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BMW 550i xDrive Camshaft Position Sensor Replacement Cost
Know what price you should pay to get your vehicle fixed.
What is a camshaft position sensor?
The camshaft position sensor is an electrical component that sits close to the engine's camshaft. In monitors the position of the camshaft as it rotates, and sends information about this rotation to the engine control module (ECM), the engine's computer. This information is used to control ignition timing fuel injection.
How does the camshaft position sensor work?
As the camshaft spins, the camshaft position sensor magnetically reads its position. The sensor continually sends this information to the engine's computer for comparison with data from the crankshaft position sensor.
When the two signals reach the computer, they must match. If they don't, the computer will believe that an engine timing problem is occurring, and adjust settings in order to protect the engine.
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What are the symptoms related to a bad camshaft position sensor?
When the computer senses the engine is out of time, the check engine light will be displayed, and the engine may start and stall, or fail to start. Some models may prevent the ignition from attempting to start the engine. If the engine runs, it will experience loss of power, poor fuel mileage, restricted performance for engine and transmission, hesitation before accelerating and intermittent stalling. Lastly, OBD trouble codes will be stored for the crankshaft and camshaft position.
Can I drive with a camshaft position sensor problem?
It's a bad idea to drive a vehicle with a failed camshaft or crankshaft position sensor — in fact, it's usually impossible.
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How are camshaft position sensor issues diagnosed?
When the vehicle is connected to a professional grade scanner, the position of the crankshaft and camshaft are read, and compared to actual engine position. If the reading is inconsistent for camshaft or crankshaft sensor, the sensor will be tested, and replaced if necessary.
How is a camshaft position sensor replaced?
When replacing the camshaft position sensor, make sure that there are no obvious oil or coolant leaks that could ruin the new sensor. Replacement of the camshaft position sensor is completed by disconnecting any electrical connector, and unscrewing the sensor. If required, sealant will be applied before re-inserting the new sensor into the engine. Finally the electrical connector is connected, and the vehicle is tested to confirm the repair.
There are two common locations for the camshaft position sensor. These are summaries of how to replace each type:
The sensor is located in the timing cover, close to the timing chain
- Disconnect the negative battery terminal
- Remove the electrical connector to the camshaft position sensor
- Remove the holding fastener and the sensor
- Clean the hole where the old sensor was located
- Install the new sensor in the same position
- Tighten the fastener and reconnect the electrical connector and negative battery terminal
- Clear any PCM codes and perform a Drive Cycle Test Drive to verify the repair
The sensor(s) is located on or near the valve cover(s) of the engine
- Disconnect the negative battery terminal
- Disconnect the electrical connector, loosen the fastener, and remove the old sensor
- On some engines, the valve cover and timing cover may have to be removed for access
- Clean the mounting area of the old sensor
- Install the new sensor, tighten the fastener, and connect the electrical connector
- Install the valve cover(s) and timing cover if removed
- Connect the negative battery terminal
- Clear any PCM codes and perform a Drive Cycle Test Drive to verify the repair
Note: After replacing the camshaft position sensor, the powertrain control module needs to have the camshaft adaption reset. This is so the PCM can recalibrate itself to the new camshaft position sensor.
RepairPal Recommendations for camshaft position sensor issues
OEM quality sensors should be used as lesser products will likely cause a repeated repair. Also, the vehicle's timing belt should be inspected if crankshaft position or camshaft position trouble codes are stored. If the timing belt or timing chain has failed, the engine should be immediately placed out of service.
What to look out for when dealing with camshaft position sensor issues
OBD trouble codes related to the crankshaft and camshaft do not imply faulty sensors, but imply a fault in the engine. This can be narrowed down to the sensors, but replacing the sensor without testing may lead to unnecessary costs.
Can I replace the camshaft position sensor myself?
Replacing a sensor is only a DIY capable project if the issue can be positively diagnosed at home. If the issue cannot be diagnosed at home, a technician should be trusted with the issue before changing parts leads to excessive repair bills without a solution.
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Paul wrote:Eureka wrote:But anyway, your attitude that it's okay to push your views onto others if it's via the
law is basically just another form of might is right.
What?? If someone urges you to, say, join their Poseidon cult and reap the eternal benefits thereof, why can't you simply say "No thank you. Please don't bother me again"?
How is "might makes right" in any way entailed by such an exchange?
3G was basically saying it would be alright for the Poseidon cult to force other people observe their cultist rules by writing those rules into the law.
If they were just trying to convince people of the validity of their cult and its rules, that would be different matter.

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Amid hints that the blue laws ban will be lifted next week, Paramus Mayor Richard LaBarbiera expressed frustration tonight that Bergen County Superior Court determined borough officials cannot block any retailers from keeping their doors open while Gov. Chris Christie's order suspending blue laws remains in effect.
A Christie spokesman said in an e-mail that Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan plans to ask the governor to lift the blue laws ban next week. Jeanne Baratta, Donovan's chief of staff, confirmed the county executive will ask Christie to reinstate the blue laws next week, "barring we don't have another catastrophe. … This is really just one more Sunday so people can get their lives back together."
Donovan's request can't come soon enough for LaBarbiera, who said "The only thing coming through Paramus is Hurricane Kathleen."
Donovan sought the ruling in response to LaBarbiera's threats to fine and possibly arrest retailers violating his strict interpretation of Christie's executive order, which will suspend blue laws throughout the county until Donovan requests the order to be rescinded. Under a ruling by Superior Court Judge Menelaos Toskos,Paramus is barred from constricting Sunday retail sales to items like clothes, appliances and building materials that were listed in that statute, The Record first reported today.
"Our focus right now is on ensuring the county executive's petition to the governor is rescinded come Monday. She said she held off asking the governor to rescind the order for this Sunday because of the nor'easter we had, but we've had nor'easters before," LaBarbiera said. "I'm concerned with how arbitrarily unnecessary this ban is, as it begs the question of what happens to our blue laws in any future natural disaster."
But Baratta said "the events of last two weeks have been a one-two punch to Bergen County, and while Paramus didn't see any flooding, Moonachie saw 8 feet of water, so it's not anyone's business to tell those people what they can and cannot buy this Sunday."
"The mayor suggested we make it that clothing stores can sell apparel but they can't sell accessories, but then we argued, 'So somebody can buy a pair of pants but they can't buy the belt to hold them up,' " Baratta said. "Maybe people need to buy perfume because they're going to a birthday party and their gifts were destroyed. The mayor should really venture out of Paramus and go out to Moonachie and Little Ferry, where people lost everything."
But LaBarbiera said, "I pose to her, 'Have you been to Paramus to see the 1,200 utility trucks taking up 50 percent of the Westfield GardenState Plaza's parking lot?'"
"Those people from areas impacted from the storm and buying some pants for work on Sunday won't be the people clogging our roads and delaying all those trucks from restoring power," LaBarbiera said. "For the people from Little Ferry who are trying to get their houses in order, the last thing they're worried about is shopping."
LaBarbiera said he will abide by the court ruling and Christie's executive order. Earlier today, several state legislators and local mayors called on the governor to put an end to the blue laws suspension to avoid additional legal battles that distract from storm-related matters.
"Traffic snarls are the last thing our towns need as we attempt to regroup and rebuild," Assemblyman Tim Eustace (D-Paramus) said in a statement. "As we approach the two-week mark post-Sandy, all of the more immediate threats appear to be behind us. Stores can remain open six days a week to meet residents' needs. It would behoove the governor to rescind his executive order after this weekend or, at the very least, allow towns to determine what's best for their own recovery at this point."
The Christie spokesman said "the 'urging' of those legislators seems entirely unnecessary," noting Donovan plans to ask the governor to lift the blue laws ban next week.


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See what was happening in Redwood Falls 50, 25, and 10 years ago this week.
