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Utah State University is a land grant, public research university with its 400-acre main campus located in Logan, 80 miles northeast of Salt Lake City. Founded in 1888, the university fosters principles of strong academics, rich diversity, and serving the public through learning, discovery, and engagement.
Location Logan, Utah
Number of People Served Nealy 30,000 students (a number that includes those who attend classes at regional campuses and through distance learning).
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Utah State University has been offering distance learning for a very long time. As a land grant university, the institution takes seriously its repsonsibility to promote higher education to people of all classes and walk of life, expecially rural life.
One hundred years ago, that mission meant sending instructors to all corners of the state by train. Today, distance learning is achieved via technology -- about 300 USU classes are broadcast each week. The technology has come a long way and is still evolving, according to Brandon Reame, Director of Learning Environments for izzy+.
"izzy+ and USU are working together to flip the distance learning experience," Reame says. "Traditional distance education is largely one directional, with a central classroom broadcasting its content to remote locations. But many areas, like foreign language, require peer-to-peer interaction during class, so that needed to be addressed."
Robby Sproul, a Technical Professional at USU, was Reame's primary USU contact on the project. Sproul is responsible for researching and acquiring new technology, designing distance learning classrooms, and training and troubleshooting, as needed.
"The classroom setup is really improtant," Sproul says, mentioning the many elements, from screen sizes and camera placement to where people sit and how they interact with the equipment and one another.
USU currently has 40 classrooms that are video-conference equipped, and Sproul is constantly working to make design improvements as new classrooms are created. In planning the new izzy+ furnished room, Sproul had several goals.
"We wanted to make a more engaging and collaborative room, with more flexibility for different teaching styles," Sproul says. "We also wanted to make the room more comfortable for both the students in the room and those distance learning."
The flexibility and mobility of the izzy+ furnture was key, Sproul says, because teaching style change and classroom configuration impacts student engagement and collaboration.
"We decided to put the furniture and technology in positions that allow the instructors to more out from behind the podium and bring them closer to all of the students, " Sproul says. "In this space the instructors essentially become untethered. They're able to connect with all the students and use the technology at the same time. It's a different way of thinking about teaching, with the instructor more in the middle of the space."
Sproul chose Dewey Help Desks, Connection Carts, and Podiums by Fixtures Furniture. The Help Desks not only hold equipment, but Sproul says instructors like that they're easy to adjust for height and reorient in the room as needed. Connection Carts make monitors easy to move and view, and also supply white boards for interactive class and group work. Both the Webster seating and Dewey tables by Fixtures Furniture are on caster for extra mobility and flexibility.
"I like that the furniture is solid, but easy to move," Sproul says. "The tables have neoprene edges for extra durability when you move them and push them together, and i like the look, too. Instructors like the white boards, and the ability to move them around so all students can see, or move them near pods for group work."
The technology and furniture work together to notably impact the student's learning experience.
"One big difference of this room is that it allows us to put students who are there in pods, and then have the distance students join these groups for projects rather than form their own group," Sproul explains. "The distance students feel more connected and a part of things -- it enhances the learning experience for them. It also pushes the Logan students to think beyond their classroom."
Reame is also pleased with the results.
"We're taking the flipped classroom to a whole new level by leveraging really great technology that allows students to work face to face regardless of their location," he says. "We partnered with CISCO to develop easy-to-use, video conference technology that allows groups to work face to face with students in dozens of remote areas, simultaneously during class. And by using modular furniture, this room can function as a highly collaborative distance learning room, or within minutes be rearranged to support a more traditional lecture."


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CORTLANDT, N.Y. -- A Montrose man was recently sentenced to 40 years in jail for dealing heroin.
The 40-year sentence was handed down to 26-year-old Stefano DeMicheli by a Putnam County judge earlier this month and is the latest tale about a drug that has gripped the region, with two deaths in Cortlandt , and five people being arrested by the county last week .
Stefano's mother, Virginia, declined comment.
DeMicheli was sentenced after he failed drug tests and missed counseling sessions while in a drug treatment program, according to Putnam County DA Adam Levy.
DeMicheli was arrested in Dec. 2011 when police found him with 35 bags of heroin and 19 bags of crack cocaine and later pled guilty to four counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fourth degree with the promise of going into a drug treatment program.
Each count carries a maximum 12 year sentence.
"He knew he faced up to 12 years for each count if he failed the program," Levy said.
While in the drug program, DeMicheli was arrested by the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force following an investigation by Westchester County police. During that arrest, federal agents found a loaded gun, and a large amount of heroin and cash.
Levy praised the judge for his sentence, hoping it would send a message about the seriousness of the drug treatment program.
"Judicial diversion has helped many people who battle the disease of addiction get clean and become productive members of society. However, when someone continues to deal drugs while in the program, placing in danger those in the program who are committed to sobriety, they must be removed from the program and taken off the streets," Levy said.
When sentencing DeMicheli, Judge James Reitz said it was one of the worst sentences he had to impose.
We gave you many opportunities. We worked with you," Judge Reitz said at the sentencing. "I thank God that you didn't kill anybody along the way or seriously injure them. What we have here is a serious disregard and responsibility for one's actions. Now there are consequences. I have to tell you it's going to be tough."
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Barcelo Palacio Costa Rica
Hotel Barcelo San Jose Palacio Costa Rica
Rooms and Rates
Notes about this Hotel:- Costa Rican tax of 14.00% is not included.
- Rates include Buffet breakfast.
- Free Airport shuttle.
Hotel Description
The Barcelo San Jose Palacio is a luxury accommodation located in a residential area in San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica. San Jose Palacio is located 10 minutes from Juan Santamaria International Airport and a few minutes from downtown San Jose. Barcelo San Jose Palacio is the ideal place for combining business with pleasure. The hotel is located close to the Braulio Carrillo National Park and interesting butterfly farms outside San Jose. The Hotel has all the advantages of being in a large city which has numerous museums, parks and theaters in its urban areas and with the benefits that Barcelo Hotels provides to their guests. The hotel has been designed in a uniquely European style. Barcelo San Jose Palacio Hotel maintains its status as the deluxe hotel in Costa Rica preferred by international business people. Here you will find full spa services and conference rooms, even a casino. This is definitely a first class accommodation for those looking forward to spend a few days in a palace.
On the grounds of Hotel San Jose Palacio you find an outdoor swimming pool, a children's pool, gym, sauna, Jacuzzi, 2 tennis courts as well as 3 racquetball and squash courts. The San Jose Palacio Casino is popular among other tourists and Costa Ricans who come here every night to try their luck at the tables. From the hotel you can take a taxi downtown where you can visit the National Theater which was finished in 1897 thanks to a tax imposed on coffee exports. The National Theater reflects the need for a cultural center that Costa Rican ancestors once had. Due to Barcelo Palacio's strategic location in the geographical heart of the country, it is an ideal place to use as a base to take excursions to an incredible variety of regions. From here you can head towards any of the beaches in Costa Rica. The Barcelo Palacio Hotel is close to Tobias Bolanos National Airport where a short plane flight will take you to a coastal destination.
Dining possibilities are varied in San Jose Palacio. You will find several restaurants and bars inside the hotel. At the poolside Rancho Grill and El Bosque Bar you can order cocktails and drinks in a casual atmosphere. At the Lobby Piano Bar you can enjoy an evening drink before you go to the casino. At Barcelo Palacio Hotel you will also find a formal restaurant and a cafeteria. Staying at the San Jose Palacio gives visitors a chance to know more about San Jose and the history of Costa Rica. Visitors will be dazzled as they enter the vibrant capital of Costa Rica. Predominantly of European origin, they are an energetic and happy people with a deep sense of democratic tradition. In the city you can see the National Museum located in the old fort of Bella Vista and the University of Costa Rica located along a path of beautiful, elegant residential homes. An atmosphere of elegance, tradition and quality make this hotel distinct. Barcelo Palacio Hotel Costa Rica is tastefully decorated with fine woods, hand made mosaics and features of the architecture of the turn of the century, this hotel is an artistic statement. Relax in one of the hotel's restaurants, the lobby bar or perhaps venture out to one of the nearby fine dining establishments. If wish to stay at the Barcelo Palacio Costa Rica, feel free to contact one of our travel advisor to help you create an unforgettable vacation plan.
