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Ms. Pac-Man suffers an untimely death at the hands of a blue-clad ghost, but A.J. Matthews doesn't seem too upset by his failure to navigate the pellet-filled maze without smacking into a homicidal spectre. Instead, Matthews turns around and admires the glowing lights and bleeps and bloops that emanate from a couple dozen arcade machines crowded into the backroom of Logan Hardware.
"It's a generational thing, this is like coming back to a place you remember going to as a kid," said Matthews, 28, of Old Irving Park. "This place really is a treasure in the city."
The sights and sounds of Logan Hardware might evoke the feeling of stepping out of "Back to the Future's" Delorean into 1985, but this is 2012—and the neighborhood arcade, the once ubiquitous quarter-eating staple of American youth culture in the '80s and early '90s, is making a comeback in Chicago—although in a slightly altered form from its Reagan-era heyday.
Logan Hardware, a Logan Square-based record store which already dealt in the nostalgia of selling music on vinyl LPs, reopened in January at 2410 W. Fullerton so that customers could enjoy the arcade cabinet collection of store owner Jim Zespy. Once customers make a purchase, they can slink away to the back and shoot down space aliens in "Galaga" or zap killer robots in "Robotron: 2084."
Meanwhile, the Emporium Arcade Bar—a clone of Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Barcade which serves up craft brews and classic gaming in equal measure—opened this week in Wicker Park with titles ranging from "Arkanoid" to "Xybots." And in the suburbs, places like Galloping Ghost in Brookfield, which brags over 250 old school gaming machines, have popped up recently.
It might sound strange for an arcade revival to occur in a time when many own ultra-powered home game consoles or smartphones with the ability to download these games, but Zespy says going to a place like Logan Hardware to game is a completely different experience than playing the same title on an iPhone.
"It's like music, where you can find instantly find like a terrible YouTube version of a song online, or you can go and actually hold a physical record in your hands and experience it that way, and it's the same with games," Zespy said. "It's about immersion and reconnecting with the past. For me, it reminds me of a time where I was listening to mini-discs in Fargo (N.D.) while playing 'Tron,' trying to get a top 10 score."
Laura Green, who once made music using 8-bit Nintendo systems for the Chicago band I Fight Dragons, said the arcade revival is a part of recent surge of nostalgia among younger people and the popularity of "nerd culture."
"There's a movement where everything old is new again and people in their mid-20s and 30s want to revisit their childhood and want to play 'Burgertime' again or see if they can still beat 'Mario Bros,' said Green, 26, of Lincoln Square. "I've been to barcades in other cities, and it's cool how people can combine their adult sentiments of going to bars with the experience of being their younger self with these games."
Danny Marks, who, along with his brother Doug, are the co-owners of Emporium Arcade Bar, 1366 N. Milwaukee Ave., believes the arcade revival is also about the social aspect of playing video games in public.
"I think people are going through a 180 a bit and want to play in public more," said Marks, 30, of Bucktown. "People want to be social and this is kind of a fun date night or a party where you can play "Pac-Man" for a few minutes and have a beer."
This wasn't always the case. The rise of powerful home consoles, increasing overhead for more advanced machines, and other economic factors led to the closing of many arcades in the '90s and '00s. According to a 2007 U.S Census business report, there were 2,677 amusement arcades in America, down from approximately 13,000 from its peak in 1980-1981. Chicago's last true neighborhood arcade, Dennis' Place For Games in Lakeview, shut its doors in 2007.
The city of Chicago, in particular, also made life as an owner or potential owner difficult. The city adopted a resolution in 1988 designed to keep kids out of arcades during school hours, though it was later ruled unconstitutional. The city also requires owners to get a special Public Place of Amusement (PPA) license, and zoning laws say arcades have to be 125 feet from a residential district.
Marks said he's had to talk to the city about 20 times in obtaining the proper licenses for Emporium. "Getting a license for an arcade in Chicago should almost be its own video game," he said. "It was really difficult."
Green tried to open her own barcade business near the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park last year, but stopped after vocal opposition from local business owners and community members.
"The laws with arcades are archaic and dated, but I guess it's a way for the city to collect more money from businesses," Green said.
Tangled up in red tape or not, Geoff Przekop, 35, of Lakeview said just he's happy that a place with classic games like Logan Hardware exists.
"I was addicted to these games as a kid, and it's awesome being able to play them again," Prezekop said.
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Captain Michael Clarke expressed his confidence Monday that Australia can reclaim cricket's world number one ranking in a gruelling schedule of 20 Tests in the year ahead.
Australia, currently ranked third, begin their quest to return to the top of world cricket in the first of three Tests against the top-ranked South Africa in Brisbane on November 9.
That will be followed by three Tests at home against Sri Lanka in December-January, a four-Test tour to India in February-March before back-to-back Ashes series away and home.
After dominating world cricket since 1995, Australia's fortunes dived following the retirement of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden, culminating in a 3-1 Ashes defeat at home in the 2010/11 season.
But Australia showed signs of a revival with a 4-0 whitewash of India last summer at home and the emergence of a new generation of rising stars -- David Warner, James Pattinson and Pat Cummins.
"I make no bones about the Australian team getting back on top," Clarke told the official launch of the Australian cricketing summer in Sydney on Monday.
"It's a really exciting 12-15 months, as big a time that I will have in my career.
"I can guarantee you it certainly won't be lack of work ethic that lets the Australian cricket team down."
Clarke said Australia had good foundations to build from their thrashing of India who, only months before, were ranked as the world's leading Test side.
"We started well against India and we are wanting to build on that," Clarke said.
"It is a really exciting time for this young side."
Back-to-back Ashes series will be played for the first time next year in a bid to avoid a scheduling conflict with this year's London Olympics and the 2015 World Cup in Australia.
Clarke said while there was mounting anticipation ahead of the Ashes in England next July-August his side needed to first prove their character against a battle-hardened South Africa.
"We have some really tough opposition in South Africa, the number one side in Test cricket, coming to Australia very soon and our main focus is on that," he said.
"England is always a tough series over there, the Ashes away and the Ashes at home, a very exciting 15 months.
"South Africa are as good a team as there is in the world. They are not only strong with the ball but they have a lot of batting. It is really important for us to stay focused on them and not to look too far forward."
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The No. 28 Florida State men's tennis team (9-2) lost its first match at home this season against No. 11 Florida (6-0) on Saturday. The Seminoles pulled out two singles win at the packed Scott Speicher Tennis Center including an upset and come-from-behind win but lost the tight match 5-2.
"It was an awesome crowd today," said head coach Dwayne Hultquist. "I hope the fans had a good time and come back in the future. I thought we were poised to make some runs in singles. The key to the match was that there were four close first sets and Florida won all of those. If we would have won some of those sets, things would have turned out differently. It was our first time we've lost the doubles point. For me that's always been an important point. Florida played very well winning the deuce points."
In doubles play, the Seminoles rushed out to get the early lead, but the Gators came back to win two matches for the doubles point. Seniors Anderson Reed and Jordan Kelly-Houston lost 8-3 to Michael Alford and Florent Diep on court two. On court three, sophomore Dominic Cotrone and freshman Michael Rinaldi fell to Bob van Overbeek and Stephane Piro 8-3. The match on court one was stopped when the doubles point was clinched.
In singles play, the two teams came out battling with one another. Florida State once again had an early lead but Florida came back to win five first sets. Coming off the courts first was sophomore Benjamin Lock and Piro. The Seminole lost on court three 6-4, 6-2. Almost immediately after the, Reed lost his first match of the year 6-2, 6-4 to Gordon Watson on court four. Senior Andres Bucaro came off the courts next with a 7-5, 6-1 loss to Alford on court five. That win clinched the match for the Gators.
