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The City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve the development agreement for the long-awaited Landmark Center.
FORT WALTON BEACH � The City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve the development agreement for the long-awaited Landmark Center.
Councilmen John Mead and Bobby Griggs abstained because of conflicts of interest.
The issue attracted another overflow crowd to the council chambers. Many visitors watched the meeting on television in another part of City Hall. The discussion took nearly 2ᄑ hours.
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Residents and downtown business owners lined up to ask questions of the city staff and the project�s developers, Ft. Walton Development Partners.
Most of the questions concerned the proposed parking deck. In the agreement, the city has agreed to purchase 32 parking spaces for $492,128. The city also can buy more spaces for $15,379 each through 2026.
The 122,000-square-foot Landmark Center at the corner of Perry Avenue and U.S. Highway 98 would have 15 corporate apartments, 90 hotel rooms, a swimming pool and 31,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space.
The developers would hold 15 parking spaces for apartments and 107 spaces for the hotel. Any spaces not owned by the city would be owned by the developers but be available for public parking.
A governing board would maintain the garage. The board will have five members, three of whom would be chosen by the city.
Fort Walton Beach also will transfer a property valued at about $80,000 now used as a parking lot adjacent to the development. The developers will use the parcel for the new parking deck.
The development agreement includes deadlines. The developers have six months to apply for their building permit and 12 months to have the permit approved.
City staff also has put aside about $1.75 million in Community Redevelopment Agency grants that the Landmark Center is eligible for if it meets each grant�s criteria. Each grant will be brought to the City Council for approval.
The agreement also includes the possibility of a pedestrian bridge over US. 98.
City Councilman Trey Goodwin said the latest development agreement finally is financially viable for the city.
�I certainly think the city is going to get some value out of this,� Goodwin said.


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Is there some methods to find out if the sum of an infinite series is rational or not if we have no closed form expression for the sum?
For instance:
$$\begin{align*} &\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{n^2}{n!+1}\\ &\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^{7/2} p_n}\\ &\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{n}{F_n}\end{align*}$$
where $p_n$ is the $n$th prime number and $F_n$ is the $n$th Fibonacci number.
And if a sum of a series have no provable closed form expression, can it still be rational?
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But in the wake of two recent special election defeats and President Barack Obama's declining poll ratings, Democrats are increasingly pessimistic about their prospects of winning back control in 2012.
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As recently as May, when the GOP plan to overhaul Medicare looked to be a silver bullet after a dramatic special election victory, Democrats held a glimmer of hope that the House might be in play.
Now, resigned to the likelihood that the president will be a down-ballot drag in many races and absent signs of an electoral wave on the horizon, Democrats are scaling back their expectations.
Interviews with more than two dozen operatives and House members in both parties reveal that the cautious optimism of the spring has given way to a more grim view of the hurdles facing Democrats in 2012 — an unpopular president on the ballot; scores of vulnerable Republican incumbents bolstered by redistricting; free-spending, GOP-allied independent groups that will outpace their newer Democratic counterparts; and long-standing historical election trends.
While the idea of recapturing the House in 2012 has always been something of a long shot in the wake of the massive losses House Democrats suffered in 2010, the consensus is that the odds have never been longer.
"I'm glad the election's not today," said Democratic pollster Keith Frederick, a veteran of House races. "Every poll shows independents losing their patience for the president. These House elections tend to get nationalized, and there's no doubt right now that as a referendum on Barack Obama, House Democrats lose."
"It's going to be a really tough battle," Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told POLITICO. "Democrats are all going to have to distinguish themselves from the president."
Democrats running the party's campaign efforts remain hopeful that the party still has the opportunity to win the 25 seats necessary to take back the majority. They point to signs of deep voter discontent with congressional Republicans who supported an unpopular Medicare overhaul and signs that the GOP-aligned tea party movement is fading in favorability in the polls.
"We never said winning the House would be easy. It's hard, tough work and it should be; the stakes for the American people are high," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Crider said. "[DCCC chairman Steve] Israel promised the caucus one thing — the House would be in play. And the House is in play far earlier than anyone expected it to be because of Republicans' vote to end Medicare, their lack of focus creating jobs, their obstructionism and their hyperpartisanship. The DCCC is working 24/7 recruiting excellent candidates and helping them and our members build top-notch campaigns. This work will pay off in November 2012."
Obama looms large in every calculus for House control. Buffeted by sinking approval ratings that recently hit sub-40 percent lows, Democrats privately express worry about running on a ticket with his name at the top.
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"It's hard because we're inherently linked to the president and his number," said a top Democratic operative close to party leadership. "It's got us all pessimistic."
The simple math of winning back the House is daunting: Democrats need to net 25 seats to take the speaker's gavel from John Boehner, but a gain of that many seats has occurred just six times in the past 20 election cycles — and just once in a presidential election year.
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Have you ever heard the comment �Age is all a state of mind?� I had heard it for years before I thought about whether I agreed. Some personal experiences, however, caused me to wonder about its veracity. Two or three people surfaced in my mind.
One woman whom I met many years ago was only 40, but her outlook and behavior were more like that of someone 80. I recall comparing her outlook on life with that of my 96-year-old grandmother, who quietly whispered to me one day (when I was helping her walk on a rough, grassy terrain at a family reunion), �Sissy, I don�t want to sit over there with those old people.�
I thought of another humorous situation when a young college student was helping me with yard work. I worked him pretty hard that morning, and while we were enjoying a time of rest and lunch, he wiped his brow, rubbed his arms and said in complete sincerity: �I am not as young as I used to be!� He was 21 at the time!
Perhaps the thing that causes me to reflect the most about this mind/age phenomenon is the inner struggle I frequently experience. Inside I am about 35. I think like a 35-year-old, plan like a 35-year-old and try to do things a 35-year-old can do. The result? A lot of trouble, since I am way past that milestone! Just this past week, I asked a doctor who has been treating me to serve as a reality check regarding what was OK for me to do, since I have no frame of reference other than that of a 35-year-old.
What could be causing this conflict within many of us? Why is it we seem stuck at a certain age mentally while our bodies have marched on? I think that God created us to live forever, never intending that we die. That he �set eternity in the human heart� (Eccl. 3:11, NIV) might indicate the reason for our non-aging outlook on life.
When sin entered the human race, however, the death process set in. Death is a foreign concept to us. That is probably the reason someone can be 95, attend a funeral and not think much about when their turn will be. We know in our heads that being 95 means we will not be around much longer. But most people that age think they will at least make it to 100!
What�s going on? We don�t want to face the reality of death because we were not designed to die. But, praise God, the Bible records a precious truth from the lips of Jesus: �He who believes in me will live even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.� (John 11:25-26) So, the next time you have a conflict between what you want to do and what you are able to do, just spend a moment thanking God for the eternal life that dwells within you.
