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A medical examiner has determined that guitarist Mike Scaccia died of a sudden heart attack. As reported previously, the beloved guitarist, who played with the bands Ministry and Rigor Mortis, died after collapsing onstage during a performance celebrating Rigor Mortis frontman Bruce Corbitt's 50th birthday. Yesterday, on his Facebook page, Corbitt posted a touching remembrance of his time with Scaccia. "You know I keep thinking about all of this," Corbitt wrote. "Why this happened the way it did. Why it happened at all. What if I wouldn't have asked them to play for my birthday show? But mainly, I keep thinking of the conversations I had with Mike in recent years. Each close friendship is different... you cherish them all. I talked about things with Mike that I couldn't with some other close friends.
"So what I do know is how happy Mike was at this point in his life," Corbitt added. "He loved his wife and kids so much. He talked about them all the time. He loved his bandmates from his different bands. He loved his friends... past and present. He loved his job working for Gibson Guitars. So that gives me some kind of comfort just knowing he was enjoying his time on earth until the very end."
Scaccia is survived by his wife Jenny and four children. A memorial has been scheduled for Sunday, December 30 at 3 p.m., at Aristide Event Center in Mansfield, Texas. The event is open to the public.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd May 2013 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. We'll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that it's usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
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...say what? Really? That's a rather......obsolete way of thinking.
I agree, but according to http://www.gamespot.com/news/indie-developers-cannot-self-publish-g... that's how the Microsoft execs have decided. They even admit people have voiced their opinion about this, but that they'll still stick to their guns.

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The producer of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" said in a deposition in a divorce case parts of the series were staged, documents show.
Producer Russell Jay said Humphries' proposal to Kardashian was re-shot because she was not happy with the way her reaction looked.
Jay said Kardashian requested another take, saying, "Can we just like, have me come back in one more time and be, like, really surprised?"
A later conversation between Kardashian and her mother about a rough-spot in her 72-day marriage was actually filmed after she filed for divorce, the deposition said, as quoted by Life & Style magazine.
A friend of Humphries' is quoted in Life & Style as saying the NBA player "feels vindicated."
"This will prove how fake Kim and the show are," said the friend, whose name was not reported.
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I took Fenway to Pet Quarters today and they were celebrating their 1st anniversary. I bought him a little stuffed duck and as we were leaving they handed me a Eukanuba bag FULL of toys, snacks, t-shirt (for me). The prices were still on the toys. It all added up to over $30 worth of free stuff!
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ST. LOUIS – Missouri Baptist University has become the first NAIA institution in St. Louis to sponsor football in recent years.
The Spartans launched their program with the hiring of Jason Burianek,a former defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator at McKendree University. The team will begin scrimmage in the fall of 2013 and regular-season play in 2014.
"It is a great opportunity to begin my coaching career at MBU. It is a great fit for me personally being in a great location and a school that is committed to athletics and being successful," Burianek said.
Burianek came with a wealth of playing experience, in addition to years spent as both a position coach and as a coordinator. He played college football as a wide receiver at the University of Colorado under Rich Neuheisel in his freshman year, and then under Gary Barnett for the remainder of his college career.
After graduation, Burianek spent a few months as a graduate assistant under Barnett. Just months later, he became a member of the McKendree University coaching staff
"I think we really did our homework in the hiring process," said Dr. Tom Smith, director of athletics at Missouri Baptist. "Jason is a Missouri Baptist kind of guy."
There are currently three schools in St. Louis that have football programs (Lindenwood, McKendree and Washington University). Missouri Baptist will be the fourth from the area that will have football, and the only NAIA school on the Missouri side of the river.
"I want to get to know the inner workings of the University and the community as well as getting to know the coaches in the St. Louis area," Burianek said. "There are many great high school coaches in the area that will be critical in helping us recruit the great athletes here."
Over the course of the next year and a half, Missouri Baptist expects to recruit more than 100 new student-athletes for football alone. The university also plans to expand the current cheerleading program and create a pep band.
The University is in a season of prolonged growth. Enrollment of traditional students on MBU's main campus has increased by nearly 20 percent in the past four years, and the residential population has increased more than 40 percent in the same span of time, according to Terry Dale Cruse, vice president of enrollment services.
Last year, the University opened its state-of-art Sports and Recreation Complex, a 49,000 square foot facility that includes a 1,000 seat gymnasium, a suspended indoor track, state-of-the-art training and fitness centers and new classrooms. Currently, the second phase of "Spartan Village," a residential neighborhood, is underway, which will increase housing capacity by about 45 percent. Current on-campus housing is filled to 100-percent capacity and the new residence hall is expected to fill quickly, especially with the expected influx of new student-athletes.
Missouri Baptist is currently a member of the American Midwest Conference (AMC), which doesn't support football. The University, however, reaffirmed its commitment to the AMC, stating that there are no plans to leave and that the AMC is its home. "We have enjoyed a great relationship with the AMC and changing conference affiliation does not make much sense for us," Smith said.
The Missouri Baptist University Department of Athletics supports 25 varsity athletics programs and seven junior varsity sports. The University is a proud member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and is an NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Award winner.


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Rosaline A. Giardina, 85, of Cape Coral passed away Wednesday, May 28, 2013, at her home. She was born Sept. 10, 1927, in Mercer, Pa., to Vincenzo and Dominica Demarco Forcina. She moved to Cape Coral in 1983 coming from Cleveland, Ohio. She loved spending time with her family, cooking, boating and camping. She was a communicant of St. Andrew Catholic Church.
She is survived by her loving family, including her sons, Raymond A. (Monica) Giardina and Gary J. (Kathleen) Giardina; grandchildren, Annette (Michael) Harber, Renee (Robert "Chad") Bishop, Jennifer (Ryan) Leo, Lynn Giardina; great-grandchildren, Anna, Anderson, Teagan, Scarlett, Jackson, Addison, Paige and Adagio; brother, James (Lillian) Forcina; and brother-in-law, Salvatore Bucchieri.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph, in 2008; sisters, Sundrina (Albert) Dire, Mary Fratianne, Delphine Bucchieri, Elizabeth (Samuel) Kravitz; and brother, Louis (Josephine) Forcina.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Thursday, May 30, at St. Andrew Catholic Church, Cape Coral. The family receive friends at Coral Ridge Funeral Home. Burial followed the mass at Coral Ridge Cemetery.
Please visit www.coralridgefuneralhome.com to leave thoughts and memories for her family.