Location and Driving Directions
Hotel San Jose Palacio is located in San Jose along the highway that goes to Juan Santamaria International Airport. It is about 1½ miles (2.5 km) north from La Sabana Metropolitan Park. Driving from the airport, exit onto Highway General Canas towards San Jose. Follow the highway until you see signs for La Uruca. Take it to La Uruca. The hotel is on the right crossing the bridge of the exit. The proper address is Autopista (Highway) General Canas 3 km, El Robledal-La Uruca.


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The late December, 2012, death of Peggy Frink Humphreys, brought to mind the local stir over the publication of her husband, J. R. Humphrey's 1961 book, The Lost Towns and Roads of America.
Frink-Humphrey's obituary recounts how the couple travelled across the United States compiling information and photos for inclusion in the book.
They stopped in Tama where Frink and her family had lived on North McClellan and included photos of her family home and the fountain in Oak Park in the book.
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Her obituary says she taught one year in the Tama public schools before moving to New York City.
J.?R. Humphreys taught at Columbia University and was the author of six books.
Although no longer available at local libraries, The Lost Towns and Roads of America. is readily available on the internet.


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Adrien Broner, WBC Lightweight World Champion: "What can I say? I'm 23 [years old]. I'm young and I'm getting it. "I don't underestimate him [Gavin Rees]. If we stood face-to-face, I probably couldn't see him, but I respect him as a fighter. "I respect every fighter because only a boxer knows what we go through once we get into that ring. "Training camp was great. We don't watch tape. I've never seen him [Rees] fight before. "They took away my Twinkies during this camp. [Referring to Hostess going out of business.] "He [Rees] is a former champion at light welterweight. He's coming down in weight so he is used to getting hit by strong fighters. "I am not about to miss the boulder on this man's shoulders. He is going to be there all night or until I put him to sleep. "We are going to be eating ice cream in no time. "This is going to be a fun year for me. I'm not looking past this fight, but I'm ready to fight whoever. We're going to take care of business Saturday night. "To this day, right now, I could literally leave boxing and be like, 'I did more than anybody in my family ever did.' I could provide for my kids and my family, but I'm not going to settle for that. I'm trying to be the best boxer to ever lace up a pair of gloves. That's my goal. "I have my own legacy. Everybody has their own legacy. Who knows? Maybe I go all the way up to 154 and win a championship. I know I could do it. "Put your glasses on because I am going to shine [Saturday night]. Hook, right, goodnight."
Gavin Rees, Former World Champion: "I'm going to knock this [expletive] out Saturday night and I can't wait. "His attitude stinks man. He shows fighters no respect, but he hasn't even earned the right to do that. What has he done? I've been in the States for five weeks now and American boxing fans don't like him. They tell me they hope I beat him and shut him up. I think he acts like a fool for no reason and no one really likes that. "Who has he fought? I've seen his fights and half of those guys just stood in front of him letting him dictate the pace of the fight. I'm not going to let him do that. This is the first fight that I have trained away from home because I'm going to show him I'm no walk in the park. "I've never been stopped. I can take him out in the first round, but I am ready to go into deep water if I have to. Ether way, I have trained hard and will be ready to dictate the pace of the fight and not let him get away with a lot of what other fighters have let him do. "I have to watch for his right uppercut which he throws from down low, but he's not the best on his feet either. Work rate is going to be important." David Itskowitch, COO of Golden Boy Promotions "Adrien Broner's last fight in Atlantic City was a great success. We raised close to $50,000 for Hurricane Sandy relief. "Adrien [Broner] is known for rapping himself into the ring and getting his hair brushed before his interviews, but he is also one of the hardest working fighters you will ever see. There are no days off for Adrien Broner." Eddie Hearn, Managing Director of Matchroom Boxing "This is a huge opportunity for Gavin. Adrien is a great champion. "Gavin accepted this fight in one and a half nano seconds before even seeing the purse. "We're extremely confident that we are going to have a massive upset on Saturday night." # # # Broner vs. Rees, a 12-round fight for Broner's WBC Lightweight World Championship will take place Saturday, February 16 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions, R & R Promotions, sponsored by Caesars Atlantic City and Corona and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT. Tickets priced at $200, $100, $50 and $25, plus applicable taxes and service charges, are available for purchase at the Boardwalk Hall box office, by calling Ticketmaster at (800) 736-1420 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
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Chelsea travel to Switzerland tonight, and will face a tough challenge against Basel – who knocked out Tottenham Hotspur in the last round.
Rafa Benitez has named strong teams throughout this competition, and will do the same in the last four as the Blues look to win their only trophy of the season.
Petr Cech has been superb between the sticks once again this season, and will again start in goal for the west London outfit.
Ashley Cole has returned to fitness and is likely to start at left-back, but Gary Cahill will probably miss out despite his own recovery. John Terry has often featured in Europe, and will expect to start again tonight.
In midfield, Ramires and Frank Lampard are likely to anchor the side, although John Obi Mikel is also pushing to be involved. Oscar has also been passed fit to play, but will expect to be on the bench after recovering from a groin injury.
That leaves Victor Moses to make his mark on the right flank, with Juan Mata and Eden Hazard inter-changing the other two positions centrally and on the left.
And, up-front, Fernando Torres is the only option for Chelsea, with Demba Ba unavailable to Rafa Benitez due to previous involvement with Newcastle.
Chelsea predicted line-up v Basel:
Petr Cech; Cesar Azpilicueta, Branislav Ivanovic, John Terry, Ashley Cole; Frank Lampard, Ramires; Victor Moses, Juan Mata, Eden Hazard; Fernando Torres.
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Jason Shell is an unbiased car guy. As long as performance is first on the list of priorities, he can appreciate most any kind of build. He's constructed several performance cars out of his home shop in Tennessee, including an early '80s Malibu wagon with a Grand National V-6, a heavily nitrous'd late model GTO, and he even stepped out of his comfort zone with an import (which he says definitely won't happen again). Regardless of the vehicle, Jason isn't afraid of trying something different, so he did just that with this '72 Chevy Nova. It's a powerhouse with its ProCharged LQ4 engine, but there are plenty of options in terms of handling with its versatile suspension setup.
Rewind to 2008, Jason is working out the bugs in his GTO when he gets the opportunity to trade his other project, a '95 Camaro convertible, for a bright orange Nova. The previous owner had parted the car out, so Jason received the leftovers, which was a solid rolling chassis with all sorts of potential. While the Nova waited patiently in the shop, Jason was involved in a horrific accident, which literally split his GTO in half and threw him from the driver's seat, even though he was wearing a seatbelt. The car was completely destroyed and Jason was severely injured, leading to an eight-month recovery process. While he was in the hospital, he used his laptop to order parts for the Nova and called upon a few buddies to help during his recovery.
In July of 2009, Jason was given a clean bill of health and concentrated on finishing the Nova. Without question, the crash taught him a lesson, but his love for high performance cars never withered in the least. In fact, the Nova greatly surpassed his prior projects in terms of horsepower, even though his intentions were to swap in a fairly basic LS1 engine and T56 six-speed transmission.
Underneath, the Nova features a set of Global West control arms up front, while a pair of QA1 coilovers soak up the bumps. Jason tossed the original drum brakes in favor of '98-02 Camaro discs fore, while '93-97 Camaro disc brakes attach to the 10-bolt rearend. The 8.5 rearend is narrowed 4 inches, and fit with a Strange differential, a 3.90 gear set and 28-spline axles from Hudlow. Rear suspension consists of Detroit Speed 2-inch drop leaf springs, combined with Cal-Trac bars to eliminate axle wrap on hard launches, while QA1 shocks offer vast adjustability.
Big-time power comes from one of GM's LS-based engines, the 6.0-liter. The engine's official name is the LQ4, which means it features a cast iron block. Jason got the used engine from Ryan Martin at LSX Power and Development, and had Frank Everett and the crew at Arrow Engine Machine to rebuild the short-block. Arrow bored the cylinders 0.030-inch over to bring overall displacement to 370 cubes, and then bolted the stock crankshaft in place after cleaning and prepping the block. A set of K1 forged connecting rods measures 6.125 inches in length and slings a set of Wiseco dished pistons, which create an 8.2:1 compression ratio in relation to the 71cc combustion chambers. The large chambers are a big advantage of using the "317" heads on boosted applications, and Jason uses a set of Stage 3 ported 317s from Patriot to get the job done.
