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The Delaware marked the third time in his career that Reynolds went over 100 yards rushing and passing in the same game and his 233 yards passing was the most by a Navy quarterback since 2000 (Brian Broadwater against Tulane) and his 342 yards of total offense was the best by a Navy player since 2008 (Shun White against Towson).
Reynolds is the first Navy quarterback to pass for more than 200 yards and rush for more than 100 yards in a game since 2002 (Craig Candeto against Northwestern) and he has directed Navy to over 500 yards total offense in each of the first two games. Navy has never had three-straight games of more than 500 yards of total offense.
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Little Orbit Online Privacy Policy
Last updated May 10, 2018
Welcome to Little Orbit!
Our Privacy Commitment
Little Orbit, LLC, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "Little Orbit") respect the privacy rights of our online visitors and recognize the importance of protecting all information that you may choose to share with us. To further this commitment, we adopted this Online Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") to guide how we collect, store, and use the information you provide us.
Little Orbit, LLC complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. Little Orbit, LLC has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view Little Orbit certification, please visit http://www.export.gov
What information does this Privacy Statement cover?
This Privacy Policy applies only to personal information collected on the websites where this Privacy Policy is posted, and does not apply to any other information collected by Little Orbit through any other means.
This Privacy Policy applies to the collection, use, and sharing of personal information collected as of the date that this Privacy Policy is posted.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information submitted and collected online, and does not apply to information that may be collected by Little Orbit offline. This Privacy Policy applies only to websites maintained by Little Orbit, and not to our international affiliates, or any websites maintained by other entities to which we link. Little Orbit is therefore not responsible for the content or activities provided on those websites.
Finally, the terms of this Privacy Policy are subject to all applicable laws.
What types of personal information do we collect about our guests?
We don't require personal information to access our website. But if you prefer not to disclose personal information, you may not be able to enjoy certain features of our website. Personal information is information that identifies you and may be used to contact you.
We will collect personal information from you when you use certain features on our website. For example, we collect personal information
|register for our website
|subscribe to our newsletter
|participate in polls, surveys, and questionnaires
|participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions
|use e-cards, wish lists, and tell-a-friend features
|register a product that you have purchased, or
|receive customer or technical support
Typically, this information includes:
|e-mail address
|telephone number
|shipping and billing address, and
|for those purchasing products online, credit card information.
Additionally, we may also collect other types of information (known as demographic information) such as your age or date of birth, gender, hobbies, occupation, platform preferences, and other game ownership information. This demographic information may be associated with your personal information.
[We] do not condition participation in an activity on the disclosure of more Personally Identifiable Information than is reasonably necessary to complete that activity.
We collect information through technology to make our websites more interesting and secure. For example, when you come to one of our websites, we collect your IP address. An IP address is often associated with the portal through which you enter the Internet, like your ISP (Internet Service Provider), your company, or your university. Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. At times, we also use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests visit various parts of our websites. We may combine this information with your personal information.
Our websites also use cookies and web beacons to collect and store personal information.
Cookies are pieces of information that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. We use cookies for a variety of purposes. For example, when you return to one of our websites after logging in, cookies provide information to the website so that the website will remember who you are. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You can do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your web experience smoother, like the features mentioned above, and some of our services may not function properly.
Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites and in our email communications. We also use these web beacons to analyze the traffic patterns, such as the frequency users visit various areas of our websites. These technical methods may involve transmitting information either directly to us or to another entity authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. We also use web beacons in HTML e-mails that we send our guests to determine whether our guests have opened those e-mails or clicked on links in those e-mails.
Advertisements that are managed by third parties may be placed on our website. These companies are called "network advertisers." Network advertisers who may place advertisements on our websites may also use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personal information when you click on or move your cursor over one of their banner advertisements. You may not realize this information is being collected. In some cases, we may have access to information from web beacons and cookies used by network advertisers on our sites and this information may permit us to identify other sites that you have visited that are also associated with the network advertiser.
Finally, once you've clicked on an advertisement or third party logo and have left our websites, our Privacy Policy no longer applies and you must read the privacy policy of the advertiser to see how your personal information will be handled on their website.
How is your personal information used and shared?
Whatever the purpose may be, we will only collect information to the extent reasonably necessary to fulfill your requests and our legitimate business objectives.
We use the personal information we collect to:
|respond to your requests for information and newsletters,
|provide you with product support and customer services,
|determine if you are eligible to receive certain products or services,
|provide you with additional information that may be of interest, including marketing materials, and
|for other everyday business purposes, such as product development and website administration.
We don't share your personal information (e.g., e-mail address) with unaffiliated third parties to use for their direct marketing purposes.
We will be sharing some of your personal information about you that you provide when registering for LaMB games with SPE Networks – Asia Pte. Ltd. ("SPE") for their marketing and promotional purposes if you have opted-in. Use and disclosure of your personal information by SPE will be governed by SPE's privacy policy (http://www.animax-asia.com/privacy-policy) and will not be governed by Little Orbit's privacy policy."
When you send an e-card, we delete both sender and recipient email address information after sending your e-card.
You also can engage with our content on or through third-party social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter (or third-party social media plug-ins and applications). When you engage with our content on or through third-party social networking sites, plug-ins and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information from your social media profile (e.g., name, e-mail address, photo, gender, birthday, location, your list of friends, people you follow and/or who follow you, the posts or the 'likes' you make) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the application. We may also obtain non-personally identifiable information (e.g., content viewed, game performance, high scores, and information about advertisements within the content you have been shown or may have clicked on,) from your interaction with our content.
When you provide information from your social media account, it can help enable us to do things like (1) give you exclusive content, (2) personalize your online experience with us within and outside our websites (and/or applications), and (3) contact you through the social networking sites or directly by sending you the latest news, special offerings, and rewards. By doing so, you consent to the use of this information in accordance with our privacy policy. When you provide personal information to us through an application, on our sites, or on social networking sites, it may be publicly viewed by other members of these sites and we cannot prevent further use of the information by third parties.
Through some social networking sites' privacy settings, you can control what data you share. For more information about how social networking sites handle your personal information, please refer to their privacy policies and terms of use.
If you register for access to our forums or message boards, we may use your personal information to enable you to view and post messages on the boards. You should understand, however, that community forums, blogs, and message boards are tools that allow you to communicate with members of the online community. So whenever you give out personal information in public areas, that information can be collected and used by people you don't know.
