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15 Things You Can Learn From Kevin Durant
I was fortunate enough to meet and begin working with Kevin Durant while he was a junior at Oak Hill. We continued to work together the following year when he transferred to Montrose Christian (where I was the team's strength and conditioning coach). Although I don't currently work with him, we still keep in touch and have maintained a solid friendship over the years.
While the entire planet is aware of what an exceptional basketball player KD is, I have always been most proud of him as a person. His character is unmatched. He is kind, generous, humble, and authentic. He is an exemplary role model in every sense of the word. His passion for the game is pure and his work ethic is unparalleled. He is the real deal.
KD had an unbelievable summer during the NBA lockout, as he traveled the country on a summer league tour—playing games both outside and indoors—and creating sick highlight reels. Do you know the most impressive part? He does it all for a love of the game. Not for fame. Not for money. He is a special talent and a special person and I am thankful to call him a friend.
Below is a list of 15 things you can learn from KD. As you will see, the things that make him successful extend beyond the court and can be applied to any part of your life.
1. KD holds himself to a very high standard. He puts every ounce of his heart, soul, and love into becoming the best player he can be.
2. KD is extremely loyal to his family, friends, teammates, and coaches. He keeps his inner circle tight and never forgets the folks who have helped him.
3. KD doesn't care who he works out with, he just wants to play. He'll do drills alongside high school players, many of which will never see an NBA court. He works out for one reason: to get better.
4. KD is humble. He has not let success warp his values or his personality.
5. KD genuinely cares about people and he isn't afraid to show it. He greets everyone with a smile and is always respectful and polite.
6. KD keeps himself in great shape all of the time. Even when the start of the NBA season is months and months away.
7. KD is always positive. Always.
8. KD loves his fans. He signs more autographs and takes more pictures then anyone I have ever seen. He interacts with thousands of fans on Twitter. He is as accessible as any star player can be.
9. KD accepts coaching. He is humble enough to know that he still has a lot to learn. He has no ego when it comes to taking direction.
10. KD develops his entire 'game'... and I don't mean on the court. He has matured tremendously as a public speaker (press conferences, commercials, etc.) and as a businessman (his brand's reputation is impeccable).
11. KD goes hard all of the time. Every rep of every set of every workout. Sprints, shooting drills, ball-handling, it doesn't matter. He gives his best every time. He is never casual.
12. KD never gets complacent. He is one of the top players in the NBA and he still works out and practices more than almost every player in the league. Coincidence? Nope!
13. KD is not flashy. He is almost always the most talented player in the gym during workouts (not to mention the wealthiest), but you would never know that by the way he carries himself.
14. KD works to help those around him get better. He'll correct a high school kid and offer tips on how he can improve his footwork. He'll stop a future NBA Hall of Famer and let him know he could have thrown a better pass. He wants to get better, and he wants everyone around him to get better too.
15. KD's favorite quote is "Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard." He lives that quote to the fullest.
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DES MOINES, IA. (June 21, 2013) – Rutgers' James Plummer (South Toms River, N.J.) took third place in the discus at the 2013 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a personal-best 61.96m (203'3") to qualify as a member of Team USA.
Plummer, a First Team All-American and the BIG EAST Champion in the event, set a new lifetime best by a little over two feet. The top collegiate finisher in the event at the national outdoor championships, Plummer joins Olympian Lance Brooks, as well as Russ Winger, as the members of Team USA in the discus and remains in the hunt to earn a spot to the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia later this month.
Brooks won his second consecutive national title 62.29m (204'4") and Winger finished second in 62.03m (203'6"), while RU's Plummer was third at 61.96m (203'3"). While none of the men have met the IAAF B standard, they still have the opportunity to chase until July 20.
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MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Republicans will try again to let doctors apologize for their medical mistakes without having it come back to bite them in court.
Wauwatosa Senator Leah Vukmir and Representative Erik Severson of Star Prairie are asking colleagues to co-sponsor their measure.
Severson's a doctor and Vukmir is a nurse. And both say they want to give medical professionals the chance to express condolences to patients and families without fear of, "frivolous malpractice lawsuits."
Republicans in the Assembly passed the same bill two years ago, but it never passed the Senate. Former Democratic Governor Jim Doyle vetoed the same bill in 2006, in which critics at the time called a bias toward trial lawyers.
The state's Medical Society and Hospital Association both support the measure. They say it could reduce the need for patients' relatives to file lawsuits in order to find out what happened to their loved ones.