The next finished match of the day was when No. 107 Cotrone upset No. 51 van Overbeek on court one. Cotrone continued his stellar play this season with a strong 6-2, 6-4 win over the seasoned Gator.
"When you play a really good player a second time, it's really hard to beat them again," said Hultquist. "I was proud of Dominic to be able to win convincingly on court number one. He had beaten Bob in the fall and then won again. I like how Dominic had a lot of energy today. He played a lot of tough long games and grinded those out to win them."
Using the momentum from Cotrone's match, junior Blake Davis came back from down one set. On court six, Davis and Billy Federhofer battled it out in a third set tiebreaker, with the crowd behind him, Davis won 2-6, 7-5, 1-0 (10-5).
"It's good to get Blake back in the line-up," concluded Hultquist. "He's still not 100% but he's a guy we need to be in there contributing. For him to come back and win is a strong performance and shows he's getting better from his surgery to where he needs to be."
The team has next week off and take on Pepperdine at Bradenton, Fla. at the IMG Academy on February 24. For more information, check back to Seminoles.com. You can also follow the team at Twitter.com/FSU_MTennis.
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4. #118 Gordon Watson (UF) def. Anderson Reed (FS) 6-2, 6-4
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WASHINGTON, D.C. New Secretary of State John Kerry had a busy first weekend on the job, calling Palestinian, Israeli, Turkish, Canadian, Japanese, Korean and Mexican officials.
In his conversation Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Kerry said President Barack Obama "is very interested in the peace process and aware of the economic hardships of the Palestinian people," Abbas spokesman Nabel Abu Rdeneh said.
Abu Rdeneh also said that Kerry said he would visit the region for further talks with Abbas "to preserve the political path." No time was set for the visit.
The State Department said Kerry spoke with Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday about the formation of the country's new government, and that the two "exchanged views" on the peace process and regional matters. Kerry also spoke with newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and he commended Netanyahu on Israel's decision to release tax revenues to the Palestinian authority. The two also spoke about Iran and Syria, the State Department said in a release.
Also on his first full day as America's top diplomat, Kerry:
-got an update from Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu about the investigation into Friday's suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
-spoke with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird about Iran, Mali and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas.
-discussed with Mexico's foreign minister, Jose Antonio Meade, the deadly blast at the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company.
-had lunch with George Shultz, secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan.
-talked to Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan in separate phone calls, discussing how they can ensure North Korea understands it will face significant consequences from the international community if it continues its provocative behavior.
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UPDATED: Governor expected to OK hand-held cellphone ban behind the wheelBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
May 07. 2014 9:28PM
CONCORD — If you use a hand-held cellphone when you drive, you will need to change your ways in a little over a year.
The House agreed Wednesday to the Senate's version of a bill banning the hand-held use of cellphones or other electronic devices while driving.
"The governor is likely to sign the bill," Gov. Maggie Hassan's press secretary William Hinkle said.
Too many drivers are surfing the Internet, reading texts and playing video games while driving, House Bill 1360 supporters said, making roads more and more dangerous.
The bill would ban the hand-held use of a cell phone, GPS, i-Pad or other communication device while operating a vehicle, sitting at a stop sign or stopped in bumper-to-bumper traffic, unless there is an emergency.
Hands-free use by speaker phone, BlueTooth or on-board car phone would be allowed, as would hands-free use of a GPS or other electronic device. Using a two-way radio is allowed under the bill.
However, those younger than 18 and driving would be banned from using any of the devices in any circumstance, except for a 911 call.
The bill will not go into effect until July 1, 2015, after an education campaign to alert drivers to the change in law.
At a public hearing last month, law enforcement, family members of victims of texting drivers, auto dealers and manufacturers, cellphone companies, businesses and advocacy groups, and state agencies turned out to support the bill.
Department of Safety statistics over the last three years shows distracted driving is a factor in 27 percent of fatal accidents, resulting in 116 deaths.
Safety officials said only drunk and drugged driving causes more deaths on the state's highways.
"We know that cell phones and mobile devices are a major distraction for all drivers, threatening the safety of roadways for all of us," said Pete McNamara, president of the New Hampshire Auto Dealers Association, after the House sent the bill to the governor. "We need to send a clear message to all drivers: put down the cell phone and keep your eyes on the road."
Opponents of the bill have argued current laws need to be enforced before new laws are passed.
They say the bill moves New Hampshire closer and closer to "a nanny state," and government should not be interfering in people's lives.
But McNamara said the evidence shows something needs to be done.
"New Hampshire's accident statistics show the current law is just not strong enough," he said. "In 2012, our state police wrote over 100,000 tickets and only 16 were for texting and driving. More people are using their phones while driving, and fatal accidents are on the rise. We need to do something."
Under the bill, a first-time offender would be fined $100.
The fine would be $250 for a second offense and $500 every time after that for a two-year period.


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Jerry Robinson, a pioneer in the early days of Batman comics and a key force in the creation of Robin the Boy Wonder; the Joker; Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred; and Two-Face, died Wednesday afternoon in New York City. He was 89.
The illustrator with a far-ranging career — after shifting in the early 1960s into political cartooning, he would serve as president of the National Cartoonists Society and then author the exhaustive and well-regarded "The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art" — died in his sleep during a late afternoon nap, according to Michael E. Uslan, a close family friend and an executive producer on all the Batman feature films since the 1980s.
Born on New Year's Day 1922 in Trenton, N.J., Robinson was a still a teenager when he stepped into the fledgling comic book industry after a chance meeting with Bob Kane, who showed the youngster the just-published issue of Detective Comics No. 27, which introduced a masked man-hunter called Batman. Robinson was at a resort in the Catskills and wearing a white painter's jacket that caught the eye of Kane because the teen had covered it with his own illustrations.
"That was a fad then, kids would get these linen jackets with all the pockets and personalize them with all this razzmatazz," Robinson told Hero Complex in 2009. "I was wearing mine as a warmup jacket and someone tapped me on the shoulder and asked, 'Hey, who drew that stuff?' It was Bob Kane, who had just finished the first issue of Batman [which was "Detective Comics" No. 27]. I didn't even know what that was. He showed me the issue that was on sale there at the local village. I wasn't very impressed."
However, Robinson, fresh from high school graduation and selling ice cream, was impressed with the offer of an art-table job in New York City. He left the resort and, just 17 years old, went straight to the city where he would ink over the pencil drawings of older artists, do the lettering in the word balloons and help with design and background. Eventually, the gifted youngster moved up to the job of penciling, which is a marquee spot in the production chain, although it was not exactly a time of glamor for the American comic book.
Working with Kane — who was a decade older — opened up new frontiers for the gifted young artist, but Kane took the credit when Batman became a sensation. It was Robinson, who started working on Batman in 1939 with Kane and Bill Finger, who came up with the name "Robin" for Batman's sidekick, and he was the creator or key contributor to the first and formative appearances of enduring characters such as the Joker, Two-Face and Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler. As comics historians now credit writer Bill Finger with co-creating the Caped Crusader, they also acknowledge that the polished, high-verve style of Robinson is clearly evident in many issues that do not bear his name.
In those early days of the comics industry, the product was seen as totally disposable and all the original art in the office would be thrown away. Young Robinson, though, so admired the work of his older peers that he fished the pages out of the trash and saved them. That led to Robinson possessing perhaps the most esteemed collection of original art from the golden age of comics. Key artifacts from that pen-and-ink archive were displayed at museums, including the Skirball Cultural Center in 2009, and then sold at private auction in 2010.