We occasionally employ other companies to perform services necessary to our internal operations. For example, we may partner with other companies to personalize our web pages, analyze customers' interaction with our website, and process consumer surveys. We may also provide postal addresses to the U.S. Post Office or other couriers for delivery purposes. While providing services for us, these companies may access your personal information. Those companies storing or maintaining personal information for us have agreed to use secure methods.
For practical reasons, we treat personal information submitted to us in a business capacity different from information we receive in a non-business capacity. Personal information submitted to us in a business capacity (e.g. resumes, event sponsorship, etc.) may be shared with third parties, depending on the nature of the inquiry.
From time to time, we may purchase a business or sell one or more of our businesses and your personal information may be transferred as a part of the purchase or sale. If we purchase a business, the personal information received with that business would be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy, if it is practicable and permissible to do so. If we sell a business, we will include provisions in the selling contract requiring the purchaser to treat your personal information in the same way required by this Privacy Policy (including any amendments to this Privacy Policy). The provisions of this paragraph will also apply if we are sold as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
Please note that we may disclose any information as permitted or required by law, when we believe in good faith it is necessary for safety purposes, required for legal reporting, or to protect our legal rights or enforce our Terms of Use or any contest rules. We may also disclose information about you to our auditors or legal advisors, or in response to a subpoena.
We may take your personal information and make it non-personally identifiable. We do this either by combining it with information about other individuals (aggregating your information with information about other individuals), and by removing characteristics (e.g., your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you. This process is known as de-personalizing your information. We may use de-personalized information in any way and share it with third parties.
What choices do you have about the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information?
If you signed up to receive newsletters or other emails from us, you can opt-out any time simply by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the message.
Personal information provided to us or collected on our website may be stored and processed in the United States. By using our website you consent to the storage, processing, and any such transfer of information outside of your country. We abide by the Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the United States Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of data from the European Union. For more information about our participation in the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor, you may visit https://www.export.gov/safehrbr/list.aspx. If you do not consent to the collection, processing, storage and transfer of your information, please do not provide your information when requested and cease using our websites and other online properties.
Since 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share our customer's personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
For inquires regarding our disclosure policy, please send us an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
What kinds of security measures do we take to safeguard your personal information?
The security and confidentiality of your information is extremely important to us. That's why we have technical, administrative, and physical security measures in place to protect your personal information from unauthorized access and improper use. We also review our security procedures periodically to consider appropriate new technology and updated methods. But, despite our reasonable efforts, no security measure is ever perfect or impenetrable.
GamersFirst .com uses 1024 bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect your personal information. SSL is also used when transferring or receiving all personal sensitive information. All forms on our site are secured with SSL technology to further protect your information. These systems work together to ensure your privacy and to assist in protecting your personal data.
How can you update your personal information and profile?
How can you ask questions, or send us comments, about this Privacy Policy?
If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at:
Any personal information you provide to the above e-mail and postal mail addresses will not be used to send you promotional materials, unless you request it.
How will you know if we amend this Privacy Policy?
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes in how we collect, use, or share your personal information, we will prominently post notice of the changes on the websites covered by this Privacy Policy. Any material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective 30 days following our posting of notice of the changes on the websites covered by this Privacy Policy.
Little Orbit's Kids Privacy Policy
Last updated January 15, 2010
Little Orbit has developed its websites with the goal of creating an enjoyable experience for all users. This Kids Privacy Policy is designed to answer your questions regarding our privacy policies concerning children under the age of 13.
Building on our general Privacy Policy, we recognize the need to provide additional privacy protections when children visit sites on which we post this Kids Privacy Policy. We explain those additional protections in this Kids Privacy Policy.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") requires that we inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from kids under 13 years of age. COPPA also requires us to obtain the consent of parents and guardians for children under 13 years of age to use certain features of our Web sites. Below we explain how we do that for kids. Also, when we use the term "parent" below, we mean to include legal guardians.
What types of information do we collect about kids?
Kids can surf Little Orbit's sites, view content, and enjoy many features without having to disclose any personal information. We don't collect personal information from kids while they use our sites unless they register on Little Orbit's sites' Official Forums.
For those who choose to register and participate in certain areas of our website, we collect personal information directly from kids to:
|register for our Official Forum
|participate in polls, surveys, and questionnaires on the Official Forum
We may collect personal information from parents to allow kids to participate in certain activities offered on our websites and within our kids' subscription products. These activities may include purchasing product in one of our online stores, participating in games, reward programs, contests, sweepstakes, events or other promotions.
Typically, this information includes:
|email address
|telephone number
|shipping and billing address, and
|for those purchasing products online, credit card information.
We may collect demographic information (e.g., date of birth, gender, and game preferences) and combine it with the child's personal information. Little Orbit will only collect this information if it is voluntarily and properly submitted to us by either the child or parent.
Note that all commercial sites directed to children under 13 are prohibited by U.S. law from conditioning a kid's participation in an online activity on the kid's providing more personal information than is reasonably necessary.
Some areas of our website may offer features like electronic postcards that allow kids to submit personal information (e.g., email address) without first disclosing their age or obtaining verifiable parental consent. These areas provide services in a way that doesn't require prior verifiable parental consent.
Finally, we may collect demographic information about kids. For example, if a kid participates in a survey, we may collect those responses. Among them, we may collect age, gender, hobbies, and interests or other demographic information about gaming and preferences. We also use some passive technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to monitor traffic on our websites. This demographic information may be associated with a child's personal information.
If a parent allows us to collect personal information about their kid, we may link certain information collected through technology (see the "Information Collected Through Technology" section of A2 of our General Privacy Policy) to that personal information.
We may use the information that we collect from and about kids for our business purposes, including record-keeping, transaction fulfillment, and marketing. The contact information gathered from a kid is used to obtain consent to our information collection from their parents.
Little Orbit may share kids' personal information with outside entities hired to assist with internal website support operations (e.g., online product fulfillment, email services, or technical support). These entities have agreed to maintain confidentiality, security, and integrity of all the personal information they obtain from us.
We do not share any information about a child with any third parties unless the disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
|comply with law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena;
|enforce our Terms of Service, or site or game/promotion rules;
|in connection with the purchase or sale of assets, a merger, reorganization, bankruptcy, or similar corporate transaction; or
|protect the safety and security of our Guests and our Web sites.
At any time, a parent can contact our customer service department to access, change, or delete personal information we collected from his or her child by contacting us at:
Our representatives will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before disclosing your child's information.
We take the security and confidentiality of kids' information very seriously. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect kids' personal information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. But please understand that, despite our best efforts, no security measure is perfect or impenetrable.
