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June 1, 2005
The first call may be the fifth assault.
That lesson, and others, about dealing with the crisis of domestic violence, was presented last week in a Hood River workshop sponsored by Helping Hands Against Violence.
Mark Wynn of Nashville, Tenn., gave the daylong workshop on "Domestic Violence as a Community Issue," at Columbia Gorge Hotel. Wynn is a nationally known consultant and lecturer and a 20-year member of the Nashville's Metropolitan Police Department.
Susan Frost, executive director of Helping Hands, said there was a great turnout for the workshop, representing every type of agency involved in domestic violence including law enforcement, advocacy, child protection, social work, teachers, medical and nursing.
"I believe at the end of the day it just raised awareness of domestic violence and how we can coordinate our response as a community," Frost said. She said the feedback forms were "overwhelmingly positive," and that many of the people said they wished it had lasted longer, "which is pretty unusual for an all-day meeting like that."
Wynn started his presentation with "Domestic Violence 101," which explained dynamics such as power and control, the cycle of violence and myths surrounding the issue of domestic violence. He stressed that domestic violence needs to be addressed early, because crime victims on average call a crisis line after the fifth assault, and by that time things are already serious.
The victim of domestic violence is a "different kind of crime victim," he said, in that they are usually being controlled and manipulated by the abuser, while both fearing and loving him (or her). The victim may "minimize" the incident by the time the law enforcement officer gets there, so that the abuser won't go to jail. The abuser is often a master of manipulation; not only of the victim, but also the law enforcer and the whole system.
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The Story of the Fox Who Lost His Mind
The Story of the Fox Who Lost His Mind
Title: The Story of the Fox Who Lost His Mind
Original Title: Die Geschichte vom Fuchs, der den Verstand verlor
Directors: Christian Asmussen, Matthias Bruhn
Produced by: TrickStudio Lutterbeck GmbH, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, BKM, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, FFA
Running Time: 11:10 Minutes
Country: Germany
Year: 2015
Age Guideline:
Primary School (9-11)
Category: Natural Science, Life Science & Technology
Screened In: Cambodia, Gulf, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine
The animation film "The Story of the Fox, Who Lost his Mind" tells the story of a sly fox who can look back on a long and exciting life in a very poetic way – but now the fox becomes forgetful. However, this impairment also opens up new possibilities for him. A film that approaches the elderly, dementia and even the cohabitation of different generations in an extraordinary way.

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Few hardware vendors have not yet launched their own mini laptop (or, "netbook"). Most brands these days produce their own version of the same hardware, with Intel's i386-compatible Atom cpu's and Windows XP installed on a spinning hard drive or sometimes still a solid state disk. Some Linux models are still sold by some vendors, among whom Asus, which more or less started selling in this OLPC-inspired genre of laptops.
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Before the Big Ten went to a conference championship game, no one played a game this week. Big Ten teams were home with their families for Thanksgiving.
Before the Big Ten went to a conference championship game, no one played a game this week. Big Ten teams were home with their families for Thanksgiving.
The conference title game next week, however, required teams to play their final regular-season game the weekend of Thanksgiving most years.
That has created some logistical problems for players to get home with their families today.
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer held practice this morning, and then dismissed players within driving distance of Columbus to head home for Thanksgiving. Michigan is doing the same. Players have to return Friday morning.
Players who live too far away — there are plenty — will go to a teammate's house, Meyer's or an assistant coach's family celebration.
That is the schedule all around the Big Ten.
"We started planning this three or four weeks ago," Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald said. "I'm an old school Big Ten guy, and I wish we had this week off for the kids. But I get it. I understand why we do it. I would just prefer to see our young guys home like everyone else on campus."
Fitzgerald joked that none of his players who can't make it home will go to a coach's home today.
Fitzgerald misses bringing a player home with him for Thanksgiving. He has three sons, all younger than 10.
"You want to talk about three little guys with a bunch of heroes to look up to," Fitzgerald said. "You wouldn't want any other group of guys around your sons than my guys. The kind of role models they are and I watch my little guys worship them."
Dozen out
One of the points Meyer keeps making with reporters — locally and nationally — is the fact that Ohio State has lost 12 players to season-ending injuries. Meyer's subtle point is that Ohio State has been forced to plug in younger players and the Buckeyes still are No. 3 in all the major rankings. Cornerback Armani Reeves, receiver Corey Brown, linebackers Curtis Grant and Joshua Perry all missed parts of the Indiana game. Meyer said all four players have practiced this week.
Traveling well
There are reports that Michigan students have been selling their tickets to Saturday's game to head home for Thanksgiving, and that has led some to speculate that Ohio State will have as many as 30,000 fans in Michigan Stadium.
"I'll tell you what, I have witnessed some things this year I have not seen before," Meyer said. "At Cal-Berkeley that might've been the best example (of OSU fans traveling). It meant a lot to look up there and you couldn't believe it. I imagine it will be more difficult this time around. It means a lot to us."


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Police: Man fires shots to quell argument
Rounds hit nearby day care
Police: Man fires shots to quell argument
Rounds hit nearby day care
CENTERVILLE, Mass. —
A Centerville man fired shots in an attempt to quiet his upstairs tenants, who were arguing, police said.
George Rackliffe, 66, will be arraigned Tuesday on a variety of charges, including five counts of assault. He'll also be charged with carrying a firearm while under the influence of alcohol, according to Hyannis police.
The incident happened Friday night at about 5 p.m.
Police said Rackliffe discharged eight rounds. Three of the rounds hit a nearby house which is used as a day care center. Two adults and three children were home at the time. No one was injured, police said.


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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Libyan authorities say the trials of one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons and the slain dictator's former spy chief are not scheduled to start next month, after all.
Lawyers for Libya's new rulers say in a letter sent to the International Criminal Court Tuesday that investigations into Seif al-Islam Gadhafi and Abdullah al-Senoussi are close to completion and pretrial proceedings will likely begin in February. The letter came after the court asked Libya to explain reports that their trial was set for February.
The court has indicted Seif al-Islam and Al-Senoussi on crimes against humanity charges stemming from Gadhafi's brutal crackdown on the 2011 rebellion that eventually toppled his four-decade dictatorship.
However, Libya has said it wants to try both men instead of sending them to The Hague to face justice.


