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Spartanburg transportation officials are taking another shot at fixing a dangerous railroad crossing that they've been worried about for 10 years.
Spartanburg transportation officials are taking another shot at fixing a dangerous railroad crossing that they've been worried about for 10 years.
A defect in the intersection of Fairforest Road and North Blackstock Road leaves some travelers straddling the railroad tracks, creating a safety hazard, said Jim D'Amato, transportation planning manager, at the Spartanburg Area Transportation Study's policy committee meeting on Monday.
Traveling north on North Blackstock Road, the left turn lane to remain on the road at the intersection of Fairforest Road isn't long enough, D'Amato said. The short distance between the light and the railroad tracks means long vehicles, including school buses and tractor trailers, are sometimes forced to straddle the railroad tracks.
"The signal is traffic activated, and it will turn green to clear the intersection if there's a train coming. The problem would be if a car stalled, trapping them and the car behind them," D'Amato said.
A car stalling on the tracks is a threat at any railroad intersection, but the risk is heightened when there's a signal involved, said Eric Dillon of the S.C. Department of Transportation.
"When the gates go down, that train is there," he said.
As an interim fix, D'Amato said they are looking into getting the activation for the light moved farther back on the tracks, giving cars additional time to clear the intersection ahead of oncoming trains, but to truly fix the problem, the intersection has to be reconstructed.
Several years ago, a fly-over on Fairforest Road was proposed, but the project was cancelled when funding couldn't be found to foot the $15 million price tag. Currently, there is $2.2 million in federally earmarked funds available for the project, but D'Amato told the policy committee he was worried about what would happen to that money if the government goes into sequestration over the debt ceiling.
"I'm worried if we have $2 million sitting around we're going to lose it," he said.
At Monday's meeting, the SPATS policy committee gave approval to advance the project to the state Transportation Department to be studied.
The policy council was shown several preliminary options for fixing the intersection drawn up by DOT. The one favored by state officials involves rerouting the North Blackstock Road traffic to the nearby Church Street in Fairforest and installing a traffic circle at the Church Street and North Blackstock Road intersection to keep speeds down.
The reroute would put about 7,000 to 9,000 new vehicles per day on that section of Church Street.
County Councilman O'Neal Mintz was concerned about the effect of the increased traffic on Church Street, particularly because Fairforest Baptist Church is located along the route and its building and parking lots are on opposite sides of the street.
"There's no doubt that's probably the most dangerous railroad crossing in Spartanburg County, but if you move all that traffic on Church Street, you just increase the chance of killing someone there," he said.
D'Amato said Monday's vote directs SCDOT to begin studying the problem and gathering public input, and its data will be brought back to the SPATS policy committee.
Also at the meeting, members:
Approved about $2.3 million in Federal Transit Administration funding requests from the city and county of Spartanburg, the Charles Lea Center, the Senior Centers of Spartanburg County, New Day Inc., Mountainview nursing home and Spartanburg County Veteran's Affairs.
Approved the use of $272,000 in federal transportation funds for landscaping in the California Avenue bridge project, which is set to start in the spring of 2014.
Were informed SCDOT has decided to include intersection improvements as part of the mandate that local transportation organizations use 20 percent of their funds for repaving projects. D'Amato said Spartanburg easily does enough intersection improvements to meet this obligation, so there will be no change in the SPATS work plan.
Were given an update on the Highway 9 improvement project. Phase one at the intersection of Route 219 is complete and Phase two is about 12 percent done and scheduled for completion by the end of 2015.


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McCarthy returns to hill to face Cards
With a scary head injury seven months in the rearview mirror, starter Brandon McCarthy will make his Arizona Diamondbacks debut on Wednesday night in the rubber match of a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
McCarthy will also be making his National League debut after spending his first seven seasons in the American League, including stints with the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics. He spent the last two years with the A's, but saw his 2012 campaign end after being struck on the right side of the head on Sept. 5 versus the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
The right-hander suffered an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and a skull fracture, ending his season after 18 starts with an 8-6 record and 3.24 earned run average. McCarthy underwent surgery that night and was discharged six days later.
The 29-year-old, who had also battled a shoulder injury last season, signed a two-year deal with the Diamondbacks this offseason and will face the Cardinals for the first time in his career.
Opposing McCarhty will be right-hander Lance Lynn, who won 18 games for the Cardinals a season ago but struggled following the All-Star break.
Lynn went 11-4 with a 3.41 ERA in 17 outings in the first half, but his ERA rose to 4.32 over 18 second-half appearances, including 12 starts. He still went 7-3 in that span, though he was taken out of the rotation for two weeks from late August until early September.
St. Louis is hoping that last year's experience will help Lynn stay strong all season and he gets his 2013 campaign started with his fourth career appearance versus the Diamondbacks. Only one of those previous meetings was a start and Lynn picked up a victory in that outing on May 7 in Arizona with five scoreless innings. The 25-year-old allowed three hits and four walks while striking out seven and the outing was the final one of a season-opening six- start winning streak.
Lynn will hope to get another winning streak started and pitch the Cardinals to a second victory in a row after they took Tuesday's meeting with the Diamondbacks 6-1.
St. Louis got three home runs in the victory, including Matt Holliday's go- ahead two-run shot in the sixth inning after he drove a low pitch from Arizona starter Trevor Cahill over the fence.
"He went down and golfed that ball out of the air," Cards manager Mike Matheny said. "Typically you're not going to get hurt when you're down in the zone like that, but Matt's got some exceptional ability."
Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia pitched 5 2/3 innings to get the victory, allowing just one run on two hits. However, he also walked four batters, including three straight with two outs in the sixth inning to load the bases. Matheny then opted to go with reliever Edward Mujica, who struck out a pinch- hitting Jason Kubel to end the frame.
but also walked four batters and needed 97 pitches.
Miguel Montero hit a second-inning solo homer for the Diamondbacks, who had only three hits one day after logging 15 in a 6-2 series-opening win.
Cahill fanned seven and gave up three runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings to take the loss, while reliever Heath Bell gave up a two-run homer to Jon Jay and a solo shot to Pete Kozma in the seventh inning of his Arizona debut.
"He didn't execute his pitches very well tonight," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said of Bell.
The D-backs dropped five of six games to the Cardinals last season.

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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker men's soccer team will be back in action on Wednesday (Oct. 23) as they square off with the Wolves of Newberry College. Kick-off is set for 7 p.m. at the Coker Soccer Field. The South Atlantic Conference match will be broadcast live online at www.cokercobras.com.
Daniel Jackson and Jordan Snell continue to be the offensive catalysts for the Cobras. Jackson leads the team with eight goals on the year, while Snell is the team leader with three assists.
Newberry enters the contest at 1-12-1 overall and 1-6-1 in conference play. The Wolves dropped their last game 4-1 to Wingate University. Graham Jermstad leads the offense with four goals and two assists on the season.
Tickets for the match are $5 for adults, $3 for students and free to all Coker faculty, staff and students. Coker will also be hosting Scout Night. All boy/girl scouts wearing their uniforms will be admitted free.
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WTO Fails to Ratify Trade Agreement
Failure to Reach Compromise With India Over Agricultural Subsidies Deals Blow to WTO
The World Trade Organization failed Thursday to ratify an agreement designed to streamline the global trade system, frustrating a late push by U.S. officials to convince India to reach a compromise that would have secured a deal.
"I do not have the necessary elements that would lead to me to conclude that a breakthrough is possible," WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo said. "We got closer—significantly closer—but not quite there."...