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A Democrat who is mounting a surprisingly robust campaign to unseat House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has challenged him to a debate in part over what she charges has been his bungled effort to impeach President Trump. "He's absolutely fumbled on this," Lindsey Boylan, 35, a former New York state economic development official, said of Nadler in an interview on the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery." "He's actually given credence, through this muddled, elongated, prolonged process of nothingness, to the idea that [impeachment] is entirely politicized. There is little indication that Nadler, a 26-year congressional veteran who represents New York's 10th District, is ready to take public note of Boylan's challenge, much less appear on a debate stage with her.
A Texas man is wanted by police after he allegedly filed for and completed divorce proceedings against his wife without her knowledge. Paul Nixon, 51, was accused of aggravated forgery — a felony charge — after authorities discovered his fraudulent divorce paperwork, the Houston Chronicle reports. Nixon apparently filed the paperwork on Feb. 15, the day after Valentine's Day.
The second poll, commissioned by Focus on Rural America and conducted by Harris's own chief pollster, took the temperature of Democratic primary voters in Iowa. It showed an even bigger decline for Harris than the new national poll: a loss of 13 percentage points between July and September. In that poll Harris now ranks sixth, behind Amy Klobuchar.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the United States would return about $100 million to the Treasury for an energy infrastructure project in Afghanistan and would withhold a further $60 million in planned assistance to the country due to a lack of transparency.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week he is officially out of the 2020 presidential race. The official statement comes after weeks of speculation that the presidential hopeful planned on dropping his 2020 bid. De Blasio joins the likes of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Eric Swalwell and Gov. Jay Inslee, among others, who have given up ambitions to potentially become the 48th President of the United States.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, campaigning for re-election, vowed on Friday to ban assault rifles but fell short on handguns, saying only that he would help cities restrict pistols and revolvers in response to a spate of shootings. "You don't need military-grade assault weapons, ones designed to kill the largest amount of people in the shortest amount of time, to take down a deer," he told a news conference in Toronto. There have been 311 shootings in Canada's largest city so far this year, with gun violence having increased incrementally each year to almost triple the rate in 2014.
When I was a U.S. attorney, I worked closely with the FBI. When the FBI investigators were looking at something, what they wanted was information. The FBI is a machine for the acquisition and retention of information on cases. When the FBI began repelling and deflecting information in its investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's alleged history of sexual misconduct last year, that was unusual — a warning flag. Because of my position on the Senate Judiciary Committee, people reached out to my office to find out where to go in the FBI with information relevant to the allegations against Kavanaugh.
It was seemingly an offbeat choice for the first endorsement by the leader of the Democratic insurgency heading into a presidential election year, when New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw her support behind Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., last week. Markey is a 73-year-old incumbent, and AOC's announcement was part of an effort by Markey to roll out as many endorsements as possible, to demonstrate that the party is with him and not with his 38-year-old challenger, Rep. Joe Kennedy III.
A New York police officer's recent death has disturbingly highlighted the record number of suicides among members of the New York Police Department this year, according to the New York Times. On Aug. 14, Robert Echeverria, 56, shot himself at his home in Laurelton, Queens, and died at a nearby hospital. When detectives arrived at his sister's home to break the news, she had already suspected the worst, she told the newspaper.
While boarding Air Force One during a fundraising swing through California, President Trump was photographed with multiple $20 bills visible in his back pocket. The photo, taken at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View by Reuters photographer Tom Brenner on Tuesday, quickly went viral. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on his return flight to Washington on Wednesday night, the president was asked about the photo and if he normally carries loose cash in his pocket.
"The fundamental promise of our democracy is that every voice matters," Warren's plan states. The next day, Kimberly Diaz Scott, who registered as a lobbyist for the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates as recently as January 2019, announced that she was leaving the organization to head up Warren's campaign in Florida. "I won't be far from the movement, as I'm humbled and proud to announce my transition as the Florida State Director for Warren for President, assuring that we will continue to fight like hell to elect a brilliant leader who will work to protect the health, safety and future of ALL people," Diaz wrote, the Miami Herald reported.
A Minnesota high school is facing criticism for serving a meal that many people have since called "ridiculous." Last Friday, Maryn Holler, a student at Apollo High School in St. Cloud, shared two photos of a lunch tray filled with baby carrots, a cup of marinara sauce and a hot dog bun filled with melted cheese. "Alright so i paid for this to eat at lunch today," she wrote on Facebook.
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When the book "50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save The Earth" published in 1990, children were taught small ways to have a positive environmental impact and offset others' negative impacts. Some tens of thousands of children are leaving their classrooms on Friday to demand systematic actions to address a growing climate crisis as youth-driven, grassroots organizations coordinated demonstrations and young activists testified on Capitol Hill this week. While simple individual level actions are beneficial and can in part help address global climate change, advocates and scientists agree massive changes are needed to adequately prevent climate change's destruction.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized again Thursday for images that surfaced this week of his wearing blackface and brownface years ago. Trudeau said he was unsure whether more such photos would come to light and said he had "not remembered" the pictures that were released Wednesday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a second apology in 24 hours over several images that surfaced this week showing him in racist makeup years ago.
The House approved a bill Friday to end forced arbitration clauses that prevent workers and consumers from filing lawsuits in disputes with companies over employment practices, billing or civil rights. Supporters, mostly Democrats, said the bill would restore access to justice for millions of Americans who are now locked out of the court system and forced to settle disputes against companies in a private arbitration system that often favors the company over the individual. Opponents, mostly Republicans, said the measure would make it harder for individual workers or consumers by forcing them into lengthy, expensive court fights that may end up shutting them out of the justice system entirely.
Sparks flew at a House Judiciary Committee on policing last Thursday as Representative Matt Gaetz (R., Flo.) questioned witness Al Sharpton regarding derogatory comments he allegedly made about Jews, whites and African Americans. Gaetz posted a shortened version of the exchange on YouTube, which nevertheless runs to almost a quarter of an hour. Gaetz, like Sharpton, is known for his combative style.
A single mother of three who had gone cancer-free for months has now been diagnosed with terminal cancer, WOIA reports. Kary Gomez, 25, of San Antonio, Texas, was first diagnosed with rectal cancer last year. After undergoing three surgeries, she was reportedly told in May that she was cancer-free.
A group of Arizona Democrats are demonstrating why President Donald Trump will more than likely be a two-term president. Witness the liberals riding in on their unicorn, hoping to censure the first Arizona Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in 30 years. It seems Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is just not Democratic enough.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking her, explained how the late financier's close associate Ghislaine Maxwell coerced her into having sex with Prince Andrew of Britain.
Suzanne Whang, who hosted HGTV's "House Hunters" for nearly a decade, died on Thursday after a long battle with breast cancer. Whang's partner, Jeff Vezain, took to Facebook to announce her death in an emotional message. "On Tuesday evening around 7:20pm, Suzanne breathed her last breath here at home, as I knelt beside her and caressed her.
India is planning to set up one of the world's largest facial recognition systems, potentially a lucrative opportunity for surveillance companies and a nightmare for privacy advocates who fear it will lead to a Chinese-style Orwellian state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government will open bids next month to build a system to centralize facial recognition data captured through surveillance cameras across India. It would link up with databases containing records for everything from passports to fingerprints to help India's depleted police force identify criminals, missing persons and dead bodies.
