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South Africa 28-8 Australia, Rugby Championship
Springboks too good for Australia
September 28, 2013
Zane Kirchner notched a first half try for the victorious Springboks
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South Africa set up a Rugby Championship title showdown against New Zealand next weekend with a 28-8 victory over Australia at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday.
Match Analysis by ESPNscrum's Graham Jenkins
The Springboks stormed into a 20-3 lead after just 20 minutes to immediately kill off any threat from a Wallabies side desperate to finish a forgettable season on a high. Adriaan Strauss and Zane Kirchner touched down in the immediate onslaught but crucially the Springboks failed to find the extra two tries they needed to secure a bonus-point success and make life easier ahead of their do-or-die clash with New Zealand in Johannesburg next weekend.
The All Blacks can move five points clear at the top with full points against Argentina on Saturday night - a result that would mean they need only deny South Africa a bonus-point win next week to retain the title.
South Africa had to wait until the 71st minute for their third try, Willie le Roux willing himself over, but a fourth was not forthcoming to leave a slightly bitter taste despite lifting the Mandela Shield. Australia at least ended a mostly toothless display, that did improve after half-time, with a late try to debutant Chris Feauai-Sautia.
The Wallabies arrived in South Africa on the back of the controversy which saw James O'Connor left at home and looking to build on their first win under new boss Ewen McKenzie when they beat the Pumas in Perth last time out.
They were first on the board when Christian Leali'ifano steered home a penalty but from there South Africa took full control. After Morne Steyn, who kicked a match haul of 15 points, levelled, front-rower Strauss bundled over for the first try on 13 minutes when Quade Cooper attempted to intercept rather than hold his position on the line. Steyn converted and was soon sizing up another when Jean de Villiers' cut-out pass caught the Wallabies short on numbers out wide. Le Roux made the break and fed the ball inside for Kirchner to race over.
South Africa had enjoyed 82 per cent of possession, and most of the territory, at that point and the game was virtually done and dusted when Steyn kicked over another penalty to make it 20-3.
The Springboks were effectively trapping Australia deep in their own half, with the visitors consigned to kicking the ball away to gain any relief. Matters got worse, though, when Michael Hooper was yellow-carded for a dangerous tackle that sent Eben Etzbeth flying head over heels and prompted a scuffle the TMO was content to ignore. Bryan Habana was denied by Adam Ashley-Cooper's try-saving tackle in the corner but Steyn kicked over a penalty to send his side into the break 23-3 up.
Flip van der Merwe did see yellow just before the break, after he led with an elbow that caught Joseph Tomane on the chin, and Australia sent on veteran Will Genia at half-time to try to make use of their man advantage after the break. It failed to work as the match petered out, with the Springboks taking their foot off the accelerator.
Duane Vermuelen and Sitaleki Timani both spent time in the sin bin and it was only with nine minutes left that South Africa revived hope of a bonus point, when Le Roux forced his way over in the corner. It was Australia, though, who got the fourth try when Cooper's cross-field kick, after a quickly-taken line-out, caught the Springboks out for Feauai-Sautia to stumble over.
Australia's performance, however, will no doubt raise concerns Down Under they could become Argentina's first victim since they joined the Rugby Championship when they travel to South America next week.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Thanks for voting, Iran
Me at Jamshidieh Park
My Iranian Facebook friends have all turned green. I don't know if they are recycling or conserving energy, what I do know is that they have put a green overlay on their profile images in response to Mir-Hossein Mousavi's green campaign for president of Iran.
Do you think we should vote? An old friend texted me this morning.
Are you kidding me? I texted back. In the election four years ago, this same old friend tried to encourage friends, family, and strangers to vote for the Reformist candidate Moein despite calls for a boycott. "Do you think America or some other superpower is going to save us? No. We have to vote. It's the only thing we can do." In the end, he influenced a couple of people, but could not even get his own family to the polls.
Today he is on his way to Azadi Square to participate in a human chain of Mousavi supporters that will stretch to Sadaghieh about 1.5 kilometers away.
People may wonder why, an American Jew, am so passionate about Iranian elections. It isn't just that my beloved husband is Iranian and that I lived there for four years and that I speak Persian. It is that for two years I lived under the current president Ahmadinejad's rule. I was in Tehran when he organized a conference for holocaust deniers. I was there for the cartoon show about the Holocaust that was filled with anti-Semitic stereotypes. I was there when Iranian television rebroadcast the Egyptian serial Protocols of the Elders of Zion. And, believe it or not, I started to wonder if all of the Iranians who had been so friendly and warm and open to me, were not, actually, at heart disgusted with me. I started to wonder if Ahmadinejad did not, indeed, represent the true nature of the culture better than all of the wonderful people I had met.
This election is so important to me because I see an Iran that wants to engage with the world in a peaceful manner. I see an Iran that reflects the best of what I experienced while there: an open, warm-hearted society filled with people that would rather share tea and kebab with you than confront you. I see people who do not hate me either for being American or for being Jewish. I see people who would shake my hand and hug me and dance with me. I see, again, the culture and the people that made me feel so welcome.
Thank you Iranians. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reaffirming what I learned in Iran: that you are a peaceful and open people and that you know very well how to have fun.
7 comments:
- Regolo said...
well, just wanted to drop a few lines, I've been following this blog for quite a while, a coupple of years at least. Let me tell you, you did a great job talking to us about what Iran is and especially what is not. Best wishes to all iranians for the next elections, hope that whoever will be elected, will really start working for the people.
- Tori said...
Thanks Regolo. I hope that I am right.
- lgslivebait said...
We are so rooting for you!!1Staying up all night to try to follow your elections...here in the midwest it is about four am..bbc is following ..and I found your blog..I am hoping for the young people of Iran...yes we want to engage you CAN'T WAIT>>>GO GREEN!!
I don't see this Iran that you see. The system in Iran is rigged, and participating in that system grants it a level of legitimacy. Iran's population have done nothing against their murderous leaders.
- Tori said...
Steven, If you notice the date of the post it is from before the election. I stand by what I wrote. I am thanking the people of Iran for showing me that they have not all become AN supporters.
The fact is, participating in the vote was very important. It sent a very powerful message to the regime. Unfortunately it was not one they chose to accept. We are hoping that the violence will end soon and that Iranians will be successful in their search for freedom and democracy and engagement.
BTW, when was the last time you risked your life for what you believe. IRanians are out on the streets now, dying and risking their lives.
- Marie said...
I hold my breath. 30 years later, I see again the hope, the desire to be free, the young people taking to the streets. This foreign culture has been an ill-fit for the Persian people. Can the green movement's idealism and desire shift the deep corrupted underbelly of Iran?
- Tori said...
We are all holding our breath.

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Since Veritas' Sunday Gatherings are not a performance, but a participation of all people, we can all prepare for the Gathering by reviewing the liturgy ahead of time and praying that God would use it to build us up as his church. We can also continue to worship God as a church throughout the week by participating in Family Worship and Private Worship in our homes, as outlined in their liturgies below.
