranch and being these are twenty-five head of blooded mares of the very best types. Being an expert judge of horse-flesh, Mr. Matzen has kept only the best and has built p a drove unsurpassed in color and individuality. At the head of the herd is an imp9rted registered Belgian stallion, Pastule No. 21042, which for the past four seasons has been kept on the ranch, a service fee of $20 being charged. In securing this splendid animal the owner obtained the best breeding possible in the foreign breeding districts and a draft type rep4resenting the best blood-lines. Quality and style are unsurpassed, and the animal has become deservedly popular owing to the possession of these attributes, as well as such other points as are demanded of our finest importations. He also owns the full-blooded English sire horse Edoak, a dark brown animal which has all the fine marks of breeding that are required in a horse.
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Troy Polamalu, LaMarr Woodley suffer injuries early in Week 5
Troy Polamalu lasted less than one quarter in his return to the Steelers' lineup Sunday, exiting after reinjuring his troublesome calf on a non-contact play against Philadelphia.
Polamalu was running toward the Eagles' sideline in coverage, then started hopping on one leg as he turned back to his own bench. He did not go to the locker room, but instead sat on the Steelers' sideline with a large wrap on his right calf -- the same calf that kept Polamalu out of the lineup for the past two games. Polamalu is done for the day, according to the FOX crew working the game.
The Polamalu news wasn't the only injury setback for Pittsburgh on Sunday, either. Outside linebacker LaMarr Woodley was questionable to return as of halftime after hurting his hamstring. Woodley has had hamstring issues before -- he missed several games during the 2011 season with a similar injury.
Pittsburgh had only this week begun to piece its defense back together. Polamalu and James Harrison, among others, had missed multiple games this season due to injury, part of why Pittsburgh is off to a 1-2 start. Harrison was making his season debut in Week 5,while Polamalu was back in the lineup for the first time since Week 1.

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text: Fringed by cliffs and heavenly beaches, with long stretches of countryside – peppered with olive trees and citrus groves – in between. Mallorca is Mother Nature's Mediterranean at its finest. Explore picture-perfect coastline by day and dine on just-caught seafood in your luxury beach resort by night. And after the sun goes down, experience the island's heady nightlife.


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Atlantic City
Air Show
Units from the U.S. military are not participating this year, but the Atlantic City Air Show still promises a day full of high-flying entertainment Wednesday. There will be aerial acrobatics and fly-bys featuring historic planes at the show, which runs from noon to 3:30 p.m. On Monday, the city will begin events leading up to the air show, with the annual Armed Forces Parade on the Boardwalk. The parade kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at Showboat Casino. It will end near the Atlantic Club.
Sheena Easton
at Atlantic Club
A Scottish singer, Sheena Easton, 54, has had a wide ranging career - from a No. 1 adult contemporary single with "9 to 5 (Morning Train)" in 1981 to the Prince-written No. 1 dance hit "Sugar Walls" in 1985. Easton headlines Saturday at the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. All seats are $20.
Other entertainers in Atlantic City on Saturday include Tim Allen in Event Center at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and Ron White in Mark G. Etess Arena at Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort.
For tickets to these and
all other area shows, visit
White House
In the action drama, "White House Down," a capitol police officer, played by Vanity Fair cover boy Channing Tatum, has to spring into action to save his child and the president, portrayed by Jamie Foxx, from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. The film hits theaters on Friday.
The comedy "The Heat," starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, is the only other movie opening nationwide on Friday.
King miniseries
"Under the Dome," which premieres at 10 p.m. Monday on KYW-TV 3, is based on a Stephen King novel of the same name. The people living in a Maine town start to freak out when a mysterious invisible dome descends and cuts them off from the rest of the world.
Natalie in Spanish
Singer-songwriter Natalie Cole, 63, releases her first Spanish-language CD on Tuesday, titled "Natalie Cole en Espanol." Classical crossover singer Andrea Bocelli is a guest on the album. Cole sings a virtual duet with her late father, Nat King Cole, on the song "Acercate Mas (Come Closer to Me)."


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Thank you for your responses. I got impatient and tried installing 8.0.2 and had no problems whatsoever. I will follow up on your suggestions if I get to install 8.0.3. Thanks again. On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:23 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Prasad Duggineni" <pduggineni(at)prominencenet(dot)com> writes: > > Try turning the enforcement mode off. > > Or put the data directory where the standard selinux policy expects it > to be, namely /var/lib/pgsql/data. > > The lack of any useful error message is a selinux policy bug, which > appears to be fixed in reasonably-current FC4 (I've got > selinux-policy-targeted-1.25.4-10, and I don't see it). > > regards, tom lane
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New Brunswick, NJ, December 30, 2013 – Rutgers University is permitting New Jersey residents, age 62 or older the ability to attend courses at no cost.
The Senior Citizen Audit Program was created by the Rutgers University Board of Governors to allow those citizens to audit courses on a space available, noncredit basis with no tuition costs.
Courses are offered for auditing during the spring and fall semesters on the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses. Online courses are not open to auditors. Auditing a course is a courtesy offered at the discretion of the professor.
You can learn more about the Rutgers Senior Citizen Audit Program at: http://ucm.rutgers.edu/about/senior-citizen-audit-program. If you have any questions about the program, call Kay Schechter in the Office of Community Affairs at 848-932-0599 or email email@example.com.