The strike, which is organized by The Climate Strike Coalition, was intended to kick off a week events to highlight climate change. One of the flagship protests on Friday was in New York City, three days before the U.N. Climate Summit. Tens of thousands of people turned out for the strikes with climate group 350.org estimating that as many as 300,000 attended.


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BEIRUT: Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was closed by heavy fighting in the country�s civil war.
Activists said President Bashar Assad�s regime pulled the plug on the Internet, perhaps in preparation for a major offensive. Cellphone service also went out in Damascus and parts of central Syria, they said. The government blamed rebel fighters for the outages.
With pressure building against the regime on several fronts and government forces on their heels in the battle for the northern commercial hub of Aleppo, rebels have recently begun pushing back into Damascus after largely being driven out of the capital following a July offensive. One Damascus resident reported seeing rebel forces near a suburb of the city previously deemed to be safe from fighting.
The Internet outage, confirmed by two U.S.-based companies that monitor online connectivity, is unprecedented in Syria�s 20-month-old uprising against Assad, which activists say has killed more than 40,000 people.
Regime forces suffered a string of tactical defeats in recent weeks, losing air bases and other strategic facilities. The government may be trying to blunt additional rebel offensives by hampering communications.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland condemned what she called the regime�s �assault� on Syrians� ability to communicate with each other and express themselves. She said the move spoke to a desperate attempt by Assad to cling to power.
Syrian authorities often cut phone and Internet service in select areas to disrupt rebel communications when regime forces are conducting major operations.
The government sent mixed signals about the Internet outage but denied it was nationwide. The pro-regime TV station Al-Ikhbariya quoted Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi as saying that �terrorists� have targeted Internet cables, interrupting service in several cities.
Separately, state-run TV said the outage was due to a technical failure that affected some provinces, adding that technicians were trying to fix it.
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Activists in Syria, reached by satellite telephones unaffected by the outage, confirmed the communications problems.
A young Syrian businessman who lives in an upscale neighborhood of Damascus, which some refer to as part of �the green zone� because it has remained relatively safe, sent a text message to an Associated Press reporter Thursday that said the Internet had been cut in his area and that mobile phone service was cutting out.
He said he was driving Wednesday through the Damascus suburb of Aqraba, near the airport, and saw dozens of rebel fighters for the first time in the area, riding in pickup trucks and motorcycles, and wielding AK-47s.
Their presence so close to the �green zone� may have led to the Internet being cut, said the resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared government reprisal. He said the military was positioned a few hundred meters away from the rebel fighters and had built large speed bumps to enclose the area.
The opposition said the Internet blackout was an ominous sign that the regime was preparing a major offensive.
�I fear that cutting the Internet may be a prelude to a massacre in Damascus,� said Adib Shishakly, a Syrian opposition figure from Cairo, Egypt. �The regime feels it is being choked off by rebels who are closing in on the capital from its suburbs. It�s a desperate move; they are trying to sever communications between activists.�
Renesys, a U.S.-based network security firm that studies Internet disruption, said in a news release that Syria effectively disappeared from the Internet at 12:26 p.m. local time.
Akamai Technologies Inc., another U.S.-based company that distributes content on the Internet, also confirmed the complete outage.


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We had our family all figured out except for one great grandpa and we finally located him. Seems as if he took his second wife, Matilda Steele and left Wise, Va. His children from his first wife, Mary Ann Green went also and were raised by Matilda and Nathan Blevins in McDowell Co., West Va. Nathan Blevins was his name and he was a son of Linkhorn Blevins and Sarah Belcher of Wise, Va. His father was Daniel Blevins and Sarah Belcher( Yes, another Sarah Belcher), related????? and then Daniel"s father was Daniel Blevins and unknown. Wells Blevins seemes to be the likely canidate for Daniel"s father from what I have been able to uncover. Some say that he could be James Blevins and Elizabeth Ward from Grayson, Va. too. This has to be proven by some of us. The Blevins DNA confirms that my research is correct so far when it comes to Linkhorn Blevins descendants. I have talked to a lot of Blevins descendants and the lineage is there for sure. Ashe county, N.C. is where the older Daniel lived among other places. James, Daniel and Wells Bleins lived here for years. Other surnames are Ratliff, Case. Hall, Potter, James, Belcher, Mulins, Bentley, Hughes and Blevins from both my parents lineage. They were cousins!
My Dad died and never knew this but surely they knew it was possible with the same last name.
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A reasonable person might consider it a bad omen to have an opossum be the first critter sighted at an annual Christmas bird count.
A reasonable person might consider it a bad omen to have an opossum be the first critter sighted at an annual Christmas bird count.
But reasonable people aren�t standing in the middle of a seldom-traveled Okaloosa County roadway at 5:15 a.m. either, hooting into the darkness in hopes of having a Great Horned Owl show up.
The Choctawhatchee Audubon Society�s Christmas Bird Count was conducted Monday inside a 15-mile circle whose midpoint would have been somewhere close to the main gate at Eglin Air Force Base.
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Alan Knothe, a biologist for the Florida Audubon Society, headed this year�s count and a team of three volunteers.
His team was up well before dawn, braving the muck and the mire.
They call birding that early �owling.�
As night became day, the group hiked through closed landfills and spray fields and under power lines, set up watch over an abandoned waste treatment facility and suffered wind and heavy rain to count birds in their sector.
Knothe likes to boast that birders �visit all the good places,� which offer less developed areas and unique environments that attract different species of birds.
�I feel like we should at least sample every type of habitat in our area,� Knothe said as he slogged through wet mud, scaring up snipe at the old county landfill. �You can�t go everywhere. It�s just too big.�
The Christmas Bird Count is affectionately known to participants as �the world�s most popular citizen science project.�
Birders across North and South America participate in the annual count by choosing a day within three weeks of Christmas to get out and tally as many birds as they can find.
�It�s the oldest and largest wildlife survey in the world,� Knothe said.
The bird count actually originated more than 100 years ago when a wise soul concluded the time had come to replace a Christmas-season competition that awarded first prize to the hunter who shot and killed the most birds and small animals.
�Someone decided it was not a good idea,� Knothe said. �They decided to go out and count birds instead.�
John Murphy, a Franklin County resident who, like Knothe, is a seasoned birder, couldn�t seem to get enough of the listening, watching, calling and identifying.
�I love it,� said Murphy, who will take part in five more Christmas bird counts this year.
Knothe and Murphy are expert enough to identify birds by the sound of their calls, or the shape of their bodies. They even identified a wild turkey Monday by footprints it had left in the sand.
Each bird identified is recorded.
The first of the 61 different bird species sighted in the initial five hours of this year�s count may have excited Knothe the most.
Just as the rising sun was peeking over the horizon, a pair of barn owls was spotted swooping in a threatening fashion, apparently responding defiantly to the team�s screech owl calls.
�If we�re only going to get one owl, that�s the one to get,� Knothe said. They�re hard to find.�
�That,� he added breathlessly. �May be the bird of the day.�
There would be many more birds, though � more than 500 before the rain came at 10 a.m. � and lots of excitement.