But the Wisconsin Association for Justice says the bill goes too far by not holding doctors accountable if they admit fault in their apologies.
35 states have medical apology laws, but the Justice group says only a few are as strict as the Wisconsin bill.


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MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - A man accused of causing a fatal drunken driving crash will stand trial.
21-year-old Dylan Karnitz faces six charges in connection with the crash at 9th and Huron streets in Manitowoc on March 3.
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After serving in Afghanistan Steven Hewett came home to King, N.C. They don't 'take kindly' to atheist folks 'round these parts. Their public Veterans Memorial had a Christian flag flying over it, and when Steven complained... the whole town attempted to chase him out of town.This is the man that an entire city held rallies against - including senators! They were two torches and a pitchfork away from making good on their violent threats to remove him.Rather than take down the flag, … [Read more...]
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Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are visiting Haiti as part of their efforts to lead U.S. fundraising to help rebuild the earthquake ravaged country. Gwen Ifill talks to a reporter in Haiti about those rebuilding efforts, two months after the disaster.
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The chart below shows the years when a state had (or has) a partisan trifecta. The existence of a partisan trifecta is indicated by a bright blue column or a bright red column. Light red and light blue cells indicate times when a chamber (or a governorship) was controlled by one party, but without an overall trifecta.
The chart below shows the years when a state had (or has) a partisan trifecta. The existence of a partisan trifecta is indicated by a bright blue column or a bright red column. Light red and light blue cells indicate times when a chamber (or a governorship) was controlled by one party, but without an overall trifecta.
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|1 Part One: Partisanship
|1.1 Executive Summary
|1.2 Visualizations
|1.3 Infographic
|2 Part Two: State Quality of Life Index (SQLI)
|3 Part Three: Overlaying Partisanship and (SQLI)
By Geoff Pallay
May 2013
Praise or blame is extended to political parties for the economic, educational, health and other quality of life outcomes that result from the policies those parties enact into law. To better understand which political party enjoys power in each of the states, Ballotpedia has analyzed state government control from 1992-2013 using the concept of a "partisan trifecta." A partisan trifecta is defined as when a state's governorship and legislative chambers are controlled by the same political party.
The two major political parties claim that their policies will lead to better outcomes. What does the data show?
At Ballotpedia, we explored these issues in a three-part study, Who Runs the States.
Part One examines the partisanship of state government from 1992-2013. Part Two will establish a State Quality of Life Index (SQLI), aggregating a variety of existing state indices into one measurement. Part Three will then overlay the two reports, looking for trends and correlations.
Part One: Partisanship
Partisanship of the 50 states between 1992-2013
- To read the full report in PDF form, click here.
Ballotpedia's analysis of partisan affiliation of each of the 50 states has seven sections. A separate page is devoted to each of seven sections. A summary of each section is presented on this page.
- Partisan Control of Governorships from 1992-2013
- Partisan Control of State Legislatures from 1992-2013
- State Government Trifectas from 1992-2013
- Dramatic changes in partisanship from the first 11 years to the last 11 years
- Overall Partisan Control: Bright, Medium and Soft States
- Year-to-Year Changes in State Partisan Control
- Partisan Trifectas at Odds with Presidential Election Patterns
Executive Summary
Some states are characterized as "red" and others as "blue". This characterization is typically based on how the state's electorate voted in the most recent presidential election. Here, we propose an alternative method of identifying the partisan dispositions of states. We do this by looking for "partisan trifectas": instances where a state elects the same party to the Office of Governor as it does to control of its two legislative chambers.
The "partisan trifecta" analysis puts seven states in a different partisan column than the presidential vote analysis does: In 2012 voters in six states with Republican trifectas (Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin) cast their ballot for President Obama. West Virginia on the other hand voted Republican for president while maintaining a Democratic trifecta for its state government.
We also studied the partisan breakdown of the executive and legislative branches of state government from 1992 to 2013. The partisan trifecta analysis over this period shows a notable trend toward one-party control of state governments. At the outset of the study period (1992), 18 states with had trifectas while 31 states had divided governments. In 2013, only 13 states have divided governments, while single-party trifectas hold sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years we studied. The number of states with trifectas doubled between 1992 and 2013.
The trifecta analysis also allowed us to identify seven states that have experienced dramatic changes in partisan state government control from the first 11 years of the study to the last 11 years of the study. Studying the partisan composition of state governments as we do also allows a clean way to assess whether a state is "moving red" or "moving blue".
