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Middletown Mayor Kenneth Branner discusses his 25-year career in office, including his accomplishments, disappointments, and where he sees the town headed in the next 25 years.
Middletown Mayor Kenneth Branner marked his 25th year in office earlier this month, making him one of the longest-serving Delaware mayors currently in office.
A former Middletown High football standout whose father served on town council before him, Branner held positions as the chief of Volunteer Hose Company and director of the MOT Little League before running for office in 1989.
During his tenure, Middletown's population has grown by 500 percent from about 3,700 residents in 1990 to nearly 20,000 today, an explosive rate that hasn't been without its share of growing pains.
Last week, the grandfather of four sat down with the Middletown Transcript to talk about his political career, his accomplishments, disappointments and where he sees Middletown headed over the next 25 years.
Q Why did you first run for mayor in 1989?
A I'd been on [Middletown Planning & Zoning] 10 years prior to running for mayor. It was a difficult decision because one of my mentors all the way through the fire company and through planning and zoning was [Mayor Charles Price].
I just felt at the time that things were starting to break loose and I had a lot to offer. I went to him first before I filed and told him what I thought … I just told him I thought maybe I could do a better job.
Honestly I was shocked because he said, 'You will. You'll be better than I am.' But he said, 'I'm not going to drop [out]. I'm going to run and I wish you all the luck in the world.'
After I won, he was one of my biggest supporters in the world right up until he passed away a few years ago … If he had not supported the fact that I wanted to run, I probably wouldn't have.
Q What were some of the biggest issues the town was facing when you took office?
A Growth.
We made the decision way back then to be aggressive and do an annexation program because development was really starting to take place below the canal and we realized it was going to come south and if we didn't annex and make it under our municipal limits then the county or any building would come right up and we would have no say. We'd sort of be blocked in … So we brought in a lot of farms, thinking sometime down the road we would build and that's what gave us our future growth area … We realized if you don't have the utilities and an expanding tax base the only thing you can do to survive is to grow.
It's like what some of the smaller municipalities like Odessa are faced with now. The only way they can generate funds is though a little development and then increase [taxes]. It's a shame and we didn't want to get to that point.
After we decided to grow, we had to figure out how to accommodate it with water, sewer and electric, which led us to the wastewater treatment plant expansion and upgrade to our electric substation and water system.
Q What else did you encounter, maybe that you didn't expect?
A When I first came on in '89 our budget was $250,000. Now it's $43 million. I remember my first year asking, 'Why did I do this?'
That first year, we had to figure out who to pay from month to month because we didn't have enough money to pay them all. The town clerk would call some of them and say, 'We'll pay you next month.' I didn't realize that coming in. But we made some changes and came to where we are now. We only had eight employees when I started and four of them were on the trash truck. We had two trash trucks and a very small municipal group.
The water system was in such disrepair that we had to repair all the mains, and we did it in the winter, believe it or not. We had water lines laying on top of the ground in order to continue feeding the residents. We did that in '89-'90 and then the wastewater treatment plant in 2000, and thank God we did that because when developers want to come the first thing they ask is, 'Do you have water, sewer and electric?' And the second one is, 'How fast can you do it.' They never even get to rates. That's the last thing. That's one of the reasons we got Amazon and it opened the door to a hell of a lot more [commercial projects] we're talking to now.
Q How did you eventually determine the town needed a sewer treatment plant of its own?
A We had an agreement with the county going back to right after I became mayor. Dennis Greenhouse was county executive and they wanted to expand [the treatment plant in] Odessa but the only way they could go to bond was by having a commitment from somebody else to purchase sewer. So Dennis came to me … and asked if we would partner with them and we made a commitment to buy half of the capacity, 500,000 gallons, of which we paid for a quarter up front. We paid $60,000 for that, which I can't imagine what it's worth now. The agreement was the county executive could call for the other 250,000 gallons if they needed it or we wanted it.
The county executive after Dennis asked for the commitment and we didn't have the money. So they said, 'Okay, you voided the contract and you don't get the sewer capacity.' That forced us to build the wastewater treatment plant. And then they turned around, believe it or not, and purchased capacity back from us when we did the flip. It worked great for us …
[B]ut that was a $28 million referendum. That was scary. There was a lot of controversy about spray irrigation because it was a new technology. People didn't understand it at the time … There were a lot of nervous council members when we went to referendum. I think I went to 18 or 19 public meetings just to explain what we wanted to do.
And we made a commitment then that any money we got through development, we would never use for budget and we would not increase our taxes to pay off bond debt. And we've never done that in my 25 years.
Q Would you count that among your greatest accomplishments in office?
A That and our electric upgrades. And we're still doing electric upgrades. We have the dual 138Kv line coming in and that will give us a loop system so we'll always have a back feed where we won't have to have a shutdown like we did [March 22]. Johnson Controls can know if we have an electric outage we can bring a feed in another way. And that's part of our final upgrade.
So those things, but also staying true to what we told the residents. We promised them we wouldn't impact their quality of life. I was bred, born and raised here and most of the council have lived here their whole life. And we made that commitment and stuck to it.
Q Is there a time you look back on and think, 'That was as dark as it got?'
A I guess when people don't trust you or don't trust what you're saying. You know in your mind that what you're doing is in the best interests of the town, but some people sort of doubt that. When we did our first referendum, there was what we call Old Town and there was nothing around outside. Everybody knew everybody and it's wasn't like it is now. And the second referendum was almost like that. So you're talking to people that you've grown up with and it's easy to talk to them.
Now, people are coming from other areas, where it might be a little bit different, and the hardest part is trying to convince people to believe you when you're telling them the truth. I say, 'Believe me, we will stay true to our word.' And they say, 'Yeah, but where I came from they said the same thing.' You can't take it personal. You have to show people you mean what you say and the result of your actions are what convince people to put the same people back in [office].
Q Many town residents say they also miss the way Middletown used to be, that small-town feel. One of the most frequent things we hear about is the traffic.
A If you really want to see traffic, go to Wilmington, go to Philadelphia, go to New York. I hear those traffic complaints. [People say,] 'I had to sit through the light one time.' Seriously?
We're going to make improvements. We met with DelDOT last week and we're going to make improvements on [Route] 299 … And then once we do the upgrades we're going to be able to get the signals synchronized. You can't synchronize them now because we don't have the traffic flow to be able to coordinate the signals.
We're going to do it from Catherine Street out. There's not a lot we can do widening it, but we can do improvements in lanes. And then once we get on the other side of Silver Lake Road, we can do some dramatic improvements because of that 100 feet we have from the high school down to the Wawa light. We're going to do an expansion to a four-lane road, exactly like the other side of where Wawa is. It's in the plans and budgeted. We just need more traffic, believe it or not. The count's not there. On Saturdays, it backs up … and at 5 o'clock at night, getting off of Route 1 … Those two times … other than that it's a piece of cake.
Q Would it have been possible for Middletown to remain the small town it once was?
A Not and survive. Ask [Odessa Mayor] Cathy Harvey if they had their choice, what would they have done? You can't survive and stay status quo. How would you have the money to do the water improvements? What would you have done for infrastructure? You'd send all your sewer to Odessa and what would that do to your sewer rates? How would you do your electric, when all your rates are Delmarva [Power]? It wouldn't have been physically possible.
You just couldn't have survived as a municipality and if you had done that. The residents would have been paying tax rates of 30 cents per $100. Give me a break. They wouldn't have had trash pickup. They would have had a private company doing that. Their water from somebody else. Their sewer from somebody else.
That's one of the things we're proud of. We do everything. There's nothing we're dependent on anybody else for … There's not many municipalities in the state of Delaware that do it all. Probably half a dozen, tops, that provide every service we do. That, to me, is one-stop shopping, which is a big plus to the residents we have … And now we have the police force. That's the last thing we were paying for outside help seven years ago.
Q Where do you see Middletown 25 years from now?
A We'll probably finish growing. I don't see any more annexations … We're going to fill in Westown, fill in on the east side near Dove Run. And I see us staying right there at 22,000 to 25,000 [residents]. I don't see anything beyond that. It's not in our plan to go beyond that and we don't want to get any bigger than that. That was the plan 15 years ago when we did Westown and that's where I think we'll stay.
Our mentality has always been like Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams." Build it and they will come, and that's all stayed true. We just want to stay ahead of the curve.
Q What's your plan for the next 25 years?
A I hope I'm still alive. That would be great … [Town Councilman] Jimmy Reynolds came on one year after me … and we've always said when we stop enjoying it, when it gets to be a hassle and stops being fun, then we'll stop.