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September 14, 2013 BY Aaron Hope
Nike Dunk Highs have been taking on classic colorways from the Air Force 1 Low of late. Here's the first preview in a while to deviate from that formula, one that relies on a greyscale palette and a few different materials for a highly wearable look. This Dunk High uses grey leather, black denim and white perforated leather, and of course, since it's a Dunk, the midsole is white too. These just popped up at select Japanese Nike Sportswear dealers, so a US release date can't be too far off. Stick with Sneaker News for updates and let us know how these compare to the 'Linen'/'Acorn' combo right around the corner.
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The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (1963-2013) and the 10th anniversary of several refuge events. To celebrate these anniversaries and to connect people with nature, many activities, programs, and special events are planned. The refuge is open every day one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset in designated areas. Also, the Visitor Center is open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. On weekends, the Visitor Center is open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. December through March and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April through November.
Upcoming events in December
Go to www.fws.gov/northeast/primehook/ or call 302-684-8419 to learn more about other events and programs throughout the year.
At 8 a.m.,Thursday, Dec. 5, is a Birding Field Trip. Led by volunteer birding guides, beginner and experienced bird watchers will enjoy observing and learning about the bird species frequenting the refuge at this time of year. Come prepared for the weather and expect to walk up to a mile. Bring binoculars, a field guide, and spotting scope (the leader will have spotting scopes also). Binoculars will be available to borrow. Meet at the refuge office. Trips are free, open to the public, and last approximately three hours.
From 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5, is Star Gazing. Join the Sussex County Astronomy Society and discover the stars that brighten the night sky. Featuring hands-on viewing, this program will give participants a new appreciation for astronomy. Come prepared for the weather and enjoy some hot chocolate. Program is free and open to the public. Meet at the refuge office.
Nature Photography Contest Exhibition continues through Dec. 22. Photographs highlight the Beauty of Prime Hook, Delmarva Scenery, Native Birds, Other Native Wildlife, and Native Flowers and Plants. Visitors to the exhibition can vote on their favorite photograph as part of the People's Choice Award. The photos will be on display at the refuge auditorium. Photos can be viewed from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. There is no admission charge. The annual contest is sponsored by the Friends of Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.
The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. For more information visit www.fws.gov.
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Danby 36 Bottle Wine CoolerDWC93BLSDB
When you have several bottles of wine that need to be cooled, the most convenient and economical way to store them is in a fashionable free-standing wine cooler such as this model from Danby. This spacious unit offers 3.3 cubic feet of cooling space which is designed to store up to 36 bottles of your favourite wines on attractive black wire shelving units. Your collection will also look quite impressive due to the blue LED interior lighting which beautifully showcases the bottles through the elegant tempered-glass door. The bottles will always be at the temperature you prefer since the range of the wine cooler lies between 6°C and 14°C (43°F and 57°F). There's no incandescent bulb to interfere with the chilling process and the glass door is designed to protect your collection from potentially harmful ultraviolet rays. This appliance features a stylish recessed pocket-style handle and the smooth back design allows it to be installed flush against a wall. The handy reversible door swing also enables you to open it from the left or right-hand side. This sturdy wine cooler also comes with an 12-month warranty on parts and labour with in-home service.
|Product Width
|44.45 cm
|17 1/2"
|Product Depth
|50.96 cm
|20 1/16"
|Product Height
|83.03 cm
|Shipping Weight
|Loading Capacity
- 36-bottle free-standing wine cooler
- Temperature range of 6°C - 14°C (43°F - 57°F)
- Blue LED interior lighting beautifully showcase the wine without the heat of an incandescent bulb
- Recessed pocket style handle
- Black wire shelving
- The tempered glass door helps to protect the wine from harmful UV rays
- Smooth back design
- Convenient reversible door swing for left or right hand opening
12 months parts and labour coverage with In-Home service. Installation and/or Yearly Maintenance (cleaning) are not covered under warranty.
Customer Reviews
Danby 36 Bottle Wine Cooler is rated out of 5 by 10.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Craigclu from Works, kind of... Appears to be their beer/soda fridge with wine racks installed. A half inch would be valuable in making it capable of its stated capacity. Temp control is hypersensitive at the "just on" point to maintain a reasonable wine temperature. I've relegated it to white wines as it's easier to keep a proper temperature for whites and not over chill reds.
Date published: 2015-12-11
Rated 1 out of 5 by Cameron from Poor cooling Had Danby's beverage centre and after 1 year of use it quite working. Was unable to find the same model so bought this model. At maximum setting it only keeps items cool. Forget a nice cold beer or cold white wine.
Date published: 2015-12-11
Rated 5 out of 5 by Pirate Mom 1094 from Great little wine fridge Other reviews said that the motor is a bit noisy and it is not very quiet but it never bothers us, even when we are sitting near it. It hold a lot of bottles (I took out one of the shelves to accommodate the bigger bottles) and everything is in perfect condition. I like the light blue LED lighting, too! :)
Date published: 2015-12-11
Rated 1 out of 5 by Garbage 101 from Horrible fridge Bought this fridge and it sat for 3months until my renos were complete. Once it was plugged in the temp would not cool past 47F. Tried several attempts to troubleshoot but nothing changed. Danby products are garbage
Date published: 2016-11-27
Rated 5 out of 5 by NorthofDetroit from Attractive, and does the job Attractive; night light is a modern blue; and, maintains temperature. Only objection is that it makes a "rattling" noise when compressor first starts each time. Only lasts about five seconds, though.
Date published: 2015-12-11
Rated 1 out of 5 by Chiko from Après 2 ansne fonctionne plus J'ai acheté ce réfrigérateur le 29 juillet 2014 et depuis le 30 avril 2016 il ne refroidis plus. Je ne recommande pas du tout ce produit. Je pensais que la marque Danby était fiable....
Date published: 2016-05-24
Rated 5 out of 5 by Alexjr from Quieter than expected. In a New York City apartment kitchen, every inch of space counts. A small convection oven/ broiler fits nicely on top, so we got two for one.
Date published: 2015-12-10
Rated 1 out of 5 by joc426 from Great fridge, less than great customer support Referred me to their local dealer, who didn't address the problem, and didn't respond when advised of the non-response.
Date published: 2015-12-11
Please refer to your product on www.danby.com.
We do not recommend using an extension cord.
This will depend on your personal preference and the varietal you are storing. Sweet white wines are best stored between 41°F (5°C) and 46°F (8°C), while dry whites are best stored between 46°F (8°C) and 54°F (12°C). Reds are generally stored at a warmer temperature. Light to medium reds are best stored from 54°F (12°C) to 61°F (16°C) and full bodied reds are best from 63°F (17°C) to 66°F (19°C).
Please consult your owner's manual. If too many bottles/cans are put in at once or the door has not been closed tightly, the unit will display the "HI" signal in the display panel. This is normal, please wait 5 minutes after you close the door and "HI" will disappear. It is normal that the cabinet shows "HI" or "LO" from time to time. If it occurs frequently or lasts for a long time, you can restart the unit by unplugging it. If the problem occurs once again after restart, please contact customer service.
Our wine cellars and beverage centres are not designed for outside installation. This also includes anywhere that is not temperature controlled. ie. garages, porches, carports, etc.
Yes, this is normal.
The temperature range varies based on model. Please consult your owner's manual or the product page on the website.


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Wisconsin man charged in N.D. trafficking case to remain in jail
BISMARCK -- A Wisconsin man charged with forcibly bringing women to North Dakota to work as prostitutes will stay in jail.
Levell Durr, 31, faces a federal charge of coercion and enticement, but U.S. Attorney for North Dakota Tim Purdon said earlier this week that more charges are possible as the investigation continues.
A magistrate judge ruled Thursday that the government had enough evidence for the case to proceed and that Durr is a flight risk. The federal government now will present the case to a grand jury to see if an indictment is returned.
A woman told authorities that Durr held her and two others against their will, forcing them to have sex for money and keeping them in line with physical force and by making them dependent on drugs.
The woman said she witnessed Durr confine another girl in a dog kennel for several days after breaking one of his "rules," FBI Special Agent Bruce Bennett told the court via teleconference Thursday. The woman interviewed and another woman could make $15,000 a week, she told investigators.
The alleged victims were required to take heroin every morning, Bennett wrote in an affidavit, which he noted is a known method for controlling victims of sex trafficking. Durr also required that the women kiss him on the hand after giving him money made from prostitution, and they couldn't look others in the eye, Bennett testified.
The woman interviewed by authorities had worked previously in Minot as a prostitute for Durr, Bennett said. She returned home and entered rehab after she was beaten up in an incident in Minot. She then turned to Durr and "he basically told her, 'Get back to work,' " Bennett testified.
But a few weeks later, she reached out to Durr from rehab in Chicago. He brought her back to North Dakota, and she said she was drugged and didn't remember the drive.
"She smoked something and that was pretty much the last thing she remembered," Bennett said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme asked Bennett exactly how Durr forced the women into prostitution. Bennett said it was a mix of drugs and emotional dependency. Durr allegedly would also use physical force if they didn't stay completely in his control, and limited their contact with others and access to money to prevent them from running away, Bennett said.
The women would allegedly only get enough money to get food from a vending machine, and for anything else Durr thought they needed, such as makeup. Durr would go with the girl to buy it for them, Bennett said.
The woman also told investigators about a 15-year-old Durr had in his control. It's still unknown if the younger girl existed or where she is. Investigators had the North Dakota Highway Patrol perform a safety check on Durr's car near Jamestown to make sure the younger girl wasn't with him; he was only with an older woman. That woman is also an alleged victim, but did not give police much information.
Defense attorney Heather McCord Mitchell pointed out this third woman's failure to plead for help when interviewed by law enforcement as a hole in the state's case. The Highway Patrol also witnessed the woman go into a convenience store alone and return to Durr's car after -- "so it doesn't sound like she was under duress," Mitchell said.
The fact the 15-year-old hasn't been found also calls into question the veracity of the first alleged victim's statements, Mitchell said.
Durr has learning disabilities and an eighth-grade education, his mother told Mitchell.
"Yet they claim he is somehow the criminal mastermind of all these victims," Mitchell said.
But federal Magistrate Judge Charles Miller said the government presented more than enough evidence to prove probable cause, and found Durr, with no community ties and a lengthy criminal history, is a flight risk.
His next court hearing has not been scheduled.
Investigators first caught on to Durr after tips from law enforcement in Wisconsin and Chicago indicated he was taking women against their will to the "fracking areas" of North Dakota for prostitution. Bismarck police arrested him at a hotel Friday afternoon on a federal warrant.


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Eidos has announced that Championship Manager 2010 is now available for PC across Europe in an exclusive Special Edition featuring the full game and a free CM Live Season which is normally priced at £5 for six updates throughout the season. The SE also includes a CM Manager's Notebook & Pencil, plus a giant league structure poster.
"This is a very exciting moment in the history of the Championship Manager franchise," said Roy Meredith, General Manager of Championship Manager. "Two years of hard graft have come to fruition in what I can confidently say is the best version of Championship Manager the studio has made."
Championship Manager 2010: Special Edition is priced £29.99.
For more on CM 2010 check out our recent interview with Roy Meredith, General Manager of Championship Manager.