Finally, our review of partisan control of state governments from 1992 through 2013 provides a superior way of assessing just how "red" or "blue" a state is. Is a state "bright blue", "medium blue" or "soft blue"? Is a state "bright red", "medium red" or "soft red"? To the extent that pundits, journalists or members of the voting public want to praise or blame political parties for the real-world economic, educational, health or other quality-of-life outcomes in a particular state, the degree of "redness" or "blueness" of that state's partisan composition may be relevant. This report is Part One of a three-part study. Part Two aggregates a variety of state ranking indices to create a quality of life index for the 50 states. Part Three overlays the partisanship data with the quality of life index.
Partisan trifectas
The chart below shows the years when a state had (or has) a partisan trifecta. The existence of a partisan trifecta is indicated by a bright blue column or a bright red column. Light red and light blue cells indicate times when a chamber (or a governorship) was controlled by one party, but without an overall trifecta.
Partisan trifectas compared to presidential votes
The chart below compares how a state voted in presidential elections (for 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012) compared to how the state voted for the Office of Governor, and for state senate and state house. This way of visualizing the data allows readers to quickly spot times when the presidential vote was at variance with the votes for the other offices.
Part Two: State Quality of Life Index (SQLI)
To be released later in 2013
Part Three: Overlaying Partisanship and (SQLI)
To be released later in 2013
Research staff
Special thanks to Andy Marshall, Luke Seeley, Steven Ellis and Phil Sletten for their tireless work and research, without which this report would not have been possible.


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Dozens of clients had to scramble to find new venues for their weddings this past April when the downtown Chandler space once known as the Inspirador shut its doors. That space is now under new ownership, ready for business.
Crews are prepping for a big party, the first hosted inside the new Soho 63. Formally known as Inspirador, the Chandler venue gained unwanted attention last April when it was foreclosed on, leaving as many as 60 brides to be without a place to celebrate their wedding.
"We have made some really great renovations. Just added some really special Soho 63 touches. The facility was in great condition, very well put together, however we really wanted to make it something different and unique and transform it a little bit."
Megan Schmidt, chief event curator for Soho 63 describes the newly renovated space as distinct modern, chic, with a downtown feel. There are several multipurpose rooms.
The Brix on Boston room provides an intimate setting. The Gramery ballroom seats 250 and the terrace offers outdoor space.
Several valley companies have come together to make Soho 63 a success, including Atlasta Catering.
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Retire in France at 62? In Turkey, it's 45
Government pension rules vary widely around the world, but more are hiking ages.
This post comes from Andrea Coombs at partner site MarketWatch.
In France, workers took to the streets in angry protest when lawmakers first proposed hiking that country's retirement age for full pension benefits to 62, from 60, but in many other countries, workers would welcome an age-62 rule. Except Turkey.
In Turkey, the retirement age now is essentially 45 for men and 41 for women, according to an October report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a research and policy group with 33 member countries.
Turkey abolished its standard retirement age in 1969; ever since, a worker's years in the labor market determine when he or she can claim benefits. Pension rules are complex, but essentially about 25 years of service are required in Turkey.
Assume that people start working at age 20, as the OECD did for its report, and you get people retiring in their mid-40s with a full pension.
Of the 30 countries the OECD studied, Turkey has the lowest age for receiving full retirement benefits. Greece came in second, with a retirement age of 57 for men and women. The Slovak Republic? Fifty-seven for women, but 62 for men.
Workers in the U.S., Iceland and Norway: Dream on. Those are the only countries on the list with a full retirement age right now that tops 65 for men and women -- Iceland and Norway are already at 67 for men and women, and the U.S. is moving in that direction.
But men in 20, and women in 16, of the 30 countries studied face higher retirement ages than the age 62 that France's parliament approved Wednesday.
Countries reduced pension ages not long ago
Retirement ages are marching higher as more countries face the fact that, with average lifespans getting longer and government budgets getting tighter, generous pensions may be unsustainable. By 2050, the average retirement age in the 30 countries studied rises to about 65 for men and women, up from an average of 63 for men and 61.9 for women this year.
Here's a main reason why: From 1960 to 2000, the average life expectancy for a 65-year-old man in an OECD country grew by four years, and women gained more than five years. From 2010 to 2050, 65-year-old men are expected to gain another three years, for an average lifespan of about 85 years, and women that age are expected to gain 3.6 years, for an average lifespan of almost 90 years. (Read the full report on the OECD website.)