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NEW YORK — It has been overshadowed by Josh Hamilton's season-long slump, Albert Pujols' foot injury and the ongoing struggles of the back of the rotation and the entire bullpen, but it's impossible to overlook:
Mark Trumbo is in another second-half slide.
The Angels slugger was hitless in four at-bats Monday night, including a bases-loaded strikeout with one out in the ninth inning of the team's 2-1 loss to the New York Yankees. He is batting .121 (seven for 58) in his last 14 games, his average falling from .252 on July 28 to .235.
BOX SCORE: Yankees 2, Angels 1
Trumbo's misery had plenty of company. Right-hander Hiroki Kuroda shut out the Angels and gave up only three hits in eight innings, and after Trumbo whiffed on a low-and-away slider, Chris Nelson swung at a full-count, chest-high fastball from David Robertson to end the game.
Right-hander Garrett Richards was superb, giving up two runs and seven hits in eight innings to improve his earned-run average to 2.42 in four starts since moving to the rotation in late July, but that couldn't prevent the Angels from falling a season-high 15 games back in the American League West.
There was also a flip side to Richards' success: Struggling right-hander Tommy Hanson, who hasn't pitched regularly in the minor leagues since 2009, was optioned to triple-A Salt Lake after the game to clear a spot for Jason Vargas, who will return to the rotation Tuesday night.
"It's not tough," said Hanson, who was 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA in four starts since returning from a forearm strain in July. "I just have to work, to get better with my command, getting guys out, not giving up runs."
Hanson (4-3, 5.59) looked dominant in his first game off the disabled list against Minnesota on July 23, giving up one run and four hits in 51/3 innings, striking out eight and walking none, his fastball hitting 93 mph.
But he gave up 14 earned runs and walked 11 in 142/3 innings of his next three starts and has had trouble holding runners all season — opponents were successful on 20 of 24 stolen-base attempts against him.
"This is the best thing for Tommy and for us right now; he definitely needs to figure some things out," Manager Mike Scioscia said. "When he came back against Minnesota, he was sensational the whole game. It seems like his stuff has eroded a bit in his last couple of starts, and he feels out of sync."
That's how Trumbo feels at the plate. He has a team-high 129 strikeouts and looked out of whack in his last at-bat Monday night.
"I can't get anything going," Trumbo said. "I haven't had any sustained hot streaks, and you need some of those. It's tough to explain."
To Trumbo's credit, he leads the team with 25 home runs and is tied with Mike Trout for the team lead with 73 runs batted in.
"The bottom line is production, and I think Mark has been very productive with the balls he's driven and his RBIs," Scioscia said. "He's not going to be graded on batting average or on-base percentage as much as his power and production."
Trumbo knows that with his long swing, which makes him susceptible to dry spells, that he'll never be a .300 hitter, but he has maintained a good average for long stretches.
He hit .306 with 22 home runs and 57 RBIs in the first half of 2012 before slumping to .227 with 10 home runs and 38 RBIs in the second half. Trumbo hit .300 this April and had a.271 average June 2 before he began to slide.
"You want to be realistic, and hitting .300 is not something I've proven I can do," Trumbo said. "But I would like to improve in a number of categories. For this team to be at a level we need to be at, I need to be a consistent producer."
Trout supports lifetime bans for PED users
Trout told a New York radio station that first-time offenders of baseball's performance-enhancing drug program should be banned for life.
"To me, personally, I think you should be out of the game if you get caught," Trout told WFAN at the Empire State Building, where his former New Jersey high school team was dedicating a field in his honor. "It takes away from the guys that are working hard every day and doing it all-natural."
That one of the game's brightest young stars spoke out against cheaters on a day Alex Rodriguez hit cleanup for the Yankees while appealing a 211-game suspension can only fortify baseball's effort to rid the game of PEDs.
"Some people just are trying to find that extra edge," Trout said. "It's good that MLB caught them."
Asked Monday afternoon to elaborate, Trout deferred to pitcher C.J. Wilson, the team's union representative.
"I don't want to talk about it anymore," Trout said.
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Motivated by my recent trip to watch German football matches, and my long-term interest in Football Stadia and Football culture, I have been taking a historical look at the pivotal Taylor report into the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. I'm starting with a look at the class bias of the report, and following on with a look at hooliganism, the terracing debate, and stadium architecture.
On 15 April 1989 a crush at an FA Cup Semi Final at Hillsborough resulted in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans. The subsequent report into the disaster, the Taylor Report, led to all major football stadiums being all-seater. This meant the end of terracing at football stadiums, and along with the introduction of Sky TV at around the same time, has probably done more to shape English football than any other development.
Although the report was supposed to be focussed on the Hillsborough Disaster, the recent history of football in England had a chequered past. The 1985 Bradford Fire had led to the Popplewell Report into Fire Safety at Football Grounds. In the 1970's and 1980's crowd disorder had culminated in English clubs being banned from European Football after the Heysel Disaster in 1985.
Yet, reading the Taylor Report, you do not have the feeling of a Lord Justice trying to investigate the causes of 96 deaths. Taylor goes much further, almost as if he has been given a tacit remit by the Thatcher Government to 'sort out' English football, even elements that had nothing to do with Hillsborough and didn't need 'sorting out'. In short, was the Taylor Report a sledgehammer to crack a walnut?
Taylors remit from the Home Secretary was as follows:
"To inquire into the events at Sheffield Wednesday Football Ground on 15 April 1989 and to make recommendations about the needs of crowd control and safety at sports events"
The 'and' is important. Previous inquiries had looked into the specifics of a disaster. The Hillsborough inquiry was different – Taylor was instructed by Douglas Hurd to go further than the events of 15 April 1989, and to report on the state of the game in general. The inquiry took place from 15 May to 29 June 1989, and heard evidence from 174 witnesses, as well as much written evidence. 31 sports ground were visited, including in Holland and France, and other sports grounds such as Rugby, Cricket, tennis and golf. Part I considers Hillsborough; Part II wider safety at sports grounds; Part III crowd control and dealing with Hooligans; and Part IV the proposed national membership scheme.
The Taylor report was the NINTH such report into saftey at football grounds. In 1973 the first Green Guide on safety at sports grounds was published, largely prompted by the 1970 Ibrox disaster. That Hillsborough happened, after such scrutiny, does suggest that the Government, football authorities and clubs had failed to take safety seriously enough. Measures that would have prevented Hillsborough had been proposed as early as 1924. This was due to a combination of cost, a laissez-faire attitude, and a pre-occupation with dealing with hooliganism. Taylor stated that 'there is no point in holding inquiries or publishing guidance unless the recommendations are followed diligently'.
Taylor states that when touring grounds after Hillsborough, the inquiry encountered an attitude amongst football clubs that 'it could not have happened here' – this was exactly the kind of complacency that allowed disasters to happen in the first place. What is most sobering, is that Hillsborough was regarded as one of the best and safest stadiums in the country. These are all sobering and salient points.
Yet in his section 'A Blight on Football', Taylor belies his intentions:
"Football is our national game. We gave it to the world. But its image in our country has been much tarnished".
There was indeed a malaise amongst football clubs before 1989. Ground improvements were minimal, as there was no pressing need to improve. In the 1980's most clubs occupied the same grounds as they had at the turn of the century, and many stands were almost just as old. Any changes were half-hearted or not motivated by safety. In this respect, Taylor DID bring about a change in focus on the part of football clubs, and a willingness to demolish, build and improve that was not there before.
In terms of facilities, Taylor laments the poor condition of football grounds, from a spectators point of view. He describes the terraces as 'squalid', yet I doubt that many people who stood on the terraces in 1989 thought of it that way. Going to the football on the saturday afternoon was different to going to the Opera. In classic victorian terms of social control, Taylor states that 'it directly lowers standards of conduct'. Unbelievably, Taylor sees fit to comment on the quality of the Burgers available to fans – 'on sale from shoddy sheds' – as if that really mattered. Was he comparing football to a day at the races or a night at the theatre, one wonders? The classic line, however, has to be 'there is a prevailing stench of stewed onions'. How about if fans liked having onions in their burgers? I hardly think that stewed onions caused Hillsborough.
Taylor also mentions the lack of quality pre-match entertainment, which is pertinent. However, it is difficult to imagine what the football clubs could have organised – even nowadays, the usual pre-match and half-time entertainment is best filed under 'cheese' and is widely ignored by most fans. Taylor had clearly failed to grasp the attitude and background of the average football supporter.
Taylor recognised in his report that 'football created special problems' not to be found at other sports grounds – namely, the numbers in attendance and the atmosphere. Within two pages, football was being singled out for special treatment. Amongst the sports listed, it is noticeable that Football is predominantly the most working class sport, and the one that generates the most visible passion and support.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the Taylor Report was a part of wider class issues in 1980's Britain – the report is couched in 'top-down' class semantics. Clearly, Taylor was no football fan. The language is evocative of a victorian philanthropist investigating inner-city slums, holding firm to pre-conceived agendas and prejudices. Not just from a personal perspective, but we cannot expect a Lord Justice – instructed by a hard-line conservative Government – to be too bothered about understanding the culture of Football, THE working class sport. Thatcher had shown a willigness to 'take on' football earlier in the 80's – it is believed that pressure from Thatcher herself led to UEFA banning English clubs after Heysel. For Thatcher and her Government, was Hillsborough part of the wider class struggle, much the same as the miners strike and the Poll Tax riots? It is hard to come to any conclusion other than that Taylor and the Government used Hillsborough – and the deaths of 96 people – as cover for gentrifying football and firing another shot across the bows of ordinary working people.
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Short But Not Sweet
Sectarian basis
Mena Habeeb | 5 July 2012
Egyptian newspaper said today that ultra-conservative al-Nour party refuses to appoint a Christian Vice-President, as this will open the door before appointing people on sectarian basis. I wonder: If they really mean that, why don't they dissolve their party as it is based on sectarian basis?.. More
Headquarters of the terrorists
Mena Habeeb | 2 July 2012
Yesterday, a congregation of the Coptic Church has visited the headquarters of FJP in Suez to congratulate them for taking the presidential office. Later, at the same day and city, a group of Islamists assassinated a Muslim young man at a bus stop as he was walking with her fiancé "alone"! .. More
A caliph recipe
Mena Habeeb | 28 June 2012
After a series of failures in the parliament, as well as drafting the new constitution and much more, Mursy has won the presidency, and MB is now in power. .. More
Hard Times
Magdy Malak | 11 June 2012
No one can deny that Egypt is passing by hard times, and no one knows what the result will be from the chaos we have right now. One thing we are sure of however, is that we will be starting from the beginning again... More
The lesson
Mena Habeeb | 4 June 2012
After Mubarak had been sentenced to life imprisonment and lost all his medals, I think everyone should learn a lesson from him especially.. More
Magdy Malak | 28 May 2012
We are now facing a huge dilemma in choosing between a religious state lead by Musri, and a military state lead by Shafiq. After the Muslim Brotherhood promised.. More
Mena Habeeb | 21 May 2012
Almasry Alyoum newspaper has published today a statement for a martyr's mother whose son has died in Mohammed Mahmoud incidents. She said that if a remnant of the previous regime wins .. More
War or political process
Magdy Malak | 18 May 2012
What we see now in the presidential elections can be nothing except war. Muslims wants it to be war against Liberal. Muslims .. More
Mena Habeeb | 14 May 2012
Newspapers published that Abu Ismail has asked his supporters during his sermon in a mosque to vote for him in a separate paper to avoid annulling their voices. The man doesn't understand he is out of the presidential race yet! .. More
By Force
Magdy Malak | 9 May 2012
It seems that Abu Ismail wants to be president of Egypt by force, although he stills denies everything. He says that he had nothing to do with what.. More
New generation of Glove puppet
Mena Habeeb | 4 May 2012
Two days ago in an electoral conference of Mohammed Mursi, MB candidate for presidency, something really weird happened: The General Guide exempted Mursi from the full obedience rule .. More
Losing the aim
Magdy Malak | 30 April 2012
From the introductions we have seen lately in political life, we can say that the elite of the Egyptian community failed to have clear vision about the future and all what they do is just words. I didn't see any actions from.. More
Cake of illusion!
Mena Habeeb | 24 April 2012
Muslim Brotherhood has announced that Mursi is the only Islamic candidate for presidency, while Awa has announced that he is.. More
The Banana country
Sherif Mansour | 19 April 2012
I love banana the fruit and many of you too; however here we are talking about Qatar the Banana kingdom. While our Canadian government granted Qatar Airlines the landing rights to fly 3 direct flights to Montreal, and Canada officially opened a Canadian Embassy in.. More
A Historical verdict
Magdy Malak | 12 April 2012
The verdict of disbanding the constituent committee is a historical resolution which will lead us back to our initial steps again. When we were screaming, pleading, for the MB and other religious groups in the parliament,.. More
Unstable and dirty
Mena Habeeb | 4 April 2012
Politics has been always known for being unstable and dirty, and MB has been always known for its long experience with politics. Now, after MB had promised not to .. More
Magdy Malak | 1 April 2012
After the announcement of the Muslims brotherhood to candidate El-Shater for presidential election, now we can say that they were lying on all Egyptian people, .. More
Funny dictators!
Mena Habeeb | 28 March 2012
For many years, Islamists were not allowed to speak in Egypt, but now they can speak as much as they want. No problem yet. The problem appeared while selecting.. More
The Religious Constitution
Magdy Malak | 26 March 2012
What we have witnessed yesterday was the formation of the constitutional committee that will, by all means, lead us into a religious state. It will also lead us .. More
Salafi, have mercy!
Mena Habeeb | 21 March 2012
After the departure of the Pope Shenouda, many hardline Islamists were thinking of making the Copts feel better, so they tried to issue some funny announcements,.. More
Magdy Malak | 19 March 2012
Pope Shenouda, you will remain always in our hearts, in our minds, and in our souls. What you have left for us was entirely enough to maintain our soul and to save our life. Your books, your sermons, your education, and your humility. Your nation love you and will love you forever. .. More