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What's the worst thing about falling in love with an anime like Tsuritama?
It ends.
Leave it to the show that got pretty much everything right to triumph over the top boss that menaces every anime with aspirations – the ending. Needless to say, endings are really, really, hard – but Tsuritama stuck the landing and it should get a 10 even from the Russian judge. That makes a day like this easier to take, and thank goodness – because these days when multiple great shows come to a close are always emotionally brutal for me. As for Tsuritama's final episode, I wouldn't change a thing.
There was a plan for everything right from the beginning with Tsuritama, that much was obvious. So we ended up with a final episode that I have no doubt was exactly what Oono-sensei and Nakamura-sensei intended – exciting, fast-paced, bittersweet and ultimately joyous. Tsuritama was suffused so thoroughly with positive emotion that any ending that wasn't life-affirming would have felt like a betrayal of the spirit of the show. I often worry going into these final episodes, but I was wholly confident this time – these two have just never given me a moment's reason to doubt them.
The funny thing is, there's really not all that much to talk about with the final episode for much the same reason that Tsuritama is somewhat difficult to blog despite being the best series of a great Spring season. That is, the execution is too flawless – there certainly isn't much need for me to try to explain or theorize, because both the plot and the message behind the series are laid out so clearly and in such a straightforward way. I compared this show to Crater Lake last week, and I'll stick with it – incredibly deep but also incredibly clear. The visibility is seemingly endless because there's nothing clouding our vision. There's nothing wasted or unnecessary or false to get in the way.
That's not to say there weren't a few interesting stylistic touches from Nakamura-san here. An eyecatch four minutes into an episode was certainly an indication that something unusual was happening here. We got a much more revealing look at DUCK, as we finally saw George Ace (that's Akira's boss) without his sunglasses, and we saw DUCK HQ back in Dubai. I'd thought it might be George stepping up to save the day, as Akira and the boys were pretty much at his mercy with missiles on the way. I can't say enough about the voice work Sugita-san did here (he also voices Tapioca, it turns out) – his "Oh my God!" when Haru squirted him was probably the biggest straight-out laugh of the ep for me. Tapioca breaking into the Enoshima Dance was a close second.
Of course Tsuritama ultimately has to come down to a question of Yuki's journey as a character and his relationship with Haru. The myth was tied in nicely to the resolution, with Haru actually ending up as the lure quite a fitting development. But it was all on Yuki to come up with the answer in the end, and to have the strength to fight as he fought with JFX on the other end of the line. JFX himself turned out to be Urara (Sakurai Takahiro – I never would have guessed) who looked very much like a Siamese Fighting Fish in his original form – and about the same size, too. I didn't think we'd end up with an ending built around him being destroyed, because that wouldn't have felt right at all. We don't get the full backstory but Urara seems more embarrassed by developments than anything else. Nothing that friendship can't cure.
I hope you stuck around for the sequence after the credits. We'd already learned that Natsuki was off to America to pursue a professional bass fishing career – with another sibling on the way. Akira was fishing somewhere, and Tapioca has taken a lover. Misaki and Ayumi have wed. As for Keito, she seems fine – though there's still a mystery surrounding her, as Haru has managed to say goodbye to her from hundreds of miles away. As for Yuki he's now working at Hemingway and musing about whether he's changed or not – he's still shy, but all those smiles point to "yes" – when two transfer students show up at school six months after the events of the typhoon day. The first is Urara – still a bit shy himself – and second is Haru, proudly carrying his fishing rod. I don't need an explanation – it's enough to know that he's back, and he and Yuki can go fishing together as much as they want. Sometimes The Little Prince has his happy ending, after all…
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By Ryan Busuttil
During his UFC 155 pre-fight press conference media scrum, UFC President Dana White reflected on the end of Strikeforce, which holds its final event in a couple of weeks. White took MMA media sites to task for reporting that UFC parent company Zuffa purchased Strikeforce to "bury it". White explained "Any of you guys who were around me during that time, that was absolutely not the plan. I was pumped up about it and looking forward to get into it, but, it's over, man. I'm just happy it's over."
White went on to confirm that not all Strikeforce fighters will be brought over to the UFC and empathized with the hardships they have recently faced. Said White, "The way that this thing went down, and what's happened with these guys, these guys have been very patient, and I'm sorry for them, and I'm happy that they're coming over to the UFC now."
Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine takes place on January 12, 2013 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena inOklahoma City,Oklahoma.
Stay tuned to BJPenn.com for more on Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine
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Gotcha, cool. Thanks for clearing that up.
Bats lost the game 8-5
The relievers allowed 4 runs in the 8th to lose the game
Herrera: 0 IP, 1 hit, 1 run, 1 ER
Roenicke: 1/3 IP, 3 hits, 2 runs, 2 ER
Coffey pitched a scoreless 9th with 2 K
As for the hitters:
D. T. Anderson:2-4, 1 triple
Barker-1-3, 1 triple
Rosales- 2-4
Griffin- 2-4, 1 double
Juan Duran went 1-3 with a walk and a triple.
But the walks are a great sign of his patience at the plate. Duran has shown two tools I normally question in "great talent" signings-- patience and speed.
The power should come in a couple years (although three extra-base hits isn't at all bad), the glove and arm will show up later as well. But the patience is really good to see this early.
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
-- Christy Matthewson
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With 103 days until the Nov. 6 election, candidates are slowly emerging to declare their intentions to run for open seats on the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills city councils and local school boards.
Aug. 10 is the deadline for council candidates to submit paperwork to their respective city clerks and for school board candidates to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.
The following election snapshot offers an overview of how the races are shaping up.
Los Altos
As of July 20, five Los Altos residents have pulled paperwork to run for three city council seats in November. Two of the open seats result from Councilmen Ron Packard and David Casas being termed out of office.
According to Los Altos Deputy City Clerk Jon Maginot, the list of current candidates consists of Jon Baer, Jeannie Bruins, Jan Pepper, Anabel Pelham and incumbent Councilwoman Megan Satterlee.
Baer and Bruins are former members of the now-defunct Planning Commission, with Baer serving as chairman prior to its dissolution. Baer currently sits on the city's new Planning and Transportation Commission.
Pelham is a member of the city's Senior Commission, while Jan Pepper was 2011-2012 president of the League of Women Voters of the Los Altos-Mountain View Area and currently serves the organization in a communications role.
The number of candidates expressing interest in running for a city council seat comes as no surprise to Los Altos Mayor Val Carpenter, who noted that eight candidates emerged the last time the city had three seats up for grabs in 2003. Carpenter added that she expects a few additional candidates to emerge before the Aug. 10 filing deadline.
"It's early days," Carpenter said. "I've been predicting for over a year now that it would be a field of eight. It's a good field so far and there will be more."
Los Altos Hills
Election fever has yet to spread to Los Altos Hills, where three city council seats are up for grabs in the fall election. After eight years of service, Councilman Jean Mordo is termed out of office.
Incumbent Councilmembers Rich Larsen and Ginger Summit have not declared whether they intend to run for re-election.
Two nonincumbent candidates, however, have picked up paperwork from the city clerk and expressed their interest in running for council. Los Altos Hills Pathways Committee member Courtenay Corrigan sent a letter to supporters June 13 announcing her intention to run. John Harpootlian, a member of the town's Planning Commission, pulled paperwork June 17 but has yet to declare his candidacy.
Councilman John Radford, whose term expires in 2014, said the November election cycle is off to a slow start.
"Two years ago when I ran, two candidates declared by February and a full campaign began in March," he said.
Radford wants candidates to know that serving in office can be fun, but it "is a real job, with a real set of responsibilities – responsibilities for important decisions on how the city runs."
School boards
As of Monday, no newcomers had stated their intentions to compete for seats on the three local school boards, but a host of incumbents plan to run again.
Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District incumbents Phil Faillace and Susan Sweeley have pulled paperwork from the county registrar to run for two open seats on the board.
Foothill-De Anza Community College District incumbents Joan Barram, Betsy Bechtel and Laura Casas Frier have obtained paperwork from the registrar to vie for three available seats.
In the race for two seats on the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees, incumbent Steve Taglio has pulled paperwork. The remaining incumbent, Bill Cooper, has yet to declare his candidacy.