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But raising retirement ages is a relatively new trend. Between 1950 and 2010, 10 countries cut the retirement age for men and 13 did so for women, the report said.
"The average pension age in 30 OECD countries fell from 64.3 years in 1949 to a nadir of 62.5 years in 1993 for men, a drop of nearly two years," the report said. "For women, the fall over the same period was also just below two years, from 62.9 to 61.1 years in 1993."
Rules in flux, and complicated
As in many countries, Turkey's law is changing: by 2050, men will have to wait until about age 62 to retire with full benefits; for women it's about 61.
And keep in mind that pension rules are complex. Many countries have a range of ages, and the details vary widely. The OECD's figures reflect the age at which a person can retire and receive full benefits -- not reduced for claiming early -- assuming that person started working at age 20.
"The number we have tried to get is as broadly comparable [across countries] as we can, when you get full benefits, provided you are a full-career worker who starts at age 20," said Edward Whitehouse, the Paris-based head of pensions in the OECD's Social Policy Division, in a telephone interview.
Squeezing that sample worker into various countries' pension formulas can lead to some slightly odd results. For instance, France's pension rules include a years-of-service rule.
Currently (before the age-62 rule goes into effect), a 60-year-old can retire without a reduction in pension benefits if he worked a full 40-1/2 years; that rises to 41 years in 2012.
"For France, the reason we came up with 61 is that actually, although the pension age is broadly 60, our worker is a full-career worker from age 20," Whitehouse said. That worker "wouldn't be able to retire with a full pension until age 61, because of the 41-years rule."
Another example: Belgium's retirement age is 65, "but actuarially un-reduced benefits are available from age 60 with 35 years' contributions," the OECD report said.
Another complication: Some countries have more than one pension plan -- Sweden has four. The study generally focuses on the most widely available age-based plan.
The average retirement age in OECD countries is still lower than it was in 1950; for men it won't reach its 1950 level until 2040, while women will reach the 1950 level by 2020.
Despite women's longer average lifespan, many countries offer them a younger retirement age. For instance, in the United Kingdom, women's pension age is 60, compared with men's 65. In the Czech Republic, women can retire at about age 59, versus men's 61.
About half of the countries studied had different ages for women and men at some point, but 12 of those 15 countries have made moves to make their retirement age the same for both sexes, the report said.
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@jcvcom: tapping phones without warrants, illegal search and seizure, foreign detention camps, torture. That is all against the constituion, and christian values. Jesus wouldn't even cast a stone at a prostitute. Yet you want to overthrow the president because he wants everyone to have healthcare. Repubs and Tea Party talk about being christians then they step on a women's head while she is held on the ground. Big Christian men.
Wow, once again a topic is turned into a political brawl..........
Okay, here's my thought...this article refers to pensions and retirement ages. What it also says is that these are based on "one model", which is that of a person who begins working at age 20 and works full time until he is eligible for retirement. What it doesn't talk about is the many options we have.
I actually started working as a teenager (15) and have been employed full time (with the exception of some "personal" time back in the early '90's) ever since. I just had my 47th birthday and am working more as a "hobby" than a necessity. On the advice of my grandfather, I started saving 10% of my paycheck, regardless of how much it was, when I was 16 years old. I never waivered in my contributions to my retirement fund. I saved that 10% for 25 years, just as my grandfather had advised me to do. During that 25 years, I shuffled my money from IRA's to Money Markets, to bonds, etc...and averaged about 4% to 4 1/2% annual return. I now have the money to retire completely, which I am planning to do at age 50 and could have done at age 45, without ever receiving a dime from anyone or anything else. Not to mention the fact that my retirement fund grows daily.
So, regardless of your income or your pension situation, anyone who starts early enough and sticks with a plan like I did, can retire when they are ready.
When SS was first brought to be, the avg. life expectancy was about 65 1/2 yr. Now life expectancies are much higher{about 77 for men, 82 for women}. Do the math, the sad fact is via that ratio we should be working much longer.
Not to mention cronic drunks and drug addicts being allowed to dip into the fund now, along with a sundry of others. Of course its broke. But who is going to take away from the entitlement crowd? and still get elected?
hahahah......yeah. Not. I'm sure Bush did not personally kill Santa (must be a coverup started by Tom Ridge - I didn't realize Santa was dead) but then again with Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and so many others to do his bidding, why would he need dirty his hands? His role was to take credit, not responsibility.