1963—50 years ago
• A series of Air Force bombing practices in the Worthington area required bombers to frequently begin their practice runs over the Redwood Falls area - frequently at altitudes as low as 500 feet above ground level.
• The 33 members of the RFHS Future Nurses Club stepped in to substitute when school nurse Mrs. Walling was injured in an auto accident.
• When the Gazette couldn't identify which twin was which in a photo of a RFHS basketball game, sports editor John Schneider suggested the school give the boys tattoos.
• An employment ad looking for year around help on an area beef farm specified the owners were seeking a "Protestant married couple."
• During a blizzard a gust of wind blew a trailer home off its moorings and onto its side at the Menn-Rose Trailer Home lot on E. Bridge St.
As owner Menno Buller was making arrangements to have the home tipped back into place, another gust of wind came along and did it for him.
1988—25 years ago
• City officials balked at sharing costs when they estimated their share of paying for a new high school's utilities, sewers, and roads could cost up to $2.1 million.
• When the fire department voted to discontinue running the ambulance service in 1990, the city council assigned the hospital commission to come up with a solution in time.
• State Patrol Officer Floyd Minnick retired after 32 years driving up and down the highways of Redwood and Renville Counties.
• The U.S. Postal Service announced it would build a new post office on a vacant lot in Morton, using the same building plans used for the recent new post office in Franklin.
• Robert Dole became the latest national politician to visit towns near Redwood Falls without bothering to stop here, following Jack Kemp and John Dukakis, son of Michael Dukakis.
2003—10 years ago
• Western Mental Health Center set up shop in "the old garage" on the corner of South Mill and East Second Streets, which was on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Nearly 200 runners took part in the second annual Heart of Winter run from Jackpot Junction to the Redwood Area Community Center.
The runners ran in seven degree temperatures into a headwind that gusted up to 31 miles per hour.
• A 16 year old boy with acknowledged anger management issues caused over $150,000 worth of damage in Morgan, colliding with 22 cars on Morgan streets after an argument with his friends.
Among the cars he hit was the Morgan police chief's.
Police noted a similar incident had occurred three weeks earlier when a vandal caused over $100,000 worth of damage to vehicles on Sleepy Eye streets.
• The community center formed a curling league, with participants sliding a 42-pound block of granite across the ice arena toward a target painted on the ice.
• Cub Scout Troop 73 went "Sleeping with the Sharks" when they got to camp out at Underwater World at the Mall of America for raising over $500 in a fundraiser.


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How To Become A Mechanical Engineer in Connecticut
In order to qualify for Factory Automation jobs in Connecticut, you should compare all available technical schools in your target area, as well as consider taking some of your mechanical engineering courses online. Check with each engineering school below for assistance with certificate program requirements, degree prerequisites, and class registration. You may request information from several different schools below, without making a commitment.
To prepare for Factory Automation careers in Connecticut, you need to complete a technical education in your specialty area, as well as consider taking part of your required courses online. Which college degrees give you the best chances of finding employment after graduation? Completion of an accredited engineering program can qualify you to enter the workforce as a paid intern immediately. Check with the mechanical engineering department for course registration deadlines, and engineering program requirements.
Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering fields. Mechanical engineers design and oversee the manufacture of many products ranging from medical devices to new batteries. They also may design power-producing machines, such as electric generators, internal combustion engines, and steam and gas turbines, as well as refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.
Mechanical engineering technicians, by comparison, test and inspect machines and equipment or work with engineers to eliminate production problems. For example, they may assist in testing products by setting up instrumentation for vehicle crash tests. They may need to be able to operate machinery such as drill presses, grinders, and engine lathes. The National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) offers four levels of certification through its technician certification programs. Beyond major requirements within the mechanical engineering department, you may consider John A Logan College mechanical engineering program as a complementary elective.


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mi·nu·ti·a(e) –
a minor or trivial detail(s, trifles)
Stanczyk has been mired in minutia or since it is a plethora of minutia, then perhaps minutiae is appropriate. However, I like the sound of minutia, while minutiae sounds like a Japanese anime character. You see, I am mired in a mountain of minutia — even my writing has been infected by the minutia.
I Tweaked the Blog Again …
- I deleted a redundant page and now have the TABs (really menus, although not properly used that way) at the top. Down the side I now have: About Stanczyk, Gazetteers, & Maps
- Gazetteers is now complete (or at least no longer under construction) and is a credible resource to start your work on gazetteers.
- The other two pages had slight tweaks to them.
- I am evolving the top TABs (Dziennik Polski, Biechow, Pacanow, etc.) in true menus, with menu items. I hope this will organize my materials for faster finding and utilization and to provide for more content, easily found and to make better use of that scarce real estate at the top.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Roots Technology …
Stanczyk has been trying to get his Roots Tech organized and ready to be deployed. As you know technology is slippery as an eel and hard to master/muster into a kind of electronic Swiss knife. My focus is portable genealogy — taking my research & tools with me into the field (uh, libraries, archives, churches/synagogues, courthouses, vital records offices, and cemeteries). So the smartphone and the cloud have been an emphasis. My latest tool in my bag of tricks is the iPhone app: ImageToText . This little application allows you to take a picture of a page of text, it recognizes the text (in the picture just taken), and then you can email that text to yourself (or anyone else really). So now you do not have to scribble down that paragraph of text or that page from a city directory. Just (1) start ImageToText, (2) Take a picture, (3) Send an email. What comes to your mailbox is NOT the image but OCR'ed (OCR is optical character recognition) text in the body of the email message. I like that a lot.
LDS Films Online …
I have mentioned this a couple of times before. It was a concept that was coming. It came. OK I tried it, but I could not use the first implementation because they could NOT return a list of MY Family History Centers (why would I want to order a microfilm that was only for other states, i. e. UT). Ok ,they have finally fixed their problems and I can now report that My Account is working. So go to familysearch.org/film and create an account, set it up and start ordering microfilm.
https://www.familysearch.org/films/customer/account/ – Keep this handy (Bookmark it / Make it a Favorite). This is the link to your Microfilm/Account Dashboard.
Alexa Website Ranking …
When I compiled the Genealogy Website Rankings, this blog was ranked 112th (approximately because it is hard to find all genealogy websites) as the 12.8Millionth most popular website. About a month ago, I was the 10.5Millionth most popular website and caught Ceil Wendt-Jensen's MIPolonia. Today, I am sitting at the 7.2Millionth most popular website. OK, Google and Facebook do not have anything to fear from this website. But now I have passed one of my favorite blogs, "What's Past Is Prologue". I am deeply grateful for your support, please keep reading and coming back — I will keep getting better.
Fascinating experiment. If I were to compile the list today, this blog would now be the 100th most popular genealogy website!
I will be moving the Genealogy Website Rankings from the top TABs to the right side of this blog, under PAGEs.


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Trading Options During Earnings in Greenhill & Co. Inc (NYSE:GHL)
Greenhill & Co. Inc (NYSE:GHL) : Trading Options During EarningsDate Published: 2017-04-21
We're going to examine buying and selling out of the money strangles in Greenhill & Co. Inc and find out once and for all what the winning trades have been during earnings releases.
With the right tool kit it's easy to find an explicit answer: Buying out of the money strangles during earnings for Greenhill & Co. Inc has been a winner. This is the information that the top 0.1% have and now it's time for us all to see it.
By definition trading options during earnings is very risky. But, once we step into that world, in turns out that there is a lot less 'luck' involved in successful option trading than many people have come to understand.
We can get specific with long earnings strangles for GHL in this dossier. Let's look at a two-year back-test of a long 20 strangle only held during earnings. Here are the rules we followed:
* Test monthly options, which means we are not trading the weekly options (we could so if we chose).
