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• Jan. 7: A Walnut Road woman said her ex-boyfriend arrived at her house, argued with her, and then began taking his belongings. She wanted an officer there while he removed them. The exboyfriend, who gave back his key to the house, was advised never to return.
• Jan. 8: Police were called about a man that left a bar driving a black truck after causing problems. The bartender said the man was advised he needed to leave. The truck was not located.
• Jan. 9: A West 1st Street man said someone broke into his home and stole several items.
• Jan. 10: A driver was cited for traveling 50 in a 35 miles per hour zone.
• Jan. 10: A Walnut Road woman said a juvenile attacked her daughter, causing red marks on her neck. The juvenile and her mother were advised that charges would be filed if it happened again.
• Jan. 10: A Walnut Road woman said a van full of men were leering at her daughter and scaring her. The men, Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen, were advised.
• Jan. 10: A Seymour Avenue woman said a neighbor boy was shooting a BB gun at her house.
• Jan. 11: A driver was cited for traveling 46 in a 35 miles per hour zone.
• Jan. 11: A Worth Drive man reported a possible prowler.
• Jan. 11: A driver was cited for failure to yield.
• Jan. 11: An Anchors Way resident said someone entered her daughter's garage without permission.
• Jan. 12: Alarm drop at Duke service station. Employee said alarm trip was accidental.
• Jan. 12: Police assisted a Licking County Sheriff's deputy with a traffic stop on I-70.
• Jan. 12: A juvenile was advised not to walk on the frozen lake at the North Shore Boat Ramp.
• Jan. 12: A Walnut Road man reported hearing threatening voices through his walls and ceiling. He was taken to Licking Memorial Hospital for evaluation.
• Jan. 12: A Walnut Road man said a female acquaintance entered his home without permission. While there, she fell into a glass table and injured herself.
• Jan. 12: A Walnut Road woman said she found drugs in her adult daughter's bedroom. The daughter is in jail.
• Dec. 20: A driver was stopped for a marked lanes violation and was eventually cite for OVI as well. Charges are pending for drugs found in his possession.
• Dec. 21: Police were dispatched to a Westview Drive home on 9-1-1 hang-up call at 4:40 p.m. No one responded when police knocked on the door. Police looked through a window and saw a coffee table sitting at a strange angle and foot on the couch and a pillow at the other end with no one lying on it. Police knocked even harder with still no response. Police called the squad and then discovered that the door was unlocked. Police entered the home and the subject finally woke. He was fine and no one else was at home.
• Dec. 23: Police picked up a man wanted on a Hebron warrant as he was being released from the Franklin County Jail. He was taken to the Licking County Jail.
• Dec. 25: A Broadway Street apartment resident wanted police to document that someone had sprayed his vehicle with silly string.
• Dec. 25: A North Street resident told police someone keyed her vehicle while it was parked in her driveway.
• Dec. 26: A North Maple Street man told police that his live-in daughter had taken several items from his home belonging to his late wife. He also report that his daughter verbally abuses him and makes threats to harm him. Police are investigating.
• Dec. 26: Police assisted a Licking County Sheriff's Office deputy on a domestic dispute call in Buckeye Lake. It was a verbal dispute.

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Ford, Eaton, SunPower and Whirlpool Team Up for Electric Energy Initiative
By: PR Newswire
Jan. 8, 2013 03:01 AM
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) today announces a strategic collaboration that will demonstrate how a typical American family can significantly reduce their electricity bills and CO2 footprint by integrating home appliance technology with a plug-in vehicle to achieve an energy-efficient lifestyle.
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The Ford-led MyEnergi Lifestyle® collaboration – comprised of leaders in the home appliance, renewable energy and power management industries – includes Eaton (NYSE: ETN), SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR) and Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR). Additional featured companies include semiconductor provider Infineon (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) and Nest Labs, with its latest learning thermostat represented in the research and implementation phase of the collaboration.
Specifically, MyEnergi Lifestyle showcases how combining renewable energy generation with "time-flexible" loads optimizes energy consumption across a plug-in vehicle and home appliances.
Ford and its business associates worked with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology to create a computer model that calculates the electricity usage of a typical single family in their home for one year and the associated savings with moving to an energy-efficient lifestyle. The cumulative results predict a 60 percent reduction in energy costs and more than 9,000 kg of CO2 (55 percent reduction) saved from a single home. If every home in the U.S. were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas off the power grid (32 million homes).
Additional results from the Georgia Tech computer model, including in-depth associate product savings, will be revealed at Ford's display during the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas, Jan. 8-12.
To create a real-world example of how attainable, affordable and convenient a sustainable lifestyle can be, MyEnergi Lifestyle collaborators also announce plans to award a typical American family with delivery and installation of energy-saving products from each company, along with other leading energy-efficient products. All contest and promotion details will be included in a separate announcement soon.
"More than ever, cars are sharing the same energy source as the home," says Mike Tinskey, global director of Vehicle Electrification and Infrastructure, Ford Motor Company. "The time is right for the home appliance and transportation sectors to converge if we are going to tackle a myriad of sustainability challenges in a rapidly changing world."
The average American home uses more than 11,000 kWh of electricity a year, says Warwick Stirling, global director for Energy and Sustainability, Whirlpool Corporation. "But with recent technology advancements in our appliances, a family can use energy smarter and more efficiently," he adds.
"SunPower is offering Ford plug-in vehicle owners the world's most efficient solar power systems to ensure they maximize emission-free power generation for use at home and for their vehicles," says Ken Fong, SunPower general manager, Americas. "SunPower systems offer the industry's best warranty, so homeowners can count on 25 years or more of clean power to support their sustainability goals and generate significant annual savings on their electricity bills."
"As innovation in home electrical technology advances, so does the need for safe, reliable and efficient power distribution," says Joanne Edwards, vice president and general manager, Residential Division, Eaton. "At the same time, giving homeowners the tools to tap into the details of distributed power for their homes allows them to modify their behavior and further reduce energy consumption."
Driving change: Technology trends
A plug-in vehicle is the largest electrified product most people will ever buy, and it serves as a catalyst for adoption of products that reduce CO2 and save money. Recent advancements in several technologies make this an ideal time to demonstrate the benefits that can be achieved by optimizing a home energy footprint.
Key factors driving MyEnergi Lifestyle include:
In addition to the energy benefits directly received from the latest product offerings of Ford, Eaton, SunPower and Whirlpool, the widespread deployment of smart meters (now in more than 40 million homes across the U.S.) enables households to take advantage of off-peak rates.
Utilities turning to off-peak rates
Most of today's residential electrical load on the grid occurs in the daytime hours. Electrical utilities need to ensure this daytime peak demand load does not exceed their supply capacity. Consequently, utilities in many parts of the country offer reduced energy rates for off-peak usage as a way to incentivize customers to shift their usage patterns to nighttime or early-morning hours. Discounted off-peak hours are typically between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m. Off-peak pricing is normally around half as much as on-peak, but peak pricing can be as much as 10 times higher than off-peak in some parts of the country.
Examples of household electrical loads that could be shifted to off-peak hours via an automated or controlled mobile app include charging a plug-in vehicle, running a dishwasher, running a hot water heater, running the refrigerator's defrost cycle and ice-making.
Additionally, data from electric utilities indicate their power generation mix is based on a higher percentage of clean/renewable energy sources during off-peak hours. Therefore, a family can reduce their CO2 footprint even further by off-peak electricity usage.
Value charging in MyEnergi Lifestyle
Drivers just need to enable a single setting in the app and then plug their cars in without worrying about what time the rates change in their area. The network monitors utility rate schedules and automatically transmits a signal to the vehicle through embedded cellular connectivity to start charging at the lowest cost.
Ford is the only automaker to offer the value charging feature and is working with other companies to allow access to its proprietary database of utility rates – thus enabling similar value charging functionality to all representative associate products.
The power of choice
C-MAX Energi is part of Ford's overall strategy to give customers the power of choice for leading fuel economy across the lineup. Ford will offer eight vehicles that deliver 40 mpg or better in 2013 – more than any other automaker. This includes six all-new electrified vehicles – three hybrids and three plug-in vehicles.
Ford's new electrified vehicles are equipped with innovative technologies that are designed to help win over both novice and experienced hybrid owners while giving them coaching tools to be more efficient drivers.
SmartGauge® with EcoGuide, for example, provides in-vehicle customizable displays, including instantaneous fuel economy readings and coaching functions to help drivers understand and optimize their fuel efficiency.
EV+ combines the built-in GPS of Ford SYNC® with proprietary software algorithms developed by Ford engineers to learn frequent destinations. As a result, vehicles give drivers more drive time in electric-only mode.
EV mode allows a driver to switch vehicle operation between three modes: all-electric, normal hybrid operation and conserve battery power for later use mode. This new feature debuted on the C-MAX Energi and will be featured on Fusion Energi.
More information about C-MAX Energi can be found here.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks traded lower on Monday, giving back some of their recent gains as the broader market returned from its Thanksgiving break to worry about Greece's finances and the U.S. fiscal cliff.
Energy stocks were among the top decliners of the day among S&P 500 companies, after having rallied about 4% in recent sessions.
Shares of ConocoPhillips COP, -4.35% turned higher, up 0.2% for the day.
The Houston-based oil bellwether on Monday announced plans to sell its 8.4% interest in the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement, or Kashagan, to India's ONGC Videsh Ltd. for about $5 billion.
"The sale of this quality asset is an important component of our ongoing strategic asset disposition program," said Don Wallette, executive vice president of commercial, business development and corporate planning.
ConocoPhillips said it expects a write-down of about $400 million in the fourth quarter from the sale.
The company is in the middle of a reorganization to improve its balance sheet, including planned asset sales around $20 billion in assets. Earlier this year, ConocoPhillips spun off its refinery arm, Phillips 66.
Shares of larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, -1.94% declined 0.5%. Exxon and Saudi Arabia's state-controlled oil company Aramco announced a maintenance shutdown at the Yanbu refinery in order to bring a new clean-fuel project online, according to a report on DJ Newswires.
The refinery, operated by Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Co., will close for about 45 days starting March 10, the report said. Yanbu processes about 400,000 barrels a day of Saudi Arabian crude oil, half of which is consumed domestically.
Rounding up activity among major oil companies, Chevron Corp. CVX, -3.49% shares declined 0.5%.
Oil-field services company Cameron International Corp. US:CAM shares declined 1.5%. The company announced Monday it received an order from South Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. worth $275 million. Cameron will supply the shipbuilder a drilling equipment package for a ultra-deepwater drillship.
"While we are pleased with Cameron's award, it is still a bit early to get excited, as we have seen others try and compete with [National Oilwell Varco Inc.]," analysts at Raymond James said in a note to clients.
Although National Oilwell Varco NOV, -2.48% is likely to maintain its dominant market position on drilling equipment package, the impact of the South Korea's deal on Cameron's balance sheet "could be fairly significant," the analysts added.
Shares of National Oilwell Varco were off 2%.
Top losers on Monday included natural-gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK, -5.49% with shares down 3.3%, and coal miner Consol Energy Inc. CNX, -0.06% down 2.8%.
The SPDR Energy Select Sector exchange-traded fund XLE, -2.60% which focuses on energy names, declined 1%.
Crude-oil futures also traded lower on Monday, with the January contract CLF3, +0.00% off 54 cents, or 0.6%, to settle at $87.74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil drops on Greece jitters.
Meanwhile, the so-called fiscal cliff remained at the center of market worries. U.S. lawmakers returned from their Thanksgiving break to continue to search for ways to reach an agreement to avert more than $600 billion in automatic tax hikes and spending reductions next year.
Greece was also among the concerns dragging stocks lower on Monday, with the euro-zone finance ministers meeting again to release more bailout money to Greece after two failed attempts this month.