GamersFirst .com uses 1024 bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect your personal information. SSL is also used when transferring or receiving all personal sensitive information. All forms on our site are secured with SSL technology to further protect your information. These systems work together to ensure your privacy and to assist in protecting your personal data.
At any time, we may amend our Kids Privacy Policy. We will send e-mail notice to parents of any material changes in the way we intend to collect, use, or share kids' personal information. At all times, parents should update their personal information to provide us current e-mail addresses. We will apply material changes in our Kids Privacy Policy only in conformance with applicable law, including any applicable provisions of COPPA that require parental consent.
If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at:
Any personal information you provide to the above e-mail and postal mail addresses will not be used to send you promotional materials, unless you request it.


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Ahead of what is likely to be an outstanding contest on Thursday between the Atlanta Hawks and the Brooklyn Nets at the 02 Arena, London, Hawks' coach Mike Budenholzer opened up to Give Me Sport about his past experiences with the San Antonio Spurs, and the threat of the Nets.
The rookie head coach had been with Spurs since 1996, learning under the great Gregg Popovich as his assistant, and coaching Spurs' legend Tony Parker.
When asked how much he learnt from that experience and how that shapes him as the head coach he is today, Budenholzer cited the amount the Spurs' players had helped him over the years, especially Parker.
"For me and my growth to be a professional head coach, my preparation was huge to me. To spend those years in San Antonio and to be with the great Gregg Popovich, that was amazing," explained Budenholzer.
"The players were also really important to me. I learned a ton from Pop and the assistants, but you learn a lot from the players as well.
"Working alongside the elite players I did with the Spurs was really beneficial for me. It's important in sports organisations that you share and learn from each other.
"I feel fortunate to have been with Tony Parker from the time he was drafted. To watch him emerge and become a top-tier point guard was great.
"All of that starts with a work ethic. Tony put in so much time and effort to become an elite player, that type of thing educates me of what I have to do in Atlanta."
The NBA draft is on June 26th, and questions about the draft class have been regular for head coaches recently.
Budenholzer was more coy in his assessment of the their quality, and he says his focus with the Hawks is to develop a great team from within.
"I'm just trying to coach my team really. I don't have an opinion on the draft class. That's the job of the GM's and the scouts out there. They will be out there working hard," he continued.
"I'm just trying to keep my focus on our team and trying to improve and get better.
"We are working on the subtleties of our game. When to attack and when not to attack. We want to have our own flavour and our own style in Atlanta, which suits the strengths we have."
Budenholzer couldn't hide his excitement regarding the game against the Nets, who will be without Deron Williams, and he says the international camps he ventured on with the Spurs helps.
"When the schedule is set up so that you play a team quite soon since your last match-up, it means that both teams get a leg up," added Budenholzer.
"We will be a little more familiar with what they do and of course they will be familiar with what we do.
"Missing Deron [Williams] will affect their group. He is one of the best players in our league, but we put more focus on what we want to do.
"The opportunity to play in this game is great for us and the players are really excited. I'm lucky to have had plenty of international game experience from my time with the Spurs.
"We had a lot of training camps abroad and games abroad. There is certainly a lot of respect for the European game.
"I'm really looking forward to coming and experiencing London. The whole group is excited to be coming."


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Coming soon: "Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence" championship edition.
When I was ten (half a century ago), by buddy actually did piss on an electric fence. Poor kid lay there screaming for ten minutes, but there was no permanent damage. I think this is an excellent idea; farmers and ranchers have been using electric fences to keep their animals in for decades, and I have yet to hear of anyone being harmed.
About 30 years ago I fell victim to the older neighbor kids when i had to pee. They told me to go behind the shed, but don't piss on the shed because my dad will get mad, so i went with my back to the shed and pissed right on an electric fence. It got me 3 times before I figured out what the hell was going on, and turned away. No damage, just a wee bit sore for a few hours.
I don't care what the Mythbusters say, it is possible, I know it is, and my older neighbors all laughed having suckered another person into pissing on it, so I wasn't the first one with a painful experience behind that shed!
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This is not an unreasonable solution, but you'll hear it decried as "punishing small business owners", and "deterring recycling". The fact that these aren't really true won't keep opportunistic politicians at bay.
Yeah, because regulatory compliance and associated paperwork, government inspections, lawsuits, and penalties impose 0 costs on businesses.
And since everyone wants to be recorded in government registries, because everyone wants to fill in forms, because everyone is literate enough to fill in forms, it won't deter anyone from recycling either.
I am so glad that systems need to be perfect and costs need to be 0 before we're willing to accept them.
I am not a business. Businesses need accountants and legal help as part of their ordinary existence, and they're artificial entities to begin with.
But you could be an electrician who stocks clippings and removed lines for recycling later. Are you stating that the Electrician should have to register every house they remove wire from... even if it is just a handful?
They do that with the ingredients for making meth.
Nobody is stealing milk.
That is preposterous.
However, there IS a record for each item I purchase. It's called a "sales receipt", offered to me with each and every purchase. It itemizes everything, including any applicable sales taxes. It itemizes what I bought by brand name, size, cost, and whether I used any discount scheme to pay for it.
I like how he overlooks the cost to the companies, people, and governments having copper stolen.
Yeah, because regulatory compliance and associated paperwork, government inspections, lawsuits, and penalties impose 0 costs on businesses.
And since everyone wants to be recorded in government registries, because everyone wants to fill in forms, because everyone is literate enough to fill in forms, it won't deter anyone from recycling either.
Preventing theft and fraud, though, is a vital part of a free market and an entirely legitimate role of government. There is a cost, certainly, but the cost of crime* is invariably far higher than the cost of policing.
* where said crimes are actual crimes with real victims and damages suffered.
> but the cost of crime* is invariably far higher than the cost of policing.
Homeland Security
Tough shit, they had their chance for the zero regulation solution but their greed and willful ignorance is putting and end to that.
It was just easy money for them -- the toothless loser driving the '98 Grand Am turning in a few hundred feet of brand-new 00 wire was perfectly willing to accept 30% below melt value for the wire and the owner was happy to resell it as new to the "ask no questions" contractor at a 15% discount below new retail.
If you want it no regulation, that's fine, but let's make the punishments if you get caught:
1) Accepting stolen merchandise -- clerk goes to jail
2) Business is fined 3x the metal value and the metal or its on-site equivilent is confiscated
3) Three violations in a 12 month period and you lose your recycling license for six months
4) Two loss of license violations? Company, its owners and officers are barred from engaging in commercial metal recycling for 10 years.
Oh yeah, it would be so hard. I guess that's why every pawn shop manages to survive even though the keep sale records.