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In honor of this event, G3 has undergone a massive site overhaul! That means a new site design, new forums, a new download center, a new portrait gallery, a chat room, and now a Twitter account, which pulls directly from our IE Modding News feed!
Additionally, I've put together a nice little timeline of how the site design has changed over the years.
2003: Original forums! Thanks Com_Solaufein!
2004: The Glory Days of Blonde Imoen!
2005: Aw, the wiki worked!
2006: BG2 Fixpack at V1!
2007: G3 Hosts NWN2 Mods
2008: Still going...
2009: G3 moves hosts, putting an end to super slow page load times.
2010: Updates away!
2011: New site design and some other cool stuff.
Since we're doing a lot of changes in a small amount of time, expect broken links in some places (although we're hoping for none, it happens). Please let myself, Grim Squeaker, or one of the Gibberlings know if you see something that needs correcting on the site.


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Wyoming's Brett Smith Nominated in Two Fan Voting Weekly Awards
After he threw for a career-high 374 yards, accounted for 396 yards in total offense and passed for four touchdowns, Wyoming Cowboy Sophomore QB Brett Smith is up for two honors in which fan voting determines the winner. Smith was named one of the Manning Award "Stars of the Week" and is also a candidate for the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas MW Player of the Week honor.
Monday, Smith was selected by the Manning Award as one of its eight "Stars of the Week". That makes Smith eligible for this week's Manning Award Player of the Week, which is determined by fan voting.
Wyoming Cowboy fans may go online at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Facebook page to vote for Smith. The link to the voting is: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152241654815459.926175.297090315458&type=1
Voting is open now through Thursday at 10 a.m., Mountain Time each week. The top vote-getter will then be announced as the Manning Award Player of the Week.
Smith threw for a career high 374 yards and accounted for 396 yards of total offense, while completing four touchdown passes in Wyoming's 28-23 road win at New Mexico. Smith completed 62.5 percent of his passes (20 of 32) and threw TD passes of 81 yards to Robert Herron, 64 yards to Dominic Rufran, 33 yards to Jalen Claiborne and 19 yards to Claiborne. Smith's previous career high in passing yards was 370 at Idaho. Including his four TD passes, Smith completed eight of his 20 passes for 15 yards or more. Those eight long gainers went for 81, 64, 33, 19, 15, 27, 27 and 16 yards. Smith also had a long rush of 25 yards. With his 396 yards of total offense, Smith came within five yards of his career high in total offense of 401 versus Toledo. He now has 22 TD passes on the season against only six interceptions this year.
This is the second time this season and third time in his career that Smith has been selected as a Manning Award "Star of the Week". Earlier this season, he was honored for his performance in a 40-37 overtime win at Idaho. A year ago, Smith was voted the Manning Award Player of the Week for his performance in a 30-27 win over San Diego State.
Smith was also the only sophomore in the nation named to this year's Manning Award Preseason Watch List. The Manning Award honors the top collegiate quarterback in the nation at the conclusion of each season.
The MAACO Bowl Las Vegas announced its four candidates for the Mountain West Player of the Week Award on Monday, and Brett Smith is among the nominees.
This is the third time this season that Smith has been a candidate for the award. He won the honor on Sept. 12 for his performance vs. Toledo, and was also one of four candidates the week following his performance against Idaho.
All voting is done by fans through the official MAACO Bowl Las Vegas Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/lvbowl
Voting remains open until 1 p.m., Mountain Time on Wednesday, Nov. 14.
This week's four candidates for the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas Mountain West Player of the Week are Smith, Wyoming QB, Donnell Alexander, Colorado State RB, Travis Brown, Fresno State, LB and Robbie Rouse, Fresno State, RB.
The accolades didn't stop there, as Smith was recognized by College Football Performance Awards for his play in last Saturday's 28-23 road win over New Mexico.
Smith was one of only nine FBS quarterbacks in the nation honored this week. He was one of eight Honorable Mention selections. This week's honored quarterbacks were:Quarterback Performer of the Week: Marcus Mariota (Oregon); Honorable Mention QBs of the Week: Brett Smith (Wyoming), David Ash (Texas), Michael Rocco (Virginia), James Franklin (Missouri), Tyler Bray (Tennessee), Devin Gardner (Michigan), Johnny Manziel (Texas A&M), David Fales (San Jose State)
This is the second consecutive week and third time this season that Smith has been honored by College Football Performance Awards as one of the top QB's in the country. He was also honored for his games at Idaho and versus Colorado State.


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Happy birthday to me....I am 36 today!!! I must say this last year has been a up and down year. Many changes, the biggest one being I am about to be a mom of THREE - something I had not planned on...so it has been a year of "leaning" on the Lord and trusting in His plan instead of my own. God is good and I am blessed beyond measure when I think of all I have. Right now I'm sitting at home with my two wonderful kiddos...one of which is "cleaning" my house for me because she said "it's your birthday and you shouldn't have to clean on your birthday"...my sweet five year old girl - she makes me smile!!! My oldest has some big ideas about the two of them baking a birthday cake for me...on their own - we'll see how that goes :) My daughter keeps asking me what I want for my birthday...I told her just to be with my family and chill out tonight - which wasn't an acceptable answer so here are a few things on my wish list, plus a few more things I'm saving up for:
Some new sunglasses since I just broke my $5 Target pair....they lasted a year which is pretty amazing - mine typically don't make it through the summer! I'm also loving FRESH from Sephora...this "High Noon" bronzer would be fantastic since I'm looking pretty pasty white!
This Ikea Lack series bookcase in white...need it for the new nursery/playroom...and the Gulliver Crib from Ikea to finish the room off!
and last but not least these are a couple of things I'm saving up my Christmas and birthday money for...A Kitchen Aid stand mixer - my fourteen year old hand held is on it's last leg! And last but not least...this Canon 50mm 1.4 lens!
Happy Wednesday to all and thank you to all my family and friends for the wonderful birthday wishes!