When you're having a good time, time flies. And the last 25 years seems like a day. I do enjoy it and seeing all the work we put in to get us to where we are today. And I love the fact we have a Kohl's and a Walmart and [other things] coming. We have an Amazon and Johnson Controls, and we're talking to all these companies. That's a big thing.
I hear people say all the time, 'Boy, I can't believe we can do everything right here and not have to leave.' That's a big plus and makes you feel good about what you're doing. But there's seven of us [on town council] and everyone who works for us. The people who work here make it worth it. Residents come up to me and say, 'Good job on the snow removal.' Seriously? I didn't drive one single truck and those guys busted their ass. With the workforce we have, there's nothing we can't do.


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Friday Mashup
Not surprisingly, I got many different answers.
To appease the people, I bring you the first Friday Mashup: Lots of forgotten bookmarks, no explanations, no companion books.
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9 comments:
- Michael said...
Very Cool. Thanks for all the work.
Take Care
- March 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- FairiesNest said...
And all marvelous! I wonder what was special about Life cereal?
- March 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Belinda said...
I have long since enjoyed viewing your succession of posts as a collection of a separate but collective body of ephemera. As a student studying libraries, with particular emphasis on archiving and preservation, I often ponder what happens to the ephemera and its housing bodies (books) once they enter your store or are presented on this blog? If, or when you sell these items, does the enclosed ephemera continue along its previous path hidden as "forgotten bookmarks?"
Love the site!
Belinda the bibliophile
- March 5, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- YrObtSvt said...
Ah, the good old country correspondence from a community newspaper! There are still papers in many small towns that do this today. This one was quite interesting -- and convinced me not to patronize Powell's Store!
- March 5, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- unmoderated said...
Fairies - it's the cereal... OF LIFE!
- March 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- unmoderated said...
Belinda -
Anything that is posted here on the site is saved. I have a big plastic archival box where I store all the stuff, including a few photo albums.
The books that go with them are usually priced and put up for sale. I'm sure I miss tons of items, however... and I've only been collecting these since 2004 or so.
I've been in the family book biz since I was 8 or 9, so about 20 years now, and I've always been fascinated by this stuff. I really love working on this blog, and am ecstatic that people enjoy these items as much as I do.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM
- Carey said...
That's great, seeing them altogether like that.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:42 PM
- Tricia said...
With all those illnesses, "prosperous Old Delaware" doesn't seem so prosperous to me!
And to have novels of fine distinction in exquisite bindings for only $1 - my copy of Passage to India certainly cost more than that, and it was in a mere paperback binding.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:10 PM
- Michelle said...
Interesting that you have a 'Magic Pudding' bookmark featuring the characters Snugglepie and Cuddlepot on the it. It's in the top lot. Circular with a red string.
The Magic Pudding is a very famous Australian children's book. We all grow up with it as kids here in Oz. I wonder if it was in a book from Australia or the bookmark was a gift to someone who travelled here. Interesting nonetheless :)
- September 23, 2010 at 12:51 PM

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New York – "We are only eleven weeks away from the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, where the world expects governments to take the next significant step in building an effective, global system to address climate change.
I am confident that governments will be able to take a significant step, if they solve four key issues in Durban.
The first is the resolution of the political question of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. There has to be a clear decision as to how the global collective effort – not only of industrialized countries (whilst they do certainly have to take the lead) – but how the global collective effort to reduce emissions will go forward and how that will be done in a transparent manner, with greater ambition growing over time.
The second is to define the rules for the review. Under the Cancun Agreements, countries decided that they would engage in a review starting 2013. But the rules need to be decided on prior to that, and that review would then be a review of the adequacy of the efforts of countries at that time with respect to the science.
The third is clarity on climate finance. There I would say there are two big chapters. One is the approval of the first cut of the design of the Green Climate Fund, and the other is a process to ramp up climate finance up to the USD 100 billion a year that was agreed to under the Cancun Agreements to be available by the year 2020, but certainly necessitating a gradual ramp-up.
The fourth issue that needs special attention in Durban is the operationalization of both the new Technology Mechanism agreed in Cancun, as well as the Adaptation Committee which is the institution that Parties have developed that will take forward the adaptation efforts around the world.
Here in New York, the Presidents of Mexico and South Africa are actively consulting with other Heads of State on at least these four issues, which are probably the more contentious and the more political issues. And its very clear that world leaders here will again see that they are in the deep midst of economic crisis. I certainly sympathize with that.
However, it is also very clear that no matter what short-term solutions will be put in place by governments to deal with this current economic crisis, those solutions will not be able to maintain growth and stability throughout a longer period unless they are imbued within a global climate change solution. So it is very clear that even if we have short-term solutions that we need to put in place, we also have to have long-term solutions that need to devised to take us to a low-carbon and climate-resilient world."
About the UNFCCC
With 195 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol has been ratified by 193 of the UNFCCC Parties. Under the Protocol, 37 States, consisting of highly industrialized countries and countries undergoing the process of transition to a market economy, have legally binding emission limitation and reduction commitments. The ultimate objective of both treaties is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.


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The Black Hawk Nighthawks 4-H Club held a couple activities in the month of June.
The club met in the elementary parking lot at 8:00 a.m. on June 21st and car pooled to Adventureland. It was a full day of fun for everyone who could join us, even though it did rain a little while we were there.
On June 11th, we met at Malissa's house to continue preparing our Share the Fun skit ("Alien 4-H Fair") for the fair. On June 29th, the club met at Malissa's house at 9:00 a.m. to finish our preparation for our Share the Fun skit. At 10:00 a.m., we went to Parkview Manor. Emma played a few songs on the piano and the club performed our "Alien 4-H Fair" skit for the Parkview residents. After our skit, we shared treats and drinks with the residents. Some of our 4-H members brought their pets to share some time with the residents. Sarah Schildroth told the residents about her cat, Audrey Leyen and Ashley Moore told the residents about their dogs. Then everyone had the chance to pet the animals.
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Group picture at Adventureland.
Our most recent event of the summer was the Grundy County Fair July 22nd July 27th. The weather was great for the fair week, which began with the club assisting with clean-up of the fairgrounds on Saturday, July 20th. On Monday, many club members had projects judged for the non-livestock exhibit building and we also performed our Share the Fun "Alien 4-H Fair" skit. The rest of fair week included animal shows and a lot of other fun activities. We ended with another round of fairgrounds clean-up and picking up projects & animals on Saturday, July 27th. We will once again be displaying a few of our projects in the Reinbeck Public Library display case during the month of October.
We're taking the month of August off and will kick-off the next year with a meeting tentatively scheduled for Sunday, September 8th.


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Aren't we having a zinc shortage [slashdot.org]? Get it from these fingers!!
I knew all those old pennies would come in handy for something.
You're probably American, but you might be glad to know that there's a place in England where people could quite literally say "t' t-cells attack t' virus". Not quite what you're looking for, but close enough!
Now, put t' kettle on!
Oh wait...Mr T-cells. I thought it said A-team.
what *else* do these surface proteins on the T cell do?
maybe there is something those altered structures do that we will miss when they stop performing their function...
not everything in the body is superfluous like the appendix or wisdom teeth.
Considering AIDS eventually leads to painful death, what function would this hinder that would make things worse?
Well, I am no AIDS expert but from what I understand is HIV does not really kill anybody. AIDS the resulting condition of HIV, is Auto Immune Difficency Sydrome. Basically you immune system stops working and all the other little virus out there take over start to take over all your other cells and with nothing to stop them; that kills you.
So if you screw-up someones immune system in the name of HIV proofing and that causes it to not work then they will have AIDS anyway even if you do manage to kill off the HIV infection. So yea if it turns out these things are "important" you might destroy the immune system faster then HIV would have.
I have always loved that explanation. The first thing that came to my mind when I first heard it, was that falling does not kill you, no matter how far, only the sudden stop at the bottom.
Rincewind: I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet! I'm afraid of grounds.
Conina: You mean heights. And stop being silly.
Rincewind: I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!
AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, not Auto-immune. It's an infectious disease, not a manifestation of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
"Well, I am no AIDS expert but from what I understand is HIV does not really kill anybody."
"Guns don't kill people..."
... HIV does not really kill anybody
Actually, it does, it's just most people die of AIDS before the HIV infection itself can kill. In addition to infecting immune system cells, HIV also infects brain cells, which is the cause of the cognitive impairment descending into dementia that is experienced by a significant number of late-stage AIDS patients. If the patient doesn't die of infection first, AIDS dementia complex [wikipedia.org] can destroy enough brain tissue to finish them off.
Some people are born with a mutation on their CCR5 gene and therefore do not have a working CCR5 receptor on the surface of their T cells. These rare individuals are immune to HIV infection and seemingly are not affected by the non-functional CCR5 protein. The zinc finger approach aims to mimic this natural immunity.