All you do is take a picture of the person bring into the copper. Or copy an ID.
Cheap and quick to do. If this means the price I get for recycling goes don a dollar a ton for copper,, the so be it.
If you don't want to participate in society, then you aren't getting the benefits of society.
Someone shows up with pounds of copper material, keeping track of where they get it is reasonable.
Or do you think tons of stolen copper has no cost on business and government?
Yeah, because regulatory compliance and associated paperwork, government inspections, lawsuits, and penalties impose 0 costs on businesses.
If you want to see what zero costs looks like, I suggest you turn off Rush and read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
At first, I thought you meant the band Rush.
Forms? Not a lot is required. On the sales receipt that the junkyard keeps anyway, just record driver's license number and/or social security number of whoever sold the "scrap" to you.
We had a huge brass nut stolen from work. Damned thing weighed about 70 pounds. Special purpose item, it's made specially for the tie-bars on our machines. I don't know any other equipment that uses such a nut. The thing was shiny-brand-new, waiting to be installed the next morning, when it mysteriously walked out of the plant. $1,800 dollars, just gone, and the machine was going to be down for as long as it took the supplier to get another new nut, and ship it to us.
Several people spread out, and hit every junk yard within 75 miles, inquiring about that special purpose brass nut. It was located, and the proprietor did indeed have the driver's license number of the person who sold it to him.
At this point, the story gets really stupid: no charges were filed. The guilty party is still employed. I don't even know if that guy had to pay the junkyard owner back.
But, a simple driver's license number on the receipt got our nut back, and the machine in operation two days later, which was costing about $15,000 each day it was down.
They passed this in Indiana some years ago, the newspaper generally endorsed it, and the public mostly thought it was a good idea (after all they were not recycling copper frequently, nor were they in the salvage business). I think it is pretty much "sign here" and snap a picture. This did not stop copper theft either.
This. Most metal salesmen have a pretty good idea which piece of trash came from illegal sources they just turn a blind eye because it's more profit for them.
That is the law in my state. Businesses not following it was rampant. But then, the state police started doing stings where they do things like bring multiple faucets or huge amounts of piping and the like. All it takes is one bust and you lose your recycling license for the business and the employee who doesn't report the suspicious transaction can be charged as well, which means they can be unhireable in that business and many others with the felony conviction. Lets just say that that cut into the problem quite a bit in the major cities.
So how is the scrap yard going to match a pile of crumpled up copper pipes back to what was inside your house?
They won't, the guy dropping them off will have to.
Well, if a police get a report of a house that had a crapton of copper tubing ripped out of the walls and floors, and then discover a crapload of copper tubing just happened to be sold to a scrap dealer shortly thereafter... it's not exactly a convoluted path to draw a line between the two. And given how much damage and work you'd need to do to rip tubing out of walls and floors, they can probably find some kind of evidence directly linking to the two. Hell, multiple identically-angled cuts from the identical grade copper scrap and what's left in the house is probably a good start, never mind any DNA evidence the thief left at the scene (hair, blood if he cut himself, skin, etc).
Honestly, it would be trivially easy to link a thief with stolen scrap metal, provided the scrap dealer actually keeps fucking records like he's legally supposed to as is.
And I happen to work in an industry where I know exactly what type of paperwork the scrap dealer needs, and for how long he legally needs to keep it (note: it's a bit longer than a few days. Try years.)
Shut down or heavily fine a few scrap yards for buying illegal scrap without keeping proper documentation, and the rest will require valid photo ID to sell to them and have video surveillance of the sale counter before the end of the day.
The electric utility here uses a proprietary type of wire that no one else has access to (AFAIK it's not "special" beyond being braided in a particular pattern) so recycling companies can identify cable that's been pulled from streetlights and such.
I think you don't actual have a clue and are making that up.
We are talking about huge rolls of unused wire, industrial valves that cost 30k+, statues. Sometimes 100's of yards of copper.
So when some cones tolling it with a giant spool of wire in there truck, that person gets photographed. If someone reports large bundles of wire stolen, then police can ask that person questions
Forensics. You need to watch less CSI.
The police report a large copper valve has been stole and provide description. The get a thu
It'll be a lot of fun to see the guy's face when they steal his electric fence wire.
Or figure out how to tap it to heat their cardboard boxes.
Bingo, as stupid as copper thieves are they'll figure out in a hurry that a cheap pair of gloves and some cutters will make short work of an electric fence.
Possibly. but what will they do against my pond with that array of... TESLA COILS behind my fence...
Steal them.
And apparently many of the people on slashdot think that once they get them off you property, any attempt to prevent them from being sold is a huge crushing blow to humanity.
As a licensed electrician and high voltage hobbiest I can assure you that a pair of rubber dish washing gloves will stand up to a 7kv electric fence long enough to cut the wires from the power supply. You got a shock because you touched the fence with a wooden stick, wood has a lot of water in it which is conductive and when it doesn't have water it does have a lot of carbon which is also very conductive at high voltages.
Yeah, people keep saying that, but its not true. Have a read of ohms law. E=I*R and P=E*I (e=voltage, i=current, r=resistance, p=power) If you want to put 50ma through a person who has 2ko of body resistance, you need 100V. That'll pull 5 watts from the fence. If your electric fence is 10kv but can only deliver 1 watt, the voltage will drop to 45V and the current will be 22ma with a 2k load. You're pretty safe with anything less than 30ma. Most RCD safety devices wont trip until there is a 30ma leak.
Electric fences are designed to give painful but NOT fatal electric shocks. I've touched one. Hurt like a sonofobitch. Didn't do any permanent damage though. These things won't stop thieves. They're designed to stop animals that can't understand electricity well enough to know that all you have to do is cut the wire or short it out.
but 7,000 volts sounds kinda' deadly
Depends on the effective output resistance of the circuit.
I'm not a licensed electrician, but 7,000 volts sounds kinda' deadly.
Not really, as they say "current kills", not voltage. Static electric discharges frequently have a higher voltage than that. Lethality depends on a number of different factors. Of course, 7,000 volts of continuous DC current would most certainly be enough to kill most people, but electric fences usually use short pulses rather than continuous flow (at least, animal fences I've worked with, and been shocked by, do).
> I'm not a licensed electrician...
This is clear.