The camshaft is from Comp, and features 0.617-inch lift on the intake valve and 0.637-inch lift on the exhaust side. Duration at 0.050-inch lift is 244-degree on the intake side with 248 on the exhaust, while the lobe separation angle comes in at 110 degrees. The intake manifold is an Edelbrock Victor Jr., which is fitted with Seimens 83-pound injectors and a 92mm throttle body. Fuel comes from an Aeromotive A1000 pump, while the original ignition system lights the fire.
Jason chose an F-1A ProCharger for the Nova and fabricated all of the piping and intercooler brackets himself. The centrifugal supercharger dumps 21 pounds of boost into the LQ4, and brings power output to an incredible level. We're talking 775hp and 750 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels. All that muscle screams through a set of stepped LS-swap headers from BRP Hot Rods, and into a 3-inch exhaust system, complete with Kooks race mufflers. Behind the engine is a modified T56, which is controlled by a Spec Stage 3 clutch and a Hurst shifter.
Thanks to a host of versatile modifications, Jason can switch his car from Pro Touring to drag race trim by making a few simple adjustments and bolting on the race rubber, which consists of Mickey Thompson slicks, wrapped around Center Line Rev wheels. Current rolling stock consists of Boss 338 wheels, which measure 18x8 in front and 18x9.5 in back. The big rollers are hard to miss, thanks to custom coating from Chris Light at Color Me Crazy Powder Coating.
To fit the Nitto NT555 285/35ZR18 tires, Jason had Donnie Johnson at Smoky Mountain Chassis install a Detroit Speed mini-tub kit. While the car was in the shop, Donnie Johnson fabricated and installed a six-point roll cage to stiffen the X-body and keep Jason safe.
Inside, you'll find a pair of Kirkey aluminum race seats, but that was one of the only measures taken to reduce weight. Other interior modifications include a Covans Classic dash insert filled with Auto Meter gauges, a Grant steering wheel and Simpson five-point harnesses. No radio, no air conditioning, and no power accessories give Jason's Nova a no frills attitude, even though its Hugger Orange paint job does little to discard attention. The car had a great paint job when Jason got it, so he was careful to keep it that way and save a few bucks in the long run.
So far, Jason's best in the eighth-mile is a 7.10 at 110 mph, but the previous clutch had serious issues, which resulted in lack luster, 2.1-second 60-foot times. However, with the new clutch and that kind of mph, he'll be seeing 6s before long and reaping the benefits of a comfortable and street-legal muscle car. No matter the activity, Jason's Nova is up to the task, and looks good doing it.


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Sometimes it seems that living for God yields no real tangible benefits. At least, that is what the psalmist said in a moving lament: "Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence. For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning" (Psalm 73:13-14). Such a pessimistic statement, however, stands in bold relief to the introductory affirmation of this psalm: "Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart" (v. 1).
The psalm alludes to the circumstances that gave rise to the feelings of futility expressed in verse 13. The psalmist, who took God seriously, apparently had been stricken with a debilitating disease that inflicted him with a prolonged period of discomfort (v. 14). On the contrary, evildoers who boasted of their infidelity appeared to prosper in every conceivable way (vv. 3-12). Reflecting on this perceived disparity, the psalmist began to lose faith in the special beneficence of his God (v. 2). However, something on the psalmist's spiritual decline toward faithlessness caused him to alter his course radically, and exclaim: "But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all your works" (Psalm 73:28).
The turning point occurred when this wearied follower of God entered the sanctuary and was reminded of the fate of the wicked, and God's continued presence with the godly sufferer (vv. 17-24). The sanctuary of God was where the Law was read, prayers were uttered, and songs were sung. It was there that God's sovereignty and vision of life were articulated and acknowledged. In the solemn presence of God, the psalmist recaptured and confessed his profound trust in Jehovah's life-sustaining power, even though there is no indication that his external circumstances had changed.
Though written centuries ago, this psalm is as relevant today as it was when it fell from the author's inspired pen. In bold language, it affirms the real struggles that the faithful face in their walk with God. The lament embraces the daunting reality that our faith in God's benevolence can be subverted by extreme adverse circumstances. Yet, the psalm also demonstrates that expressing one's waning faith and frustration to God is, itself, an act of faith. For in so doing, the complainant implicitly trusts that God will hear.
The psalm also provides meaningful language for all believers who struggle with the realities of living. While it embraces the negative emotions associated with the pain of unfavorable situations, it moves us beyond such potentially destructive thoughts. In the end, it offers us God's perspective in the midst of our trials and invites us into His holy presence where we can find "the strength of our hearts and our portions forever" (v. 26).


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His songs are timeless classics, his generosity to both audiences and fellow musicians is renowned, and his passion for justice and the ties that bind people together is unwavering: for all this and more, Tom Paxton ranks as one of the most revered musicians of his generation. Martin is proud to introduced the HD-40LSH Tom Paxton Signature Edition in his honor.
After forty years of making great music, Paxton just gets better; he received a Grammy nomination for "Best Musical Album for Children" of 2002 and another for "Best Contemporary Folk Album" of 2003. He writes and records so often he has begun posting "short shelf-life songs" (those too brief or too topical to wait for the next album) on his website, www.tompaxton.com.
Based on the Martin dreadnoughts Paxton has played for much of his career, the HD-40LSH Tom Paxton Signature Edition features a unique combination of tonewoods, design and appointments that distinguish it as a guitar built to a professional's exacting requirements.
The top is bearclaw-figured Sitka spruce, renowned for both beauty and rarity. An oversized soundhole combines with scalloped top braces for impressive power and balanced timbre. The mahogany "modified-V" neck is topped with a polished African black ebony headplate, on which the C.F. Martin script logo and a stylized portrait of Tom Paxton, complete with his ubiquitous soft cap, is inlaid in mother of pearl.
The guitar is crafted with premium quality East Indian rosewood back and sides, while the fingerboard, belly bridge, bridge pins and endpins are of African black ebony. Polished gloss lacquer finish on the body and headplate of the HD-40LSH Tom Paxton Signature Edition bring out the beauty of the tonewoods, while the neck's satin finish provides playing comfort. Each instrument comes packed in a heavy duty Geib style hardshell case.
At last count, Paxton has released more than 40 albums and has written several critically acclaimed children's books. His songs have become folk music staples and several of them went on to become standards, covered by everyone from Willie Nelson and Tony Rice to Placido Domingo and Dion.
Each HD-40LSH Tom Paxton Signature Edition guitar bears an interior label personally signed by Tom Paxton and Martin Chairman C.F. Martin IV, and numbered in sequence with the edition total. Left-handed instruments can be ordered at no additional charge: factory-installed electronics are available at extra cost. Orders for the HD-40LSH Tom Paxton Signature Edition will be accepted for a limited time, after which the total number of guitars and the names of participating Martin dealers will appear on the Martin website
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AuSABLE FORKS — The League of Women Voters of Plattsburgh hosted a Meet Your Candidate Forum at the Town of Jay Community Center here Tuesday, Oct. 2....
I am Tina Fenton and wanted to clarify three things from the this article under the Tax Collector heading. Valerie Coolidge is NOT the Tax Collector currently, it is an open seat with no incumbent. Secondly, I am also a registered Republican running independently under the Integrity Party, a name I chose. And finally, I did was not the director at KOA, nor did I say I was; I stated that I am the bookkeeper there.
