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Last April, New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, 23, was leaving the "Saturday Night Live" after-party in a Lexus sedan. He folded his 6-foot-3 frame into the back seat of the car and was followed by a parade of young beauties who squeezed in behind him.
"It's like a clown car," said an observer, mouth agape at the number of girls piling into the narrow back seat grew to six.
The incident, captured on a video that went viral on the Internet, seemed to confirm what football fans wanted to believe: Sanchez was the Big Apple's party-boy bachelor -- heir to the nightlife throne of "Broadway Joe" Namath.
Sanchez knew better.
"It looked a lot more scintillating than it was," he confessed to a confidant.
The first girl who hopped into the car was his closest friend since high school, Rebecca Resnik, the Sanchez pal told The Post. The rest were Resnik's friends.
There was no canoodling in the back seat that night, no wild debauchery in a swanky hotel.
But Sanchez begged his friends not to tell anyone the truth.
"I'm happy everyone thinks that, because it makes me look cooler," he joked.
Like so many professional athletes, Mark Sanchez has a dirty secret. But it's not a love child, steroids or dog fighting.
It's that underneath his hunky veneer, he's a total dork.
"His girlfriend is New York Jets football, and she's a very jealous girlfriend," said his confidant. "I don't think he's been able or ready to carve out time for anything except his job. He's not dating right now, because he just loves football."
Sanchez grew up in Orange County, Calif., and was the big man on campus at USC. He was a popular student-government leader in high school, and a communications major in college. He was called the "Mexican Jumping Bean," even though the third-generation Mexican-American barely speaks Spanish.
He left college a year early to sign a five-year, incentive-laden deal with the Jets that could be worth up to $60 million.
His huge contract, good looks and rifle arm immediately drew comparisons to Namath, another heralded and handsome bonus baby drafted by the Jets. And like Namath, who led the team to its only Super Bowl victory in 1969, Sanchez is seen as a winner -- only the second rookie signal-caller in history to win his first two playoff games, and the poised leader of a squad that came within a game of the NFL's championship.
So how has New York's most eligible athlete (sorry, Derek Jeter fans) spent his off-season?
The highest-paid Jet could afford a private plane and a penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park -- but instead, Sanchez drives around in a Toyota Land Cruiser and lives with his brother Brandon in sleepy Bedminster, NJ.
Instead of jetting to Vegas with an entourage for his 23rd birthday last November, he enjoyed an evening of turkey legs and jousting at Medieval Times.
After a trip to Madrid with Brandon, which coincided with Spain's victory in the World Cup, the Sanchezes came home filled with a different kind of football frenzy, and spent hours on their Xbox playing the FIFA II soccer game. The football star even brought the video game and his console to upstate Cortland, where the Jets are training.
His Twitter feed is awash with goofy facial expressions, teenspeak and posts asking what Disney film he should rent that night. "Lion King? Aladdin? Jungle Book? Peter Pan? Help?" Seriously.
His biggest fear in shooting "Hard Knocks," an HBO reality show documenting the Jets' training camp, is dropping an F-bomb and disappointing his proud mother.
"I don't think he knows how big his profile actually is," said another friend.
"He's very much the [Giants quarterback] Eli Manning profile -- but cooler.
He doesn't seem to know that everyone in the room, wherever he goes, is like, 'Holy s- -t, Mark Sanchez is here.' "
If fame and money and New York have changed Sanchez, the son of a fire captain, it's only to transform him into a foodie and a music lover.
His favorite burger is at Le Parker Meridien, his favorite sushi joint is Nobu and he's a regular at the Midtown steakhouse Del Frisco's -- in part because of its proximity to the Broadway theaters.
Sanchez has seen "Wicked," "In the Heights," "Rock of Ages," "Billy Elliot" and "Memphis" multiple times, and friends say he often belts out show tunes in the car.
The quarterback even presented an award for "Memphis" at the Tony Awards last year.