Welcome Reading
Call to Worship
Song of Adoration
Confession Reading
Prayer of Confession
Word of Assurance
Song of Grace
Confession of Faith
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Pastoral Prayer
The Lord's Prayer
Passing of the Peace
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Veritas Community Church continues worshipping God throughout the week in all aspects of our lives. Family Worship is simply coming together for 10 minutes a day with those we live with to refocus our worship on God through the means of reading and praying the Bible that God has supplied.
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1 READ Nehemiah 9:38-10:39 together
2 PRAY in response to the text, or the prayer of the week from the Private Worship Guide.
3 ASK and answer question #44 in the New City Catechism.
4 SING the song 'Doxology'
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
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• Pray for nations that have unreached people groups
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• Memorize another catechism (Heidelberg, Westminster, North Star, Boys and Girls)
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Idaho Public Utilities Commission
March 2, 2011
Case Nos. PAC-E-11-01, -02, -03, -04, -05, Order No. 32192
Contact: Gene Fadness (208) 334-0339, 890-2712
Agreements sought for Bingham County wind projects
Comments are being accepted through March 24 on application by PacifiCorp for state regulators to make a determination regarding sales agreements with five wind projects in Bingham County.
PacifiCorp, which does business as Rocky Mountain Power in eastern Idaho, seeks an Idaho Public Utilities Commission decision regarding proposed sales agreements between the utility and Cedar Creek Wind LLC of Bainbridge, Wash. The agreements are for 20 years with a targeted operation date of Oct. 1, 2012. Each would deliver up to 10 average megawatts monthly to the utility and be paid by PacifiCorp at a rate that is published by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission.
However, the applications for the projects were submitted to the commission after the Dec. 14, 2010, effective date of a commission order that reduced the eligibility cap on the size of wind and solar projects that can qualify for the commission's published rate from 10-megawatts to 100 kilowatts. Cedar Creek claims the agreements were ready for execution well before the end of 2010, but actions by PacifiCorp delayed the agreements being finalized.
The temporary reduction in the eligibility cap came after Idaho's three major investor-owned electric utilities said the rapid development of large wind projects that are broken up into smaller 10-MW projects in order to qualify for the published rate is circumventing utility planning process and creating system reliability and operational issues. The utilities claim that the "continuing and unchecked requirement" for them to acquire additional intermittent generation regardless of the need for additional energy "increases the price its customers must pay for their energy needs."
Regulated utilities are required, under the provisions of the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), to accept power generated from qualifying renewable facilities (QFs). (The commission's reduction in the eligibility cap does not waive regulated utilities' PURPA requirement to buy energy from wind and solar projects up to 80 MW, but the rate paid to the projects between 100 kW and 80 MW is negotiated between the utility and the developer using the published rate as a starting point for negotiation. For now, projects under 100 kW qualify for the posted rate.)
PURPA was passed by Congress in 1978 to encourage development of renewable energy technologies as alternatives to burning fossil fuels or building new power plants. The act requires that electric utilities offer to buy power produced from QFs at rates determined by the states. The rate to be paid the QFs, called an avoided-cost rate, is to be equal to the cost the utility avoids if it would have had to generate the power itself or purchase it from another source.
The commission must ensure the avoided-cost rate is reasonable for utility customers because 100 percent of the price utilities pay QFs is included in customer rates.
"The magnitude of standard wind QF project development in Idaho has reached monumental levels and the current avoided published cost levels will have a significant impact on the net power cost portion of its Idaho and other jurisdiction customer's rates," PacifiCorp claims. In fact, the utility claims that if it is required to pay the avoided-cost rate, it will cost $10 million more per year for these five projects than if a rate could have been negotiated or a bid process initiated. If the commission approves the agreement, PacifiCorp is requesting that the $10 million in annual incremental expense be assigned to Idaho customers and not to customers in its six-state territory. That is in accordance with an earlier agreement between the six states and the utility that states QF contracts exceeding costs the utility would have otherwise incurred acquiring comparable resources be assigned to the state approving the contract.
The commission published rate proposed for the projects is a non-levelized rate that increases through the life of the contract. In 2013, the agreement's proposed rate for normal load hours during normal seasons of the year is $67.51 per megawatt-hour, escalating to $128.50 per MWh in 2032. The rate varies to account for heavy and light load hours of the day and heavy and light load seasons of the year.
PacifiCorp said it is concerned about the number and size of projects that are breaking down otherwise large projects into smaller projects to qualify for published, rather than negotiated, rates. "These proposed projects are not small family or community-based developers doing a single project, but rather large-scale, sophisticated developers with legal and technical assets who have disaggregated large projects into multiple projects…" the utility claims.
Cedar Creek Wind states it attempted to negotiate a contract with PacifiCorp but the model used by the utility calculated a rate that was 35 percent below the commission published rate rendering the project uneconomic. The developer also disputes the utility's claim that adding the total 133 MW nameplate capacity of the five projects at a single connection point can create system operational and reliability issues. If PacifiCorp were to absorb an additional 350 MWs of Idaho-based wind nameplate generation into its system, it would amount to only about 3.5 percent of PacifiCorp's projected system peak load in 2011, Cedar Creek claims.
The agreements state PacifiCorp can curtail generation from the projects when generation on PacifiCorp's total system approaches minimum levels needed to serve customers and further acceptance of the wind would have a detrimental effect on the utility's ability to simultaneously manage generation from other resources.
The agreements also state that it is up to the wind developer to work with Idaho Power's business delivery unit to ensure that interconnection facilities and transmission upgrades are completed in time to meet the projects' scheduled operation date. If the projects fail to meet their delivery dates, delay damages will be assessed.
Comments are accepted via e-mail by accessing the commission's homepage at www.puc.idaho.gov and clicking on "Comments & Questions About a Case." Fill in the case numbers (PAC-E-11-01, -02, -03, -04 or -05) and enter your comments. Comments can also be mailed to P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720-0074 or faxed to (208) 334-3762.


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CHICAGO – There's no getting around it. As a nation we've never paid more at the pump than we did this year.
The yearly national average is running at $3.63 per gallon so far for 2012, and it's all but guaranteed that 2012 will go down as the year with the highest average ever, according to a company that tracks per gallon cost of gasoline weekly.
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2012 gasoline costs could be highest ever in U.S.
CHICAGO – There's no getting around it. As a nation we've never paid more at the pump than we did this year.


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National Marine Fisheries Service has announced regulations that allow the Navy to continue testing and training activities off the East Coast as long as measures are followed to reduce injury or death to marine mammals.
National Marine Fisheries Service has announced regulations that allow the Navy to continue testing and training activities off the East Coast as long as measures are followed to reduce injury or death to marine mammals.
Letters of authorization were signed Nov. 14 that implement the regulations to mitigate impacts to whales, dolphins and other marine mammals that may be affected by testing and training by the Navy in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Navy�s current authorization ends in January. The new authorization is for five years and expires November 2018.
The Navy requested the authorization under the Marine Mammal Protection Act following completion of its environmental impact statement on plans to increase at-sea training in the Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing Area, which includes waters off the North Carolina coast, in order to maintain the readiness of naval forces.
The training involves the use of explosives and active sonar.