A clay-colored sparrow, rare to Northwest Florida, caught everyone�s attention, as did a woodcock that surprised the team when it flew from cover before anyone tried to call it.
There were coots and snipes and yellow-bellied sap suckers galore. Even a regal peregrine falcon, the world�s fastest animal.
The third volunteer on Knothe�s team, Angie Miner, has a real job catching and tagging endangered salamanders.
She�s in her second year of birding and was soaking in every bit of advice Knothe and Murphy were willing to give.
�I definitely am learning a lot,� she said. �I�m trying to catch on to all these chits and chats we�re hearing. If the birds did their full call, I�d be fine.�
The information gathered through the bird count, while not considered to be 100 percent accurate, is turned over to the National Audubon society and helps the organization keep track of population trends, Knothe said.
Some experts say the bird count points out trends � hummingbirds wintering farther north than usual, for instance � that might lend further credence to the argument for global warming.
Winter is a good time for the count, Knothe said, because the seasonal migrations have ended and the birds present in an area have taken up at least seasonal residency.
Monday�s rains watered down this year�s count for the Knothe team, but even after heavy storms struck at 10 a.m. the plan remained to count as many birds as possible from dark until dark.
The crew ceased counting shortly before 4:30 p.m., but not until after it had caught sight of a rare red-breasted nut hatch.
Knothe said his team had documented more than 70 individual species of bird before calling it a day.
�It was good birding and yucky weather,� he said. �The number of species we were able to get was probably down, but we did get some good birds.
�It was a lot of fun.�
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Joseph "Joe" Manchin III (born August 24, 1947) is the junior United States Senator representing West Virginia. Manchin, a Democrat, was Governor of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010. He won the special election in November 2010 to fill the seat of Robert Byrd, who had died in office; the term ends January 3, 2013.
Manchin was born in Farmington, West Virginia, in 1947, the second of five children of Mary (née Gouzd) and John Manchin. His grandparents were Italian and Czechoslovakian immigrants. His father owned a carpet and furniture store. His grandfather, Joe Manchin I, owned a grocery store. Both his father and his grandfather were elected as Mayor of Farmington, West Virginia. His uncle James Manchin was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and was elected statewide as West Virginia Secretary of State and West Virginia State Treasurer.
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Morley Field was established by Snapper Pierson (course pro and Disc Golf Hall of Fame member) in 1978 making one of the original disc golf courses in the world. Only a few miles from the San Diego Intl. Airport, San Diego Harbor, Coronado Beaches, beautiful Downtown San Diego, and directly across from the San Diego Zoo, this makes Morley a destination course with a personality all its own. The course overall isn't long but it does have a few lengthy holes and it's beautifully maintained by the shop employees and features Mach III baskets and concrete tee pads. The course is very challenging, with many trees and tough pin placements. Pin positions change each Monday and there are 3 to 6 positions for each hole.
Morley Field has a pro shop (other side of rest rooms) for all of your disc golf and refreshment needs. The pro shop is loaded with food, drinks, and lots of Discs. Rental discs and color scorecards are available.
Morley prides itself on the friendliness of its locals. Being one of (if not #1) the busiest courses in the world so you will never lack for a helpful, friendly and usually colorful playing partner.
Monthly tournaments are usually held on the 3rd Saturday of each month. Check the schedule for the next monthly. Tournament division include Pro, Advanced, Intermediate, and Novice. Morley Field also has two disc golf leagues per year - Spring and Fall. These are handicap leagues with all skill levels welcome to play. Also during the summer there is Wednesday Night Doubles at 5:00pm.
The course is open to the public from dawn to dusk year round except for the weekends of the Southwestern Disc Golf Invitational Team Tournament (usually around the 1st weekend of December), the Course Championship (usually 1st weekend of November), and the Spring Fling (usually in the first couple of weeks of May). If you plan to visit during these times, check the schedule to make sure the course will be open to the public.
City law does not permit alcoholic beverages in the park and this is enforced by park rangers and the San Diego City Police. If the parking lot is full, go just past the course west on Pershing and keep hanging lefts. You'll find additional parking near the ball park, a short walk from the course.


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Editor's note: The local-food movement has been gaining momentum in developed countries, and in many developing countries as well, in recent years; in the United States alone, sales of locally grown foods, worth about $4 billion in 2002, could reach as much as $7 billion by 2011. Local food's claimed benefits are driving health- and environment-conscious consumers to seek alternatives to the industrial agriculture system whose products dominate grocery-store shelves. It is also linked to the localization efforts of people who believe that rising transport costs and reaction to globalization will trigger a shortening of economic links and greater reliance on local and regional economies. This two-part series examines the potential impacts of greater localization of food, beginning with the environmental effects and then, in our July/August issue, the economic implications.)
In 1993, a Swedish researcher calculated that the ingredients of a typical Swedish breakfast-apple, bread, butter, cheese, coffee, cream, orange juice, sugar-traveled a distance equal to the circumference of the Earth before reaching the Scandinavian table. In 2005, a researcher in Iowa found that the milk, sugar, and strawberries that go into a carton of strawberry yogurt collectively journeyed 2,211 miles (3,558 kilometers) just to get to the processing plant. As the local-food movement has come of age, this concept of "food miles" (or "-kilometers")-roughly, the distance food travels from farm to plate-has come to dominate the discussion, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, and parts of Western Europe.
The concept offers a kind of convenient shorthand for describing a food system that's centralized, industrialized, and complex almost to the point of absurdity. And, since our food is transported all those miles in ships, trains, trucks, and planes, attention to food miles also links up with broader concerns about the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from fossil fuel-based transport.
In the United States, the most frequently cited statistic is that food travels 1,500 miles on average from farm to consumer. That figure comes from work led by Rich Pirog, the associate director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University (he is also behind the strawberry-yogurt calculations referenced above). In 2001, in some of the country's first food-miles research, Pirog and a group of researchers analyzed the transport of 28 fruits and vegetables to Iowa markets via local, regional, and conventional food distribution systems. The team calculated that produce in the conventional system-a national network using semitrailer trucks to haul food to large grocery stores-traveled an average of 1,518 miles (about 2,400 kilometers). By contrast, locally sourced food traveled an average of just 44.6 miles (72 kilometers) to Iowa markets.
In light of such contrasts, the admonition to "eat local" just seems like common sense. And indeed, at the most basic level, fewer transport miles do mean fewer emissions. Pirog's team found that the conventional food distribution system used 4 to 17 times more fuel and emitted 5 to 17 times more CO2 than the local and regional (the latter of which roughly meant Iowa-wide) systems. Similarly, a Canadian study estimated that replacing imported food with equivalent items locally grown in the Waterloo, Ontario, region would save transport-related emissions equivalent to nearly 50,000 metric tons of CO2, or the equivalent of taking 16,191 cars off the road.
What's "Local"?
But what exactly is "local food" in the first place? How local is local?