Sanchez has been spotted partying at some of the city's hotspots like Abe & Arthur's, Monkey Bar and Rose Bar, but friends and observers said he's not a big drinker.
"He doesn't belly up to the bar and ask for the usual," said the confidant.
"He's never really been a drinker, but the older guys on the team have recently been teaching him about red wine."
His best friends on the team are tight end Dustin Keller, fullback Tony Richardson and center Nick Mangold, and he spends most of his time hanging out with his two older brothers.
There are women, of course. No amount of show tunes can keep a broodingly handsome quarterback single.
Since last fall, he's been linked to 20-year-old blond beauty Jennifer Mueller, a track star at USC who lives in New Jersey; bartender and model Ariana Madix, 21, whom he reportedly picked up at the Midtown watering hole Johnny Utah's; as well as celebs like supermodel Hilary Rhoda and, most recently, former "Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
But Sanchez isn't focusing on the ladies right now.
"Jamie-Lynn was very sweet," said the friend, who spent time with the couple after they hit it off at a Tribeca Film Festival party. "But she's almost 30 and she's been married before, and they were just in different places. Mark's 23, and just trying to make sure he doesn't fumble the snap."
The two remain close friends after splitting up a few weeks ago just before training camp, the source said.
His teammates, however, like to give Sanchez a hard time for his heartthrob status.
"He's not meeting my daughter; she already thinks he's cute," said Jets backup quarterback and Sanchez mentor Mark Brunell, 39, about his college-aged daughter. "I like the kid, but I don't like him that much."
For his part, Sanchez doesn't want to be seen as the young guy making daughters swoon -- he's eager to prove that all the money and all the hoopla surrounding him will ultimately translate into a Super Bowl ring. "I'll be working every day, on and off the field, to justify this contract," he said last year.
So far, he is holding up his end of the deal.
Three weeks before training camp, Sanchez -- who had off-season knee surgery -- worked out twice a day with longtime trainer Todd Norman in California.
"It's always been expected of him that he's going to be great, and he always knew it in his mind, too," said Norman. "But he's never been one to be full of himself. He's just a kid from Southern California with a huge work ethic. He's the first guy I'd want next to me on the front line of a battlefield."
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Mark Sanchez Party Boy? Nah Total Dork
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Posted 22 August 2010 - 12:40 PM
I honestly expected this to be some blog by a rival's fan. Not a bad read but really doesnt say too much other than Sanchez has humility.
I will not be forgotten. This is my time to shine. I've got the scars to prove it. Only the strong survive.
When someone annoys u, it takes 42 muscles in ur face 2 frown. BUT, it only takes 4 muscles 2 extend ur arm & b!tch-slap that mother@*?!&! upside the head!!
When someone annoys u, it takes 42 muscles in ur face 2 frown. BUT, it only takes 4 muscles 2 extend ur arm & b!tch-slap that mother@*?!&! upside the head!!
Posted 22 August 2010 - 01:35 PM
Interesting read.
I lol @ this part. His reference to the girls in the 745 incident.
"I'm happy everyone thinks that, because it makes me look cooler," he joked.[/quote]
I lol @ this part. His reference to the girls in the 745 incident.
"I'm happy everyone thinks that, because it makes me look cooler," he joked.[/quote]
Posted 22 August 2010 - 03:10 PM
I'm glad he's a fan of Billy Elliot too - saw it over here in London last year and, despite the feminie storyline, it was brilliant.