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On Aug. 9, law enforcement officers executing a search warrant descended on the 76 Long Level home belonging to Francis Anthony Milliard, 54, of Ridgway, combing the property for physical evidence that would bolster ongoing investigations and possibly lead to new cases against Milliard, who is currently incarcerated and charged with two area arsons as well as attempted homicide. Milliard is charged along with his son, Anthony Karl Milliard, 28, of Ridgway, in arsons committed at 115 First Ave. in Johnsonburg on Dec. 4, 2008 and one at 521 West Main St. in Ridgway on May 30, 2012. Francis Milliard was arrested on July 24 for the 521 West St. fire and is currently incarcerated in the Jefferson County Jail. In addition, Francis Milliard is charged with attempted homicide in the June 23, 2011 beating of Todd "TJ" Asti, 44, of Ridgway, allegedly in reaction to a debt of $240 worth of marijuana owed to Francis Milliard. According to the affidavit of probable cause, among the items turned up in the search of Milliard's home were those potentially linked with crimes for which Milliard is charged, including the attempted homicide of Asti, which left the victim in critical condition. According to the affidavit, Trooper Greg Agosti of the State Police at Ridgway stated in the initial search of the home he observed a 1976 Cadillac Coupe parked in the garage which is believed to be the vehicle Milliard drove to and from Asti's home on the night of the alleged assault. In his affidavit, Agosti stated that with the brutality of the beating and the nature of Asti's injuries, there exists a high probability that blood evidence was transfered from the scene of the assault to the vehicle via Milliard's clothing, and, "It is reasonable to believe that blood evidence may yet be detected on such fabric and on the club observed inside the vehicle."In addition, numerous wood clubs and/or baseball bats, including one inside the Cadillac, along with a black ski mask, were taken into evidence during the search. In a statement made to police on July 23, Anthony Karl Milliard stated that he had gone with his father to Asti's home the night of the assault, where he witnessed his father beating Asti with a wooden club. According to the statement, he said his father "keeps a club in each of his vehicles, usually between the driver's seat and driver's side door." Anthony Milliard said he waited for his father outside in the car at Asti's residence and became concerned after several minutes had passed, at which point he walked up to the residence where he witnessed his father striking Asti in the head with a club as Asti begged for his life. Anthony Milliard said it appeared to him from a blood trail that his father had beaten Asti from the doorway to the back of the residence. As he looked on, Milliard's father noticed him standing there and ordered him to get back in the car. As a result of the assault, Asti was left with a metal plate in his head, part of his brain removed, and a feeding tube in his stomach. According to the affidavit, Scott Lovell, an associate of Francis Milliard, told police on Aug. 5 that Milliard admitted to his culpability in the beating of Asti, with Lovell stating that Milliard claimed to have been wearing a ski mask during the attack. According to the affidavit, in the course of searching Milliard's home, police discovered 14 small explosive devices found in the dining room of Milliard's home, as well as a storage unit belonging to a home video surveillance system. According to the affidavit, Agosti stated that the surveillance system "may have captured relevant information pertaining to the crimes described in this affidavit...along with other potential crimes." The affidavit also references items observed inside Milliard's residence which Agosti stated corresponded to items listed in burglary and theft reports on file with the Ridgway Borough Police Department. Agosti stated that items uncovered at Milliard's home, including trading cards and jewelry, matched items described to police in burglary reports filed following two separate incidents in Ridgway in 2010. See full article by purchasing the Aug. 18 edition of The Kane Republican.


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Yeah. Asking a question and ending with "I refuse to believe the truth!" isn't the best way to go.
If these are ancient games, and there is no other way to get them, then they're "abandonware". Just grow a pair and download them. It might be illegal, but I don't see how it's immoral. If the company that made the game is even still around, you could try contacting them for a license as AC suggested.
By which time you will be dead..
And so will the ROM. Early arcade ROMs are already becoming unreadable due to bit rot. Some companies (Sega) even installed "suicide batteries" that wipe a necessary encryption key when the battery goes flat, and typical battery life was less than 10 years.
Some modern games require a network connection so they can download an encryption key. Once those servers are turned off the game will be lost forever unless someone manages to find the key. DRM is ensuring the loss of our cultural heritage.
Which is a waste of time, copyright terms are unrealistically long so anyone who remembers these games will be long dead by the time they fall into the public domain.
Just goes to show that copyright terms are far too long. Anything that falls into the public domain will be long forgotten. Media should fall into the public domain once the original authors stop selling it.
Just goes to show that copyright terms are far too long. Anything that falls into the public domain will be long forgotten. Media should fall into the public domain once the original authors stop selling it.
And that, I think is the point. The media companies are having enough problems selling you their latest trash. The last thing they want is to have to compete with free public domain content. There are enough books on Gutenberg project at this point that I could _NEVER_ expect to read them all in my lifet
There should be rules stating that if someone has made an reasonable attempt to get hold of copyright owner (documentation needed of course) and failed then the software shall enter Public Domain.
No, there should be a registration requirement, without which you cannot claim damages, and you should be required to update that registration in a timely manner. You know, like the way things used to work before we went all Berne-Convention-y in the 1970s.
The burden should be upon the copyright owner to facilitate contact by potential licensees, not on the potential licensee. After all, it is the copyright owner who stands to gain, not the licensee (who could almost invariably just ignore the copyright, and the licensor would never know).
There is a valid argument for saying 'People should not have to pay to register every single thing.'. But the fact is, at this point in time, there's absolutely no reason why anyone should have to pay just in case.
The government could simply have a website and hand out unique IDs whenever anyone wanted. You produce something you suspect might be worth copyrighting, you get a unique ID for that thing for free and stick it in the copyright notice.
Then you have three years to actually fill out a copyright registration for that ID and pay $25 or whatever, or it's considered abandoned and thus public domain.
That seems to get rid of any of the so-called reasons we started issuing copyrights automatically. It gives people plenty of time to see if the registration is worthwhile, it helps people who might not have thought that specific thing was worthwhile, yet doesn't result in every single damn thing ever written being copyrighted.
Likewise, if someone attempts to contact the person listed, and they can not be reached, they should be able to send a notice to the copyright office, which will then mail an official letter giving them a year to fix their registration, or it's public domain. Any idiot can type in the unique ID and see the copyright status, and where to send the info to. (We could even charge people for questioning the status. You try to contact a copyright holder, you can't, you pay $1 to have the copyright office send an official postage-paid letter that they are require to respond to.)
And we need to go through the older stuff and slowly start requiring that done to them, also. The older stuff actually _does_ have registration, as you pointed out....but we need to put the contact information online, so we can say 'Hey, those people don't exist', and get the copyright office to remove the copyright after a year or so.
As for the newer stuff, that's harder to figure out, but I think giving people ten years or so to locate it and register it would be reasonable.
Always remember that law is not more or less than an arrangement of convenience for maintaining social order.
We choose which laws we obey based on the cost/benefit perception we have of the results.
Don't act as if law is sacred and that all law should be obeyed because it's "law".
One step further, since you own the physical cart ( and license to use it ) i don't see a problem with downloading it. It's only 'piracy' if you don't own a license.
Right. I've heard Penn Jillette say several times he doesn't mind if you download BullShit! from Bittorrent if you subscribe to Showtime - you've already paid for it.
He probably doesn't own the copyright himself, but he's got the moral equation worked out properly.
Don't act as if law is sacred and that all law should be obeyed because it's "law".
Anyone acting this way is just ignorant of political philosophy beyond a fifth grade level. Heck, Augustine wrote "an unjust law is no law at all" in the 4th Century. Note to Catholics: that's the teaching of a Saint.
The entire system is built on piracy. Might makes right
The various media industries, when they're being selfish, say "Piracy" to mean "You made a copy when we asked you not to." Generally, the courts force this to only be a crime if you then share it with others. The existence of ROMs at all, even ones you dump yourself, are nevertheless piracy in that definition.
Now look at the logistics of it. At this point, they're not manufacturing these products anymore. Unless they remade games for a new device, there is no product you can buy from them anymore--you c
If you want to support game developers or the industry, buy new products, whether it's games or licensed T-shirts. There's precious little to be found in emulation that could possibly help their bottom line.
I presume you've never owned a Nintendo Wii then?
In response to the originally asked question, the only way to have a legal ROM without buying it directly from the publisher (which isn't going to happen) is to make your own ROM. Get something like this: http://hackaday.com/2009/06/19/usb-reader-for-snes-game-carts/ [hackaday.com] and make your own. And don't distribute them.
That makes you legal at the price of some money and a good deal of inconvenience, none of which helps the original creators or anyone making games now.