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Trendium, a provider of Customer Experience Assurance (CEA) and Analytics solutions for fixed and mobile broadband communications service providers, today announced that Andy Belcher has joined the company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. The company recently introduced a new portfolio of solutions, designed for 4G/LTE mobile broadband applications, that are based on a unique and radically innovative assurance approach, that finally put Communications Service Providers (CSPs) in a position to stop the growing operational inefficiencies and costs while enabling a significant improvement in customer satisfaction.
"Worldwide, CSPs are experiencing a massive increase in traffic in their broadband networks, driven by the proliferation of smart devices and bandwidth-hungry applications. To cope with this phenomenon, they are investing in network expansions, particularly LTE, technology designed to speed up, reduce costs and simplify the network," stated Dr. Sameh Yamany, President and CEO of Trendium, Inc. "However, the traditional technology used to manage the network, including probes and first-generation CEM solutions, are increasingly unsuited to this new environment and make very limited impact on true customer perceived quality, while costing a disproportionately high proportion of the CSP's overall investment, with monitoring and service assurance now sometimes costing even more than the network, which is clearly unsustainable. Twenty years ago Andy led the HP division that founded SS7 monitoring, which has served voice networks and CSPs well over the intervening period. He brings a wealth of knowledge about this industry as well as the needs and expectations of CSPs. It is fitting that he now joins us in the launch of the next generation of customer experience assurance and monitoring technology, designed for the needs of today's and tomorrow's high-speed data-oriented networks."
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July 14, 2000 - National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Funding for FY 2001
As conference discussions begin to reconcile differences in the FY 2001 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) urges you to adopt the Senate recommended level of $20.5 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ASM represents over 42,000 scientists and health professionals who promote research and research training in the microbiological sciences to improve health, economic well being and the environment.
As an organization knowledgeable about infectious diseases and public health threats, ASM supports a $2.7 billion increase at NIH, as a critical investment in basic and clinical research, which will lead to further advances in disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention to improve health for the American public. There are now more research avenues to invest in and opportunities to capitalize on than ever before in history. The rate of progress in medical discovery is directly related to the resources available for medical research. We, therefore, urge Congress to provide a 15 percent increase for NIH in FY 2001 and to continue the effort to double the NIH budget by 2003.
ASM is concerned, however, about the inadequate resources in both the Senate and House Labor/HHS/ED appropriations bills for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget. ASM supports a total funding level of $4.1 billion for CDC to respond to an array of continuing and new public health challenges. As the "Nation's Prevention Agency," the CDC is charged with promoting health and quality of life by anticipating, identifying, preventing and controlling diseases and other public heath threats. The CDC must have adequate resources to expect and be prepared for unexpected public health emergencies throughout the country and across the globe, including, for example, a bioterrorism event, a global influenza pandemic, a large scale environmental disease threat or an unforeseen public health danger.
In particular, substantial new funding is needed to enable CDC to fully implement its comprehensive plan, "Preventing Infectious Disease: A Strategy for the 21st Century." The ASM believes that an additional $162 million over FY 2000 would achieve the CDC goals set forth in 1998 for emerging infections. These goals include a broad range of improvements to such critical functions as detection and prevention of emerging pathogens, communication among all levels of government health agencies, and integration of laboratory science with on-site epidemiology. Infectious diseases are a crisis of global proportions which threaten gains in health and life expectancy and which are now the worlds' biggest killer of children and young adults.
Continuing an investment in both NIH and CDC, is an investment in health and security for the entire world. ASM appreciates your commitment to these critical research and public health funding matters and stands ready to assist you as the appropriations process moves forward.


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It was one man's life. But it was so much larger.
Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was a Friday, like this one, very early in the afternoon.
You likely know the rest of the details, and the debate that still churns on how exactly the events of that day unfolded.
Kennedy was the fourth president to be assassinated. No president since has fallen to the same fate, although Ronald Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt in 1981.
Only very rare moments have carried the same weight as Kennedy's death.
It's likely that, if you were alive then, you remember exactly where you were the moment you found out. In those days, long before Twitter, cellphones and 24/7 cable news, not everyone found out promptly.
So it's likely that your memories of that day also involve first seeing someone, in stunned silence, and attempting to figure out why. If you found out first, you were that person.
Kennedy's assassination has been called the moment when America's innocence was lost, because in that moment, an unexpected evil did win.
On Friday, the events of that day will be recounted time and again as remembrances are held from coast to coast, one of the largest taking place in the city where the shooting occurred – Dallas.
What actually happened, who fired all of the shots, why the shots were fired and who the intended target was will continue to be debated. We likely will never have more clarity on any of those issues.
But they continue to stand in the memories of many Americans as a moment that we hope to never see repeated.


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Guest Speaker: Raymond Laflamme, Institute for Quantum Computing
Topic: Discovery - Quantum Revolution
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2013 at 4:00 pm
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Perimeter Institute - 31 Caroline St. N. - Waterloo
This lecture is now SOLD OUT. To get in a waiting line please be at Perimeter Institute no earlier than 3:30 pm. When you arrive at Perimeter, look for the waiting line sign. Please note you must arrive in person to be part of the waiting line.


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Northgate Shopping Center Customer Appreciation was held Friday, October 5th.
Northgate Shopping Center Customer Appreciation held Friday, October 5th on the parking lot welcomed all to their barbecue. Seven lucky winners of prizes were announced Tuesday afternoon at Community Lanes. The grand prize winner of the Northgate prize, a 42 inch Sanyo television was Anita Miller, second from the left; Donna Guthrie, center left, winner MCS Office Equipment Gift Basket; Jay Hill, right, Moberly Motors Certificate; Not pictured: Ann Gallagher, Community Lanes Certificate; Ray Haque, Goodwill Christmas Package; Carol Marey, Pyramid Home Health Services Inc., Fall Deco MU Back Rest; Bob Whisenand, Image Makers Spa Package.