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The Tropical Fowl Mite (Ornithonyssus bursa) is a blood-feeding mite commonly found on a range of wild and domestic birds. It is rarely found on mammals, but where infested birds are nesting in close proximity to humans, these mites may enter homes and bite people. The bite is irritating to humans and may cause persistent itching and painful dermatitis. Tropical Fowl Mites are widespread in tropical and warm regions of the world. Although the Tropical Fowl Mite (which measures around 0.75 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; Oliveira et al. 2012) is similar to the Northern Fowl Mite (O. sylviarum), it can be distinguished by the dorsal plate. The posterior end of this plate tapers acutely in the Northern Fowl Mite but more evenly in the Tropical Fowl Mite. Furthermore, three pairs of setae (bristles) are present on the sternal plate in Tropical Fowl Mites but only two pairs in Northern Fowl Mites (see illustrations in online Featured Creatures species account)
The Tropical and Northern Fowl Mites have similar life cycles. There are five developmental stages: egg, larva, protonymph, deutonymph, and adult. In the laboratory, most eggs are deposited in the litter away from its hosts. In the field, eggs are laid on the host or in the nest. Eggs hatch within three days and the non-feeding larvae molt in around 17 hours. The protonymph molts in one or two days, but the length of the deutonymph stage is not known for the Tropical Fowl Mite (it is about a day in the Northern Fowl Mite).
The nymphs and adults of the Tropical Fowl Mite take blood meals (in contrast to the Northern Fowl Mite, in which only the protonymph and adult stages feed). On birds, most reproduction takes place in the host's nest. On chickens, the mites prefer the fluffy downy feathers and are numerous around the vent (the cloacal opening), accumulating on a few feathers. A human handling an infested chicken will become infested.
The Tropical Fowl Mite is a serious pest of both domestic fowl and many wild birds. It is almost never found on wild mammals, although there are numerous records of it biting humans (e.g., Oliveira et al. 2012). It has never been implicated as a disease vector. Attacks on humans cause discomfort similar to that caused by the Northern Fowl Mite, which is also a pest of domestic fowl and wild birds.

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Type: Event | Date: Friday, Sep 3, 2010Don't pretend like you're not going to watch it every single time it airs this weekend (or at the very least, each version of it one time).
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Type: Article | Date: Wednesday, Jul 8, 2009Demi Lovato and the famous siblings slated for the Disney Channel's sequel
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For new readers, Questions and Observations is, in full, what QandO means.
- Still pining for that "public option" Bunky? Well you might want to take a gander at a public option our government has been operating for quite some time. That would be the Indian Health Service for Native Americans. It would be no pun to say the natives are restless about the service they get.
- Irwin Stelzer lays out 7 lessons learned from Cash for Clunkers. My favorite is "government forecasters are really bad at their job". Wow, there's a surprise. Anyone – can you name a single major program that was touted by government at one cost that didn't actually end up costing far, far more than their estimate?
- It appears that President Obama's pledge that "95% of Americans won't see their taxes go up one dime" is being modified to add "but I didn't say anything about a nickle – or a bunch of nickles". Yes, given the rosy deficit projections that we've seen it appears higher taxes – much higher taxes – are now in the "when" not "if" category. As the Brookings Institute's William Gale said:
"If you rule out inflating our way out of the problem and defaulting on the debt, there are two ways: Cut spending or raise taxes".
Of course, I'm on the "cut spending" bandwagon personally.
- Here's an announcement that should warm the cockles of your heart – Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc., the California Housing Loan Insurance Fund (CaHLIF) and Freddie Mac, have put together a program that allows teachers working within the state to purchase a home with a downpayment of just $500. Wait a minute – isn't that exactly the sort program that supposedly got us into this mess in the first place?
- Investors Business Daily finds that its rather roundly panned claim that Stephen Hawking wouldn't have fared well under the NHS is, in fact, correct, but certainly not for the reason that he isn't British. In fact, Hawking didn't fare well at all with the NHS which didn't even provide what anyone would call minimal care for his condition. His care ended up being provided for by private donations and private health care providers.
- Apparently Democratic Colorado Representative Betsy Markey didn't get the talking points memo in which President Obama claims there won't be any cuts to Medicare benefits. Either that or she's actually read the bill and in a fit of honesty said, to a constituent asking about that very point:
"There's going to be some people who are going to have to give up some things, honestly, for all of this to work. But we have to do this because we're Americans."