According to a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) news release, authorization was required because the sound generated by active sonar and the sound and pressure from detonating explosives could affect the behavior of some marine mammals or cause temporary hearing loss or injury.
The National Marine Fisheries Services, also known as NOAA Fisheries, has determined that the effects of the Navy operations would have �negligible� impacts on the species involved overall.
�Based on that determination, NOAA Fisheries is requiring that the Navy use mitigation measures and, if properly followed, expects the exercises will not result in serious injury or death to a large number of marine mammals,� the release state.
The protective measures include establishing marine mammal mitigation zones around each vessel using sonar; using Navy observers to shut down operations if marine mammals are seen within designated mitigation zones; and using the zones to ensure no explosives are detonated when animals are detected within the zones; implementing a stranding response plan; and using specific measures for the North Atlantic right whale.
However, the release states, exposure to sonar and explosives in certain circumstances have been associated with stranding of some marine mammals and injury and death may occur despite these efforts.
The final rule allows for a small number of incidental injuries to marine mammals due to sonar, explosions and vessel strikes.
The rule also includes a component that requires that the Navy and NOAA Fisheries meet yearly to discuss new science, Navy research and development and Navy monitoring results to determine if modifications are required.
The final rule is posted online at nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/incidental.htm#afft.


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It's my most favorite time of the year! I love, love, love this time of the year, ever since I was a little girl, as far back as I can remember! I just love Christmas so much. And now that I have kids of my own, I love it even more. To see it through their eyes is simply amazing to me. They are so excited with the lights and glitter, baking, and yes, presents! But the electricity in the air just from their excitment is enough to keep my mood cheerful and light... well most days. I have struggled with enjoying the holidays as much since my mom passed away almost 5 years ago. It is still fresh in my mind today, the last Christmas that we spent together. We knew it would be the last, and made so many good memories with my children and I am so grateful for those memories, as are the kids. Kendra and Austin remember them well, and thanks to scrapbooking, Cam and Colby have them too! Nothing can ever make that pain go away for me, but it is less each year and the memories that I have of our time makes me even smile now!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Father's Love Letter - WARNING!!! A long one, get a cup of tea and enjoy!
This year I am dealing with a different kind of loss. The loss of a relationship with my earthly dad. He is still here, but due to some choices that he has made, we are no longer a part of his life at this time. It is a grief process that I deal with daily, some better than others. For those of you that know me well, you know that I have always been daddy's little girl and to not have that in my life is simply tearing me apart and question many relationships in my life as well as produce a sense of disbelief in most everything. Having told you this, let me tell you about my day and show you just how great my Heavenly Father is to me.
This morning started as any other, busy getting ready for work at the church, just like most Wednesdays. It's a busy morning since I need to get school stuff ready for the kids before I go and make sure that they are all set. I needed to get something at the local store on my way to church. I have convinced myself not to do this, but I am a gluten for punishment, I guess, and drove by my dad's house. There on the front porch, I saw my dad and his live in lady were enjoying the morning coffee and paper together and my whole world seemed to crash around me. The tears started to fall and I had no control of them, the rivers opened like a dam and there was no stopping them. I cleaned myself up enough to get to the office without everyone stopping me and asking me what was wrong which in my world only makes it worse since it makes me cry more! I went into my office and started working, after all, work hard and think about anything other than what I had just seen. I needed to do the bulletin board in the Children's Ministry Wing today for the Christmas season and was looking online for a new idea. While I was searching, I came across the video that I will share with you at the end of this blog. This is no mistake, and certainly no coincidence. After you watch the video you will see why this was sent to me today and you might even shed a tear with me or for me! My Heavenly Father is looking for more from me. More love, more time with me, and more relationship. He wants to be my best friend, my comfort, and my favorite person to spend time with. He wants to be my Dad!
I hope that I haven't bored you too much and that maybe someone else out there can even relate or maybe it explains things about me to you differently. Whatever it does, I hope this video blesses you in a special way today!
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WINCHESTER, Va. – Senior running back Darrin McKenzie scored three times and the defense forced four turnovers as the Bridgewater Eagles football team outdueled Shenandoah down the stretch to take home a 28-23 victory over the Hornets at Shentel Stadium in Winchester.
After a scoreless start from both teams, Shenandoah struck first with four minutes to play in the opening stanza when quarterback Daniel Wright took a keeper to the end zone to make the score 6-0. The PAT was blocked by senior Leigh Bradley to keep the tally at 6-0.
Bridgewater's offense remained stagnant, but the Eagles defense put points on the board when safety Jeff Mehlhaff stepped in front of a Wright pass and sprinted 32 yards to pay dirt to put BC ahead by a 7-6 score after kicker Will Davis connected on the extra point.
Shenandoah regained the lead on its ensuing drive when an eight play-67 yard drive was capped off by a 30 yard, Andrew Lloyd field goal to put the Hornets back ahead by a 9-7 score.
Following the Hornets score, the Eagles answered right back with a quick four-play drive which culminated in an 11 yard McKenzie touchdown run which put Bridgewater ahead by a 14-9 score as the two teams headed to the locker room.
The Eagles were outgained by the Hornets in the first half by a 197-to-124 tally, but the defense forced three key first-half Shenandoah turnovers to help maintain the lead.
Out of the intermission, Shenandoah struck first to regain the lead when a Wright keeper put the Hornets back up by a 16-14 tally midway through the third frame.
Eight minutes later, McKenzie pounced into the end zone for the second time on the night, this time on a two-yard carry to put the Eagles back ahead by a 22-16 tally after a Carlos Gonzalez pass to Cassidy Burns made the two-point conversion count with 46 ticks left in the third quarter.
On the ensuing offensive drive for the Eagles, McKenzie hit the trifecta when he capped off a six play, 48-yard drive with a nine yard burst with 10:47 remaining to effectively put the nail in the coffin with Bridgewater leading by a 28-16 margin.
Shenandoah wasn't ready to go down without a fight. The Hornets returned the score three-and-a-half minutes later when Wright connected with Qiydaar Murphy on a 19 yard pitch and catch to cut the Eagles lead to 28-23 with seven and change to play.
Bridgewater's ensuing drive crossed midfield before stalling out in Hornets territory, giving Shenandoah a chance to take the lead in the final minutes.
Shenandoah pecked towards midfield as the clock winded down with a fourth down on its own 40. The Eagles defense again came up big, providing its second fourth-down stop of the ball game to effectively seal the deal.
The Eagles marched deep into Hornets territory and threatened to score late before electing to run the clock out, securing a 28-23 victory over the host Hornets.
For the second straight week, the Bridgewater offense was outgained, as the Hornets owned a 397-to-355 edge on the offensive end.
On the ground is where the Eagles owned the game, rushing for 258 yards on 45 carries. McKenzie bulled for a season-high 186 yards on 28 carries and scored a career-high three times in the win to pace the way. Shenandoah rushed for 104 yards on 31 carries, with Carl Joseph leading the way for the Hornets with 95 yards on nine carries.
Through the air, the Hornets owned the day, with Wright throwing for a game-high 293 yards on 23-of-36 passing. Junior Carlos Gonzalez paced the pack for Bridgewater, completing 11-of-23 passes for 97 yards. Starting quarterback Jacob Hutchinson was injured on the first series of the game and never returned.