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tsdecrypt reads an incoming MPEG transport stream over UDP/RTP and then decrypts it using keys obtained from OSCAM or a similar CAM server. Currently supported crypto systems are Conax, Cryptoworks, Irdeto, Viaccess, Mediaguard (Seca), Videoguard (NDS), Nagra, DRE-Crypt, and Bulcrypt. BISS and constant code words are also supported. tsdecrypt communicates with a CAM server using the cs378x (camd35 over TCP) protocol or the newcamd protocol.
mptsd receives MPEGTS streams from UDP/multicast or HTTP and combines them into one multiple program stream that is suitable for outputing to a DVB-C modulator. It has been tested with the Dektec DTE-3114 Quad QAM Modulator and it is used in production in couple of small DVB-C networks.
DVBlast is a simple and powerful MPEG-2 transport stream demux and streaming application with several input methods, such as Linux DVB supported cards (DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, etc.), ASI cards, and UDP/RTP streams carrying a transport stream. It outputs one or several UDP/RTP streams carrying transport streams with hardware or software PID filtering, PID-based or service-based demultiplexing, and optional descrambling via a CAM device.
OpenSAND, formerly known as Platine, is a user-friendly and efficient tool to emulate satellite communication systems, mainly DVB-RCS - DVB-S2. It provides a suitable and simple means for performance evaluation and innovative access and network techniques validation. Its ability to interconnect real equipments with real applications provides excellent demonstration means.
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Since nobody knows what the software does, and a copy hasn't been released yet to be installed, anything said about it is pure speculation. "Internet Service Retailers Management Software" could be just about anything.
Yes, because perfectly innocuous software needs a legal mandate requiring universal adoption.
People are drawing conclusions from what is known.
Yes, because perfectly innocuous software needs a legal mandate requiring universal adoption.
Universal adoption? It applies to ISPs, not every computer in the country. It could be something to impliment a HIPPA-like data retention and protection plan, or to secure financial data, or provide more robust encryption between DNS servers to thwart hijacking attempts. Or it could be a complete spy package.
It's never good to make assumptions -- you have to work with what you know. The moment you step away from that, you're in the land of conspiracy theories and what-if logic.
It's never good to make assumptions -- you have to work with what you know. The moment you step away from that, you're in the land of conspiracy theories and what-if logic.
True. I'm sure that secret software mandated by a communist government to be installed at their ISP is entirely in the best interests of their population.
What does communism have to with this?
Crack a book some time. The fact that communist countries have the worst track record in oppressing religion and free expression isn't new, or even controversial. As fucked up as the laws are in the USA and Europe, they don't even compare to the restrictions that the former USSR, China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba have instituted over the years.
Go ahead, pick any communist country, and show us how they are less oppressive than the US, Australia or any EU country. I won't hold my breath.
And there no other oppressive regimes other than communist ones?
No, but pretty much all the communist ones have been oppressive, so one might be correct in assuming all existing communist regimes are oppressive regimes.
And if that is the case, its better to be accurate as opposed to ambiguous - since not all Oppressive regimes are communist, calling a communist regime an oppressive regime when it is a communist regime (which implies oppressive) would be silly.
Following along?
I think the point is this: can you name ONE communist country that ISN'T oppressive? No? Ok. Is the country we are discussing a communist country. Yes? Ok.
So to assume that a communist country is oppressive isn't exactly assuming. It doesn't say that all non-communist countries are perfect. You can quit defending communism now. Of all the possible evils, the vast majority here will agree that it tops the list.
Communist states within democratic federations have not necessarily been oppressive - e.g. the Indian state of Kerala, which was rather well run by communists.
True. I'm sure that secret software mandated by a communist government to be installed at their ISP is entirely in the best interests of their population.
Cisco's Backdoor for Hackers [forbes.com]
Cisco isn't actually the primary target of Cross' critique. He points out that all networking companies are legally required to build lawful intercepts into their equipment.
You can proceed with whatever rambling rationalization your reality demands.
It's for the children!
Err... Pedophiles! Rapists! uhhh....
Cyber Defense!
The only reason that logic holds true is because whenever someone comes up with a conspiracy theory its often so well thought out that the conspirators have to try it.
Yes, because perfectly innocuous software needs a legal mandate requiring universal adoption.
People are drawing conclusions from what is known.
Disclaimer: I've been living in Vietnam for over 2 years. I see your point, but I agree with the GP - Vietnam is far less restrictive in almost everything than China. Yes, there is censorship in the media, specifically you can't demand democracy or change in the form of government and you can't write anything bad about Ho Chi Minh. On the other hand, there is also considerable freedom to criticize government decisions, even in Thanh Nien (The Youth) daily newspaper (the most popular newspaper) in the count
"Internet Service Retailers Management Software" could be just about anything.
I don't know what about "could be just about anything" isn't frightening to you when it refers to software that the government mandates be put on your computer.
That's like saying Duke Nukem Forever was never released or installed, and anything said about it is pure speculation. It could have been a game, or it could have been a typing tutor. It could have been Tax-Revenue Software. It could have been a batch file that filled your hard drive with LOLCats. It could have been a script to shutdown your computer.
What I'm saying is: Don't be ridiculous. This "pure speculation" has as much of a concrete idea behind it as one would assume that Portal 2 is going to be a vi
Context matters.
"Vietnam unfortunately boasts some of the world's most explicit restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and the arrests of bloggers have provided a chilling reminder to those who choose to speak out against the government that they put themselves at personal risk. Independent media is virtually non-existent, with all media outlets being state-run. To even register a new media outlet requires purchasing the right to obtain a license from an existing state-run organ, a dub
For one thing, Vietnam isn't China. Vietnam fought China after it defeated the US (which was after it defeated France), and beat China back out of its borders, too.
For another thing, Vietnam's government is a very hands-off government. If anything the main problem for Vietnamese people is their government's failure to lead and protect them from people with private power. For all its styling itself a "Communist" government, Vietnam's actual government is quite far in practice from anything like the totalitar
>Vietnam's government is a very hands-off government. If anything the main problem for Vietnamese people is their government's failure to > lead and protect them from people with private power.
Not quite. They are the same people. State and money are merged.
http://report.globalintegrity.org/Vietnam [globalintegrity.org]
http://report.globalintegrity.org/Vietnam/2009/scorecard/7/ [globalintegrity.org]
"Not quite"? In fact I think that you just agreed with exactly what I said.
I do hope you understand that the only place that Vietnam "defeated" the US was at the conference table. They never, not even once, defeated us on the ground. Even when they sent 150,000 men across the boarder in The Eastertide Offensive, [wikipedia.org] US forces drove them back, smashing all of their armor and mechanized transport and sending the 50,000 survivors stumbling home on foot. I know; I was in Tonkin Gulf at the time, and my ship's shore bombardment was part of
This is correct. The Vietnam War ended for the United States when the US and North Vietnam agreed to a cease-fire peace treaty and the US withdrew. Then following the US Congress ending military assistance to the South, North Vietnam invaded and wrecked the South's resistance.
There was never a US military defeat in the Vietnam War, not even the popularized "defeat" during the Tet Offensive of 1968 were the US or ARVN defeated.
The 1972-73 ceasefire and peace treaty happened because the United States bombed t
I do hope you realize that wars are won or lost when one side surrenders. Which is what the US did. Many years after we should have left that country to its own civil war.
Thank you for demonstrating just why the Vietnam War was such a fiasco: even 40 years later, you're still fighting it, after we lost it. You think the killing was "the good part", and that the people who got you out of there were "almost treasonous". You and your war did more to undermine this country than practically anything ever done by
Sorry to nitpick, but to be precise, Sài Gòn only refers to the central districts (depending on who you ask, they may say just district 1, or districts 1 to 4). The correct name for the greater city is Thành ph H Chí Minh. Hà Ni is definitely larger than Sài Gòn.
Damn Slashcode ate up three vowels with tone marks. Oh well - you'll have to fill in the gaps.
I've lived in TPHCM district 7 and my wife is Viet. People will often refer to the greater city as Sai Gon, particularly older people. However, if you ask them straight up what the difference is, they will tell you, and when writing (or typing) most younger people will use the abbreviation "TPHCM" to refer to the greater city.
If a non-Australian asks me where I live I will say Sydney. If I am referring to Sydney it could also mean just "The City" or "The CBD", or the entire metropolitan area. If I wanted to makes sure someone knew I meant the whole of the Sydney Metropolitan Area, I would say "Sydney Metropolitan Area". I might even reply with the name of the suburb I live in if I wanted to be more specific, or even the area "The Northern Beaches" if I wanted to be less specific about where I lived, but more specific than
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The only thing worse than being up a creek with no paddle is being dependent on a river with no water.
Charlotte County, which has depended on the Peace River for decades, would be in a water crisis if not for a long-term project that dramatically changed the way our entire region uses and manages a vital natural resource.
Today the flow of the Peace River is so low that withdrawals cannot be made. In fact, there have been no withdrawals from the Peace in our region since Jan. 28.
The Peace and other rivers, known as surface waters, typically experience significantly reduced flows before and after the rainy season (June through early October). Yet the use of potable water rises during the dry season, due to higher population counts and lower rainfall levels, creating an imbalance between stressed supplies and higher demands.