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190. To a Certain Civilian
First published in Drum-Taps, 1865, under title of Do You Ask Dulcet Rhymes From Me?
l. 2 Line 2 added in 1870.
l. 3 Drum-Taps adds to understand?
l. 7 Lines 567 added in 1870.
l. 9 and with piano-tunes added in 1870.
191. Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All
First published in Drum-Taps, 1865.
l. 3 Line 3 added in 1870.
192. When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomd
First published in When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomd, 18656.
l. 71 Lilacs reads my comrade departing.
l. 129 Lilacs for carol reads song.
l. 132 Lilacs for carol reads surging.
l. 133 Lilacs for carol reads surging.
l. 142 Lilacs reads But praise! O praise and praise.
l. 148 Lilacs reads Approach, encompassing Deathstrong Deliveress!
l. 172 Lilacs reads I saw the vision of armies.
l. 176 Lilacs reads shreds of the flags left, etc.
l. 180 of the war added in 1870.
l. 194 Lilacs reads Must I leave thee, etc.
l. 194 Lilacs reads Must I leave thee, etc.
l. 195 Lilacs reads Must I pass from my song for thee.
l. 199 retrievements out of the night added in 1870.
l. 200 1870 adds I keep.
l. 201 1870 adds I keep.
l. 204 Line 204 in Lilacs is next to the last line.
193. O Captain! My Captain!
First published in When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomd, 18656.
l. 6 Lilacs reads Leave you not the little spot.
l. 14 Lilacs reads This arm I push beneath you.
l. 22 Lilacs. For mournful reads silent.
194. Hushd be the Camps To-day
(MAY 4, 1865.) [Added in 1870. 1865 reads A. L. Buried, April 19, 1865.]
First published in Drum-Taps, 1865.
l. 11 Drum-Taps reads Sing, with the shoveld clods that fill the gravea verse.
195. This Dust was Once the Man
First published in 1870.
196. Poem of Joys
First published in 1860.
l. 1 1860 for the reads a.
l. 2 Line 2 added in 1870.
l. 7 After line 7, 1860 67 read
O to be on the sea! the wind, the wide waters around;
O to sail in a ship under full sail at sea.
l. 16 Lines 1416 in 1860 67 are placed after line 165, after which 1860 67 add
O love-branches! love-root! love-apples!
O chaste and electric torrents! O mad-sweet drops.
l. 38 After line 38, 1860 67 add O of menof women toward me as I passThe memory of only one lookthe boy lingering and waiting.
l. 106 Lines 1036 in 1860 67 are placed before line 138.
l. 111 1860 67 read O what is proved to me this day.
l. 122 the voyage of Death! added in 1870.
l. 123 1860 67 read O the beautiful, etc.
l. 124 1860 67 read O that of myself, etc.
l. 138 Stanzas 141516. Lines 138150 added in 1870.
l. 170 Stanza 18, lines 166170 added in 1870.
l. 171 new added in 1870.
l. 172 After line 172, 1860 67 read An athletefull of rich wordsfull of joys, which ends the poem in those editions.
197. To Think of Time
First published in 1855. In 1856 under title of Burial. In 1860 67 under title of Burial Poem.
l. 1 1860 67 begin the Poem To think of it! To think of time etc.
1855 60 read to think through the retrospection.
l. 20 In 1855 lines 1320 each begin with When.
l. 21 1855 reads Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed and the living look upon them.
l. 22 1855 reads They are palpable.
l. 25 Line 25 added in 1870.
l. 26 1855 56 read will come to flow.
l. 27 1855 for no reads small.
l. 36 Lines 3436 added in 1870.
l. 38 Broadway added in 1856.
l. 64 1855 reads they also are not phantasms.
l. 65 1855 for delusion reads apparition.
l. 83 1855 60 read cannot be eluded.
l. 91 After line 91, 1855 adds A zambo or a foreheadless Crowfoot or a Comanche is not nothing.
l. 95 For line 95, 1855 56 60 67 read I shall go with the restwe have satisfaction.
l. 99 After line 99, 1855 56 60 read:
And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed, and that there is no life without satisfaction;
What is the earth? what are body and Soul, without satisfaction?
I shall go with the rest,
we cannot be stopped at a given pointthat is no satisfaction,
To show us a good thing, or a few good things, for a space of timethat is no satisfaction,
We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
l. 102 For lines 1012, 1855 56 read If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion, treachery, death.
l. 109 1855 56 60 67 add How perfect is my soul!
l. 111 1855 for bad reads sin.
l. 113 1855 56 60 67 after line 113 read
O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
Animals and vegetables! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
I cannot define my satisfactionyet it is so.
I cannot define my lifeyet it is so.
l. 114 1860 67 begin stanza 11 O it comes to me now.
without exception added in 1860.
l. 118 1855 56 read and life and death are for it. 1860 67 read and life and death are altogether for it.
198. Chanting the Square Deific
First published in When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomd, 18656.
l. 5 old added in 1870.
199. Whispers of Heavenly Death
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about Cor 1. heart / 2. heart (as the seat of feelings) / 3. mind (as the place of intellectual activity)
What does it mean when it is used in plural form and meaning the heart as the seat of feelings ?
Does it mean the heart of plural people ?
Or, can it mean the heart of one person ?
L&S gives no sample sentence for 2. and 3. with plural forms.
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Update: Conservation Officer Josh Lockwood says the cougar was captured by officers, Thursday night, in Coldstream.
The cougar was a three-year-old female in good condition, according to Lockwood.
"There was no need for the cougar to be in a residential area, it was not sick or starving. The animal was euthanized."
Conservation Officers are warning residents in Coldstream to be extra vigilant when outdoors or walking their pets near Kidston road after a cougar was spotted lurking in the area.
According to Conservation Officer Josh Lockwood, an officer attended the area on Thursday, but was unable to trap the animal.
"We just want to want the public to be extra cautions when walking their dogs out near Kal Park."
The cougar has not killed any domestic animals, but Lockwood says it is possible and officers did find the remains of a small deer and a racoon killed in the area.
"Officers are going to set up some traps in the area, right close to where these animals were killed. So we want people in the area to keep their dogs on a leash and don't let them out alone at night."
Lockwood hopes officers will be able to subdue the cougar in the next few days.
If you encounter the cougar, he says, don't run, make yourself look as big as possible and make as much noise as possible.
For more tips on how to deal with a cougar encounter click here.


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High quality modular slideshow with a vintage touch. Works great for weddings, save the date, engagement, invitation, announcement and other slideshows.Can be used in other occasions as well.
Project takes 26 images. There are 20 preanimated scenes that you can arrange and make your own cut in your desired length. There are 4 standard cuts included:
- Save the date short slideshow 0:35min
- Full slideshow 1:30min
- Short with vertical images only 0:35min
- Short with horizontal images only 0:35min
So you can either choose one of these premade cuts or make your own. Adjust timing easily, pick vertical or horizontal images. Change order. Image placeholders are numbered so you can keep track of which placeholder appears where.
Compatible with After Effects CS4 and newer versions. No third-party plugins used. However Cycore plugins that comes with full version of After Effects must be installed.
Beautiful music by Adi Goldstein. It's not included in the project, but you can buy it separately from AudioJungle
Beautiful pictures by photographer Ryan Polei Pictures are for demonstration purposes only and are not included in project.
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Bluffton Elementary School art teacher Karen Beltz was selected to receive Artsonia's Annual Leadership Awards for a second consecutive year. The annual recognition goes to only 10 teachers from each state.
Beltz received the recognition in 2011 and again in 2012.
Artsonia, a privately funded organization, operates the world's largest online student art gallery and features more than 12 million works of student art on its website Artsonia.com. The annual leadership awards go to teachers who go beyond the classroom walls to encourage family and community involvement in arts education. It also recognizes teachers who integrate technology into their schools' art programs.


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STOCKTON — Oakland Raider Hall of Famer Willie Brown paid a visit to Donnie Navidad Monday. Legendary wide receiver Fred Biletnikoff called to thank him. The game ball from Sunday's matchup against the Tennessee Titans rested on the living room floor of Navidad's Stockton home, a testament to his heroics that day.
The whirlwind provided a distraction, but the 61-year-old government worker and Marine Corps veteran couldn't shake the questions that remain a day after he leapt to break the fall of a woman jumping from the third deck of the Oakland Coliseum.
Is she going to be OK? Why did she do it? Will I have the chance to talk to her?
"I don't know who she was," Navidad said. "I just happened to be there."
The woman, who jumped shortly after the conclusion of the Raiders' 23-19 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday at about 4:30 p.m. PT, remained in extremely critical condition Monday from unspecified injuries suffered from her 50-foot plummet.
With four generations of his family by his side and a carousel of reporters coming in and out of his home on Monday, Navidad recounted the final moments before the woman's fall.
Navidad had stopped with a co-worker to take pictures by the eternal torch honoring the late Raider owner Al Davis, when he heard a woman shouting "not to do it," he said Monday. He looked up and saw a woman perched on the ledge of the third deck. His co-worker said, "she's ready to jump."
There wasn't much time to react. Navidad stuck his arms out, intending to pull her into his chest, falling with her in his arms. The left side of his body took the brunt of the impact, the woman bouncing off him before hitting the concrete a few feet from him.
A deep bruise of red, black and blue now covers his bicep, above a "Semper Fidelis" Marine Corps tattoo on his forearm. He was released from an Oakland hospital Sunday evening.
"I'm just an average government worker trying to survive in the world," he said. "I just did what I did."
The woman's identity, age and hometown have not been released. Among the issues investigators are trying to determine is whether she had been drinking.
The incident marked the second time in a year that a fan has fallen from the upper deck of the Coliseum; a teenager was seriously injured in a fall last December.
On Nov. 17, an unruly Buffalo Bills fan tried to slide down the upper-deck railing at Ralph Wilson Stadium, flipped over and landed on a fan about 30 feet below him. Both men were OK, but the fan who fell was banned from the stadium for life.
Still, authorities with the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, which is responsible for providing security at Raiders games, said Monday there are no immediate plans to change security procedures.
The woman entered section 301, an area cordoned off from fans during games. Security officers are not required near such sections after a game is finished, authorities said, though it was not clear if any security officers were in the area before the woman went into the section.
"There's really nothing you can do," said Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. "You can go to any stadium in America, and if a fan is that determined to jump, he or she is going to jump, and it's going to end badly."
The woman was alive Monday, Nelson said, only because Navidad positioned himself between her and the concourse concrete below. Nelson has called him a "hero," but Navidad rejects the label. His family, though, says he's always been one.
"It doesn't surprise me at all that he sprung into action," said his wife of 27 years, Lora Robertson Navidad. "He did not want people to see that. He didn't want her to die, even though he didn't know her. He took one for the team."
Navidad, a Stockton native, served in the Marine Corps from 1970-72, fighting in the Vietnam War. He served an additional 15 years in the reserves, and has worked for the General Services Administration for 42 years. The father of three, with eight grandchildren, has plans to retire soon and for the first time, the longtime Raider fan purchased season tickets this year.
He plans on returning to the Coliseum in December for the Raiders' two final home games of the season. He's preparing for a flashback of the incident. But, he said, he won't think twice if another fan needs his help.
"Had I not taken any actions and she hit the pavement, that there alone would have been etched in my mind until the day I die, knowing that I could have done something," he said. "That would have left an impact you'd never forget."