Electric fence chargers such as the one I use to keep my horses in put out short high-voltage pulses with an energy per pulse of about 6 Joules. The peak voltage is 5,000 to 10,000 volts. The shock is quite painful but not deadly. It leaves no mark and does no damage. I know this from direct experience.
here in nothing-happens land, we had a case a couple years ago where a copper thief decided he was going to clean out a power substation.
as in 110,000 volts on that line.
there was enough to drag into court recently to send to jail for it. but as long as ignorant meth-heads can bring in saw-cut cable and get cash, they'll continue to strip fire stations and chain up fiber-optic ducts and try to roll full spools into the trunks of compact cars.
Probably falls under reckless endangerment but if they could only leave a pile of copper coils out in the open, behind the fence of course, and connect it to a high power line...
'It'll be a little fun to watch one of these guys get electrocuted holding my fence trying to rob me.'"
Until the the thief turns around and tries to sue you and most likely wins.
'It'll be a little fun to watch one of these guys get electrocuted holding my fence trying to rob me.'"
Until the the thief turns around and tries to sue you and most likely wins.
Because he didn't know how to read the signs "copper thieves will be electrocuted; survivors will be electrocuted again"?
If you haven't seen, people sue over the stupidest things in the US. He will claim that the warning signs weren't lit up at night or something.
Problem solved.
As with cattle fences this would be a pulsed current, probably one or two pulses per second. They charge a capacitor to the peak voltage then dump it into a step-up transformer, reminiscent of old capacitor-discharge ignition systems for cars.
This enables the number of Joules and the shape and duration of the pulse to be controlled, reducing the chance of fatalities, and so avoiding legal problems.
As to gloves, 5KV to 7KV would be enough to break down many cheaper types of insulating gloves, so thieves may
they have a nice little small town radio station in Detroit Lakes, MN with a nice little tower down near a lake, surrounded by grazing land. seems the cows kept breaking through the antenna feedline and putting them off the air.
so they've got a wowzer electric fence protecting the feedline.
probably has as much power as their dollar-a-holler station, for whenever you dial them in, you get the SNAP SNAP SNAP of their electric fence imposed on the broadcast signal.
in Devils Lake, ND, they have a similar sit
7,000 volts is not a high voltage fence. Our farm fences are 10,000 volts. It's not the voltage that will kill you though, it is the amperage that does you in. For this reason the fences are high voltage and low amperage. It hurts. However, if you're determined you can grab ahold of the fence and hang on right through the shocks. I've done it many times when needed.
See this article:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2007/07/23/calibrating-pain-fence-testing/ [sugarmtnfarm.com]
The blame for this problem rests almost totally at the feet of Ben Bernanke. His policies have driven commodity speculation and helped keep prices high. It's one of those "unintended consequences".
If you want to stop copper theft, stop savings theft. The policy makers need to ask questions like, "Is it better in the long run to feed these people in a recession, or drive them to copper theft in a stagflation?".
Treating drug addiction as a health problem rather than a crime problem will also help. If meth were available for $0.10/pill at the drugstore, I would not run out and become an meth fiend anymore than I would start huffing gasoline. Yes, people huff gasoline, they huff the propellant from Cheeze Whiz. We don't ban those things because the inability to drive or squirt cheese is deemed worse than the potential for people to huff shit. We treat huffing in the ER, and with social workers. We could treat meth like that too, and there would be less copper theft.
Yeah, the housing market would collapse. You know what? Good! Stop foreclosures? Hell no. If you want to liberate people, you should be holding up signs that say START foreclosure. Yeah, people would hurt for a month or two getting kicked out of the big house with no equity and a $2000/mo mortgage. You know what? They'd move into an apartment with an $800/mo rent, and they might be able to save up for down payment on a house with a $1000/mo mortgage once the foreclosure was far enough behind them. That sounds more like freedom to me than... Oh, I digress...
Anyway, the problem of copper theft isn't technical. It's social and economic. Quit applying technical fixes to social problems. Please. Pretty-please?
Having worked in the recycling industry for years, solving the "sales" side of this is easy.
A posted and implemented policy of paying by check if the payout is greater than $20 makes most of these problems go away.
This works because large volumes comes in trucks and legitimate businesses generally prefer to receive a check (prevents employee skimming).
After that, invest in a few video cameras, particularly one trained at the parking lot exit (to pick up rear license plates). Attach these to a motion-detecting video recorder and make sure you know how to burn DVDs. The few times we have had to involve law enforcement, they were pretty happy with a plate number and footage including a face and "the goods".
So far, we have never had the check cashed, but if we did, the cops would then have a tie to the criminal's financial institution and we would join their case with a counter-suit to get our money back.
Keep in mind that we really do not want to make an illegal buck, but at the same time, we also want to earn the legal bucks as efficiently as possible.
There was an area in Russia where thieves cut down a high-tension wire. They shot a steel cable over the line, shorting it out and causing the breakers to pop. They then cut out a HUGE section before it could reset. They got nearly 2 miles of cable.
The local power company replaced the cables. They finish working at the other end, and give the okay to turn on the power. Two miles downrange, see a huge flash, then they hear *BOOM!* The power goes offline again, and the repair team goes back to where the first cut was made.
They find a grass fire. After putting it out, they find that the cable had been cut again, and was in the process of being coiled up by the thief.
The thief had been standing in the middle of the coil when the power was turned on.
All they found was a pair of boots, with feet inside them. Everything else had been vaporized.
A lot of the cable theft in the UK is from the rail network, because it's almost all electrified using overhead power cables. Oddly this comes with its own inbuilt (mostly) 25 kV AC protection. It doesn't stop them. They also target the signal cables, which I think use high voltage as well.
Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me! What a finely tuned response to the situation!


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Demonstration Sites
Adolescent HIV/STI and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention
Purpose of Demonstration Sites
NACCHO''s Adolescent HIV/STI and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Project provides local health departments (LHDs) and their school and community partners with capacity-building assistance and financial support for HIV/STI and unintended pregnancy prevention through its LHD Demonstration Sites Program. Both the project and program are funded by the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The overarching goal of the Demonstration Sites Program is to build the capacity of all LHDs to prevent adolescent HIV, STIs (sexually transmitted infections), and/or unintended pregnancy in their communities. This is accomplished through the support of LHD demonstration sites that plan and implement innovative adolescent HIV, STI, and unintended pregnancy activities, disseminate lessons learned, and develop tools and resources.
From 2004–2011, NACCHO's Adolescent HIV/STI and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention LHD Demonstration Sites Program has funded 12 LHD demonstration sites.
Overview of Demonstration Sites' Projects
Click on each year of funding listed below to see more about the individual demonstration site projects, including the tools and resources they have developed and that are available for download, modification, and use by any local health department and their partners. Tools can also be found in the HIV/STI Toolkit located in the NACCHO Toolbox.