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November 22. 2012 10:48PM
Northern Pass gains another 20 miles of right-of-way for towers
By PAULA TRACY
New Hampshire Union Leader
CONCORD - Developers of the Northern Pass electricity project said this week they have cut a deal for 20 miles of needed right-of-way from Dixville Peak toward Stark in Coos County.
Public Service of New Hampshire President Gary Long called the leasing of Wagner Woodlands land a huge step for the project that would deliver electricity from Hydro-Quebec through New Hampshire and into the New England power grid.
"This brings us closer to our goal of delivering clean, low-cost hydropower to the region's energy grid while providing New Hampshire with hundreds of new jobs and millions in new tax revenue,'' Long said in a statement.
"This project not only brings significant economic benefits to our state, but will also have a tremendous environmental impact as well by removing 5 million tons of carbon from our atmosphere.''
The Society for the Protection of NH Forests, which had hoped to strike its own deal for the Wagner land, maintains that it can still block the 180-mile high-power transmission project. Forest Society spokesman Jack Savage said it is seeing more money coming in to preserve private land in the Stewartstown area.
Savage acknowledged, however, that the society had failed to meet its self-imposed deadline to raise $2.5 million for the blocking effort. He said it was a "somewhat arbitrary deadline of the end of October." It has raised about $1 million to date.
The Society used some of that money to buy an easement on a Balsams tract of more than 5,000 acres, which abuts the land managed by Wagner Woodlands.
The Lyme-based Wagner company works on behalf of its client and property owner, Bayroot, a timber management organization. It essentially funds pensions by timbering.
Tom Colgan, Wagner's president and chief executive officer, said the Northern Pass complements its forest management and that Wagner is pleased to help bring to the region "a major new source of clean and renewable energy."
No financial information was offered about the deal, which was posted on the Northern Pass website Tuesday.
The $1.2 billion project to bring 1,200 megawatts of hydroelectricity into the New England grid is proposed by PSNH parent Northeast Utilities. It would transmit power on 140 miles of existing right-of-way but needs to link together 40 miles of North Country real estate to connect with the existing infrastructure in Groveton.
Savage of the Forest Society says regulators consider it a private transmission development not necessary for the New England grid and he questions the "clean'' claim because of the flooding of Canadian lands to develop the hydro power.
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This fall, warm your family's hearts and home with a fresh-from-the-oven treat that won't have you spending hours in the kitchen. New Milk Chocolate Traditional Brownie mix from Betty Crocker® can help you simplify your brownie baking regimen and get a head start on homemade.
With just the right touch of milk chocolate flavor, your family will love the traditional homemade brownie taste that can be ready in three easy steps.
Look for Betty Crocker Milk Chocolate Traditional Brownie mix in the baking aisle of grocery stores this fall.
*Choose a 13x 9, 9x 9 or 8 x 8-inch pan for thick, thicker or the thickest brownies! Note cook time depends upon the pan size you choose.
Betty Crocker has been around since I could remember, and have a line of different products from bac-os, cake mixes, fruit roll ups, to brownies. They all have a special feature called Box Tops, which helps raise money for schools.
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I got to do a review on their wonderfull Milk Chocolate Brownies. I decided to do a little different than regular milk chocolate brownies, I made Milk Chocolate brownie cupcakes. Since it was my baby's 2 year birthday, I wanted to make something special and a little different. They turned out wonderful and was a huge hit with my kids.
The great thing about Betty Crocker's website, they have a Birthday Recipe secetion thats wonderful! Thats where I got my cupcake inspriation. You can also check out their Halloween Recipes, since Halloween is right around the corner!
Here's a recipe from the back of the Milk Chocolate Brownie box:
Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Start to Finish:
1 hour and 50 Minutes
1 box Betty Crocker Milk choclate
brownie mix.
(water, vegetable oil, eggs caled for on brownie mix box.)
3 (1.55 oz each) milk chocolate bars, chopped (1cup)
1 cup roasted, salted peanuts, chopped.
1 container (16oz) Betty Crocker Rich and Creamy
vanilla frosting.
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter.
1 to 2 tablespoons of milk, if desired.
1. Heat oven to 350* (325* for dark or non stick pans) Grease bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with shortening or cooking spray.
2. Make brownie mix as directed on box, using water, oil, eggs, chopped chocolate and peanuts. Bake 24 to 26 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out almost clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
3. In medium bowl, mix frosting and peanut butter; stir until well blended.
Add milk, if needed to make spreadable. Spread frosting over cooled brownies.
Makes 24 brownies
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Orleron wrote:Therefore, when a DM is too stingy and giving out too little, we really don't worry about that and just let them do it, because that's something that won't exactly mess up the playerbase like the other things will.
Thats cool then.
Well, this thread has at least been useful feedback for them then.


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text: 1930, London. In between dusty, old boxes a little boy made an extraordinary discovery. One that changed slot spinning, for eternity - time travel. What appeared to be just a jumble of rusty, fused metal pieces, should have not been misjudged in its power. Dare to spin back in time and challenge the concepts of time, alter the past and uncover timeless winning possibilities.


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Xbox 360 moves 750,000 units in US over Black Friday weekend
Microsoft has announced that on Black Friday weekend more than 750,000 Xbox 360 consoles were sold in the US, exceeding the firm's internal forecasts. Three month Gold subscriptions also increased 50% year-over-year for the same period in 2011, and to top things off, on Sunday, November 25, 14 million were playing on Xbox Live worldwide – which equates to 72 million hours of use in one day. This is a 43% increase in US "application hours" logged on Xbox Live during Black Friday week. Via Major Nelson.