* Only hold the position during earnings. Specifically, we test initiating the position two-days before the earnings event, then hold through earnings, and then close two-days after.
* Test the out of the money strangle -- specifically the 20 delta strangle.
* Test the earnings strangle looking back at two-years of history.
More than all the numbers, we simply want to walk down a path that demonstrates that it is actually quite easy to optimize our trades with the right tools. In the set up image below we just tap the rules we want to test.
Next we glance at the returns.
If we did this 20 delta long strangle in Greenhill & Co. Inc (NYSE:GHL) over the last two-years but only held it during earnings we get these results:
|long 20 Delta Strangle
|* Monthly Options
|* Back-test length: two-years
|* Only Earnings
|* Holding Period: 4-Days per Earnings Event
|Gross Gain:
|Gross Loss:
|Long Earnings Strangle Return:
|Stock Return:
|Option Out-performance
Rather remarkably, we note that the long strangle strategy actually produced a higher return than the stock 230.6% versus -27.2% or a 257.8% out-performance. That means a strategy that was held, in total, for about a month outperformed the stock held for the last two-years.
An earnings event is really just a volatility event that we know is coming ahead of time. What we're really analyzing here is if, historically, the option market has priced the implied stock move too high or too low.
In this case, the option market's implied vol has been lower than the actual stock movement. We can see that a long strangle and only holding the position during earnings in Greenhill & Co. Inc returned 230.6%. But, there's a much bigger picture here. Let's turn to that piece, now.
To make it clear, we can simply plot the returns of the short and long out of the money earnings strangles, below.
Greenhill & Co. Inc Earnings / Non-Earnings Strangles %
The concept here is straight forward, friends: securing knowledge before entering an option position constructs a mind set about what to trade, when to trade it and even if the trade is worth it at all. Now we can see this practice taken further, beyond Greenhill & Co. Inc and earnings strangles.


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Jackson County Sports: A year in review, by Mark Martin.
It's not often that a wrestler in the state of West Virginia wins four state championships. Last season the prestigious list of four-time winners grew by three in the span of just a few short hours at the 65th Annual West Virginia State Wrestling Tournament inside the Big Sandy Superstore Arena.
One of the three to garner his fourth crown a year again hailed from Ripley High School. Adam Bicak captured title number four with a hard-fought 5-4 victory over Jesse Roman of East Fairmont in Class AAA's 170-pound division.
It was a bittersweet moment for Bicak. A perfectionist, the talented wrestler was less than pleased with the last performance of his high school career despite winning another championship. It was also tough for Bicak from the standpoint that it marked the end of his time with a Viking program that had been such a big part of his life during his remarkable four-year stretch.
While he wasn't happy with his last showing, it's hard for him not to be ecstatic over what he did during his days as a Viking. Bicak was the last of the three (the other two were Parkersburg South's David Jeffrey and Roane County's Dylan Cottrell) to garner that fourth crown last February. By winning, Bicak became the 15th four-time state champ in West Virginia history.
While joining an elite club in Mountain State wrestling, Bicak is on a list all by himself in Jackson County when it comes to four-time state champs.
Not only did he display a gift on the mat, but also in the classroom. Bicak is now a student at Harvard University and is competing for the Ivy League school's wrestling program.
Bicak's fourth state title last winter has earned him the Jackson Newspapers Top Sports Story of the Year honor.
Bicak was just part of another 12 months full of sports memories covered by Jackson Newspapers.
After a successful 15-year run at Ravenswood High School, Dick Sturm stepped down as the leader of Red Devil football. Sturm had an overall record of 111-56 and guided the Devils to several playoff berths, including a spot in the 2012 Class AA state championship game at Wheeling Island Stadium. Sturm first joined the program in 1967 as an assistant to Fred Taylor.
The Ripley Viking wrestling team enjoyed a banner season. The new year started with the Vikings placing 15th out of 44 teams in the prestigious Powerade Invitational. The Vikings won the Jackson County Invitational with six wrestlers grabbing titles. At the Winner's Choice Tournament the Vikings were also team champs and had four individual title winners.
Ripley was second at the Mountain State Athletic Conference Tournament with seven Vikings garnering championships. Matt Smith was recognized as the MSAC's Coach of the Year.
The Vikings advanced 12 wrestlers to the State Tournament in Huntington while easily winning the regional crown.
At the State Tournament, Bicak wasn't alone on championship night. Senior David Hicks closed out his great career with a third straight state title, and second in the 215-pound class. Freshman Jake Martin started his high school career out in fine fashion with a thrilling title win in the 120-pound division.
Although two other Vikings – Preston Martin (138) and Darryl Hicks (285) – lost title matches, they were instrumental in the Ripley finishing second to Parkersburg
South in the team competition.SOUTH TEAM
-Ravenswood junior wrestler Billy Kniceley, the 285-pounder, won the Roush Wahama Wrestling Pool championship. Roush also had runner-up finishes in the Little Kanawha Conference Tournament and the regional before a fourth place showing at the State Tournament.
-Under first-year head coach Cara Williams, Ravenswood reached the Class AA State Girls State Basketball Tournament for a fourth consecutive season. The Devilettes nipped Tyler Consolidated, 56-55, in a co-regional final to earn another trip to Charleston. In the Capital City, the Devilettes were stopped in the opening round by eventual champion Westside. The Lady Renegades downed Ravenswood, 60-41, before going on to not only win the title but finish undefeated.
Junior Hannah Murray earned Class AA Second Team All-State recognition to go along with First Team All-Little Kanawha Conference honors. Junior Melonna Carmichael gained Honorable Mention All-State.
-Ravenswood's Red Devils just missed heading to the State Tournament. The Devils were knocked off in a two-point contest at Magnolia in a Class AA co-regional final.
Zack Martin was named Class AA Second Team All-State while teammates Ben Pannell and Jeremy Lawrence were Honorable Mention. Martin and Pannell were First Team All-LKC picks with Lawrence earning Second Team status.
-Ripley's Cody Miller, despite missing most of the season on the court, earned MSAC Second Team honors while Kade Harrison gained Honorable Mention.
-Three Ripley Lady Viking girls basketball players were honored in the postseason. Paige Smith and Rachel Stuck were MSAC Special Honorable Mention and Ryne Hill was Honorable Mention.
-Former Lady Viking standout Alannah Sheets enjoyed another productive year at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. Sheets was an All-Mid-South Conference First Team selection and earned NAIA All-America Honorable Mention during her sophomore season.
-The Ripley High archery team won a state championship while Cayla Goodson captured an individual title.
-Ripley's Alexa Johnson took first place in the 14-15 year old division of the West Virginia State Gymnastics Competition Level Nine.
-Dylan Henry of Millwood was first place in the All-Around Level 5 competition at the Ohio State Gymnastics Meet.
-At the Mid-Valley Athletic Conference wrestling tournament Ripley Middle School placed second and crowned four individual champions in Jacob Starkey, Rocky Ford, Lucas Simpkins and Chris Jordan.
-Ravenswood's Kaleb Horn and Cory Wratchford also won MVAC titles.
-Steve Lough was named the West Virginia Athletic Trainer of the Year by the state's Athletic Trainers Association.
-The Ripley Middle School boys basketball team lost in the MVAC title game to Winfield.
SPRING - It was announced that Mick Price would be the next head football coach at Ravenswood High School. Price, the school's boys basketball coach of 34 years and winner of two state titles, had worked with the program as an assistant in the '80s and as the Ravenswood Middle School head coach.
-Ravenswood volleyball player Kaci Sullivan signed to continue her career at Glenville State College.
-Taylor Youell and Bess McNabb teamed up to win the Class AA-A Region 1 No. 2 doubles and move on to the State Tournament in Charleston.
-Lady Viking Emily Munson of Ripley High earned a spot in the Class AAA portion of the State Tennis Tournament.