For instance, in January, Charlotte County needed an average of 25 million gallons of water per day to satisfy household and commercial demands. Yet an average of only 16 million gallons could be withdrawn daily from the Peace River, which supplies virtually all of the potable water purchased from public supplies in Charlotte.
The city of North Port, which obtains about two-thirds of its potable supplies from the Peace River, would have been in similarly dire straits.
The imbalance would have gone from bad to worse in February and this month, because the regional water authority stopped pumping from the Peace.
That's right, not a single gallon withdrawn -- the same scenario that occurred in 2012 between January and May.
Saving during rainy days
So, how have Charlotte, North Port and other governments -- including Sarasota County, which now buys about two-thirds of its supply from the Peace River, reducing its historical reliance on Manatee County -- been able to keep water flowing to residences and businesses despite drier than normal conditions?
They are part of a regional system that saved during rainy days.
What's more, local governments and their utilities in the four-county region have built hundreds of miles of pipelines, building connections that allow water to be moved in cost-effective, environmentally responsible ways throughout the region.
This system has been created under the auspices of the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority, which is controlled by a four-member board with one representative each from Charlotte, DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties.
During the 1980s, the formative years of the authority, Franz Ross -- then a Charlotte commissioner -- articulated his vision of a system featuring pipeline connections among local utilities. (Ross died before his idea came to fruition but, today, utility systems are linked from Manatee County all the way south to Punta Gorda.)
In the early 1990s, the authority purchased a small, deteriorated water-treatment plant from the now-defunct General Development Corp. The plant served mainly Charlotte customers but was located in DeSoto.
I was at the first meeting during which Ed Chance, then a Manatee County commissioner, proposed to state water managers that the authority purchase the General Development plant and pursue storage strategies to help make the region drought-proof.
Today, thanks in part to the steady performance of Pat Lehman, the longtime executive director, the regional authority has more than 8 billion gallons -- yes, billion with a "b" -- in storage, a supply that could last 200 days, even if it's not replenished.
That water is stored in a 6-billion-gallon reservoir and two wells -- all of which were constructed by the authority.
River withdrawals limited
The reservoir and wells enable the authority to store water "harvested" from the Peace River during the rainy season, when flows spike at their highest levels, often flowing over its banks.
Even when water is plentiful, the withdrawals cannot exceed 10 percent of total flow, an amount determined through extensive scientific studies; usually, the withdrawals are about 3 percent to 4 percent of flow.
When the Peace is close to running dry, the authority turns first to the reservoir. (Chance died before the giant lake was completed, but he made the greatest single political contribution to the system in place today.)
Fortunately, a number of public officials -- including Charles Black, a former chairman of the Southwest Florida Water Management District -- believed in the regional approach. And because the authority worked through its challenges, instead of putting them off, the Peace River project benefited from funding once available through the water-management district, and state, federal and local governments.
As a result, there have been no water shortages in our region, despite below-average rainfall.
There have been no water wars between local governments. Local economies, finally on the rebound, have not been disrupted by draconian water-use limits or construction moratoriums.
Best of all, water managers have not had to increase their reliance on stressed aquifers -- or make the no-win choice between protecting the environment or excessively draining surface waters.
These positive conditions did not materialize out of thin air. They are the results of an extraordinary vision and diligence.
Tom Tryon is opinion editor. email@example.com
Tryon: Vision, diligence and an ample water supply
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
A Makeover for a 1660 No. Andover, Massachusetts Cemetery
13 comments:
- Bill West said...
I'll have to visit that place someday and see
if any of my Abbott ancestors are buried there!
- May 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- Melanie said...
Hi, Barbara! I, too love to stroll thru cemeteries. There's just something peaceful about it and after a while you get to know the "people there" by walking by and reading their tombstones. It's just like visiting old friends!
- May 11, 2010 at 9:09 AM
- Betty said...
I will definitely have to visit this cemetery-- maybe next year when we take our cross-country trip! I have lots of ancestors buried here, as you well know :-) Too bad about the broken headstones and the loss of the beautiful trees. Was there a reason they were removed??
- May 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Amanda Acquard said...
The trees being taken down and the broken grave stones, especially the ones all over the tree trunk, are so sad. Thank you for showing the cemetery!
- May 11, 2010 at 11:35 AM
- Barbara said...
Thank you all for your comments. I will go back soon and perhaps do an update. Betty, I don't know why they decided to remove the trees, but it sure doesn't look the same.
- May 11, 2010 at 5:19 PM
- Brenda said...
Congratulations on your My Heritage Top 100 mention. Way to go!
- May 12, 2010 at 7:18 PM
- Dr. Bill (William L.) Smith said...
Nice photos! My official visit for Top 100!
Congratulations on MyHeritage.com Top 100 Recognition!
Bill ;-)
Author of "Back to the Homeplace"
and "13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories"
- May 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
Congrats on your My Heritage Top 100 award. You deserve it. You are definitely on MY top 100.
- May 13, 2010 at 2:25 AM
- Barbara Poole said...
Thank you Bill and Michelle very much.
- January 12, 2011 at 4:10 PM
- benotforgot said...
LUV seeing the seasons in this cemetery where some of my kith 'n kin are resting . . . thanks a bunch for doing the legwork . . . and for sharing!
- October 22, 2012 at 9:39 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Thanks Vicki for the comment. Now I need to take a Fall photo to go with the other seasons. Other posts with this cem. have 2 ancestors and misc. tombstone photos.
- October 23, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- Melissa Berry said...
Nice work Barbara! Thank You for sharing this I appreciate your work and all your blog post!
- October 17, 2013 at 6:43 PM
- Kathy Stevens said...
One tree was dead and had dropped large branches during storms. The other tree was struck by lightening and split all the way to the ground. During a storm a few months later the top 20 feet came down on top of several gravestones. So both were taken down intentionally before nature took them down and did damage.
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How is it a cop shoots another cop due to poor training or negligence and the home owner is charged with assault. I guess I get it, yet I wonder if we are giving away to much in the name of law and order.
Man Charged With Reckless Endangerment, Assault After Cop Shoots Other Cop in the Back
A Pennsylvania man was charged with reckless endangerment, assault, endangering the welfare of a child and illegal possession of a firearm in an incident that ended with one police officer shooting another in the back as they attempted to force their way through the door. Via the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:
Police said Lijewski was carrying a loaded shotgun around his home in the 5100 block of Elmwood Drive when his girlfriend called 911. Four officers arrived, including Baldwin Borough police Sgt. Ralph Miller, who knocked on the front door while a second Baldwin officer moved into a backup position behind him.
Lijewski answered the door but refused orders to show both hands. Miller could see a woman holding a child in the house and wanted to speak with her when Lijewski began shutting the door. The second Baldwin officer put his foot in the door, and Miller put his shoulder into the door to try to force it open wider.
The second officer fired two shots with his patrol rifle, striking Miller, 54, between the bottom of his bulletproof vest and his belt.
The key detail, though, comes via the AP:
Police responded even after a woman called back to say Lijewski had unloaded the weapon and police were no longer needed.
Butt Fumble with bullets
I was thinking the key detail was that a cop had his booger finger on the trigger with out a target and not ready to shoot and had a negligent discharge into another cop, twice. And the alleged suspect gets charged.
A butt fumble indeed.
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without warrant upon probable cause when there is ongoing
conduct that imperils the personal security of any person or
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(1) Under Title 18 (relating to crimes and offenses)
when such offense constitutes a summary offense:
18 Pa.C.S. § 5503 (relating to disorderly conduct).
18 Pa.C.S. § 5505 (relating to public drunkenness).
18 Pa.C.S. § 5507 (relating to obstructing highways and
other public passages).
18 Pa.C.S. § 6308 (relating to purchase, consumption,
possession or transportation of liquor or malt or brewed
(2) Violation of an ordinance of a city of the second
(b) Guidelines by governmental body.--The right of arrest
Good point. I am assuming he was charged with assault for the negligent discharge of the patrol rifle. I just thought the story was different based on my assumption they charged him with assault and endangering a child because one cop shot another, but I probably do have it all wrong.
The article is incomplete to all the details. I had read another article about this story that explained the Perp has a criminal record that prevents him from owning firearms, it also mentioned that a third officer who had been I guess covering the house around the corner and when he heard the two gunshots ran around the corner and returned fire on the cops at the door but thankfully he fired high and missed them.
Read more: http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/3...#ixzz2MvZUDwHnLijewski ripped the phone off the wall when his girlfriend called 911, punched holes in the bathroom door and almost broke through a bedroom door where his girlfriend hid with two children, Scott said.
Phil DiLucente, who with attorney Jim Ecker is representing Lijewski, said he is not sure whether his client would be facing charges if Miller had not been injured.
Police officers have a certain procedure they have to follow in any domestic call. If they had made entry and found there was no true victim under the circumstances, maybe not. In this particular case, the officer did get shot ,and there was an understanding that maybe a little more had gone on in the residence, he said.
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Why the hell isn't the LEO being charged with reckless endangerment? He discharged a weapon at a door as it was being closed. There were women and children in there, and he was reckless and irresponsible enough to hit another officer.
Yeah, the guy parading around his home with a loaded shotgun destroying things ought to be charged with a crime, but is there any doubt that the most grievous crime was committed by one of the police officers responding to the situation?