The City of Stamford (CT) Department of Health and Human Services and the City of Portland (ME) Public Health Division each received $20,000 in funding to:
The Collier County (FL) Health Department and Washoe County (NV) District Health Department were funded at $12,000 each to:
The Austin/Travis County (TX) Health and Human Services Department and Pinellas County (FL) Health Department were funded at $16,000 each to:
The New York City (NY) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Riverside County (CA) Health Department received $15,000 each in funding to:
For the first time, NACCHO funded three individual LHD demonstration sites for more than one year. The purpose of this was to understand whether multiyear funding and site-specific capacity building support would benefit sites more than the original one-year model.
The Palm Beach County (FL) Health Department, the City of Houston (TX) Department of Health and Human Services, and the Philadelphia (PA) Department of Public Health were funded at $8,500 each in the first year (2008–2009) to:
In the second year (2009–2010), the same three LHDs were funded at $8,500 each to:
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BCPC Launches Women's Groups, Observes Trans Awareness Month
The Brooklyn Community Pride Center celebrated its fifth anniversary this year with a move to a new downtown location that allows them to open their doors to events like a Women's Culture Night and an innovative Queer Co-Working program. Along with special events like their recent candlelight vigil for the Transgender Day of Remembrance, these programs show the community that Brooklyn is a place for LGBTs.
"We've come a long way in five short years," remarked Brooklyn Community Pride Center Executive Director Erin Drinkwater. "Five years ago a group of volunteers started meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall and today we have a vibrant Community Center serving the diverse needs of Brooklyn's LGBTQ community."
Since the Center's inception, Drinkwater has been dedicated to providing services to Brooklyn's unique LGBT population, making sure there are programs for the large lesbian community and the many senior citizens who live in the borough.
"We should have our presence felt in every neighborhood, not just Park Slope," said Drinkwater in an interview with EDGE this spring. "You should be yourself and let your neighbors know you are there." As examples, she pointed to the successful LGBT Pride celebrations this year in Red Hook, Bushwick and Bed-Stuy.
"And we need to look at Brooklyn's transgender community, which means more transmen, whereas in Jackson Heights, it is more transwomen," she said. "We are looking at different sets of needs, and to be able to respond to that is important to me."
Drinkwater has also been careful not to duplicate services, but instead to partner with existing groups to reach common goals. In teaming up with SAGE last year, BCPC was able to offer the senior program Some Like It Hot, discussing relationship and family.
"Our community in Brooklyn looks a little different, so we're going to be paying attention to different things than in Manhattan, or across the state or country," said Drinkwater. "We started as a bunch of volunteers, then moved to Borough Hall, and now we are here, and moving in a positive direction."
Queer Co-Working in a Shared Space
The new location of BCPC in a first-floor Metrotech storefront has allowed for an expansion of services that help the community in a more generalized way. This includes their recently-launched Queer Co-Working program. From noon to 5 p.m. on Fridays, BCPC opens its doors for all people who want to get their work done in a queer space, with complimentary wi-fi and coffee.
"I think queer co-working is great because it breaks the isolation of working from home," said co-founder Bevin Branlandingham. "It also is a great pool for networking, and deepens connections already established in the queer community because it's a lot easier to meet folks when you're working next to each other than at a loud nightclub. I've gotten two clients and a girlfriend from folks I connected with at Queer Co-Working."
Drinkwater is thrilled that the creative networking event has been added to their list of programs, and that so many people have commented on the importance and benefits of being in a queer space. Pointing to the job-share program seen in the classic film, "9 to 5," she also remarked on the feminist roots of such flexible work programs.
"It's pretty femme-centric in terms of the demographic that's been coming, and we're all ladies organizing, which is great," said co-founder Lisa Markuson. "The cool thing is that all these awesome creatives and leaders and non-traditional types working in different fields are getting to meet and synergize. I've gotten to introduce leaders in queer music from different scenes, I found a (female) lawyer, I learned about a queer women's poetry salon... The connections are endless!"
Events for Women of Color and Transgenders
Brooklyn is also home to many lesbians of color. In her ongoing effort to serve all LGBTs in the borough, Drinkwater is collaborating with Circle of Voices, Inc. to create a monthly Women's Culture Night. The evenings will feature programs of interest to women of color.
"We want to have cultural events, have different health panels, and we are working to set up testing and breast cancer discussion groups," said Drinkwater.
And more recently, the BCPC came together to observe the Transgender Day of Remembrance, for those trans individuals who have been victims of anti-gay bias crimes.
On Nov. 20, they held their annual march across the Brooklyn Bridge, followed by a candlelight vigil in Columbus Park.
"We need events to raise awareness of the violence against the trans and non-gender conforming community," said Drinkwater. "It takes us outside the community center and into the public, and brings attention to the problem. We march over the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, but we also take time to pay tribute to the memories of those who have been lost.
The BCPC holds a weekly transgender support group on Thursdays, run by social work volunteers. Drinkwater said that they are working around the idea of peer support in a culturally sensitive space honoring them for who they are.
On Dec. 2, the BCPC will partner with the pro-sex worker Red Umbrella Project and the Anti-Violence Project for the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. They will provide a free LGBTQ sex workers self-defense training session, and work with Red Umbrella to do advocacy for sex workers.
And on Dec. 19, the BCPC invites all to their Open House, where they will share information on their programs for women, movie nights, cultural events, dating workshops and more.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday will consider a swiftly drafted constitutional amendment that would affirm the public's right to inspect documents held by local governments while clarifying who should pay for making them available.
The amendment was written in response to a media outcry over changes that loosened requirements on how local governments handle requests for public information. The changes were approved as part of the state budget as a way to save millions in reimbursement payments to those agencies.
Lawmakers later voted to reverse the changes and maintain the current rules for records requests, including a provision giving agencies 10 days to respond. The replacement bill passed the Senate on Monday, 28-11, after clearing the Assembly last week.
But without further action, the state remains potentially liable for ongoing costs accrued by cities, counties and school districts as they respond to requests for documents.
The proposed constitutional amendment, SCA3, mandates that local governments and agencies comply with the California Public Records Act. It also specifies that the state would not have to reimburse those governments for the cost of complying with the law, potentially saving state government millions of dollars annually.
"It will be the responsibility of cities to pay for their costs in providing access to public records. It will be the responsibility of counties to provide their services for access to public records, as it should be the cost and the responsibility of the state for access to our public records," said Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
The proposal is expected to go before two Senate committees —Governance and Finance, and Appropriations — on Tuesday before a floor vote in that chamber Thursday.