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Our Attraction to the End
Since the beginning of time, there have been theories on how the world will end. One fairly recent theory is that the end of the world will occur on December 21, 2012 when the Mayan Long Count calendar ends. Although scholars reject the theory that any catastrophic event is scheduled for this date, arguing that the significance of the date has been misinterpreted, many people still believe it's coming. Movies, countless online forums and a good number of books talk about the apocalypse that is supposed to be arriving.
It makes you wonder what makes people obsess over these end-of-the-world scenarios after they're given facts proving that it won't happen. In an article published in Scientific American, Michael Moyer suggests that we are constantly trying to predict our demise because we have a need to explain things that are not in our control. Our brains are always searching for patterns in order to interpret the significance of events that occur in the natural world. Sociologist, John Hall, explains in his book, Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity, that, "After events like 9/11 and the Great Recession, as well as technological disasters like the BP oil spill, people begin to wonder—not just people who are fringe zealots or crazies—whether modern society is any longer capable of solving its problems." Therefore, Moyer suggests, people are more willing to believe that the end of the world is coming because of a psychological need to explain why these events are happening.
Michael Shermer, editor in chief of Skeptic Magazine, agrees with Moyer, saying that the mind is always creating patterns based on events, meaningful or not. This explains why some people are so willing to believe doomsday scenarios when they hear them. He adds that people will opt to believe that a proposed danger is real when it actually isn't because it is the safer course. He gives the example of Lucy the hominid who hears a noise while walking on the plains of Africa. She has two choices; she could assume that it was just grass rustling because of the wind or that is was a predator. The safer choice would be to assume that she was in danger, even if she wasn't, in order to save her life. He suggests that this habit of assuming the worst to stay out of danger evolved into our pattern-seeking habits, causing us to predict catastrophic events based on potentially meaningless events. Research done by Jennifer Whitson, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, supports this claim, suggesting that a decreased sense of control causes people to look for patterns in order to regain order and control as well as to find solutions to the problem.
Eternal Fascinations with the End: Why We're Suckers for Stories of Our Own Demise – Scientific American
A video and transcript of Michael Shermer's talk
Feeling Powerless? Do I have a Conspiracy Theory For You – Newsweek
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A surprise birthday dinner was given Sunday at the Mike Community House in honor of Mrs. Tavia Littrell who was observing her 86th birthday. There were 35 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and a nephew present.
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Priscilla F. (Tyrrell) Puchalski
Priscilla F. (Tyrrell) Puchalski, 95, of Warwick passed away March 2, 2013 in the care of the devoted staff of Summit Commons. She was the wife of the late Chester J. Puchalski.
Born in Pawtucket, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Martha (Roberts) Tyrrell. Mrs. Puchalski was a member of St. Gregory The Great Church and a past member of many groups and organizations.
She was the beloved mother of Barbara A. Naylor of North Port, Florida and Deborah J. Badessa of Warwick. Caring sister of Lucille Caracuzzo of Jupiter, Fla. and the late Lester Tyrrell, Annie L. Sneck and Jeannette Tuffy. Cherished grandmother of five; great-grandmother of four; and great-great-grandmother of one.
Relatives and friends are invited to visitation on Thursday from 8:00-9:30 a.m. in The Urquhart-Murphy Funeral Home, 800 Greenwich Avenue, Route 5, Warwick (Exit 12A on I-95) followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. in St. Gregory The Great Church, 360 Cowesett Road, Warwick. Burial will follow in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Providence.
In lieu of flowers, gifts in her memory to The Alzheimer's Assn., 245 Waterman St., Suite 306, Providence, RI 02906 would be appreciated. www.murphyfuneralhomes.org


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Thanks BC. I'm working in Kuwait now. It's great. No tax and great pay. Also its like in the center of the world so makes travelling to practically anywhere easy! But I still miss the food and nice looking girls in taiwan from time to time.
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Jack Hannahan clubbed a pinch-hit three-run homer and five Cincinnati pitches combined to shut out the Chicago Cubs, as the Reds got their playoff push back on track with Wednesday's 6-0 win at Great American Ball Park.
Devin Mesoraco went 3-for-4 with a solo home run for the Reds, who dodged being swept at home by the Cubs for the first time in 12 years.
Cincinnati is now three games behind the NL Central-leading St. Louis Cardinals and two games back of second-place Pittsburgh for the wild-card lead.
Reds starter Mike Leake picked up his career-high 13th win of the season after limiting the Cubs to four hits in 5 2/3 innings. Leake (13-6) struck out six and overcame bouts of wildness as indicated by four walks.
"Our pitching all-around has been doing a very good job," Leake said. "You never feel like we're gonna blow it. It's nice to have that confidence behind everyone."
The struggles continued for Chicago's Jeff Samardzija (8-12), who was tagged for six runs on eight hits and walked three in 5 2/3 innings. Samardzija has given up 17 runs during his last three outings.
"Other than the two home run balls, there wasn't really hard contact all day long," said Chicago manager Dale Sveum.
The Cubs outscored Cincinnati 11-1 over the first two games of this series to put themselves in position for their first sweep in Cincinnati since May 28-30, 2001 at Cinergy Field.
Cincinnati got on the board in the second with groundouts by Xavier Paul and Zack Cozart each plating a run. Jay Bruce singled to lead off the inning and went to third on a Todd Frazier double.
Mesoraco's one-out blast to left made it 3-0 in the fourth, and Hannahan broke the game open with the first pinch-hit homer of his career. A two-out infield single by Mesoraco put men on the corners in the sixth for Hannahan, who crushed a Samardzija offering to right field.
Game Notes
Cozart had his career-high hitting streak snapped a 15 games after going 0- for-4 ... Cincinnati finished 14-5 against the Cubs this year ... The Cubs' 14 losses to the Reds are the most to a team in a single season since going 4-14 against Pittsburgh in 1990.