Actually we don't have to do this and for precisely the same reason.
- The real astroturfing of townhalls has begun in earnest as Organizing For America – the successor to the campaign's "Obama For America" – begins to finally stage a supposed "grassroots" push back against the rabble from the other side. Of course OFA claims they're all about grassroots movements. BTW, if you're wondering which side is which at a townhall, OFA is the "grassroots" organization with same color t-shirts and the preprinted signs.
- Wandering through Europe, Roger Simon is hardly surprised that the predominant English language news channels carried there are the BBC and CNN International. What did surprise him was discovering English language Al Jazerra and finding it more balanced and better than the BBC or CNN International.
- Anyone know who or what really saved the whales? Well it wasn't Greenpeace – whales were saved well before Greenpeace ever became an organization. No it was actually capitalism and the petroleum industry which saved them. When petroleum became available in large quantities and at a low cost, the whale oil business went extinct almost over night. You're not likely to read that in any environmental, animal liberation, "man is an eco-tumor" literature you might pick up. But think about it …


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Announcing the all new TeaChat TeawareArtisan Special Offer Program (TA SO). This should be quite interesting as each TeawareArtisan seems to present a different approach to this concept.
But the bottom line is, our TeawareArtisans will each have the opportunity to have their own Special Offer, probably one Teaware Artisan each month, more or less. This might take a little time to get going, but we don't want to rush our creative artisans, right?
The "TA/SO" pieces will be made specially for the special offering, for members of TeaChat. I expect each Artisan will be doing something special, unique, different. So hang on, this is going to be an exciting journey that our TA's will take us on.
The initial "TA/SO" will be officially introduced early next week. But the hand was tipped a bit early in Chris Chaney/ChicagoPotter's topic. I will be creating a special topic, so keep your eyes open. The topic will include photos of all the pieces and information on how you can obtain a TeawareArtisan Special Offer #1 piece.


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Hey guys me and my team are thinking about entering our first tournament....but we have one problem we can find a suitable tournament in our area and if there are any they are for much more experienced players. we are an 1hr and half drive from the city of san fransisco and we are all around the age of 14-15 and we would like to play against people our age but really we are more looking for people that our same or a just a bit higher skill level. any help would be much appreciated thanks guys
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:48 PM
The only tournament scene right now is at cepp in Sacramento.
Next best is scrim wars @ scp or midway
Next best is scrim wars @ scp or midway
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 11:25 PM
Yeah the cepl up in sac young guns league
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Winery spotlight: Naughty Boy Vineyards
The Naughty Boy Vineyards tasting room, open from noon until 5:00 p.m. every day, except Monday and Tuesday, is located in the Vintage Marketplace building, along with McFadden, Graziano, and Ray's Station, in downtown Hopland.
Owners Jim Scott and Emjay Wilson-Scott named their retail space WaaWaa – wine, art, and antiques x 2, and once the name is explained, the presence of a cornucopia of collectable antiques and memorabilia becomes instantly understandable.
"I can't stop myself from collecting," explained Emjay, when I asked her why she chose to include antiques in her tasting room, "I like old things. You touch a bit of the past with them."
Emjay's father was a collector, and she said she comes by the collector gene naturally. As she talked of her father, and their mutual passion for antique hunting, the items on display became more than mere objects, but took on some of the magic of memory, as I imagined Emjay and her dad purchasing a found treasure, storing it, and now, finally, it was in my hands, an echo from the past.
With a display constantly changing, I looked at small groupings of collectable antiques, including books, cameras, taxidermy, bronzes, antlers, glassware, kitchen items, paper kites, cigarette lighters, and much, much more. Everywhere were things to marvel at, things previously unseen.
Of note is an amazing piece of display furniture, originally found at a San Francisco jeweler's shop. The piece is amazing for its enormous size. I do not envy anyone who was ever involved in moving this giant, even more amazing is that this is just one of a twin pair of gargantuan display furniture pieces. Filling one wall, it is perfect for the WaaWaa space.