One problem with trying to determine whether local food is greener is that there's no universally accepted definition of local food. Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, authors of The 100-Mile Diet, write that they chose this boundary for their experiment in eating locally because "a 100-mile radius is large enough to reach beyond a big city and small enough to feel truly local. And it rolls off the tongue more easily than the '160-kilometer diet.'" Sage Van Wing, who coined the term "locavore" with a friend when she was living in Marin County, California, was inspired to eat local after reading Coming Home to Eat, a chronicle of author Gary Paul Nabhan's own year-long effort to eat only foods grown within 250 miles of his Northern Arizona home. She figured that if Nabhan could accomplish that in the desert, she could do even better in the year-round agricultural cornucopia that is Northern California, so she decided to limit herself to food from within 100 miles.
There's some evidence that a popular understanding of local food is, at least in some places, coalescing around this 100-mile limit. A 2008 Leopold Institute survey of consumers throughout the United States found that two-thirds considered local food to mean food grown within 100 miles. Still, a variety of other definitions also persist. Sometimes local means food grown within a county, within a state or province, or even, in the case of some small European nations, within the country. In the United Kingdom, reports Tara Garnett of the Food Climate Research Network, "on the whole, organizations supporting local are now less likely to put numbers on things." Meanwhile, rural sociologist Clare Hinrichs, of Pennsylvania State University, has found that in Iowa local has shifted from signifying food grown within a county or a neighboring one to food grown anywhere in the state. For some in the agricultural community, promoting and eating "local Iowa food" is almost a kind of food patriotism, aimed at counteracting the forces of globalization that have put the state's family farmers at risk.
All of those are perfectly valid ways of thinking about local. But they don't have all that much to do with environmental costs and benefits.
In any case, warns Pirog, food miles/kilometers don't tell the whole story. "Food miles are a good measure of how far food has traveled. But they're not a very good measure of the food's environmental impact."
That impact depends on how the food was transported, not just how far. For example, trains are 10 times more efficient at moving freight, ton for ton, than trucks are. So you could eat potatoes trucked in from 100 miles away, or potatoes shipped by rail from 1,000 miles away, and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their transport from farm to table would be roughly the same.
The environmental impact of food also depends on how it is grown. Swedish researcher Annika Carlsson-Kanyama led a study that found it was better, from a greenhouse-gas perspective, for Swedes to buy Spanish tomatoes than Swedish tomatoes, because the Spanish tomatoes were grown in open fields while the local ones were grown in fossil-fuel-heated greenhouses.
That seems obvious, but there are subtler issues at play as well. For example, Spain has plenty of the warmth and sunshine that tomatoes crave, but its main horticultural region is relatively arid and is likely to become more drought-prone in the future as a result of global climate change. What if water shortages require Spanish growers to install energy-intensive irrigation systems? And what if greenhouses in northern Europe were heated with renewable energy?
Perhaps it's inevitable that we consumers gravitate to a focus on food miles-the concept represents the last step before food arrives on our tables, the part of the agricultural supply chain that's most visible to us. And indeed, all other things being equal, it's better to purchase something grown locally than the same thing grown far away. "It is true that if you're comparing exact systems, the same food grown in the same way, then obviously, yes, the food transported less will have a smaller carbon footprint," Pirog says.
But a broader, more comprehensive picture of all the tradeoffs in the food system requires tracking greenhouse gas emissions through all phases of a food's production, transport, and consumption. And life-cycle analysis (LCA), a research method that provides precisely this "cradle-to-grave" perspective, reveals that food miles represent a relatively small slice of the greenhouse-gas pie.
In a paper published last year, Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews, of Carnegie Mellon University, wove together data from a variety of U.S. government sources into a comprehensive life-cycle analysis of the average American diet. According to their calculations, final delivery from producer or processor to the point of retail sale accounts for only 4 percent of the U.S. food system's greenhouse gas emissions. Final delivery accounts for only about a quarter of the total miles, and 40 percent of the transport-related emissions, in the food supply chain as a whole. That's because there are also "upstream" miles and emissions associated with things like transport of fertilizer, pesticides, and animal feed. Overall, transport accounts for about 11 percent of the food system's emissions.
By contrast, Weber and Matthews found, agricultural production accounts for the bulk of the food system's greenhouse gas emissions: 83 percent of emissions occur before food even leaves the farm gate. A recent life-cycle analysis of the U.K. food system, by Tara Garnett, yielded similar results. In her study, transport accounted for about a tenth of the food system's greenhouse gas emissions, and agricultural production accounted for half. Garnett says the same general patterns likely also hold for Europe as a whole.
There's Something about Dairy
The other clear result that emerges from these analyses is that what you eat matters at least as much as how far it travels, and agriculture's overwhelming "hotspots" are red meat and dairy production. In part that's due to the inefficiency of eating higher up on the food chain-it takes more energy, and generates more emissions, to grow grain, feed it to cows, and produce meat or dairy products for human consumption, than to feed grain to humans directly. But a large portion of emissions associated with meat and dairy production take the form of methane and nitrous oxide, greenhouse gases that are respectively 23 and 296 times as potent as carbon dioxide. Methane is produced by ruminant animals (cows, goats, sheep, and the like) as a byproduct of digestion, and is also released by the breakdown of all types of animal manure. Nitrous oxide also comes from the breakdown of manure (as well as the production and breakdown of fertilizers).
In Garnett's study, meat and dairy accounted for half of the U.K. food system's greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, she writes, "the major contribution made by agriculture itself reflects the GHG [greenhouse gas] intensity of livestock rearing." Weber and Matthews come to a similar conclusion: "No matter how it is measured, on average red meat is more GHG-intensive than all other forms of food," responsible for about 150 percent more emissions than chicken or fish. In their study the second-largest contributor to emissions was the dairy industry.
Nor are these two studies unique in their findings. A group of Swedish researchers has calculated that meat and dairy contribute 58 percent of the total food emissions from a typical Swedish diet. At a global level, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that livestock account for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions-more even than all forms of fossil fuel-based transport combined.
"Broadly speaking, eating fewer meat and dairy products and consuming more plant foods in their place is probably the single most helpful behavioral shift one can make" to reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions, Garnett argues.
Weber and Matthews calculated that reducing food miles to zero-an all-but-impossible goal in practice-would reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the food system by only about 5 percent, equivalent to driving 1,000 miles less over the course of a year. By comparison, replacing red meat and dairy with chicken, fish, or eggs for one day per week would save the equivalent of driving 760 miles per year. Replacing red meat and dairy with vegetables one day a week would be like driving 1,160 miles less. "Thus," they write, "we suggest that dietary shift can be a more effective means of lowering an average household's food-related climate footprint than 'buying local.'"
However, Weber acknowledges, "these calculations were done assuming that local foods are no different than non-local foods." And that's not always the case. For example, local-food advocates also emphasize eating seasonal (often meaning field-grown) and less-processed foods. Those qualities, along with shorter distances from farm to table, will also contribute to lower emissions compared to the "average" diet.