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February 5, 2013 by Colin Solan
Filed under Convention News, Massachusetts, Movies, Other, Sports, Television, Top Stories
Press Release:
Boston Comic Con welcomes Jason David Frank as a guest for the 2013 convention! Power Ranger fans can meet the actor for photos and autographs on April 20-21, 2013 at the Hynes Convention Center. It's Morphin' Time!
Jason David Frank holds the distinction of being featured in more Power Rangers episodes and full-length movies than any other actor in the show's 20-year history. As Tommy Oliver, he appeared as the Mighty Morphin Green and White, Red Zeo, Red Turbo, and Black Dino Thunder Rangers.
A highly accomplished and widely respected martial artist in several different styles, Jason began his his full contact MMA career in 2006 and has won many competitions. Recently he broke a Guinness World Record by breaking seven boards while in free fall. Always an actor at heart, Jason has taken on several small and big screen roles with his most recent being The One Warrior.
Previously announced guests include: Sergio Aragones, Mark Bagley, Eric Basaldua, Nick Bradshaw, Mark Brooks, Jim Calafiore, Amanda Conner, Tony Daniel, Colleen Doran, Ming Doyle, Joe Eisma, Braden Lamb, Norman Lee, Joseph Michael Linsner, David Mack, Ed McGuinness, Mike Mignola, Steve Niles, Dustin Nguyen, Jimmy Palmiotti, Shelli Paroline, George Perez, Khary Randolph, Amy Reeder, Don Rosa, Craig Rousseau, Alex Saviuk, Tim Sale, Tim Seeley, Jeff Shultz, William Stout, Arthur Suydam, Marcio Takara, Lee Weeks, Bill Willingham, Charles Paul Wilson III, JK Woodward, and Chrissie Zullo! Tell your friends!!
Tickets are $25 per day or $40 for the weekend and available through Eventbrite at the link!
Artist alley and vendor table registration is also open. Forms can be found on the Boston Comic Con website.
About Boston Comic Con:
The Boston Comic Con is a 100% independently run comic book show committed to bringing the biggest and best comic creators to New England. Run by fans for fans, Boston Comic Con is not affiliated with any other convention tour or corporate interests. Hosting over 40,000 square feet of vendors selling comic books, toys, posters, trading cards, and other pop culture memorabilia, this is a destination event for geeks of any stripe. Next year's convention will be held Saturday April 20th and Sunday April 21st opening at 10:00 am each day at the Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA. For more information please go to our website at www.bostoncomiccon.com and follow us on Twitter (@BostonComicCon) and Facebook!


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2011-12 Women's Basketball
Franklin 60, Bluffton 48
Beavers battle back in second half before falling to Franklin 60-48
December 3, 2011
By: Keisha Holtsberry, sports information assistant
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's basketball team outscored Franklin College 32-25 in the second stanza, but the visitors held on for a 60-48 win over the Beavers on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Bluffton slipped to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in the Heartland Conference, while Franklin stayed perfect at 7-0 on the season and 2-0 in the HCAC.
Following two minutes of scoreless action to open the game, the Grizzlies capitalized on a foul by Kylee Burkholder (West Unity/Hilltop). Just 10 seconds later, senior Alicia Amis (Woodstock/Michanicsburg) put the Beavers up 3-2 with a bucket from behind the arc.
Franklin pulled ahead by five before a three-pointer from senior Beth Yoder (Marshalville/Smithville) cut the Grizzlies' lead to two. Franklin went on a 24-8 run over the final 11:25 of the half to open up a commanding 35-16 lead at the break.
Senior Rachel Daman (Defiance/Tinora) started off the scoring for the Beavers in the second period. Less than two minutes in, she hit from distance thanks to a dish from Amis. Daman also capitalized on a Franklin foul and added another counter, making the score 35-20.
Senior Brittany Lewis (Springfield/Shawnee) followed with a triple courtesy of Mikayla Coburn (McGuffey/Upper Scioto Valley). Exactly a minute later, Amis put in a layup off a no look pass from Lewis, cutting Franklin's lead to 12.
Franklin once again stretched its lead to 17, only to have it trimmed to 10 at the 10:13 mark. Senior Brittany Stegmaier (Garfield/Trinity) started the run with a triple before freshman post Sharonda Martin (Dayton/Stivers) dropped in a chip shot from Stegmaier. Another three-point bomb from Yoder and a Lewis layup made the score 47-37.
Bluffton got within 55-46 thanks to a pair of Coburn free throws at the 4:16 mark, but the Grizzlies limited the home team to a Brenna Kurilec (Mt. Gilead/Gilead Christian) layin with 25 ticks remaining as Franklin improved to 7-0 with the 60-48 win over the Beavers.
Amis led the Beavers with nine points. Yoder and Martin contributed eight and seven points, respectively. Lewis led the Beavers with a career-high eight rebounds and she also handed out a career-best tying seven dimes, while Coburn picked up six caroms. Sarah Condra paced the Grizzlies with 20 points (5-of-17 from the field), eight boards and five assists.
Bluffton hit 15-of-53 (28.3 percent) from the field, compared to 19-of-58 (32.8 percent) for the visitors. The Beavers struggled converted 6-of-19 (31.6 percent) from behind the arc, while Franklin made just 3-of-17 (17.6 percent), including 0-of-7 in the final 20 minutes. The home team knocked down 12-of-16 (70.4 percent) at the line. The Grizzlies made 19-of-26 (73.1 percent) at the charity stripe. Franklin turned the ball over 14 times while forcing 18 miscues.
The Beavers travel Wooster on Tuesday, Dec. 6, for a 7:30 p.m. contest with the Fighting Scots.


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NOBEL peace prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once said that the Nazi death camps were a subject for writers that should be tackled only by those who had experienced them.
That would clearly rule out John Boyne and Morris Gleitzman. Neither had been planning to tackle the Holocaust when they wrote their books set against its backdrop; they simply had good ideas for stories. Boyne had an image in his head of two boys on either side of a fence. ''I knew where it was, I knew the journey to there and I knew how it would end.'' He produced The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in a frenzy of writing over two sleepless days in his Dublin home.
And Gleitzman said he also wanted to write about friendship between two young people. ''But it wasn't enough to explore the good things of friendship. I decided to place it in the most unfriendly time when that friendship could be seen.''
So like Boyne's book, Gleitzman's tetralogy - it begins with Once and has just been completed with After - is firmly located in the horrors of the Holocaust. Both wrote for young adult readers and both struck a chord: Boyne's book has gone on to sell more than 5 million copies, while Gleitzman's have also become bestsellers.
The two writers were enthusiastically received yesterday at a packed session for school students at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Boyne said he dealt with Wiesel's prohibition by arguing that its logical extension meant that once the last survivor died, the story of the Holocaust had been ''solved''. ''It means that only certain people can write [about it], but the way we treat each other are universal topics,'' he said.
It was a point that Gleitzman reiterated. ''It is very important we have stories that remind us about the very worst and the very best we are capable of,'' he said.
But if their subject was dark, there were counterpoints. Gleitzman said running through his books were the very best humans could offer each other - love and friendship. And Boyne argued that despite the tragedy in his book, there was hope: ''The boys are holding hands and declare that they will be best friends. The forces of hatred can't beat that; it's the most important image in the book.''
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(a) The Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority may create special funds in the State Treasury to identify various revenue sources and payment of specific obligations. These funds may be used for purposes that include, but are not limited to, the construction, renovation or repair of specific facilities, cash control, facility maintenance and the individual operations accounts of facilities operated by the authority. The authority may create other separate accounts within these funds that it determines are necessary for the efficient operation of the authority.
(b) Revenues deposited into these funds shall be used to make payments of interest and shall be pledged as security for bonds, security interests or notes issued or lease-purchase obligations entered into with another state entity by the authority pursuant to this article.
(c) Whenever the authority determines that the balance in these funds is in excess of the immediate requirements of this article, it may request that the excess be invested until needed. In this case, the excess shall be invested in a manner consistent with the investment of temporary state funds. Interest earned on any money invested pursuant to this section shall be credited to these funds.
(d) If the authority determines that moneys held in these funds are in excess of the amount needed to carry out the purposes of this article, it shall take any action that is necessary to release the excess and transfer it to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury.
(e) These funds consist of the following:
(1) Amounts raised by the authority by the sale of bonds or other borrowing authorized by this article;
(2) Moneys collected and deposited in the State Treasury which are specifically designated by Acts of the Legislature for inclusion in these funds;
(3) Contributions, grants and gifts from any source, both public and private, which may be used by the authority for any project or projects;
(4) All sums paid by the counties pursuant to subsection (h) of this section; and
(5) All interest earned on investments made by the state from moneys deposited in these funds.
(f) The amounts deposited in these funds shall be accounted for and expended in the following manner:
(1) Amounts raised by the sale of bonds or other borrowing authorized by this article shall be deposited in a separate account within these funds and expended for the purpose of construction, renovation and repair of correctional facilities, regional jails and juvenile detention and correctional facilities for which need has been determined by the authority;
(2) Amounts deposited from all other sources shall be pledged first to the debt service on any bonded indebtedness, including lease-purchase obligations entered into by the authority with another state entity or other obligation incurred by borrowing of the authority;
(3) After any requirements of debt service have been satisfied, the authority shall requisition from these funds the amounts that are necessary to provide for payment of the administrative expenses of this article;
(4) The authority shall requisition from these funds, after any requirements of debt service have been satisfied, the amounts that are necessary for the maintenance and operation of regional jails that are constructed pursuant to the provisions of this article and shall expend those amounts for that purpose. These funds shall make an accounting of all amounts received from each county by virtue of any filing fees, court costs or fines required by law to be deposited in these funds and amounts from the jail improvement funds of the various counties. After the expenses of administration have been deducted, the amounts expended in the respective regions from those sources shall be in proportion to the percentage the amount contributed to these funds by the counties in each region bears to the total amount received by these funds from those sources;
(5) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, sums paid into these funds by each county pursuant to subsection (h) of this section for each inmate shall be placed in a separate account and shall be requisitioned from these funds to pay for costs incurred at the regional jail facility at which each inmate was incarcerated; and
(6) Any amounts deposited in these funds from other sources permitted by this article shall be expended in the respective regions based on particular needs to be determined by the authority.
(g) (1) After a regional jail facility becomes available pursuant to this article for the incarceration of inmates, each county within the region shall incarcerate all persons whom the county would have incarcerated in any jail prior to the availability of the regional jail facility in the regional jail facility except those whose incarceration in a local jail facility used as a local holding facility is specified as appropriate under the standards and procedures developed pursuant to section nine of this article and who the sheriff or the circuit court elects to incarcerate therein.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection, circuit and magistrate courts are authorized to:
(A) Detain persons who have been arrested or charged with a crime, in a county or municipal jail, specified as appropriate under the standards and procedures developed pursuant to section nine of this article, for a period not to exceed ninety-six hours; or
(B) Commit persons convicted of a crime in a county or municipal jail, specified as appropriate under the standards and procedures developed pursuant to section nine of this article, for a period not to exceed fourteen days.
(h) When inmates are placed in a regional jail facility pursuant to subsection (g) of this section, the county shall pay into the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Fund a cost per day for each incarcerated inmate to be determined by the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority according to criteria and by procedures established by legislative rules proposed for promulgation pursuant to article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code and as established in section ten-a of this article to cover the costs of operating the regional jail facilities of this state to maintain each inmate. The per diem costs for incarcerating inmates may not include the cost of construction, acquisition or renovation of the regional jail facilities: Provided, That each regional jail facility operating in this state shall keep a record of the date and time that an inmate is incarcerated and a county may not be charged for a second day of incarceration for an individual inmate until that inmate has remained incarcerated for more than twenty-four hours. After that, in cases of continuous incarceration, subsequent per diem charges shall be made upon a county only as subsequent intervals of twenty-four hours pass from the original time of incarceration.