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Ogando hopes for another strong effort in matchup with Rays
Alexi Ogando tries to follow up a brilliant season debut on Monday when the Texas Rangers open a three-game set against the Tampa Bay Rays at Rangers Ballpark.
Ogando won 13 games as a starter in 2011, but the Rangers opted to have him pitch out of the bullpen last season. However, this offseason they made the decision to put him back in the rotation.
It seems to be the right move, as Ogando struck out a career-high 10 batters over 6 1/3 scoreless innings to beat Houston in his first start on Wednesday. He's now 14-1 with a 2.22 ERA when going at least six innings.
"He was outstanding," manager Ron Washington told the league's official website. "We were looking for him to build on his progress in spring training, and he did exactly what we needed him to do. He was outstanding.
"He used his change-up, moved the ball in and out and had a good breaking ball. He still didn't have (total) command of his fastball. He's usually able to do that up. But he'll start dotting it up before it's all over."
Texas got the last laugh on former teammate Josh Hamilton, as the Rangers took two of three from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim over the weekend, including a 7-3 win in Sunday's rubber match.
Ian Kinsler homered and knocked in four runs, while Lance Berkman belted a two-run homer and David Murphy added a solo shot to help the Rangers earn their fourth win in six tries to start the season.
Yu Darvish (2-0), fresh off his near perfect game, allowed three runs on six hits and four walks over five frames before a blister on his pitching hand forced him out of the contest. The right-hander struck out six.
"I didn't have everything today. It wasn't my 100 percent, but I had to grind it out," Darvish said through his translator. "The reason I was able to do that was because of all the support from my teammates."
Tampa, meanwhile, was denied a sweep in its series with the Cleveland Indians over the weekend and was routed, 13-0, on Sunday.
Reigning AL Cy Young Award winner David Price (0-1) came in unbeaten against the Tribe, but was touched for eight runs on 10 hits and three walks over five innings. He had allowed just seven earned runs and 22 hits in six previous starts against them.
"I don't really have a positive from today," Price said. "They put it to us, and it was very rough."
Hoping for a better effort on Monday, the Rays turn to former AL Rookie of the Year Jeremy Hellickson, who was awful in his season debut, but escaped without a decision. Hellickson was pounded by the Baltimore Orioles to the tune of five runs and eight hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Hellickson has faced the Rangers twice and is 0-1 with a 2.25 ERA.
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Madonna Show in Poland Faces Protest
Suddenly, Madonna's MDNA tour seems quite similar to Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball tour, and not because 'Express Yourself' and 'Born This Way' have mirror melodies. Madge, who is about to be sued after ignoring a warning to remove images depicting French politico Marine Le Pen with a swastika superimposed on her forehead at her France show, is now facing protest of her show in Warsaw, Poland. Youth Crusade, a Catholic group, is asking officials to cancel the Aug. 1 show since it lands on an important day in the city's calendar — World War II Remembrance Day.
Every Aug. 1, Warsaw residents observe a moment of silence to commemorate the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation. Out of respect to such a critical day, the protestors want the Madge show tossed since they pretty much consider her a heathen who stomps all over everything they hold sacred (in high-heeled boots, to boot). They've launched an online petition to try and get the gig canceled.
According to WENN, an online protest post read as follows:
"August 1 is a day of remembrance in Poland. We pay our respects to those who survived and those who perished in the uprising. We won't allow the desecration of our hallowed symbols."
Madge is never one to shy away from using Catholic imagery in twisted ways –you needn't look any further than the 'Like a Prayer' video for evidence. She stands accused of "attacking the Catholic faith" and "offending Jesus Christ by burning crosses and wearing a crown of thorns." The extremists also claim she promotes homosexuality and pornography, too.
To us, it's just a pop show, but clearly, the perversion of religious iconography exceeds the limits of good tastes for pious Polish people.
Lady Gaga faced similar issues in Asia and even saw her Jakarta show canceled altogether when religious extremists threatened to intercept her at the airport and thwart the gig. These two are like sisters in controversy, thanks to their edgy stage set ups! It's a shame they are feuding in the press, since they are both going through something similar with these protests and could totally support one another in a show of solidarity among American pop stars.
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Across the country, the rape kit backlog is making headlines. Journalists are uncovering backlogs, jurisdictions are implementing reforms to track and test rape kits and citizens are taking action. In the Media Center, you'll find the latest information about the backlog, including: commentary from the END THE BACKLOG staff and backlog reformers, first-person testimonials from those impacted by the backlog, an archive of news articles, op-eds, investigative reports, legislation and government publications we've identified, and more.
THE BACKLOG BLOGDecember 20, 2013
What the Numbers - and Lack Thereof - Really Tell Us
When the team at Joyful Heart began gathering data for the new interactive map on endthebacklog.org, illustrating everything we know about the rape kit backlog, we worried that the map might be a bit bare. Looking now at the final version of the map, the results are actually very powerful.


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A form of the single-breasted lounging (or lounge) jacket known as the Albert. More than a decade earlier (in the '60s) the the modern men's suit -- or lounge suit, as it is known in Great Britain -- first became popular when jacklet, trousers, and waistcoat appeared in the same fabric.
Throughout the 1870s tubular trousers "were at equal length at knee and ankle," and after the 1860s straps under the foot became uncommon, though the man with wide-brimmed hat one seems to be wearing trousers with them (142)
Short ankle-length boots with either elastic sides or laces.
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Detail from an illustration by George Du Maurier for the February 1876 Cornhill Magazine.
Nunn, Joan. Fashion in Costume, 1200-2000. 2nd edition. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books, 2000.
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Everyday Digitals - In February Sony officially kicked off the start of the next generation of gaming consoles (sorry Nintendo) by announcing the PS4 along with a ton of forward thinking features that showed that Sony got the memo about its current generation pitfalls. Things like instant streaming of games, the alleviation of load times, seamless gameplay sharing, and tons of other social gaming experiences that look very promising. A lot of this wasn't actually shown and still has to be proven as more then ideas, but it sparked excitement among gamers nonetheless. If the rumblings are true, in the next couple of weeks we should hear what Microsofts plans are for the 8th generation of video game consoles. Sony set the bar relatively high in most areas and has owned most of the positive conversation online ever since. It's time for Microsoft to show (some) of its cards and let their fans know exactly what they can expect.
NEW IP's than I will be interested in owning a Microsoft console again.
They have to show that they care about gamers because recent rumors (TV, Entertainment? no big investment in gaming IP's this generation?) made it seem like they don't. If that's the case, they don't need to show their console at E3 but rather at CES or something like that.
Gamez!! I want new IP's. In fact, only 3 Microsoft IP's I want from this gen to be discussed at the event are Forza 5, Alan Wake 2 and Crackdown 3.
I want something new from Rare, Twisted Pixel, Lion Head and those 4 new studios like Black Tusk.
Halo 5 can wait until next year for a reveal.
Gamers are so hyped.. If the Next Xbox is too good to be true.. There will be fistfights. If its not, there will be fist fights. Next Xbox name should be the Xbox Benchmark