Food marketed in the local food economy-at farmers' markets and through community-supported agriculture (CSA) schemes-is frequently also organic. Organic food often (though not always) is associated with lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventionally grown food, because organics don't generate the emissions associated with production, transport, and application of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
Organic food also has other environmental benefits: less use of toxic chemicals promotes greater farmland biodiversity, and organic fields require less irrigation under some conditions. Because local food is so frequently talked about in terms of food miles, its environmental benefits have largely been couched in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. But food's carbon footprint "can't be the only measuring stick of environmental sustainability," notes Gail Feenstra, a food systems analyst at the University of California at Davis Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
Finally, farmers who market locally are often relatively small in scale, and can more feasibly adopt environmentally beneficial practices such as growing a diversity of crops, planting cover crops, leaving weedy field borders or planting hedgerows that provide a refuge for native biodiversity, and integrating crop and livestock production. In short, Weber says, "the production practices matter a lot more than where the food was actually grown. If buying local also means buying with better production practices then that's great, that's going to make a huge difference."
Of course, the relationship between local food marketing and sustainable agricultural practices is far from perfect. A small farmer can still spray pesticides and plow from road to road. Not all farmers-market vendors are organic. Clare Hinrichs, who calls herself an "ardent" farmers-market shopper, nevertheless acknowledges that "the actual consequences-both intended or unintended-[of local food systems] haven't really been all that closely or systematically studied."
How Green Is My Valley?
So, is local food greener? Not necessarily. But look at the question from the opposite direction: if you're a consumer interested in greener food, the local food economy is currently a good place to find it. By the same token, a farmer who sells in the local food economy might be more likely to adopt or continue sustainable practices in order to meet this customer demand. If local food has environmental benefits, they aren't all-or perhaps even mainly-intrinsic to local-ness. Or, as Hinrichs has written, "it is the social relation, not the spatial location, per se, that accounts for this outcome."
For local food advocates like Sage Van Wing, that interaction between producer and consumer, between farmer and eater, is precisely the point. Regarding food miles, Van Wing says, "I'm not interested in that at all." For her, purchasing an apple isn't just about the greenhouse gas emissions involved in producing and transporting the fruit, "it's also about how those apples were farmed, how the farm workers were treated"-a broad array of ecological, social, and economic factors that add up to sustainability. Interacting directly with the farmer who grows her food creates a "standard of trust," she says.
Christopher Weber, who followed a vegan diet for 10 years and calls himself "somewhat of a self-proclaimed foodie," agrees: "That's one thing that's really great about local food, and one of the reasons that I buy locally, is because you can actually know your farmer and know what they're doing."
Van Wing says that her approach to local food has evolved over time-she started out trying to eat within a 100-mile radius, but now she simply tries to get each food item from the closest source feasible. Foods that can't be grown nearby are either rare treats or have disappeared from her diet altogether. "I just don't do things that don't make sense," she says. Her statement echoes journalist and sustainable-agriculture guru Michael Pollan, who in his recent book In Defense of Food offers a common-sense guide to eating ethically and well: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." You could sum up the ecological case for eating locally by adding one more sentence: "Mostly what's in season and grown not too far away."
Yet there are limits to this common-sense approach. In many areas, the climate is such that eating local, seasonal, field-grown produce would be a pretty bleak proposition for much of the year. Large concentrations of people live in areas not suited to growing certain staple crops; it's one thing to forego bananas, but quite another to give up wheat. And population density itself works against relocalization of the food system. Most of the land within 100 miles of large cities such as New York is itself very built up; where will the farmland to feed us all locally come from? (By the same token, that very situation makes preservation of what farmland remains all the more important, a goal that buying from local farmers can help advance.)
In this sense, life-cycle analyses of the current food system offer a paradoxically hopeful perspective, because they suggest that, if the goal is to improve the environmental sustainability of the food system as a whole, then there are a variety of public policy levers that we can pull. To be sure, promoting more localized food production and distribution networks would reduce transport emissions. But what if a greater investment in rail infrastructure helped to reverse the trend toward transporting more food by inefficient semi-truck? What if fuel economy standards were increased for the truck fleet that moves our food? Or, to name one encompassing possibility, what if a carbon-pricing system incorporated some of the environmental costs of agriculture that are currently externalized? Local food is delicious, but the problem-and perhaps the solution-is global.


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Investigation Discovery's "Dark Minds" Explores Unsolved Serial Homicides Using a Secret Source - A Convicted Serial Killer Known Only as "13"
- True Crime Author M. William Phelps and Criminal Profiler John Kelly Build Comprehensive
Profiles of Suspected Serial Killers in an Effort to Provide Law Enforcement with Critical Leads -
(Silver Spring, MD) - In Investigation Discovery's new series DARK MINDS (wt), non-fiction crime
author M. William Phelps and criminal profiler John Kelly revisit unsolved homicides believed to be the
work of serial killers. Joining them in the hunt for answers is an unlikely and anonymous source: a
convict serving multiple life sentences for a series of murders. Known only to audiences as "13," the
source offers his "expert opinion" about potential motivations behind these chilling cold cases, using his
own personal experience to formulate theories. Featuring crimes that echo the horrors of the infamous
Green River Serial Killer, The Hillside Strangler and the BTK Killer, DARK MINDS (wt) brings fresh
eyes to unsolved serial killer investigations using the combined instincts of three unique perspectives. The
eight-part series, DARK MINDS (wt) will debut on Investigation Discovery in January 2012.
M. William Phelps is a best-selling author, crime expert and investigative journalist who has published 20
non-fiction books ranging in subject from female murderers to America's first spy. In 1996, he lost his
sister-in-law, who was five months pregnant, to a suspected serial killer, fueling his passion to hunt for
answers in other such cases. Phelps' partner throughout DARK MINDS (wt) is one of today's
preeminent serial killer profilers, John Kelly. As the founder of S.T.A.L.K. Inc. (System To Apprehend
Lethal Killers), Kelly aids law enforcement in the pursuit of murderers through a comprehensive profiling
process. It was through S.T.A.L.K. that Kelly first enlisted the help of "13" to build criminal profiles. In
DARK MINDS (wt), "13's" voice and identity will be disguised as he provides helpful information that
Kelly and Phelps can use as they build a portrait of the people responsible for these crimes.
"DARK MINDS (wt) is reminiscent of a real-life Silence of the Lambs and is the latest example of ID
pushing its storytelling techniques. At the same time, DARK MINDS (wt) will hopefully provide
valuable information to law enforcement officers investigating these unsolved crimes," said Henry
Schleiff, president and general manager of Investigation Discovery. "We hope that by identifying the
common links that connect these crimes and victims, DARK MINDS (wt) will ultimately build theories
that will jog the public's memories and encourage viewers to bring forward new leads."