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CARRBORO – Leaving your dog in a car for only a few minutes can not only be deadly, but could also hold legal consequences.
Mid-day on June 10, program director of Carrboro's Eyes Ears Nose and Paws, Debra Cunningham, left Worthy, a service dog in training, in a car with the windows completely rolled up for two hours. Worthy suffered a heat stroke while locked in the vehicle.
Cunningham left Worthy in her car because his foster mother, Charlene Hayes, was coming into the office for a meeting. Training a service dog requires complete separation between foster mother and pup. After her meeting with Hayes, Cunningham returned to her car to find Worthy unconscious and panting.
Maria Ikenberry, Executive Director of EENP, and Cunningham rushed Worthy to The Animal Hospital and then to Triangle Veterinary Referral Hospital in Durham. There, Worthy died of cardiac arrest at 7:30 a.m. on June 11.
Cunningham received a misdemeanor charge of cruelty to animals, statue 14-360; she's due in court in Hillsborough Thursday morning.
Not in direct connection to this case, but the North Carolina legislature recently took action on animal cruelty. On July 22, the legislature ratified Senate Bill 626, which addresses the safety of animals locked in motor vehicles.
The bill allows for rescue workers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, or animal control officers to enter a vehicle to remove an animal if the animal seems to be in danger and the owner cannot be found.
Pricey Harrison, representative of Guilford County, co-sponsored the amendment.
Governor Pat McCrory signed the bill into a law on July 29.
To read the Session Law 2013-377, click here.


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Hi all,
That youtube video above describes the question I'm about to ask:
Pretend you're in a hot air balloon with 5 other people. You're floating over the ocean and then someone realizes that there are 1,000 sharks swimming below you. All of a sudden, a bird flies into your craft and pokes a hole in the side. You begin falling rapidly, and your only chance of making it to shore is to lose as much weight as possible so that you can hopefully drift closer to the beach.
You toss everything (blankets, radios, etc) overboard, but that still isn't enough weight. You then realize that someone MUST be thrown overboard...otherwise EVERYONE will die.
How do you make the decision as to who gets thrown off? Do you base it on things like:
-Number of children
If you watch the video you'll gain a few other insights as well. I'm interested to see what you guys have to say.
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We discuss it.
What if the 7 children are there? What if the man hates all 7 of his children and his wife, and wants to toss them overboard? What if the wife is willing to give her life for her children, but it doesn't make one lick of difference in how fast they're losing altitude.
The sheer amount of variables in this lead me to this choice:
-We do what we can, while we can. We hopefully pull together, rather than panicking and falling apart, and probably turn on the hot air balloon propane heater thing full blast, in the hopes of making it to shore on what fuel we have--besides that, we accept our fates--sometimes we just draw the short straw, and you don't survive. Similar situations come up with things like this--a car that can carry an entire group of people to survival is working, but it's pinning someone to a tree--do you pull the car away, and perhaps condemn the pinned person to death, or wait for someone to rescue all of you?
The variables are numerous, the reasons are many, and unless someone outright volunteers, it is not fair to force the picking of straws or in any other way, throw someone overboard.
My main problem is this: Say you whittle down the people, tossing them overboard one by one, in a maniacal bid to survive--and you do, but just barely. How do you live with sacrificing them so you can go about your life? Say you die. How do you live knowing you tortured them with such a death?
In such a situation, as well---I would keep the radio. And the survival raft. Both are gonna be useful if and when they go down. The radio can be used to send out distress signals---up until the last minute, and even if they all crash into the water, someone could be saved with the coordinates. and the raft could be used to keep certain people--children, women, those who can't swim, out of the water while the others try to paddle them to shore.
I would also suggest it might be possible to float far enough away from the shark-infested area that the people are currently over---once far enough away, it would be less dangerous to swim to shore. Will tossing people overboard bring them to the beach or simply buy them enough time.
Again, enough variables, but dissolving into anarchy won't exactly look good if you survive, or especially if they survive the fall into shark-infested waters.
Reminds me a little of Hunger Games. There really is no victory even if you make it, after you toss people out.
I will poke other holes in this, but I was answering it without doing so:
-birds can't poke a hole in it. Only some sort of weapon or spear would. Then you have other problems.
-Say you get a magic hole in it--most balloons can deal with holes. you crank up the fuel and land in an emergency area.
-5 people--going over the ocean? emergency raft. So if they do land and survive, they have a backup plan.
-Sharks don't just attack people. Maybe if they were beelining straight for the middle of their feeding frenzy where a ton of schools of fish are already being killed. Maybe it's not sharks but a lovely lake of boiling acid. Whatever it is--the water can be poisonous or dangerous to land in, again, variables.
- you're right, weight won't make a hole in an air balloon lose less air. Any sort of tension in it is pulling down, and if it's losing hot air faster than the propane heater can replace it, you're fucked. You can't toss over enough people to fix it. It's like this--can you make a basket of small weights neutrally buoyant with a large balloon. Now make a specific diameter of hole in the balloon so in 5 minutes all the gas is out. How can you remove the weights so the helium will leave the balloon slower? You can't. Often holes in hot air balloons mean they plummet so quickly--tossing things over won't help because there simply is not enough time to equalize.
-You don't often go into hot air balloons, in many places, without them being prepared for an emergency crash landing of sorts--ever, some of them even have first aid and survival kits and water if you're going over desert, over water they'd surely have a survival raft and would make sure there's enough of them for all the passengers, that, and emergency beacons would be attached to the survival raft.
+addendum: Anyone stupid enough to toss over a survival raft when they may be needing it in a few seconds probably isn't going to be the best person to be in any survival situation to begin with.
Perhaps a better (at least more specific)example:
-You are in a group of 6 people:
+a fat, rotund 24 year old otaku from Japan
+a 14 year old girl who's "ugly" by your standards and mildly overweight, and suicidal/depressed
+a wonderful old grandmother, age 50, who is the grandmother of the 14 year old, who is constantly egging her about her slight amount of overweightness.
+ a crotchety old lady, age 60, who lives with 2 adult children(and currently has no will, so the adult and caring children wouldn't get anything, and instead, old lady's husband/current boytoy would get it all).
+ the balloonier, a man who runs the business by himself and with his wife and kids, the wife has a chronic respiratory disease and he barely affords the meds for her each month--he has no life insurance.
+ Yourself
You are in a lovely balloon ride over the top of a range of acid lakes. The view is beautiful, so beautiful, in fact, that all of you miss the first drop in altitude. The Balloonier regretfully informs you all that you've popped a hole in the balloon, and you need to not panic. You do. Everyone Does. Over goes the radio first, thanks to the crotchety old lady, over goes the raft that is immune to the acid, thanks to the old grandmother--, and lastly, over goes the emergency flares and survival pack, thanks to the 14 year old girl, since you'll be spending a few weeks carefully hiking out of the acid lake park once you do land.
The Balloonier is shocked, and while you are still dropping, he turns up the propane all the way, in a last-ditch effort to keep the balloon afloat.
Who's fault is it that they're all going to die? The balloonier, for failing to check his equipment enough, the old lady, for tossing over your line to help? the lovely grandmother, for getting rid of your lifeboat, or the 14 year old, for getting rid of the secondary measures of emergency alert? They come to the conclusion that it's your fault, and the 24 year old otaku's from Japan, because both of you weigh the most. They toss you over, and you land in one of the more neutral lakes, say around 6 in acidity(like a tomato), later, they land in one of the most acidic lakes and die.
Who deserved to die from the start?
Couldn't everyone had lived if they had simply pulled together instead of apart?
Can anyone even answer that situation?(I honestly can't)
I could give a thousand examples, but all of them are this: complicated, multifaceted, and full of pros and cons of each decision--all the decisions are shades of grey, not black and white. That's why I say throw no one over--even if it helped, how much does it help? I can't calculate how much it will, so I'm not going to risk forcing someone to die for me. Say we replace the sharks with acid water---you land in it, you die, then we're all probably going to die anyway. Last rites can be read, I would hold everyone's hands, and we would Not. Panic. Panic is the thing that would turn a really bad situation---like this one, into a horrible situation.
For a lovely and disturbing example I suggest you watch the movie The Mist. It's a brilliant example of how people panicking and behaving irrationally can make a situation that would otherwise not be too terrible--into a horrible situation for everyone involved.
For the sake of clarity: he said 3 miles AWAY from the water, not 3 miles above the water. If they were 3 miles above the water, I doubt they would be able to see the sharks.
I agree that it should have just been phrased "whose life is more valuable", because that seems to be what he is getting at. I also think that hypotheticals like this are mostly imagined by supposedly deep college students who decide to record "philosophical" youtube videos in their car before and after class (even when the sun has gone down).
Why not be more realistic and discuss the already well documented guidelines used by emergency responders in case of large scale disasters. It's called triage and helps people make very unfortunate but necessary decisions. For arguments sake, though: in the case of the hot air balloon, as a fat man I can still recommend that they throw the fat man out first, as that would give the balloon the best chance of sinking more slowly and floating the farthest. It may not be fair to save the 90 year old woman who apparently lived a full life and is out enjoying a hot air balloon ride ahead of her imminent (3 years hence) death. But I think that throwing out the fat guy first probably would give them the best chance of saving the other 5 people.
I have seen things like this before, such as imagine you are standing next to a railroad switch. A runaway train car is heading towards a group of five people who for some reason you can't warn in time to get out of the way. You have the ability to throw the railroad switch, saving the five people from the train car. However, on the other track there is one person who will definitely be killed by the train if you throw the switch. Is it moral because you save 5 people but kill one? Or is it better to let things play out as they are? Could you make that decision? Would anyone have the right to criticize your decision either way?
Moral of the story: stay away from railroad switches, and stay away from hot air balloon rides over open expanses of shark infested water.
My reply was more about the Shades of Grey that real life imparts to all these decisions. There really would be no black and white in either of these--if that one person is someone you love, and those 5 people are people you know, but are kind of jerky.
Also, the "Which person dies because of a switch" thing will now only remind me of the Saw movie franchise. Even in those, there are no white knights, no perfect decision.
It would be the same in any real decision like this.
Um sorry but I am a bit confused as to how you can be 3 miles 'away' from the water and still see the sharks : P
I think the guy was saying the balloon is 3 miles above the water. That's why you are trying to get to the land areas. If you were 3 miles away from the water , why would you need to throw people overboard to avoid sharks? : P
I have more picking these things apart than answering them seriously. I agree - It's what 'deep college students' do before and after class lol
Interesting video...
My first thoughts were to wrestle grandma straight over the edge, but she's most likely the one who'll offer you a reward later for not doing so. I'm guessing she'll have a husband with her, half crippled, one quick knock over the head and he's a goner, everyone is happy.
If you do have plenty of time, you could probably use some spare rope to hang someone, before cutting them loose, to save on the torture below. Its such a tough choice, so many ideas!
To be honest, I think the question of value is valid, but unlikely if someone else in the basket refuses to reason with the others. We're assuming the 5 people are all fine and dandy with eachother, I know that if I was up there with certain family or partial friends, I'd be making the choice for them. Not like an aggresive person, but as an animal who would very much like to make it home in one piece. To put it bluntly, the biggest prick becomes the first to go! or... a few quick questions on religion? first person to say something stupid gets to spend the next 20 seconds feeling the force of gravity at work!
I wouldnt be the one to decide. I'd let us all die first proably. lol But I'll use you're list:
number of children
...in that order.