It would appear that these surface proteins are "superfluous", or at least not really necessary.
You not only need to be sure, you need to be HIV-positive...
Yes, that's it. The article abstract is a lot more intelligible than the press release:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18587387 [nih.gov]
They're using Zinc Finger Nucleases:
http://www.zincfingers.org/scientific-background.htm [zincfingers.org]
to target and disrupt the CCR5 gene.
whatever function they have, it's probably not as important as not dying of AIDS
Upon what data do you base that assumption? Is not dying of AIDS more important than not dying in screaming agony? [naturalnews.com]
Upon what data do you base that assumption?
considering the kind of death that is in store for someone who is severely immuno-compromised, the adverse effects from this treatment would need to be pretty bad to be considered worse. that and there isn't any convincing evidence to my knowledge that this method is any worse than doing nothing to mitigate the effects of an HIV infection which doesn't mean that there can't be any that we don't know about, it means that we would need more testing- in any case, di
So you're saying that people with AIDS don't suffer horrible agonizing death from various infectious diseases?
Well it would probably be a bad idea to do this pre-emptively prior to an HIV infection, but once someone was infected - If it's a choice between "dead T-cells/no T-cells" and "potentially malfunctioning T-cells", "potentially malfunctioning" is better than "none/dead".
Haven't we learned not to modify T-Cells already?
And when they both go back to being regular guys, they can decide which of them is more socially awkward.
But this technology may provide a way to defend against this virus. By changing the "shape" of our T-cells it will prevent the virus from recognizing its target. This would render it ineffective and be effective against the numerous variants.
Of course, this is still early in the development cycle. There's always the chance of unintended consequences...
But this technology may provide a way to defend against this virus. By changing the "shape" of our T-cells it will prevent the virus from recognizing its target. This would render it ineffective and be effective against the numerous variants
This does not make the T-cell invisible to HIV, it sets a trap.
T Cell (in sexy voice): How about it, Mr. HIV, do you want to come into my place?
HIV: Om nom nom let me put my arms around you baby... wait, where the fuck do I put my left arm? I can't penetrate without both arms around you!
T cell: All your binding proteins are belong to me.
HIV: I'm going to go hit on someone else. Let go of my right arm, you bastard!
T cell: Om nom nom
Well ok, it's a stretch, the T cell doesn't eat the virus at the end.
But the zinc fingers don't disguise the T-cell, they keep the T-cell from expressing one of the antigens on its surface. So instead of the two binding sites needed for the T-cell to be infected, it only shows one.
I find your dating example pretty ackward,
I've never seen a sexy T-cell before but anyways...
Retroviruses do this DNA-mutation on the fly all the time.
That's why they end up as part of our lineage's DNA.
HIV viruses might work
Actually, that's kind of the weird thing about HIV. It infects its host, then the host "wins", and the HIV is almost unnoticeable at that point. However, enough T-cells have the odd DNA code that HIV inserted into it, and so far, I've only heard it as "mysteriously" the T-cell levels drop, even though the virus is in remission. The virus eventually takes over, because the T-cells aren't in high enough numbers to stop it anymore, but the T-cell levels drop WHILE they're winning against HIV.
I can only thin
You can practically get rid of the virus over many successive generations.
but never entirely right? This sounds similar to HAART, it can reduce the virus to very low levels, but it would take more than a normal human lifetime to clear the virus completely using these types of methods. At best it would probably allow a reasonably normal, if somewhat shortened, lifespan with the virus never completely cleared but (hopefully) well controlled.
This is
Next time, use a car analogy, please.
So, to put it in a way people on here might actually understand
The T-cell fakes its md5, HIV comes up, checks to see if this is the right cell to corrupt and finds the hash doesn't match what it wants, and ignores it.
See, and no cars or tubes
I'm skeptical.
HIV is known to evolve affinity for new binding sites: http://endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-just-so-story-turns-into-just-so.html [blogspot.com]
Can it evolve around this change? I don't know, but it's very probable.
Talk about completely misreading even the one paragraph blurb. Zinc fingers are a large group of protein sub-structures which are used to interact with DNA. This group used them to induce a specific mutation which now seems to be HIV resistant How long this will last is really up in the air though, HIV and all other RNA viruses evolve very quickly.
How long this will last is really up in the air though, HIV and all other RNA viruses evolve very quickly.
That doesn't seem to be a problem with the naturally-occurring CCR5 variant, though.
The naturally occurring variant is such a small percent of the population as to not be an evolutionary pressure for HIV, if huge numbers of people all of a sudden basically have this gene that pressure will increase quite a bit.
Who wrote that summary? They can't even get the name of the school right - it's the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Man, them's some shitty editorial standards you've got there.
Anyone else read this as a CRC error?
I wake up in a cold sweat some nights dreaming of CRC errors in my Zmodem batch downloads!
That sounds like a great plan. Insert errors into our genetic code until the virus leaves us alone. That's got to work.
Well, one in every billion-odd genetic errors results in evolutionary mutation. I suppose if you're feeling really lucky...
(Hey, they got us this far!)
Ummm, you do realize that that's how evolution works, right? Any mutation (beneficial or not) can be seen as a "random error".
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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Good news! The county tournament seeds should be released by Thursday afternoon (check back here to find them) and then the county tournament begins Friday at 4 p.m. at Oakland Mills High School (finals on Saturday at 7 p.m.) and then we won't need these silly rankings anymore.
Still, I felt like I should get one last post in before they become obsolete, so here it is. If you look closely, there are minor changes from the fourth edition. And besides, I've already got you to look, so haHA!
You should also use this opportunity to see if I've made any obvious mistakes, and take your opportunity to call me an idiot via Twitter (@ACHoCoSports).
The big things are, top-ranked 106-pounder Michael Beck, of River Hill, is back for the county tournament, and teammate Sebastian Ames broke into the rankings with a win over Glenelg's Matt Baxter in the final match of the regular season.
1. Michael Beck, River Hill junior
2. Tim Null, Glenelg sophomore
3. Josh Kendrick, Mt. Hebron freshman
4. Tyler Ponton, Reservoir junior
5. Dakota Thompson, Oakland Mills freshman
6. Romtin Habibi, Marriotts Ridge freshman
1. Taariq Mohammed, River Hill senior
2. Troy Kilcarr, Reservoir sophomore
3. Jeff Hayden, Mt. Hebron sophomore
4. Ronald Hindman, Long Reach senior
5. Noah Polonsky, Wilde Lake junior
6. Chris Winter, Glenelg senior
1. Zach Hensley, Oakland Mills senior
2. Trent Kilcarr, Reservoir sophomore
3. Parker Griffie, Glenelg freshman
4. Ethan Eckley, Wilde Lake senior
5. Nick Williams, Howard sophomore
6. Brandon Wilson, Mt. Hebron junior
1. Jordan Trinh, Wilde Lake senior
2. Patrick Linden, River Hill senior
3. Steven Sung, Mt. Hebron junior
4. Joe Quattrone, Reservoir senior
5. Zack Shackelford, Glenelg junior
6. Josh Pickens, Atholton sophomore
1. Mason Kilcarr, Reservoir junior
2. Lee Carter, River Hill senior
3. Daniel Andrews, Wilde Lake senior
4. Michael Budock, Glenelg junior
5. Bryan Crumback, Howard sophomore
6. Scotty DeJames, Atholton junior
1. Austin Kraisser, Centennial freshman
2. Ryan Carter, Glenelg senior
3. Hans Wicklein, Reservoir junior
4. Anthony Solis, Hammond sophomore
5. Tyler Anderson, Wilde Lake junior
6. Robert Bruffey, Howard freshman
1. Malik Jackson, Wilde Lake junior
2. Connor Strunk, Mt. Hebron sophomore
3. Hutson Baumann, Centennial junior
4. Austin Pagnotta, Glenelg junior
5. Bradley Montecino, Oakland Mills senior
6. Paul Quattrone, Reservoir junior
1. Joe Kendrick, Mt. Hebron senior
2. Sameh Boulos, Centennial junior
3. Joe Zoller, Glenelg junior
4. Raheem Brown, Wilde Lake senior
5. Stephen Sims, Reservoir sophomore
6. Donovan Delore, River Hill senior
1. Bryan Overton, Hammond senior
2. Jaron Smith, Oakland Mills sophomore
3. Pat Mullens, Atholton senior
4. Casey Guthier, River Hill junior
5. Nick Shearin, Centennial senior
6. Troy Walter, Glenelg junior
1. Tola Morakinyo, Wilde Lake senior
2. Anthony Pagnotta, Glenelg senior
3. Brian Kirby, River Hill sophomore
4. Wesley Beattie, Reservoir junior
5. Drew Williams, Howard senior
6. Lyle Fugate, Marriotts Ridge senior
1. Dominick Clarke, Oakland Mills senior
2. Jared Rodriguez, Howard junior
3. Sebastian Ames, River Hill junior
4. Matt Baxter, Glenelg sophomore
5. Brian Glueck, Reservoir senior
6. V.J. Stout, Marriotts Ridge sophomore
1. Cory Daniel, River Hill junior
2. Michael Sullivan, Reservoir junior
3. Austin Twigg, Glenelg sophomore
4. Chris Park, Marriotts Ridge junior
5. Robby Happy, Oakland Mills junior
6. Nathanael Haase, Wilde Lake senior
1. Logan Kirby, River Hill junior
2. Ryan Hassan, Mt. Hebron junior
3. Craig Burris, Glenelg junior
4. Joseph Celtnieks, Oakland Mills junior
5. Deon Williams, Long Reach junior
6. Alex Zaldo, Marriotts Ridge sophomore
1. Sean Twigg, Glenelg senior
2. Roy Kadje, Oakland Mills senior
3. Ne'co Jones, Wilde Lake senior
4. Justin Nestor, River Hill senior
5. Ryan Austin, Marriotts Ridge senior
6. David McLaurin, Hammond sophomore


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By John Hernandez
The Cañon del Oro, the "Canyon of Gold" in Spanish, is a remote canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. Through the canyon runs the perennial creek known as the Cañada del Oro. The creek is fed by rain and melted snow from the north face of Mount Lemmon. The creek flows northward towards the town of Oracle and then curves southward to the town of Oro Valley. It probably got its name from the Spanish explorers that discovered gold in the area in the 17th century. It has a history of mining activity after the Civil War when American prospectors began searching the area for gold. The legendary "Mine with the Iron Door/Lost Escalante Mine" is reported to be somewhere in the canyon area. The area during the Apache Wars was also the scene of a number of encounters with Apaches including battles between Americans, Mexicans, and the U.S. Cavalry.