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Special stories recall and honor fathers
Dads change diapers — so many of them, at all hours of the day and night.
And they change them with efficiency and competence, not the hapless bumbling often played for yuks on mediocre TV shows.
Also, dads plait soft, flyaway hair into respectable braids and kiss boo-boos better. They
assemble a mean lasagna and take
a deep breath before addressing a middle school miscreant who has just arrived home from a stint in the principal's office.
They take toddlers to the park without pratfalls and young adults to college without totally falling apart (though the tears are inevitable). They extend a steady, guiding hand through marriages, first mortgages, new parenthood.
And their children remember — the moments, the glances, the conversations, the events. What their dads do and say, whether they realize it or not, helps craft the adults that children become.
Father's Day is the time to think, "I remember when my dad…" and experience the memories as fresh as when they happened. In honor of dads, we asked people to share those "I remember when my dad…" moments.
I remember when my dad…
...and I went on a fishing trip in eastern North Carolina when I was home from grad school. We were having an amazing day intercepting striped bass making their yearly spawning run. I pulled in a nice one but realized the fish swallowed the hook. My dad said, "Just cut the line and tie another hook, that one's a keeper." He was right, it was a keeper, but no way was I going to cut the line and tie another hook.
Holding the fish's mouth with my left hand, I struggled to free the hook with pliers in my right. My dad didn't even look back from his fishing chair and said, "You're going to hook yourself." I kept trying to free the hook, pulling and contorting with ever-increasing force. Suddenly, the hook freed and went directly into my left hand — in the meat of my palm and out the other side. My dad could hear my deep stomach grunt and squeal as I dropped the fish and pliers in the boat. He never looked back, just cast his rod and said, "Yep, told ya."
Now a father, I understand that frustration. Sometimes you just have to say, "Yep, told ya."
— Chris Joyner about his father, Alvin Joyner
I remember when my dad…
...taught me to ski. He started me out before I was 2 years old, and when I got older he would put me between his skis and help me go up the rope tows at the little Midwest ski areas in Wisconsin and Illinois. One time, when I was about 5, I was bombing straight down a hill and went off the edge of the trail where they had pushed down some big trees to clear the run. My skis went into the roots of one of the trees and I started screaming. The tree looked like a big monster to me. My dad had to take his skis off and wade through three feet of snow to get me out.
"You have to turn," he said to me. So, I eventually learned to turn.
He always encouraged my interest in skiing, and he understood why I moved away from home after college to be a ski bum in Colorado. I know he would have loved to live in Colorado as well. Unfortunately, he had bad knees and 15 knee surgeries over his lifetime, so the snow and ice sent my folks to Florida to retire instead. My dad's been gone for more than 21 years now, but I miss him all the time, especially around Father's Day.
— Kristin Winn about her father, Harold Ragnar Rud
I remember when my dad…
...would be in charge of me on the weekends, mostly Saturdays. My mom worked five days a week and saved Saturday for chore day, and she'd mostly just want me out of the way. Back then, folks didn't plan "play dates" as they do now. We just tagged along.
Daddy loved the Saturday sales at Perry's Auction. About belt-high, I would mingle among the crowd, ever so mindful not to step in "chew" or get spat on. Daddy would give me a nickel and I could get a soda pop (preferably orange) or an ice cream bar. Against the back fence were the cages of chickens and rabbits and tables of potatoes and onions. When it was all over, Daddy would stand in line at the little pay shack to claim whatever he had bought. Sometimes he'd bring home a box of miscellany for mother that would contain some antique dishes or knickknacks.
In the spring, I would just follow him around the garden as he rototilled, irrigated or planted. In the summer, we'd go fishing on Grand Mesa. He'd fish, and I'd sit up in the aspen trees, reading and carving my initials in a tree. I suppose these were play dates, but they weren't about me. They were about my dad and his leisure time and me being there with him. He didn't have to entertain me, he just had to be and let me be me.
— Priscilla Mangnall about her father, Louis Brown
I remember when my dad…
...was always daring us to do something. One day, my mom had made banana bread, and we had leftover refried beans from dinner. My dad dared us to eat the banana bread with refried beans on it. We told him we would only do it if he did it first. He did (and oddly found he liked the taste of it) and then the rest of us had to as well.
But the thing I remember most about my dad was that he was always there. He is not a person who hugs or shows emotion much, but I always knew how much he loved us because he always showed up to all of our events to support us and was always so proud no matter how we did. I can never express how much that meant to me and my siblings.
— Alisha Howard about her father, Greg Roles
I remember when my dad…
...was the love of my impressionable, 4-year-old heart.
Four-year-olds, of course, don't understand the demands of adulthood, the realities of bills and relationships and running a household and raising a child and just plain making it all work.
Both my parents were babies themselves when they had me, their first. My mom was 19 and my dad was 23. They worked hard to do what they were supposed to as a young family, to not only make ends meet but to make life seem meaningful. I remember that time — the early 1980s — as a simpler one, an easier one somehow, to raise a child, to find that elusive happiness we all seem to want.
Or that's my grown-up view of what it was like, back then. My mom and dad, who later divorced, may have a different view entirely.
My dad, back then, would take me to the neighborhood park in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where I was born, and we played superheroes. I would strap red and blue plastic bracelets to my little-girl wrists and pretend to be Wonder Woman. He would be Batman and Robin and anyone else I wanted him to be and together we would fight bad guys.
We always won.
Wonder Woman, today, is my truth teller, my reminder to lead a brave life, to take chances, to not be afraid. To live with the naivete and wonder we all had when we were 4.
— Veronica Daehn Harvey about her father, Michael Daehn
I remember when my dad…
...would come home from deployments while we were stationed in Germany. I was very young and would wait anxiously by the front window for him. As soon as he walked in, and while he was still in his uniform, we would turn on some Elvis or Buddy Holly and dance around the living room. It always ended with us on our backs, legs and arms flailing wildly in the air, doing my favorite "Dead Bug" dance move. We still love dancing around the house… although the Dead Bug isn't our staple move anymore.
— Erica Maddox about her father,
David Maddox
I remember when my dad…
...took me to Bodie, California, a ghost town. It was a hot summer day and dust was everywhere! As my dad and I, recovering from a night sleeping in a tent when it was 40 degrees out, were wandering around this old town, we came to a church, the Methodist Church of Bodie. I just remember how we stared into the church through metal gates, looking at all of the pennies that had been thrown on the floor — hundreds of them, starting from the gate and scattered all the way up to the pulpit. As we were staring into the church, my dad says, "I wonder how many wheat pennies are in there?"
My father and I have spent years collecting wheat pennies and we plan on taking my daughter back to Bodie next summer.
— Katie Formicola, about her father,
Pete DeBever
I remember when my dad…
...took an 11-year-old me to the library, checked out "The Catcher In the Rye" and handed it to me. Not only did he trust that I could grasp the literature at that young age, but he recognized that it would resonate with me in a way that I never anticipated. It remains my favorite book, and the only one that I have read multiple times.
— Nicole Falcone about her father, Nicholas Angelo Falcone
I remember when my dad…
...gave me my ninth birthday present. Over the previous year, I had been replaying Martina McBride's greatest hits album over and over in my bulky, silver CD player. So, he presented to me two tickets to Country Jam, which happens on my birthday weekend almost every year. That particular year, Martina McBride was playing on Saturday.
Excited for my first concert, my father and I headed out to Mack to experience what now is one of my favorite childhood memories. The day was HOT, a completely scorching summer day. After wandering around the Jam for a couple of hours, and sucking down gallons of ice-cold lemonade, we made our way through the dusty crowd to our seats toward the back of the VIP section.
I can remember the sun starting to set and the cool air thermals crawling down the mountains. Finally, Martina took the stage and the crowd was absolutely nuts. As Martina was belting out "This One's For the Girls," my godparents, who were sitting in the front row, quickly traded seats with my father and me, and I got to see my musical idol perform not 10 feet in front of me. And I could swear to this day that Martina looked straight at me and winked. It was one of the happiest moments of my life, and I have to thank my dad for giving me the musical experience that I still treasure today.
— Kate Shuman about her father, Robert Shuman
I remember when my dad…
...won season tickets to the Broncos in 1965. It was through a contest at Arby's and he was awarded two free lunches and two tickets to each game for the entire season. I had a younger brother and my dad was a huge Broncos fan, yet he sacrificed his two tickets so that his sons could attend each game that year. My dad would drive us to Arby's before each home game, get us lunch and then drive us to the game, waiting in the parking lot until it was over so he could drive us home.
This was not as meaningful to me at the time he was doing it, but when my own son, Jason, was born, I fully understood the love you have and the willingness to give everything you have to your children.
My father passed away 29 years ago when my son was only 1, and I never got to have a real adult conversation with him as a man before he was gone. If I had the opportunity to have that conversation now, I'd tell him he instilled great virtue in me by doing this, as well as other wonderful things, for his children.
— Doug Sorter about his father, Arnold Sorter