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Sherman police are investigating two shootings that happened overnight, both on the east side of town.
Police responded to the 400 block of North Andrews just before one o'clock this morning. Officials say when they arrived on the scene, they found 22-year-old Robin Redrick shot in the back of the head. He was care-flighted to Parkland Hospital, but officials say he was conscious.
Kendrick Anderson, 22, was also injured, but he was shot in the left arm. Those two men, along with a third person, were sitting in a 1995 black Chrysler when the shooting occurred. Police do not have any suspects yet.
The second shooting occurred at the 1200 block of South Walnut. Officials say around three o'clock this morning, someone inside a car fired multiple shots at a house. Four people were on the front porch at the time of the shooting. No one was injured, and police are looking for suspects.
If you have any information on either shooting, you are asked to call the Sherman Police Department at 903-892-7290.


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Loup Loup Bridge
The proposal includes removal of an existing bridge and installation of a new single span pre-stressed concrete bridge. The new bridge will be constructed next to the existing bridge so the existing bridge can provide uninterrupted fire and emergency access to the adjacent state campground, state forest and private property without the need to install and then remove a temporary bridge. There are currently weight restrictions of approximately 5 tons. Upon completion of construction all legal loads will be allowed over the bridge. The existing bridge is approximately 24.5 feet wide and 41 feet long, the new bridge will be approximately 24 feet wide and 50 feet long. The project is located on OCR 2045, Loup Loup Canyon Rd at approximate milepost 4.00, Section 36, T34N, R24E, Willamette Meridian, Okanogan County. The comment period for this determination ends at 5pm on November 13, 2013. Comments must be submitted in writing. Direct questions and comments to: Charlene Schumacher, Natural Resource Senior Planner, Okanogan County Office of Planning & Development, 123 5th Ave. N, Suite 130, Okanogan, WA 98840, (509) 422-7113.
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The Holcim (US) Holly Hill plant opened in 1966, ready to supply much-needed cement to the Southeast. The plant has grown along with demand. In 2003, a single dry-process kiln replaced the plant's two wet-process kilns, boosting production to about 2 million metric tons of cement per year - nearly six times the plant's original output. Holly Hill's on-site natural resources contribute to its production efficiency. A quarry on the 3,700-acre plant property holds more than 70 percent of the raw materials needed for making cement.
The sustainable development philosophy of Holcim balances its commitments to people, the environment and the community while producing a high quality product. An industry innovator, the plant co-processes waste, that is, it recovers energy and minerals from waste such as scrap tires to replace some of the fossil fuels and mineral resources used in cement processing. Co-processing is a unique waste management service that destroys waste, diverting it from landfills and incinerators and incorporates the mineral and chemical components of the waste into a manufactured product - Portland cement. This type of recycling greatly reduces pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.
The Holly Hill plant was awarded the ENERGY STAR for the first time in 2010. Emphasis on variable speed drives, compressed air efficiency, and lighting greatly improved the plant's energy efficiency.
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It happened again in Baltimore in 1987, when Luciano Pavarotti was in town to sing with the Baltimore Opera Company. At the tenor's request, Mimmo Cricchio, late chef/owner of Da Mimmo in the city's Little Italy, tossed together a tortellini dish with roasted peppers and dill. Pavarotti loved the dish, and whenever he was in town, he booked a table at the restaurant to eat Tortellini Pavarotti.
Chicken Tetrazzini, too, is connected to a singer. Food historians say the dish was created in San Francisco and named for Luisa Tetrazzini, an enormously popular soprano in the early 20th century. It's a real crowd pleaser of a casserole with a layer of spaghetti covered with creamed chicken and mushrooms and topped with a generous sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.
Although the dish was named for Luisa Tetrazzini, it's not clear that she ever ate it. She once wrote, "I like the plainest food ... consoling myself with fruit and fresh vegetables." It's possible Madame Tetrazzini didn't know what she was missing.
Chicken Tetrazinni
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 (8-ounce) package sliced mushrooms
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 (14-ounce) can low-sodium chicken broth
1 1/3 cups half-and-half
3 tablespoons dry sherry (optional)
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg
3 cups (1 pound) cooked boneless, skinless chicken, cut into strips
1/2 pound spaghetti, broken in half and cooked according to package directions
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1. Preheat oven to 425F.
2. Melt butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms; sauté 4 minutes or until browned. Sprinkle with flour and toss to combine. Add broth and half-and-half; cook, stirring often, until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in sherry (if using), salt, pepper and nutmeg. Remove from heat and stir in chicken.
3. Combine spaghetti and chicken mixture; toss gently and spoon into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish or shallow 3-quart baking dish; sprinkle with cheese. Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly.
Per serving: 320 calories, 14g fat, 65mg chol., 2-g prot., 28g carbs., 2g fiber, 250mg sodium.