@ jcvcom: Calm down if anyone commited fraud it was the people in Florida in 2000 who put the clown in office.
@woodlandstx0 yes Pelosi was there but the dems were not in control for the 8 yrs. of the Bush presidency. Everyone wants to jump on the Dems because they can't fix the economy in 2 yrs. when the GOP had 12 yrs. to mess it up. Is that how you potty trained your children. Did you kick them out of your house because they pissed on the floor.
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What are you taking pictures of? And does anyone care?
Two blurred photos of a naked Prince Harry on a romp in Vegas have provided a snappy reminder that careless behavior can be photographed with greater ease and normality than ever.
"It was very rambunctious for a 27-year-old prince," said Megan Wagstaffe, a junior at Northeastern University. "I was shocked his security would have let it happen, and have it posted and plastered everywhere."
One message was clear: it pays to be your own royal minder.
At a time when media has been released from some of its traditional constraints, and individuals effectively broadcast their own lives, the incident also prompted a discussion of privacy in an increasingly online world.
"I think it's this incongruity, between these déclassé pictures and his royal blood, which makes this particularly scandalous," said Patrick del Valle, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. "I've seen similarly raunchy things get uploaded to Facebook. Most people in my generation would agree that we are living in a less and less private world."
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"If the world would actually look at your naked party pics, wouldn't you leak them too?" said Jason Kaufman, a former Berkman fellow at Harvard University. "It would appear the value of privacy is disappearing as fast as the hemline on a pair of 'daisy dukes.'"
The Internet has altered the social fabric of stardom by making celebrity attainable through little more than sustained, entertaining coverage, and the medium's accelerating power can lead to unprecedented exposure – whether it is desired or not.
"The Internet is still, in terms of social organization and norms, a bit of a wild frontier," said William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. "Royals have largely lost their special status as god-given leaders of state and survive, in many countries, as national celebrities."
On the flip side of stardom, parts of life previously kept under wraps, or only shared with a select group of people, can be shared and indelibly recorded at the drop of a hat. Some believe that younger generations take these transgressions more lightly because they are accustomed to their exposure.
As the stratification between private and public behavior slowly lapses, students may pay the price, at a time in their lives when many are choosing to experiment and push their boundaries.
"I don't have to tell you that college is a crazy place. College is where people do things they probably wouldn't anywhere else, so I think it could definitely spur this kind of behavior," said del Valle. "Those of us who are particularly career-oriented hear day in and day out the horror stories of so-and-so who didn't get a job because there was a picture of her partying on her Facebook."
In the majority of cases, photos like Harry's will not get very far on their own steam. Naked photographs abound on the Internet, and are restricted to a personal audience (or a public, depersonalized one) as a matter of interest.
"If it's an everyday person, it would only really be seen by people who are searching for you," said Wagstaffe. "Yeah, you won't be on the front page of the newspaper, but people could be seeing this image."
The archiving potential of the web has led many students to monitor their online presence more carefully.
A 2010 study indicated 79% of recruiters scan applicants online prior to an interview, and when the consequences of a botched night out could mean the loss of a job, it makes sense to take care – though it can also be easy to forget.
"We're young, beautiful, invincible, all that good stuff," said Del Valle. "We're not always thinking 10 years down the road when we're up for a promotion and some embarrassing photos surface from the recesses of some Internet archive."
In that sense, it may still be something of a blessing to be royal, with a built-in job description.
"Harry is sexy and fun-loving, and there are seemingly no consequences to his antics, except a little parental slap on the wrist," said Kaufman. "Who wouldn't want to be in his shoes?"


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At Family Cuts in Prattville Becky Newman gave up trying to decide whether she could afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Newman's conclusion? "No," she said emphatically.
Under the law just about everyone is required to have health insurance beginning in 2014. Newman will not be among them. The estimated premiums for her would be around $500 a month, far beyond her ability to pay. Newman had insurance at one time before her husband passed away three years ago.
"I don't sleep well at night and it is what it is," said Newman.
Tamara Thornton is in the same boat except her story is a bit more precarious.
"They found a 70% blockage in my carotid artery," Thornton said.
No insurance, no surgery. "I'm a walking stroke candidate," Thornton said.
It's the story of two women who say they can't afford 'Obamacare' and will end up having to pay the penalty as prescribed by the law. In Thornton's case $300 next year and more the following year.
"It's going to be cheaper for me to pay the penalty," said Thornton.