text: Archie Green was one of America's leading twentieth-century folklorists who specialized in labor lore history and folk music traditions. He was a strong supporter of Theodore Roosevelt's New Deal policies and often described himself as a "left-libertarian." He earned his Master of Library Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960 and a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1960 with a joint appointment in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and the English Department. In the spring of 1961 the Campus Folksong Club (CFC) was organized by Dick Kanar and Vic Lukas with Green serving as the organization's faculty advisor. Green wrote in the CFC's first newsletter, Autoharp, which was issued on April 7, 1961, "If traditional folksong is to be heard on campus, other than via record and tape, it must be heard by importing true folksingers or by imparting to collegiate singers of folksong some respect for traditional material and styles." This exhibit explores through photographs, music and oral history the remarkable story of the CFC and folklore studies on the Illinois campus between 1961 and 1970.


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A breakfast that hits the spot at DJ's Campus Kitchen
I've always been a morning person. I'm the guy who jumps out of bed at 5:30 a.m. and gleefully starts up the coffee maker, the kind of neighbor getting his lawnmower going before 9.
With that said, it's a given that I also love a good diner or breakfast spot. I got a taste of just that at DJ's Campus Kitchen on Williams Street in New London this morning.
I'm the type who enjoys a classic, no frills kind of breakfast place. Once in New York, I was brought to this obscene breakfast place in midtown that was comparable to eating aboard the ship in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was somewhat surprised when they brought me a regular omelet instead of a little tray of space-age, multi-color nutrition pills.
Fortunately, DJ's it what you might call a real "joint." Staying true to the campus name, there are banners and jerseys hung around the dining room representing local teams from the Coast Guard Academy to Montville High.
Omelets at DJ's range in price from $5.99 for a cheese omelet to $8.89 for a winter omelet: ham, bacon, sausage, cheese, a choice of homefries or grits and toast. Breakfast platters included the $4.99 "Cadet" with two eggs, two pancakes and two strips of bacon up to the "Admiral," which at $8.99 included three eggs, choice of bacon or sausage, homefries or grits and French toast. Good luck walking out the door after that one!
I've been hooked on biscuits and gravy ever since I visited my wife's family in Georgia for the first time seven years ago. Her grandmother made the meal every morning, and was instantly charmed when she saw me eat enough of her biscuits and gravy to feed three men.
DJ's take on this classic was just what I like: fresh warm biscuits topped with a liberal serving of delicious thick gravy, bits of sausage and lots of black pepper.
There's also something about eating biscuits and gravy that's timeless. You feel almost like a frontiersman, waking up before dawn, brewing some coffee in an old fashioned percolator and having some biscuits and gravy right before you head out into the untamed elements.
With a side of two scrambled eggs, orange juice and tax, my meal came to $9.85, which seemed about right to me.
The serving sizes at DJ's were also well worth the price (see picture two to get a load of the oversized pancakes).
The only downside I could find was if you finished your meal, you might just need to head straight home and back into bed.
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ENTERTAINMENT: 'Panda 2' packing even more punch
Who says animated movies are just for the adolescent crowd? Dreamworks' newest sequel released May 26, once again has proven that movie lovers of all ages can relate to a Kung Fu-fighting, dumpling-loving panda bear.
Yes, I love action, adventure, romance and comedy with live actors and actresses, but I have found that an amazing animation can inspire the viewer just as much, and even bring a tear to the eye. And that is exactly what Kung Fu Panda 2 brings to the screen: emotion, action, adventure, and a surprising deep plot and sophisticated characters.
Kung Fu Panda 2 picks up where the first movie left off, except Po, Jack Black, has tweaked his Kung Fu skills and even gives Master Shifu, Dustin Hoffman, a run for his money by mastering one of the last tenants of Kung Fu: inner peace. However, Po has still not learned to control his clumsiness or appetite, much to Master Shifu's dismay.
Po has fought off hundreds of villains since we last saw him, but he must take on a new villain, which is the threat that Kung Fu may be, in fact, dying. Who is attempting to kill Kung Fu? Lord Shen, Gary Oldman, and his new modernized form of fighting off enemies, or in this case, anyone who gets in his way.
On Po's and the Furious Five's journey to stop this evil and hated tyrant, Po secretly wages an inner war of trying to find out who he is and where he truly came from. He decides to explore his panda roots as he begins to have flashbacks from his past and after realizing that he and his adopted father goose, Mr. Ping, don't have much more in common than noodles.
As far as graphics, if you thought that the first movie could not be anymore visually stunning, Kung Fu Panda 2 brings this magical animal-inhabited China world to a new level of realism. Each scene is striking and loaded with nonstop action and witty dialogue that is not just for youngsters.
So, does Po find who he is? Does he stop the evil villain? You will have to see the movie to find out. And by the way, at the movie's end there is a clue that a third Kung Fu Panda could be on its way. I know that I will be there to see it.


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It was a banner year for College of Central Florida sophomore outside hitter Vanessa Benke.
Benke earned all-tournament honors at last week's NJCAA National Tournament, where the Patriots finished sixth.
Benke, a Florida Gulf Coast University commit, was also named the state player of the year and was joined on the all-state first team by sophomore setter Jordyn Wright.
"I really didn't expect (to win state player of the year), but I was feeling really happy (when I was told)," Benke said.
FALL SIGNS: Amdy Fall, an athletic 6-foot-6 freshman forward, signed a letter-of-intent with St. Francis (N.Y.).
"It is close to home," said Fall, who played at Wings Academy in New York. "They really came to watch me. They came here (to Ocala) and they also came to Tallahassee (at the preseason tournament) and I felt good about the school and I felt good about the coaching staff."
GREAT COMEBACK: Perhaps the biggest highlight of CF's 6-1 start in men's basketball was its 23-point rally in a 105-103 win over State College of Florida-Manatee.
"I believed the whole time," Fall said. "They weren't better than us. They were just making shots. We believed we could come back."
The Patriots are hoping the stirring comeback will give the team confidence in close conference games later in the season.
"I've seen comebacks like that on TV, but I've never experienced one (as a player)," freshman point guard Rasham Suarez said. "That was a big win for us and it made us realize that we have to play harder."
INSTANT ENERGY: When the CF men's basketball team needs a spark, it turns to Rodell Wigginton, a 6-foot-6 freshman. Wigginton scored 22 points in 21 minutes and also had the go-ahead three-point play in his team's comeback win over SCOF-Manatee.
"I want to be a big spark off the bench," Wiggington said, "and I want us to go hard in everything that we do."
GETTING NOTICED: Former West Port High School standout R'Kiyah Scott is making an impact for the CF women's basketball team.
"She's coming along great," head coach Sharrona Reaves said. "I told her she's on par with where she should be as a freshman. She's working hard on making the transition from high school to college and I let her know that I was pleased with the way she has progressed and she's only going to get better."
WELCOME ABOARD: Jasmyn Perry, an outside hitter at Tampa Freedom, has signed with CF's volleyball team. Perry said she was impressed with the way CF coach Flavia Siqueira and her staff has worked to put the Patriot program on the national map.
"The team really wants to win for her," she said. "She's one of the best coaches I have ever seen and the entire program is very together."
As a senior, Perry set the school record at Freedom High for kills in a season with 422.
Perry also received interest from Louisiana Monroe, Maryland Eastern-Shore and Fort Valley (Ga.) State. She joins West Port's Amanda Saunders as players to sign with the CF volleyball program during the early signing period.
MATHEWS SIGNS: CF softball third baseman Shelby Mathews has signed with Francis Marion (S.C.) University.
"They needed a third baseman and they need a power hitter," said Mathews, a graduate of South Lake High School. "I really liked it when I made my visit there and I fell in love with the school.
"(Florence, S.C.) is a small town and the classes at (FMU) are small and I really liked that."
Mathews hit .303 with 29 RBIs, three homers and 13 doubles last season.
"(Shelby) has played a huge role in getting us to where we are today," CF softball coach Kerri Ryskamp said. "She was a first-team all-(Mid Florida Conference) performer last year on the infield thanks in large part to her defensive skills at third base and her ability to hit the ball for power and average."
STAMPER SIGNS: Patriots pitcher Tori Stamper has signed with Southeastern Louisiana.
"I definitely knew that I wanted to play softball in college (when I was in high school)," said Stamper, who led Williston High to the Class 3A final four in 2010. "I didn't know what to expect after my two years (at CF) being a nursing major, but signing to play (at a Division I school) is a dream come true."
TEAM EFFORT: In finishing sixth in the nation — one spot ahead of last year's finish — CF volleyball got contributions throughout its lineup.
"All 13 players, even the ones on the bench who may not get in as much, are such a part of the team because they communicate," Siqueira said. "They cheer on their teammates and give them information in timeouts. It takes more than six for sure in our program to win a state title."
In winning the school's first state title in volleyball and its first in any sport since 1997, the Patriots quickly made their mark on the national scene.
"I'm really proud and I'll always be proud," Wright said. "It's been amazing to be part of such a great program and a great team full of players and coaches who care. I'll never forget this team. The whole experience has been amazing."
Benke is state JuCo volleyball player of the year
It was a banner year for College of Central Florida sophomore outside hitter Vanessa Benke.