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On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as one of the brightest ever seen.
GRBs are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos, thought to be triggered when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a black hole. The black hole then drives jets of particles that drill all the way through the collapsing star and erupt into space at nearly the speed of light.
Gamma rays are the most energetic form of light. Hot matter surrounding a new black hole and internal shock waves produced by collisions within the jet are thought to emit gamma rays with energies in the million-electron-volt (MeV) range, or roughly 500,000 times the energy of visible light. The most energetic emission, with billion-electron-volt (GeV) gamma rays, is thought to arise when the jet slams into its surroundings, forming an external shock wave.
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NEW ORLEANS — After saying last August that a public records request would be fulfilled, Louisiana's education department is again refusing to provide The Associated Press with records on how schools were chosen to participate in Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program.
The Associated Press requested the records on June 12. The department initially rejected the request on Aug. 3. However, a spokesman for Education Superintendent John White later told an AP capital bureau reporter that the records request would be fulfilled in September — after the final voucher enrollment numbers were tallied.
But, on Monday, White said in a letter that the request for records, emails or other communications was "overly broad." He also said records pertaining to the development of policies or deliberation among managers and staff are not public records.
"It was never our intention to provide documents that went against the advice of counsel and were not deemed public record," Erin Bendily, a deputy secretary in the department, said in an interview Monday.
The AP's June 12 request cited the state constitution and state law regarding public records. The request was for "any and all records, emails or other communications pertaining to the development of criteria used in selecting schools eligible to accept students in the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program or associated with the voucher/scholarship program created under Act 2 of the just-ended legislative session; and any and all such records, emails and communications regarding individual schools accepted or rejected for the program."
The department's initial rejection came more than eight weeks later, on a Friday evening, Aug. 3. The department did not cite open records laws in its denial. Rather, department spokeswoman Sarah Mulhearn's email cited two court cases involving disputes in which the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office was denied documents from the Public Service Commission and the Department of Insurance.
The News-Star newspaper in Monroe has a lawsuit pending against the Department of Education over a public information request regarding the voucher program. That suit has not yet gone to trial.
More than 4,900 students from poorly performing public schools have taken advantage of the state's newly expanded voucher program, which uses government money to pay their private school tuition.
The voucher program began on a limited basis in New Orleans early in Jindal's first term. Jindal backers pushed a statewide expansion of the program through the House and Senate in the early days of the Legislative session. Backers tout it as a means of allowing low- and middle-income students to escape bad public schools.
Opponents, who are challenging the program in court, say it diverts money needed for public education. They also have raised questions about the quality of some of the 117 private schools in the program and whether some schools chosen to receive hundreds of thousands in tax dollars have adequate facilities, teaching staff and curricula.
State Education Department again rejects records request
NEW ORLEANS — After saying last August that a public records request would be fulfilled, Louisiana's education department is again refusing to provide The Associated Press with records on how schools were chosen to participate in Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program.