On the receiving end, Bridgewater was led by Julius Delbridge's two catches for 23 yards. Shenandoah had a pair of players go for over 100 yards through the air, as Murphy and Rico Wallace hauled in nine and eight passes, respectively, for 108 yards a piece.
Defensively, Chris Wholey led the Eagles with 11 tackles, including five solo stops. Interior lineman Danny Grogg recorded eight stops, and forced two fumbles on the eveing, while also recording the lone sack of the game and 1.5 tackles for a loss. Safety Larry Gibbs paced the way for the Hornets with a game-high 12 tackles.
Bridgewater is idle next week as the early season bye week hits. The Eagles are back in action on September 24 when they travel to Ferrum. Kickoff against the Panthers is slated for 2:00 p.m.


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Family of NYC teen shot by police to speak out
NEW YORK -- The family of a New York City teenager shot to death by police decided Thursday to speak out about the case after a candlelight vigil resulted in 46 arrests.
Kimani "Kiki" Gray's mother, Carol Gray, and other relatives plan to hold a news conference Thursday afternoon in Brooklyn.
A spokesman for Gray's parents had said previously that they would not speak publicly as long as there was violence, which he said has "clouded their message."
"It's a tough time for the community," said the spokesman, Rev. Gilford Monrose. "But the family and myself do not condone the violence."
Most of those arrested at the vigil Wednesday night, the third straight day of protests, were charged with disorderly conduct. A police officer suffered a gash in the face after he was hit by an object tossed from a building.
Anger was palpable as a group of young people heckled police officers in helmets and later marched down a street.
The vigil's organizers tried in vain to calm participants; some later threw bottles at police.
"I'm not going to tell people don't be angry because we're all angry," said Franclot Graham, whose teenage son, Ramarley Graham, was shot and killed after police chased him into his Bronx home last year. An officer has been charged with manslaughter. "It's OK to vent but you have to respect the family's wishes and be peaceful," he said.
The medical examiner's office ruled that Gray was hit seven times, and had wounds in both the front and back of his body, including his shoulder, rib cage, forearm and legs.
The teen was with a group Saturday night, but left when he saw police in an unmarked car, police said. Authorities said he was acting suspicious and plain clothes officers approached him. According to police, Gray pointed a .38-caliber revolver at them, and they opened fire. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
A gun was recovered at the scene, authorities said.
Gray was black. The officers involved in the shooting were black and Hispanic. They have been placed on administrative duty.
A police officer may use deadly force when the officer has a reasonable fear of serious injury or death. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the shooting appeared to be within those guidelines.
But Gray's family maintains he wasn't armed, and people in his Brooklyn community were outraged.
"I want to see justice," said Jamal Williams, 18, a friend who grew up with Gray in the same East Flatbush neighborhood. "I want to see these cops taken down."
On Monday, dozens of people threw bottles and damaged some stores. Police released surveillance video of two of the convenience stores, where people are seen throwing fruit and stealing. In one, the cashier cowers in a corner as people loot the shop.
"I don't think that should have any relationship to a peaceful demonstration," the police commissioner said of the thefts.
Kelly said the group was disorderly, but didn't characterize it as a riot as some local newspapers did.
Rickford Burke, president of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy and an organizer of Wednesday's vigil, condemned the looting. He said the disorderly response came from a deep feeling of frustration in the community that police officers regularly harass and target young black men.
A second cousin of the victim, Ray Charles, said he was devastated to learn of Gray's death -- and was still having trouble accepting the NYPD's official version of events.
"My cousin was scared of guns," said Charles, 35. "I honestly just want justice. They didn't need to shoot him like that."
Nine people were shot and killed by police in 2011, according to an NYPD report. Five had guns, two had knives, one tried to ram officers with a car, and another was choking an officer, police said. There were 19 people injured during police gunfire, and of those, 12 had firearms. The majority of the people shot were black or Hispanic men, police said. The 2012 report is not yet available.


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With the Twilight series having wrapped its big-screen run (for now, at least) and True Blood approaching its final season, it appears that the age of the vampire has all but passed. However, an heir apparent may be on the verge of manifesting itself, at least on television.
Both American Horror Story: Coven and Lifetime's Witches of East End focus on a group of witches, and while series like Smallville and The Vampire Diaries have briefly featured witches, it looks like spell-casting may be about to hit the mainstream once again, especially if this latest development comes to fruition.
According to The Wrap, CBS is developing a reboot of Charmed. The show – which ran on the now-defunct WB from 1998 to 2006 – starred Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, Shannen Doherty and Rose McGown as a group of sisters who use witchcraft to fight the forces of evil. The new series will essentially serve as a re-imagining of this basic premise and, as of now, is not expected to have any ties to the original show.
Chris Keyser (creator of Party of Five) and relative newcomer Sydney Sidner will write and executive produce the show. No cast members are currently in place, and the show currently has yet to secure a pilot or broadcast commitment.
Witches, of course, have a long history on television screens, most notably dating back to the classic 1964-1972 sitcom Bewitched as well as more recent shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Since depicting witchcraft on television appears to be gaining momentum once more, it's fitting that a Charmed reboot is in the cards.
The show – along with Buffy and Smallville – helped to popularize the young adult supernatural drama back in the late 1990s/early 2000s, leading to series like Supernatural and Arrow. It's also among the longest-running shows of its genre, and while fans of the original series may be hesitant for another take on the franchise, it's entirely possible that the new Charmed could follow a different set of witches entirely. This would allow it to take place within the same universe as the original show in the same way that the recent 90210 reboot followed new characters but left the door open for familiar faces to re-emerge. Time will tell what kind of approach Keyser and Sidner decide to take with this update.
Do you like the idea of a new Charmed? Would you prefer the show start fresh or integrate elements (and characters) from the original show? Let us know in the comments section below.
Stay tuned to Screen Rant for updates on the proposed Charmed reboot as this story develops.
Source: The Wrap


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Charlotte Casiraghi stars in the new Gucci 'Forever Now' campaign. The beautiful daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco and granddaughter of gorgeous Grace Kelly looks stunning in the brand's third installment of the "Forever Now" ad campaign series. Shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, the two new portraits narrate the legacy of eternal femininity represented by the motif. It was Frida Giannini the one to rediscover the Flora print back in 2005. The designer managed to express her own feminine point of view and boldly applied the ... Read More
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I don't think that I know anyone in our local area that actually serves Strawberry Shortcake with real shortcake. Instead of the sweet biscuit-like base for our strawberries and cream, we usually swap out angel food cake, pound cake, sponge cake, and even just plain white cake. In fact, I don't know that I have ever had a true Strawberry Shortcake.
That is why it is berry (I know, bad pun. Sorry.) ironic that my first foray into the realm of combining biscuits and strawberries would be with a cookie, and not a cake at all. One of my father-in-law's favorite desserts is the cake version of Strawberry Shortcake. With just a few ripe, red berries floating around in my fridge, I decided to try a Martha Stewart recipe for Strawberry Shortcake Cookies as a treat for him. They are tender and flaky, just as a baking powder biscuit would be be, with dots of fresh strawberry strewn within. A dusting of sugar adds just the right sweetness for the cookies. I don't mind a little berry irony as long as I have Strawberry Shortcake Cookies On My Plate.