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Could Weston Village Stores be the luckiest village shop in our area?
Two lucky customers have each had £20,000 wins in the past three weeks. The ladies, who have declined to waive their anonymity, are regulars at the shop and buy a Lottery ticket every week.
This isn't the first time that a Lottery win has occurred at the shop. Before current owner Vanraj Odedra (32) bought the shop, another lucky person won £10,000 on the Health Lottery.
Camelot, who operate the National Lottery, are now planning on promoting the village shop to show other customers that people have been winning big sums of money in there.
Weston Village Stores has also already been promoted by the Health Lottery.
However, luck isn't just on the side of the customers who visit there.
Mr Odedra's sister, Rupal, won £500 on a scratch card which she bought in the Weston Village Store just two weeks after her brother took charge of the shop, having never won anything before.
Mr Odedra, who took over the business in December 2013, said: "It is great that people have won such a large amount of money from tickets they bought in the shop.
"Quite a few people say that this shop is lucky for them – one customer wins every week. Many of our customers travel from far away just to buy Lottery tickets and scratch cards."


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By Tina Snell, Staff Writer
On June 16, Paul Koehler was both ordained and installed as pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Motley. St. John's was not only the church he attended as a child when visiting his grandparents in Motley, but also the church his father, Edward Koehler, was the pastor of from 1995 – 2011.
"From the time I can remember, I wanted to be like my father," said Koehler. "In college I wanted to serve God, but didn't feel I had the tools. I also loved working with children so I went into teaching."
Koehler spent 20 years teaching in Lutheran Schools. He and his family, wife Lesa and daughters Jessica and Erica, moved to the Baxter area in 2006 when he was hired to be both principal and teach at the Family of Christ Lutheran School.
"The school closed in 2010, and that's when I decided to attend school through Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Mo.," he said. "I took courses online in a specific ministry program designed for those people who had prior ministerial experience. My years working in Lutheran schools gave me that."
In 2011, Koehler became the vicar, or apprentice, at St. John's. He had all the duties of an ordained pastor, leading worship and teaching adult and confirmation classes. Being vicar gave him the practical experience with the intention of being called to become the official pastor.
Koehler got that call the same day he was ordained. It was the first ordination ever held at St. John's.
"I will now be officially supporting the congregation, and they, me," he said.
Koehler's father, Edward, ended his pastor's job when he had a stroke in 2011. He worked with and mentored his son for five weeks before he passed away in 2012.
"I do wish I was able to work with him longer," said Koehler, who is now paired with, and mentored by, retired pastor Paul Biegner in Brainerd.
When the school in Baxter closed, Koehler said he knows another door opened for him. He thought becoming a pastor was what God wanted him to be and as it turned out, it was.
During his ordination and installment as pastor of St. John's, Lesa said the congregation had tears in their eyes.
"It was sad to lose Edward, but it was also great to be supporting and welcoming his son, too. It was a sad, but happy day," said Lesa.
Lesa said that her husband is a great teacher and she cannot think of him doing anything else.
"He's engaging and he speaks from the heart," she said. "When he teaches, people listen, and when he's with children, he has lots of patience."
In their spare time, Paul loves to play guitar, both acoustic and electric. Both his children also play instruments and together they play in church with other members of the congregation.
The Koehlers also love a good movie and enjoy traveling to visit family.
For St. John's, Koehler would like to implement both a choir and a bell choir, more Bible studies and both a men's and youth group. He knows it will take time.
"I feel privileged and honored to be received so well at St. John's," he said. "I hope to also become more involved in the Motley community."