-Ripley High baseball player Jonathan Murphy signed to play baseball for the young Pioneer program.
-Ripley Lady Viking Alyssa Brozak signed to play soccer at West Liberty.
-Ripley's Jesuz Diaz scored the lone county points at the West Virginia State High School Track and Field Meet. Diaz was fifth in the Class AAA long jump. Sammy Shaver competed in the 300 hurdles. Ripley's 4x800 team (Troy King, Ryan Gregory, Chad Longanacre and Antonio Jones) and shuttle hurdle relay team (Tyler Jones, Sammy Shaver, Cody Harris and Gregory) also competed at the State Meet.
-Ripley Lady Viking Alyssa Brozak was a competitor in the 200 meters at the State Meet as was the shuttle hurdle relay team (Holly Farkosh, Erica Gibson, Molli Cunningham and Erin Thompson).
-In the Class AA-A portion of the State Meet, several Ravenswood athletes competed. On the girls side, Devilette Hailey Miller ran in the 400 meters and Ingrid Foslund raced in the 800 meters. Also, the 4x800 relay (Miller, Foslund, Taylor Treadway and Morgan Webb) and the 4x400 unit (Foslund, Miller, Webb and Kirsit Babylon) made it to Charleston.
-The Red Devils were represented by Patrick Watson in the long jump, Luke Sadecky in the 1600 meters and Andrew Ely in the 100 meters.
-At the State Meet, Ravenswood girls head coach Renee Swisher was honored as the Girls Track Coach of the Year.
-At Ripley High School, David Hicks and Ryne Hill were recognized as the Male and Female Athletes of the Year, respectively.
-Former Ripley High wrestling standout Mitch Smith was hired as the head coach at Alderson-Broaddus College, where a program on the mats was being launched.
-Ravenswood senior Hannah Gurtis signed to play soccer for West Virginia Wesleyan College.
-One-time Ravenswood softball standout Mallory Hilton wrapped up an oustanding career at West Virginia State University. Hilton earned All-West Virginia Conference Special Honorable Mention while helping lead the Lady Jackets to NCAA Division II regional play.
-On the softball field, Ripley's Reese Gandee earned Class AAA All-State Special Honorable Mention while Makenzie Hesson and Ryne Hill each earned Honorable Mention. Ripley's Chelsey Hager and Hesson were Mountain State Athletic Conference First Team honorees. Ali Cunningham and Gandee were Second Team picks. Ryne Hill earned Special Honorable Mention and Dusti Fisher was Honorable Mention.
-Ravenswood softball players Katie Buckbee and Savana Casto earned Class AA All-State Honorable Mention. Casto and Callie Snodgrass were All-Little Kanawha Conference Second Team picks.
-The Ripley Middle School baseball team captured the Mid-Valley Athletic Conference title.
-Ripley baseball player Jamin Jones competed in the North-South All-Star Baseball Classic and punched a home run.
-Jones was a Class AAA First Team All-State selection. Teammate Alex Karst was a Second Team pick and Nick Barnette was Special Honorable Mention. Jones and Karst each earned All-Mountain State Athletic Conference First Team honors. Barnette was Second Team while Tyler Casto earned Honorable Mention.
-Ravenswood's Devin Crews earned Honorable Mention in the Class AA All-State baseball balloting.
-The Ripley High archery team finished 10th in a national event.
SUMMER -Ripley's Ryne Hill announced she would play softball at Fairmont State University.
-Ravenswood had plenty of players suit up for the West Virginia squad in the annual Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis West Virginia-Ohio Football Classic. Chad Burrows, Brandon Cunningham, Dustin DeRito, Kyle Griffith, Jeremy Lawrence and Tyler Newell played for the West Virginia squad that lost to the Ohioans.
-Lawrence also played for the North team in the annual WCHS-TV/FOX-11 North-South All-Star Football Classic. Ripley's David Hicks was picked for the game, but an illness toward the end of his senior school year prevented him from suiting up for the North.
-Steve Lough, Ripley's long-time athletic trainer, was named the new athletic director for Viking sports teams.
-Mark Isner, a Ripley native, was inducted into the West Virginia Trapshooters Hall of Fame.
-Former Ravenswood Red Devil three-sport stars Todd Ritchie and Paul Fletcher became the latest inductees into the Mid-Ohio Valley Sports Hall of Fame.
-Ravenswood basketball standout Ben Pannell announced his intentions to continue playing at West Virginia State University.
-Ripley's Alex Karst signed on the dotted line to play baseball at State.
-One-time Ravenswood athlete Brett Rector was hired to be an assistant women's basketball coach at Eastern Kentucky University. Rector had been working with the men's program at Kentucky-based Pikeville University.
-The Ravenswood Youth Football Camp was pleased to have on hand former WVU star running back Quincy Wilson, who is now a member of the Mountaineer program as an administrative assistant.
-Ripley's Jack Whitney was the winner of the annual Firecracker 2-Miler race through the streets of Ripley during the city's Fourth of July celebration.
-Ripley's 11-12 year old girls softball all-star team earned a trip to the State Tournament in Beckley.
-The West Virginia Wicked 18-and-under girls softball team (made up of Ripley players) won the USSSA regional title to advance into the World Series in Columbus, Ohio. The Wicked missed the championship at the World Series by one game.
-Ravenswood runner Meri Titus signed to compete in cross country at Davis & Elkins College.
-The Ripley archery team was fifth at the World Archery Tournament in Orlando.
FALL - The Ripley boys cross country team capped off an outstanding season by placing fifth in Class AAA at the State Meet in Ona on the campus of Cabell Midland High School. Ryan Gregory, Chad Longanacre, Caleb Casto, Jake Casto, Levi Phillips, Sammy Shaver and Dillon Welling represented the Vikings. During the season the Vikings won several meets, including the regional.
Four Vikings – Longanacre, Gregory, Caleb Casto and Jake Casto – earned All-Region honors. Longanacre was an All-Mountain State Athletic Conference performer.
-Ripley's Ali Cunningham capped off a brilliant two-year career as a runner by placing 25th in Class AAA at the State Meet. Cunningham was both an All-Region and All-MSAC honoree.
-The Ravenswood girls cross country team was fifth in Class AA-A at the State Meet. Hailey Miller led the way with an 11th place finish just missing All-State honors. Taylor Treadway, Hannah Murray, Taylor Love, Mariah Currey, Larissa Hayman and Josie Hayman also represented Ravenswood. Taylor and Treadway were both an All-Region and All-LKC runner.
-Luke Sadecky closed out his cross country career at Ravenswood by being the lone Red Devil at the State Meet. He earned both All-Region and All-LKC.
-Ripley Middle's Remy Boyce won the Mid-Valley Athletic Conference cross country title.
-Ravenswood's boys soccer team enjoyed a fine 14-6-2 record. Mason Carte was Class AA-A First Team All-State.
James Carmichael was Second Team All-State. Nick Ballard, Jesse Mize, Pat Berry and Dalton Gandee earned Honorable Mention. Carte, Berry Gandee and Nick Johnston were All-Little Kanawha Conference First Team picks. Carmichael, Ballard, Mize, Andrew Ely, Devin Wilson and Nate Schiefer were All-LKC Honorable Mention.
Carte, Ballard, Carmichael and Mize were chosen to compete in the annual North-South All-Star Soccer Classic.
-Anna Flesher and Jordan Danko of Ravenswood earned Class AA-A Second Team All-State honors in girls soccer. Bess McNabb and Erica Cullen were Honorable Mention.
-Ripley had several players honored in the postseason for their performances on the pitch. Noah Ross, Parker Lively and Jo Jo Greely-Fay earned Class AAA Honorable Mention All-State honors. Lively and Chuck Sleboda garnered Mountain State Athletic Conference Honorable Mention.