Cases slated to be profiled in DARK MINDS (wt) include:
· The Valley Killer: Connecticut River Valley in New Hampshire and Vermont with seven female
· The Eastbound Strangler: Atlantic City, NJ with four female victims
· The Double Initial Murders: Rochester, NY with three child victims aged 10-12 years
· The Woodsman: Worcester, MA and York, ME with five female victims
· The Babysitter Killer: Detroit with four child victims aged 10-12 years
· The Jefferson Davis Parish Murders: Jefferson Davis Parish, LA with eight female victims
· The Elderly Serial Murders: Columbus, MS with five victims over the age of 61
· Ned Snelgrove Murders: Newark, NJ with possibly more murders connected to convicted
murderer Ned Snelgrove
DARK MINDS (wt) is produced by Beyond Productions for Investigation Discovery. For Beyond
Productions, Geoff Fitzpatrick is executive producer and John Luscombe is executive producer and senior
vice president of production. For Investigation Discovery, Jeanie Vink is executive producer, Sara Kozak
is vice president of production and Henry Schleiff is president and general manager.
About Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery (ID) is America's leading investigation network and the fastest-growing network
in television. As the source for fact-based analytical content and compelling human stories, ID probes
factors that challenge our everyday understanding of culture, society and the human condition. ID delivers
the highest-quality programming to more than 77 million U.S. households with viewer favorites that
include On the Case with Paula Zahn, Disappeared, Unusual Suspects and Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets.
For more information, please visit InvestigationDiscovery.com, facebook.com/InvestigationDiscovery, or
twitter.com/DiscoveryID. Investigation Discovery is part of Discovery Communications (Nasdaq:
DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world's #1 nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion
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VANCOUVER—Canucks management went into silence mode Wednesday in the aftermath of the club's first-round playoff exit at the hands of the San Jose Sharks.
But major changes loom after the Canucks, who came within a game of winning the Stanley Cup in 2010-11, bowed out early for the second consecutive spring.
The Canucks announced early in the afternoon that they will hold a news conference on Thursday. In the morning, the team's recorded phone message said it could be "a few days" before one was held in the wake of Tuesday night's 4-3 overtime loss in San Jose, which gave the Sharks a sweep of their best-of-seven series Western Conference quarter-final series.
Management is trying to figure out what went wrong in the playoffs for a team that viewed itself as a strong Stanley Cup contender but fell well short of its target.
General manager Mike Gillis decided not to make any major moves following last year's five-game loss to the Los Angeles Kings. Gillis thought the club was close to returning to the Stanley Cup final, but the humiliating sweep by the Sharks likely means that, as players have acknowledged, the so-called Stanley Cup window of opportunity is closing quickly and bold moves are inevitable.
The Canucks have lost 10 of their last 11 playoff games dating to the 2010-11 finals.
"It's frustrating," goaltender Cory Schneider told reporters in San Jose following Tuesday's loss. "This seems like a lost year. You don't get that many opportunities to play in the Stanley Cup playoffs and to miss one or two, it's pretty frustrating."
There is no guarantee Gillis will get the chance to do a redesign. His future and those of coach Alain Vigneault, Vancouver's veteran core and, as usual, goaltender Roberto Luongo, are all in question as the Canucks hope to avoid a freefall with NHL realignment, tougher divisional opponents, and a reduced salary cap looming.
Vigneault, the club's franchise leader in wins, appears to be the most likely scapegoat. The Canucks were not able to counteract San Jose's potent power play in the playoffs, and he failed at the seemingly impossible task of getting secondary offensive players, who were inconsistent at best in the regular season, to start generating goals at the most pressure-packed time of the year.
San Jose outscored Vancouver 15-8 in the series, and the Sharks converted on seven of 24 power plays while the Canucks only produced two power-play goals on 10 opportunities.
The lack of offence has coincided with the team's inability to develop new scoring talent in an era when young stars are emerging throughout the NHL. In five seasons at the helm, only one Gillis draft pick — Cody Hodgson, since traded — has become an NHL regular.
Jordan Schroeder, Vancouver's first choice (22nd overall in 2009), split this season between the NHL and the minors after spending his first two pro campaigns exclusively in the AHL. But he was not used in the playoffs, and has yet to prove that he can become a Vancouver regular let alone a top producer.
Zack Kassian, the player acquired from Buffalo for Hodgson, has struggled to live up to his billing as a prototypical power forward who can score.
The Canucks must ensure that more of their draft picks figure prominently. The NHL salary cap drops to $64.3 million next season, and chances to sign a high-end free agent will become more difficult.
One way to enable more homegrown prospects to reach the NHL is to stockpile draft choices through trades, and the Canucks have a number of veteran assets that could attract a decent price on the market. Vancouver showed a need for more size and grit, as well as offensive skill, among its top nine forwards after losing many one-on-one battles, allowing the Sharks to move the puck out of their end with relative ease.
Except for Daniel and Henrik Sedin and Alex Burrows, no forward appears likely to be spared consideration for a new hockey home. But the Sedins' future with the team will also be in question, because they are slated to enter the final year of their contracts in 2013-14.
With the Canucks at the top of the old salary cap and a new one pending, changes also appear inevitable for financial reasons. Luongo, slated to represent a $5.3-million salary cap hit next season, is an obvious candidate to leave, via trade or buyout — a year later than planned. But the Canucks could also consider moving one of their top four defencemen, who will all earn $4 million to $5 million next season.
Defenceman Keith Ballard, who also earns more than $4 million but has been rendered a spare part, appears to be a buyout candidate, along with enigmatic winger David Booth, who has done little in two seasons in Vancouver while battling injuries.
But before commencing with changes, management and players will have to get over the sting of being swept for the first time in 12 years.
"This is the most frustrating team I've been a part of," said Daniel Sedin. "We have a good team and what cost us? Little mistakes, taking penalties. We have ourselves to blame."
His controversial boarding penalty on Tommy Wingels in overtime led to Patrick Marleau's winning goal in Game 4.
"This year, this is not the way we wanted to end," said Henrik Sedin. "It was almost like we were a first-time playoff team going to the box too many times."
The Canucks captain lamented another lost opportunity to win a Stanley Cup, realizing that the club's core is nearing the end of its days together.
"A lot of guys have been together for a long time," he said. "It's very disappointing, because you only have so many chances."


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A man was shot during an attempted robbery on the South Side.
It happened in the 9500 block of South Clyde Avenue Wednesday afternoon.
Police say the victim was walking with another man, when two robbers confronted them with a gun and demanded their money.
The 25-year-old victim fought with one of the thieves, and was shot.
Police say a woman recognized one of the suspects when they tried to run away, and drove into the robber with her car to try and stop him.
The man was taken to the hospital in serious-to-critical condition.
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War comes to Australia: WWII 70th anniversary tour
Event Information
17 Feb 2012 9:00am - 22 Feb 2012 3:00pm
- Darwin
- Australia, Northern Territory
Other Information
- Cost: $1750 excluding air fares
- email@example.com
- 08 8395 7476
The tour has now reached capacity - bookings are closed.
On 19 February 1942 war came to Australia. Dubbed the 'Pearl Harbour' of Australia, Darwin was subjected to two raids by the Japanese within an hour of each other. Over 240 people were killed, with another 300 - 400 wounded. Aircraft were destroyed, ships were sunk, and both civil and military facilities in Darwin were devastated.