For today's comic book artists, Robinson was one of the last and most admired links to the genesis era of the American superhero.
"Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons," said Jim Lee, perhaps the most popular comic-book artist of the last 25 years and now the co-publisher of DC Entertainment. "As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind."
Neal Adams, the comic book artist who became a fan-favorite in the 1960s and a champion for creator rights, said that young Robinson brought an energy and intuitive understanding of his audience to the Batman comics. Nothing showed that more, Adams said, than the addition of Robin, the plucky daredevil sidekick who provided an entry point for every kid who spent their nickels on Detective Comics, or characters such as Two-Face, which showed Robinson's affection for Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy."
"You say 'Batman,' I say 'Batman and Robin,' it was the team that mattered to me as a kid and Robin was the guy every reader wanted to be," Adams said Thursday by phone from New York. "As I grew up and fell into this stuff, I realized that everything I liked about Batman ending up being the stuff that Jerry Robinson created. 'Who is this guy? He did all that? Yes he did all that.' When I started doing Batman the stuff that came back in — Two-Face, who they hadn't used in years, and the Joker and Alfred — all was from the stuff that Jerry Robinson did and when you go see the films, a lot of that it is there, too. You can't make a Batman movie without Alfred."
Comic books were just one stop in Robinson's long and eclectic career. "He was no one-trick pony," as Adams puts it. There was also the 1953-55 comic strip "Jett Scott," created with screenwriter Sheldon Stark, that was recently collected into a lavish hardcover by Dark Horse Comics, and his work as a curator with a specialty in art-as-activism, which led to his invitation from the United Nations to produce two major exhibitions, the Ecotoon collection of environmental art at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the Human Rights collection of political commentary in Vienna in 1993. Robinson also drew for Playbill, contributed to more than a dozen books and shot photographs around the world for exhibition and publication.
"There was an intellect behind everything he did and no one that ever called Jerry and asked for help ever got a 'No,'" said Adams, who sought and got Robinson's help in the 1970s for a successful campaign seeking a pension for Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman who had fallen on hard times even as their brainchild continued to pile up hundreds of millions of dollars for Warner Bros. "Jerry didn't hesitate a moment, ever, if he had a chance to help someone."
Robinson's satirical eye led to two award-winning newspaper features, Still Life and Life With Robinson, which were syndicated throughout the 1960s and '70s and part of a three-decade career of published political commentary. The New York Times once praised Robinson and his newsprint humor for "a commentary more humorous and his approach more timeless than that of most other political cartoonists." Far from Gotham City, Robinson considered this to be the defining core of his career.
"I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line," Robinson told Hero Complex. "That body of work is the one I'm proudest of. Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on 'Batman' was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life."
Still, Robinson was proud of his years working in comics, especially of his creations Atoman and a masked wartime hero called London. During his time in the field he drew sci-fi, horror, romance, war, crime and spent time on adaptations of well-known characters from other media, among them Green Hornet, Lassie and Bat Masterson. The success of the recent Batman films brought Robinson back into the spotlight — he even visited the Cardington, England, set of "The Dark Knight" and attended the premiere — but watching the Joker break box-office records was a bittersweet experience for Robinson.
"It was based on a playing card and the character had a lot of mystery to him early on," Robinson said of the creation of the Joker. "We had no idea, of course, that we'd still be talking about him all these years later. When I think of the money from that movie — a billion dollars — I get a chill when I hear that. We should have copyrighted what we had done. But of course, we didn't know. We were young and no one could have seen all of this…. It was a new industry and we were pioneering a new mythology. We had no past so we had very few rules. We also didn't expect any of it to last."
Robinson is survived by his wife, Gro; his son, Jens Robinson; his daughter, Kristin Robinson-White; and two grandchildren.
[UPDATE : In a statement from the family, Jens Robinson wrote of his father: "In addition to those closest to Jerry who knew him as husband, father, grandfather, father-in-law, uncle and dear friend, Jerry was adored personally and respected by so many people around the world. His comics creations, especially the first supervillain, the Joker, are cherished by many millions more. Jerry was one of the last remaining links to the Golden Age of comic books in the 1930s and 40s. Among his numerous awards and accomplishments, Jerry was most proud of his fight for creator rights, notably on behalf of his friends the Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and oppressed political cartoonists abroad. In his later career he revolutionized the way political cartoonists worldwide are distributed outside their own countries through the formation of the cartoon syndicate he founded."]
— Geoff Boucher
The Joker: Jerry Robinson on a pop-culture wild card
Gotham in wartime: The Batman serials
Moebius: The Hero Complex interview
The Joker, the unfunny history of classic character
Christopher Nolan: My favorite scene in 'Dark Knight'
Why is Stan Lee signing Jack Kirby's art?
Jack Kirby and Frank Zappa, a cosmic friendship
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Thiago Alcântara is supposedly on the verge of joining Premier League champions, Manchester United.
After the Under-21 European Championship final, Red Devils goalkeeper David de Gea signed the hat-trick heroes match ball with 'see you in Manchester', so how likely is this potential transfer to happen?
Although it may be too soon to say, Thiago is still a very gifted and talented player. He is also the captain of the Spain Under-21 squad and is very highly rated by current club, Barcelona - so much so that the original value of his buyout clause was around €90 million. He is a very exciting player and would add some much needed flair to the Manchester United midfield.
As with any Barcelona player, Thiago has exceptional passing - he rarely gives the ball away and is excellent at making pin-point passes. The Under-21 Euros highlighted these abilities, especially his ball retention and even his defensive skills. Thiago showed excellent maturity and promises to be a world class talent.
Arguably his most impressive feature is his sensational dribbling. Thiago has a very Brazilian-like quality, perhaps largely because both of his parents are Brazilian! He is able to turn defenders with ease whilst also playing the right pass.
The 22-year-old is strong with both feet and is a good header of the ball. Along with a powerful shot and an eye for goal, he is a very exciting prospect and undoubtably has the potential to become one of the best players in world football.
If United were to sign Thiago, it would certainly bolster up their midfield. In doing so, it may have taken new manager David Moyes just three weeks to solve a problem Manchester United have had for five years.
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When diagnosing a specific problem, organized troubleshooting is necessary. The complexity of a modern automotive vehicle demands that you approach any problem in a logical, organized manner. There are certain troubleshooting techniques, however, which are standard:
Experience has shown that most problems tend to be the result of a fairly simple and obvious cause, such as loose or corroded connectors, bad grounds or damaged wire insulation that causes a short. This makes careful visual inspection of components during testing essential to quick and accurate troubleshooting.


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Ford eNews - Jan. 9, 2013
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AOL Autos names Fusion Car of the Year
The 2013 Ford Fusion continues to earn industry kudos. AOL Autos has awarded its second annual Car of the Year honors to the all-new car. AOL reports Fusion is boldly redesigned to not only raise the bar, but to meet the stalwarts of the category pound for pound and dollar for dollar for value, performance and quality. Click here for the full report.
Connected World names Fusion Energi Connected Car of the Year
At the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas, Connected World Magazine awarded the all-new Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid the midsize Connected World Connected Car of the Year 2013 award. more…
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Ford launches app developer program
Providing developers the information and tools needed for the creation of relevant, voice-activated experiences inside the car, Ford launched its Ford Developer Program at CES. Recent integrated apps include Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Kaliki, Amazon Cloud Player, Aha Radio, Rhapsody, Greater Media, Glympse and BeCouply. more…
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Ford, Eaton, SunPower and Whirlpool team up on electric energy initiative
Ford is engaging in a strategic collaboration that will demonstrate how a typical American family can significantly reduce their electricity bills and their impact on the environment by integrating home appliance technology with a plug-in vehicle. The Ford-led team drew on a computer model created by Georgia Institute of Technology to predict a 60 percent reduction in energy costs and 55 percent reduction in CO2 when changes from a MyEnergi Lifestyle® product are incorporated in the home. more…
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Ford cars, utilities and trucks all post sales gains in 2012
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Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 172,000 employees and 65 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford and its products worldwide, please visit http://corporate.ford.com.