The amendment requires a two-thirds vote in both chambers. If approved, it would go on the statewide ballot in June 2014.
Democrats have moved quickly on the constitutional amendment, announcing the proposal last Wednesday amid calls for the governor to veto the Public Records Act changes previously sent to him by the Legislature. A draft of the amendment was released on Friday.
Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, on Monday called for lawmakers to "take a breath" and ensure that the amendment is written properly before voting on it.
"We seem to be jumping through a lot of hoops lately to short-circuit the public from actually being able to see the things we vote on, and I don't think that's a wise choice," Huff said Monday.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office estimates that it could cost the state tens of millions of dollars a year to reimburse local governments and agencies for complying with document requests.
The costs stem from a May 2011 decision by the Commission on State Mandates, which determined that local agencies could seek state reimbursement for complying with certain provisions of the Public Records Act. The commission has not finished calculating reimbursement rates.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Top Ten Michigan Victories in Lloyd Carr Era
MZone reader Chad recently emailed us a suggestion that we should do a piece on the Top Ten Greatest Michigan Victories over the last ten seasons followed by the Top Ten Michigan Disappointments/Debacles.
With the 2006 season over and a lot of cyberspace to fill between now and September, we thought it was a brilliant suggestion. However, we decided to take it one step further and throw in 2 extra years so that it covers the entire Lloyd Carr Era, from '95 to the present.
The hardest thing for Benny and I about this list was defining what made a victory "great." Was it simply an exciting game? The importance? The expectations going in? What it did for the program? In the end, we think it is a combination of all of those. Of course, you might disagree which is the beauty of lists + a comments section.
So with that preamble out of the way, today we start off by presenting five victories which didn't quite make our Top Ten, but fell just short and thus are on the honorable mention list. Sort of like the "Also Receiving Votes" games of this list.
HONORABLE MENTION (in no particular order)
1997 - #14 Michigan 27, #8 Colorado 3
Why this was a big win: Michigan had posted back-to-back 8-4 marks in Carr's first two years (including consecutive bowl losses) and the Michigan faithful were getting restless. Coming into this game, not many people gave Michigan a chance against the highly-ranked Buffs. But under first year defensive coordinator Jim Herrmann, Michigan unleashed a defense that would lead the Wolverines to a National Title and Charles Woodson to the Heisman.
Why this didn't make the Top Ten: As important as it was, CU turned out to be an average team this year that didn't live up to its pre-season hype. Of course, by the time the country figured that out, the psychological boost to the Wolverines and springboard for the season was already secured. But, in terms of some sort of "comparison" in the pre-BCS days, this average CU team took Nebraska down to the wire that year.
1997 #5 Michigan 28, #15 Iowa 24
Why this was a big win: As the #5 team in the country in mid-October, Michigan was in the thick of the national title hunt. Yet the Hawkeyes were proving to be as tough as they always are and led the Wolverines 21-7 at the half. But behind the Griese to Tuman TE "waggle" play, Michigan fought back for a tough home victory, keeping them on track for a title run.
Why this didn't make the Top Ten: Basically, the entire '97 season could have made the list. When you win a national title, each game is important. But there were bigger victories that year in addition to the fact that Michigan, playing at home, while the comeback was valiant, should not have struggled this much even against a good Hawkeye team.
2000 Orange Bowl - #8 Michigan 35, #5 Alabama 34
Why this was a big win: The first OT game in Michigan history saw Michigan eek out a victory against another storied program in a BCS game in front of a national TV audience. The victory capped the third consecutive 10 win season for the Wolverines, their third straight bowl victory and showcased QB Tom Brady's amazing coolness under pressure as he led U-M back from a 28-14 3rd quarter deficit. You might have forgotten, but Brady actually gave Michigan a chance to win in regulation when he 4 of 5 on Michigan's final drive, taking the Wolverines from their own 31 to the 'Bama 18. But Hayden Epstein's 36 yard FG attempt on the last play was blocked, sending the game into OT.
Why this didn't make the Top Ten: Unfortunately, in this day and age of the BCS, this game didn't mean much. Yes, it was exciting and yes it accomplished the things above, but it was just about pride, even more so than a traditional Rose Bowl game without title stakes on the line.
2002 #13 Michigan 31, #11 Washington 29
Why this was a big win: It was the first game of the season against a traditional power. And since each game means something in college football (at least until you lose), a win kept Michigan eyeing a big 2002 season. Kicker Phillip Brabbs connected on a 44 yard FG with :06 seconds left after Troy Neinberg had already missed three earlier attempts, including a 27 yarder with under two minutes left.
Why this didn't make the Top Ten: Missing three FGs, including a chip shot which would have saved the need for the last second heroics isn't exactly a good things. Couple that with the fact that only an illegal participation penalty against Rick Neuheisel's team got Michigan in FG range to begin with and thus here it sits.
2005 Michigan 27, #8 Penn State 25
Why this was a big win: After losing to Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Minnesota in its first six games, Michigan was reeling as it limped into this home game against Penn State, which had rebounded from a number of dismal seasons that had many Penn State fans calling for JoePa's head. Michigan took a 21-18 lead with 3:25 left on a Garret Rivas FG. But, as would be the theme of the 2005 season, Michigan's D couldn't stop PSU as they drove 81 yards to take a 25-21 lead with less than a minute to play. But following Steve Breaston's 41 yard kickoff return and the infamous two extra seconds the refs put back on the clock (which Penn State fans are still bitching about someone on cyberspace, we're pretty sure), Chad Henne found Mario Manningham in the endzone on 4th and 4 from the Penn State 10 yard line with no time left.
Why this didn't make the Top Ten: We're still doing all we can to erase the 2005 season from our collective memories. And, as stated above, if the defense makes a stop on the final PSU drive, the game doesn't come down to the end. Then again, if the defense made just one stop in each game, this 7-5 team wouldn't have been 7-5.
12 comments:
- Zach Landres-Schnur said...
thanks for reminding me about that Washington game...aagghh. that was my first year at U-Dub and i believe it was the first time a broke some furniture b/c of a sporting event...yeah, that one didn't go down easy.
- January 29, 2007 3:27 AM
- Chadwick said...
I remember being at the Washington/Michigan game in 2002 and biting my nails through the whole thing. The field goal kicking was atrocious and I had no confidence in Brabbs. When he lined up for that field goal, I thought for sure he would miss. It was quite euphoric when he made the kick to win the game, and I'll never forget the crowd reaction.
- January 29, 2007 9:55 AM
- Reed said...