With all the problems with the new health care roll out plan and now insurance cancellation issues, Newman and Thornton say they actually agree with President Obama healthcare in American needed an overhaul but this is not the way. They believe the mistakes so far prove that point.
"He says one thing and it's a lie and says something else and that doesn't pan out,"said Thornton.
With a history of heart disease in her family, Becky Newman goes to bed every night hoping for the best.
As for Tamara Thornton she knows her health is a ticking time bomb but feels as though she has no other choice. Thornton hopes and prays her health situation doesn't get any worse.
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Kindergarten readiness night
Blaine primary school has scheduled a kindergarten readiness meeting from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15 in the school's multipurpose room. The meeting is for parents who have a child entering kindergarten this fall and will address questions surrounding child readiness, what children will learn in kindergarten and how parents can help get their child ready for school. Childcare is available. For more information, call the Blaine primary school at 332-1300.
Eye in the sky catches accident details
U.S. Border Patrol cameras along the U.S./Canadian border helped find a car accident victim last week after they were ejected from a moving vehicle on Zero Avenue in Canada.
At approximately 10:15 p.m., Border Patrol personnel in Blaine were monitoring one of 32 surveillance cameras located in the area when they noticed a car sliding on its side on Zero Avenue, nearly a mile east of the Lynden border crossing near the intersection of Double Ditch and Boundary roads.
The car then began to roll and flip over, severing a utility pole and downing utility lines before crossing the border and coming to rest on Boundary Road in the United States.
Acting Blaine Border Patrol sector chief Joseph Guiliano said camera operators in Blaine were able to contact aid and law enforcement agencies such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Whatcom County Sheriff's office before the vehicle stopped moving.
Border Patrol agents arrived within four minutes and began to assist the victims but were initially unable to locate the one of the five passengers.
Blaine camera operators were able to use infrared heat-sensing capabilities to locate a 17-year-old girl who was hidden from plain view after being ejected several yards from the car.
Guiliano said the incident, though unfortunate, is an example of the capabilities made possible by the cooperation of U.S. and Canadian authorities.
Power outage next Saturday
The City of Blaine has rescheduled a planned power outage from May 8 to Saturday, May 19, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the area bounded by 15th Street, D Street, the Canadian Border and Harvey Road, in addition to one small area west of Allan Street and north of Lincoln Lane, and E Street between Allan and Jerome. Public works director Steve Banham said the project will result in greater service reliability.
Customers of the Bell Bay Jackson Water Association concerned about e-coli contamination can drink their water without taking any unusual precautions, state Department of Health (DOH) officials announced earlier this week in a statement.
Last week, state health officials advised nearly 300 Bell Bay Jackson Water Association customers to boil their tap water after they discovered e-coli bacteria in a routine water sample. The warning was revoked Monday after 10 additional samples returned negative, officials said Monday.
The water association, located between Blaine and Ferndale, serves 272 customers and purchases its water from Blaine.
The Blaine public works department also conducted
a series of tests for fecal coliform, all of which were found to be negative.
State health officials said no illnesses associated with the event have been reported.
The Whatcom County public works storm water division worked with volunteers during a clam enhancement study in Birch Bay last Saturday.
The area was seeded with manila clams and will later be studied to check for growth and survival. A non-seeded area will be used as a control sample.
The study was funded by a grant administered by the Whatcom County Marine Resources Committee.
Recycle empty nursery containers
Individuals holding on to old, empty nursery containers are invited to recycle them at a free special collection event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 12 at Hovander Homestead Park in Ferndale.
The collection is scheduled in conjunction with the annual plant sale hosted by the Washington State University (WSU) Whatcom County Master Gardener Foundation and will accept black plastic nursery items as well as drain pipe, truck bed liners, plastic "lumber" for benches, posts and pilings.
Pots should be dry, cleaned of loose dirt and sorted by the number printed on the bottom.
Other recycling opportunities for rinsed pesticide containers, baling twine and film, row covers, pipe, drip tape and business plastics are available by calling the Whatcom County-sponsored recycling hotline at 676-5723.
Mysterious powder shuts down post office
An unidentified powder that caused a three-hour closure of the Blaine Post Office last Thursday was likely caused by a disintegrated rubber roller from a mail-sorting machine, officials announced this week.
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Jim Vauk, a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Everett, said this prompted post office officials to contact the Blaine police department, which contacted an emergency response crew in Bellingham.
The roller was replaced.