Strawberry Shortcake Cookies
2 cups strawberries, hulled and cut into 1/4-inch dice
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup, plus 1 tablespoon sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
2/3 cup heavy cream
sugar, for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Combine strawberries, lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons sugar.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and remaining 7 tablespoons granulated sugar in a large bowl.
Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter, or rub in with your fingers, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Stir in cream until dough starts to come together (I needed a couple tablespoons more cream to form a dough.), then stir in strawberry mixture.
Using a 1 1/2-inch ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment, spacing evenly apart. (I used fresh parchment for each batch, as the sugar caramelized a bit and wanted to burn around the cookies.)
Sprinkle with additional sugar, and bake until golden brown, 24 to 25 minutes. (Mine were done in 20-22 minutes...watch the bottoms the sugar burns easily.)
Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool.
Cookies are best served immediately, but can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 day. (I KNOW! A cookie recipe that says you have to eat them all in one day! Awesome sauce!) (About 3 dozen cookies)


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The next time you're hungry, reach for a nut -- or whip up one of these nutty recipes. Bite for bite, nuts are among the most nutrient-dense foods you can eat; and because they're high in protein and healthy fats, they're also an excellent cholesterol-free alternative to meat.
In this side dish, almonds add healthy fats to vitamin-packed beans. "Shocking" cooked green beans in ice water prevents them from overcooking and preserves their bright-green color.
To toast shelled hazelnuts, spread in a single layer on a baking sheet and put in an oven heated to 300 degrees until skins begin to crack, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove, wrap nuts in a clean kitchen towel, and rub vigorously to loosen skins.
The bold flavors of fennel and sardines are complemented by the subtle crunch of pine nuts in this delicious pasta.
This dish benefits the eyes: The spinach, corn, and avocado all deliver lutein or zeaxanthin -- or both. Other antioxidants present include vitamin E (almonds), selenium (chicken), and catechins (grapes).
Pheasant is delicious roasted, so long as the game bird is very young. Ask your butcher for a young female pheasant; it will be much juicier than an older pheasant.
Tomato paste and charred red peppers provide an ancho-spiced dip with layers of flavor in addition to cancer-fighting carotenoids; almonds and walnuts provide the smoky mixture with protein and unsaturated ("good") fat.
The satisfying crunch of walnuts gives a helping of salad greens added dimension; the nuts have a natural affinity for arugula, spinach, endive, and watercress.
Combining cooked and fresh berries (good sources of vitamin C and anthocyanins) with vitamin E-filled wheat germ and pecans maximizes this dish's antioxidant potential.
This creamy and delightful pie is sure to impress any guest.
We up the nutrition of the beloved chocolate chip cookie, keeping its milk-dunking goodness.
Although they're made with a nontraditional brown-rice flour, these gluten-free hazelnut shortbread bars are comfortingly familiar and crumbly.
Cayenne pepper gives these slightly sweet walnuts a piquant kick. If you have a large pan, you can easily double this recipe.
Homemade pesto sauce is a great way to use up leftover pine nuts, basil, and cheese. You can also make pesto with cilantro and almonds, or with parsley and walnuts.
Toasted pistachios and cilantro add flavor to this salad of cooked carrots and raisins.
This homemade mix adds nutritious fruits and nuts without the refined sugars and trans fats of some commercial granolas.


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"Where the f*ck am I gonna go now to sell my records?"
That's a musing from Kid Rock, as quoted by Carson Daly, after the final episode of TRL. Most people would instantly reply "the internet." The internet, however, despite being a great tool for music discovery, has been poor, at best, at turning that discovery into actual fans.
The way things are set up now with Facebook and Twitter, very few artists have fans. Artists have plenty of "likes" and "followers," but they don't have the artist-fan relationship that's needed to be as big as the acts of previous generations. Fans buy albums, concert tickets and t-shirts. Fans tell their friends about artists. The person who "liked" a Facebook page, who are they in relation to the artist? Are they really a fan?
The internet has a million ways to communicate, and a million ways to sell things, but it's failing when it comes to creating fans. The reason for this is that there are very few fan experiences on the internet. There's no waiting in line at midnight at the record store for the latest release from your favorite artist when you're downloading it on iTunes. There's no gathering all your friends up into your car and going to a concert when you're watching a live stream of the show on YouTube. There's no anticipating your favorite artist appearing on your favorite music video show when you have access to them 24/7.
These are the fan experiences the internet hasn't been able to, and probably will never be able to, replicate, and they're exactly what artists, and labels, need if they're going to reach their previous heights.
Yes, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Adele and Lady Gaga are selling a lot of records (even if it's nowhere near the previous generation's highs), but if you'll notice, with the exception of Bieber being discovered on YouTube, they just have their collective toe dipped in the internet water, they aren't considering it the be all and end all of how they create fans, and that's the key.
The artists who have found ways to utilize the internet to create and grow their fan base have done so by using it as just one of an array of interlocking tools. Canadian synth pop/dubstep artist Lights has done a fantastic job of this, largely through her own website's message board, which gave birth to her fan group (Lights' Army), and her use of video blogs on YouTube. Lights has kept her fan base as a close knit community, and once you find out about her you become a part of it. Some may scoff at the idea of having to seek out an artist, but it's worked for her - all of her shows sell out, and they do so pretty darn quickly. In addition to her online efforts she does a plethora of fan meet and greets while on the road. Meeting her online fans offline is a big reason why her online efforts continue to work so well for her.
When I interviewed Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman he mentioned this idea that social networking and the internet are just two of many tools that need to be in an artist's arsenal, saying "you can't become so dependent on social media that you forget to put up a poster or pass out a flyer once in a while." He added "I don't want tech to overrun the Warped Tour cuz I still think it's important for kids to come and learn, so we always have to manage it so that kids come early and wander around and run into a band they might like. We want to try to keep some sense of adventure to shows."
When those kids Lyman is talking about find a band they like, enjoy their performance, and then go to their merch tent to buy their album and meet them, they've had multiple fan experiences in the span of an hour and, as long as the album is good, that artist has created new fans.
When someone "likes" an artist's Facebook page all an artist has is someone who's "liked" their Facebook page. Turning that "like" into a fan takes some decidedly offline efforts.
original posting can be found here… Fan Friction - How The Internet is Failing Artists


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JEFFERSON CITY (AP) � Missouri consumers will soon be able to buy motorcycles on Sundays.
Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation yesterday that will lift a ban on Sunday sales of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft and other items typically sold by power-sports dealers.
Like most Missouri legislation, the measure is scheduled to take effect Aug. 28.
The legislation was championed by motorcycle riders and at least one Harley-Davidson dealer from the Kansas City area, who told lawmakers that he was losing Sunday business to a competitor in Kansas.
The Missouri legislation does not repeal the state�s ban on Sunday sales of cars and trucks.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Paul T. Idzik Chief Executive Officer, effective January 22, 2013.