Unlike recent games, where the used market at least supports the higher new-game price, buying a cart of Super Mario Bros. and dumping it is just a silly ritual some people do to make their activities technically legal (the best kind of legal, I admit) and let them lord their imagined moral superiority over other people online.
The MAME folks seem to be especi
Or to put it another way, ideally enforced copyright would kill this entire industry.
The reason piracy is the rule here is that it's almost impossible for a single home user to acquire the rights to use these ROMs. There are a few game vendors who have packaged up their ROM files to sell in that form. But those aren't normally aimed at an individual to buy; they're only packaged as a set of raw ROM files ffor resale as part of something else.
If you buy a fully legitimate arcade console with licensed games, what they will typically do is negotiate licenses to several sets of these packaged games from multiple manufacturers. For example, X-Arcade Machine [xgaming.com] includes 205 licensed games [xgaming.com], for the most part collections such as Namco Muesum and Midway Arcade Treasure's Titles where the manufacturer has gone to the trouble of packaging the game ROMs for distribution--and therefore licensing. (Note that the quality of the joystick and buttons used in the X-Arcade hardware is considered low compared to what most DIY consoles aim for; don't consider the above a recommendation for buying one of them, they're just a good example here)
Packages such as Namco Muesum are available to buy on a wide variety of platforms [wikipedia.org]. When you buy those, you're not directly given the ROMs though; you just get the right to play them as they are packaged for that platform. What I do to try and keep myself morally clean here is purchase any such collection that's available for the games I play on MAME.
I buy these collections, I bought all of the games I liked from StarROMs when they were available. But the ROMs I play on MAME, those are coming from the bootleg distributions; like a lot of things, the pirates provide the easiest to use packaging of the software. Until companies like Namco and Atari start selling ROM licenses directly, I don't know that it's possible to be legally clean here, unless you buy one of the packaged cabinets from a manufacturer who is big enough to have negotiated a resale license.
Well, once upon a time StarRoms was that company, and even (appeared) to have licensed the games they were selling. I naively thought they might have been replaced by something I was missing.
The most entertaining part of this whole discussion is we're talking about games made in the 80's and 90's.
Whatever happened to the Public Domain? Or have we all forgotten, since there's basically nobody alive who's really experienced works in the public domain, that THE ENTIRE POINT OF COPYRIGHT IS TO ENRICH the public domain?
There are those who argue the age-old publishers cry "we need to protect scientific and cultural advancement" I say, without the public domain, there's no incentive not to reproduce the same things that were in the past, or not to sit on your hides renting technology. Such hypocrisy; to build off the technology of the past in order to monopolize the present. Publishers will never stop arguing "longer longer" and the people, well, they're the only reasonable one in the discussion.
Sony doesn't want you buying FF7 for the same reason Best Buy doesn't want a Sony TV on their shelves that is more than a year old. They don't want to dissuade your dollars from buying the new shiney. Although I do have to ask what kind of market it would be, especially for gaming, if the current cookie cutters had to compete with the old cookie cutters.
I say, if there's works created in my lifetime will never enter into the public domain, then there is no point in participating in copyright.
Thanks to Disney and the corrupt shills that have taken over the government, games made in the 1980s won't "expire copyright" and return to the public domain until sometime after 2100. If there isn't yet ANOTHER "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" copyright extension passed in the meantime.
Part of the problem is that copyright doesn't take into account the life of the medium any more. Imagine what happens when most books are only available on e-readers and most e-readers no longer read the format the book was put out in (not so hard to imagine: think of some of the books that only exist on B&N Nook format and imagine that B&N goes under and nobody bothers to code a translator because "well most of it is on Kindle anyways", followed by B&N's servers shutting down and nobody having a remaining copy of the book anywhere).
The longer copyright terms are, the more information we LOSE to bad circumstances and bitrot. For one of the most famous cases, consider the missing episodes of Dr. Who [wikia.com] - the BBC now has a comparatively huge bounty out for anyone who has them, even if it's a really crappy telecine.
This raises an interesting legal question. If I have a copy of a missing TV show episode, what claim would the copyright owner have if they don't have a copy? If I distribute it I'm violating the copyright. But I'm not taking anything from the owner because they can't do the same. The whole point of copyright is to preserve the right to distribute for the owners. In particular, it's NOT to prevent old episodes from being watched so that people will watch new episodes. Copyright is only for protecting that work, not other works using the same trademarks or characters.
The right of ownership is to the intellectual property, the ephemeral content that is on every piece of media containing a copy, not any specific copy they might or might not own or have in their possession. It's the ideas, artistic works, etc.
Aren't there plenty of "lost" negatives, master recordings, to movies, TV shows, records, etc? It's not like the people who own the copyright lose their copyright claims simply because they can't account for a copy of the media.
O.K. First of all, give me a copy of that Dr. Who episode your obviously taking about. Second, if you sell it you are breaking the law. So you must give it to me for free.
btw. can you point out which episode it is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes#List_of_lost_episodes [wikipedia.org]
A great example. The BBC chose to copy over old 1/2 inch tapes, and possibly misfiled some episodes or just assumed that once the show was aired, that would be the end of it. Other examples from that era are common - for just two, there's the first Quatermass TV series (now public domain, but with only 2 parts of 6 still in existence, and Tales from Tomorrow, with about 43 of the original 85 episodes still in existence. (Here's a link for a legal download).):
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject% [archive.org]
I hate to reply to my own post, but there's a right parenthesis in that first paragraph that should have been right after '2 parts of 6 still in existence', not way at the end of the paragraph.
Whatever happened to the Public Domain?
Mickey Mouse will never enter the Public Domain while Disney's lobbyists draw breath. Whatever violence needs to be done to the copyright laws to ensure this will happen.
While there may be some gray area debate about 'fair use', but if you want to stick with the moral high ground, i don't see a problem with buying the game on a cart at your local store ( be it new or used ) then copying the data off to use in your emulator. ( im also assuming here you have an old console in the closet, just to be 100% legit )
One step further, since you own the physical cart ( and license to use it ) i don't see a problem with downloading it. It's only 'piracy' if you don't own a license.
Yeah, but I think he's talking about arcade ROMs, not home console games. If he just wanted to play an old video game there are still plenty of used consoles available on eBay, etc.
Original arcade ROMs, on the other hand, can be *really* hard to find, and legally licensed ROM images aren't much easier (which was what his post meant).
I still see arcade machines out there for sale, much cheaper if they are broke ( even better for this use-case ).
Sure, extracting that code is really complex, but if you have the box in the basement ( even if its dead since i don't think your license gets revoked when a machine breaks ), i don't see a problem with downloading it.
i don't see a problem with buying the game on a cart at your local store ( be it new or used ) then copying the data off to use in your emulator.
This would appear to be legal under 17 USC 117(a)(1). But good luck finding the copier tools to extract the data from the cartridges. A Nintendo DS or DS Lite with a flash card can dump Game Boy Advance cartridges, but that's about it. For Sega Genesis and Super NES, there was the Retrode, but that's sold out. For NES, there's the Kazzo, but that's hand-assembled in extremely low volumes and apparently not intended for sale to the casual gamer.
at the same time you want to use this content in an un-authorized/un-approved way.
Actually, it seems that the poster wants it to be approved and just wants the appropriate price tag attached. People are going to consume the media in this way, it's up to the companies to step up and accept money for it, otherwise they'll be losing out. That's the reality of it.
Any IP is going to be owned by a large corp like Nintendo, who will want you to buy their console and not DIY
Let me know when Mother or its SNES sequel Earthbound is made available on North American Virtual Console.
My wife just found the SEGA Genesis Classics Collection [steampowered.com] on Steam of all places.
With smart phone gaming becoming popular, there might be a new market on previously 'abandoned' games.
Didn't Atari recently enforce it's copyright on some 2600 games?
The only real non-pirate way to get a significant number of ROMs is to buy the physical games and the equipment to image a ROM from them.
A few university libraries have started digitally preserving culturally significant games, and that's what they end up doing, because they can't really pirate the ROMs, yet can't buy legitimate digital copies either.
If you legitimately own a copy on some medium, medium-shifting to another one is legal, just like you can rip your own music CDs to mp3s.