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NHIAA Girls' Basketball: Poised Bedford beats BGBy JOE DUBALL
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 16. 2018 11:44PM
BEDFORD — It was billed as a Division I girls' basketball championship preview and Tuesday's game between Bedford and Bishop Guertin certainly lived up to the billing.
In the only time they'll meet before the playoffs and a potential third straight championship meeting, the Bulldogs found a way to get the upper hand with a 48-43 win at Bulldog Gymnasium. Alexa Dyer hit a trio of identical mid-range corner jumpers in big moments for Bedford (8-0) in the second half, when she scored all of her team-high 13 points.
"This was the first game Alexa started. She's a senior and I know she's wanted to, but we've been looking at things and planning," Bedford coach Sue Thomas said. "She crashes the boards, gets every loose ball and has a nose for the ball that after our Salem game had me decide to change it up.
"She came down (in the second half), was calm and just found her shot. She knows to look and pass it off when it's not there, but she was feeling it."
A 7-0 Bedford run to end the third quarter was followed by a pair of Dyer's jumpers to give the Bulldogs a double-digit lead early in the fourth. BG (5-4, but 5-1 against New Hampshire teams) answered with 11 straight points of its own from Bri Wilcox (six) and Hannah Muchemore (five) to knot things back up at 38-38 with three minutes to go. Dyer then struck with her final jumper and consecutive hook shots from Clare Driscoll made it 46-41 Bulldogs. Caroline Hoffer cut things to a one-possession game with a trey for BG inside the final minute but a Lizzy Stevenson block and free throws from Alli Morgan down the other end sealed the win for Bedford.
Driscoll and Morgan followed Dyer with nine and eight points, respectively. BG got 13 points from Wilcox and nine from Ava Owens.
The difference for Bedford came with simple shot selection. The Bulldogs have been notorious for slow starts in recent seasons and it looked to be happening again while down 14-7 in the first quarter. However, Bedford managed to respond with a 7-0 spurt to end the first in a 14-14 stalemate. Tough Bedford misses led to a 22-20 BG lead at halftime before the Bulldogs went back to basics with their offense over the final two quarters.
"We were not clicking and just missed a lot of gimmes and layups there in the first half," Thomas said. "It all goes with BG picking up the pace and making you go faster than you want. At halftime we talked about taking your shot ... have nice form and try to slow down. … The shot selection was definitely better in the second half and they were down at the end of our bench (on offense) so I could yell at them a little more."
Imperfections plagued Bedford, but not like they did BG. Free throws proved to be one problem for the Cardinals as they let an opportunity to pull away early slip by, going 2-for-7 from the stripe in the first half. BG finished 4-for-11 at the line overall, with key misses in the fourth while playing for leads and ties.
Neither team did particularly well valuing the basketball, but the Cardinals turned the ball over 20 times.
"Man, you know how to hurt a guy," said BG coach Brad Kreick when he heard about his team's turnover margin. "Their length bothered us a little bit, We have to take care of the ball against a good basketball team."
BG's issues with Bedford's height advantage were exactly what Thomas was hoping for. The Cardinals settled for trying to pass through hands and traffic while not having prefered space to work within Bedford's half-court zone defense.
"I think they may have been surprised we played zone the whole game and it's probably the first game in my seven years as a coach that we've played a whole game in it," Thomas said. "Where we have height, they have speed. They love to drive to the basket so we decided to zone them and have a back line to take it away. They were left to try and pass over us and I think it's because they game-planned for man-to-man. I know I would've."


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TOWN OF GENEVA, Wis. (AP) — Police say two suitcases containing the remains of two people have been found in long grass near a road in southeastern Wisconsin.
City police chief Steven Hurley says a highway worker came across the cases Thursday as he mowed the grass in Town of Geneva, about 50 miles southwest of Milwaukee. Another person alerted police officers who opened the cases and discovered the bodies inside.
Hurley says it appears there was a body in each suitcase, but he wouldn't comment on the condition of the remains. He says it doesn't appear that the victims were killed at the location where the suitcases were found.
The Waukesha County Medical Examiner's Office is conducting autopsies.
Investigators are checking with other law enforcement agencies for reports of missing people.


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Lara Spencer and Megyn Kelly may have hugged, kissed or schmoozed before the camera rolled, but it certainly wasn't apparent from what we see at baggage claim at JFK.
The 'GMA' host and the soon-to-be NBC talk show host were feet from each other Monday night, but not a word was spoken … at least as far as we can see.
ABC and NBC are in fierce competition, but then again competitive anchors still chew the fat.
At the very least, the video's entertaining.