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Science Bulletins: Jellies Down Deep
Increasingly, marine researchers are finding that there are far more jellies and jellyfish in the world's oceans than previously believed. These creatures may play an unexpectedly large role in ocean ecosystems. This documentary, which was produced by the Museum's innovative multimedia program Science Bulletins, follows scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute as they retrieve jellies from the deep, and features spectacular underwater footage.


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Police locate man who left bottle, note at station; no public threatBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 11. 2017 1:10PM
GOFFSTOWN — Police said Monday they have located and spoken with a man they say walked into Goffstown police headquarters Sunday afternoon, left behind a bottle of liquid and a note suggesting the contents could be hazardous, then left — forcing the station to be put into lockdown and a state police bomb unit to be called.
According to police, who did not identify the man, there is no risk to the public. The man might face criminal charges, police said.
Lt. Thomas J. Hammond said at 1:16 p.m. a bottle filled with an unknown brown liquid was found inside the lobby of the Goffstown police station on Mast Road.
According to Hammond, after police reviewed closed-circuit television footage from security cameras both outside and inside the police station, they saw a man approaching and entering the building, carrying what appeared to be a 12-ounce soda bottle.
Once inside the lobby, Hammond said, the man placed the bottle on a table with a note containing language suggesting the bottle contained a hazardous material. The man is then seen walking out of the building without making any contact with police personnel, Hammond said.
The police station was temporarily placed in lockdown until members of the New Hampshire State Police Explosives Disposal Unit responded and rendered the bottle and its contents safe, and the police department lobby was reopened.
Officers continued to answer calls for service from the public while the station was in lockdown, Hammond said. Further testing will be completed this week to determine the exact contents of the bottle.
Hammond said the man who left the bottle was driving a dark grey Honda Accord with NH license plates, and appeared to be wearing a dark sweatshirt, grey sweatpants with a large "Calvin Klein" logo on the left leg, as well as red and black sneakers.


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Brookside Christian (6-3, 4-0) has a share of the Central California Athletic Alliance title and can win the championship outright by knocking off Millennium of Tracy (5-4, 2-2) on Nov. 8. Sam Sears is in his first year as head coach after a decade as an assistant. He and his players are looking not only to win titles but at life beyond high school.
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On Sunday, Dec. 1, the Winery at Marjim Manor will celebrate the holidays with "The Lighting of the Manor." Six Christmas trees, various displays and Hanukah menorah will be ablaze. The festivities begin at 1 p.m. at 7171 E. Lake Rd, Appleton.
Admittance will be a new hat, scarf or pair of mittens for the designated tree.
As part of the festivities, Manor wine presenter Kim Seddon will play Christmas carols, and Santa will be available for pictures. Nando's Pizzelles will return with a myriad of flavors. Mulled wine and mulled apple cider and other holiday treats will also be available. There will be hourly wine specials and giftwrapping.
Many of the Marjim Manor wine labels can be personalized.
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I totally read it!! When I finished the series, I couldn't deal with being done so I went and read it! It was amaaazing and I agree it was so much more intense and interesting reading from Bella's point of view! I love how much more vampire-centric it is and that Rose is always cursing at him in her head--I just thought it was awesome! I also loved the part with Edward, Emmett and Ben ( I don't want to ruin it in case there are people who aren't reading it!)thauck31 wrote:Did anyone read the 264 pages on SM's web site. I did and loved it. Any clues when she might finish it. I thought Edward's point of view was way more intense then Bella's. Hopefully it will be out soon. I might have to read them all again to quench my thirst.
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FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A prosecutor announced an indictment Thursday against an 18-year-old Arizona student charged with sexually assaulting about a dozen girls over nearly five years.
Charges against Tyler Kost of San Tan Valley include multiple counts of sexual assault with a minor, sexual abuse with a minor and sexual conduct with a minor. He also faces one count of child molestation.
Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles said the victims in the crimes alleged in the indictment issued Wednesday ranged from 12 to 17 years old.
Voyles said the offenses occurred between October 2009 and April 2014.
Kost was born in January 1996 so he was 13 when the first offense allegedly occurred. But Voyles plans to try him as an adult on all charges.
"In Arizona, once an individual turns 18, we don't have a choice," Voyles said. "(State law) makes it fairly clear."
Attorneys with the law firm representing Kost did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
During a hearing last week, an attorney for Kost requested a change of venue and a gag order on the Sheriff's Office. The judge said he could not address those requests.
Kost would face between 147 and nearly 334 years in prison if convicted of all the charges in the indictment, the prosecutor said.
Pinal County sheriff's deputies arrested Kost last week, accusing him of being a serial sex predator who assaulted at least 18 students. County Attorney Voyles said he could not comment on why the indictment accused Kost of crimes involving only 11 victims.
According to the indictment, none of the alleged sexual assaults occurred on a school campus. Kost is accused of sexually abusing the victims in his bedroom, in a parked car, a park and out in the desert.
During a news conference, Voyles encouraged parents of sexual assault victims to report the crimes to authorities.
"Let your children know that we start by believing," he said.
In addition to calling Kost a sexual predator, Sheriff Paul Babeu last week said Kost threatened and harassed victims to such an extent that two fled the state, and one attempted suicide.
"This is a serious and serial sex offender and rapist," Babeu said.
The investigation was initiated after the Sheriff's Office received a call March 25 from someone reporting that Kost had sexually abused and molested five teenage girls.
Kost lives in San Tan Valley, a bedroom community of about 87,000 named for its location in the foothills of the San Tan Mountains. The area, about 45 miles southeast of Phoenix, is known for its golf courses and hiking trails.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Sep 2005 19:53 UTC
"With [the Win95] release, Apple was tested - and they failed miserably. Not only did I warn Apple to take 95 more seriously, I also accurately forecast the massive decline that would happen to them if they didn't do just that. The MS platform has changed dramatically and it is much greater than just the operating system these days. Apple, on the other hand, hasn't advanced nearly as much but they are predominantly consumer-based today and less vulnerable to this comparative weakness as a result. Just like the last time, they will largely leverage hardware this time, and, as before, they will be up against companies with resources that eclipse their own."


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Rescue hopes fade for Comet
MORE than 50 Comet electrical goods shops are set for their final weekend of trading as hopes fade of a rescue deal for the stricken company.
They are among 125 closures already announced by administrator Deloitte, with the remaining 70 stores expected to close by Christmas unless a buyer is found.
Comet collapsed into administration last month and although a number of firms have made approaches the administrators last week said that in the absence of any firm bids they had no option but to start closing stores.


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What better excuse to enjoy a relaxing lunch with friends whilst eating at your favourite steakhouse?
Choose from our expertly grilled Prime Cut Steak, which has been aged for at least 30 days. Or, discover our Fixed Price lunch menu, including dishes such as the Sea bass fillet or the Beef Barbacoa and Beef dripping sandwich. Each of our Fixed Price lunch menu options are available from 12pm Monday to Friday until 5pm, and Saturday from 12pm until 3pm.
Explore our tempting range of Steak Burgers and freshly chargrilled options or discover our Fixed Price Lunch menu with the option of two or three courses.