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With a little research and planning, the aquarium hobby can be an exciting and rewarding experience. There are endless possibilities and many different biotopes that can be created and enjoyed by the whole family in the comfort of your home.
Choosing the right stand
Aquarium stands are an integral part of the aquarium system. The stand serves the basic function of holding the aquarium in place, as well as concealing equipment and supplies below. There are two types of stands commonly available on the market, metal and wood.
Metal aquarium stands are durable and will generally be the most cost-effective choice when selecting a stand. While extremely functional, most metal stands do not offer any cabinetry for concealing equipment or additional storage. Metal aquarium stands are the workhorse of aquarium stands and have a very humble and "industrial" appearance.
If you are looking for decorative, furniture-like aquarium stands, then
wood stands are your choice. Wood stands are available in a variety of styles and finishes, making it easy to find a model that will match the décor of your home or office. Wooden stands accommodate most filter configurations and have cabinetry to conceal bulky aquarium equipment. Many decorative models even include slide-out drawers to provide additional convenient storage.
Choosing the right canopy or hood
canopy or hood serves many purposes other than just covering the aquarium. It is designed to cut down on evaporation, keep aquatic life from escaping the aquarium, and it houses or supports the
lighting system. There are three basic types of canopies; plastic, glass, and wood.
Plastic hoods, which incorporate everything including the lighting system, are also referred to as full aquarium hoods. These models are very convenient since they provide a protective cover, a hinged lid for feeding, and a light fixture all in a single unit. They are a great choice but because of their fixed features, they provide the least amount of flexibility if you decide to upgrade your system in the future.
Glass canopies are the best choice for limiting evaporation and to keep jumping fish in the aquarium. They can be used by themselves or with a strip light placed on top. Glass canopies are versatile and allow the most flexibility in lighting types and configuration.
The last type of canopy is made from
wood, which is usually built to match the design of the stand. They are the most visually appealing canopies as well as the most expensive. The wood canopy is basically just a box that has been built to fit on top of the aquarium and is used to hide all of the lighting equipment. To limit the amount of evaporation from the aquarium, it is still necessary to use a glass canopy inside of the wooden frame. Using this style of canopy setup will give you the most options when it comes to designing custom lighting systems for both saltwater reef and freshwater planted aquariums. A
retro-fit lighting system can be simply mounted to the top of the wooden canopy and holes can be drilled in the sides for installing fans. For more powerful lighting systems, it is necessary to provide additional air circulation with cooling fans to dissipate the heat created by the bulbs.
When choosing the right canopy, the type of livestock that you are going to keep in the aquarium will also need to be taken into consideration prior to purchase. If you are not sure, or are thinking that you may switch the type of species you are going to keep in the future, a glass canopy is the best choice due to its versatility.