-Ripley's Callen Banks and Holly Farkosh earned Honorable Mention All-MSAC.
-The Ripley Middle School soccer team won the Mid-Valley Athletic Conference title. It was a banner year for Remy Boyce, who nailed a mind-boggling 54 goals.
-In volleyball, Ravenswood's Katie Buckbee was Class AA First Team All-State with Haley Palmer earning Honorable Mention.
-Ripley's Kaitlyn Weaver earned Class AAA All-State Special Honorable Mention on the volleyball court. Weaver and teammate Ashley Mellinger garnered All-Mountain State Athletic Conference and Honorable Mention, respectively.
-The football season in Jackson County ended with the Ripley Vikings and Ravenswood Red Devils battling to overtime in the annual Battle of the Hatchet. A blocked extra point allowed the Vikings to escape Flinn Field in Ravenswood with a narrow 17-16 win. The victory gave Ripley a final record of 5-5 while Ravenswood ended at 2-8.
-Ravenswood's Brad Titus earned Class AA First Team All-State honors in football while Rhys Jelich and Devin Crews garnered Honorable Mention.
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Jackson Newspapers recognized the following Red Devils: Crews (Co-Offensive Player of the Year), Ryhs Jelich (Co-Offensive Player of the Year), Titus (Defensive Player of the Year), Connor Jelich (Lineman of the Year), Mason Carte (Special Teams Player of the Year) and Donavyn Estep (Breakout Player of the Year).
-Ripley's Daryl Hicks was a Class AAA Second Team All-State pick while fellow Viking Justin Hinzman picked up Special Honorable Mention.
-Hicks was an All-Mountain State Athletic Conference First Team pick. Andy Mellert, Preston Martin and Justin Hinzman were Second Team selections. Jake Martin and Quaseem Fields earned Honorable Mention.
Jackson Newspaper honorees were Jake Martin (Offensive Player of the Year), Hinzman (Defensive Player of the Year), Hicks (Lineman of the Year) and Fields (Special Teams Player of the Year).
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Gun owners have no reason to fear President Barack Obama.
I don't know what all the fuss is about.
Gun owners have no reason to fear President Barack Obama.
After watching a Congressional Representative get gunned down at an event, mall patrons scrambling for their lives as gunmen went on a rampage and a couple dozen children murdered in their classrooms, Obama said he was making new, effective gun control legislation a focus of his administration. The National Rifle Association and its minions made preventing any meaningful gun control legislation their priority.
Guess who won.
The NRA has painted Obama as an ultra-liberal gun hater who is hell bent on seizing every deer rifle out of every pickup truck in middle America.
The hyperbolic response to even the most reasonable legislation led to Obama staging a photo of him shooting targets earlier this year.
If that didn't prove that he was gun-friendly, his latest attempt at gun control should finish delivering the message.
I knew Obama wasn't serious about getting anything passed when he made Vice President Joe Biden the point man on the project.
Any attempt at legislation was shot down.
Now Obama used his privilege as President to issue executive orders. One policy would prevent the reimportation of military grade weapons for sale to private citizens. He issued that order because about a quarter of a million military-grade weapons have been brought back into the country and are owned by private citizens legally.
That is more than 5,000 per state.
That means there is a really good chance one of your neighbors has one. Think about that before you play your music too loud this holiday weekend.
Obama also issued an order that would close a loophole that allows trusts to own guns. When I worked in the office of Rep. Dave McCurdy (D-Okla.) in the early 1990s when the Brady Bill was being passed, we got a lot of calls from angry people who didn't want to register guns or sit through 7-day waiting periods.
If they only knew they could form a trust to own guns, I doubt they would have even called to complain. The beauty of that loophole is that it allows felons or anyone else to own guns of almost any type. A private citizen can't get a machine gun or silencer in many states. But a gun trust can, without any background check.
What's the worst that could happen?
The Los Angeles police officer who went on a month-long killing spree jumped through that loophole and used Quicken bookkeeping software to create a trust that allowed him to amass an arsenal that left several dead, including himself and more wounded.
If Obama is the enemy, the NRA and its supporters should be fine.
I agree that Obama closed some loopholes and it should help. But it did not go far enough.
I don't want to take away guns for hunting or personal protection. But I also don't believe that we are safer with dozens of people packing heat when they go to pick up a few things at the grocery store.
I live in this fantasyland where people can work together to solve problems. I think intelligent people can see shades of gray while their ignorant friends see every issue as black and white.
I think there is common ground between the man who wants to hunt ducks and deer, the woman who wants to protect her home and the person who doesn't want guns proliferating the public square. Fighting every issue on principle with the slippery slope logic fear of one action having causative effect on another in the future is not backed by history or reality.
Executive actions are nice, but Obama under-reached and left more problems on the table than he addressed with these two.
I hope Obama was right when he told Americans after the Newtown, Conn. massacre, "someday we will get it right with gun control."
So far, we haven't.
Kent Bush is the publisher of the Augusta Gazette, the El Dorado Times, and the Andover American newspapers. He can be contacted at: email@example.com


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Lavrentivs wrote:Quidém etiam estne encliticum?
adrianus wrote:En tabula encliticorum mea:
-ce -cum -cumque
-dam -dum -met -ne
-pse -pte -que -te -ve
Etiam haec:
-cumque -cunque -quomque
-nam -piam -quam
-vis -viscunque/viscumque/visquomque
Non minùs haec:
-autem -circ[um] -enim
-libet -modo -propter
-quand -tamen -vero
Lavrentivs wrote:I just found in Descartes, that one paragraph contains « siquidem » and the next « si quidem ». Could he have wanted to stress them differenty?
adrianus wrote:Id ignoro, si ...
Lavrentivs wrote:Can you prove that -cumque is an enclitic?
R. Whitney Tucker (1965), "Accentuation before Enclitics in Latin", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 96: 449-461 wrote:We must also remember that in Latin enclitics are of several different types, and that it is at least theoretically possible that these were treated differently with respect to accentuation. They may be listed as follows:
1. Inseparable enclitics, those which exist only in connection with a limited number of base-words, with no independent meaning of their own, where the resulting combination has a new and different meaning. The base-word and the enclitic may be said to have coalesced into a new word. Examples are -dam as in quidam, -dem as in Idem or quidem, -que (generalizing) as in quisque, -quis, etc. as in quisquis, -piam as in quispiam, and -cumque as in quicumque or ubicumque.
2. Separable, or movable, or optional enclitics, which may be attached at will to certain words, or to any word, when their specific meaning needs to be added. These are -que 'and,' -ve, -ne, -ce, -met and -te (as in tute), -pse and -pte, -nam, -dum. The first four of these are the classic examples usually cited by the ancient grammarians.
3. Normal words which may sometimes be used as enclitics; these are often difficult to identify, but still there are many cases where their enclitic character is unmistakable. Examples: various forms of esse and fieri, especially in the present tense; the personal and reflexive pronouns, and sometimes the demonstratives; cum; quis (as in siquis) ; per in parumper; inde as in deinde and proinde. (pp.450-1)


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The San Juan Mountains offer some of the most stunning vistas anywhere. We have acres upon acres of public lands that are ripe for exploring. In the summer months it is easy to access this wonderland. Possibilities abound whether you want to walk one mile or one hundred, whether you are driving an OHV or pedaling on two wheels.
Winter access to the backcountry is a different story. In addition to the usual backcountry hazards, travelers need to consider factors such as avalanches, hypothermia, snow covering thin ice and whiteouts. Many summer hot spots are entirely inaccessible to all but the hardiest and boldest of adventurers.