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Our steak frites is always popular, or perhaps our steak and cheddar cheese brioche can satisfy your cravings? Our classic dishes, such as sea bass fillet or a steak burger, offer something a little different. And if you want to go all out, enjoy two courses for £10.95.
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CROI 2014: The Latest on HIV Cure Research (Video)
March 11, 2014
HIV activist and educator Matt Sharp sits down to talk with Nicolas Chomont, Ph.D., from the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, and Sharon Lewin, M.D., about some of the latest HIV cure research coming out of CROI 2014. The three discuss how the complexity of different types of latently infected cells is pushing the field forward in developing better tools and assays to detect and eradicate the HIV reservoir. They also talk about the updated case of the "Mississippi Baby," as well as the results on a second child who may also be cured after very early treatment after birth.
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This white paper demonstrates and discusses VMware all-flash Virtual SUPERMICRO SAN Ready Node, a hypervisor-converged infrastructure, which perfectly fits these needs. The paper also shares the results of virtual desktop infrastructure full-clone and linked desktop deployments scenarios running on SUPERMICRO TwinPro2 servers, which are superior deployment models for virtual desktop infrastructure.
The SUPERMICRO TwinPro™ Solution architecture builds on SUPERMICRO's proven Twin technology to provide outstanding throughput storage, networking, I/O, memory, and processing capabilities in a 2U server, allowing customers to further optimize SUPERMICRO solutions to solve their most challenging IT requirements.
Optimized for high-end Enterprise, Data Center, Hyper-Converged and Cloud Computing environments, the SUPERMICRO TwinPro Solutions are designed for ease of installation and maintenance with high quality for continuous operation at maximum capacity. The resulting benefit is compelling Total Cost of Ownership for customers seeking a competitive advantage from their data center resources.
SanDisk SAS-based flash storage has long helped customers realize new levels of technical, operational and financial efficiencies in virtualized environments. This storage has enabled
When a VMware® all-flash Virtual SAN™ is combined with Horizon View software on SUPERMICRO TwinPro2 servers, customers have one of the most-cost effective, high-performing solutions for client virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure) needs.
VMware Virtual SAN is software-defined storage for VMware vSphere. The all-flash Virtual SAN solution clusters server-attached, SAS-based, mixed-used-capability SSDs as a flash storage tier for caching, and provides read-intensive-capability SSDs for capacity. The result is a flash-optimized, highly resilient shared datastore designed for virtual environments.
VMware Horizon View enables users to access all their virtual desktops, applications and online services through a single workspace. Horizon View is the virtual desktop host infrastructure for vSphere. This platform enables user desktops as virtual machines on top of ESXi hosts.
This white paper discusses the benefits of the solution described above. A key benefit is the high level of responsiveness of the virtual desktops and applications as measured by response times.
Virtual desktop infrastructure has been adopted extensively by enterprises who use it in financial, healthcare, engineering, education, and other sectors. As virtual desktop infrastructure is being widely deployed, new challenges are emerging. With workforce globalization and desktop consolidation in data centers, user demands and expectations have changed. The boot storm is no longer simply a 9 a.m. phenomenon for a particular time zone, or accessing desktops for a certain time period. The virtual desktop infrastructure environment now needs to be up and running 24x7, with the promise of consistent, predictable performance under any condition.
With the adoption of cloud deployment, virtual desktop infrastructure needs have become more elastic in nature. The environment grows or shrinks rapidly, and traditional storage approaches are not a good fit for these demands.
All these challenges need elastic, scalable, and predictable performance in a pre-configured environment. This white paper demonstrates and discusses VMware all-flash Virtual SUPERMICRO SAN Ready Node, a hypervisor-converged infrastructure, which perfectly fits these needs. The paper also shares the results of virtual desktop infrastructure full-clone and linked desktop deployments scenarios running on SUPERMICRO TwinPro2 servers, which are superior deployment models for virtual desktop infrastructure.
The average response times for virtual desktop infrastructure desktops are listed below. This shows how robust the solution is, as the application response time is well below the threshold.
Linked-Clone Desktop Response Time:
CPU-sensitive applications: 95th percentile: 0.53 seconds (threshold <1 sec.)
CPU- and disk-sensitive applications: 95th percentile: 3.10 seconds (threshold <6 sec.)
Full-Clone Desktop Response Time:
CPU-sensitive applications: 95th percentile: 0.58 seconds (threshold <1 sec.)
CPU- and disk-sensitive applications: 95th percentile: 3.23 seconds (threshold <6 sec.)
As VMware defines it, "Virtual SAN Ready Node is a validated server configuration in a tested, certified hardware form factor for Virtual SAN deployment, jointly recommended by the server OEM and VMware. Virtual SAN Ready Nodes are ideal as hyperconverged building blocks for larger data center environments looking for automation and a need to customize hardware and software configurations."
SUPERMICRO and SanDisk jointly tested an all-flash VSAN Ready Node. Below are the configuration details.
Figure 1: All-flash VSAN Ready Node using a SUPERMICRO Server and SanDisk SAS SSDs
In this Ready Node, the following tasks were done:
Below are the application response times for virtual desktop infrastructure desktops under test.
Full-Clone Desktops (230 users) Response Time:
CPU-sensitive applications 95th percentile: 0.58 seconds (threshold target of <= 1 second)
CPU-and disk-sensitive applications 95th percentile: 3.23 seconds (threshold target of <= 6 seconds)
Linked-Clone Desktops (730 users) Response Time:
CPU-sensitive applications 95th percentile: 0.53 seconds (threshold target of <= 1 second)
CPU- and disk-sensitive applications 95th percentile: 3.10 seconds (threshold target of <= 6 seconds)
The above application response times were measured using VMware View Planner, which provides 95th- percentile value at the end of the test run and generates a report. Individual application response times are shown in the Test Results section.
Scaling the number of users depends on the storage capacity of the Ready Node: with 14 TB of usable capacity, scale-up can reach 230 Full Clone users. However, Linked Clone has better image management and thus can accommodate more users. Additional storage can be added to increase the density of virtual desktop infrastructure users.
For validation testing in the Virtual SAN environment, the VMware View Planner standard benchmark workload was used. Group A (CPU-sensitive) and Group B (CPU- and I/O-sensitive) scores were used to determine the Virtual SAN environment capability for hosting virtual desktop infrastructure.
The View desktop was created using a Windows 7, 32-bit operating system standard image. Necessary configuration changes were done according to the View Planner Installation and Configuration User Guide. All applications included in the View Planner pre-selected workload requirements were installed inside this image.
The VMware Virtual SAN default storage policy was applied to the desktop VM, which provides high availability in case one of the nodes goes down.
A four-node Virtual SAN cluster was created as defined in the Ready Node.
Figure 2: VMware Horizon View pool creation - datastore selection
All other Horizon View infrastructure VMs, such as View Planner Appliance, vCenter, AD-DNS, DHCP, and VMware Horizon View, were provisioned outside the Virtual SAN cluster.
Figure 3: Test bed architecture
The Virtual SAN datastore was configured using a single disk group in each node. Each disk group was configured with one caching tier, using a 400 GB Optimus Ascend™ SAS SSD and two capacity-tier Optimus MAX 4 TB SAS SSDs per server.
Figure 4: All-flash Virtual SAN disk group configuration
The tests were executed in two different phases. First, the Full Clone desktop pool was created, and the desktops were tested for performance and density using View Planner. Later, the Full Clone pool was deleted, and Linked Clones were recreated from the same desktop image.
The following section discusses the test results for both environments.
View Planner: Full Clone
Full clone desktops are generally used for engineering or high-end users. For that reason, we ran View Planner Standard Benchmark, which generally represents the power user profile requirement.