It depends entirely upon the patch of ground you happen to be standing on and the relative quality of your lawyers as to whether it is or is not "legal".
If you legitimately own a copy on some medium, medium-shifting to another one is legal, just like you can rip your own music CDs to mp3s.
Yes... but is it legal to buy the CD and then download the MP3 version of the same thing from someone else who doesn't have a right to upload that MP3 to you?
Seems like buying a legitimate copy of the media and then obtaining the ROM from someone not authorized to give it to you would be similar. Unless you are going to, er, try and dump the rom yourself from your ow
Usual I'm not a lawyer etc but yes downloading something you already have the rights to is legal. You may need to show you owned a copy before the time you downloaded it to a judge though. The uploading you often do as part of downloading is not though (in the US).
Apparently Slashdot has decided Informative is Funny?
I give up moderating.
If you legitimately own a copy on some medium, medium-shifting to another one is legal, just like you can rip your own music CDs to mp3s.
Incorrect, at least under U.S. copyright law. RIAA v. Diamond, 98-56727 (9th Cir., June 15, 1999) (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1054784.html [findlaw.com]), the seminal case on the issue, found a fair use in "space shifting" music to MP3 players, but did so under the auspices of the Audio Home Recording Act (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap10.html [copyright.gov]), which carves out specific exemptions applicable to sound recordings. No such provision(s) exist for video game ROMs, in any jurisdiction I'm aware of.
You don't have to buy the entire game, You can generally find the boards that were removed from the cabinets when the cabinets were upgraded to some other game. Prices range from $20 to several hundred dollars depending on the popularity of the game.
The legal status of copying those roms on to modern hardware is in doubt. The moral status is more clear: of course you can put the board in the closet and do the minimum it takes to run the software on modern hardware.
Piracy is inevitable with MAME, unless you dump your own ROMs. No one offers legit ROMs for sale, and I'm taking it you're not the type who plays modern arcade games like Street Fighter or Blaz Blue.
Just buy a cab and boards instead.
Keep in mind that every unofficial copy of a protected work isn't necessarily copyright violation. Look up fair use, and consult a lawyer for its application to a given field. You can also ask that the library of Congress put a DMCA exemption on a particular use, IIRC, although that would be more for the field than for your personal use.
http://transformativeworks.org/projects/vidding-press-release-DMCA-EXEMPTION [transformativeworks.org]
You have to buy a legitimate copy of the ROM, and then you can maybe exercise your fair use rights to format-shift it. However finding a legitimate copy is going to be pretty difficult, and I guess ebay is pretty much the only option.
Theoretically it's supposed to be balanced by fair use and limited period of protection. In practice it's gotten really out of hand over the last hundred years or so and mostly serves to stifle creation of new cultural items.
That's the whole idea behind them, selling you ROMs and a license to use them.
Same way all those things are available, you can also get the kits to extract the data out of an old NES cart.
The legal way is to get the original game, the kit, and rip it yourself.
Other than that: piracy.
Factor 5s first game as a free download for everybody who loved the Amiga or just plain historical interest – also known in other parts of Europe as Denaris. 50 frames per second of high-adrenaline shooting action very reminiscent of R-Type.
Note: This only works 100% with the UAE emulator .
Katakis, R-Type and BC KID are not provided for the public domain. You are entitled to download and use these games only for non-commercial purposes. All copyrights are retained by their owners. Any distribution of this data through any medium unless specifically permitted by the copyright owners is not allowed.
thanks for the heads up!
This site doesn't appear to be any more legal than the other ones you expressed concern about. Look on their license page.. They don't have the legal standing to offer you these games for non-commercial use, they're just operating under a legal theory that pirating abandoned games for non-commercial use is legal (or at least it's not going to get you or they into trouble). Very similar to the underdogs website theory (http://www.hotud.org/).
The only way you're going to get any games is piracy. Even if the original IP holder is still around (which many of them aren't), there isn't enough interest for them to offer a commercial product. They're not gonna be satisfied servicing the desires of a figurative handful of DIY'ers making MAME cabinets, the only way to see these in commercial release is through emulation on a console so they can ensure they get their $10 or whatever out of it. Frankly, the MAME emulation scene just isn't popular enough to ever really see even that come to pass, except for those select few titles like Centipede or Breakout that have stayed relevant in the popular consciousness.
You have to move up to the 8-bit home consoles like the NES and Sega Master System, and beyond, if you're looking for actual legal re-releases, and you will NEVER see that happen in ROM form. If you want a legal way to play old arcade games, go buy some old arcade games. Otherwise, I wouldn't feel too bad about piracy when it comes to this stuff. They have no legal alternative.
I refuse to believe that this entire industry is built on piracy.
Please remember to check your idealism at the door.
... that copyright laws are fucked up and piracy is the necessary response. The fact that he's trying to submit and "be moral" to a bankrupt system of laws is the first problem. There is no ethical quandary here. Software licensing for unlimited time due to copyright has has always been a scam it prevents old software from being modified/studied/updated as well as preserving older applications. Companies would like to just sit on/throw away or control works for eternity.
The fact is you already live in a tyranny when you need "permission" to do things with things you already own or that should have legitimately become public domain after all these years. I'm not a believer in eternal rights for corporations and 'business people' that's our fundamental problem of this age - everyones sucking corporate capitalist dick and needs to get their heads read.
Did we not learn anything from DRM and stallman's prescient "Right to read"?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html [gnu.org]
The next time you are thinking of "doing the right thing" by submitting to laws made by lobbyists and corporations and their supporters just remember this video about the secret (at the time) trillion dollar give-aways by the fed reserve to the banks and other corporations who had huge investments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ [youtube.com]
These people don't give a shit about anyone but themselves they are greedy bastards.
AFAIK the easiest way to be legal about the whole thing would be to get a Nintendo Wii, wire your own arcade controls from a GameCube controller and get games from their Virtual Console service. The selection is extremely small if you compare to just finding ROM files from some place, but at least there's 29 Neo-Geo games and 19 arcade games [wikipedia.org] in the list.
Oddly enough, there's the SEGA Master System and the Turbografx-16 versions of R-Type, but not the original arcade version.
There are two types of people doing emulation. The Ebeneezer T. Scrooge types who think anyone who doesn't have their very own collection of vintage arcade games to reverse engineer doesn't deserve to play them. And the eyepatch-and-jolly-roger set. Personally I find the pirates far less offensive.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.


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2005 Volleyball
Defiance 3, Bluffton 1
Beavers drop regular season finale to Defiance 3-1
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., sports information director
November 2, 2005
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University volleyball team (12-17, 0-7) fell in four games to Defiance College (19-11, 6-1) by scores of 30-20, 22-30, 30-12 and 30-27 on Tuesday, November 1, 2005. The match marked the final regular season contest for the Beavers who will travel to Mount St. Joseph for the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament on Saturday, November 5. Bluffton challenged HCAC rival Defiance throughout the match but it could not knock off the experienced Yellow Jackets on their floor.
Senior Keri Kuhlman (Shelby/Shelby) paced the Beaver spikers with 15 kills to take over sole possession of second place at Bluffton University with 1265 career kills. Kuhlman was one of six Beavers to record double digit digs as she ended the night with ten. Sophomore Mariel Nash (Loudonville/Loudonville) was a force at the net as she knocked down 14 kills in the loss. The back row for Bluffton was led by freshman libero Chelsea Wyse (Archbold/Archbold) who racked up 27 digs against the Yellow Jackets. Sophomore Rachel Alvarez (Convoy/Crestview) went to the floor numerous times as she finished with 16 digs. Junior Brittany Shultz (Hudson, In./Prairie Heights) set up the Bluffton hitters with 34 assists and 18 digs on the night. Katie Moore (Bucyrus/Wynford) and Kalla Aeschliman (Wauseon/Wauseon) ended with 11 and ten digs respectively.
The Beavers will return to action this Saturday, November 5 when they face off against HCAC regular season champion Mount St. Joseph. The first serve is scheduled for 12 noon.


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Two hours into Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," I walked out of the theater, not so much in protest but in horror.
I couldn't take the blood anymore.