Interim CEO Frank J. Petrilli, who has served since August, 2012, will continue as Chairman. Rodger A. Lawson will step down as Lead Independent Director, a role he has served since August 2012, but will remain on the Board. Mr. Idzik was also named President of E*TRADE Bank, and will serve on the Company's and E*TRADE Bank's Boards of Directors.
"Paul brings great strengths to our business at this very important time for our company," Mr. Petrilli said in making the announcement. "Paul is recognized in the financial services industry for his strong leadership skills and his demonstrated ability to deliver results and create shareholder value. As a seasoned senior executive, he has a proven track record of building strong teams, and working with multiple stakeholders. Paul is the right person to lead E*TRADE as we continue to execute on our strategic and capital plan."
"I look forward to joining E*TRADE and working with its management team," Mr. Idzik said. "E*TRADE has great strengths, from its iconic brand to its industry-leading technology and its world-class product and service offerings. These will serve the company well as we work to grow the franchise and deliver value to shareholders."
About Paul T. Idzik
Paul T. Idzik, 51, was most recently Group Chief Executive of DTZ Holdings PLC in London. He also served 10 years at Barclays PLC, most recently as Group Chief Operating Officer and before that as Chief Operating Officer of Barclays Capital. He oversaw all key functional units, including Information Technology and Operations, HR, Corporate Communications, Sourcing and Procurement, and all strategy for Barclays.
Mr. Idzik started his career as a consultant, and spent more than a decade with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he was a partner in the Financial Services practice. He advised retail, commercial, and investment banks on strategy and performance enhancement.
He also sits on the Board of Trustees of the Oxford Philomusica, Oxford's professional symphony orchestra.
Mr. Idzik has BAs in Economics and Computer Applications from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.
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Senate starts over in quest to build a transparency website
Determined to prove that legislators are committed to government transparency, a Senate committee convened Thursday to explore ways to give the public more details about the state's $70 billion dollar budget.
They made little progress.
The Senate Government Operations and Accountability Committee took up the issue after rejecting a $5 million budget transparency program — known as Transparency 2.0 — that was negotiated in secret.
The committee heard a staff report that nine state-run web sites portend to offer a level of transparency, but require the public to go to several of them to get a complete budget picture.
Dan Krassner, executive director of Integrity Florida, an independent ethics watchdog group, told the committee that even with numerous web sites there are elements of the budget that remain off limits to the public. Among them: the Legislature's contracts, budget planning documents of state agencies and legislative salary data.
The solution, Krassner said, is for the state to move to open data, allowing the public access to many of its information databases.
"Let's free the data,'' Krassner said. "That doesn't involve significant cost. In fact, it probably involves cost savings…You have all these web sites powered by the same types of databases, but the databases are not public."
Rather than have the state maintain multiple sites, the state could "unlock the power of these sites to the private sector – mobile app developers, IT professionals in the Florida ...,'' he said. "That would be a job creation strategy.''
But some on the committee bristled at that idea.
"Yeah, it'd create jobs, but the return on that job creation is negligible,'' said Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla who is also chairman of the general government appropriations subcommittee. "It's a gross expense and a waste of taxpayer dollars and I'm not willing to do it."
He said he was "not in favor for one moment" of making the Legislature's working documents available for the public to see. "I'm sorry, if the public doesn't have any greater faith and confidence in my judgment than that, then they don't have to re-elect me,'' he said.
Sen. Jeremy Ring, a Margate Democrat and committee chairman, asked Krassner what would be the elements of a good transparency web site. Krassner urged the Senate to include budget planning documents, all details of the budget process, all expenditures, all contracts data and all personnel information, including salaries, travel and other expenses
Each of those items is now available on the Transparency 2.0 web site, which the Senate paid $5 million to license and develop but never made available to the public because of what Senate leaders now consider a flawed contract. The web site also provided access to every line item in the budget that linked to a contract and allowed users to drill down into the contract details. No existing web site shows that level of budget detail.
Ring said that no senator on the committee had seen the web site because of problems with the contract, including a failure to give the state ownership of the IP address.
"The product is powerful. It's much more user friendly than any of the sites available today,'' Krassner said.
But other members of the committee called the contract, signed between former Sen. Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, and Spider Data Services "a debacle."
Reached at the Capitol Thursday, Haridopolos defended the contract but would not explain why he refused to make it available to senators when it was ready to launch in December 2011. Instead, the web site sat idle until the contract with the Senate ran out in December 2012.
"I thought it was a really good idea and it's out there and they are going to make the judgment,'' said Haridopolos, who was in Tallahassee teaching a University of Florida class. "I think we had the most transparent budget process ever."
Ring said his goal is to get the state from nine to one transparent web site. He said he's not given up hope that the system the state paid for could be used if the contract is renegotiated.
"We haven't lost it. I'm hopeful we've just suspended it,'' Ring told the Herald/Times. "Clearly, they built a site that people think is a good site but they did an agreement that's not good for Florida or for the taxpayers and we have to resolve that."


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2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee: Only Has Eyes For JeepsPosted in Project Vehicles on July 1, 2012
WJ fortified with JK axles
You would expect a kid from Bangkok to drive a Honda Civic with a giant exhaust tip and an even bigger wing on the back, but Kanin Prucksakorn only has eyes for Jeeps. His current rides include a well-built YJ Wrangler and the WJ Grand Cherokee featured on these pages. Kanin picked up his current WJ as a replacement for his previous Grand Cherokee after it was totaled by a drunk-driver who T-boned Kanin and his girlfriend Erica three years ago. Since bringing home the new WJ, he has performed a host of modifications to make it his own.
Kanin's Grand Cherokee already had a 6-inch Clayton's Off Road long-arm suspension when he bought it, which saved him a considerable amount of money in building his WJ. Even with that much lift though, the Jeep was only running 33-inch-tall tires at the time. Larger tires could fit, but first the Jeep had to be fortified for bigger, heavier meats. The WJ Unitbody is already far stiffer than its XJ and ZJ predecessors, but Kanin's was made even more so with the addition of Unitbody stiffeners that double as suspension mounting points for the Clayton's suspension kit. JKS Super Nerfs from Kevin's Off Road tie into the rails and body protection while reinforcing the chassis.
Despite being smaller and lighter than a JK Unlimited, the brain trust at Jeep was smart enough to equip the WJ with a V-8 from the factory. The 4.7L mill in Kanin's Grand has been enhanced with a K&N intake and Thrush muffler, but otherwise remains stock after 130,000 miles. Power is then routed through the factory 45RFE five-speed automatic transmission and NV247 transfer case. The NV247 "Quadra-Trac II" T-case is a solid unit when in good condition and offers full-time 4WD operation via a gerotor limited-slip that allows nearly 100-percent lock up. It works, so it's staying—for now.
Kanin locked the factory Dana 30 and Dana 44A axles soon after buying the Jeep, but he found something better before dumping too much money into them. Dana 44s from a JK Rubicon were sourced when a local JK owner upgraded to Dana 60s, but there was a catch—the front axle was already bent. Hardline Metal Works cut the knuckles off of the housing before straightening it and reinforcing the tubes with inner sleeves from Poly Performance. The heavy-duty tie rod and drag link were also sourced from Poly Performance, along with the Superior chromoly front axleshafts. The JK axles also received 5.13 gears wrapped around the factory locking differentials.