Legislature increases traffic fines
Fines for traffic violations have increased to keep pace with inflation, Whatcom County law enforcement officials announced last week.
The new fine schedule starts with fines of $81 for speeding violations between one and five miles over the limit in a 40 mile or less zone, to $399 for violations of 40 miles per hour more over the limit.
The increases correspond with fine increases for violations within school zones with a scale beginning at $177 for speeds between one and five miles over the limit and capping at $772 for speeds of 36 to 40 miles over the limit.
Blaine City hall to receive facelift
Blaine City Hall is slated to receive a facelift, city officials say.
In a regular meeting of Blaine City Council April 30, Blaine community development staffer Debbie Harger presented council members with a slideshow exploring different options for upgrades to the aging cement building.
Preliminary design concepts feature an enlarged entry way, new front windows, removal of the current marquee, painting the city hall portion of the building a medium beige color with forest green "trim" painted around windows, painting the fire station section of the building a muted yellow with pale green and bright gold accents, and adding new fire station doors.
"When we combine those colors you can see the huge difference in the scale of the buildings," Harger said.
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'Comfort Queen' visits Blaine Friday
Best-selling author Jennifer Louden known to some as the "Comfort Queen" will speak at an annual St. Joseph Hospital's Women's Expo and luncheon at 12:15 p.m. Friday, May 11 at Semiahmoo Resort.
Louden is the author of several books including "The Woman's Comfort Book," "The Couple's Comfort Book," and "Comfort Secrets for Busy Women" and has appeared on the Oprah Show, Later Today and MSNBC, CNN and Fit TV.
She is also a personal coach, social commentator who sees women's comfort as both a fundamental need and an innate desire. Her columns have appeared in Glamour, Shape, People, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Self, New Woman, and Yoga Journal.
The event will also include more than 20 exhibitors sharing health information and giveaways. Cost is $12.95 and includes lunch. Registration is required. For more information, call 738-6720.
The Whatcom County Health Department is conducting a county-wide reminder to avoid rabies by steering clear of bats. Health department officials warn that as bats wake up from their winter hibernation, the chance of human-bat contacts increases.
In Washington state, bats are primary carriers of the rabies virus. Rabies infection can occur when people or animals are bitten by a rabid animal or have contact with the infected animal's saliva. The rabies virus attacks the nervous system, and once symptoms appear, the disease is nearly always fatal. Individuals exposed to a rabid animal must receive rabies vaccines and immune globulin to prevent the disease.
If you have been bitten or scratched by a bat, isolate the bat if possible, wash the wound well, and call your doctor right away.
If you find a bat in the house, isolate the bat in a room by closing the doors and windows. Call the health department and they will determine if anyone may have been exposed and if the bat should be tested for rabies.
You should also make sure that your pets have up-to-date rabies vaccinations. Unvaccinated pets are at risk for rabies. Call animal control or a veterinarian if your pet has had contact with a bat.
Bats are very important to our environment. They control pests by eating twice their weight in insects each day. However, they are wild animals and should always be left alone. Here are some tips for avoiding them:
• Never handle, feed or play with bats.
• Teach children to avoid bats and to tell an adult if they have contact with a bat.
• Keep pets away from bats and make sure your pet has a current rabies vaccination.
• Prevent bats from entering your home by making sure that windows and doors are properly screened.
For more information, visit www.cdc.gov or call the Whatcom County Health Department at 360/676-6724.
The Blaine Community Garden is getting under way this week. Coordinator Maxine Thompson said the city will till the 600-square-foot garden patch early in the week of May 14. The garden occupies the Seventh Street right-of-way on the south side of G Street immediately west of the Blaine Senior Center.
"We usually have room for 20 gardeners, and this week the soil will be warm enough for both cold and warm soil crops," Thompson said, adding that the project began six years ago under the leadership of Blaine resident Dick Clark.
For $15 for the season subscribers get to plant, nurture (water and aged horse manure compost are included) and harvest a 10 by 20 foot plot. Two plots may be rented for $25.
Gardeners must bring their own tools and non-organic fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides are prohibited. For more information or to sign up, call 360/312-4153.