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I'm sixteen. I am going to have some type nose surgery soon because I have a deviated septum. I was wondering if I could be a candidate to get an upper blepharoplasty when I get the other surgery. Or even if I should consider it at all with my eyes. My one eye is more hooded so could I get it done on one eye? And how much would it cost if I combined it with the other surgery?
Should I Get Blepharoplasty? (photo)
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Should I Get Blepharoplasty?
No! Just correct the nose/septum ONLY! As you read from ALL of us expert posters you are NOT a candidate for any eyelid surgery.
No to the Bleph
The simple answer is no. The pictures do not show me any indication that you have skin/fat/muscle laxity of your eyelids.
Dr. ES
Blepharoplasty and nose surgery at 16?
You do not need a blepharoplasty and minor asymmetry of the upper lids is normal. If the nose bothers you then it is reasonable to seek having it treated.
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Eyelid surgery
I agree with the other doctors- you do not need eyelid surgery. There may be some minor differences in the appearance or position of your left and right eyelids, but there is no indication for surgery in this case. Good luck!
Blepharoplasty at 16
Based on your photos, you are not a candidate for a blepharoplasty. You are also too young for that type of surgery.
Blepharoplasty at 16
You do have slightly more fullness on the side you mention. However, the difference is very small. Therefore, you would have surgery, which can have complications, to get a very small benefit at best.
Blepharoplasty at 16? No
This is a very easy question to answer. There are no indications or reasons to consider this elective cosmetic eyelid surgery at age 16. If a 30 year old patient showed these photos, the answer would be the same. The procedure must match the indications and be suitable for the patient seeking treatment. A Blepharoplasty at age 16 would not offer any benefit and introduce unnecessary risk.
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Blepharoplasty candidate at 16?
While it certainly is possible to have rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty done at the same time, in my opinion, I would not recommend the blepharoplasty. First of all, at your age of 16, there will still be some changes that occur to your eyes as you become an adult. I do see the difference that you mention, but I think your result would be subtle at this point and not worth the trouble and risk of the surgery to your eyes.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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On current trends within two years it will be almost impossible for recreational drug users to get a job with larger companies. drug testing at work is probably the single most effective weapon we have against adult substance abuse. It is a proven, low cost strategy which identifies those needing help, reduces demand, cuts accidents and sick leave, improves attendance and increases productivity.
Yet testing is (or rather was) highly controversial: it penalises users with positive tests that can bear little or no relation to work performance, encourages knee-jerk dismissal and discrimination at interview. It costs money, invades privacy and smacks of authoritarianism.
Despite all this, almost overnight it has become fashionable to talk of testing millions of people at work for both alcohol and drugs. Just over six months ago the idea seemed so extreme that the government cut it out of the White Paper altogether - with small concessions for prisons and roadside.
In a dramatic policy shift, drugs czar Keith Halliwell and government Ministers have started encouraging drug testing by employers. They are following a quiet revolution, largely unreported because firms have been scared of bad publicity.
The government's own Forensic Science Agency alone carried out over a million workplace tests last year, with a rush of interest from transport, construction, manufacturing and financial services industries. Last month the International Petroleum Exchange joined London Transport and many others in random testing.
This stampede to test follows spectacular success in America when many had declared the mega-war against drugs all but lost. The drugs industry accounts for 8% of all international trade according to the UN. Education, customs, police, crop destruction and prison sentences have failed to deliver so testing has become highly attractive, even at the cost of civil liberties.
80% of all large companies already spend over £200m a year testing for drugs at work, affecting 40% of the US work force. By 2005 up to 80% of all workers will be covered.
But Britain also has a significant and growing problem with addiction. 8% of men and 2% of women in Britain abuse drugs or alcohol, costing at least £3bn a year in accidents and absence alone.
Every office, factory, train operator, airline, construction company and hospital is affected with serious risks to public health and profitability. Workplace testing in America is being forced on employers for economic and safety reasons. Drug companies that don't test will go bust. Their insurance premiums will go through the roof.
US studies show that substance abusers (including alcohol) are 33% less productive, three times as likely to be late, four times as likely to hurt others at work or themselves, five times as likely to sue for compensation, and ten times as likely to miss work.
When the State of Ohio introduced random testing they found absenteeism dropped 91%, there were 88% less problems with supervisors and 97% decrease in on-the-job injuries. These results are so striking that many companies are now screening job applicants.
One plastics company realised many workers were taking amphetamines to keep awake after they lengthened shifts to twelve hours. Staff found tell-tale powder residues and scratch marks on equipment. They estimated that 20% of the workforce were taking drugs. After random testing was introduced drug-taking fell to negligible levels.
A Wisconsin cardboard factory was contacted recently by their insurers who were worried about high levels of injuries. Random testing was introduced and accidents fell 72% the following year, with an 80% decrease in days lost as a result.
Health and safety will be the driving force at first in the UK. Take doctors: a recent report in the Lancet revealed that 37% of male junior doctors were using cannabis and 14% cocaine, amphetamines, barbiturates, LSD, ecstasy, magic mushrooms or other substances. The figure for women was 12%. But that's just the ones willing to admit it.
The BMA's own figures suggest around 8% of all doctors may abuse either alcohol or illegal drugs, including cocaine, crack and heroin. However that is based on self-reports in surveys and they are hardly likely to overstate the problem. On the contrary, my own view is that the true figure is likely to be around 10%. That's almost 10,000 doctors, treating perhaps 200,000 patients every day. Do you, your relatives or your own patients want to be operated on by a surgeon who is suffering from withdrawal? In an operating theatre with two anaesthetists, a consultant and two junior doctors there is a 50% risk that one of the team is a substance abuser.
I am appalled at the stance of the BMA, who have long been opposed to random testing of doctors. They say we are sensible enough to come forward for help, and those that don't are informed upon. Both these claims are complete fiction, judging by the vast gap between numbers with dependency and the few who have been identified. The BMA's resistance to random testing will be over-ruled soon. We know that it is very difficult in practice for - say - a GP to inform on a senior partner because it is immediately obvious who's done it. Likewise, what chance would a junior doctor have after informing on a Consultant, especially without hard proof - which requires a test, and in the case of alcohol a test at the right time? And very few doctors volunteer for help.
We will never know how many have died under the knife of an intoxicated surgeon or as a result of a physician's drug-clouded mind. Doctors don't like admitting errors, even in court long after the event, by which time evidence of substance abuse has vanished.
If you're too drunk or doped to drive, or drive a train, you shouldn't be operating - nor working a crane or cement mixer for that matter. Nor should you be defending someone in court nor making huge financial decisions on which other people's future will depend.
Testing is cheap. Breathalysers cost £40 with virtually no running costs while £30 urine tests for drugs only have to be carried out on a few to be effective. For example, London Transport tests just 5% of drivers a year.
That means each worker is checked on average once every twenty years. Hardly a mass invasion of privacy, yet more than enough to be a powerful deterrent. In America positive test rates have fallen from 13.6% to 4.9% in a decade. This is a method that works.
However random testing is barbaric unless introduced sensitively as part of a comprehensive package of education and access to confidential treatment. The primary aim should not be to sack, but to discourage abuse, offer help, to treat. The most effective programmes are those where the workforce approves a humane, compassionate and fair anti-drugs policy. However those who place others lives at serious risk must expect to face the consequences.
There are many unresolved problems with testing: for example cannabis tests are almost useless with positive tests weeks after use. What blood levels are acceptable for illegal drugs? Who should be tested? How often and what action should be taken?
Some argue for tests only where performance is poor. But by then a fellow worker may have lost an arm, a leg, an eye or a hand - a patient her own life. The aim of testing is to prevent mistakes, not to allocate blame after the event.
One thing is clear: drug and alcohol testing will continue to spread fast regardless of government support, as the most practical and cost effective way to strengthen existing drugs and alcohol policies at work. It will be introduced well or very badly. Either we take hold of the issue now or the issue will take hold of us.
Schools are facing a new drugs epidemic this Autumn - 1.5 million pupils in the UK have already taken drugs - 300,000 will try them this year. Over 700,000 starting High School this week will find ready access to every illegal drug - from friends. More than 10% will have tried them by the Summer.
Every High School has a drugs problem. Every classroom is affected whether teachers realise it or not. Some pupils are suffering after effects of drug-taking almost every day. Drug-dealing leads to violence: pupils are scared to inform teachers, afraid of being beaten up, knifed or killed. The "pusher at the gate" is a myth. Pupils usually get drugs from friends.
The good news is that most pupils are non-users - however drug-users make them feel minority freaks for abstaining. That's a terrible thing: it means the drug-using minority are making everyone else feel they are just about the only abstainers in the world - and media overkill doesn't help. Non-users need urgent help to create their own, powerful anti-drugs culture at school, so they feel good about saying "no". Too many schools lessons on drugs actually encourage use because they give facts in a moral vacuum.
In Britain and many other nations Christians have been at the cutting edge of developing new care services and in prevention. It is well known that strong faith is linked to lower addiction levels and that a profound conversion experience is often followed by successful rehabilitation. Centres like Yeldall manor have set a national standard for professionalism in a non-judgmental environment, with Christian values shaping the organisation but not rammed down people's throats. There is a grave shortage of decent rehab facilities in Britain today. Rehab works. There is life after heroin and crack.
The trouble is that until the church sorts out its position on tobacco, it has little to say to the cannabis user. When did you last hear a sermon on smoking? Yet nicotine is probably more addictive than heroin, and certainly a greater killer. Nicotine is also a gateway drug for younger teenagers. An excellent predictor of future use of cannabis and other drugs is whether or not the teenager already smokes. The church has moved away from abstention as an option, with the death of the temperance movement over the last sixty years. However, expect to see a new rationale for abstention, based on the fact that little in absolute health terms can be martialled against cannabis and ecstasy which should not also be made against alcohol. Example is vital: both in non-use of tobacco and moderate or non-use of alcohol.
The starting point for a believer is that all things in creation have been made by God and that we are called to "control and subdue" the earth (Gen 1v21). However components of creation are not to control and subdue us. We are made in the image of God and our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. (I Cor 6v19). We are told that the issue is not so much the letter of the law - for example does the bible ban cannabis? - but the attitude towards life. "Everything is permissible for me - but not everything is beneficial" says Paul (I Cor 6v12). Example should also influence the believer. (2 Tim 3v10-11)
The biggest drug problem in biblical times was alcohol abuse and the bible is very clear on this, and on the relationship between addiction and faith - or lack of it. Paul suggests replacing drunkenness on alcohol with being "drunk" in the Holy Spirit. "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the Holy Spirit." (Eph 5v18). What a strange thing to say! He could so easily have stopped at the end of the first command, as most of our sermons do. Don't get drunk. Instead he follows on with a further command. The two in his mind are linked.
He is not talking about an intellectual grasp of faith that delivers someone from addiction. He is describing an experience of God's power and grace that is so powerful and overwhelming that the person is transformed, changing their habits and desires. Indeed that is the experience of many kicking a drug or alcohol habit as they have found faith. "Faith in Jesus is the biggest buzz a man can ever have". Paul's link of two commands reminds us of an event in history that he knew much about but missed: the day of Pentecost. On that occasion, disciples filled with the Holy Spirit were at first indistinguishable in the eyes of observers from those who were drunk (Acts 2v13). Their psychomotor apparatus was beginning to fail. The disciples themselves were struck by the Holy Spirit in an outward, obvious and dramatic way. Though the outward symptoms would soon fade, their lives from that moment would never be the same.
And what of the cannabis debate? Cannabis and other minor drugs are often portrayed as natural, relatively harmless things. However new evidence shows long term damage to brain function in both cannabis and Ecstasy users. Most people accept that legalisation would bring prices down and lead to increased consumption, which would be a costly price to pay for the benefit of hitting the illegal drugs industry. I don't want to live in a world where cannabis finds it's way around as easily and as legally as packets of cigarettes in the school playground.
But conventional prevention and control methods are failing, and if the drugs war is to succeed we land up back at the door of random testing. That's why a government opposed to legalisation has come to the reluctant conclusion that random tests are needed. Expect them not only at work but also at school, in measures introduced by teachers, parents and governors in conjunction with pupils themselves, the majority of whom, as we have seen are not interested in taking them.
Many physicians are beginning to recognise that cannabis seems to help some patients yet the substance is banned. This is illogical. Doctors have used cocaine in the old Brompton Mixture for pain until it fell into disfavour. We give heroin to relieve suffering. Why the hangup about cannabis? My own view is that medicinal use of cannabis or its derivatives is entirely consistent with the Christian position. The best way forward would seem to me to approve cannabis on prescription, but under strict limits, for example in helping relieve symptoms in the dying.
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Dr Oz's Show on August 19, 2011 was a massive Surprise Party! Even Doctor Oz himself got a big surprise when he kids showed up. Dr Oz spoke about different tips to help us live a better and longer in life in just one minute every day. For example, by taking 200 mcg of Chromium Polynicotinate, you can help decrease your chances of getting Diabetes. And if you are looking to boost the iron in your body (many people – especially women – are Anemic or generally low in Iron), and to help your blood flow better, you should try Dr Oz's Red Drink Recipe that is made with beets.
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Dr Oz also did a segment on a Weight-Loss Plateau Sundae, which is a great dish to eat for breakfast to help you lose weight. The Breakfast Sundae is made of delicious ingredients like a banana, strawberries, low-fat Greek yogurt, ground flaxseed, unsweetened coconut and Matcha Green Tea. Doctor Oz was pretty convincing about the Matcha Green Tea being a great "secret ingredient" for helping all of us to lose weight when we start to plateau! And how adorable was it to see Joseph do a surprise proposal to his girlfriend Stephanie… absolutely perfect for a Surprise Party Show!