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Already out in Japan and due in Europe on March 5, the XL sports a much larger body and screen over the handheld's previous iterations.
Specifically, the Nintendo DSi XL has two 4.2" screens--roughly 93% larger than the DS Lite's 3" displays--along with a thick pen-shaped stylus. As with other Nintendo DS models, it also sports a slimmer stylus that can be stored within the main body.
In keeping with the specific DSi branding, the XL has two cameras--one facing outward, one inward--plus internal storage for downloadable games and an SD Card slot for additional storage, but is not compatible with Game Boy Advance cartridges.
Added Nintendo: "The new system launches in both Burgundy and Bronze colors, and comes loaded with pre-installed premium software Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters, Brain Age Express: Math and Photo Clock, as well as two free applications: the Nintendo DSi Browser and Flipnote Studio."


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What [three right-leaning filmmakers] acknowledge... is that something besides liberal bias is responsible for the striking shortage of conservative nonfiction cinema at a time when filmmakers on the other end of the spectrum are flooding screens with messages about global warming, the war in Iraq and the downside of Wal-Mart.If it were a left-wing agenda, it wouldn't be traceable to the studios. They don't deal in documentaries. It could be the film festival programmers. But left-wing politics might be inherent in the nature of filmmaking. Here, the theory is that "the very nature of conservatism runs counter to the rebellious impulses that make a good film... that a critique like Robert Greenwald's 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price' is inherently more exciting than a defense like Ron Galloway's 'Why Wal-Mart Works.'"
"The origin of the word conservative is about not changing, accepting what is," said the director Wash Westmoreland, who is not a conservative. "And that's never a very interesting thing to make a film about. The thing that drives you to make a documentary is seeing it as a way to social change. Societies with little conflict tend not to make interesting art."And yet, lefty critiques usually follow a predictable pattern. And it actually isn't the slightest bit innovative to display rebelliousness. It's a huge Hollywood tradition, going back to the silent era. So are we really talking about creativity?