However, there are still many places to explore this time of year. You can have a safe and fun adventure as long as you are prepared. The San Juan National Forest has a great informational brochure called "Where to Go in the Snow." It highlights areas for snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, as well as other snow activities. Information is provided regarding difficulty of the terrain, directions, parking, and objective hazards such as avalanche danger. Below are just a few of those places. Stop by any of the San Juan Mountains Association's bookstores located in San Juan Forest Service offices for a full brochure.
Haviland Lake Area - Located 17 miles north of Durango on the east side of Hwy. 550, this area offers three to five miles of easy, ungroomed trails for snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. Tromp around Haviland Lake, or head back to Forebay Lake 1.5 miles away. The terrain here is gentle and quiet with lots of wildlife. It is a great place for kids.
Vallecito Trail - Looking for more of a challenge when snowshoeing or cross-country skiing? This trail travels somewhat steeply up and down as it covers the path of least resistance along the Vallecito Creek for as far as you dare to venture. This trail travels into the Weminuche Wilderness where no mechanized vehicles are allowed, so be prepared for a truly wild experience. Avalanche danger is a risk along this trail so educate yourself at http://avalanche.state.co.us or call the hotline at 247-8187 for the daily updates. The trailhead is located 18 miles north of Bayfield and 24 miles northeast of Durango. Drive north along the west side of Vallecito Reservoir on CR 501 to CR 500. CR 500 goes straight to the campground. The parking lot at the Vallecito Campground is usually plowed in the winter, except shortly after a big storm.
Echo Basin - Snowmobilers, snowshoers, cross-country skiers, dogsledders, and other winter enthusiasts can all enjoy the wide open spaces along the Forest Service roads in Echo Basin. Snowmobiles generally pack down a nice track allowing others to travel more speedily through the backcountry on more than 30 miles of trails. Sunshine abounds in this open basin. It is a great place for folks of all ages and ability levels. To get there, travel 2.5 miles east of Mancos on Hwy. 160 and then turn north on CR 44. Go three miles to the Forest Service gate and a large parking area.
Boggy Draw - Just up from Dolores is another destination for snow enthusiasts. Follow CR 31 for 1.5 miles and then turn right on CR W. The parking area is one mile ahead on the left. A network of trails winds though Ponderosa forests and open meadows. There are over 30 miles of snowmobile trails and 10-plus miles of snowshoeing or cross-country skiing.
The San Juan Mountains Association has provided many previous articles with a variety of winter recreation tips. Please visit www.sjma.org for more advice. Be safe and have fun!
MK Thompson is the Education Assistant for the San Juan Mountains Association. She spends most of her time outdoors. SJMA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) dedicated to public land stewardship and education. SJMA partners with the San Juan National Forest, BLM Tres Rios Field Office and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, BLM, in addition to other organizations in SW Colorado.


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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Using neural nets to recognize handwritten digits
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On the Internet they looked just wonderful. Self-catering flats, called gites, for rent in all sizes and price ranges. Moreover, they were located in Burgundy. I had a vision of being footloose in "God's country" – vineyards, small market towns, villages with their boulangeries and medieval abbeys.
I looked at the pictures again and made my choice: a gite in a converted dovecote in the south of Burgundy. It looked too good to be true. A squat, tower-like structure built from rough stones, drenched in sunlight, with wooden shutters. A small porch. I'll be a country squire, I thought.
I arranged for a small car from Renault Eurodrive under the Renault buy-and-buy-back program. The car was waiting for me at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. I showed my passport and order form, filled up at a nearby station and was on my way on the Autoroute du Soleil, the holiday road of the French, going south.
That evening I sat on the terrace of my new home and chatted with Gérard, the farmer and my landlord. We had a drink, talked in my halting French. His white Charolais cattle grazed nearby. Narrow lanes cut through the land, connecting fields and hamlets lined with moss-covered walls that have been here since the days of the French revolution. I was in the country all right, in a small village, its church bell tolling every hour as it had for centuries.
Gérard is a cattle farmer and was busy with the hay harvest. For the next several days I would see him well into the evenings on his tractor in the distant fields, gathering hay and rolling it into huge bales.
He showed me my accommodations. There were fresh-cut flowers on the kitchen table and there was an electric range, a fridge, a washing machine and a decorative ancient bread oven framed by wooden beams. Bath and bedroom were on the floor above. I had radio and TV. Only a telephone was missing, but I was on vacation – if I needed to call someone, there was a telephone booth in the village.
Gérard runs a squeaky-clean gite, even supplies bed sheets, which puts his place in the gite plus category. We had another drink and talked a little more. I was convinced that my French was improving.
Six kilometres from the village is Charolles, a pretty town with a small river running through the centre. There was the usual morning traffic, but around the church there would always be a parking spot. Here I would go to buy my baguettes, post a letter and stock up on groceries at the supermarché, where I would also fill up with gas at a lower price.
The second day there, I explored the surrounding countryside. While the area around Charolles is cattle country, driving east towards Mâcon I entered the Mâconnais region, with its vineyards and their wine-producing villages and châteaux.
Mâcon, on the river Saône, holds its market on Saturdays. It's a pleasant town and a wine centre. The Romantic poet Alphonse de Lamartine was born there, and his statue stands close to the river. In the surrounding country is the dramatic Roche de Solutré, its rocky outcrop rising 1,200 feet above the vineyards. It is said that prehistoric people living there drove their quarry toward the edge of the rock, and the animals would tumble down into the abyss below. Remnants of their bones still form a layer under the chalk-rich soil that now nurtures the vines.
At the foot of the Roche de Solutré lie the vineyards of Pouilly-Fuisse and the village of Pouilly. The Mâconnais wines produced there are the better vins ordinaires, meaning they are good wines for the dinner table, yet do not enjoy the reputation of the great labels of the Côte d'Or and the Beaujolais regions.
North and west of Charolles in the undulating country, the Loire and canals flow through the land. Although the Canal du Nivernais is the best-known among boaters and bargemen, the Canal du Centre connecting the Loire and its lateral canal with the Saone, is equally to be enjoyed.
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A pleasure barge came silently up to the lock outside the restaurant. That led to another of the pleasures of Burgundy. Formerly a freight barge, the craft was converted to a cabin cruiser. It was guided by a host and skipper with no worries in the world, no hotels, no train schedules, parking problems or high prices for gas.


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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gareth Dutton on his appointment as Chair of the Obesity Theme for the American Psychological Association's Annual Convention. The convention will be held in Orlando, Florida August 2 – 5, 2012, and sessions in the obesity track include, "Contributors to Obesity: Exploring the Roads Less Traveled," by Dr. David Allison, "Transforming Systems to Reduce Childhood Obesity," and several others.
In selecting her convention themes for APA's Annual Convention in Orlando, Fla., Aug 2–5, APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, chose to highlight three areas that are critically important to the nation's health and the field of psychology: obesity, interdisciplinary team science and interprofessional practice.
APA divisions and governance groups worked with Johnson to create three collaborative and innovative program tracks on each theme. All tracks will offer CE.
"These tracks are designed to prepare psychologists for the key roles they must play as scientists who can work on teams to solve society's most intractable problems, as practitioners who provide care as part of interprofessional teams and as behavior and health experts who can help turn around the obesity epidemic," says Johnson.
She selected four experts to develop these presidential tracks and asked each chair to share highlights from the programming.
Obesity, chaired by Gareth R. Dutton, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
What will be new to most psychologists? "Psychologists who are not involved in obesity research or practice may be surprised by the important contributions psychology makes to this area. Many psychologists have played key roles in the development of evidence-based obesity treatments, changes to public policy related to food and exercise, and our understanding of the biological processes that influence obesity."
Name one not-to-be-missed session. "Dr. David Allison's presentation, 'Contributors to Obesity: Exploring the Roads Less Traveled,' should provide a thought-provoking overview of potential—but often overlooked—contributors to obesity, such as micro-organisms, assortative mating and increasing maternal age, among others."