Response Time
The following figures shows the response time for CPU-sensitive and disk-sensitive application operations of the View Planner workload.
Figure 5: Response time – CPU-sensitive applications operation
Figure 6: Response time – disk-sensitive applications operation
CPU Utilization Data for VSAN
The following graph captures the CPU core utilization across all the nodes and combined. The CPU utilization at the host was well below the availability of CPU cycles.
Figure 7: CPU utilization – all nodes shown as combined
Disk IOPS
The next graph collects the IOPS at the storage controller level to aggregate the total IOPS at steady state. Each disk group in the VSAN node is configured with a single storage controller.
Figure 8: Disk IOPS (read and write) – combined storage IOPS (controller level)
Disk Throughput
Similar to the IOPS collection, the throughput of all disks is gathered at the storage controller level.
Figure 9: Disk throughput (read and write) – combined storage IOPS (Controller Level)
Disk Latency
The disk latency is well below one millisecond, except for some occasional spikes during steady state.
Figure 10: Disk latency (read and write) – combined latency (controller level)
View Planner Linked Clone
Linked clone pools are widely deployed, mostly being used for knowledge user profiles. For that reason, we ran a modified standard benchmark by increasing the think time from 5 sec. (for power user profile) to 10 sec. for a knowledge user profile. There is no standard definition of power or knowledge user think time, but as think time is increased, the resource consumption reduces for each desktop.
Response Time
The following figure shows the response time for CPU-sensitive and disk-sensitive application operations of the View Planner workload.
Fig 11: Response time – CPU-sensitive applications operation
Figure 12: Response time – disk-sensitive applications operation
Figure 13: CPU utilization – combined nodes
Figure 14: Disk IOPS (read and write) – combined storage IOPS (controller level)
Figure 15: Disk throughput (read and write) – combined node storage throughput (controller level)
Figure 16: Disk latency (read and write) – combined node storage latency (controller level)
The disk latency is 0ms for most of the time in steady state. Because of low latency, the application response time is well below the threshold limit.
For full-clone desktops, the system was scaled up to 230 users with a power user profile. This is a very high density, considering the resource consumption of the desktops. With the given usable capacity, no additional full-clone desktops could be deployed. If additional storage is added in the four node all-flash Virtual SAN, further scaling is possible, as the resource utilization is well within the limits.
For linked clones, the system was scaled up to 730 users with a knowledge user profile. These are commonly used desktops in any mid- to large-size enterprise. The desktop density was kept at a level where application response times were very fast and user experience needs were met.
In both cases, the disk latencies were sub-millisecond, with very few spikes. This enables faster application response, thus improving user experience.
The following tables describe the test bed.
ESXi Host Configuration
|Storage Per Node
|Network Per Node
Virtual SAN Configuration
|Each disk group configuration
|Caching Tier – 1 x 400 GB Optimus Ascend SSD
apacity Tier – C2 x 4 TB Optimus MAX SSDs
|Disk group in each node
|Total Virtual SAN node
Virtual Machine Configuration
|VMware Horizon View Manager
|VMware Horizon View Composer
|VMware vCenter
Installed Desktop Application
|Golden Desktop
|VMware Horizon View Manager
|VMware Horizon View Composer
|VMware vCenter
Infrastructure Software Configuration
Software Installed
Bill of Materials
The following table summarizes the bill of materials for this solution:
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|400 GB Optimus Ascend SSD (1 per server)
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|2 X10 Gb NIC and 2 X 1 Gb in each node
|10G Ethernet Switch SSE-X3348T / SSE-X3348TR
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This paper illustrates with relevant benchmark performance case studies how the challenging Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for virtual desktop infrastructure can be met with sub millisecond latencies by using SUPERMICRO's Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI, here implemented on 2U TwinPro²) with SanDisk storage technologies and VMware's VSAN & Horizon View. In summary, this joint SUPERMICRO/SanDisk/VMware Virtual SAN Ready Node solution delivers lower TCO, with increased scale and operational efficiency over the traditional alternatives.
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Hello all!
My little one is 4 days old. Born at 37 weeks due to Cholestasis. Induction went well and the doctors say she is doing great.
I have had trouble breastfeeding from day 1, her mouth is so small that it seems she only gets the end of my nipple in her mouth which makes it painful to feed her. So I got a nipple shield from the lactation specialist at the hospital, this seems to make it much better. Getting her to latch is a challenge, she fidgets and won't keep her hands out of the way, but when she does seem to latch she feeds well. Some sessions go well and some are frustrating to the point of tears, I suppose this is normal for new moms? I guess we can't get it right first time every time right?
When she is done feeding, sometimes she is tired again, so I burp her ( I rarely get any burps) instead she seems to spit up, mostly before I even start to burp her, or even during, it seems like she is spitting up everything she eats but I read it just looks like a lot?
She also coughs sometimes when she is feeding which freaks me out, I am a new mother and terrified. Any advice on how to reduce the spitting up? How to tell if the latch to the nipple shield is right? Anyone else have the same things going on or have had in the past?
Any advice or reassurance is appreciated. My anxiety is off the scale!
Side note, the doctor says her weight is good and she looks healthy...


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Surgeon says toddler defied odds after pencil lodged in her headBy SIMON RIOS
Union Leader Correspondent
January 25. 2013 11:28PM
NEW BOSTON - When Olivia Smith was flown to Boston Children's Hospital by helicopter, the baby girl's parents experienced one of the most tense moments in their lives.
Falling from a reclining chair in her New Boston home, the colored pencil Olivia was using travelled through her eye cavity and penetrated several inches into both hemispheres of her brain.
Some 50 doctors worked on the case, from ER staff to neurosurgeons to pediatric radiologists. They all agreed that the trajectory of the pencil was nothing short of remarkable - it narrowly missed an array of vital areas in the brain that could have been fatal or neurologically devastating.
"It made my eyes definitely open to everything else that goes on that you don't think about," said Susie Smith, Olivia's mom. "You think about your day to day stuff. We're so lucky. She's lucky. And I'm lucky."
The accident was nearly three weeks ago, and Olivia was released from the hospital Wednesday morning.
Dr. Darren Orbach, the division chief of interventional radiology at Boston Children's Hospital, plans to publish a paper about the medical response that ensued that Sunday.
"If you can consider someone lucky who has a pencil go through her brain, you have to consider this girl remarkably lucky," Orbach said.
He kept using the word, "remarkable," the same thing first responders called "miraculous," saying it was all thanks to the "mind-boggling trajectory" of the pathway the pencil took.
"If you asked me to sit down with a patient's scan and draw a line that would go from one end of the brain to the other, avoiding every major blood vessel and even avoiding critical areas of the brain. I would be hard-pressed to find a pathway that would cause so little injury."
Orbach is a neurointerventionalist, treating problems with cerebral and spinal blood vessels using catheter-based techniques. It was 2:30 on a Sunday afternoon when Orbach received the call - he and his his wife were at Best Buy.
"We knew that this little girl was being flown in from New Hampshire with this incredible sounding story of having fallen head first onto a pencil, which penetrated her (eye socket) and then both hemispheres of her brain," he said.
According to the initial scans from Catholic Medical Center - where Olivia was transported before being flown to Children's - the pencil had not caused any intracranial bleeding.
At Children's Hospital, Olivia was given a CT angiogram scan, a higher quality image that looks specifically at blood vessels. The scan confirmed that there were no injuries to the brain's blood vessels.
The result was "absolutely remarkable," Orbach said, "because the pencil crossed from essentially the right eye through the entirety of both hemispheres of the brain, and ended up just in front of the left ear. So it literally crossed the whole head and missed just vessel after vessel."