It is believed that the Pinal and Aravaipa people first encountered the Americans at the Canyon del Oro in 1850. In 1859, the Canyon was the site of the first recorded treaty between the United States and the Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches. Negotiations had begun in March. At that time it was agreed that the parties would meet again two weeks later at Canyon del Oro.
On March 22, Captain Ewell and his troops, reported as 100 dragoons from Fort Buchanan set up camp in the Cañon del Oro. Colonel Walker, agent of the Pima and Maricopa Indians accompanied Ewell as well as citizens from Tucson looking to trade with the Apaches if the negotiations went well. The Apaches showed up in small groups in the afternoon. After surveying the situation, the rest of the band came into the canyon. The newspapers reported that there were over 300 warriors and six hundred women, children and old men in attendance. On the arrival of Dr. Steck, the Apache agent, the treaty was made. The Pinals agreed not to raid or harm the Americans in exchange the government would provide goods and provisions on a regular basis. Arizona newspapers, which did not distinguish between the different bands and clans of Apaches, were reporting that the Pinals had broken the treaty within a month. The Tucson newspaper wrote editorials calling for more military action against the Indians.
The Canyon del Oro was along the road from Tucson to Camp Grant which had been re-established in 1866. The road was isolated and dangerous as Apaches roamed the area freely. There was nothing between Tucson and Camp Grant. Oracle and Mammoth did not exist, nor did the Steam Pump Ranch. The only known ranch in the area was established by Francisco Romero around 1844. It was located in part of what is now Catalina State Park.
The Apaches knew that freighters and travelers between Tucson and the fort, which was established where the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek meet, usually traveled on the road without military escort. They knew that the freight wagons carried lots of supplies for the military and for the stores which supplied goods for the ranchers and farmers that were starting to settle in the area around Camp Grant. The years from 1864 to 1871 were a very violent and dangerous time for settlers in Arizona, especially those that traveled outside of the large towns or attempted to settle in areas far away from established military outposts. The Camp Grant Road and the San Pedro Valley had more than their share of the violence during the Apache wars.
To understand the depth of violence and frequency of attacks by the Apaches, there was a petition to President Ulysses S. Grant dated Oct. 14, 1871 that was printed in the Arizona Miner newspaper. Attached to the petition was a list of 301 names of people killed in the Territory of Arizona by the Apaches since 1864. At the time it was estimated that those killed amounted to ten percent of the adult population in Arizona. A list of some of the Apache raids and some of those killed in the Copper Corridor area is provided.
In May 1867, three Mexicans were murdered between Tucson and Camp Grant. The Mexicans worked for Jesus M. Elias at his ranch near Camp Grant. Later the same night, the Elias ranch was attacked. Jesus Elias was at Camp Grant, where he was often used as a guide for the military. His brother Juan was wounded in the neck and shoulder by a shotgun blast. Some people believed it was an assassination attempt intended for Jesus. The Elias family had been fighting the Apaches for years.
On Jun. 4, 1867, a Mexican worker named Francisco was murdered on the ranch of Jesus M. Elias. Elias was in the field near the attack but was able to hide from the Apaches. He would be one of the leaders of the Tucson vigilantes who participated in the Camp Grant Massacre in 1871. He would guide the Americans, Mexicans and Papagos (Tohono O'odham) to the Aravaipa village where the massacre took place. His brother Juan also participated in the massacre.
Jun. 4, 1867 – the ranch of Israel, Tommalson & Co. was attacked by Indians. Mr. Tommalson was killed by a spear thrust through his lung.
May 14, 1868 – a train of three wagons one belonging to Tully & Ochoa and two to Mariano were attacked on the road to Camp Grant by seven Indians. The men drove off the attackers, killing two and bringing in their scalps as trophies. The owners of the wagons divided $300 among the seven men who were with the wagons and helped drive off the Indians.
Jul. 16, 1868 – Elonzo M. Erwin murdered at Camp Grant.
Dec. 10, 1868 – Indians endeavored to fire a ranch at Camp Grant and stole a government mule.
Jul. 24, 1869 – a Mexican named Corozozo was murdered near Camp Grant.
Feb. 26, 1869 – Indians attack the train of Thomas Venable near Camp Grant. They murdered two men, Price and Davis, wounded one, captured 80 mules and destroyed two wagons.
Mar. 23, 1869 – a white man was murdered near Camp Grant.
May 11, 1869 – between Tucson and Camp Grant, three men were murdered.
Sept. 30, 1879 – Fred L. Austin a merchant and a party of 12 men were attacked by approximately 150 Apaches on the road from Tucson to Camp Grant. They fought them from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when troops from Camp Grant arrived.
Oct. 1, 1879 – Captain E.F. Bernard of the First Cavalry followed the band of Apaches that had taken a train on the road from Tucson to Camp Grant. They trailed the Indians to the Aravaipa Mountains. They found 300 Apaches there and were "obliged to retreat."
Jan. 8, 1870 – Samuel Brown and J. Simms were murdered by Indians at the San Pedro settlement and their team captured.
Apr. 18, 1870 – Indians visited Camp Grant and stole three horses from Captain Hind's wagon, and four mules, the property of C. Conwell.
Jun. 25, 1870 – Indians attacked a prospecting party near Cottonwood Springs, on the road from Florence to Camp Grant, wounded Messrs. Myers, Johns, and Curtis, and captured the wagon and its effects valued at about $2,000.
Feb. 14, 1871 – Hind's and Hooker's herd at Infantry Camp, was attacked, when two herders were killed and their arms captured by the savage assailants. Later in the day the camp sentinels were fired upon.
Feb. 15, 1871 – Indians attacked Lt. Riley and ten men while guarding a government herd, near Infantry Camp in the Pinal Mountains, killed one soldier, wounded two others and captured about seventy heads of mules and a number of cattle. (Infantry Camp was established by General Stoneman and located about 6 miles west of present day Miami at the Pinal Ranch near the headwaters of Mineral and Pinto Creeks. It would later be moved further west and renamed Camp Pinal then Camp Picket Post near the town of present day Superior)
Mar. 10, 1871 – Mr. Ainza's train, in route to Infantry Camp, with government supplies, was attacked by a large band of Indians, and two teamsters were killed and one wounded. On the same day, Indians attacked the train of Manuel Ynigo between Camp Grant and Pinal, killing one soldier, one Mexican and capturing sixteen mules.
Apr. 10, 1871 – A.J. Jackson murdered by Indians at San Pedro.
Apr. 12, 1871 – a band of Indians from the Camp Grant Reservation, swept over the San Pedro Valley, killing Mr. Long, Mr. McKenzie, E. Unter and Oury Chapin and wounding Nicholas Lopes.