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School-auditorium work underway; cafeteria on holdPublished July 31, 2014 at 12:00 a.m.
Heber Springs School District Superintendent Russell Hester stands on the site of the performing-arts complex under construction at the high school campus. The building is part of a $12 million construction project that was made possible by a millage increase approved by school-district patrons in 2013.
HEBER SPRINGS — The auditorium under construction at Heber Springs High School is "a gift from the community" and will be shared with residents, Superintendent Russell Hester said.
"It's on our campus, but it's our community's building," Hester said.
By a slim margin in September, school patrons approved a 3.4-mill property-tax increase in the school election to fund three projects in a $12 million building project: a performing-arts complex at the high school, a new entrance and security measures for the elementary school; and an expansion of the high school cafeteria.
The proposal passed by just 20 votes, 591 to 571.
The performing-arts complex is estimated to cost about $7 million of that amount, Hester said. The auditorium will have 1,000 seats, "plus or minus another 10 [seats]. It depends on the configuration."
Hester said community groups will utilize the facility, too.
"We're all in this together, and if they hadn't voted [for] it, we wouldn't have it," the superintendent said.
The site work is done, and the building is on track to be open "around Thanksgiving 2015," he said.
"Dirt work and all the excavating and all that have taken the majority of the summer," he said.
The facility will be used for band, choir, drama and speech, as well as other programs that now use the school cafeteria.
"We're fulfilling some really, really serious needs that our curriculum has not had in the past," he said. "We have no place on campus, really, to have anything that requires any nice sound, visual, any type of speakers. Everything we do now has to be done in our high school cafeteria. We have been behind as far as those parts of our curriculum."
Hester said the band has excelled in spite of the lack of building space.
"The band has done great in the facility it has had," he said. "We're as good as any Class 4A band in the state, but they've had to work in a room built for 50, and we push 100 a lot."
The high school cafeteria is overcrowded, too, Hester said, but that project is on hold.
"Some materials that had to be on-site the first day of summer just could not get here. Underground utilities, water, sewer, electricity — all those utilities — had to work and get their stuff done, and we just didn't get that done in time," Hester said.
"During the school year, we're going to back off of that," he said. "We can't go into the school year with the cafeteria in disarray.
"Next summer, all the pre-construction work will be done, and we'll jump in there. Next May, we'll jump in there and do the demolition, tear down the east wall — enlarge that."
It can't happen too soon, Hester said.
"There are 550 now enrolled in high school, and we split our lunches," he said. "Right now, it's just cram-packed."
The current cafeteria seats "about 250. We're going to hopefully seat 325," he said.
The third project is beefing up security at the elementary school, which includes a new entrance.
Visitors to the school will check in by notifying a secretary at a desk behind a sliding-glass window. The secretary will approve visitors before opening a second door.
"They will have to pass by a secretary, and the secretary can buzz people into the building. She'll be the first person they'll see," Hester said.
Guests will have to walk by the school resource officer's office, too.
"Before, they didn't even have to walk by our elementary office. We just did not know who was in our building," Hester said.
"That project is probably 90 percent finished; it will be completed by Aug. 11, knock on wood," Hester said. School will start Aug. 18.
Board member Al Thomas said increased security at the school is something "voters impressed on us." The district is considering a third resource officer for the campus, Thomas said.
In addition, as many as 145 cameras will be added in elementary school through high school.
"We'll have a lot more complete coverage of our campus," Hester said.
"The biggest majority will be [in the elementary school]," Hester said. "We already had some cameras at the middle school and high school. We're going to add more to them. Our elementary [school] has never had a good set of cameras."
Hester said the voters deserve the credit for the district being able to undertake the projects.
"We want to be good stewards" of the money, he said.
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New York's DIY Marathon
Hundreds of joggers, many wearing New York City Marathon shirts, ran loops around Central Park in what seemed to be a DIY version of the race that was canceled due to superstorm Sandy. Laura Landro reports via #WorldStream. Photo: Associated Press.
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UPDATED: Phillie-turned-would-be stock-option guru Lenny Dykstra owes more than $10 million to JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and other creditors, and owns less than $50,000 to pay them with, his Los Angeles bankruptcy filing says. NEW: Read Dykstra's bankruptcy filing
"Sometimes the difficult decisions in life are the most necessary," Dykstra wrote me in an email. "In the end, the restructuring will definitely be a good thing." Yes, he's filed for voluntary Chapter 11.
A good thing, for whom? Dykstra owes, among others:
$12.9 million, unsecured, to Washington Mutual (now part of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
$4.2 million, unsecured, to Bank of America's Countrywide and credit card units
$3.5 million to Rockbridge Bank, Atlanta, Ga.
$2.5 million to David and Teresa Litt, real estate pros in Calabasas, Calif.
$1.5 million to K & L Gates LLP, a Santa Monica law firm
$1.1 million to United Commercial Bank, San Francisco
$962,000 to private-jet companies in New York, Cleveland and California
$512,000 to the California state labor department's enforcement unit
And hundreds of thousands more, each, to celebrity lawyer Daniel Petrocelli, New York literary agent David Vigliano, California anaesthesiologist Dr. Festus Dada, former publisher Doubledown Media, Index Investors, Wachovia Securities, and more. And smaller amounts to New York's Carlyle and Jumeirah Essex hotels, Verizon, UPS, AmEx, Citibank, and other private-jet companies. Tho nobody in Philly.
Just last week, Dykstra was still soliciting $995/year subscriptions to his newsletter at www.nailsinvestments.com, after his column was dropped by Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com. "Nails" claimed he had a record of better than 100-0 in stock options calls. Tho he ignored my request to prove it. Readers who complained about his claims said such results would only be possible, and still not much, if he'd kept counting performance until the blue-chip stocks he mostly bet on finally rose, instead of admitting defeat when his contracts expired underwater. Like the stopped clock that's still right twice a day.
Which just raises the old question: If he's so smart, how come he's not rich?
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Fall off the Bone Baby Back Ribs with Sweet Chili Sauce
There aren't very many recipes that can boast "2 ingredients" and taste better than fall off the bone baby back ribs smothered in sweet, sticky Thai chili sauce, which by the way, isn't really all that spicy despite the name.
5-minutes hands-on and two ingredients: ribs and 1/2 cup of the sweet chili sauce. Salt and pepper don't count, but even if you did count it, it's still will be the best 4 ingredient-dish you can ever make.
Just a word on the ribs – there are 2 camps of rib-lovers:
a) meat fall off the bone camp
b) I want to gnaw and tear meat off the bone camp
I'm part of the first group, I enjoy tender, juicy, succulent meat that requires very little effort to pry from the bone. If you're like me, you'll love this recipe and I bet you'd never order ribs at a restaurant again.
Also, I've got a trick for you that will make the ribs even more tender.
How to make baby back ribs fall off the bone
This technique can be used with ANY type of barbeque sauce. If you want, you can also use a dry rub instead of the salt and pepper.
To feed 4 hungry people, start with about 5 pounds of baby back ribs. Actually, you can use the larger St. Louis or country style ribs if you want. Tender baby backs are my thing. The amount of ribs really doesn't matter – throw in another rack if you've got more people.
Turn the rib over to the underside — see that layer of white membrane covering the ribs? You'll want to remove that – it's tough and stringy.
Take a butter knife, wedge it just underneath the membrane to loosen.
Pull the membrane up and off the bone.
Once you've got a section off, use your fingers to remove the rest – just peel it off.
See how thick and tough that membrane is? Removing this will make your ribs infinitely better. Sometimes this membrane is really thick (like mine) and sometimes it's really thin and a little more difficult to remove. Try to get as much as you can.
Place all the ribs in a roasting pan, it doesn't matter if they overlap. Season with salt on both sides.
Pepper on both sides.
If they overlap, I like to layer them like this.
Cover with double-thickness of tin foil. Bake at 275F for 4 hours or so.
After 4-ish hours, they'll look like this:
Use a spatula to move them to a baking sheet.
Here's sweet chili sauce. Mae Ploy is my favorite brand. Really, you can use any type of barbeque sauce, thick teriyaki sauce that you want. No need to stick to sweet chili sauce (but please, try it just once!)
Brush on the sweet chili sauce all over the ribs.
Be generous! Brush on a lot.
Now move your oven rack to the top 1/3 of the oven and broil for 5 minutes. Keep a good watch on 'em! Don't let them burn.
And that's it! Baby Back Ribs with Sweet Chili Sauce.
Baby Back Ribs Fall off the Bone Recipe
Servings: 4-6
Prep Time:5
Cook Time:4 hours
You can use the larger St. Louis or country style ribs. If you'd like to use a dry rub, just it in place of salt and pepper. My kids love barbeque sauce, and I'll use this same technique and slather on bbq sauce instead of the sweet chili sauce.
salt & pepper
1/2 cup Thai sweet chili sauce
1. Preheat oven to 275F. On the underside of the rib, remove the thin membrane and discard. Season both sides with salt and pepper.
2. Place the ribs in a roasting pan, cover with double thickness of tin foil.
3. Roast for 4 hours or so. Discard foil. Use a wide, flat spatula to carefully lift the ribs onto a baking sheet. Spread the sweet chili sauce generously over the ribs.
4. Place oven rack near the top of the oven. Turn broiler on and broil the ribs for 3-5 minutes, or until the sweet chili sauce begins to caramelize. Make sure you don't burn the sauce, so keep a close eye on the ribs.


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Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Grant Will Support First-Year Experience Program
Hamilton College has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to support the three-year pilot phase of a comprehensive First-Year Experience (FYE) program to help students make the transition to college.
According to the proposal, "A coordinated FYE will instill an immediate sense of belonging in students and will provide the necessary academic and social foundations for their success at Hamilton College. Many students struggle, especially in their first semester, to balance and manage the social and academic demands of college. As Hamilton achieves even greater diversity in its student body, transitional issues will require even greater attention. To that end, we have developed a first-year program that intentionally connects the residential, advising and classroom experiences."
The Davis Foundations grant will be used to support the establishment of first-year courses, add an associate dean of faculty position and provide support for summer advising.
Meredith Harper Bonham, senior associate dean of students for strategic initiatives, said, "The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations grant will kick start Hamilton's First-Year Experience program, especially on the academic side. In providing support for the establishment of an associate dean of faculty position, the Foundation recognizes the need to create an administrative point person who will be an invaluable resource for faculty interested in teaching first-year courses," Bonham explained. "I look forward to partnering with that individual in order to launch a program that will enhance our students' transition to college."
Also as part of the FYE program, Hamilton plans to raise and/or invest the resources necessary to renovate and reconfigure six existing residence halls to accommodate first-year clusters. Housing first-year students together will create an immediate sense of community while also encouraging class unity, and providing an essential anchor of stability for those experiencing adjustment challenges, according to the proposal.
The College also plans to expand the Residential Engagement in Academic Life program, offering approximately 100 (or roughly one quarter) of first-year students the option of living in a cluster while sharing a common academic experience by taking one of several specific seminar classes.
The proposed first-year courses will focus on at least one of three areas for which Hamilton has stated standards for academic work: writing, oral communication, and quantitative and symbolic reasoning. In addition to introducing students to disciplinary practices, each course will also examine its place in the context of a liberal arts education.
The two structural changes -- summer registration and appointment of a new associate dean of faculty charged with encouraging, promoting and organizing faculty involvement across the disciplines -- would help ensure that the FYE in general, and the first-year courses in particular, are woven strongly into the curriculum. A proposed summer registration process will lessen the stress of the course registration process during orientation, and also enhance pre-concentration advising.
The new associate dean of faculty will have substantial responsibility for coordinating all academic aspects of the FYE. He or she will take the lead role in encouraging faculty across academic departments to participate in the FYE, especially in teaching first-year courses.