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The Pro Football Focus guys have their grades up for the Bengals' 27-24 win over the Detroit Lions, and while much of the praise was given to Andy Dalton, A.J. Green and even Marvin Jones, it was defensive end Carlos Dunlap who they felt was the real game-changer:
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Carlos Dunlap continues to be one of the more underrated defenders in the league. After missing a tackle on Reggie Bush early in the game, he was dominant in collecting seven hurries and two hits. He put his inside move on display at both 8:45 of the first quarter and 8:28 of the third quarter, getting past his blocker in less than three seconds for a hit and hurry. Showing variety later in the game, he picked up a pressure to the outside of LaAdrian Waddle on consecutive fourth quarter plays to flush Matt Stafford and end a Lion drive. As good as Dunlap was rushing the passer, perhaps his best play of the game doesn't even show up in his +3.2 overall grade; he broke through to block a Detroit field goal late in the second quarter – those potential three points turned out to be the difference in the game.
The Bengals will need many more performances like this the rest of they year with Leon Hall out now.
And of other note, the three highest graded players were Andy Dalton (+4.4), Calvin Johnson (+4.0)and Carlos Dunlap (+3.2). Green averaged more yards per route run with 4.43 on his 35 versus the 3.3 on 47 of the routes Calvin Johnson ran.
The three lowest graded players were Ezekiel Ansah (-4.2), Brandon Pettigrew (-3.6) and Jermaine Gresham (-3.8)
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Enjoy Life Foods products are made in a dedicated nut- and gluten-free bakery in Schiller Park, IL. They've invested in a dedicated plant so that you can have the added confidence and assurance that you and your family can eat Enjoy Life products without worries. They also require all of their ingredients to be certified allergen-free and perform routine testing to ensure strict allergen control standards are met.
Enjoy Life Foods' MissionEat freely! At Enjoy Life, their whole business is making smile-good foods that keep people's insides happy. That's why all of their foods are specially made to be gluten-free and free of the 8 most common allergens. Their goal is to make delicious products that just about everyone can EAT FREELY. Enjoy Life Foods promises they'll make you smile inside out!
About Enjoy Life FoodsEnjoy Life Foods, founded in early 2001, has the mission to make great-tasting allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods that nearly everyone can eat freely without worry. The Enjoy Life product line is gluten-free and free of the eight most common allergens: wheat, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, egg, soy, fish and shellfish. Company founder Scott Mandell started Enjoy Life after writing the company's business plan as part of a class assignment for the MBA program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. The notion that people with dietary restrictions must frequently sacrifice good taste and nutrition in order to find allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods they can eat inspired the business plan. Scott and his team envisioned a unique company that would offer great tasting, nutritious foods for people on restricted diets.
In late 2001, Scott, a former banker, traded in his business suit for an apron and sought funding for the new venture from friends, family and "angel investors." He used the funds raised to get the company off the ground, develop products and build a dedicated nut- and gluten-free bakery in Chicago, IL. The company took the unusual approach of investing in a special facility so that people with food intolerances and celiac disease would know that all Enjoy Life products were made in the safest environment possible. In January 2006, the company was the first to receive independent gluten-free certification for all Enjoy Life products from the Gluten Free Certification Organization (GFCO).
Enjoy Life line launched with 12 tasty items including cookies, snack bars and bagels shortly after the completion of the bakery. Initially, Enjoy Life products were available online and through natural food stores. Today, the product line has grown to 26 different foods including soft-baked cookies, granola, snack bars, bagels, trail mixes, chocolate bars and chocolate chips, all of which are sold in natural food and conventional grocery stores throughout the U.S., Canada and specialty online stores.
In early 2006, Enjoy Life moved to a new production facility in Schiller Park, IL, which is twice the size of the original bakery and includes plenty of room to accommodate the company's rapid growth. Fueled by increased consumer demand for great-tasting allergy-friendly foods, distribution expansion into new markets and retail outlets, and the introduction of delicious and unique new products allowed for the expansion growth. Enjoy Life Foods was named to the Inc. magazine's 500/5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies for three consecutive years (2007-2009).
Most recently, Enjoy Life Foods teamed with Fair Winds Publishing to develop an allergy-friendly and gluten-free cookbook, Cookies for Everyone! The book features 150 tasty recipes for families to bake while creating tasty memories. A sequel, Cupcakes for Everyone!, will appear on bookshelves in January 2010.
Ingredients: Natural Chocolate Liquor (Non-Alcoholic), Evaporated Cane Juice, Non-Dairy Cocoa Butter.
Contains NO: wheat, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, egg, soy, fish or shellfish. Also made without casein, potato, sesame and sulfites. Ingredients have been additionally tested to ensure strict allergen control standards are met.
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