Sept. 10, 1871 – Indians fired into a detachment of Pinal prospectors, killed one man and two horses.
Sept. 13, 1871 – a mail rider and a stock herder murdered by Indians two miles from Tucson, the mail captured and destroyed, and the mule of the mail rider taken by the Indians to the Camp Grant Reservation.
Sept. 23, 1871 – a party of Indians captured a herd of cattle from a ranch two miles south of Tucson. They were followed by a party of citizens, and so closely pursued that they abandoned the plunder and took refuge on the Camp Grant Reservation.
Two of the more well known battles with Apaches along the Cañada del Oro were the Israel-Kennedy wagon train attack and the attack on the Tully & Ochoa wagon train.


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No, it means Sony will have to charge everybody to enable this new 'feature'...
they need to have a "factual" for mod's....
All IP addresses found in this thread will be seized to Sony in a few days, just you wait.
There is, it's called "Informative".
informative would imply something i did not know
the fact that sony charges and or sues for everything? pretty common knowledge.
They will threaten the author with lawsuit and confiscate all his work after he caves in, then flip it as a new feature wholly developed and owned by Sony.
Isn't the rule that they can only remove functionality after their precious little console ships?
No. No it isn't. [wikipedia.org]
Pretty bloody clever but the lag must be awful.
roger that, the kinect is kind of laggy on my Xbox and its even more laggy on my pc, I'd HATE to see the lag using a pc as a bridge device. yikes.
Nice and all, but:
the software is at a pre-alpha quality state, meaning that some libraries need to be improved in order to boost performance and features
WTF? I thought pre-alpha meant "buggy as hell, try it if you really want to see something cool,but don't count on it working for more than a few minutes." Since when did it mean "some libraries need to be improved in order to boost performance and features"? I thought that stage is beta/pre-release.
so my yet-to-be-written (or thought-about) program can be called almost-released-to-testing? Be ready for the coolest app from me soon!
I was already crying when Heavy Rain forced me to purchase a Sony product. Now you want me to 'improve' it by sticking on Microsoft peripherals?
I already have enough self-loathing, thank you very much.
An umbrella would have been cheaper
An umbrella would have been cheaper
I'd rather ruin a PS3.
I'd have thought Sony would be quite pleased. Microsoft just spent millions on development, and BAM! - ported to the PS3 at zero cost to Sony. Meanwhile you still can't use Move on an Xbox, and there is probably no community interest in making it happen.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has to be crying into their cornflakes.
My excitement over the PS3 Move controller was quickly subdued when I discovered I can't play the sports and gladiator games using online multiplayer, only local multiplayer. Now the controllers are sitting and collecting dust.
Given that complex games work online I can't see why Move games are any different. From an end-user perspective, it's really lame.
I still get them out to play a game or two of Boccie any maybe Frisbee golf, but those were the only games that were any good.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/23/british_government_spied_on_own_king_cabinet_office_papers/
Brit spooks bugged Edward VIII's phones, records reveal
Plus Churchill and Stalin had a massive drinkathon in Moscow
Posted in Security, 23rd May 2013 11:59 GMT
Intelligence files kept hidden for nearly 80 years have shown that the British government was bugging King Edward VIII's phones in the days leading up to his abdication.
Neil Forbes Grant's telegram confirming the King's abdication.
Government officials were clearly panicking about what Edward would do and how the news would be received, so they monitored calls from Buckingham Palace and the King's Windsor residence Fort Belvedere, as well as stopping telegrams leaking the news of his abdication and intimidating journalists to keep a lid on the news.
The London editor of the Cape Times, Neil Forbes Grant, was dragged in to face Home Secretary Sir John Simon after sending a telegram to South Africa on 6 December, 1936 saying that the King was going to give up the throne. The missive was one of two the General Post Office had intercepted with the leaked news.
Sir John lambasted Grant, reminding him that a false rumour that the country had lost the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 caused a financial crisis and ruined many people, and tried to pressure him to reveal his "highly placed source".
"I asked him if he did not realise that his responsibilities as a journalist and an Englishman made the sending of such a message without definite authority as to its truth very improper and reckless," Simon wrote.
Grant refused to give up his source and Simon relented, asking him to keep the interview "absolutely secret and between ourselves". He also told Grant that there was "no truth" to the abdication rumour.
Edward abdicated at Fort Belvedere four days after Grant sent the telegram.
The papers come from a pile of documents deemed too sensitive and "difficult" to be stored in the classified section of the National Archives. Instead they were kept in a locked vault under the Cabinet Office.
Released through the National Archives, the collection shows the government's frantic attempts to control the situation as Edward prepared to give up his throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee and socialite. Edward, as head of the Church of England, could not marry Wallis while her former husband still lived - but he refused to give her up. In response, Sir John asked the GPO to monitor the King's phone calls from 5 December, 1936.
The papers also show that the King himself asked the police to guard Simpson's residence overlooking Regent's Park a few months before his abdication. Edward asked Chief Inspector Storries to help make Simpson's house "burglar proof" and to take steps to stop her from being "annoyed by pressmen, press photographers and other curious persons". He also asked Storries to keep the instructions to himself.
A sketch of Chf Insp Storries' security arrangements around Wallis Simpson's house
Among the documents was a handwritten diagram of the stepped-up patrol around Simpson's house, which police later had to deny the existence of when questioned by American newspapermen.
Other papers released by the Cabinet Office outline a drunken night during Winston Churchill's August 1942 mission to Moscow and his first face-to-face meeting with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, was along for the trip and later wrote to Viscount Halifax that things weren't going that well until Churchill got Stalin alone.
"Nothing can be imagined more awful than a Kremlin banquet, but it has to be endured. Unfortunately, Winston didn't suffer it gladly. However, next morning, he was determined to fire his last bolt, and asked for a private talk, alone, with Stalin," he wrote.
At around 1am, Cadogan was called to Stalin's private rooms and found the war leaders a little worse for wear.
"There I found Winston and Stalin, and Molotov who has joined them, sitting with a heavily-laden board between them: food of all kinds crowned by a sucking [sic] pig, and innumerable bottles," he said.
"What Stalin made me drink seemed pretty savage: Winston, who by that time was complaining of a slight headache, seemed wisely to be confining himself to a comparatively innocuous effervescent Caucasian red wine. Everyone seemed to be as merry as a marriage bell.
"I think the two great men really made contact and got on terms, Certainly, Winston was impressed and I think that feeling was reciprocated ... Anyhow, conditions have been established in which messages exchanged between the two will mean twice as much, or more, than they did before." ®


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Jewish Lineage to Lead Venezuela?Apr 17, 2012 at 06:44:52 AM
When Venezuelans head to the polls for a presidential election this October, a new rising star will be opposing Hugo Chavez, the socialist firebrand who has held power for the past 13 years.
The opponent is 39-year-old Henrique Capriles Radonski, whose Jewish descent has become a hallmark of his political career. His maternal grandparents were Jewish refugees from Russia and Poland who fled during World War II, arriving in Venezuela with nothing but "a suitcase full of clothes." His grandmother's parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto and murdered by the Nazis in Treblinka.
Though Capriles describes himself as a "fervent Catholic," he is proud of his Jewish ancestry and doesn't shy away from it. "Because of my mother and grandmother, for Jews I'm Jewish…" he said. Indeed, the Venezuelan media won't let Capriles forget those roots: A popular magazine recently depicted a Star of David superimposed on his photo.
Additionally, Capriles' enemies have used anti-Semitic rhetoric against him and accused him of being part of a Jewish conspiracy. In 2009 pro-Chavez activists ransacked his office, spraying swastikas on the wall and (ironically) calling him a "Nazi."
Anti-Israel fervor has risen sharply during the Chavez presidency. In December 2007, after Chavez pushed through a constitutional referendum to abolish term limits, masked and armed police raided the Jewish Center in Caracas. A year later, a dozen assailants broke into the Grand Synagogue of Caracas, where they bound and gagged security guards, tore open the Holy Ark, scattered its contents irreverently across the floor, destroyed administrative files, and spray-painted the walls with horned devils and "Death Now."
Chavez himself has accused Israel of committing "genocide" and a "new Holocaust" against the Palestinians. He claimed that "Israeli Mossad terrorists" have tried to kill him, and in 2009 broke all diplomatic ties with Israel.
In recent years, life has been become increasingly difficult for the Jewish community of Venezuela. Many Jews have emigrated due to a rise in violent crime, an anti-Israel atmosphere, and economic hardship. (Chavez has nationalized the cement, steel, banking and lucrative oil industries, stripping many upper-class Jews of their wealth.) The Jewish population of Venezuela, which once numbered in the tens of thousands, has dropped to less than 10,000.