The front JK axle bolted right in the WJ with minimal complications, and hydraulic ram-assist cylinder was added at the same time to ease steering effort. Kanin sourced the correct ABS and speedometer plugs from Lithia Jeep of Reno, Nevada, and all systems were a go. In the rear, Chris Stoner of Off Road Innovations in Reno added a Clayton truss for the rear suspension. Factory WJ upper suspension links are triangulated from the factory as opposed to the four link and track bar found on the back of Wranglers. Kanin cites Stoner as being instrumental in building his Grand Cherokee, and many of the details were based on Stoner's own WJ, which we featured in our March '11 issue.
Body and Interior
There is a lot of sheetmetal on a Grand Cherokee, so up-armoring the WJ was a priority. Chris Stoner built the front and rear bumpers to maximize ground clearance, match the lines of the vehicle, and be strong enough to withstand rock hits. The front bumper holds a Smittybilt winch, protects the radiator, and has an improved approach angle when compared to the stock plastic piece. The rear bumper wraps around to protect the sides of the vehicle and holds a full-size spare tire with a Trasharoo bag to keep smelly trash out of the cab.
One of the reasons the Jeep only had 33-inch tires on it with a 6-inch lift is the dinky WJ wheelwells. Kanin opened up the fenders 3 inches and added roll-on bedliner to provide some contrast. No additional lift was necessary to fit the 35-inch Goodyear MT/Rs, but the LJ Rubicon wheels did require adapters to change the bolt pattern from 5-on-5 to 5-on-41⁄2.
Inside, the Grand Cherokee is filled with leather and power everything. Rocker switches control the front and rear lockers through factory harnesses, although if he had to do it over again, Kanin would have skipped purchasing the harnesses and just wired the lockers from scratch. When the spare tire was moved to the tire carrier, Chris Stoner moved the fuel tank up 6 inches into the space previously occupied by the spare. The back of the Jeep now securely holds recovery gear, tools, and an air compressor from Iron Rock Off Road.
Good, Bad, and What It's For
Kanin's Jeep is civil enough to drive from his home in Reno out to Moab, as he has done the past few years for the annual Grand Slam West event. And with lockers front and rear and 35s, he can run most of the trails in Moab once he gets there. The downside is the sheer volume of exterior surface area on a WJ, so Kanin's has a few battle scars on the doors to show for it. However, he is building his YJ Wrangler to be his hardcore wheeler and plans to use the Grand Cherokee more for camping, road trips, and winter driving.
Hard Facts
Vehicle: 2001 Jeep WJ Grand Cherokee
Engine: 4.7L V-8
Transmission: 45RFE five-speed automatic
Transfer Case: NV247
Suspension: Clayton long-arm
Axles: JK Rubicon Dana 44 (front and rear)
Wheels: Factory LJ Rubicon
Tires: 315/75R16 Goodyear Wrangler MT/R
Built For: Everything from road trips to rockcrawling
Why I Wrote This Feature
The most appealing aspect of Kanin's Grand Cherokee is the addition of the JK axles. I think that they are well matched to the vehicle in terms of width and strength, are reasonably priced, and retain the ABS functionality and 5-on-5 bolt pattern of the WJ. Although it may not be as trendy as a JK Unlimited, Kanin's Jeep cost less to build and came from the factory with a V-8. It makes for a well-rounded package that offers a lot of bang for the buck.


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Volunteers with Snohomish County Train Watch tracked train traffic around the clock at locations in Edmonds, Everett and Marysville between April 21 and 28.
The train watch was organized to estimate the amount of coal and oil shipped by rail through the community to coal export facilities in Canada and oil refineries in Skagit and Whatcom counties. It was conducted in coordination with the Sierra Club of Snohomish County, Transition Port Gardner and 350 Seattle.
On Tuesday, Train Watch will report on what it sees as the risks surrounding transport of the cargo through Snohomish County. There also will be discussion of developments at the state and national levels in response to an increasing number of coal and oil trains.
The event begins with a free reception at 6:45 p.m. Results of the train watch will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the Everett Public Library Auditorium, 2703 Hoyt Ave.
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A drive to place an issue on the Denver ballot this November to overturn the city's pit bull ban has morphed into an international petition.
The goal of the petition, according to David Edelstein of the sponsoring Team-Pit-A-Full, is to "send a message to city officials that we are not letting this (issue) go quietly into the night as they would have it."
Edelstein's group backed off the ballot drive because of the lack of success of a preliminary event last year meant to educate Denver residents about the positive attributes of pit bulls.
The 100-mile walk around the outskirts of Denver was designed to highlight the belief of advocates that pit bull breeds are no more vicious than any other breed and shouldn't be stigmatized. But the walk drew scant media coverage and little public interest.
Edelstein's ultimate goal is to overturn Denver's 1989 ban of pit bulls enacted after two highly publicized attacks.


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STAMFORD -- As the investigation continues into the cause of Wednesday's power failure that pulled the plug on Metro-North's busy New Haven Line, a railroad spokeswoman said the plan to take a secondary electrical line out of service had been planned and tested over the summer.
"We ran extra trains in that section and put extra load on the grid and it was decided mutually between Metro-North and Con Edison that there wouldn't be a problem," Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said.
Though it may take officials weeks to determine the cause, it appears the 138,000 volt line that was left to bear the burden of energizing trains along an eight-mile stretch of track in Westchester County, N.Y. from Pelham to Rye became overwhelmed and superheated.
This month, Con Edison de-energized one of the two 138,000-volt feeder cables in the Mount Vernon substation to accommodate Metro-North's ongoing $50 million project to increase the system's capacity and support more service in the future in the area, Anders said.
During the summer tests, the railroad ran a higher than normal number of trains through the area on the 36- year-old feeder cable to see if it could bear the additional load, Anders said. The normal design life of the feeder cable is 30 years, she said.
After the tests, Metro-North Railroad and Con Edison deemed it unlikely that the primary 138,000-volt feeder line would fail due to being overloaded by the railroad's traffic through the area, Anders said.
Establishing a secondary power source linked to Con Ed's grid as a backup in the event of failure would cost millions and didn't appear warranted because the single feeder showed no cause for concern, Anders said.
"We thought plenty about this and it was considered a low risk," Anders said.
On Thursday, a Con Edison spokesman said the utility had yet to diagnose the cause of the electrical failure of a feeder cable that crippled Metro-North's New Haven Line because the cable is superheated and is being cooled by liquid nitrogen so it can be inspected.
On the first day of running a reduced service plan requiring transfers in Stamford from electric to diesel trains to reach Grand Central Terminal, many New Haven Line riders seemed to heed the advice of officials who urged them to carpool or telecommute, due to the limited number of seats. The number of New Haven Line riders using Metro-North dropped to around 19,000, roughly half the normal ridership during a regular weekday rush hour with 5,800 of them riding the Harlem Line, or about 25 percent higher than normal, according to Anders.