Other sessions include:
- "Childhood Obesity from Exercise to Parents: What Research and Practice Can Teach Us."
- "Psychological Evaluation of the Patient Requesting Bariatric Surgery."
- "Addressing Obesity and Health Disparities in the Nation's Children."
- "Discrimination toward Obese Persons: A Social Injustice and Public Health Priority."
- "Obesity-depression Associations in the Population: Research and Clinical Implications."
- "Policy and Environmental Approaches to Curbing Obesity in the United States."
- "Successful Weight Maintenance Following Weight Loss."
- "Transforming Systems to Reduce Child Obesity."
- "Divergent Responses to an Obesogenic Environment."
- "Physical Activity Before, During and After Pregnancy: A Weighty Issue."
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KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii officials investigating a History channel television show called "American Jungle" were unable to prove any laws were violated during filming.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources began investigating after an episode aired in November raised concerns that unpermitted hunting was taking place on state land on the Big Island.
The department said Thursday the investigation wasn't able to prove that producers filmed on state land or if any marine or wildlife laws were violated, West Hawaii Today reported (http://ow.ly/yh6Ed ).
The show depicts "clans" fighting over access to territorial hunting grounds, and using knives and spears to take down prey. DLNR Chairman William Aila and Gov. Neil Abercrombie have criticized how the show portrays hunting in Hawaii.
"Through the Hawaii Film Office, DLNR has conveyed to the History Channel its view that the show was misleading in its depiction and disrespectful, and its expectation that any future film projects must obtain permits for filming on state lands," department spokeswoman Deborah Ward said in an email.
"American Jungle" creator T'Jaye Forsythe said the state's investigation disrupted discussions about the show's future.
He said reactions to the show have been mixed. Reality television is a mix of fiction and reality, he said.
The first episode, broadcast Nov. 10, shows hunters using spears and dogs to hunt a cow, the department said, even though it's illegal to hunt cattle without a special feral cattle control permit. The department noted there is no evidence that Native Hawaiians ever used spears to hunt cattle or pigs in the forest.
There were also concerns about an episode showing hunters at night. Hunting at night is illegal on public or private land.
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Harsco CEO says new leadership needed after CFO resignation
Harsco Corp. CEO Patrick Decker today said in a statement announcing the resignation of its chief financial officer that the global industrial services company needs to move forward under new leadership.
Stephen J. Schnoor, Harsco's CFO, senior vice president and treasurer, resigned his positions effective today, according to the company. Barry E. Malamud, its vice president and corporate controller, has been named interim CFO while the company searches for a permanent replacement for Schnoor.
"We acknowledge with extreme gratitude his contributions to Harsco's long-term financial stability," Decker said in the statement. "We recognize also that it is time to move forward under new leadership in this area as we shape the course of our renewed vision for Harsco as one of the world's premier industrial companies."
Schnoor had been with Harsco since 1988 in various positions within the company's financial departments. He added treasurer to his responsibilities in 2010 when the company reorganized its executive positions.
Schnoor's departure is not the result of impropriety or misconduct, said Ken Julian, Harsco's spokesman. The resignation was a mutual agreement that it's time for a change at the company, he said.
Malamud, with Harsco since 1992, was promoted to vice president and controller in 2011.
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With flu season in full swing, many people are getting their flu shots a little later than usual.
With flu season in full swing, many people are getting their flu shots a little later than usual.
Some pharmacies have run out of vaccines, including the CVS on 45th and Kickapoo Streets.
The Walgreen's off of I-40 on North Kickapoo Street has vaccines left, and the Walgreen's on Harrison Street has vaccines only for those over 65 years old.
Additionally the Pottawatomie County Department of Health has vaccines available as well, Administrator Tina Johnson, R.N. said.
Johnson recommended calling to make sure the appropriate vaccine is available.
"As always, the main thing is if you're sick, stay home," she said.
Shawnee Public Schools has not seen as many cases as expected, School Health Coordinator Susie Killingsworth, R.N. said.
"Our absence rate so far is pretty good," Killingsworth said.
The rate varies between schools, but remains steady between 2 and 5 percent, she said.
"I really expected to see more of this by now," Killingsworth said.
Schools are required to send a student home if they have a temperature of 100.0 or more, Killingsworth said. She encouraged parents to keep their children home if they are running abnormally high temperatures or aren't feeling well.
Parents should keep children home until they have been fever-free without medication for 24 hours, she added.
"That can mean up to seven days," Killingsworth said.
Additionally Integris Seminole Hospital reported having limited quantities of the flu vaccine available.
Sarah Walter, marketing director, said no employees have been diagnosed with the flu. She said cases through the emergency room and those admitted seemed to be worse and have since tapered off.
St Anthony Shawnee Hospital is noticing a similar trend with a decreasing number of flu cases presenting in the emergency room and in admitted patients.
"We are seeing what appears to be a decrease in the number of positive flu tests this week," Vicki Milliken, director of infection prevention, said.
St Anthony Shawnee Hospital is requesting visitors who are exhibiting flu-like symptoms such as fever, sore throat, runny nose, congestions, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea to stay home to avoid making patients sick.
Hospital officials are also requesting children under the age of five not to visit patients either.
The hospital offers these tips to avoid spreading illness:
• Wash your hands frequently using warm water and soap, scrubbing all surfaces for about 15-20 seconds. Some flu viruses can live up to two hours on surfaces such as desks, phones and doorknobs. When soap and water are not available, hand sanitizers containing 60- 90% ethyl alcohol or isopropanol may be used.
• Avoid touching your face, unless you have clean hands. The eyes, nose and mouth are entry ports for flu viruses.
• Cover your mouth with a disposable tissue when coughing and sneezing. Dispose of tissues and wash your hands immediately. Better yet, cough or sneeze into your elbow.
• Avoid sharing objects (cups, utensils, etc.). Wipe down shared equipment such as phones and keyboards with disinfectant wipes.
• Get enough sleep and manage your stress. Lack of sleep and high levels of stress can reduce immune functioning, thus lowering the body's ability to fend off colds and flu.
• Drink more water. You may not feel as thirsty during fall and winter, but it's important to make sure you don't get dehydrated. Consume at least 8 glasses a day.
• Maintain a moderate exercise program 3-4 days a week. It will strengthen the immune system and increase the body's natural ability to fight infection.
• Eat healthfully. Remember to eat the recommended 5-9 servings per day of fruits and vegetables.
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Description: Renowned bladesmith Masami Asai passed away in the summer of 2014. He will be greatly missed � as a person, an artist, and one of the truly great knifemakers of Japan. Before his passing, his apprentice, Yamamoto, was given the right to continue to make knives under the Asai name. We are working with Yamamoto-san to determine which knife lines will be continued. We regret that this means that only those knives that are in stock can be ordered at this time.This utility knife is a perfect choice for detail tasks. It is a good middle ground between a slicing knife and a paring knife and is a good choice when slicing tomatoes or chopping garlic. The slender blade combines control and precision.
Each of Asai's Hayabusa knives is individually hand-forged beginning with an aogami super (blue super) carbon steel core (hagane). The smaller crystalline size of this carbon steel results in superior edge holding when compared to nearly any other steel. Many knifemakers and users feel that aogami super is among the best carbon steels used on kitchen knives today. At 1.4-1.5% carbon and .3-.5% chromium, aogami super combines limited rust resistance with carbon steel performance. The central core is surrounded by two layers of stainless steel with a thin layer of nickel set in between to prevent carbon migration during forging. This time consuming process creates a knife with outstanding edge holding and a higher level of corrosion resistance than pure carbon blades. In addition, it creates a unique, attractive visual line between the layers -- which gets all the more dramatic with use. The blade is distal tapered for optimal balance and has an extremely thin, keen edge for the highest performance. Because this knife is forged from carbon steel, we recommend using camellia oil to avoid rust.The "Wa" style handle is octagon in shape and is sculpted from macassar ebony with a pakkawood ferrule. This natural, ambidextrous handle is easy to grip and lasts a lifetime. Octagonal handles are very popular among professional chefs because they are extremely comfortable even when used for hours at a time. Like other kitchen knives, this knife should not be put in a dishwasher.