In the meantime, Chavez has become chummy with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commiserating about having atomic bombs at their disposal. Chavez hosted Ahmadinejad (as well as Syrian dictator Bashar Assad) on a recent trip to Venezuela and has declared an "axis of unity" against the United States.
Come October, world attention will be focused on Venezuela, with the hope that Capriles can defeat Chavez and usher in a new era of moderation and normalcy.


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2013 Kia Optima EX Turbo
Kia is making big waves in the auto business, having had another stellar year in 2012, after completely redesigning its lineup in the past few years. Its vehicles have gone from being non-descript to some of the most distinctive on the road. The Optima mid-sized sedan, introduced a couple of years ago, is aging well and remains one of the more appealing such cars on the road.
At the outset, it must be said that the platform and technology of the Optima mirrors that of its cousin, the Hyundai Sonata, and that is no bad thing, because it means that the Optima can be had in the same three versions – regular, turbo and hybrid. Beyond that, this car goes its own way as far as exterior and interior design, with Kia pursuing a more youthful and aggressive image.
Exterior and interior design has been totally revamped on Kias, and the Optima is one of the sleekest mid-size sedans on the road, with muscular proportions and a classy look. The model we drove was the EX Turbo, the EX being the mid-range model overall, and the entry level for the turbocharged direct-injection 2.0L four-cylinder engine, which pumps out 274 horsepower and 269 lb-ft of torque at as low as 1,750 rpm. In pre-metric terms, this is a 122 cubic-inch engine! Not so long ago, it would take twice the cylinders and three times the displacement to achieve those numbers. It is no wonder that a V6 is not available, a product planning decision that many of the companies in this segment have taken, because the added weight and expense are no longer necessary.
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The power is directed to the front wheels through a six-speed "Steptronic" (manual-shift capable with paddles) automatic transmission, and there, the sportiness pretty much ends other than slightly larger brakes in front (12.6 versus 11.8 inches), as Kia has chosen to equip this "basic" Turbo the way the regular non-turbo EX is, with 17-inch wheels, regular ride–biased suspension (McPherson struts up front, multi-link design at the rear), and a slightly disconnected feel in some circumstances from the electric motor–driven steering. To get the sport suspension and 18-inch wheels with bigger tires, one must step up (to the tune of almost $5,000) to the top-of-the-line SX model. The EX isn't an especially engaging driving experience for the enthusiast, beyond the very capable engine and drivetrain, but it certainly provides a refined and unruffled ride in normal use. The winter tires on our tester weren't the grippiest for dry-pavement handling, but in the wet – which was the most "winter" we encountered – the Optima seemed happy to have them and handled well.


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Are residents notified if they live in areas where wind energy companies propose turbines?
At a recent meeting of the Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals, West Brooklyn resident Margina Schwartzbach said she didn't know turbines were going up next to her property until construction started in October 2011.
That surprised me. One of the principles of zoning, I thought, was to notify adjoining landowners of proposals for rezoning and variances.
State law requires 15 days' notice to adjoining landowners before hearings to consider zoning changes. Lee and Whiteside counties take the extra step of sending certified letters.
Earlier this year, Lee County's zoning board proposed an ordinance that included a provision to require notification of all property owners within a half mile of turbines. However, the County Board, for a variety of reasons, rejected that ordinance.
Lee County Zoning Administrator Chris Henkel said the county approved the wind farm near Schwartzbach's home 5 years ago. He said he would look through his files to see whether she was sent a notice.
I couldn't reach Schartzbach for further comment after the meeting.
She and her husband have lived in their West Brooklyn home for a dozen years, so they would have been there if a certified letter had been sent.
If they received no notice and they are adjoining landowners, their frustration is understandable.
A modesty streak in government
Is modesty a trait usually associated with government?
It sure doesn't seem like it. When government finishes a new building, road or bridge, every politician in sight shows up for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, eager to take credit.
Morrison, however, appears to operate in a different political universe.
The other day, the City Council approved construction costs to extend a bike path to Rockwood State Park.
The project will cost $256,000, with the state paying for 80 percent and the city the rest.
City Administrator Jim Wise told the City Council that two government agencies would help with the project anonymously.
I found that interesting, so I asked him about it later.
Wise said the two agencies will donate labor and materials, dealing with such issues as erosion control and brush removal.
He said the agencies don't want to make a big issue of their help.
"They said, 'We're more than happy to assist, but don't expect any publicity or accolades,'" he said.
Of course, Morrison should be excited to receive help for a project. But I can't help but wonder how taxpayer-funded government agencies can make anonymous donations.
David Giuliani is a reporter for Sauk Valley Media. He can be reached at dgiuliani@saukvalley or at 800-798-4085, ext. 525.


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CardioKinetix Initiates Landmark Study of First-of-Its-Kind Treatment for Heart Failure in the United States
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 8, 2013--CardioKinetix Inc., a medical device company pioneering a catheter-based treatment for heart failure, announced the enrollment of the first patients in PARACHUTE IV, the randomized pivotal U.S. trial of the minimally invasive Parachute ™ Ventricular Partitioning Device for the treatment of heart failure.
PARACHUTE IV is a multi-center pivotal trial designed to evaluate the PARACHUTE implant vs. optimal medical therapy (randomized 1:1) in approximately 500 patients with ischemic heart failure at up to 65 centers. The event-driven primary endpoint includes all-cause mortality and hospitalization for worsening heart failure. Other key endpoints include functional outcomes, quality of life, and hemodynamic measures by echocardiography.
The first implant with the Parachute device was performed by David Mego, M.D., assistant medical director at Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, who treated a 39-year-old female with NYHA class III heart failure referred by Carl Leding, M.D., director of the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic at Arkansas Heart Hospital.
Marco Costa, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Interventional Cardiovascular Center and the Research and Innovation Center at the Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute at Case Western Reserve University and co-principal investigator of the trial, said, "I am thrilled to be pioneering this exciting therapy in the United States, where there is a significant need for better treatments for this heart failure patient population." "Many patients who have had a heart attack experience an extremely poor quality of life due to the debilitating symptoms of heart failure, including shortness of breath, fatigue, lack of appetite, impaired thinking, and increased heart rate. A classic example is the patient just treated at Arkansas Heart Hospital, where the patient experienced a heart attack less than two years ago and now struggles with simple things like dressing, cooking, or playing outside with her son because of shortness of breath and extreme fatigue," said William T. Abraham, M.D., the co-principal investigator of the trial and director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and professor of internal medicine, physiology and cell biology at The Ohio State University Medical Center. "In October, three-year data on the initial patients treated with Parachute were presented at the TCT Conference by Dr. Marco Costa. These strong and encouraging results provide confidence to initiate a landmark randomized, pivotal trial where a positive outcome will establish this technology as a primary therapy option for the treatment of ischemic heart failure patients." The Parachute device offers the first minimally invasive catheter-based treatment to partition the coronary muscle damaged by a heart attack. The treatment excludes the non-functional heart segment from the healthy, functional segment to decrease the overall volume of the left ventricle and restore its geometry and function.
"This initiation of the U.S. randomized pivotal study is a major milestone for CardioKinetix," said Maria Sainz, president and CEO of CardioKinetix. "We are excited about the opportunity before us to make a major positive impact for patients with heart failure, and we believe that we have partnered with the right heart failure physicians and interventional cardiologists to enroll this trial quickly." About Heart Failure Heart failure is a common, debilitating, and potentially deadly condition in which the heart is unable to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Symptoms of heart failure negatively impact quality of life and include shortness of breath, persistent coughing or wheezing, buildup of excess fluid in body tissues (edema), fatigue, lack of appetite or nausea, impaired thinking, and increased heart rate. More than 20 million people around the world are affected, with approximately six million in the United States, where it is responsible for 1.1 million hospitalizations annually. 1 About the Parachute™ Ventricular Partitioning Device The first-of-its-kind Parachute Ventricular Partitioning Device is a minimally invasive treatment for patients with heart failure caused by damage to the heart muscle following a heart attack. Clinical data demonstrates improved overall cardiac function and quality of life for patients treated with the Parachute device.
Through a small catheter inserted in the femoral artery, the Parachute implant is deployed in the left ventricle to partition the damaged muscle, excluding the non-functional heart segment from the healthy, functional segment to decrease the overall volume of the left ventricle and restore its geometry and function. This minimally invasive procedure is performed in the catheterization laboratory under conscious sedation.
The Parachute Ventricular Partitioning Device received CE Mark in 2011. In the U.S., the Parachute system is an investigational device limited by federal law to investigational use only and is not available for sale.