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The baby name Qiana, very trendy during the late 1970s, can be traced back to a silk-like nylon fabric called Qiana.
DuPont put Qiana on the market in 1968. The company told TIME Magazine that the exotic-sounding name was simply "a computerized combination of random letters." (In fact the company had started with a computer-generated list of 6,500 five-letter non-words and, after a full year of research and testing, finally settled on "Qiana.")
Qiana first appeared on the SSA's baby name list in 1970:
- 1975: 88 girls named Qiana
- 1974: 50 girls named Qiana
- 1973: 25 girls named Qiana
- 1972: 9 girls named Qiana
- 1971: 16 girls named Qiana
- 1970: 6 girls named Qiana [debut]
- 1969: unlisted
It didn't become trendy until the second half of the decade, though.
Why? Disco!
Qiana became a popular fabric for disco clothing, especially faux-silk men's shirts. According to one writer, "Qiana materialized disco…as flannel materialized grunge." Remember John Travolta as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977)? The black shirt he wore beneath that iconic white suit was made of Qiana.
The popularity of the fabric boosted the popularity of the name — so much so that Qiana managed to rank among the 1,000 most popular girl names in the nation 5 consecutive times:
- 1982: 96 girls named Qiana
- 1981: 159 girls named Qiana [ranked 939th]
- 1980: 209 girls named Qiana [ranked 789th]
- 1979: 331 girls named Qiana [ranked 556th]
- 1978: 370 girls named Qiana [ranked 509th]
- 1977: 251 girls named Qiana [ranked 649th]
- 1976: 115 girls named Qiana
It also inspired a handful of spelling variants, including Qianna, Quiana, Quianna, Qiona, Quiona, Quionna, Queana, Quiyana and Qiuana.
- Jarrett, Michael. Sound Tracks: A Musical ABC. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
- "Textiles: Enter Qiana." TIME 5 Jul. 1968.


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'The Hunger Games' tragedy
After months waiting for an available copy of "The Hunger Games" to become available from the library, last week I finally got the notice that it was waiting to be picked up.
This might not seem like a significant event to some people. But after waiting since before the book's March movie premiere to get my hands on this story, I was excited.
The whole drawn-out process started because I avoided reading the book back when it was new, before it was optioned to become a movie sensation (i.e., when it would have been easy to get ahold of at the library). And when I finally did get interested enough in the story to want to read it, I still wasn't willing to buy my own copy.
Enter the library's hold request service, where because of the upcoming movie premiere, I started at number 260-something on the list.
During the three months I spent tapping my foot as I checked my hold status, I thought more than once that it would be much, much easier to buy the stupid thing on my Nook, download it, and read it right then. But I'm cheap when it comes to young adult books, especially if I'm not sure a story is going to appeal to me.
In my world, books are a big deal. But I've had some bad experiences with teen fiction (cough, "Twilight," cough).
Here's my dilemma: I love books, but I have pretty high standards and a limited amount of money. I'm probably more willing than most people to plunk down my dime to read an interesting book, but I don't want to pay for something that's more likely to contain emotional angst than plot.
More than a year ago, "The Hunger Games" was brought to my attention for the first time. My mother, a high school science teacher, mentioned that quite a few of the students in her classes were huge fans, and asked me if I'd read it. I hadn't even heard of it.
Unlike "Twilight," which made a big enough splash that I was at least aware it was swimming around in the library circulation pond, "The Hunger Games" slipped right under my radar. But although general story sounded promising, I shrugged off any temptation I might have felt to read it.
The "Twilight" wound was still raw.
So I rolled my eyes at the thought of another gushy teen romance disguised as something interesting, and I promptly dismissed the book, decidedly uninterested.
But "The Hunger Games" refused to go away.
I managed to avoid it until the movie previews came out, and my brother said they looked pretty good. Even then I was able to maintain my indifference until ***he started reading it.
That caught my interest, because he doesn't read many books. And when he said he enjoyed it, I gritted my teeth, logged in to the library website, and placed the hold.
And three months later, last Wednesday night, I got home from work, ate dinner, walked around the yard with the dogs for a bit, then settled in for some reading.
And although I'm not going to say it was great, the writing wasn't terrible and I enjoyed the story — but after I closed the back cover and set it aside, I had to go bang my head against the wall.
Because somehow, although I knew "The Hunger Games" was just the first book in a series, putting a hold on the second one ahead of time totally slipped my mind. And now I have to go to the library website, look up the second book in the series, grit my teeth, and wait another three months.
It's a trilogy, apparently. And after the success of the first movie, I'm sure Hollywood is chomping at the bit to roll the next two films into theaters across the world.
Maybe by this time next year, I'll be finishing the last book.
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More CIOs Expect IT Staff Increases in 2013
Yes, we realize the topsy-turvy economy of the last several years has left CIOs and other technology managers skeptical about any forecasts of happy days ahead. But it's difficult to dismiss a recent wave of encouraging news, such as these findings from Robert Half Technology on hiring prospects for the first quarter of 2013. Organizations are cautiously optimistic about the immediate future, and are ready to invest accordingly in additional IT staffing. It doesn't hurt that the modern C-suite recognizes more than ever that CIOs and their departments remain critical in achieving profit-growth strategies. Or that CIOs are successfully presenting the case that they need more staff to address essential skills, such as security, applications development and data oversight. In addition to staffing, a significant percentage of senior IT managers expect greater investment in IT projects, Robert Half reports. More than 1,400 U.S. CIOs took part in the research.


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Bristol Hospital and its affiliated Health Care Group Inc. will be acquired for $50 million in a joint venture between an investor-owned Texas hospital chain and Yale-New Haven Health Services Corp.
The sale price was disclosed in paperwork filed this week with the attorney general's office and the state Office of Health Care Access, both of which regulate hospital acquisitions.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. of Dallas, Texas, is also acquiring four other Connecticut hospitals. The purchase prices of those transactions have already been available in documents previously filed with state regulators.
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The shoulder charge will be banned from Super League with immediate effect after the Rugby Football League decided to follow the lead set by Australia.
The Australian Rugby League Commission outlawed the controversial tackle at the end of last year while New Zealand already had a ban in place in its domestic competition.
The RFL decided in December to keep the shoulder charge until a full consultation process had been undertaken but their hand was forced on Monday night when the International Federation agreed to extend the ban worldwide, starting with Friday's World Club Challenge in Leeds and incorporating the end-of-season World Cup.
The RFL, who were outvoted by their southern hemisphere counterparts, could have delayed changing the rule for their domestic competitions until the end of the season but decided, for the sake of uniformity, to introduce the ban in Super League and the Championships from this weekend.
RFL laws committee secretary Blake Solly said: "We understand that the shoulder charge is popular with many people in rugby league but we also have a duty to manage the welfare and safety of players involved in the game at all levels.
"We have contributed to the RLIF's discussions about the shoulder charge and, whilst we believed the challenge should not be banned, we consider that the RLIF board have followed the correct process and allowed each member nation to provide a view on the law change.
"It is right that the RLIF should have ultimate control over issues such as this, and we remain committed to standardising the laws of the game across all nations and competitions."