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Q I was hoping you might have some insight into the recent construction on Highway 37 just west of Vallejo. I commute every day from Benicia to Santa Rosa, which is not fun, but I now have my hopes up that lane expansion relief might be on the horizon. … Parts of my commute from Concord have included Highway 37 in both directions at different times of the day. It seems the two-lane section through the wetlands is a constant traffic jam. When is this section slated for improvement? Recently there was a lot of big equipment clearing brush and hopefully getting ready to grade. Please tell me that they are widening Highway 37.
Adam Erwin-Martinetti, Michael Healy, Shirley Cotell and plenty more
A Sad to say, no. What you are seeing is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service project with a group called "Ducks Unlimited" to restore land near Highway 37 to wetlands. Crews have been excavating the land nearby and have been granted a permit from Caltrans for later work to build an entrance and exit to the property adjacent to the highway.
Caltrans will be repaving Highway 37 between Vallejo and the Sonoma County line around Sept. 20. That will require closing the highway for two weekends and possibly five weekday nights.
Q I just got through reading your column about the E-ZPass phishing scam that is going around saying we owe money for using a toll road and didn't pay. I received one of these emails. I knew it was spam because I have FasTrak, not E-ZPass. My question: How did these spammers get my information and that I have an electronic toll transmitter? Are people that don't have FasTrak getting these emails? Can you shed any light on this?
Richard Sinkler
San Leandro
A This scam email is going out to both FasTrak and non-FasTrak customers. Ignore it. People who click on the link run the risk of downloading information that could infect their computers and potentially steal personal information. If you respond with the requested credit card or bank account information, you are setting yourself up for identity theft.
Q As I sit barricaded in my office building, surrounded by orange cones on all streets north of The Alameda, I am wondering who the hell is in charge of the months-long fiasco called The Alameda resurfacing project? They were in such a hot hurry to tear up the asphalt and now nothing but cones, a couple hundred tons of equipment parked on the side streets and hordes of guys in orange vests standing around. Do I sound perturbed?
Tim Lundell
A You do, but the end should be near. There was a four-week delay to begin the project due to what the city calls "unforeseen conditions" under the pavement on The Alameda and Santa Clara Street. The original schedule that broke The Alameda into four segments had to be thrown out the window. If workers had stuck to original plans of performing the work in segments, they would have been in front of the Arena in late September and early October, which is the start of the Sharks season. The goal at this point is to complete paving before the hockey season from I-880 to Highway 87 at the same time. Paving should begin this week from 880 south and all major work should be completed by Sept. 5. Striping and utility adjustments will be completed shortly after that.
Q I was very excited to see the new meter light installed from Fremont Avenue onto southbound Highway 85. Please tell me it will be turned on soon. The congestion from Fremont Avenue onto 85 is horrible! … Traffic backs up all the way to 101 on 85 south and I firmly believe that metering lights on the entry ramps at Fremont Avenue and El Camino Real will certainly help.
Cheryl Maguire, Shreenivasa Venkataramaiah, Dave Schoenwald and many more
A By the end of this year, says Caltrans.
Q Gary, we have a newly paved, striped and metered onramp to south and north Highway 85 at Fremont Avenue. The lights are not turned on yet, but a new sign is up that indicates that carpool hours at this ramp are in effect 24 hours a day. Will the carpool lane on 85 also be 24/7? Are there other places where we can expect this? This is the first 24-hour sign I have seen in our area.
Diana Ross
A Almost all carpool lanes at onramps from city streets are in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week and that has been the case for a couple of decades. However, carpool ramps linking one freeway to another usually are in place from 5 a.m. to 9 or 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The carpool hours on Highway 85 will remain in place just during the morning and evening commutes, as they are now.
Q What will the carpool/express lane hours be on Interstate 580 through Castro Valley? Will they be in effect during regular commute times only or will they extend most of the day from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., as is the case on I-680 down the Sunol Grade?
Joe Reyes
A The hours of operation will match current HOV hours, from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. However, it is possible that this could change. Caltrans will make the final decision before the projected opening next year.
Q What can we do about speeders in the South Bay on local streets? They go 35-40 mph in 25 zones in so many places.
Dolores H.
San Jose
A They better not this Labor Day weekend. Campbell police will be just one agency conducting DUI checkpoints on Friday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Campbell Avenue west of Winchester Boulevard.
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Beaver Nation Is Upset!?
Mike Riley is a beloved figure at Oregon State University. He's coached the Beavers to a 69-57 record; he's 5-1 in bowl games; and he led OSU to three-straight final-poll AP Top-25 rankings from 2006 to 2008.
But that doesn't change the fact that the Beavers' 0-4 start is their worst in 15 years. Desperation is creeping into Beaver Nation and it's enough to make me wonder if Riley's job is safe.
Even he recently admitted that "This is obviously, for all of our staff, one of our biggest challenges ever.
This season, this team.
It would be one thing if OSU was a rebuilding team expected to endure a tough season – but that wasn't the case. Most of us viewed last year's 5-7 flop as an anomaly and expected a bounce-back from Oregon State.
So a losing season in 2011 means Riley and the Beavers have failed miserably.
The worst part is that Oregon State has already lost two of its most winnable games – including a home game against the FCS' Sacramento State and a home tilt against UCLA. The road ahead isn't easy.
The Beavers' next two games are at home, but against equally desperate Arizona and BYU teams; after that, they travel to improved Washington State and Utah; then, they close out the season with a murderer's row of Stanford, Cal, Washington and Oregon.
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner has heard the critics say that he's too slow and too old to convert short-yardage downs.
He couldn't disagree more.
``Everybody's going to nitpick,'' Turner said on Thursday. ``We're a different team this year, obviously, with philosophies and things like that, but I mean we're 8-1. That's the bottom line. To get Ws. We're not worried about it.''
Coming off their first loss of the season, Turner and the Falcons were punchless in short-yardage situations last week at New Orleans.
The two-time Pro Bowl running back was held to his least productive day in five seasons with Atlanta, running 13 times for 15 yards.
But Turner said that the Falcons have done far more right offensively this season than they've done wrong.
Atlanta ranks fourth in passing and seventh in scoring, but just 26th in rushing. Turner insists that the Falcons only need to make a few corrections against Arizona (4-5) on Sunday to get the running game operating efficiently.
Last week was ugly. On eight plays, New Orleans stuffed Turner either for no gain or lost yardage. The worst came on third-and-goal at the 1 in the game's final 2 minutes.
The Falcons lined up in a seven-man front, sent tight end Michael Palmer in motion and had fullback Mike Cox ready to take on a defender to spring Turner.
Instead, a blocking breakdown by left tackle Sam Baker trigged a collapse that allowed three Saints to tackle Turner in the backfield. On the next snap, Matt Ryan's go-ahead touchdown pass to Roddy White was knocked down.
Turner gave the Saints credit instead of blaming his teammates.
``Sometimes defenses are going to have good schemes against us and be able to get good penetration and things like that,'' Turner said. ``It's just something we have to handle and run different types of plays sometimes and just clean it up.''
Still, the problems must be corrected quickly. The Falcons want to repair the blow to their collective ego from last season's 24-2 playoff loss at the New York Giants.
Three times they lined up to convert short-yardage plays against the eventual Super Bowl champions and three times they failed.
It wasn't the first game in which Atlanta and Turner had struggle struggles. In 40 attempts inside the opponents' 10-yard line last season, Turner averaged a paltry 1.1 yards. The year before, he had just 1.3 yards on 41 attempts.
``We don't take anything for granted,'' Turner said. ``You've got to expect things to get tougher as the years go on and especially if you're a good team, people are going to give you their best shot. So we have to be prepared for everybody's best shot.''
For this same problem to be cropping up again seems like a bad harbinger.
``It's inexcusable,'' tight end Tony Gonzalez said. ``We are too good to let that happen. We should be able to convert those downs especially with a guy like Michael Turner back there. We should be able to get that first down, and I think we will in the future. It's just all about execution, and guys all being on the same page.''
It didn't take long for offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter to see the problems on film.
On several short-yardage plays that failed, the Falcons either missed a blocking assignment, didn't account for an all-out blitz or had multiple issues in protection.
``Yeah, it's a bad thing,'' Koetter said. ``If you had a magic wand and could wave it, then it would be easy to fix everything if you had that magic wand. Again, that's one part of the game. We came up short in that part and eventually that added up to us coming up short on the scoreboard.''
Turner believes that the Falcons must stay persistent and not give up on themselves just because a few plays didn't go their way.
``Of course, of course, but it seems like everybody's finding what's wrong with us and finding reasons to doubt us more than just say things that we're doing good at,'' he said. ``But that's fine. Nobody's putting any more pressure on us than we're putting on ourselves. Our expectations are high, and we take pride in being great and doing the things we need to get better at. We can obviously see it, and we'll take care of it.''
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Pomelo wrote:Teigan wrote:What is the exact deadline? Can answers be submitted ON the 14th or does it end Midnight of the 13th? Or midnight of the 14th?
I'm not 100% positive, but I believe the deadline is 11:59pm on January 14th.
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I recently had the chance to interview Mark Souza, Microsoft's Partner Director of the Business Platform Division Customer Experience Team for The SolidQ Journal. He is one of the most senior SQL Server executives and decision makers in all of Microsoft. Among other things, Mark created the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) many years ago, and the team still rolls up to him. Mark has worked with SQL Server longer than most people in the world, so I was curious about which SQL Server 2008 R2 features Mark thought were the most important.
Related: SQL Server 2008 R2 - 5 Cool New Features
Brian: With SQLCAT getting up close and personal with SQL Server 2008 R2 at customer sites around the world this past year, what are your top three favorite features in the new release?
Mark: I think the number one feature is pretty obvious: I think PowerPivot really is going to change the game of analytics quite a bit. The reason why is twofold. One is that Excel is by far the number one client in the world. Today, more analysis is done—and more data warehousing and data marts, for that matter, are done—inside Excel spreadsheets than anywhere else. Of course, these power users cannot get enough. They need fast access to data. They need data updated more often. They need an easier way to share it with their friends. They just want more, and more, and more.
And two is that at the same time, our IT friends are going nuts because there is more data in Excel being passed across the company than there is in their databases. It's not managed. It's not secure. It's passed around, duplicated, quadrupled. There are 18 copies. And it's not up-to-date, so they are making decisions off static data.
PowerPivot really solves these two major problems in the analytic world. It gives the power users more power, more capability, and more analytics than they have ever had in the past by moving the Analysis Server in-memory engine into Excel. Now they can \[analyze\] hundreds of millions of rows, which scares the heck out of a lot of IT folks. I can now, with \[the click of\] a single button, put it on SharePoint—which, by the way, is stored in SQL Server—and I can put security contacts around that. I can add automatic updates on a timed basis or automatically refresh when somebody opens it so the data will be up-to-date and not static. I can actually even back it up and put database context around it as well. So for me, PowerPivot is by far the number one game changer.
Number two is application and multiserver management. Internally, we code-named this Synthesis. It is really the foundation we are building now. There are two big things we are doing. One is the Universal Control Point (UCP), where I am going to have a server manage other servers. We tried this before. We have our Enterprise Manager product, which we can connect 50 servers to, and it is graphical and pretty easy to use, but it is one server at a time. I connect to Server A and I add a user. I connect to Server B and add a user. Of course, smart guys like you and me will write scripts and send it all out, but it's still one server at a time. This multiserver manager truly starts changing that. It actually treats a group of servers like one server, and I can start applying commands like ADD USER to the group, and it will add it to all the servers. That is the first problem we are tackling.
The second problem is even more exciting to me. It is called the DAC. When you need to move your database from node 1 to node B for whatever reason—maybe test reduction or moving from a busy system to a non-busy system—you need to put your thinking cap on. You need to take your user database. Don't forget about your master database—that is where your user logins and your agent jobs are. And don't forget about your applications tied to that; now you have to switch the connection points to a different database or a different server. Of course, the end users now also have to switch to point to the new server.
The DAC controls all of this. Basically, it contains within this component all the things related to the database application: the application itself from Visual Studio, the database, all the user logins, all the management tasks, agent jobs… Everything you need is now scripted out and contained together in this thing called DAC. I can now say, "Hey, move from test to production" and not forget something, not forget logins and things like that. On top of that, we are adding technology, so we are making the user transparent as well. The user does not have to change anything; they just connect and access the server on the other side. It is not perfect Version 1, but it is a really great foundation to build off. The idea is right, and it's about time.
For number three, and it is hard choosing just three R2 favorites, I am going to choose StreamInsight, which people know as complex event processing. The world is changing. One of the things that are changing in the database world is that people just need access to information faster, faster, and faster. The good old days of once a month storing data and accessing and writing a few queries are gone. It's even to the point now where many businesses can't even wait for the data to get in a database. Think about that. It takes a few milliseconds to put data into the database, and then I have to turn around and process it. That's too long. These customers need to process data before it even gets into the database.
Think of streaming things like financial data coming across, or data coming off a manufacturing line, or even events coming off servers if you are in an operations center and you're monitoring 2,000 servers across the world. Think about events coming from those servers when something is wrong. The earlier you can analyze data, the faster you can respond.
StreamInsight is complex event processing. It's basically in-memory forming a stream, creating time slices within that stream, and analyzing information before it even gets into a database. The database becomes part of the persistent store, so you have all the database context around that as well. This is exciting. Its applicability is huge. Today, we are in production with StreamInsight on NFL.com, if anybody watches that on the web. We are rolling it out for the Olympics, and we will be able to understand who is viewing what at what time and what their responses are. Those are probably the three most exciting features for me. A parallel data warehouse is probably my fourth—actually, it could be my first. But it is not going to be in the same SKU, so I'll leave it out for now.
Now that we've heard what Mark's 3 favorite SQL Server 2008 R2 features are, what are your top 3 features?