Numerous further attacks on Australia occurred over the coming months, including regions south of Darwin, Broome, Sydney and other places. The tour is to the Northern Territory sites, but the tour will also commemorate and give some place in its special presentations to the other places affected - and the impact on the whole of Australia and Australians.
War Comes to Australia tour
Unlock the Past is teaming up with our Clean Cruising, our travel/cruise partner, and Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours, leading Australian battlefield tour operator, to organise a War comes to Australia: WWII bombing 70th anniversary tour in February 2012. For 6 days and 5 nights, you will travel to various museums and important historical sites in Darwin and south of Darwin, as well as participate in the town's celebrations on the 19 February 2012.
There will be three seminar periods on the tour with feature presentations by:
- Brad Manera, our tour historian and Executive Manager/CEO ANZAC Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney.
- Dr Tom Lewis OAM, noted military historian, author and Director of the Darwin Military Museum.
- Shauna Hicks, archivist, genealogist, historian, and leading Unlock the Past pesenter and author.
For information regarding the various aspects of the tour, please click on the links to the left of this page, or download a pdf brochure
See also the Frontline Australia web site - the Darwin City Council's 70th anniversary commemoration web site.
War Comes to Australia Seminar
We also plan to hold a War comes to Australia Seminar in Sydney the day before the tour as a prelude to the event. This will be open to both tour participants, and anyone else. It will provide insight into the impact of war on Australia generally to anyone attending. For those also continue on the tour it will give great context to tour itself.
More information
For expressions of interest or to be on our War comes to Australia mailing list, phone Alan at 08 8395 7476 or email email@example.com
This is a unique and innovative new event, and not to be missed - especially given the significance of the anniversary it is timed around.
More information on war in Australia
There are many web sites, documentaries and books dealing with the war iin Australia, but click here for an excellent overview with links to more information.
Did you know that
- most states of Australia were also bombed or attacked by sea? All feared and prepared for attack.
- 19 February 1942 saw the first bombing of Australia - about two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbour and four days after the fall of Singapore.
- eight ships were sunk in Darwin Harbour that day. 34 aircraft were destroyed, the post office demolished and approx 240 people killed. A "sledge hammer to crack an egg" according to Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese the air commander (who also commanded the Pearl Harbour bombing)
- at least 64 more raids occurred on Darwin and 33 on other targets in northern Australia over almost two more years.
- in addition to Australians "... almost 1 million US personnel passed through Australia during the war..." [Wikipedia] - NT and other states.
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Rihanna's new album "Unapologetic," her best since "Good Girl Gone Bad" and maybe her best ever, finds the singer conflicted. She explores both tragic love and her general badassness in a way that hints at some interior reality. (This vulnerability, and the power of hope in a place fractured by love, contrasts with the impregnable ice fortress of pop stardom Rihanna has built around her.) With that mission in mind, the singer's A-team of collaborators offers a varied range of ideas that Rihanna handles skillfully.
As an artist with malleable talent and a history of jumping between genres, Rihanna is comfortable throwing excessive cascades of any sound resembling pop at her listeners. Where some might see something like a dubstep interpolation of Ginuwine's "Pony" with an Auto-Tuned Kanye verse as a sign of hopelessly cynical excess, an optimist might applaud the absurd envelope-pushing of the undertaking. If Rihanna asks you to ride her dubstep pony, I'm of the opinion that you hop on that wobbly steed.
Sure, you may have to put up with the occasional unwanted stop-and-frisk from the "butt police" that Eminem invokes in his supremely stupid verse. What you get, though, other than the requisite David Guetta interlude, is a weird and challenging album. Songs like "Phresh Out The Runway" and "Pour It Up" pick up the mantle of the Timbaland-produced late '90s' swaggering, futuristic minimalism, while lead single "Diamonds" taps into and trumps the new-agey melodrama of Rihanna's British peers like Florence + Machine. Future collaboration "Loveeeeeee Song" floats to a transcendent perch on the rapper/singer's Auto-Tuned croak and "Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary" is a reminder of Rihanna's talent for fragile ballads. Even the gossip-trolling Chris Brown feature "Nobody's Business" works surprisingly well.
As its title suggests, this album captures Rihanna both asserting her strengths and openly dismissing her critics. Embracing pop and R&B's unusual edges, our heroine remains indestructible.
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Evergreen Orders Ten Ships
Taiwanese shipping line Evergreen has confirmed its plans to build a total of ten 23,000 TEU containerships.According to a stock exchange filing, the new vessels would be built at three shipyards in South Korea and China.According to the reports from the South China Morning Post, the enormous order will cost Evergreen anywhere between US$1.4 billion and US$1.6 billion. It is estimated that each vessel will cost between $140 million and $160 million.The new vessels could see Evergreen become the sixth biggest carrier line in the world, overtaking major Japanese alliance Ocean Network Express (ONE).
Seaborne Nuclear Power Plant Docks in Russia
Russia's first-floating nuclear power plant has arrived to its permanent base near an isolated Russian town across the Bering Strait from Alaska, Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom said on Saturday.Developed by Rosatom, the plant, known as "Akademik Lomonosov", set off on a 5,000 km (3,100 mile) journey on Aug. 23 through Arctic waters to reach the Chukotka region. Rosatom said it aims to make the floating station operational by the year-end. It would become the world's northernmost nuclear power station.The plant will replace a coal-fired power plant and an aging nuclear power plant supplying more than 50,000 people with electricity in Chukotka.
Graney Name President General Dynamics Electric Boat
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) appointed General Dynamics NASSCO president Kevin Graney as president of General Dynamics Electric Boat, effective October 1. David J. Carver, NASSCO's vice president and general manager of repair, will succeed Graney as president of General Dynamics NASSCO. Jeffrey S. Geiger, who has served as president of Electric Boat since 2013, will retire effective September 30.Graney began his shipbuilding career with General Dynamics Electric Boat in 1995 as a senior engineer for the Virginia-class submarine program and worked in various leadership roles at General Dynamics before becoming president of NASSCO in 2017.
AI & Machine Learning, Possible Force Multipliers for the Coast Guard
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML): mention these two terms and the listener may instantly think of the ads displayed as you view your favorite online news site. This is one version of what AI/ML might be. Given the state of AI and ML research today, these advanced mathematical techniques represent something the U.S. Coast Guard should explore for mission application. To do this, common definitions need to be created, challenges understood, and practical use cases examined.It has been proven in applications within private industry and medicine that AI/ML techniques can be beneficial in predictive analytics.
Cosco Names New CEO for OOIL
Cosco-owned Hong Kong containerline Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL) said its chief executive Huang Xiaowen has resigned and Wang Haimin will succeed him.Executive director Zhang Wei has also resigned. OOIL said Huang and Zhang resigned due to "work commitments."Wang Haimin, aged 47, comes from Cosco, which recently acquired the Hong Kong-based company.Wang was elevated to the top management as a vice-president of Cosco Shipping in February, and became the vice-chairman of Shanghai-and Hong Kong-listed Cosco Shipping Holdings, parent of OOIL.