Many items are priced much lower than they would sell for online, but Emjay explained that if something sold for more than her dad originally paid for it, then everyone is a winner.
An artists's soul is evidenced by Emjay's unexpected mixing of seemingly disparate elements into a more pleasing, previously unimaginable, whole.
The wines of Naughty Boy Vineyards, poured amidst the profusion of sensory stimulating collectables, are named for "little Ricky." Jim and Emjay have always had boxers, one of whom was named little Ricky. Little Ricky loved Potter Valley, and would become joyfully excited each time he recognized that he was nearing the vineyard Jim and Emjay own. Little Ricky used to run, and play, as he walked the vineyard as Jim worked it. After passing, after a heartbreaking battle with cancer, little Ricky was laid to rest on the vineyard property, which was named for him. The Naughty Boy was little Ricky, not Jim as many might guess, and his spirit lives on as the tale of little Ricky is shared.
The wines are labeled Naughty Boy Vineyards, complete with a picture of little Ricky, or more simply NBV, with a crown over the letters. Emjay described the NBV label as the "Marin retail" label , for restaurants that don't embrace the Naughty Boy dog.
Naughty Boy Vineyards was planted to Pinot Noir in 1996. Jim farms the five acres organically.
2010 Naughty Boy Chardonnay, Thornton Ranch, $16. Thornton Ranch in Potter Valley is known for great Chardonnay grapes, with many finding their way into bottles of Kendall-Jackson Grand reserve Chardonnay. The Naughty Boy Chardonnay spends 18 months to 2 years in mostly French and some Hungarian oak barrels. The wine has a really light vanilla and pear nose, leading to light vanilla cream, apple and pear in the moth. Round and delicious.
2011 Naughty Boy Dry Rose of Pinot Noir, Potter Valley, $16. Made with organically estate grown grapes. Smooth, round, and accessible. Delicious fruit, but not fruity. This is a terrific wine, and drinks like crushed strawberry cream over ice.
2007 NBV Pinot Noir, Mendocino $17. Made with organically estate grown grapes. This is a lovely wine, my favorite in the line up. Plummy cherry and cola. I wrote the word "Love" in my notes, and then underlined it, so I might have liked it a bit. I also wrote drinkable and accessible again.
I have found much of Potter Valley's Pinot Noir to be really accessible. Where there is often a funky edge, love it or not, to many Pinot Noir wines, nearly every Potter Valley Pinot I have tasted is soft, approachable, and accessible because they are free of the funk.
2009 Naughty Boy Pinot Noir, Potter Valley $26. Made with organically estate grown grapes. Herb, loamy forest, mushroom, dry warm cherry, and spice make up this easily drinkable wine.
2008 NBV Dolcetto. Mendocino, Fewer than 100 acres of Dolcetto are planted in California, and Jim and Emjay source their grapes from Pete Chevalier in Talmage. $12. Dry, earthy wine, showing tannin, berry fruit, with very little smoke.
Naughty Boy Vineyards at WaaWaa is not your regular tasting room. A look around the room is sure to spark memories from your youth, as you see collectable antiques that take you right back in time. The ever changing art installations and lovely wines will bring you right back to the yummy present.
John Cesano doesn't look forward to the drive into Potter Valley ever, but is always happy he made the drive each time he visits. Definitely worth a Sunday drive.
Note: The day after this piece ran in the Ukiah Daily Journal, I was visited by a Potter Valley couple who took issue with my suggestion that Potter Valley is a distant travel, and were concerned that I might single-handedly ruin the area's precarious economy by scaring away the enormous tourist trade Potter Valley is known to exist upon.