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An IndieGoGo crowd-funding campaign has been set up to help Michael Sandler with his physical therapy and medical expenses, and to help the Sandlers write "Breathe Love," a book based on their recent experiences.
Details: tinyurl.com/breathelove
When Michael Sandler broke his left femur into pieces in an inline skating accident on the Boulder Creek Path in 2006, doctors at Boulder Community who pieced his leg back together called it a "one-in-a-million break."
Sandler, who suffered the severe injury when he made a split-second decision to throw himself down rather than hit a toddler who had wandered onto the path, went from being a sponsored inline skater training for a cross country world-record attempt to being unable to walk.
He ended up with a titanium femur and a significant leg length discrepancy. Years of rehab, orthotics and angst finally led him to barefoot walking and then barefoot running.
It allowed him to run again and sent him on his way to becoming a leading running expert with a worldwide following, author of two popular books -- "Barefoot Running" and "Barefoot Walking" -- and a key figure in the "minimalist" running movement championed by the late Boulder ultrarunner Micah True.
Then, unbelievably, it happened again.
On May 19, Sandler and his wife and co-author, Jessica -- the couple met while meditating at Boulder's Shambhala Center -- were finishing up a hike on a trail in the Sierra Nevadas above Lake Tahoe on their way home after a nationwide speaking tour. Sandler had taken a swim in a natural pool beneath a waterfall, and because it was cold, he had put on leather-soled moccasins.
All at once, while crossing a creek, Sandler slipped, flew up in the air and went down hard. He landed on a pyramid-shaped rock, causing his right femur to "explode" on impact, in the identical spot his left had shattered seven years earlier. Lying in the cold water, unable to move and in severe pain, Sandler was forced to stay propped up on his arms.
Moving even slightly sent jarring pain throughout his body.
"No, not again!" Sandler screamed out. "No, not again!"
At first, Jessica did not realize how serious the injury was. After all, she recalls, "We had only been walking."
Then, she said, "I went into a panic. ... I knew, if it was like the last time, there was a chance his femoral artery could be cut and that he could bleed to death."
It was close. Sandler was going into shock, had tunnel vision, and the world began going black. He knew he was dying. How easy it would be, he thought, just to lie back and let the water flow over him.
Jessica saved him. Looking over at his wife, "I saw the look of fear, terror and complete heartache. And I yelled, 'I am not going to die!'"
After rounding up hikers to go for help, Jessica's panic was replaced by fear. "There is immense fear because there is immense love," she said. "And what an opportunity to truly realize how much you love someone, when you fear you might lose them."
She wondered if this could be it, the end.
"It didn't make any sense. A few hundred yards back, we had shared a loving moment talking about starting a family someday soon. There was a part of me that knew there was a reason for the accident and that it was not just to let Michael die.
"It was also comforting to know that there are no odds for the same accident occurring twice. I knew there were some big lessons we were learning, though many I wouldn't process until later."
Hours later, incredulous doctors at a hospital in Lake Tahoe called it a "one-in-infinity chance" of breaking both femurs in such an uncommon way.
Sandler somehow left the hospital "balanced," according to doctors, with his leg length discrepancy gone and sporting "identical titanium hardware in both legs."
He is now rehabbing in Kula, Hawaii, saddled with medical bills of more than $141,000.
To top it off, the day the Sandlers returned home, the helicopter company that had flown him to the hospital called, asking for its $28,000 payment. And, that same day, the couple's accountant called, explaining that they were being audited by the IRS for their 2010 book tour.
Yet, despite it all, Sandler is amazingly upbeat. Both he and Jessica view the accident as a wake-up call to further their life mission.
"It is a gift," Sandler, 42, said Monday in a phone interview. "We are the same people, yet we are not. I died out there on the trail, and we are blazing a new path."
Explained Jessica, 32, "We have become more spiritual. We have this new perspective. There is no point wasting our time and energy on trivial things. The lessons have been both profound and yet simple."
That new path will be explored in the Sandlers' third book, titled "Breathe Love." The title comes from "being stuck in the creek," Sandler said, "not knowing if I was going to live or die. I was forcing myself to breathe, bringing in the most positive things I could. Something automatic had to become manual."
Added Sandler, "I knew I was in for hell. How do I make it through hell? Focus on the breath, bringing in light and beauty. Breathing in light, breathing out love. That simple act kept me alive. I was just walking along on the trail and almost died. That is transformative."
Jessica is not surprised by her husband's comeback. "I expect only a super positive attitude from Michael. He now lives and breathes what he preaches. Even though there currently aren't funds for a physical therapist, he is so in tune with his body, I completely trust that he knows how to build himself back.
"He is positive because he knows that without a doubt, this accident was a gift, an opportunity to learn lessons and to share them with others. And he's just grateful to be alive. We tell each other on a daily basis how grateful we are that he's still alive. And we now know life's biggest challenges are where the miracles happen."


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If the sensitivity and stage presence of nine high-schoolers is any indication, the future of our country is looking up.
Thursday night, members of the Durango High School Speech and Debate Team put on their game faces for Feature Act, an evening of oratory, debate and dramatic performance.
Working under time constraints, this group of teens seamlessly presented their own pieces, full of heart and social awareness and adapted speech formats designed for much longer performance, to fit the bill.
They fearlessly attacked themes of racism, sex, violence and creativity with maturity, seeking no easy answers. While public speaking is a skill that reaps great rewards in the world beyond high school, be it in the board room, protest march or job interview, it is rare to see a group of youngsters embrace the challenge with such enthusiasm.
Carl Sallee started the evening with his original oratory, The Importance of Being Bored. Carl criticized our technology-addicted modern society, which he credited with having as much creativity as a school of goldfish. He then launched into his own tech-deprived childhood, which allowed him space to let his mind wander and grow. When Carl explained that a lazy-minded society can rehabilitate by unplugging for an hour a day, his speech came full circle.
Next, was an informed and spirited public debate about the validity of birthright citizenship. Kevin Brinkley and Koby McInnis modeled methods of debating a topic using two-minute and three-minute speeches, as well as crossfire technique.
Koby delivered her points with poise, backing each passionate assertion with compelling facts. Kevin employed an obvious charisma to support his position, heavily backed in financial concern for the U.S.
Its not easy to be funny, but Kendall Walden, a freshman new to the club, made it look that way. She took the stage with My Point, and I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres, and was captivating from start to finish.
Her physical comedy and embodiment of multiple characters in this one-woman humor speech showed great maturity and garnered laughs all around.
Peter Bussian drew on his life experience of having a Dutch stepmother to express the wildly funny and chaotic world of in-house culture clashes.
In the poetry category, Ryan Ehrig entertained the crowd with his favorite tall tale, The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service, employing a gripping drawl that chilled my bones as he played out the humorous and harrowing story.
Standout performances included the dramatic monologue, White People by J.T. Rogers, performed by Ryan Mull, an extemporaneous speech by Amanda Urban, and duo interpretation of excerpts from The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, expertly acted by Paul Myers and James Calvet.
Ryan took on the persona of a middle-aged teacher coping with his own racial prejudice with an understanding beyond his years. Amanda delivered a speech she had written within 30 minutes of her performance with seamless confidence and a plethora of well-ordered information.
Paul and James blew away with their comedic scenes from this larger work, inspecting the creation of the universe. Both put on hilarious physical and vocal changes to portray their characters, and displayed a singularity onstage that can only come from years of friendship and hours of devoted practice.
With the support of head coach Darlene Clayton, whose affection and appreciation for each student was apparent in her introductions, these teens transformed onstage. Nine young adults shared vital ideas and a take on the great maxim, Know thyself.
firstname.lastname@example.com. Chelsea Terris is a freelance writer and social-media specialist.


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About 5 weeks ago, my friend's two cats got out. She had just moved into the house and they weren't familiar with their surroundings. Fortunately she was able to get Ben. But Jerry was missing.
I went there in an attempt to trap Jerry, to no avail. I told her (don't get grossed out) she needs to pee in a spray bottle and spray it around the outside perimeter of her house every day, which she did, as well as set up a feeding station.
Then, along game Hurricane Whats-her-name which as you know, devastated many parts of CT, NY and PA. We thought for SURE he was gone.
Well, she was sitting up watching Letterman last night, not being able to sleep. She looked over at her sliding glass door and who does she see??? JERRY!!!! Meowing at her.
I am SO relieved that he's back. I've prayed every night to St. Francis for his return.
I guess Jerry now has only 8 lives left. I hope his door darting days are over.


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Inked Girls: Elizabeth Kiff
Myself in a sentence: Professional procrastinator, sleeper, and naked person.
Occupation: Student
Hometown: Leeds, Uk
The design and themes of my tattoos: lettering,animals,memorial,chinese,japanese
My favorite tattoo and the story behind it: It's difficult to choose and often changes, but I think right now I'd have to say it's my calf tattoo that says ' Don't let the bastards grind you down'- it's a dedication to my Grandpa, who recently passed away and was more like a Father to me. He always used to say it to me with a smile and a hug, and although he was never a huge fan of my tattoos, he was proud of me for being brave enough to be myself and laughed when he saw it.
My next tattoo: Once I get the shading finished on my other half sleeve, I will be getting the moon phases on my forearms.


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By Katina Caraganis
LEOMINSTER -- The cleanup and recovery process at the Columbia Hotel building on Main Street continued Wednesday afternoon as residents gathered more information at the city's command center at the Christian Life Center, Mayor Dean Mazzarella said.
Additionally, Mazzarella said a secure-and-demolish order was signed Wednesday for the building. Windows were boarded up as well.
"The owners have been fantastic and very cooperative in every aspect. Stone dust has also been put down so when things do come down, it doesn't blow into the street," Mazzarella said.
Insurance adjusters for the building as a whole as well as individual businesses were on hand to assess the damage, Mazzarella said.
"Each day it's getting better and better. I think everyone is just assessing everything. The command center will stay open at least through Thursday to help victims," he said.
Firefighters are still going into the building and individual apartments to collect belongings for people as needed.
"All the streets are open, and we're working with victims to find housing and with businesses to find locations," Mazzarella said.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the state Fire Marshal's Office.
Follow Katina Caraganis on Twitter @kcaraganis.


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Attorney General Jack Conway and Representative Robin Webb of Grayson filed legislation Friday that will help protect the identities of Kentuckians and update laws to keep pace with changes in technology. The bill is cosponsored by Rep. Jim Glenn of Owensboro and Rep. John Vincent of Ashland.
"This bill is a lifeline for consumers across our Commonwealth who've lived the nightmare of having their identities stolen," Conway said. "The legislation that Rep. Webb and I crafted protects consumers and provides avenues for them to help repair their good name."
"Identity theft is becoming the fastest-growing financial crime in America and Kentucky," said Webb. "This bill will protect victims of identity theft through better notification procedures, stronger legal options and better oversight from businesses."
The law will require businesses to notify residents if their personal information, such as a bank account number or Social Security number, has been compromised by improper disposal of paper records or an online security breach. Businesses must take reasonable steps to protect and properly dispose of personal information. If information is compromised, businesses could be civilly liable for losses incurred by consumers.
House Bill 553 will also require businesses to keep Social Security numbers hidden in mailings, remove as identification numbers on benefit cards and require security measures for Web sites where consumers enter their Social Security numbers.
The legislation will criminalize the practice of "phishing," where e-mails or Web sites mimicking legitimate businesses are created to scam consumers. The law will allow victims, the Attorney General, Internet-service providers and owners of Web sites or trademarks to sue the perpetrator for injunctive relief or damages.
In addition, the law will improve the efficiency of the legal process for individuals who are victims of identity theft. House Bill 553 will expedite the process for residents to obtain a Circuit Court order that they could use to dispute fraudulent charges. The law will require all local law-enforcement agencies to process identity-theft complaints and provide copies to victims. Identity-theft education will also be incorporated into basic training for all police officers. The law expands the scope of identity-theft violations to which victims may seek civil relief against criminals who've perpetrated these crimes.
And the bill will strengthen Kentucky's existing Harassing Communications statute by clarifying that the law also applies when a perpetrator uses another person's identity when sending an offending communication.
House Bill 553 will be assigned to a committee for review and a vote.