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SAN JOSE vs. GALAXY
Kickoff: 7:30 p.m., Friday, StubHub Center
TV/Radio: NBCSN, 1330 AM
Thursday, Galaxy forward Landon Donovan announced his plans to retire following the 2014 MLS season. Donovan leads the U.S. men's national team in goals and assists, is a five-time MLS Cup winner and leads the league in all-time goals and assists. … Donovan was named the MLS All-Star MVP, as he led the MLS All-Stars to a 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich on Wednesday. Donovan scored the game-winning goal in the 70th minute. … The Galaxy are tied for third in the Western Conference with 33 points. … The Earthquakes are in the conference cellar, as they are tied for last with 23 points. … The Galaxy has lost once in their past 11 MLS games, going 7-1-3 in that span. … San Jose hasn't won a regular-season road game since May 31, a 2-1 victory over FC Dallas.


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SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have determined a foot and section of leg that washed onto a California beach belong to a missing hiker.
San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said Wednesday investigators have identified the appendages as those of 27-year-old Joseph McHenry. They made the ID using DNA from his mother.
McHenry disappeared in March after telling his family he was going camping overnight in Pacifica. Police found his car and backpack.
A fisherman spotted the foot in the surf off a Pacifica beach on March 25.
The coroner's office has not declared McHenry dead. But San Bruno police say their investigation is now closed.
Lt. Geoff Caldwell tells the San Mateo County Times (http://bit.ly/PZojJ0 ) it is not clear what led to McHenry's disappearance.
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It was about midnight July 18 when Cari Hicks boyfriend took her light-blue, tealish-colored mountain bike and set out for a ride.
Near the intersection of Florida Road and East Animas Road, her boyfriend took a spill and broke his front tooth.
It was basically broke in half, Hicks said. It was pretty bad.
Her boyfriend walked home, and the bike was stolen.
I loved everything about my bike, Hicks said. Id never seen a bike that color before. It was just the awesomest bike ever. I took it everywhere.
Hicks has since filed a police report; her boyfriend has gone to Denver to receive a temporary tooth.
Some avid Durango cyclists treasure their bikes, and thats what makes losing one so hard. The fact that many of these bikes cost $1,000 to $3,000 hurts even more.
His busted tooth can get fixed, Hicks said. Doctors can do that. The bike being stolen what if I never get it back? Then I dont have a bike. What am I supposed to do?
Victims have compared the search for a stolen bike to the search for a lost child. They search the area frantically, scan every bike rack for look-alikes and stare down every bike rider who pedals past.
More than 100 bicycles are reported stolen every year in Durango, said Sgt. Jacob Dunlop, with the Durango Police Department. Only about 20 percent are recovered and returned to their owners, statistics show.
Dozens more are abandoned throughout the city and end up in the departments lost and found. Most are never claimed, Dunlop said.
Police record a description, the serial number and the location where every bike was found. If the bike already was reported missing, a computer system will match it with the earlier report.
The department is required to keep lost or stolen property for up to 90 days. After that, the person who found it can claim it. Otherwise, it goes to an auction service that picks up the bicycles and distributes them to warehouses across the nation where they can be inventoried and sold online by PropertyRoom.com. A percentage of the proceeds are given back to the city and deposited into the general fund.
The percentage and total amount raised within the last year were not immediately available Thursday.
Its sad to see a $3,000 Gary Fisher bike be sent off to auction just because nobody claimed it, Dunlop said.
Sometimes detective work can reunite a bike with its rightful owner. For example, if a bike has a Mountain Bike Specialists sticker on it, an officer might go to the store on Main Avenue and ask if employees can match the serial number with the customer who purchased it.
We will try to track down owners, Dunlop said.
Officers have made arrests for bike theft, but its uncommon, said Lt. Ray Shupe, with the Durango Police Department. When it happens, its usually because the suspect is caught in the act of committing an unrelated crime and is in possession of a stolen bicycle, he said.
Police have considered using a bait bike to lure potential bike thieves and nab them when they try to steal it. The bait bike could be a nice model left unlocked in a location that makes it easy to steal. Police could monitor the bike from afar or equip it with GPS.
We do have the capability to do something like that, Shupe said. I dont think weve ever put a plan like that into action.
Police said the best way to prevent bike theft is drum roll, please to lock it.
But cyclists say even a lock isnt foolproof, its a deterrent.
The best way to protect a bike is to never leave it outside overnight, locked or unlocked, said Ethan Trembley, an employee at Second Avenue Sports.
Any of these locks can be broken, he said.
Otherwise, the thicker the chain or cable, the better.
A U-shaped metal lock is a good bet, said Charlie Domas, who works at Mountain Bike Specialists.
Its not over the top, he said, but its strong enough to withstand the strength of bolt cutters.
Customers occasionally come into the store and share their heartache over a stolen bike, he said.
Theyre definitely really sad, and you can tell that theyre sad, Domas said. Its kind of like losing your child. Durango is just a community that cares about their bikes.
Trembley said his girlfriends bike was stolen off a porch while left unlocked overnight in Durango.
He spotted the bike a few weeks later being ridden on the Animas River Trail by a boy who looked about 14 years old. Trembley said he grabbed the boy by the back of his shirt.
I said, Im going to take this. Youre lucky Im not calling the cops, he said.
Sgt. Dunlop said people should call the police rather than confront a possible bike thief. The person may have bought the bike at a garage sale, he said.
It can get kind of heated, he said. I encourage them to contact the police department and notify us that they have located a stolen bike.
Parker Buccowich reported his bike stolen last month. He later found out it was picked up by someone who held it for safe keeping.
I started looking at a lot of people riding bikes and seeing if they had a bike that looked like mine, he said. I became more observant of people. I was just really bummed out; it wasnt a good feeling.
To Cari Hicks, anyone who steals a bike is destined to have bad luck. Even the boyfriend who took her bike without permission paid a price, she said.
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Can I ask at what point post BK you applied for your NFCU visa and NavCheck? Day of discharge I opened the secured card from NFCU to build a relationship with them, graduates in a year.. I am gardening until 10/2013 at which point I plan to app for a barclays (following your advice ) Thank you so much for your help/advice!
edit: Im just worried as my TU score is so low and I know thats what they pull :/ Hopefully it will rise quick..
18 mo Post-Discharge, my EQ score at the time was 677, according to Score Watch.
I also had a Federal Tax Lien I was paying on at the time. Both the Flagship and the NavCheck were put in "review" status and they called me to do recons. For the card, I had to send them last 2 or 4 pay stubs, for the NavCheck I had to send stubs, tax returns and proof that I was paying the IRS. Card took about 4 days, Navcheck took about 2 weeks. Both approved @ $5K.
Oh, and they pulled TU for me to Join NFCU, EQ 2x for the credit (once for the card, once for navcheck).
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Oh, and they pulled TU for me to Join NFCU, EQ 2x for the credit (once for the card, once for navcheck).
Thank you so much for the information, it is much appreciated! I have faith now. hopefully they pull EQ for me then because its my higher score. They also pulled TU to open checking/savings and also for the secured card. How do you think my plan sounds? Waiting 12 months post discharge to app for apple barclays and 24 months for NFCU visa NavCheck combo? Once again, thank you and congrats to you and your journey!
Stupid mid-cyle reporting.
Ok, 686 is apparently the higest I can get my real EQ Fico in 24 mo after my BK (though I have several FAKOs over 700). Glad I put the +/- 15pt Disclaimer in it. Rather than reporting a 0 balance on all accounts and <9% on one card, I wound up with $500 on one and $630 on the other. It's still <9%, but I'm sure I'm losing points for having more than one card report. Oh well, 686 ain't too shabby considering ~2 years ago I was @ 470ish (pre-filing).
I don't care you you are or how you do it, dumping the debt is the fastest way to raise a score... whether you pay it all off, settle it, or BK it all away like I did.
Still gardening this thing higer. 700 can't be too far around the corner!
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I didnt use your method outlined, I took the path less traveled, making mistakes along the way.
I filed in 7/2011, discharged in 10/2011. Got the Capone secured card, paid $49 to get the $200 limit. I got this card days after my discharge, about 10 months later, the card got a CLI to $300, when I responded to a letter they sent me.
In this time, I app'd for about 5 cards, prime cards. CreditKarma had a "credit card" selection tool, I listened to it. I was rejected by Discover, BOA, Chase, Citi, & Barclays. Dejected, I app'd for the Capone rewards card, approved for $2500. I got the card, but I have a ton of inquries. 7 mos of using the Capone rewards card, I reapp'd for a barclays card, the NFL extra points card, approved for $500.
My score right now is 680, I figured id groom these cards for six months and go for a Discover around then. Good idea?
Certainly sounds like a good idea to me. I might even consider waitinga year while gardening those others. It allows account maturity and some time for some of those other hard inquiries that were rejected to age some more and potentially drop off.
Soul master my rebuild is incredibly similar to yours as you already know.
I got approved for a Signature Rewards Visa today from NFCU with a 672 score.
I think it is a great idea....Barclays might be slightly easier to get.....they like to see around 6 months of post bk credit history. Discover should be OK in a year...I was able to get my discover about a year after using two capital one cards.
I thank you for the great info you have provided.
Is there a legal statue that I can use in my letter that forces them to change the status from derogatory to current in regard to bk's?
b. Included in Bankruptcy
c. Current (not "default/derogatory" status"
3. For any accounts that do not meet all of the criteria in #2, file a dispute "Included in Bankruptcy" and "Incorrect Balance"