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Have you ever had a blood test? Most of us have at some time in our lives had blood drawn to check for signs of illness. The medical specialists in Waterford MI who collect our blood are called phlebotomists. Their primary role is to make individuals feel comfortable while they extract blood for diagnostic testing.
Courses may be available through health facilities, trade or vocational schools, or community colleges. As expected, the curriculum of each school or organization will differ from one to the next. Generally, the program will last from six to eight months. Students will receive both classroom and clinical instruction, usually totaling approximately 150 to 230 instructional hours.
Usually the next step to become a phlebotomy technician is to find a school or certification program that offers courses that teach you what you need to learn. The bulk of your job is going to be drawing blood and being around it in one way or another so you will want to make sure that is fine with you. If so, start seeing what it would cost to become certified as a phlebotomy tech and see if it is something you can afford to do without having a job at the current time.
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A phlebotomist can have the capacity to negotiate salary if he has acquired several options. Try to check out several hospitals, government health agencies, hospitals of various universities and private organizations. Moreover, obtain salary information from salary centers, business staffing as well as recruitment offices. At times, when you are aware of the average wages in the local market, you will have the chance to provide a motive for salary increase. Along with a rising demand of healthcare specialists, phlebotomy is certainly a rewarding professional preference and can also be a huge step when you want to venture in the field of health care.
The medical professional is full of nurses who spend their day taking care of patients who are not at their best, one of those nurses will do nothing but draw blood from patients for most of the day. In order to be able to handle this position, the nurse must acquire a level of phlebotomy training that gives them the knowledge and qualifications needed to handle the task. Drawing blood from a patient is an essential part of most hospital stays as it helps the lab to determine what is wrong with them.
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A trainee Phlebotomist is has to learn how to handle or deal with the collected blood samples. Nowadays, there are so many blood borne diseases such as HIV and AIDS that one can never be too careful of. Thus, you must train to be extra careful around these bodily fluids. Develop the habit of keeping safe by wearing gloves, sterilizing equipment, and disposing of used needles.
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No one directed beatings better than Bob McKimson. His characters are big and heavy; his drawings so solid and animation so powerful that you can feel every whump, bang and stab.
"Walky Talky Hawky" (1946)
It's kinda extra funny that the abuse in his cartoons is not very cartoony. Other cartoons use ridiculous things like bombs and dismemberment as visual metaphors for suffering. Crazy things that are hard for kids to emulate in real life. McKimson has loads of punishment that you could easily imitate and really hurt someone (or yourself) in the process! Thank God for McKimson, Popeye, UFC and the Three Stooges.
McKimson helps you get a real view of the hard and painful world. He's lookin' out for us!
Let's put violence back into the cartoons where it belongs and get it off the street.
Today we have morals in cartoons and more violence than ever in real life. I bet there is a correlation.
I bet the Ultimate Fighters all revere Foghorn Leghorn as their inspiration.
Hey if you are learning animation, there is a great walk cycle and a great run cycle in this clip.
The run cycle (after he smacks the dog's ass) has 3 frames for each step-a total of 6 drawings, shot on ones and repeated for a few steps until he runs toward camera and off screen.
The walk cycle (after he slaps the dog around at the end of the scene)
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A few hundred spectators, including passengers of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, watched Saturday as almost two dozen hot-air balloons launched from Red Rock Ranch in Animas Valley.
The mass ascension was part of the five-day Snowdown 2013 celebration, better known by the areas sober population as Durangos annual bacchanal.
The balloons will launch again at around 8 a.m. today.
The conditions are right for this, said one area resident who didnt want to be identified.
In fact, the sky was clear and the breezes right for the launch. The smoke from the D&SNG locomotive smokestack let pilots know which way the light breezes were blowing. The train had stopped to allow passengers to watch the ascension.
Jessica and Adrian Tillery of Durango brought their daughter, 2-year-old Josephine, to watch the balloon rally from atop her fathers shoulders.
It was Josephines second mass ascension, having been to the famous Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta two years ago when she would have appreciated the event a little less.
The balloon envelope with snow-capped peaks was one of Josephines favorite balloons, until another colorful balloon was pointed out to her.
Still, the Tillerys were glad to be there because the balloon event was canceled the last two years.
Im glad they got to do it, Jessica Tillery said.
This years event is sponsored by Tequila Rose and Tarantula Tequila. The lead balloon, operated by OTR Hot Air Balloon Adventures, was piloted by event co-coordinator Doug Lenberg, a former Durango resident.
Everything was absolutely beautiful, Lenberg said after the event. It was probably the best mass ascension weve had because we launched in front of the train people.
He said onlookers took pictures of the train as the train passengers took pictures of the balloons and spectators in the field.
Lenberg, who owns Real Green Building Systems in Farmington, said 22 balloons actually went up Saturday.
He also thanked all of the area donors, including hotels that provided rooms for three nights to the pilots, Selphs Propane in Pagosa Springs for the heating fuel for the balloons and Ken & Sues restaurant for donating meals for the pilots.
One of the most unusual balloons was Keshane Gallup, from Gallup, N.M., which depicted what appeared to be a clown kachina that looked somewhat like a cross between Kokopelli and a South Park character.
Another balloon depicted gigantic tulips, and many of the envelopes were patchworks of bright or muted colors in various combinations and hues.
Lenberg said the next big event in the Four Corners will be the San Juan River Balloon Rally in Bloomfield, N.M., on Fathers Day weekend. Mancos will hold its balloon festival in September.
Lenberg said he hopes it might be possible to have another rally in Durango in the spring or fall.


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Steve Spagnuolo is now available, sending a portion of Eagles fans into debate about the prospect of hiring the former Eagles linebackers coach/Giants defensive coordinator/Rams head coach/Saints defensive coordinator.
Of course, the Eagles defensive coordinator job might not be as available as it appears, if the job is simply waiting on ice for 49ers defensive backs coach Ed Donatell after the Super Bowl.
But any potential marriage between Spagnuolo and the Eagles might also be complicated by the Eagles' potential scheme. There have been hints that the Eagles will switch ot a 3-4 under coach Chip Kelly. (Donatell ran a 4-3 in his stops as a defensive coordinator, but coaches in San Francisco, where they run a 3-4.) Spagnuolo's career has been marked by an attacking 4-3 defense similar to the one Jim Johnson used with the Eagles. In fact, one of the reasons the Saints made the change was because they want to run a 3-4. (It also didn't help that the Saints gave up more yards than any team in history under Spagnuolo last season.)
But for argument's sake, let's examine Spagnuolo. There is a faction of fans who see what happened in New Orleans last season and don't want anything to do with Spagnuolo. Of course, he also won a Super Bowl in his first season as defensive coordinator with the Giants. He's well thought of around the NFL, and especially in the NFC East. The Eagles know him, he knows Philadelphia. He also has head-coaching experience, which could be a benefit on the staff.
Spagnuolo has a connection to Kelly. They both have New England roots (as do many members of Kelly's prospective staff), and coached in the same conference in the early 1990s. Because Spagnuolo just became available on Thursday, his candidacy is a recent development. Perhaps there's a different spot on the staff for him -- an assistant head coach role, or something of that nature -- or maybe Spagnuolo can find a coordinator job elsewhere.
But if the Eagles go to a 3-4, don't expect Spagnuolo to be the coordinator.