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AMERICUS - We kick off the top three Hurricane Highlights of the 2013 softball season with looking back at a pair of victories against highly ranked foes.
The No. 3 Hurricane Highlight came when the Lady Hurricanes earned home victories against then 13th-ranked Rollins College on February 9 and No. 4 Armstrong on March 14.
Southwestern notched the come-from-behind victory against Rollins College, 3-2, in the first game of the doubleheader at Lady 'Cane Field.
With the Tars leading 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning, Janna Anderson reached base on a single to center field while Rachel McElroy followed with a single of her own, advancing Anderson to third.
Shelley Sweatt loaded up the bases when the sophomore reached base on a walk leaving the late game heroics to sophomore Kiley Doster.
Doster came through in the clutch, singling to left field, scoring the game-winning runs as Georgia Southwestern (5-2) notched the late-game upset victory, 3-2.
GSW's starter Allison Pastor (3-1) picked up her third straight victory as the junior tossed a complete game, allowing two hits on 10 runs.
A month later, Pastor played a big role in Southwestern's other triumph over a highly ranked foe, this time it was against No. 4 Armstrong.
The Lady Hurricanes earned a 1-0 shutout victory over the Pirates at Lady 'Cane Field off a stellar pitching performance by the junior from Vero Beach, Florida.
Pastor threw a complete game-shutout allowing zero runs off five hits while striking out eight for the Blue and Gold against an Armstrong squad that was riding a nine-game winning streak.
The game turned into a pitcher's dual as AASU's starting pitcher Megan Barnwell (13-2) also had a strong effort as the senior allowed just one run off four hits while striking out three for the fourth-ranked Pirates.
The one run allowed by Barnwell proved to be the difference in the game as Southwestern's junior Nellie Moore lit up the scoreboard for the only time in the game off a lead-off home run to start the bottom of the third inning as Georgia Southwestern as Pastor continue to silence the Pirate bats as the Lady Hurricanes prevailed, 1-0.
Four different Lady 'Canes attributed for Southwestern's four runs in the game.
Stay tuned Wednesday as the No. 2 Hurricane Highlight of the 2013 GSW softball season will be revealed.


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|9 years ago :: Mar 08, 2009 - 10:07PM #1
I'm more than ready for winter to be over. As a result, this year I want to do something special to welcome Spring--some ritual to welcome back the season of new beginnings and rebirth and I'd like some ideas. I'm thinking of getting up early that day to watch the sun rise (if it's forecast to be a sunny day ;-) ).
More and more I'm starting to feel a spiritual connection to the changing of the seasons--I felt it around Christmas, too, and it inspired a whole series of photos that I posted on Flickr. I can see why the Pagans/Wiccans honour the changing of the seasons and the half-way points between the equinoxes/solstices.
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"--Edgar Degas
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|9 years ago :: Mar 12, 2009 - 8:47AM #2
Find out if there is a an outdoor labyrinth nearby and visit on a nice day. It can be a very spiritual experience I am told.
Try this website
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|9 years ago :: Mar 12, 2009 - 6:34PM #3
Hey, delmarvamom!
Unfortunately there isn't one in the area--and since I want to keep things reasonably simple, I'm not in the mood to drive all over the province looking for one.
Thanks for the idea, though.
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"--Edgar Degas
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|9 years ago :: Mar 20, 2009 - 1:32PM #4
Listen to the birds singing. If weather permits, walk around your neighborhood and see the flowers and trees blooming. Happy spring! Roo
The Roo just hopped in to say " Have a very blessed day!"
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|9 years ago :: Mar 20, 2009 - 6:27PM #5
Happy Spring/Ostara, everyone!
Here's what I did to celebrate: I went outside at about seven twenty-five this morning (6:25 EDT). Weatherunderground said that sunrise was to be at 7:31 so I stood out there on the front deck, freezing various parts of my body off, and waiting.
While I waited I said my morning prayers, along with a special prayer to welcome Spring (ad lib). I also watched the birds arriving for breakfast (we have a couple of feeders and suet packs out for them). About half-way through my nose was so cold that I went back inside to get a scarf, which really helped (all that hot air that got trapped when I exhaled).
Eventually the sun started to really rise and I watched it as much as I could (there was a cloud right in front of where the sun would really start to show). After a while I went back inside and got the next part of my day underway: doing the dishes (a small load) and making breakfast (Hearty Whole Wheat Waffles--delish!) while listening to Vivaldi (Spring from The Four Seasons) and Verdi.
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"--Edgar Degas
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|9 years ago :: Mar 22, 2009 - 10:24AM #6
sendingmy dear sister"JOCELYNE" all our love from here passing on on March 31th! here fellows and i will keep here sirit alive for ever. along with here.JB fellowship !
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I've always known that I didn't want to have kids. When I was a teenager, my friends would talk about getting married and wanting a family. Those comments never resonated for me.
People always protested that I should want kids. Friends and family often assure me that I'll change my mind. But increasingly, I have company. A Pew Research study found that 1 in 5 women don't have kids, up from 1 in 10 in the 1970s. The Childless by Choice Project, now two decades old, explores how and why men and women around the U.S. have decided to not become parents. Check out their documentary and book, "Two Is Enough."
While some people say that women have less pressure to procreate, I think it also has to do with the way women today define a fulfilling life. We have more options (as do men). I run on instinct, and my instinct is telling me not to have kids. Instead, I'm raising a business that I'm passionate about. I'm creating every day. My books and videos are my birthing process.
I don't feel guilty about the long hours I devote to my career—or about traveling whenever I want. I fear I'd feel too guilty if I had a child.
I'm also lucky that my fiancé has a child from a previous marriage. Being a stepmom for the past nine years has given me a taste of motherhood. In some ways, I have the best of both worlds.
Named by Oprah as a new thought leader, Marie Forleo's mission is to help you use your unique talents to change the world.


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Animal activists and farmers are at odds over whether the gruesome deaths of hundreds of sheep in Australia this year could have be prevented.
At least three trucks laden with animals have crashed in the past fortnight, causing many livestock deaths and injuries. On Tuesday, dozens of sheep were killed when a truck driver overturned his vehicle while trying to avoid being stung by a bee near Ballarat. Injured sheep had to be shot by police. A day earlier, dozens more were killed when a truck rolled near the NSW and Victorian border in Wodonga. Last month, a nine-year-old girl died after a fully loaded sheep truck rolled down an embankment in western Victoria.
In July, a truck carrying 400 sheep rolled on a Melbourne freeway overpass, showering cars on the road below with animals. And in January, 200 dead sheep were strewn across a rural road after a horror crash in central western NSW. Other incidents occurred throughout the year, many including cattle.
A map showing road accidents in 2011 and 2012 where livestock were killed
Animals Australia, the organisation that this year helped expose the inhumane treatment of livestock exported to the Middle East, said the welfare of animals during transport around Australia remained a serious issue.
Executive director Glenys Oogjes said the closure of small local abattoirs and the common practice of selling animals at saleyards rather than direct to the buyer meant more trucks were on the road and driving for longer, increasing the potential for accidents.
"Crashes are a real concern for us," she said.
"We need some major reform so that farmers, agents and all involved in the selling process ensure that the animals travel the least distance possible. In my view, saleyards are something that should be phased out in favour of direct selling."
The animal rights campaigner conceded there were few other realistic options to transport animals in Australia other than by road. She also said it was difficult to tell whether the number of crashes had been growing or whether they were simply receiving more attention following recent revelations of the brutal slaughter of Australian livestock overseas.
Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters' Association executive director Philip Halton said the number of sheep killed in crashes was small compared to the number transported to other farms, saleyards, abattoirs or ports.
The RSPCA estimates around 480 million animals are transported across the country each year.
"A crash is a very serious thing and the worst thing possible to happen so you always try focus your time and energy on making sure it doesn't happen," he said.
"But clearly they occasionally do, but they are a very infrequent event."
The association is working to improve how emergency services and authorities respond to accidents when they occur.
Enforceable standards for how animals must be treated during road transport did not exist until late this year. Not all states have enshrined them into law.
The RSPCA, which was involved in developing the rules, said the introduction of the laws was essential because transport – particularly during loading, unloading and in the aftermath of an accident - caused stress to the animals.
RSPCA scientific officer Melina Tensen urged truck drivers to respect their cargo by driving responsibly.
"The driver has responsibilities in terms of driving to the conditions - not only the weather, but poor roads, hilly roads or whatever it may be on those regional roads," she said.
"I always find it very suspicious when these accidents happen on a bend and that often suggests to me (the driver) was going too fast or was fatigued."
Mr Halton said Victoria was the only state that required specialised training for livestock truck drivers but NSW was currently moving towards doing the same.
NSW Farmers' Association has previously defended the practice of transporting livestock by road, saying it was not practical to transport them via rail and other means.