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Phobos, the larger moon of Mars, has already taken a pounding. A collision with another large space rock gouged the crater at right, and created cracks through the moon that are evident on the surface. But Phobos' fate is even more violent. The moon is spiraling closer to Mars, and eventually the planet's gravity will pulverize it. This image, from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, was enhanced to bring out subtle variations in color on Phobos' surface. [NASA/LPL/MRO]
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Phobos, the larger moon of Mars, could be one of the solar system's most exciting thrill rides. But if you're not careful, it could become a little too thrilling — one big push and you'd float off into space.
Phobos is a lumpy boulder that's only about 15 miles in diameter. Its main feature is a giant impact crater. The impact that gouged it was so strong that it almost blasted the moon to bits.
Phobos orbits just 3700 miles above the Martian surface. At that altitude, it moves so quickly across the Martian sky that it rises in the west and sets in the east, with moonrises about 11 hours apart.
Seen from Phobos, Mars would span about a quarter of the sky, and its surface would slide past you at about a thousand miles per hour. So in a single circle around Mars — daylight permitting — you'd see everything from the giant volcanoes of the Tharsis Ridge to Valles Marineris, a complex of canyons that dwarfs the Grand Canyon here on Earth. But because of Phobos's low altitude, you wouldn't see Mars's polar ice caps — they'd be hidden around the curve of the planet itself.
You wouldn't want to get too excited by the view, though. The gravity of Phobos is so weak that a single big jump would launch you into space — leaving the Martian moon behind.
Mars is in our own sky right now, quite low in the west-southwest as twilight begins to fade. It looks like an orange star. And this evening, it's well below the crescent Moon.
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This is a really cute anime; I wonder if there will be a season 2?
I find the relationship between Sasayan and Natsume more interesting than the main couple... I'm probably doing it wrong. It doesn't seem like they will be the beta couple after all. Oh well.
I really love Shizuku, she's a refreshing female lead.
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I do not know if this has mentioned before, but there is a role reversal in the main couple, Shizuku is saving Haru all the time. Sometimes she saves him from himself, but that does not mean it is less important, in ep10 Haru was mere seconds from attempting to kill Yamaken (if he had fallen head first chances are he would have died or ended like Christopher Reves) not only because Haru sincerely loves Shizuku, but because he has clearly stated he believes she is his only chance at redemption God will ever grant him (and with his violent behavior he is not that far from killing someone in a tantrum and throwing his whole life to the dump).
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This episodes does a pretty good job evoking sympathy for Haru. I could see now where he gets that egocentric view of the world.It's a bit like Piaget's theory. Piaget opines that egocentrism greatly influence children's morality, and very often, they are more concerned with the outcome rather than the actual intention. Like for instance, whenever Yamaken makes Haru jealous by openly flirting with Shizuku, Haru will probably just beat the crap out of Yamaken if Shizuku is not present, all this without understanding that Yamaken is just probably trying to provoke him (i won't go deeper about his "feelings" for Shizuku).
Egocentrism is generally thought to occur only in early childhood, but there are some who claim that even adolescents experience them. Watching the latest episode, I am guessing that parental rejection and lack of supportive friends could be the contributing factors that lead to Haru's egocentrism, because poor lad doesn't have the chance to interact with others and properly construct his understanding of the world. In a way, Haru is still trapped in his childhood. Quoting Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development, unless Haru faces his demons for real, he will continue to experience a hard time trying to move from one transition to another that allows him to properly grow up.
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Yamaken pining over Shizuku.
It's really throwing him off his game.
Haru still jealous...
Yamaken's awkward attempts to get closer to Shizuku were lol
Flashbacks to childhood days were interesting.
Heart to heart on a rainy night was really sweet.
Good episode.
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Yamaken is slowly growing on me. He's actually a pretty cool and normal guy if you look beyond his disdainful attitude. He's still too prideful for his good, however, if not for that he would have already made a move on Shizuku.
This episode portrayed Haru in a bit more sympathetic light. It's not going to be enough to redeem him in the eyes of most people, I'm sure, but it's a start. Seems like he's had a pretty rough childhood. I'm curious to learn the details.
The ending was possibly the most interesting part of the episode. I assume they're intending to bring the Natsume x Mi-chan plot thread to a close before the end of the series. Perhaps they will even introduce the Sasayan x Natsume possibility.
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Did this episode just have Haru consider ripping Shizuku's arms and legs off just so he can keep her? Wow, girls sure do love abusive boyfriends, don't they?
Or in other news, the male cast is really not being treated well in this show at all.
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I think Haru treats Shizuku about as well as Shizuku treats Haru. They're both generally kind to each other, with both of them treating the other unfairly on occasion. And I think both genders are treated pretty equally in this show, with every cast member a good, respectable person in certain ways, and unflatteringly neurotic in others.
Also, props to whoever voices Haru for the screaming in that flashback. That was a nicely-done psychotic rage.
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okay finished the episode.
man, Haru is creepy and we're shown his mental issues run deep.
Yamaken was interesting.
A bit of why Haru is annoying to me might be because we never hear his inner-monologue thoughts like with Yamaken or Shizuku. Even when he does some monolguing, he says it outloud to himself, not true inner-reflection.
If I were Yamaken, I would get with Shizuku just to save her from Haru. This episode marks the 3rd time Haru has physically battered shizuku, with the thrown soup can.
Spoiler for yandere haru:
Run Shizuku, Run...
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I feel sorry for Mitty because she believes she is in love with Haru. I have known women who were in love with violently aggressive, abusive boyfriends (or husbands). I know that, even though they realize the situation that they are in, they simply can't help themselves because "I love him!" What I fear is that this anime will have Haru undergo a miraculous "cure" and become a model boyfriend in the course of the school year. In reality, it usually takes years before it is either too late (he kills her), or the woman just can't take it anymore and leaves (usually with police protection).
But, I am also disappointed in Mitty. Haru has not suffered any consequences for, once again, whacking her in the head. How many times does she have to suffer physical abuse from her boyfriend before it's too much?
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Hmm, I don't remember my last post in the Hyouka forum. But, no, I never ended up liking Oreki.
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Transport for charter schools costs Ohio taxpayers
- Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio taxpayers are largely footing the bill for public school buses that are driving farther to transport students attending the state's charter schools, a newspaper investigation found.
State officials have forced traditional public schools to traverse their cities to pick up and deliver children to privately run charter schools, often while cutting transportation to their own kids, according to the Akron Beacon-Journal (http://bit.ly/1pE9zR1 ).
The newspaper analyzed statewide data and determined that it costs about 44 percent more per child to deliver the charter school students door to door.
A child attending a traditional public school and transported on a district bus cost on average $4.30 per day in 2012. For a charter school student, it was $6.18 — or $1.88 more per day.
Since then, 22,000 additional students have been enrolled at the state's charter schools. Also, the state has stopped helping school districts buy new buses, and other state transportation assistance has failed to keep pace with costs, the investigation found.
Charter schools can receive state subsidies to provide their own transportation. But the majority — 391 of 406 charter schools — are putting that obligation onto local school districts.
School districts can't keep up with the demand for equipment and logistics software, so they're turning to private bus contractors. Those contractors on average charged districts $5.45 per child to go to a traditional school and $12 to a charter school.
The difference is the distance — charter school students on average must travel more than two miles, or twice as far.
When a school determines that a student's travel requirements are excessive, it can pay a stipend to parents. Those have tripled for charter school parents since 2005, from 1,732 to 5,365 in 2012, but fallen by a third for children attending traditional schools, from 1,243 to 814.
Charter school advocates know it's a big expense for school districts, but there is little evidence they have offered much support in the legislature.
"Transportation is probably the second or third largest issue for all public schools," said Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition For Quality Education, a school choice and charter advocate. "It's a problem not only for charters but it's a problem for districts. In our view, whatever it is today, it's going to be worse next year because of the cost of fuel, because of the state funding."
Ohio's bus fleet — district and privately owned — traveled 15,627 miles farther each day in 2012 because of longer routes for charter students. That equates to an added expense of $84,817 daily (about the price of a new bus) and $15,267,089 yearly.


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You can see who you are logged in as at the top right of the screen, where it will say Log out [username]. So Lillian you'd just log out then relog in as Lillian rather than Steve, or vice versa.
There's mixed responses to furosemide (called frusemide over here). Some dogs it apparently helps, some it helps for a while, and some it doesn't help much at all. I figure any time I can gain without needing to make surgery decisions is good -- I've already had an MRI and know where I stand with Leo from that standpoint.