The alarm siren and flashing lights you are experiencing may be your sarcasm detector going off right about now. Seriously folks, stop reacting to fragments of sentences and embrace the columns as they were intended. I've stopped writing about forced alcohol consumption by pregnant women and ritual animal sacrifice among the townspeople of Calpella, I promise. Just chill, okay?
Usually, when I go to Potter Valley, I am driving from the McFadden tasting room in Hopland to McFadden Farm at the very north end of Potter Valley, where Powerhouse Road ends, a 46 minute drive. That said, there are many places in Potter Valley only 15-20 minutes from Ukiah. Everyone cool now?
Oh, and the Potter Valley couple were kind enough to read my article and visit the Naughty Boy tasting room as a result of my recommendation, so they did show that Potter Valley to Hopland isn't that long a drive really…and they tasted through our wines with me so now we are all married by wine sharing. That's how it is done in Potter Valley – or was that Willits?
I really do love Mendocino County, and the area of inland Mendocino I travel around constantly, very much. Last weekend, I visited 8 wineries and 1 distiller during A Taste of Redwood Valley. I loved my visit with Crispin Cain of Greenway Distillers during my visit to Germain-Robin. I know so little about distilling, but more for having talked with Crispin, with more to come when we can get together again for a tour. With love and respect to everyone on the ATORV circuit, best stop of the day for me, because I got to learn stuff, a whole encyclopedia of stuff, I didn't know before.
And the juice was awesome. I took some home (after paying for it 'cause the bottle was too big to hide under my shirt).


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July 18th marks Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday and is recognized internationally as Nelson Mandela International Day, a day to remember and learn from the work of a man who showed South Africa and the world the power of nonviolent protest and forgiveness.
As people celebrate around the world, our posts in South Africa - Embassy Pretoria, Consulate Johannesburg, Consulate Cape Town, and Consulate Durban - are honoring Mandela's legacy by helping local communities.
Consulate staff in Johannesburg engaged with local children and helped clean and paint the Thusong Youth Center in Alexandra Township, while staff from Consulate Cape Town repaired storm damage to a disadvantaged community and hosted a donation drive. In Durban, consulate staff collected and donated recycled materials to be used to make educational toys and contributed books to be part of the "Tribute to Mandela" writing contest. Embassy Pretoria also made a donation of 1 million Rand to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to help display its collection of papers, posters, photos, and other items relating to Mandela's work.
You can get involved by answering the call of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the United Nations to devote 67 minutes of your time to helping others in honor of the 67 years Mandela spent as a human rights lawyer, prisoner of conscience, international peacemaker, and the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa.
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Rudy Gobert exploded for a career-high 27 points and 25 boards in a 112-107 overtime win in Dallas on Friday, adding one assist, one steal and two blocks in 41 minutes.
Lou Williams scored 27 points with four rebounds, three assists, one steal, one block and four 3-pointers on Friday vs. the Pacers.
Brandon Ingram scored 15 points with seven rebounds, two assists, three steals and three 3-pointers in Friday's win over the Pacers.
Nick Young (knee) returned from an injury scare in Friday's 108-96 win over the Pacers and scored 15 points in 26 minutes.
Kevin Durant was on his A game during a 125-108 win in Houston on Friday, making 12-of-19 from the field for 32 points with four rebounds, seven assists, two steals, two blocks and two 3-pointers.
Clint Capela showed he was close to 100 percent against the Warriors on Friday, scoring a career-high 22 points with 12 rebounds, one assist, one steal and one block in 21 minutes.
Marc Gasol scored 28 points in 33 minutes in Friday's 107-91 win over the Kings.
D'Angelo Russell (knee, calf) will not return to Friday's game vs. the Pacers.
J.J. Barea (left calf) is expected to miss weeks due to his calf injury from Friday night.
Caris LeVert made all six shots from the field and both free throws for 17 points against the Pelicans on Friday, adding five rebounds, six assists, one steal, one block and three 3-pointers in 25 minutes.
J.J. Barea suffered a lower left leg injury in the fourth quarter and went to the locker room.