All the way home, I kept saying to my husband: It was awful. It was carnage. It was a terrible thing for people to see. Why would anyone make a movie like this? It's poison. It gets into people's heads. The gore was not necessary.
But then, later, I thought, if seeing is believing, maybe a movie like this is necessary.
Django is the story of a Scottish-born white bounty hunter who teams up with a black slave in the South in the 1850s, first for his own financial gain, then to find the slave's young wife. The film is fast-paced, funny, more real than ridiculous, sly and intriguing. But it is also relentlessly brutal.
All the blood and guts and screams eventually took me out of the 1850s and into the recent now, to Newtown and Aurora and Littleton and Tucson and Fort Hood. To the streets of Baltimore and Brockton and Boston. And to the conclusion that movies like this bear a big part of the blame for the violence that is part of our modern world.
This is what I ranted about all the way home.
But then I thought about how slaves were hunted and beaten and raped and eviscerated and hanged long before the advent of moving film. They were sold like horses. They were separated from their families. They were set upon and torn apart by dogs. All of this happened.
But when you see it on a big screen in a movie that's a little too flip and not at all apologetic. Isn't "contrite" what we want, a reckoning of right over wrong? But there's no apology, there's just people killing and people being killed, and it feels obscene.
But our collective history is obscene. Whipping and chaining and hanging were forms of torture long before the 1850s and all over the world. Crucifixions. Quartering. Burnings at the stake. The rack. The Crusades. And then: concentration camps. The Gulags.
Hollywood did not invent these things.
Our salvation — the wonder and proof that we are more good than we are bad — is that all these years later, despite our blood-soaked ancestry, most of us are still horrified by violence, each time a first time, no matter how frequently we hear about someone being shot or stabbed or cruelly harmed.
A 23-year-old woman we don't know dies half a world away after being gang-raped on a bus in India, and we care. A homeless woman in Los Angeles is deliberately set on fire, and we care. Day after day, the news assaults us with sorrows that should crush us but haven't yet because they remain the aberration.
If we were more bad than good, we would shrug away these stories. We wouldn't react to violence at all. But we do.
A young man born and raised in a North Korean prison camp tells a story of starvation and beatings and mutilation and execution, and the world doesn't turn its back. People read "Escape from Camp 14" and weep.
A man from Burundi, which borders Rwanda, was in medical school before ethnic cleansing left him on a death list, and he escapes to New York City. His family and friends are dead. He knows no one. He can't speak English and he has just $200. He works as a delivery boy. He sleeps in a park. And then someone helps him. And then someone else. People read "Strength in What Remains," and weep, too.
"Django Unchained" is fiction. It's gore and blood and I would not recommend it. But I can't hold it responsible for the gore and blood that exist in the real world, that predate movies and exist in places where movies are never seen.Beverly Beckham can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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LIlacrosseNews.com, Posted 7/18/12
Below is the ESPNHS Warrior Boys All-American team for 2012. Click here for the full story, including bios on First team selections.
First Team
A: Henry Blynn, Sr., Haverford School (Haverford, Pa.), Brown
A: Devin Dwyer, Sr., Garden City (N.Y.), Harvard
A: Bradlee Lord, Sr., Conestoga (Berwyn, Pa.), Maryland
A: Case Matheis, Sr., Darien (Conn.), Duke
M: Stephen Kelly, Jr., Calvert Hall (Baltimore)
M: Will McNamara, Sr., Haverford School (Haverford, Pa.), Virginia
M: Connor Reed, Sr., Gonzaga (Washington, D.C.), Johns Hopkins
D: Evan Connell, Sr., Calvert Hall (Baltimore), North Carolina
D: Casey Eidenshink, Sr., La Salle (Wyndmoor, Pa.), Lehigh
D: Max Randall, Sr., Duxbury (Mass.), Dartmouth
G: Dan Marino, Sr., Garden City (N.Y.), Virginia
Second Team
A: Justin Guterding, Jr., Garden City (N.Y.), Duke
A: Deemer Class, Sr., Loyola-Blakefield (Towson, Md.), Duke
A: Zed Williams, Jr., Silver Creek (N.Y.), undecided
A: Conor Whipple, Jr., St. Andrew's (Boca Raton, Fla.), Georgetown
M: Sam Rohr, Sr., Haverford School (Haverford, Pa.), Pennsylvania
M: Jake Matthai, Sr., Gilman (Baltimore), North Carolina
M: Sam Llinares, Sr., Hauppauge (N.Y.), Hofstra
D: Robby Haus, Sr., Gilman (Baltimore), Ohio State
D: Jamie Ikeda, Sr., Conestoga (Berwyn, Pa.), Duke
D: Nick Fields, Jr., Bullis (Potomac, Md.), Johns Hopkins
G: Alex Joyce, Sr., Landon (Bethesda, Md.), Georgetown
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The Lee County Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit will target at least one of the following three locations for enforcement for Monday, April 21:
- College Parkway, Fort Myers
- Leeland Heights Boulevard, Lehigh Acres
- Hart Road, North Fort Myers
Locations are selected based upon high incidents of crashes, traffic surveys and citizen complaints. The Sheriff's Office is committed to promoting traffic safety and enforcing the law. By focusing on violations such as red light running, speeding, DUI and others, motorists become more alert and are encouraged to obey traffic laws. The Sheriff's Office Traffic Unit and District Patrol Deputies enforce our traffic laws each day by issuing citations and warnings. Preliminary results from their cumulative activity yesterday are as follows:
Citations Issued: 42
Written Warnings Issued: 143
Citizens can help by letting us know if they observe problem areas, aggressive or impaired drivers and by their compliance with the rules of the road. To get in touch with one of our traffic deputies call (239) 477-1000. If you see a reckless or drunk driver while you are traveling in your motor vehicle in Lee County, dial 9-1-1.
This traffic enforcement advisory is available each day on the Sheriff's Office website at www.sheriffleefl.org.
Everyone is reminded to "Fasten Your Seat Belts, be courteous to drivers and pedestrians and together we can reduce traffic related fatalities, injuries and property damage.
Note: Traffic Safety Tip of the Week: As "Distracted Driving Awareness Month" continues across the U.S., remember there are many wise tips to avoid distraction. Two examples are: 1) Manage your music ahead of time by pre-programming your car radio or CD player. 2) Make sure you have clear directions and double-check the map before you leave.


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A 68-year-old man accused of trying to poison his girlfriend at a San Rafael nursing home will not face criminal charges, a county prosecutor said.
Robert Lewis Lochridge was arrested on attempted murder allegations in September after an investigation by the San Rafael Police Department. Police suspected he tried to kill the 63-year-old woman by bringing chlorine-laced bottled water to the care facility where she was a patient.
Lochridge, a San Jose resident, told investigators that he bought the liquid online as a health supplement. The formula — which is sold under names such as Miracle Mineral Solution, Miracle Mineral Supplement or MMS — is marketed by its advocates as a treatment for arthritis, cancer, cirrhosis and other serious conditions.
In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning advising consumers not to take MMS, saying it produces "an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health."
Lochridge was released from jail while the district attorney's office reviewed the case and sought chemical tests. On Monday, Deputy District Attorney Charles Cacciatore said there was insufficient evidence to pursue charges.
Cacciatore said the woman appeared to suffer no ill effects and it was unclear whether Lochridge intended to cause harm. There were also unresolved questions about the toxicity of the substance and the extent of the woman's exposure to it.
Lochridge could not be reached for comment Monday.
Contact Gary Klien via email at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Coconino County Health Department (AZ)
Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 125
Deliverables and documentation submitted during this initiative:
PHAB Beta Test
Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 132
Population Served: 135,000
QI Techniques: Prioritization Matrix, Process Mapping
Project Overview: The Coconino County Health Department (CCHD) is located in North Central Arizona and primarily serves a population of more than 135,000. CCHD was a beta test site for the Public Health Accreditation Board's (PHAB's) voluntary national accreditation program in 2010. As part of the beta test process, sites completed a QI project to address an area identified through their self-assessment. CCHHS's goal was to increase staff understanding of public health through in-service training.