Orbach was still standing in Best Buy when all this was conveyed to him. He started developing a plan with his colleagues and made his way to the hospital.
When he arrived, the sight of a pencil protruding from a little girl's eye socket, "was so violent and jarring," unlike anything he'd seen before. Orbach described the pencil's path.
"If you just count in order the vessels that were missed, from the superior ophthalmic vein on the right side. the fact the eye itself was missed. to the internal cerebral artery branches in the front of both hemispheres, then the internal carotid artery on the left and then the middle cerebral artery on the left, and then it stopped just short of a very large vein on the surface of the brain. if any of those had been hit this could have been a fatal injury."
Orbach said no one at the hospital, which has the largest pediatric neurosurgery program in the world, had seen anything like it before.
The team agreed that the first step would be to get an angiogram, a procedure done with a catheter placed through a leg artery, going into the blood vessels of the neck, which supply the brain. In the procedure the blood vessels are injected with a dye that allows a high resolution image of further vessels.
The move was to ensure there were no injuries to the vessels, which would require attention before all else.
Orbach said the part of the brain penetrated by the pencil is "very crowded with important stuff." The basal banglia carries a band of fiber, where the major motor pathway travels. The area was spared for the most part, but it was affected by the pencil, leaving Olivia with some weakness that she rapidly recovered from.
Though the angiogram was "remarkably normal," Orbach said there was a subtle narrowing of the left middle cerebral artery, exactly where the pencil missed it by millimeters, resulting in a mild stroke. Orbach said there were two other areas in the MRI that depicted likely strokes resulting from decreased blood supply.
"After that the question was how to remove the pencil, and typically we would remove a foreign object in the (operating room) because there is a chance of having major bleeding."
Because the pencil had penetrated so far, its removal could have caused bleeding or other complications in the brain, and that would have required brain surgery. Fortunately, it wasn't necessary.
Instead of using the operating room, the medical team opted for a joint procedure with neurosurgery and interventional radiology.
As the pencil was being removed Orbach kept a micro-catheter (the size of angel hair pasta) in the left internal carotid artery. If he saw an injury develop at any point, the pull would be stopped and intervention conducted with the catheter.
Once it crossed the brain's midline and the tip was in the right hemisphere, the catheter was switched to the right artery, ready to intervene in case of hemorrhaging.
"We did the initial angiogram, (the neurosurgeon) started pulling, she would stop, I would do another angiogram and make sure everything looked good, and then she kept on going."
The pencil was pulled out slowly, taking doctors about 40 minutes from start to finish before it was out of her head.
He said by the time Olivia left the hospital it was difficult to see anything wrong on the neurological scans.
"I expect her to essentially make a full recovery, because of her age and how well she's doing right off the bat," Orbach said, adding that one of the real gratifications of working in pediatrics is that since the young brain has so much plasticity, patients tend to bounce back quickly.
Seeing Olivia the day after the procedure, eating ice cream and smiling with her mom in bed, was one of the most memorable moments of his career, Orbach said. Though it's not rare to see children make radical recoveries in a short time, Olivia's case was the most extreme Orbach (and most of the doctors on the case) had ever witnessed.


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Hanna, Rev. Professor William, LL.D.
Hannay, James
Hardy, Miss Iza Duffus
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Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert
Hare, Ven. Julius Charles
Harrington, Sir John
Harrison, Frederic
Hatch, Edwin, D.D.
Hatton, Joseph
Havergal, Frances Ridley
Haweis, Rev. Hugh Reginald
Hawker, Robert Stephen
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Hazlitt, William
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Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
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Henty, George Alfred
Herbert, George
Herrick, Robert
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William
Heywood, John
Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine,
Hinton, James, M.R.C.S.
Hinton, Rev. J. Howard
Hobbes, John Oliver,
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Hoey, Mrs. Frances Sarah
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Hole, The Very Rev. Samuel Reynolds, D.D.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar, D.D.,
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Horne, Richard Hengist
Hornung, Ernest William
Horton, Rev. Robert Forman, D.D.
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Visitation for Elburn seventh-grader Thursday in Sugar Grove
Funeral arrangements have been set for a seventh-grader from Harter Middle School in Sugar Grove who was killed while rollerblading last week.
Caitlyn Phillips, 13, of Elburn, died Friday after colliding with a car while skating along East Reader Street in Elburn, according to police.
Caitlyn entered the intersection at North Third Street and, apparently unable to stop, collided with the left front corner of a vehicle, witnesses told police. No charges or citations have been filed.
Visitation for Caitlyn will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Calvary West Church, 1600 Beta Drive, Sugar Grove. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday following a visitation from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at the church. The Rev. Russ Hurst will officiate. Interment will follow at Blackberry Township Cemetery.
Gayle Haas, an administrator at the church, said Caitlyn worked in the nursery on Sunday mornings. She said Caitlyn was "always willing to serve" and "genuinely very helpful."
Kaneland Community Unit School District 302 Superintendent Jeff Schuler said none of Caitlyn's teachers were available to talk Monday because they were helping support students.
"They're really coping with a lot of the same feelings of grief that the students are," he said. "I really want their attention focused internally."
Schuler said it's a "tragic loss" any time a member of the district passes away.
"We are working hard to support the entire school community today and will continue to do so throughout the week," he said.
Additional counselors and staff members were on hand at the school, with the library being the primary location for students to receive support. Counselors were also checking classrooms throughout the day to help students.
Caitlyn is survived by her parents, Gary and Crystal; sisters Jordan and Taylor; a nephew, Noah; her grandparents; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established in Caitlyn's name. Checks can be made out to the "Caitlyn Phillips Memorial" and mailed in care of P.O. Box 66, Elburn, 60119. Conley Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
On its website, the school district directed parents, students and teachers to www.conleyoutreach.org for information regarding teens and grieving.
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STOCKTON - The Stockton Police Department released a photo showing one of two armed men who robbed a north Stockton bank Friday morning.
STOCKTON - The Stockton Police Department released a photo showing one of two armed men who robbed a north Stockton bank Friday morning.
Officers were dispatched at 10:57 a.m. on a report of a robbery at the Bank of the West branch in the 7800 block of Thornton Road near East Hammer Lane, authorities said. Police learned that two men entered the bank armed with handguns, demanded money from the vaults, fled the scene with an unknown amount of cash and stole an employee's sport utility vehicle to make their getaway.
One of the robbers was described as 20 to 30 years old with an average build, while the other was described as bald and heavyset, officers said. The vehicle they stole was a silver 2005 Saturn Vue, which was later found abandoned in a north Stockton neighborhood, authorities said.
Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to call the Stockton Police Department at (209) 937-8377, the Investigations Unit at (209) 937-8323 or Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000. Callers can remain anonymous.
Cellphone users can text information to 274637 (CRIMES) by entering the keyword "TIPSPD" followed by their tip. Internet users can visit the Police Department's Facebook page and click "Submit a Tip."
STOCKTON - Police had little information to work with after a man was shot Thursday in central Stockton, authorities said.
The man told officers he was in the 200 block of East Park Street near North Hunter Street about 4:10 p.m. when he heard a gunshot, felt pain in his arm and realized he had been shot, authorities said. The man was taken to a hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, police said.
The victim said he didn't know who shot him, officers said. There was no description of the gunman.


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Apparently, next Sunday parishioners of St Michael and John's Parish, Horsham, are being urged to abandon their Sunday morning Mass (with a priest) in favour of attending what seems to be a communion service (without a priest) at a Church in Dimboola as an 'Outreach Celebration' organised by a (lay-led) 'Pastoral Care Group'.
Shouldn't it be the reverse, with a special effort being made by Dimboola parishioners to get to somewhere there actually is a real Mass on?!