About CardioKinetix Inc. CardioKinetix, based in Menlo Park, Calif., is pioneering the catheter-based Parachute™ Ventricular Partitioning Device for heart failure. Privately held, the company is backed by SV Life Sciences, New Leaf Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, JP Morgan Partners, and H&Q Healthcare Investors. For more information please visit www.cardiokinetix.com.
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You dont have to drill deep to hit a pocket of doubt in the North American steel tube and pipe sector. Growing concerns over the rig count, natural gas prices, foreign competition and a still-stagnant construction market have made many players in the market less optimistic than they were at the beginning of the year.
Everybody I talk to says their business is OK. Nothing is really booming. The oil country (tubular goods) guys are doing a little better (than non-energy customers), one distributor source said. But theyre complaining about margins not being what they had been.
One trader said he was somewhat concerned about a lull in the rig count, given catastrophically low natural gas prices.
The pipe and tube market appeared to be in a holding pattern in April and early May as the impact of price increases on non-energy-related tubulars remained in doubt. At the same time, concerns have mounted in the long-robust energy tubulars sector over the drill rig count and declining natural gas prices, which fell below $2 per million British thermal units (mmBtus) in mid-April, a level industry observers said could make many shale gas plays unprofitable.
There appeared to be little consensus on the overall health of the pipe and tube markets, or even prices in general. But energy-sector players generally remained more optimistic than those more heavily reliant on construction activity.
It wasnt immediately clear whether price increases on non-energy tubulars would be successful or merely keep them from falling further. Most market sources suggested the latter might be the case, with some continuing to question whether the market could credibly support more price increases, given softness in demand and an abundant supply of coilthe substrate used to make welded tubularsas well as hollow structural sections, which are consumed largely by the construction industry.
One mill source predicted that prices would stay neutral or perhaps move downward, given sluggish demand in the residential and commercial construction sectors. Meanwhile, lower scrap prices and overcapacity in sheet production should keep a lid on any significant price increases in the next three to six months, he said.
But a second mill source, whose company makes energy tubulars, had a very different take on the market, saying his company was seeing very strong lead times and firming demand at both the mill and distribution levels thanks to a host of new line pipe projects moving forward. He predicted the trend could lead to higher prices for higher-strength line pipe.
Natural gas prices could be depressed, the second mill source said, but the energy industry is making a switch to oil drilling thanks to oil prices that appear set to remain at $100 per barrel or higher, which should keep demand for both oil country tubular goods (OCTG) and line pipe strong, at least through the summer months.
But not everyone in the energy sector was so sanguine. One distributor source contended that South Korean mills were destroying the domestic OCTG market with what he characterized as dumping.
South Korea, the largest overseas supplier of OCTG to the United States by volume, was licensed to ship 70,048 tonnes of OCTG to the United States in April, accounting for 23.3 percent of the 300,723-tonne total, according to the latest license data compiled by the U.S. Commerce Departments Import Administration, up 25.6 percent from imports of 55,751 tonnes the previous month and 26.4 percent ahead of 55,399 tonnes imported in April 2011.
Still, not everyone thinks that imports from Korea are hurting the domestic OCTG market as a whole. Competition between some domestic mills and imports might be fierce in less-value-added sectors, where some domestic mills get down and dirty and compete with imports, one trader said, but domestic OCTG mills generally are doing well, especially when it comes to higher-grade material, he said.
There were 1,974 rotary rigs operating in the United States in mid-May, up 24 from a month earlier, according to Houston-based oilfield services provider Baker Hughes Inc. But the oil rig count climbed by 40 while the gas rig count dropped by 26 in the same comparison.
The trader cautioned against reading too much into data from any particular week, noting that the rig count could gain 15 rigs in a given week. But even if it did, right now the trend is clearly down, and thats a little disconcerting, he added.
There are questions on other fronts, as well. While there are signs that construction activity is improving, landing new business remains a struggle, according to executives at Insteel Industries Inc.
Its still a real food fight out there as everyone scrambles for available orders. I wish I could tell you there has been a significant improvement, but unfortunately thats just not the case, Insteel president and chief executive officer H.O. Woltz III told analysts during a quarterly earnings conference call. The result has been subsistence-level spreads between wire rod costs and selling prices for finished goods, Woltz said. Mount Airy, N.C.-based Insteel buys wire rod to make downstream products, such as PC strand and welded-wire reinforcements.
One silver lining in the current situation could be the potential for additional acquisitions, Woltz said, noting that Insteel was very capable of such activity. However, he stopped short of citing any specific acquisition targets.
But some additional viewpoints at the start of the second quarter opened room for more optimism. U.S. Steel Corp. expected its tubular division to log another strong performance in the second quarter on the back of a possible increase in drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and continued shale resource development, its top executive said.
It would seem theres some pretty good expectation of increased activity in the Gulf of Mexico, particularly (in) the deep water, John P. Surma, chairman and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, told investors during a conference call. Weve actually had some orders (related to that pickup) already, he said, citing increased demand for heavy-gauge, thick-wall, large-diameter material. To the extent that comes back stronger, thats really positive for us in the long term.
Shale plays also will help boost the segment, Surma said in prepared remarks at the companys annual shareholders meeting in Pittsburgh. The energy industrys efforts to extract and transmit those resources have led to increased tubular products sales for our company and an extended period of strong financial performance from our tubular segment, he said.
In a similar vein, Timken Co. steel group president Salvatore J. Miraglia Jr. said he was really excited about shale drilling, calling the opportunity a wonderful development for his company and the entire industry.
Miraglia told AMM that demand for seamless tubing made from special bar quality billets will keep growing as the United States taps into the burgeoning resource to produce crude oil and natural gas. The shale play is a wonderful development because we make products well suited to the needs of deep-shale horizontal drilling, he said. It wont only help our businessin terms of economical energy, it can make our industry much more competitive on a global scale.
Miraglia said he isnt worried about low natural gas prices slowing exploration and extraction. Now that its down to $2 (per mmBtus), we need the incubation time to generate the demand that such economical energy will create, he said. For example, fleet owners are trying to figure out how to convert their vehicles and truck builders are beginning to produce natural gas-fueled models, he said, while electricity providers are starting to build or refit generating plants to use natural gas. During this period, demand pressure will begin transitioning to the product. Meanwhile, the people doing the drilling (will be) going after the wet gases because oil is still at $103 a barrel, Miraglia said.
Another opportunity will arise when liquid natural gas terminals at U.S. ports are converted from import to export capability. Shale drilling will have benefits that go beyond any one industry, Miraglia added. This resource has the abilityover the course of a number of years you can count on one handto make the United States energy independent . . . and balance trade.
There also are some signs of optimism outside of the United States. Tenaris SA plans to invest $200 million to upgrade its mill in Colombia by 2014. The Luxembourg-based steel tube and pipe maker said the money would go toward construction of a new heat-treatment mill, ultrasound inspection technologies and finishing capabilities at its Tubos del Caribe SA operations in Cartagena de Indias.
Colombias energy sector is set for extraordinary growth in the coming years due to favorable government policies, Tenaris chief executive officer Paolo Rocca said in a statement. This opens up important opportunities for the development of an industry like our own, focused on the supply of equipment, products and materials for the oil and gas industry.
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UH to Participate in Annual Hawaii Foodbank Drive
System-wide activities to include t-shirt sales and canned goods collectionUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Kate Wester, (808) 956-9095
The University of Hawaiʻi will participate in the 15th Annual Hawaiʻi Foodbank Drive kicking off on Tuesday, February 17, and running through Friday, February 27 for all UH campuses on the island of Oʻahu. The annual Foodbank Drive culminates with a statewide collection event scheduled for Saturday, April 24, with collection sites open at various locations across the state.
UH has been a proud participant in the Hawaiʻi Foodbank Drive for many years, with faculty, staff and students on all 10 campuses contributing to the university's successful efforts each year. Last year, the UH community collected an estimated $30,000 and 5 tons of food within a two-week period. This year, the university hopes for the same participation from the UH community and hopes collection efforts surpass last year's numbers. The university's goal this year is to collect 11,500 lbs. of food and $33,000 in contributions.
Several activities are scheduled to help ensure another successful UH Foodbank Drive. T-shirts promoting the Hawaiʻi Foodbank and the fight against hunger and Aloha Diners Club Coupon books will be sold on campuses and half of the proceeds of the sales will be donated to the Foodbank fund. Staff, faculty and students are encouraged to donate money or canned goods to the statewide effort. The university and Sodexho, UH's on-campus catering service, will partner again this year to promote the Hawaiʻi Foodbank Drive and will set up canisters at all their campus locations for donations.