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COOS COUNTY, Ore. -- A Roseburg man led police on a high speed chase through the Coos Bay area Friday night, and was eventually captured after crashing his car.
Authorities say that police attempted to pull over the car after there were multiple reports of a wreckless driver through North Bend.
The driver didn't stop, and the chase went down Highway 101, through downtown Coos Bay and over to the Empire District.
That's when North Bend police deployed spike strips.
Officials say the car hit the strips at such a high rate of speed, the car spun out of control and into some bushes.
The driver then fled.
After a long search along the shore line, police located, identified and arrested Christopher Michael Beamer of Roseburg on multiple charges.
His arraignment is set for Monday.


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ITHACA, NY—Ithaca College has once again been listed among the country's top institutions for undergraduate education by Princeton Review, which just released its 2014 edition of "The Best 378 Colleges." The annual guide also ranked the college at #1 for radio and #7 for theater.
Only about 15 percent of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in the book, which includes ratings of each institution in eight categories, such as academics, admissions selectivity, financial aid, fire safety and "green" commitment. The guide also lists the top 20 schools in an additional 62 categories, based on Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges.
"Ithaca College offers outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book," said author Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president. "We base our selections primarily on data we obtain in our annual institutional data surveys. We also take into account input we get from our staff, our 35-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, our personal visits to schools and the wide range of feedback we get from our surveys of students attending these schools."
Named #1 for radio, Ithaca College has two student-operated stations — 92 WICB and VIC Radio — based in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. They provide award-winning music, public affairs and sports programming to the local community as well as worldwide via the Internet. The college has consistently ranked in the top 10 in this category, earning the #1 spot in 2009 as well.
Ranked #7 for theater, Ithaca offers five academic majors in the Department of Theatre Arts. A half dozen main-stage productions — ranging from classic and contemporary drama to opera to dance — are presented each year by Ithaca College Theatre, while a number of student-run groups produce work around campus and in the community.
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"Both the year-on-year movement and rank order of challenges suggest that CEO focus has moved from crisis reaction to preparations for recovery. Clearly, CEOs in the U.S. in particular are returning their focus to the road to growth. We're seeing a similar trend in the overall business questions we capture from our members." –Jonathan Spector, CEO of the Conference Board
I hold no special crystal ball that forecasts the future; heck, at times I flub up basic mathematics and suffer headaches when wading through the complicated calculations of data that comprise economic projections.
Yet there seems to be a sense that things are improving, economically speaking. Not that jobs are suddenly springing out of the Earth in legion, replete with hefty health care benefits, mind you. Nor that the almost Herculean challenges choking our nation's course (such as our $14 TRILLION worth of federal government debt, which is expanding faster than a batch of E. coli on a hot summer day) are suddenly dissipating. No, we've still got plenty to worry about.
But despite all that, there seems to be – at least incrementally – pockets of news indicating a shift may be occurring in our economic fortunes. Truckers are still pressed to find decent-paying freight, fuel prices are rising and equipment costs shot up due to the 2010 emission requirements, yet in a broader sense the groundwork for a recovery is being laid. Confidence is rising among CEOs at many U.S. corporations that stronger growth lays ahead – and that could very well lead to better freight volumes for truckers sooner rather than later.
Take, for example, the recent results of The Conference Board's CEO Challenge 2010 Survey; it indicates that most of the CEOs polled appear to be emerging from recession mode and priming for a return to growth.
"In our late 2008 survey, worries about global economic performance, business confidence, geo-financial instability, and integrity of capital markets leapt up into the CEO Top 10 issues, but each has now dropped at least 10 places," said Linda Barrington, managing director of human capital at the Conference Board and one of the report's authors. "This year, all the challenges that jumped into the Top 10 in the crisis have now jumped back out."
Now, only about 200 CEOs, chairmen, and company presidents participated in the Conference Board's survey – not exactly a huge representative sample of the U.S. business landscape, mind you, but broad enough to provide some interesting insights.
In this latest survey – fielded from October through December 2009 – growth-oriented challenges started making the CEOs list of top concerns, such as how to sustain and steady top-line growth, improve customer loyalty/retention, and grow profits. All of those received higher ratings as "greatest concerns," Barrington said. Also moving up were corporate reputation for quality products/services, and stimulating innovation/creativity/enabling entrepreneurship.
Interestingly, the challenge posed by increased government regulation is a growing concern among CEOs, rising from 19th place in the 2008 survey to 6th on this one in the U.S., while in Europe climbing from 28th place to 6th, particularly in the financial services industry.
"U.S. and European CEOs are bracing for the potential regulatory aftermath of the near collapse of the global financial system and the associated recession," Barrington noted.
On top of this change in CEO outlooks comes other news that the U.S. economy expanded faster than expected in the further quarter last year. According to a revised look at the numbers by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) within the Department of Commerce, real gross domestic product – the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the U.S. – increased at an annual rate of 5.9% in the fourth quarter of 2009; higher than the BEA's original 5.7% GDP estimate.
"The GDP estimates released today are based on more complete source data than were available for the 'advance' estimate issued last month," the BEA noted. "The increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from private inventory investment, an acceleration of exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), and an upturn in non-residential fixed investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased as well."
Motor vehicle output added a 0.44 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after adding 1.45 percentage points to the third-quarter change, the agency noted. Final sales of computers subtracted 0.01 percentage point from the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after subtracting 0.08 percentage point from the third-quarter change, BEA added.
On another front, the Commerce Department's broader effort to try and ramp up exports from the U.S. added a new layer via an expanded partnership between the agency and United Parcel Service, designed to increase U.S. exports among small- and medium-sized businesses.
The department has tagged UPS with identifying small- and medium-sized companies that currently export to just one market. The Big Brown is supposed to go and analyze data about the companies, suggesting new markets based on factors including industry, geography, currency, and market access opportunities.
From there, the U.S. companies will be directly connected with trade specialists from the U.S. Commercial Service (USCS), a division of Commerce's International Trade Administration. These trade experts, who are stationed in 77 countries around the world, will design targeted strategies to help identify new market opportunities and find additional buyers in existing markets to expand the companies' ability to sell their products and services.
"Increasing the export of American products and services to global markets can help revive the fortunes of U.S. companies, spur future economic growth and support jobs here at home," noted Commerce Secretary Gary Locke (seen here at left). "The Commerce Department, with its network of trade specialists posted around the world, and UPS, with its global reach, can be a significant resource for these companies."
UPS has worked with Commerce's export-promotion arm since 2007 and counseled more than 18,000 customers on how the USCS can help them boost exports and the hope is this expanded partnership will produce more of same.
In the end though, I think, it's really more about attitude than anything else – something Jim Walton, president and CEO of PR firm Brand Acceleration talked about the other day in one of his business missives.
"Something has changed," he said. "During the fourth quarter of 2009 there were hints of new economic activity, but 2010 seems to be different. Over and over, I hear the same thing. Activity is up – significantly! My construction industry friends are talking about increases in the number of RFPs [request for proposals], new funding for tabled work, and a flurry of new prospects. Attitudes are better; people are optimistic and they're beginning to have fun again."
Walton (at right) said if you watch the news, they're still talking gloom and doom – but on the front lines of business, good things are beginning to happen.
"Everyone I talk with believes that the only reason for the rush of business activity is because people have had it with the malaise and have decided to move on with life," he explained. "Businesses, tired of waiting, are saying, 'Let's get back to work.' They are beginning to build again and there are indications that furloughed workers are being called back. They're making things happen."
Walton also touched on something the general news media almost always overlooks in its economic reporting: the resiliency of the American people. "We can be beaten, battered, lose everything and still fight our way back with a vengeance," he stressed. "Given the freedom to do so, Americans will change the world. Throw in a little economic turmoil and some political anger and they'll do just that."
Not a bad outlook for 2010 if I say so myself.