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The mother of a Kansas man wanted in the killing of two people and the wounding of another in southeast Kansas says her son is the victim of a setup that began with false accusations that he kidnapped his own children.
Beverly Welsh told The Associated Press Friday that she is terrified for her son as the manhunt for him continues. She says his children are suffering.
Authorities have offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of 35-year-old Kevin Robert Welsh of Toronto, Kan., after the Oct. 2 shootings in Greenwood County.
He is wanted in connection with the deaths of Keith and Sheila Kriesel and the shooting of Catherine Scheff, all of Eureka.
Scheff remains in serious condition Friday at a Wichita hospital.


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What the Effin' Eff?2:44 pm - 05/11/2012
She should audition for a permanent guest spot on Rush Limbaugh's show. Or Fox News.
Nebraska Woman Offers Graphic Homophobic Rant During Lincoln's Anti-Discrimination Law Hearings
Video footage of a surprisingly graphic, homophobic rant has gone viral in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) blogosphere in the wake of this week's non-discrimination ordinance proposal hearings in Lincoln, Neb.
Originally featured on Towleroad, the clip features a woman identified as Jane Skrovota, who offers a series of bizarre observations on gay sex, HIV/AIDS, Hillary Clinton and even Judas Iscariot as she denounces the "Fairness Ordinance," a measure that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city's non-discrimination law, in her testimony.
"P- E- N- I- S goes into the anus to rupture intestines," Skrovota notes. "The more a man does this the more he'll be a fatality or a homicider."
After stating that "a huge percent of gay men in school grounds molest boys, partly because they don't have AIDS yet," she adds, "Hillary Clinton's roommate four years in college was a gay woman. To avoid going gay like Clinton did, college students need single rooms and single gender dorms...A college woman is seduced with illegal Rohypnol to go gay."
And finally, she proclaims, "Jesus was kissed by Judas, a homo, who tried to sabotage Jesus' kind ideas. Do you choose Jesus, a celibate, or Judas, a homo? You have to choose!"
The city council is expected to vote on the measure May 14. Other authorities have been considerably less critical of the proposal. "Dynamic cities have three things: technology, talent and tolerance," former Lincoln Sen. David Landis is quoted by LGBTQ Nation as saying. "Those cities are magnets for creative people to come and live. The fairness amendment is consistent with the most leading-edge data on what is good for a city."


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Smoke-free Housing
by Larry D. Jones, MPH, Health Director
July 16, 2013
Most of us have a say in where we live and how we live at home. If we care about our health, we don't smoke and see to it that others don't smoke in our homes. We are the lucky ones. We own our homes and have a say. Many of our friends do not have that luxury. They rent, and if they live in an apartment, even though they don't smoke, they have to breathe their neighbors' smoke daily.
Studies have shown that people who live in multi-unit housing can be particularly affected by unwanted secondhand smoke exposure. In a study conducted in 2009 by Wilder Research, they found that a 75-percent majority of renters would be likely to choose a smoke-free building over a building that allows smoking if the buildings were the same in every other way.
They also found that renters are also interested in buildings that provide outdoor smoke-free areas such as balconies, entryways, and entirely smoke-free properties. Finally, in order to live in a smoke-free building, many renters were willing to live in a building that does not have a pool or playground, drive farther to work, and pay more rent.
Not having the option of smoke-free housing is not only costing the renter and the landlord money, it is costing us as well. A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) titled Smoke-free subsidized housing would save $521 million a year found there would be an annual savings of $521:
As you are aware, subsidized housing means tax-supported housing, which means the use of everyone's tax dollars. That $521 million a year would go a long way to fund other infrastructure services, whether it be roads and bridges, public safety, the arts or whatever your favorite underfunded item might be.
The 2006 Surgeon General's Report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, concluded that secondhand smoke is also known to cause numerous health problems in infants and children, including more frequent and severe asthmas attacks, respiratory infections, ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome. In the same report, the Surgeon General concluded there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke and only 100 percent smoke-free indoor policies can fully protect people from secondhand smoke dangers.
Okay, what can we do? If you are a renter, ask for smoke-free housing. Until landlords hear a demand, they will not offer a solution. Landlords, you can turn your buildings into smoke-free residences and save yourself money and offer much needed housing in our community. If you own properties that are rentals or sit on a housing board, you can pass policies to make your units smoke free. By the way, it is not against the law to only offer smoke-free housing.
There is currently no state or federal law that prohibits a landlord from making an entire apartment building smoke free. Smoke-free policies are not discriminatory and may actually protect landlords from the risk of some legal violations such as warranty of habitability or covenant of quiet enjoyment. Residents with disabilities caused by or made worse by secondhand smoke may also have legal protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the Federal Fair Housing Act.
In 2009 and 2012, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued notices encouraging public housing authorities across the nation to implement smoke-free policies in housing units.
Currently the Independence Health Department is collaborating with some privately-owned multi-unit housing properties to prepare for voluntary implementation of smoke-free policies for living units.
As a community, we need to protect ourselves from high medical costs and unnecessary illness.


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Clerks at Environmental Health have been flooded with calls since the Washoe County confirmed its first case of West Nile Virus in a bird Tuesday afternoon. The calls can be frantic, or just someone seeking information.
If this is your first experience with West Nile Virus, it can be scary especially if you find a dead bird on your property.
Tracy Douglas from the Washoe Co. Health District says if the bird fits the "fresh" criteria you can call the Health Department and vector control will come pick it up. Keep in mind the disease is most common in magpies, jays, blue jays, crows, hawks, owls, falcons, and eagles. You cannot get the disease from the birds themselves nor from a cat or dog that comes in contact with the disease.
If you are infected from West Nile Virus you may experience mild flu like symptoms: a temperature, muscle ache, stiff neck, headache, and disorientation. There is no human vaccine for the disease, and treatment addresses only the symptoms not the disease.
Keep in mind only about one percent of those exposed to West Nile will develop the severe form of the disease. Precautions include wearing long sleeved shirt and pants, wearing mosquito killing repellant, getting rid of free standing water, and avoiding dawn and dusk as to that when mosquitoes like to feed.
If you call the Health Department about a dead bird, they'll want to know how long it's been dead, what kind of bird it is, your name address and phone number along with your zip code.


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Pear Pizza Wedges Recipe
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You won't be able to stop eating this sweet and savory appetizer. The recipe makes just the right amount for a smaller gathering. —Mimi Merta, Dunedin, Florida
Recommended: 25 Christmas Potluck Appetizers for 12 or More
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- 2 whole pita breads
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup crumbled Gorgonzola cheese
- 1 medium ripe pear, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
- Place pita breads on an ungreased baking sheet. Brush with oil; sprinkle with Gorgonzola cheese. Top with pear slices and walnuts.
- Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes or until bread is crisp and cheese is melted. Combine honey and vinegar; drizzle over pitas. Cut each into four wedges. Yield: 8 appetizers.
Originally published as Pear Pizza Wedges in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2005, p39
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Reviewed Jun. 7, 2009
"First of all, I have to say I'm disappointed to see that this recipe is in Holiday and Celebrations Cookbook, because I found it in the newly released 2009 Summer Appetizers cookbook. I expect when I purchase a cookbook that the recipes are not repeated. This was okay tasting, the gorgonzola added a bit too much sourness to the flavor (the strong flavor of the cheese is a bit overwhelming). I think this might be better layered with brie cheese or some similar soft cheese. Also, I doubled the honey and vinegar drizzle."


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This week's winter warm-up event is focusing on healthy eating on a budget. You'll learn about quick and easy meal planning and get some free samples.
This is the third full week of the program. Last week, there was a family carnival at the Southside Community Center with all kinds of activities.
This weekend, there's a new, scenic downtown walk after the cooking tips.
The nearly 900 people signed up so far have done over 23,000 miles of activity.
You can sign up to exercise as an individual or, if you want some motivation and people to hold you accountable, you can also sign up as a group.
The city or township with the most activity at the end of the eight weeks wins the most grant money from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
Right now Team Charlotte is in the lead for the Blues Community Challenge. Delhi Township and East Lansing are in second and third place, respectively.
It is not too late to get involved.
You can attend Sunday's event from 2-4 p.m. at the downtown library on Capitol Avenue in Lansing.
You can also sign up and find out more when you click the link below.