The Hawaiʻi Foodbank provides food through various agencies to 118,000 different individuals each week, of which 43,000 are children and 17,000 are over the age of 65. This year, the organization lists its five most-wanted food items as canned meats or tuna, meals, soups, vegetables and fruits, and beans. Monetary donations are also welcome. For every $10 donated, the Hawaiʻi Foodbank is able to distribute enough food to provide 100 meals to those who need it most.
On April 24, designated collection sites throughout the state will accept valuable canned goods and funds from the public to not only support the Hawaiʻi Foodbank mission of "Helping to Feed Hawaiʻi's Hungry," but also to raise awareness of hunger in Hawaiʻi. The collection sites open on Oʻahu on April 24 will include Restaurant Row, Koko Marina Center, Town Center of Mililani, McCully Shopping Center, Pearl City Shopping Center, Waianae Mall Shopping Center, Windward City Shopping Center, and Waiokeola Congregational Church in Kāhala. There will also be collection sites at various military and neighbor island locations.
For more information about the 2004 Hawaiʻi Foodbank Drive, call (808) 836-3600.
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UH Manoa - Bachman Hall lobby
UH West Oahu - Chancellor's Office, B-105
Leeward CC - Library & Child Care Center
Honolulu CC - Student Life and Development Office, Bldg. 2, Rm. 112
Kapiolani CC - Office of Student Affairs, Ohia 101
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BREAKING NEWS: Jamiee Lee Haynes, the woman who acted as a lookout while her partner, Timothy Phillip Williams, bashed an African refugee outside Wollongong train station, has been jailed for two and a half year for her role in the attack.
She will serve a minimum 15 months behind bars before being released on bail next year.
EARLIER: An Illawarra man has been jailed nine years for the vicious and unprovoked assault of a refugee at Wollongong railway station last October.
Timothy Williams, 26, had pleaded guilty during an earlier court appearance to a charge of aggravated robbery with wounding, admitting he and co-accused Jaimee Lee Haynes, 28, were behind the October 6 attack, in which the victim was punched multiple times before being robbed.
The refugee, who had been in Australia from his native Eritrea (in Africa) for only five days, required stitches in his left ear and lost a tooth in the ordeal.
The entire incident was captured on CCTV, a matter presiding judge Paul Conlon said provided the court with a reliable account of how the incident unfolded.
"A viewing of this footage is all that is needed to make an accurate assessment of the objective seriousness of this offence," he said, describing Williams' actions as a "sickening attack".
"It is clear that when the offenders reached the station pedestrian walkway they were waiting for a victim.
"When the victim was stopped, it was also clear that there was a plan of action."
In handing down the judgment on Thursday morning, Judge Conlon slammed Williams's attempts to downplay the seriousness of the assault, and his role in it, while speaking to a court-appointed psychologist.
"He provides [the doctor] with a palpably false version of his confrontation and vicious assault on an unsuspecting victim," Judge Conlon said, noting Williams had suggested to the doctor that the victim had provoked him by calling him a "black bum".
"This footage serves to demonstrate the lie to any suggestion that the victim in anyway provoked this altercation."
Williams was given a non-parole period of six years, back-dated to when he first came into custody at the time of the offence.
He will be eligible for parole in 2019.
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Promoting northern Nevada as an adventure playground, luring more conventions and customized marketing to loyal casino customers are keys to Reno's economic survival in the face of growing competition from tribal casinos, industry leaders were told Thursday.
But one panelist at the inaugural Northern Nevada Gaming Summit said Reno's days as a gambling draw are long gone and efforts to regain lost ground for wagered dollars amount to "fantasized impossible dreams."
Reno is no longer the "Biggest Little City" but rather "just another little market with gaming," said Michael A. Meczka, a marketing analyst from Southern California.
Meczka's assessment was received curtly by Reno's tourism chief and others.
"I guess what we should do is fold up our tents and go home," Jeff Beckelman, president of the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, quipped after Meczka's presentation.
In California, Meczka said, the perception of Reno is "it's a great place to live but who wants to visit there?"
"A slot machine is a slot machine," he said.
While there will always be a tourist market in Reno, the draw will be for "extreme value seekers," not high rollers or upscale business travelers, he said.
Meczka also suggested casinos that cater to locals will be the "standard bearer" for Washoe County's economy in the future and that it's time to "turn out the lights" in many hotel rooms.
"That party is over," he said.
Beckelman and others, however, presented a more positive take on the region's future despite the challenges.
Michael Silberling, senior vice president and general manager for Harrah's Reno, agreed increasing competition will lead to "Darwinism" among some Reno casinos where only the fittest will survive.
But he doesn't believe all is doom and gloom.
He said hotels and casinos that maintain and update their properties and tailor their marketing can still be profitable.
"By maintaining relations with customers we know, we've actually grown that segment," he said.
During his presentation to about 200 convention attendees at Harrah's Reno Thursday, Beckelman said there's no question the spread of tribal casinos in California and elsewhere over the last decade continues to drain customers from northern Nevada's traditional feeder markets.
"It's just getting worse, and worse and worse," he acknowledged.
Luring conventions and trade shows are the region's salvation, he said, but added success will require cooperation and assistance from large hotel operators.
"We have many hotels that don't even respond to the bid opportunities" to book convention business, he said.
"There has to be a larger level of commitment, I believe, on the part of the operators - the casinos and hotels - to go after this business," Beckelman said.
David Line, president of Reno-based InfoSearch International, said the area needs to create an environment "where people come for business and decide they want to come back" on their own.
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Ian Clark's On Baseball: Future Red Sox are on the move
August 24. 2014 12:55AM
MANCHESTER - MANY of the top prospects that began the season with the Portland Sea Dogs have moved on - some all the way up to the Boston Red Sox - but there are still plenty of future stars on display in the Queen City today.
The Sea Dogs visit the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium for the final time this season when the teams play at 1:35 today.
While big names such as Mookie Betts, Blake Swihart, Deven Marrero, Henry Owens and Travis Shaw have all moved up, top Sox of the future to keep an eye on today include second baseman Sean Coyle, catcher Carson Blair, DH/3B Michael Almanzar and outfielder Keury De La Cruz.Coyle was hitting .301 heading into Saturday night's game with the Fisher Cats, though his averaged has slipped eight points since returning from the disabled list on Aug. 20. Still Coyle said he feels good.
"Coming off an ankle sprain, I'd never had one before so it was a new thing for me," Coyle said. "It's a little different than muscle strains but I've progressed pretty quickly and I'm feeling almost back to a hundred percent."
Coyle has battled injuries all season and has been limited to 88 games. Earlier in the season he bunted a ball off his finger and missed three weeks.
"It's not ideal, obviously, but it's not anything I worry about because I can't control it," he said. "I feel like the season has gone well.
I've had some ups and downs. Sometimes I've been hot, sometimes I've been cold.
It's all part of the learning experience and developing as a player and becoming more consistent, which is something I think I've made big strides with this season."
The 22-year-old Coyle is a Pennsylvania native and was a third round draft pick by Boston in the 2010 draft. He is the 14th ranked prospect in the Boston organization. He's been with Portland for the entire season after playing rookie and Single-A ball in 2013.
Coyle's size (5-foot-8) and position have drawn comparisons to Dustin Pedroia, who acts as a roadblock (along with top prospect Betts) for Coyle to move up. He has played some third base, but the buzz on that is that his arm is not made for the longer throw.
Blair is 24, a Texas native and was a 35th round pick of the Red Sox in 2008. He was assigned to Portland in early August and has hit .278 through 10 games with two home runs and eight RBIs.
Almanzar has had a busy season of movement in the Sox organization, playing in the Advanced A, Double-A and even Triple-AAA this year.
Through 45 games with Portland, the 23-year-old Almanzar is hitting .263 with five home runs and 25 RBIs in 45 games.
De La Cruz is 22 and was a 2009 free agent acquisition. He's hitting .306 through 61 games with Portland this season, his first season in Double-A after five years at the A levels.
Portland has seen a lot of movement of its upper level prospects in an ever-changing roster that you would expect at the Double-A level.
Betts has bounced from Portland to Triple-A Pawtucket and up to Boston, where he is right now. The towering pitcher Owens is with Pawtucket now after carving up the Double-A ranks with a 14-4 record and 126 strikeouts.
Swihart, Marrero and Shaw are all also in Pawtucket, with Swihart frequently rumored to be on the short list for September call-ups.
Seeing all of these fellow Sea Dogs move up can be encouraging, but most guys prefer to focus on their own development according to Coyle.
"I don't really put too much weight into it. They're taking care of their business and doing what they need to do to move up," Coyle said. "Hopefully, I take care of my business. I'm working every day and let the chips fall where they may."
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