About 2,100 took Metro-North's bus shuttle from Rye to White Plains to take Harlem Line trains, Anders said.
The schedule, which provides about a third of the usual seats of normal service is expected to remain unaltered until voltage is restored to the stretch of track, Anders said.
On Thursday morning, the 9:10 a.m. train leaving Stamford for Grand Central Terminal pulled into the station with less than half the seats full when it pulled out. David Ashbery, a New Haven resident said that the need to transfer at the Stamford station only slightly inconvenienced him.
"I'm originally from New York where the trains have been much later so this is really nothing but a slight setback," Ashbery said.
After arriving in Stamford yesterday David Meeson, of Stratford, switched tack and called a friend to pick him up to get to work at his Harrison, N.Y., office. Meeson said he did not know about the service disruption until Thursday morning and didn't want to gamble on the arrival of the next local train to Rye, N.Y.
"I'm stressed out," Meeson said. "I can't be late everyday to the office. I'm going to have to stay late at the office."
Louis Nario, of West Haven, said he was unaware of the electrical failure and accompanying service reductions until he got to his station. At his home station public address announcements didn't announce the train he was waiting for was late for arrival.
"The only problem was getting to Stamford," Nario said.
Allan Drury, a Con Edison spokesman said the utility had still not determined the cause of the cable's failure because the utility was still working to bring the superheated line under control so it could be worked on.
"There are multiple steps we have to take and those steps have to be taken in sequence," Drury said. "And it all has to be done to very specific engineering specifications."
Drury said the company has to clean up the coolant that normally protects the cable that leaked when the cable burst, and also freeze oil in several reservoirs to stabilize the line, Drury said.
"Our focus is now on two things: repair the feeder that failed yesterday morning and working with Metro-North to find alternate ways to power the line and get more trains back on the tracks," Drury said.
While the summer tests might have shown one feeder cable would be satisfactory, Otto Lynch, of the American Society of Civil Engineers said that the organization has advocated for maintaining a redundant power source as part of a contingency plans when transmission lines are taken out of service for major upgrades.
Lynch is the energy representative for the American Society of Civil Engineers' Committee on America's Infrastructure. The group regularly issues a report card on the state of the nation's infrastructure, most recently this year.
During planned outages, an extra line can pick up the slack when demand unexpectedly peaks and reduce the risk of failure, Lynch said.
"If there is a third line it may not be needed everyday but if you have an outage on one of the lines that line can step up to the plate," Lynch said. "People always ask why we need to install new power lines and the answer is we need it for redundancy in case something happens and you need to repair lines."


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What's Bruton Smith up to now? If we tug real hard on his beard, will he tell us? (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
A day after track mega-owner Bruton Smith stunned the stock car racing world with news that he was discussing a possible 10-year sponsorship deal for a second NASCAR Sprint Cup tour weekend at his Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a race that would be moved from Charlotte Motor Speedway's fall calendar, and a move he described as 70-30 odds to be made, the veteran racing promoter stepped back a bit from that.
Smith insists "No final decision has been made regarding any race date move, and I have not discussed this with NASCAR."
While NASCAR ostensibly has ultimate control over race dates, Smith and the France family have both moved several Cup weekends from one of their tracks to another -- North Wilkesboro to both New Hampshire and to Phoenix, Atlanta to Kentucky, Rockingham to Kansas, and Darlington to California and then to Kansas, all in various mutations.
Given NASCAR's diminished West Coast presence, a second Las Vegas race wouldn't be much of a leap, particularly since this sport has three Cup weekends at Charlotte Motor Speedway already, two Cup tour events and the All-Star.
But what is Smith really trying to do here, with this proposed move from Charlotte to Las Vegas?
He could be taking the first step in what would be a move to switch the All-Star and 600 weekends further apart, instead of back to back, which hurts both in attendance.
However the All-Star race is a peculiar animal, with its own political baggage. And the France family itself might want to weigh in on any new plans for that event. At one time it was proposed that the All-Star race be run at Richmond, a France-family track.
More likely Smith is trying to wrangle with local politicians over something or other. He has been at odds with them over the years.
A second NASCAR Sprint Cup tour stop in Las Vegas? Could be, during the fall championship playoffs 2014, Bruton Smith says (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Smith Tuesday pointed out all the investments made in the Charlotte Motor Speedway complex, including that direct access road to I-85, and a huge shopping/hotel strip created along that road.
"We've invested $100 million in the Charlotte Motor Speedway complex in the past six years to make it even better for the fans," Smith says. "We've expanded our fan zone, added pit road suites and built the world's largest HDTV for every fan to enjoy.
"We've put more people to work with these projects, and we've added more events to the calendar to bring in more tourists and fans. And we've done this during the worst economy since the Great Depression.
"We've done this without asking for a handout from the government, like we've seen from so many other sports facilities, teams or franchises.
"Yet at the same time property values are falling during the recession, our Cabarrus County taxes have doubled since 2005.
"We absolutely love the fans that come to Charlotte Motor Speedway. It's frustrating to think about the future and consider that the local government doesn't share the same excitement about Charlotte Motor Speedway that our fans do.
"The Cabarrus County politicians may say nice things to the media, but raising taxes does not support the tourism business, the area economy or companies trying to grow."
Good news: Michael Annett, injured badly at Daytona in February, has finally been cleared to get back behind the wheel. And he expects to be again driving in Saturday's Nationwide 300 here.
Annett suffered a broken and dislocated sternum in the season-opener. His injuries required surgery and lengthy healing.
A broken sternum is a now rare injury in this sport, and no reason has been offered as explanation.
The team said NASCAR officials played a role in deciding whether or not Annett would be cleared to race.
Fox' Speed channel reports a ratings increase for Saturday night's rain-delayed All-Star race.
Not including the nearly one-hour rain delay, Speed says the event pulled a rating of 3.29, up 6.5 percent from last year's 3.09.
Over all, including the delay, the total rating of 3.04 was off only 2 percent from 2012.
Speed said the All-Star show ranked second that night on cable, and second in men 18-to-49, first in men 35-to-54.
Chad Knaus' pit crew set the stage for Jimmie Johnson's All-Star victory (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
I'm sure that's just what the teams want, too. Another week on the road away from the close confines of CMS, and they have to go all the way across the country instead. That'll go over well in the garage area.
"We've done this without asking for a handout from the government, like we've seen from so many other sports facilities, teams or franchises."
So who built that "direct access" road into the speedway Bruton? Did you pay for that too? Last I checked "the Government" built that road for you. None of the circus that has popped up on Speedway Boulevard happens without the Government building that road. Bruton is an innovator, but he's so greedy it's hard to applaud him for all the good stuff he's done for the sport.
Races that moved: North Wilkesboro to both New Hampshire and to Phoenix, Atlanta to Kentucky, Rockingham to Kansas, and Darlington to California and then to Kansas. Is that a depressing sentence to read or what!?!? Unless you like boring cookie cutter racetracks like Kansas, Fontana & Kentucky...
Why does the media buy into Bruton's bluffs? No NASCAR racing dates will be moved out of Charlotte and everyone knows that. Another ploy to get money out of the local government and to create attention.
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