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Officials in Glenview, which experienced major flooding during a storm in April, say sandbags and shovels are available at several locations for residents who want to protect their property as forecasters warn of the potential for another big storm.
As of 4 p.m., Northbrook officials were not expecting to have sandbags out for residents just yet.
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World Trade Center beam to be part of Tampa memorial
TAMPA - A steel girder from the fallen World Trade Center may find a home in Ybor City alongside a Hillsborough County sheriff's history museum and a memorial park for fallen officers. Preliminary plans call for the girder to be displayed near the streetcar stop at Eighth Avenue and 20th Street and next to the proposed memorial park, said sheriff's Lt. Chad Chronister. Across the parking lot from the park and girder memorial, a museum showcasing 160 years of sheriff's office history will be displayed in a historic "casita," which is Spanish for the small homes inhabited by cigar workers in the early 20th century. "It will be part of the Ybor City tour," Chronister said of the three attractions. "They will make Ybor City even more of a desirable destination for tourists."The final location for the girder still must be approved by the county's Public Arts Committee at its Feb. 14 meeting. Steel girders from the trade center, destroyed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, were made available to more than 1,100 local governments by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Tampa received two pieces, one of which is displayed on Bayshore Boulevard leading into MacDill Air Force Base. The other is in the Tampa Firefighters Museum. Sheriff David Gee obtained the county's girder in April 2011 after requesting one a couple of years earlier, said sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway. The sheriff had to send a trailer to bring the beam back to Tampa. "One of the stipulations was, if you wanted a piece, you had to go get it. And that's what we did," Callaway said. County Commissioner Mark Sharpe persuaded the commission to appropriate $50,000 for engineering and conceptual work. Another $200,000 was appropriated through the county's Public Art Program for construction. The Public Art Committee created a sub-panel to work on finding a location for the girder and a design for the memorial. A request for designs, sweetened with a $5,000 prize for the winner, drew 28 submissions. The panel members chose several designs they thought stood out, but a final choice was put on hold because of uncertainty about the girder's final destination. Originally, the subcommittee had considered putting the girder at Tampa's Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park on the Garrison Channel waterfront. After some discussion, however, subcommittee members decided the park was too small for the 14-foot, 1,500-pound steel beam. "Yes, you could put something in there, but it would look crowded," said Eric Larson, Sharpe's aide and a member of the site committee. "It would have just been too much in too small of a place." Joe Chillura Courthouse Square Park, across from the Frederick B. Karl County Center downtown, also was considered, but some members of the subcommittee felt the beam would put the other monuments in the park "out of balance." "Anytime you place a memorial to honor victims or heroes, it needs to be treated with a great deal of certainty," said Kenneth Cowart, an architect and member of the subcommittee. "Nobody on the site committee was certain Chillura Park was the right place." The site indecision has delayed the selection of a design. But Chronister said he thinks it will get this done this year, along with the museum and park. "This is very important to the sheriff," Chronister said. "This is something he wants to have built, and he wants to have it built sooner rather than later."
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Swelling, itching and redness after Fractional CO2 laser is to be expected to last 2-4 days. Taking oral Benadryl is helpful to faciliate resolution of swelling, itching, as well as associated insomnia. While cool or ice compress will definitely help to minimize post-treatment swelling/edema, doing so is to be avoided as it may counteract with the inflammation triggered by Fractional CO2 Laser resurfacing which may be necessary for post-treatment stimulation of collagen production. Ideally, Fractional CO2 Laser resurfacing (ActiveFx, TotalFx, Fraxel Repair, Mixto, etc.) should be done by an experienced board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeons who has done several other patients of your skin type.
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Murder Suspect Joran van der Sloot Files 10 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Victim's Dad
Just the face of this guy makes me sick. The arrogance, cockiness, and his sense of entitlement is unreal. Doesn't this look like he just wants to be in the media again. He wants more attention. It is being covered in the news because other people are affected in this story. But still he he is just the lowest of low.
Why is he suing? He says that the defendants violated his human rights when he was investigated for the murder of Stephany Flores. Love to hear all about that story….


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Federal Resources Minister
Mr Macfarlane said the problems surrounding gas development in NSW needed to be resolved as soon as possible.
"The main thing at the moment is to get the gas out of the ground," he said in Brisbane. "I don't think anyone, anywhere in Australia doesn't acknowledge there is now a gas crisis looming in 2016.
"My goal is to get this thing moving – we're running out of time."
Mr Macfarlane's new deadline came as
Mr Hartcher told The Australian Financial Review the government was prepared to discuss the companies' concerns, including the merit appeals process, which Santos labels a particular obstacle to proceeding with its $2 billion Pilliga CSG project.
"That is something that if Santos do want to formally want to raise with government, then the government will consider it," he said. "What we are prepared to do is to engage with them in more dialogue if they consider it necessary because we are keen for them to proceed with their investments."
Gas shortage within three years
NSW could face gas shortages within the next three years unless it develops its own CSG resources.
Strict new rules introduced by the government, including a 2 kilometre no-go zone around residential areas, have already ruled out some CSG projects. But others, such as Santos's Pilliga venture, could in theory proceed if the companies had more confidence in regulations.
Santos's vice-president for eastern Australia,
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Some of the mining sector's concerns are being addressed through proposed amendments to the State Environmental Planning Policy for mining, which would give greater priority to the economic benefits of projects. However, the amendments do not cover CSG projects, despite arguments from Santos, AGL and others that they should.
Mr Hartcher's latest comments signal the government could offer concessions . "We're prepared to discuss that with them," he said .
Mr Macfarlane will meet gas producers, consumers and landholders from Casino, in the NSW northern rivers region, in Canberra next week to help resolve the stalemate.
"This meeting will certainly resolve some issues there and give us a path forward," he said. "The main focus needs to be on the Pilliga and Gloucester area, providing gas companies are respectful of the fact that farmers have the right to say no and understand there will be a 2 kilometre buffer."
Mr Macfarlane said he would hold a summit of state and territory governments on the east coast gas supply crisis to ensure there was some action by Christmas.
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Study: Half of suicidal teens got help, but not good enough help
More than half of suicidal teenagers in the U.S. received therapy before they thought about, planned or attempted to kill themselves, a fact that suggests medical professionals need to do a better job of counseling and treating those at-risk youths, a suicide prevention expert said Tuesday.
The Harvard University study, which found that 55 percent had received at least some treatment before attempting suicide or taking a step toward it, contradicts the widely held view that suicide among teens is due in part to a lack of access to therapy, according to Dr. Russell Copelan.
"It's access to competent treatment," Copelan told roughly 80 participants in the Youth Suicide Prevention & Intervention Symposium at the DoubleTree by Hilton.
Tuesday's forum, attended by counselors, teachers and medical professionals from 12 counties, was the fifth such symposium put on by the Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Department of Human Services and Colorado School Safety Resource Center since 2010.
"This is just such a big issue in Colorado," Colorado School Safety Resource Center Director Christine Harms said, noting it was no coincidence that the forum was brought to Grand Junction. Colorado's and Mesa County's suicide rates have far outpaced the U.S. average.
The state's per-capita suicide rate among 15- to 19-year-olds of 13.4 per 100,000 people is higher than the 8.4 per 100,000 rate nationally, and it hasn't changed significantly since 2000, according to Copelan. Those 20 to 24 years old are at an even higher risk for suicide — 17.8 per 100,000 in the state compared to the national average of 12.3.
Tuesday's forum included sessions on conducting risk assessments, intervening after a student completes suicide and school-based prevention programs and planning. Despite suicide rates remaining disturbingly high, Harms said school officials have improved in recent years in their approach to students they believe may be suicidal and getting them the help they need.