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Dec 11 10:00 AM Wholesale Inventories Oct
Dec 12 7:00 AM MBA Mortgage Index 12/08
Dec 12 8:30 AM Export Prices ex-ag. Nov
Dec 12 8:30 AM Import Prices ex-oil Nov
Dec 12 10:30 AM Crude Inventories 12/08
Dec 12 12:30 PM FOMC Rate Decision Dec
Dec 12 2:00 PM Treasury Budget Nov
Dec 13 8:30 AM Initial Claims 12/08
Dec 13 8:30 AM Continuing Claims 12/01
Dec 13 8:30 AM Retail Sales Nov
Dec 13 8:30 AM Retail Sales ex-auto Nov
Dec 13 8:30 AM PPI Nov
Dec 13 8:30 AM Core PPI Nov
Dec 13 10:00 AM Business Inventories Oct
Dec 14 8:30 AM CPI Nov
Dec 14 8:30 AM Core CPI Nov
Dec 14 9:15 AM Industrial Production Nov
Dec 14 9:15 AM Capacity Utilization Nov
International: ET (Toronto/New York)
Saturday, December 8
20:30 CNY Consumer Price Index (Nov) ***
Sunday, December 9
00:30 CNY Industrial Production (Nov)
00:30 CNY Fixed Assets Inv Excl Rural YTD (Nov)
00:30 CNY Retail Sales (Nov)
16:45 NZD Manufacturing Activity (Q3)
18:50 JPY BSI Large All Industry (Q4
18:50 JPY BSI Large Manufacturing (Q4)
18:50 JPY Gross Domestic Product (Q3 F) ***
18:50 JPY Trade Balance - BOP Basis (Oct)
19:30 AUD Home Loans (Oct)
23:30 JPY Bankruptcies (Nov)
Monday, December 10
CNY Trade Balance; Exports; Imports (Nov)
CNY New Yuan Loans (Nov) ***
00:00 JPY Consumer Confidence (Nov)
01:00 JPY Eco Watchers Survey: Current and Outlook (Nov)
02:00 EUR German Trade Balance (Oct)
04:30 EUR Euro-Zone Sentix Investor Confidence (Dec)
05:00 EUR Italian Gross Domestic Product (Q3 F)
08:15 CAD Housing Starts (Nov)
16:45 NZD NZ Card Spending (also Retail) (Nov)
19:01 AUD NAB Business Conditions (Nov)
Tuesday, December 11
05:00 EUR German ZEW Survey (Economic Sentiment) (Dec) ***
05:00 EUR German ZEW Survey (Current Situation) (Dec)
05:00 EUR Euro-Zone ZEW Survey (Economic Sentiment) (Dec)
08:30 USD Trade Balance (Oct)
18:30 AUD Westpac Consumer Confidence (Dec)
18:50 JPY Machine Orders (Oct)
18:50 JPY Tertiary Industry Index (Oct)
Wednesday, December 12
NZD REINZ House Sales (Nov)
02:00 EUR German Consumer Price Index (Nov F) ***
02:00 EUR German Consumer Price Index - EU Harmonized (Nov F) ***
04:30 GBP Claimant Count Rate (Nov)
04:30 GBP Jobless Claims Change (Nov) ***
04:30 GBP Average Weekly Earnings; ILO Unemployment Rate; Employment Change (Oct)
05:00 CHF ZEW Survey (Expectations) (Dec)
05:00 EUR Euro-Zone Industrial Production (Oct)
12:30 USD Federal Open Market Committee Rate Decision ***
14:00 USD Monthly Budget Statement (Nov)
14:00 USD FOMC to Release Projections of Economy and Fed Funds Rate ***
14:15 USD Fed's Bernanke Holds Press Conference ***
16:30 NZD Business NZ Performance of Manufacturing Index (Nov)
19:00 AUD Consumer Inflation Expectation (Dec)
Thursday, December 13
01:45 CHF SECO December 2012 Economic Forecasts (Dec)
03:15 CHF Producer and Import Prices (Nov)
03:30 CHF Swiss National Bank Rate Decision ***
04:00 EUR ECB Publishes Monthly Report (Dec)
08:30 CAD New Housing Price Index (Oct)
08:30 USD Producer Price Index (also ex Food and Energy) (Nov)
08:30 USD Advance Retail Sales (also less Auto) (Nov) ***
08:30 USD Initial Jobless Claims (Dec 8)
10:00 USD Business Inventories (Oct)
18:50 JPY Tankan Large Manufacturers Index ; Non-Manufacturing Index (Q4)
18:50 JPY Tankan Large Manufacturers Outlook (Q4) ***
18:50 JPY Tankan Large All Industry Capex (Q4); Non-manufacturing Outlook (Q4)
20:45 CNY HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI (Dec)
23:30 JPY Industrial Production (Oct F)
Friday, December 14
CNY Actual FDI (Nov)
05:00 EUR Euro-Zone Consumer Price Index and Core CPI (Nov) ***
08:30 USD Consumer Price Index (also ex Food and Energy) (Nov) ***
08:58 USD Markit US PMI Preliminary (Dec)
09:15 USD Industrial Production (Nov) ***
09:15 USD Manufacturing (SIC) Production (Nov)
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It should come as no surprise that Americans have a sweet tooth. According to SymphonyIRI Group, a Chicago market research firm, people in the U.S. spent more than $7 billion for individual-sized chocolate candy bars, bags and boxes in just one year.
But where is the bulk of that money going? Here, we take a look at those best-selling individual-sized chocolate candies that are satisfying America's sugar fix. What you'll find is that oldies are still goodies — many of the top ten have been around since before World War II.
And while we're looking at individual-sized chocolate candies under 3.5 ounces, we would be remiss if we didn't mention other sales toppers. Russell Stover is number one when it comes to gift chocolate boxes, Tic Tacs is the best selling non-chocolate candy, and Wrigley's is tops when it comes to regular gum sales.
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Source: SymphonyIRI Group. Data includes sales from supermarkets, drugstores, gas and convenience stores and mass market retailers excluding Walmart. Sales were from a 52-week period ending June 12, 2011.


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Drought Tough on Frogs and Salamanders
Breeding Pools Drying Up
It's been an unusual spring. Summer-like conditions in March dried up the landscape leading to fire hazard warnings across the region. And those dry conditions haven't been easy on the wildlife either. Conservation Correspondent Bridget Butler pulled her mud boots on to go check on how frogs and salamanders were doing this spring. Joined by herpetologist Jim Andrews, they looked at two breeding pools for wood frogs and spotted salamanders to see how the dry conditions were effecting the amphibian's eggs.
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Winning Cause won the $200,000 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland on Saturday to give trainer Todd Pletcher perhaps another Kentucky Derby qualifier.
Pletcher's next move is deciding whether the 3-year-old will join top contender Verrazano and several other of the trainer's horses in the Derby on May 4.
The Derby is limited to 20 horses. Winning Cause is behind Pletcher's Charming Kitten at 21st after earning 20 points and $120,000 in non-restricted earnings with his victory in the Grade 3 race.
Winning Cause has now won three times over Keeneland's synthetic surface. Breaking from the No. 1 post with Julien Leparoux aboard, Winning Cause covered 1-1/16 miles in 1:43.93 and paid $15.60, $8.20 and $6.00.
General Election was second and returned $29.60 and $17.80. Pick of the Litter paid $8.20 to show.