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Station agent retiring; Minot Amtrak Depot renovation nears completion
Doneta Skinn, station agent at the Minot Amtrak Depot, won't be on the job when the depot renovation project is completed in a few weeks. She's retiring and today is her last day at work.
But Skinn already has seen plenty of action at the depot, especially two years ago when the Souris River flooded the depot and left the recently renovated building extensively damaged in the aftermath of the flood.
Skinn, who began working for Amtrak in July 1998, has been station agent since 2004.
Marc Magliari, media relations manager with Amtrak Government Affairs & Corporate Communications in Chicago, said the renovation of the depot is planned to be finished by the end of April. He said the intent is to return the historic waiting room and ticket counter to the condition it was before the flood.
Magliari said the renovation project also has involved some adjustments made to the restroom fixtures and floor to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Mike Geyer, who is in charge of the renovation project for R&K Contractors Inc., Minot, said everything from 6 feet and down in the waiting room is new, including paneling, trim, cabinetry and the floor ceramic tiles.
R&K Contractors also did the work in the depot before the flood when a major project was done to restore it historically accurate.
Shortly before the flood hit Minot in June 2011, the depot was shut down from that time until Nov. 15, 2011, when passenger service resumed. Since then, a temporary waiting area and ticket counter has been set up in the west end of the depot.
While the depot was closed for those several months the train continued to make fuel stops in Minot but passengers could not get on and off. Most passengers used the depots in Stanley or Rugby during that time for boarding or getting off the train.
In November 2012, Skinn and Andrew Maragos, also with the Minot Amtrak station, and Dan Valley, their former supervisor and district manager of stations, were honored by Amtrak officials in Washington, D.C., for their work to save the Minot station when the Souris River flooded and then to restore Amtrak services to the city.
When the renovation project is complete, the west end of the building will return to its original function as the baggage area and garage.
There are future plans at the Minot depot, including parking lot improvements and making a larger platform, but Magliari said he did not have information on that timeline at the moment.


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Take your training to the next level with the 2XU Compression Performance running sock. Made with Compression Fit Technology, this 2XU sock boosts muscle containment while graduated fit increases circulation and cuts down on shin splints. An engineered foot bed supports the Achilles and adds comfort in the ball and heel of the foot in a sock that is great for any sport and speeds the recovery process after a taxing workout or training session.
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- Designed to help boost circulation, increase oxygen to muscles and reduce shin splints
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Rated 5 out of 5�by TH Excellent feel good compression These socks do exactly what expected. They provide the support needed. September 20, 2016
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Hopefully all you more knowledgeable folks can help me with were to look for an issue I had this morning at church with my setup. I just got my new guitar which has a Lyric installed during the build. This morning I set up my normal rig to play at church and had a major problem. For starters, I had the guitar hooked up to my Line 6 Relay G30 which runs through a Venue DI and then to the snake for the PA system. When I turned on the wireless unit I got a hiss that I couldn't stop. So, figuring the wireless may be the issue I took that out of the equation and hooked the guitar straight to the Venue DI. As soon as the channel was unmuted on the sound board there was a feedback issue that I thought may make the PA system explode it was so loud. I had not even plucked a single note. When I was set up with the wireless I was at the front of the church. When I hooked up directly I was in the musicians pit where the monitors are, but nothing was transmitting through them.
Once that happened I switched back to my Taylor with the wireless rig as described before and had no issues. So I'm trying to figure out where to start with what the issue is. I can hook the guitar up to my Loudbox Mini here at home and have no problems. Our regular sound guy was not at church today so I didn't have time to try and figure out what the issue may be, but I don't know where to start. The only setup I've ever used has been my Taylor with the Expression system and I've never had any such issue, wireless or not. I know the Lyric is a mic so there will be things I need to work on at the sound board but I'm just curious as to where to start. Thoughts and opinions very much appreciated.