I'm 92% sure that two of the three misses in the Washington game were by Brabbs - only one by Neinberg.
- January 29, 2007 10:45 AM
- beast in 'bama said...
I've really got no business debating the significance of Michigan victories among Michigan fans, but I really can't believe that 2000 Orange Bowl didn't make the list.
That was simply one of the best football games I've ever seen. I'll always remember that game because it brought Tom Brady to my attention for the first time.
"This kid throws like Namath," I kept saying to myself as he completed pass after pass. Little did I know...
It was a shame either team had to lose that game. The definition of a classic.
- January 29, 2007 10:47 AM
- JB said...
That '05 game still hurts my soul to think about.
- January 29, 2007 12:32 PM
- Shelley said...
You are right...we in Happy Valley are still bitching about that game! : )
- January 29, 2007 12:49 PM
- Mike said...
I'm still pissed about that two seconds.
- January 29, 2007 1:24 PM
- MGOBLUE94 said...
You'd think you PSU fans would be more pissed about the 9 game losing streak against us.
Clock time was reviewed and 2 seconds added. Had your team done their job the other 3 downs it wouldn't have mattered!
Go Blue!
- January 29, 2007 1:40 PM
- GH said...
But you aren't upset about the two missed field goals or the time that was added to PSU's final drive?
I was in the non-cool student section precisely ~10 rows back from MM's catch. SO AWESOME!!
If nominations are still being accepted, I think Lloyd's first game as head coach against Virginia (Driesback to Mercury Hayes on the last play, at the time was UM largest comeback victory) should qualify.
The team didn't go anywhere that year, but it certainly set a nice tone.
ps. long time reader 1st time poster. Love this blog.
- January 29, 2007 1:41 PM
- Mike said...
Calm down, y'all. I think us PSU posters are laughing at ourselves now, so cut us some slack. Water under the bridge. And it's 8 games...not 9...yet.
- January 29, 2007 4:34 PM
- PeterGriffin said...
Top Game of my life - 3 over time victory over MSU. I bought 3 tickets priced higher since we did not get a hold of season tickets that year ($120 each). Group of 10 went. 5 left after MSU's final touchdown to avoid TRAFFIC and they repent it till date. Lost my voice for 3 days and my love for michigan football grew 10 folds.
Go Blue!
- January 29, 2007 6:34 PM
- Noah said...
as beast in 'bama said, I'm sort of scratching my head as to why the 2000 Orange Bowl got left off of the list. Although I may be biased because I made the trip to Miami, that was a game for the ages. You failed to mention that Michigan had already come back from 14-0 to knot it up at 14-14...then Shaun Alexander went crazy (best performance of an opposing RB against Michigan in the last 10 years IMO). But then Brady and Terrell pulled one out for the ages. Maybe the victory sits so well with me because I had bama fans sitting behind me screaming "yeww cayn't ruun on Alabama...we're too fast!" And you know what? they were right. A-Train and the O-Line couldn't get anything going. Nevertheless it was nice to turn around after the game and smile and talk some smack of my own. ahh...good memories
If this didn't crack the top ten, I'll be interested to see what did. Keep up the good work fellas. I read your stuff daily.
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Fine and Performing Arts
Elizabethtown College is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music. The Department of Fine and Performing Arts consists of three divisions: Music, Theatre & Dance, and Fine Arts. Each of our divisions has a website offering information specific to its discipline:
Students at Elizabethtown College enjoy the opportunity to perform in five major ensembles, engage multiple theatrical and dance productions, and present their art work in three separate gallery spaces. In addition, we pride ourselves on personal attention each student receives throughout his or her studies whether as a major, a minor, or a student seeking to continue their artistic training while pursuing another area of academic inquiry.
Elizabethtown College is also a vibrant part of the regional arts and culture scene, offering a variety of music, theatre and dance performances that are open to the public, usually free of charge. In addition to courses in each of these areas, it offers courses in Dance and has a Preparatory Music Division that offers instruction to pre-college students, adults and College students who desire to take instruction without credit.


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Jacksonville business offers chemical-free lice treatment | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Getting rid of head lice can be challenging, but the owner of Jacksonville business says the pesticide-free technique her company offers works with just one treatment.
After dealing with lice for about eight weeks and trying over-the- counter and prescription shampoos, the Slotwinski's packed up their four kids and drove more than two hours from Melbourne, Florida to Fresh Heads Lice Treatment Center in Jacksonville.
"I had past shoulder length hair about three weeks ago and I had gotten so fed up to the point where I asked him to please shave my head," said Jennifer Slotwinski.
She took a drastic step trying to get rid of head lice she got after she says her 10-year-old daughter came home from school with the creepy crawlers. She didn't shave her head, but she did have her husband chop off her hair.
"For me as a mother with young children already, overwhelmed with daily activities and chores and school, throwing in lice treatment which could take several hours each day for weeks pushed me over and made me seek out another option."
She and her family drove all the way to Jacksonville for the Lousebuster. Unlike many other lice treatments, it doesn't have any chemicals.
"It is an FDA cleared medical device that all it really does is blow out dry, heated air. It's not as hot as a hair dryer, but a lot more air comes out of it and it is really dry air and it is awesome," explained Mandy Ottensen, owner of Fresh Heads.
She is so confident in the Lousebuster that with just one treatment she offers her clients a 30 day money back guarantee.
"It takes about 30 minutes. What we do is we systematically move the heat all around the head. It's particularly effective against the nits, which is where most families run into trouble. The nits are the eggs that the bugs lay. They are very tiny, very hard to see and they are literally glued to the hair shaft," said Ottensen.
She says clinical studies show the machine is 99.4% effective against lice eggs and kills 95% of live bugs. It's designed for adults and children four and older.
After using the Lousebuster clients then get a full comb out and a non-toxic oil is applied to suffocate any bugs that survived.
"We do this about every single day. We do about 100 treatments a month, 100 to 130 treatments a month and very rarely do we have to retreat."
As for the Slotwinski's, they were happy to learn despite their long drive, they walked in lice-free.
"Our head checks turned up no lice so yeah that's good. We have been successful with our own treatment, but I also got information on what to do if we do find something and how to go from here just with preventative measures," said Jennifer Slotwinski.
First for you, head lice is spread primarily by head to head contact and often when kids get it mom does too.
The CDC says it is uncommon for lice to be spread by contact with clothing like hats and other personal items likes brushes or towels used by someone with lice. The CDC also says personal hygiene and cleanliness at home or at school have nothing to do with getting lice.
The CDC has a list of answers to frequently asked questions about lice. You can learn more by clicking here.