Sacrifice vs sacrament: why communion services are no substitute for the Mass
Communion services have been permitted, even encouraged across Australia for communities unable to have a regular Mass. But they are always, it seems to me, very problematic.
Communion services serve to undermine the importance of the sacrifice of the Mass, as the Ballarat case exactly illustrates.
We are not required to receive communion each week.
But we are required to attend Mass if at all possible.
Why is that?
It is because at the Mass, the priest draws together all of our own sacrifices and prayers, and together with his own, offers them up through and with Christ's sacrifice, for the good of those present, any particular purposes of the mass, for our priests and bishops, the dead and for the whole world.
By participating in the Mass we are doing something immediately, not just for ourselves, but for others.
And that is why it can never be acceptable to decide not to go to Mass but to go to a communion service instead.
So let's just hope that all those Horsham parishioners are going to go to the Vigil Mass on Saturday night before heading off on Sunday to Dimboola (yeah right!).
A source of grace or damnation?
But there are other reasons to worry about lay-led communion services.
First, they put an excessive emphasis on the reception of the sacrament.
Reception of holy communion can of course be a source of union with Christ, grace, and forgiveness of venial sins for the individual, and more. Eventually that will help others around us as well.
But only if we are in a state of grace, and if we have the proper dispositions.
In the absence of a priest available for confession, the neglect of this sacrament by most Catholics today, and widespread lack of belief in the Real Presence, just how likely is this to be occurring?
I suspect it is far more likely that most participants in such services are in fact bringing judgment on themselves (1 Cor 11) rather than grace to themselves and others.
A celebration of self and congregationalism: the Canberra-Goulburn Diocesan Assembly as a case in point
The biggest problem with these services though, is that in my observation, they tend to become narcissistic celebrations of self run by a clericalized liberal clique pushing the congregationalist (protestant view that priests are unnecessary) heresy.
At the recent Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese Assembly for example, the issue of communion services in the absence of a priest came up in the small group I participated in, raised by an older lady from the country.
Her concern was that when they had been introduced in her area, a number of families had ended up dropping out from the Church.
At first, she said, those who didn't like the idea of communion services had taken to driving long distances to whichever town in the area had a scheduled Mass.
Eventually though, the effort involved had proved too much, and they had just dropped out of the Church altogether.
Accordingly, she was worried about proposals to extend the use of such services.
But the reaction in the discussion group to her concerns was sad. One person (an older male from the city) fairly aggressively attempted to squash any discussion of the downside of such services, and instead wanted to talk about how we didn't need priests at all anyway, and argued that communion services were clearly a step in the right direction.
Another man tried to badger the woman into saying that the numbers involved were small (but can we afford to lose any souls?!).
And when I suggested that the Archbishop's proposals to rationalise the number of Masses in Canberra could allow some priests to be freed up to be based in the country and reduce the need for such services, I was greeted with bemusement. Nor did my suggestion that communities celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours instead gain any traction (not surprising really - even if any of them knew what it was, I doubt they had ever actually had a chance to actually attend Vespers or any other of the hours)!
In the end, the person writing down the record of our discussion and reporting back to the wider group, as far as I could tell (hard to read upside down), simply omitted to mention the issue in his notes or summary of the discussion at all.
Unsurprisingly, in the wider group report backs, another person lauded the value of such services in forming "community" . Well maybe. But the community being formed, in my view, is not a catholic one.
Are there alternatives?
So what should be done in the absence of a priest?
The first point is clearly that if such services are in place (and a rethink really is needed on this) such services should never be used without good, ongoing catechesis of all involved.
They also need to be supervised so far as possible by (orthodox) priests, as well as their bishops. How could the parish priest concerned by allowing the Dimboola event to be promoted in the parish bulletin for example?
One creative suggestion from the Canberra-Goulburn Assembly was to have livestreaming of the Mass in Churches without a priest from the regional centre that had one each week instead.
It doesn't completely solve the problem of course, since people still aren't actually participating in the Mass. But it does mean that the community can have a 'missa sicca' (dry mass), a very traditional devotion, rather than an entirely fabricated liturgy, actually said by a priest instead of promoting lay-led alternatives.
Another alternative though, would surely be to encourage local communities to say some of the Liturgy of the Hours (perhaps the Office of Readings) on Sundays when no priest was available. That way they would be participating in genuine liturgy that is closely linked to the Mass, and that really involves all of those present.
It would require training and catechesis of course. But so too, clearly, do the alternatives.
And if people found themselves missing the Mass and reception of the Eucharist that might not be an altogether bad thing.
Perhaps they could be encouraged to channel this longing into holding Adoration in their otherwise empty Churches, making them genuine centres of prayer to attract new parishioners rather than empty palaces.
Perhaps they could pray for vocations, and encourage young men in their communities to consider priestly vocations - instead of trying to become pseudo-priests themselves.
Perhaps they could be encouraged to carpool or hire a bus and head together for some place there is a Mass on a regular basis.
Perhaps they could encourage special events to be held in their church - in consultation with the nominal parish priest, invite priests from a religious order or secular institute to run a mission for them, or organise pilgrimages that come with their own priests to visit their often very attractive churches to see what real church architecture should look like?
There are better alternatives....


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The Stamford Bridge side struggled during a pedestrian game but the Brazilian youngster decided the first leg less than 60 seconds after coming on with a delightful finish
The Brazilian was on the pitch for less than 60 seconds before he latched on to a delightful back-heel from Eden Hazard eight minutes from time to notch his sixth European goal of the season and ease the pressure on Rafa Benitez.
The Spaniard rested Ashley Cole and the recovering John Terry but otherwise opted for a strong starting XI featuring the likes of Fernando Torres, Ramires and Juan Mata as he sought to decide the tie with vital away goals.
The away supporters' chants of "Champions League, we know what we are" were a sign of their confidence despite this year's blip, but on this evidence their team are falling short of the performances they became used to last season.
Chelsea probed early with Marko Marin and Hazard combining on the left before the latter's low cross zipped along the six-yard line and away from danger.
The first real chance of the game came for Martin Hasek's side though after a quarter of an hour, with January signing David Lafata skying a free volley on the stretch from 12 yards after a fine ball in from Zopotocny.
Matejovsky blazed an effort over the bar after 26 minutes after a well-worked move from the right again through Zopotocny, and Petr Cech did well to hang onto a deflected shot from Ladislav Krejci a minute later.
Lafata missed another gilt-edged chance on the half hour; the striker beat Chelsea's offside trap but managed to slide a half-volley wide from seven yards out, with only the offside flag to spare his blushes.
Not content with seeing Lafata do all the struggling in front of goal, Torres forced Thomas Vaclik into a low save that was far too comfortable before falling over while trying to finish a pass from Lampard in the area on 37 minutes.
The second half started much as the first ended, with Torres failing to convert another half-chance before the hosts began to test the Chelsea back line once again.
Gary Cahill was fortunate to remain on the pitch after clumsily treading on Krejci's heel after 57 minutes having already been booked, with referee Daniele Orsato deciding to be lenient with the England defender, while Marin and Torres running into each other after 63 minutes just about summed up the game for the pair.
The game was in desperate need of a flash of inspiration and substitute Oscar provided it within a minute of his arrival. The Belgium international dragged the ball back wonderfully and the young Brazilian took the ball in his stride before coolly slotting past Vaclik from 16 yards with eight minutes left on the clock.
Sparta were devoid of an answer to Oscar's magic as the visitors stood firm, and the tie is now firmly in Chelsea's control; however, the performance will still be a cause for concern to both the fans and Benitez.