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|4 years 44 weeks ago
|You can see where this trend is going
As it becomes a more common and known practice, increasingly marginal prospects will do it to get an edge, so instead of Andrew Wiggins doing it, it will be lower tier D1 players, etc... until guys that are not even NCAA calibur players will be doing it because they think they are good enough, or are encouraged by AAU coaches, family, whomever to do it, and then they graduate and are just an extra old kid who didnt get an athletic scholarship, and possibly didnt value education enough to get an academic scholarship, and they basically wasted a year of their life in 7th grade reducing their earning potential in whatever career they get into by 1 year. Once this starts happening the NCAA will have to step in and do something.
|5 years 44 weeks ago
|The only thing I can safely predict
Voeckler will either win the polka dot jersey or die trying. That man would ride through a brick wall for a bit of glory.
|5 years 50 weeks ago
|I disagree with this statement somewhat.
Sci Fi should make attempts to explain the improbable, thats what separates it from Fantasy. I'm not saying it has to be completely explained using current scientific principles, but there has to be an attempt. The Sci Fi elements of this movie were not the problem with it. in fact, if they had stuck with pure sci fi this would have been a better movie. The thriller/horror aspects of the movie really pulled me out of a pretty realistic sci fi world and just made it feel kind of cheesy. The character development, or lack thereof is what really destroyed this movie for me. The only character in the movie that really was relatable was the android. His lack of humanity was really well conveyed through his reactions/responses, as well as how others perceived him. I still don't really understand why anyone else was even there outside of the two main scientists, no one had very clear motivations in the first place.
|6 years 7 weeks ago
Watney... sneaking up on everyone.
|6 years 8 weeks ago
|depending on your viewpoint
things like the Occupy movement, or the Arab Spring were aided by twitter. Also, flashmobs, everyone loves a good flashmob, organized by twitter. Also, Barcrawls sometimes post the next bar to go to via twitter, which is an excellent use of the app on your phone.
|6 years 9 weeks ago
|Really enjoying the Trailer Park Boys reference
That is all.
|6 years 9 weeks ago
|Double Post
|6 years 9 weeks ago
|Pryor Jersey
Thats a game worn Terrelle Pryor Jersey right?
|6 years 42 weeks ago
|In Ithaca
There is an official UofM Spirit Group that goes to a sports bar called Uncle Joe's. We meet for all football and a most big basketball and hockey games. They have a facebook page if you want to sign up for messages regarding events.
|6 years 43 weeks ago
|I believe
I believe that is not actually scaffolding, but instead is the inside of the scoreboard.
|6 years 44 weeks ago
|Yes Cycling
L'alpe D'Huez is probably the most famous mountain in cycling.
|6 years 44 weeks ago
Maybe the craziest single day of riding in the Tour that I have ever seen.
|6 years 44 weeks ago
|Great Stage today
nice to see someone with some balls, that was an impressive attack. Tomorrow will be really interesting. Andy worked hard today, and Evans worked to catch him. Watch for frank to attack on the final climb.
|6 years 44 weeks ago
|this stage is awesome
Really looking forward to seeing what happens, I have a feeling that having a few teammates around until the final climb could pay off for whoever has the strongest team. Sanchez and Contador will attack like mad men on the final climb if there is no separation. Poor Voeckler is going to kill himself to keep Yellow but he cannot do it, can he?
|6 years 44 weeks ago
|I would normally agree with you
but the finish here is pretty similar to stage 16 where contador took a minute out of Andy Schleck. I dont see any reason why he won't try it again and see what happens, he needs time on the next three stages, and any chance to weaken his opponents he should take. The Schlecks as well as voeckler looked vulnerable, and it would be unwise not to press the attack and give them a day to "recover" if you can call that stage map recovery.
|6 years 44 weeks ago
|Every stage from here on out is much watch
Tomorrow will be much like today with a hard climb followed by a tricky descent. I expect some more attacks on the final climb, maybe from Sanchez, I wonder who would get on his wheel. Then 2 days with hard mountain top finishes. If Andy Schleck has anything in him he will have to attack hard in these stages, he needs the time before the TT.
|6 years 44 weeks ago
|on a 70 footer
Having Mike Martin grinding on the winches would be a huge advantage. He could get a Spinnaker up in no time.
|6 years 45 weeks ago
|Nobody talks about Sammy Sanchez
But that guy is an elite climber and rides a pretty good TT. I don't think he gets the respect of the other contenders, and I could see him escaping in the alps to take some more time from the other leaders. He's definitely my darkhorse to spoil the party (if the reigning olympic champion can be considered a dark horse). But overall at this point its Cadel Evan's tour to lose. his form in the mountaints looks good enough, and he should take a lot of time out of the others in the TT.
|6 years 48 weeks ago
is killing The US team. He missed his mark on both goals.
|6 years 48 weeks ago
|Jan Vesely
So far he has won the draft easily. First he makes out with his girlfriend immediately upon being picked and the whole arena erupts. Then in his interview when asked if being called the European Blake Griffin is fair, he responds with "Blake Griffin is the American Jan Vesely." This guy is fantastic, And I am rooting for him based solely on his draft day performance.
|6 years 49 weeks ago
|An aerial view of what it would look like:
|7 years 7 weeks ago
|Jan 29th, 2005
fun times.
|7 years 7 weeks ago
|one more, since when will I get to post these again?
|7 years 7 weeks ago
|Also, knighting the snow bears at Blimpie Burger, same night.
|7 years 7 weeks ago
|7 years 27 weeks ago
|miller lite is never regular
never forget that.
|7 years 27 weeks ago
|Four Loko
may it never run out.
|7 years 28 weeks ago
|so for those not watching
soony entered the zone, a defender challenged, and a favorable deflection kept the ball right at soony's feet in stride. he played it forward to moody who was posting up about 12 yards out, he gave it right back and soony buried it far post with his right foot.
|7 years 28 weeks ago
|great goal
terrible celebration.
|7 years 28 weeks ago
|mich should be up at least 1 maybe 2
we have controlled the ball in their end for the entire half except maybe 1 8 minute stretch .


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1. What did you think of Bella's offer to stay human longer if Edward would only make love to her? Did you think that he would give in?
I liked it. I was hoping that is what would happen. Get some more human experiences in while she can. I knew he would give in. He has a hard time saying "no" to her.
2. Did you assume, like Bella, that he odd eating and sleeping habits were due to the amount of activity she and Edward was participating in, or did you have other suspicions?
I seriously had no clue. I have never been pregnant. I did not think it would be possible for Edward. I thought the cleaning crew brought over bad chicken. I was as shocked as Edward.
3. What did you think about Kaure's fear for Bella's safety and the argument she had with Edward? If you had been in Kaure's position, would you have tried harder or been too afraid to confront Edward?
I can understand her fear. I do not think I would have done anything. She probably thought he was going to kill Bella and did not understand how much Edward loved her.
4. Did it surprise you that Edward could eventually make love to Bella without hurting her, or was that something that you assumed he would eventually be able to do with enough control and resistance?
It did not surprise me. He has amazing self control.


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Steve Shell of Lexington has been re-elected to the North Carolina Bail Agents Association Board of Directors.
Steve Shell of Lexington has been re-elected to the North Carolina Bail Agents Association Board of Directors.
Shell has served the NCBAA membership for many years. He was one of the founding members of the association in 1992.
Shell, who owns A Bail Bonding, has worked in the private bail industry since 1979. He is licensed by the North Carolina Department of Insurance as a professional bondsman. Shell also holds a surety bail agent license.
The NCBAA board consists of 18 members that represent all areas of the state.
Brinkley Walser managing member David Inabinett announced that the firm has hired attorney E. Drew Nelson as an associate.
Nelson is a graduate of Elon University School of Law. He will concentrate in the areas of estate planning, elder law, estate administration, corporate law and real estate law.
"Drew brings with him a solid work ethic, a sense of community and a true desire to help people," Inabinett says. "He was a law clerk for two firms in the area and worked as an associate for a general practice firm in Winston-Salem before joining Brinkley Walser. We look forward to good things from Drew."
"Even prior to beginning the study of law, if you had asked me what my dream job was, I would have said 'working for Brinkley Walser,'" Nelson says. "The history behind this firm and the reputation within the community spoke to me both professionally and personally. History and tradition are very important to me, perhaps explaining why I attended Elon University following my father's footsteps and decided it was the next logical step to continue to Elon University School of Law. I look forward to working with the great team here at Brinkley Walser and serving those in local communities in the Triad area."
Brandi Tysinger-Temple, founder of Lolly Wolly Doodle, and Cathy Dunn of Cathy's Homemade Biscuits were recognized by the Triad Business Journal for having two of the top woman-owned businesses in the Triad.
Temple was named as running the second largest woman-owned business in the area. Lolly Wolly Doodle on Piedmont Drive has 160 employees. It recently received a $20 million investment from the Revolution Growth Fund and has plans to increase its operations.
Dunn was recognized for having the fourth largest woman-owned business in the Triad. Cathy's Homemade Biscuits has 100 employees. The company was founded in 1987 and operates Biscuit King restaurants on Cotton Grove Road and Talbert Boulevard. The homemade frozen biscuits are now available at area Whole Foods stores.