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The self-powered UPQ-1P wide coverage loudspeaker is a member of the award-winning UltraSeries family of loudspeakers. Its extended low-frequency headroom gives it a smooth sound over its wide operating frequency range of 55 Hz to 18 kHz. With its easy-to-use and versatile QuickFly rigging, the UPQ-1P loudspeaker is equally suited to touring, rental and fixed installation applications.
The UPQ-1P offers an extremely consistent polar response, and is distinguished by its constant-Q horn that provides 80-degree horizontal by 50-degree vertical coverage (-6 dB points) and a gentle coverage rolloff that extends uniformly out to its -10 dB points of 100 by 60 degrees.
The smooth and consistent performance of the UPQ-1P horn is the result of meticulous research in Meyer Sounds anechoic chamber. The horn exhibits a remarkably consistent beamwidth in both the horizontal and vertical planes across a wide frequency range of 1 kHz to 18 kHz and delivers uniform attenuation for all frequencies outside the specified beamwidth.
The UPQ-1P loudspeaker can be used as the main system in small to mid-sized venues or easily integrated with other Meyer Sound products as centerfill or sidefills in larger applications.
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Twilight Zone helicopter death culprits fined
On this day in 1982, fines were handed out to John Landis' Levitsky Prods and Western Helicopter Inc., the two companies implicated in the death of actor Vic Morrow and two child extras while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie. The film was a four-part compendium and it was while Landis was shooting his segment, "Time Out,' that the tragic and gruesome deaths occurred. Morrow, a veteran actor, was the lead in Landis' section, in which his bigoted character is forced to get a taste of the lives of the individuals he hates. In one scene, he experiences what it was like to be a Vietnamese father under attack from the U.S. during the Vietnam war. Landis had created a Vietnamese village in Valencia, CA, about 30 miles north of Los Angeles, and in the early hours of the morning on July 23, 1982, was filming a scene where Morrow waded across a river, carrying 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen and 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le, while there were helicopters overhead and numerous explosions around him. Tragedy occurred when debris from one of the explosions hit the tail rotor of one of the helicopters, causing it to crash on top of Morrow, who was decapitated, and the young actors. The accident prompted legal action that lasted until 1987, and resulted in much tighter regulations regarding stunts and the employment of child actors.


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Negaunee's Lucy Hill lugers compete in Italy
NEGAUNEE – Four area teens competed over the weekend in their first international luge competition in Italy.
Leisel Demeuse, 16, and a trio of 15-year-olds – Derek Rogers, Daryn Carter and Derek Carter – from the Negaunee-based Upper Peninsula Luge Club competed at the World Championships for natural track luge in Novo Ponente, Italy, about 90 miles from former Winter Olympics city of Innsbruck, Austria.
While none had ever slid on any track but Lucy Hill in Negaunee, all competed in three heats of singles, according to a news release from the USA Luge Association.
In the boys standings, Derek Carter came in 41st, Daryn Carter 42nd and Rogers 43rd, USA Luge said. Demeuse didn't finish her second run on Saturday in girls competition.
They had to raise $2,000 to fund the trip to complement a grant from the International Luge Federation, which USA Luge applied for on their behalf.
More information about the World Championship is available at the website www.usaluge.org.


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Water seeping through soil into bedrock dissolves the rock along cracks and between layers (called bedding planes). As the cracks get bigger, soil falls into them. Water flowing underground may also dissolve and remove earth materials from below, so the land surface forms a bridge or arch of soil over a hidden hold or cave.
The soil arch gets thinner and weaker as more earth materials collapse into the buried hole or cave. The collapsing material may fill up the hole and stop the erosion. But it it's removed from below by flowing water the collapsing continues right up to land surface.
Circular cracks appear in the soil at the surface just before a catastrophic collapse of the surface.
Water washing down the sides of the sinkhole soon erodes the sharp edges into the smooth contours of the classic bowl-shaped sinkhole.