Coconino County Health Department QI Project Final Report
NACCHO Demonstration Site
Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs): 136
Coconino County Health Department Case Example


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Worcester, MA --- Sophomore Gaby Gonet (Agawam, MA) booted the match-clinching penalty kick as Worcester State drew with the University of New England 1-1 and advanced to the ECAC Division III New England Tournament semifinals, 5-4, in a shootout this evening at Coughlin Field.
The top-seeded Lancers (13-5-2) now host the semifinals and championship on Saturday and Sunday. The Blue and Gold will play #4 UMass Boston at 12 PM and on the other side of the bracket, #2 Keene State takes on sixth-seeded St. Joseph's (Connecticut) at 3 o'clock. The final game of the tournament is slated for noon.
The Nor'easters wrap up their 2011 campaign at 12-2-4 overall.
Worcester State originally staked the 1-0 lead in the 31st minute when they scored on a breakaway. Junior Brianne Beckman (Lakeville, MA) targeted senior Sarah Rafferty (Uxbridge, MA) who then slipped her second marker of the season past UNE's keeper. Beckman added her team-leading seventh dish.
At the end of the opening frame, the Nor'easters actually held the 8-5 edge in shots, but couldn't get enough of a good attempt off to test senior net minder Angiezaka Sychtysz (Warren, MA).
The Lancers would then go on the aggressive in the second period as they would outshoot the visitors, 7-4, but they came up empty. Their best chance for the insurance marker came in the 69th minute when senior Danielle Clifford (Attleboro, MA) had Beckman open in front of the net, but fourth-year Jess Woodnorth (Concord, NH) was right there to pick up the loose ball.
It wasn't until the final 10 minutes that UNE picked it up as they would have a golden opportunity to knot the game in the 84th minute on a ball that slipped past the Lancers backs, but junior Mariah Messina (Tewksbury, MA) came out of nowhere to kick the ball out of harm's way.
Staying on the offensive, the Nor'easters got on the scoreboard with 1:22 remaining on a wild scramble. Following a throw-in from the right sideline, sophomore Ellie Arsenault (Saco, ME) used her head to flick the ball to junior Nicole Faircloth (Westfield, MA) who then passed it to senior Alice Read (Auburn, ME) to equalize the game.
In the first overtime, Worcester State would have the 5-1 advantage in shots with two great opportunities by Clifford, but the contest would remain scoreless as her first effort went wide and the second was just over the net. Nor'easter senior Katie Caron (Scarborough, ME) had a header with seconds remaining, but Sychtycz grabbed the ball in its tracks as time expired.
The second session would only see one two shots by UNE – including another late bid by Caron in the final two minutes of the period.
In the penalty kick session, the two squads would make each of their first three attempts until Faircloth hit the Nor'easters fourth bid wide to the left. Beckman then made her fourth to force UNE to make their next try. In the fifth round, junior Emily Lodge (Lyman, ME) did just that to knot the PK score 4-4 after Clifford failed to convert WSU's final attempt.
With the sudden death on the line UNE, sophomore Morgan Humphreys (Rocky Hill, CT) hit the cross bar to set the stage for Gonet's match sealing conversion.
Sychtysz ended the night with five stops for the hosts while Woodnorth collected seven saves for the visitors.
The Lancers would finish with the slim advantages in shots (17-15) and corners (3-2).
Ironically in Worcester State's only other ECAC appearance, as the eighth seed they would lose in a 3-0 shootout to top-seed Babson after the two squads were tied 3-3 in the 1998 quarterfinals.
UNE was also handed their second straight loss in PK's as they were upstaged in the first round of the Commonwealth Coast Conference tournament by Western New England, 5-4, after a 1-1 draw through 110 minutes of play.
With her assists Beckman is now just one helper away from tying the single-season record which is held by two players.


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As a parent, making sure your baby is eating the right foods is very important. With all of the different kinds of processed foods out there, it is hard to really nail down exactly what goes into the food your child eats. One way to go about this is to introduce all natural foods into your child's diet, and one of the best we recommend is brown rice. You should start giving your child brown rice starting at around six months. Brown rice cereal in particular is the perfect texture for a baby and will get them eating healthy from an early age.
Brown rice is a great source of nutrition, and unlike white rice cereals, the brown rice itself does not get processed. It contains large amounts of potassium, magnesium, and phosphorous. Brown rice is also rich in anti-oxidants, high in fiber, and contains oils that will help stabilize the baby's cholesterol levels. Perhaps most importantly, it makes the perfect baby food. Babies need to eat food filled with nutrients and fiber in order to keep up with their very fast growth cycles.
There are a few ways to get your baby into eating brown rice, but perhaps the best option, is to make homemade cereal. Here is how to make this delicious food for your bouncing baby:
Brown Rice Cereal
1/2 brown rice
1/2 cup water
Ground brown rice in a blender or food processor. Bring water to a boil and add rice while stirring. Whisk constantly for 30 seconds and then occasionally for 4-5 minutes until thick.


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The 2012 Legislative Session began two months earlier than usual on January 10, 2012. The earlier Session, required by the Florida Constitution, was to accommodate the time line for the process of redrawing the district lines for the Florida House of Representatives, the Senate and the Congressional Districts for the State. Redistricting is required after each decennial Census and the Constitution requires an earlier Session so that prospective candidates will have time for filing to run for office. The Constitution limits the number of Senate districts to 40 and the number of House districts to 120.
Reapportionment is the redistribution of seats in the United States House of Representatives among the 50 states, based on the decennial Census. Each state gets at least one seat. Effective with elections in 2012 Florida gets 27 representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives, an increase of two.
Between 2000 and 2010, the resident population in Florida increased from 15,982,378 to 18,801,310. The average number of people in each congressional district increased from 639,295 to 696,345. The average number of people in each of 120 state house districts increased from 133,186 to 156,678. The average number of people in each of 40 state senate districts increased from 399,559 to 470,033. Areas with population growth rates less than average needed more territory to equalize population. Areas with population growth rates greater than average needed to lose territory to equalize population.
The Fair Districts amendments, which were approved by the electorate in 2010, mandate that districts be drawn using a list of requirements such as compactness, follow political and geographic boundaries, and within those legal parameters, no district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent. The membership of the Broward Legislative Delegation will be reduced from 26 members to 19 members (5 Senators and 14 House members). However, most of the members will be primarily elected from Broward County.
The maps showing the districts in Broward County which will be effective for the next 10 years can be found on the Delegation website: broward.org/legislative.


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We all will agree that smart business phones have been a revolution for businesses - helping us keep an competitive edge. This technology has made sure that the entire employee work force is well aware and informed of every email, message, related news etc and that too round the clock. Infact in some environments not having a smarter businesses phone may be considered lack of business responsibility on part of that particular employee. All this kind of brings a smile on my face :-)
There is absolutely no doubt that smart business phones have been disruptive in nature fostering businesses across industries. But at the same time it is playing a additive role resulting in workaholics & impacting work-life balance. By keeping 24x7 work-connected it does not really help our greying cells vitalize themselves - as the cells tend to be in business mode all while long. Infact I would love to be a part of study which helps mankind realize the proportional impact of such and similar technology over the hyper-tension, stress, blood pressure, etc. An algorithm which will in tangible format help define the use of smart business phone's impact over the person's health.
I am not at all against this wonderful technology and infact I am a part of the heard, but it makes me wonder at what costs. While its a bigger growing problem and some may consider it to be a part of the emerging lifestyle, but there is a needs for innovating some healing pills. There will be no one solution and neither do I know what is the solution, but its worth pondering.
As an illustration:
Make the smart business phones more smarter. Enable these phones with a specialized "work-life" balance features ( I understand there are variation of these in terms of profiles within phones) which as per the users health records will show their smartness and need for being connected to every business message in the pipeline. Basically, they should be smart enough to measure the impact of business associated with a given message to person's health plus work-life balance and then make a call over the need for being informed / connected.
We all love technology to advance - to help us take to the next level - but I would not mind if its associated with milder to no side effects. Hence designing newer technologies with these angles will help.
My 2 cents , while I still love the berry's and apple's.
"If I were GOD, I would Patent all the Diseases & Dreadfulness to protect from any Human Infringement" - Sandeep