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The NBAA Convention in Orlando, Fla., which concluded yesterday, attracted 30,811 attendees, just shy of the 30,963 people at the event last year in Atlanta. It was a "solid turnout" given all the circumstances, in the opinion of association president and CEO Ed Bolen. "This year's show comes amid spikes in the cost of fuel, tightening credit markets and a challenging economy. Business aviation has been impacted by adverse economic trends like every other industry, so we're pleased that our convention continues to offer a valuable marketing and networking opportunity." By the numbers, there were about 1,100 exhibiting companies at the Orange County Convention Center and a record-breaking 139 business aircraft on static display at Orlando Executive Airport. Overall, the tone at the show was "subdued," reported UBS business jet industry analyst David Strauss. "Manufacturers continued to profess confidence in their backlogs, with very few cancellations thus far, [but] aircraft brokers we spoke with said international demand has slowed considerably, with very little activity out of Russia, although the Middle East is still active," he said. "Outside of the manufacturers, most we spoke with estimate that 10 to 25 percent of the backlog is at risk to go away and potentially more if lenders really pull back from the market." However, he said, money is available for companies and individuals that offer an appealing credit risk and the deal terms are better for lenders today because fewer players are chasing business in the current environment.
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Fresh off landing the nation's No. 2 recruiting class, the Ohio State coaching staff is not simply taking a break and celebrating a great finish. Instead, the staff will host some big-time unofficial visitors this weekend from the class of 2014. Below, we take a look at the loaded list of visitors that are scheduled to be on campus throughout the weekend.
O-line well represented
It is imperative that Ohio State signs a big class along the offensive line in 2014. With one already in the fold, the Buckeyes would love to wrap up a couple more early on so that they can focus their efforts down the stretch on a select few targets.
Two of the biggest targets for Ohio State at the position will be on campus this weekend in Chicago (Ill.) De La Salle product Jamarco Jones and Lancaster (Ohio) product Kyle Trout. For Jones, the 6-foot-5, 285-pound prospect will be making it a two-day affair as he will arrive on Saturday, spend the night, and then leave after taking in the Men's basketball game against Indiana.
An interesting note on Jones is that he hit a growth spurt during the fall. Jones was in the 6-foot-3.5 range back in the summer which brought up some questions about whether or not he had the build of a true tackle. Now standing much closer to the listed 6-foot-5, those questions seem to be answered.
With Trout, he will once again make the short drive to Columbus from Lancaster. Trout has said that he had originally hoped to take his time with the recruiting process but after recently picking up an Ohio State offer, his time table may have been moved up. This is definitely a situation to watch over the weekend.
Peach State duo
While not all of the Georgia prospects that were originally scheduled to make an unofficial visit this weekend will make it, there are still a pair of big-time prospects that are expected. Among them is Cedartown (Ga.) running back Nick Chubb. The four-star prospect already holds more than a dozen offers, including schools such as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, and Tennessee, among others.
Tyrone (Ga.) Sandy Creek product Demarre Kitt also expects to make the trip north, and like Chubb, Kitt is closing in on 20 offers already. Kitt is an early high four-star prospect by Rivals.com and is one of the top wide receiver prospects in the nation. Kitt has put Ohio State among his favorites along with Clemson and Oregon.
Migrating south
A pair of big-time juniors on the defensive line will make their way south to Columbus from Michigan this weekend in Southfield (Mich.) weakside defensive end Lawrence Marshall and Detroit (Mich.) Loyola strongside defensive end Malik McDowell.
Marshall, a 6-foot-4, 205-pound prospect, already holds 11 offers including one from the Buckeyes. Getting the athletic pass-rusher on campus is a good first step for Ohio State as they look to try and land a few big name prospects from the state of Michigan in this class.
McDowell could be the top overall prospect in the Midwest for the class of 2014. The 6-foot-6, 292-pound prospect is an early high four-star prospect by Rivals.com and already has offers from all of the heavy hitters in the Midwest. This one is shaping up to be a classic Midwest battle with schools such as Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, and Ohio State all involved and getting McDowell down for a visit is certainly good news for the Buckeyes as they try and make a move on one of the nation's top defensive linemen.


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Khartoum - Almost 40 000 people may have been displaced by militia arson and looting in Sudan's Darfur region, according to new data obtained by AFP on Tuesday.
More than 19 000 arrivals have been recorded at two camps for displaced people near the South Darfur state capital, Nyala, the International Organisation for Migration said.
That is in addition to an estimated 20 000 whom the UN's World Food Programme on Monday said fled to safety at Saniya Deleiba, a village about 35 kilometres from Nyala.
A WFP team was to travel to the village on Tuesday to determine exactly how many are in need.
Mario Lito Malanca, IOM's chief of mission in Sudan, told AFP that his agency registered 5 473 displaced in Kalma camp and another 14 015 in Al-Salam camp.
The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said on Monday that it had reports of villages burned, looting, and civilian casualties.
However, UNAMID said Sudanese authorities had not allowed peacekeepers into the conflict zone, despite an agreement with the government which says the blue helmets should have freedom of movement.
There are reports of people still fleeing the conflict area, with the security situation unpredictable and gunmen stationed on the main roads to Kalma and Al-Salam, a humanitarian source told AFP.
The new surge of displaced adds to the strain on agencies that were already struggling to assist almost two million people uprooted by 11 years of rebel-government war in Darfur, and a surge of inter-Arab militia fighting last year.
Non-Arab rebels rose up in Darfur in 2003, seeking an end to what they viewed as Arab elites' domination of Sudan's power and wealth.
In response, government-backed Janjaweed militiamen, recruited among the region's Arab tribes, shocked the world with atrocities against civilians.
Analysts say Sudan's cash-starved government can no longer control its former Arab tribal allies, whom it armed against the rebellion.
As a result, the militia have turned on each other in a struggle for resources. They have also been blamed for kidnapping, carjacking and other crimes.
Sources in the area told AFP that "all indications" are that so-called Rapid Support Forces, a Darfur militia, appear to be behind the latest violence.
The Rapid Support Forces had been assisting government operations against rebels in South Kordofan state before they moved on to North Kordofan, the official SUNA news agency reported.
The militia returned to Darfur after North Kordofan governor Ahmed Haroun ordered them out of his territory last month, saying they had "instigated panic and anarchy", SUNA said.
Arriving in Nyala on Monday, the Rapid Support Forces "put on a show of military might that reassured the citizens of the security situation," SUNA said.
It quoted the unit's commander, Major General Abbas Abdel Aziz, as saying the troops "work to protect the citizens and their properties from the rebel forces". - AFP


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Plenty Heavy (Greg Marra, Bjorn Englen, Mike Hansen) released their debut single "Another Bad Day" WORLDWIDE on October 21st, 2016 to iTunes and all digital media outlets.
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Naomi Watts has revealed that playing Princess Diana has been her most challenging role to date.
The actress stars in director Oliver Hirschbiegel's film Diana, which concentrates on the last two year's of the princess's life.
Watts admitted to Manhattan magazine that playing Princess Diana was harder than any character she previously portrayed.
She explained: "It was the hardest thing I've done because of the pressure of everyone's beliefs about who she was, and the fact that it was just really hard to claim her as my own, since everybody else feels they know her."
Watts added that although she wanted to capture the late princess's physical mannerisms, she strived to avoid "mimicry".
She said: "I don't want to get caught up in mimicry and have a mannered performance - that's the worst thing. I want to try to embody her and get the essence of her. Those things are really important to me."
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