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HIGHLANDS — As the American Red Cross counselor made her way through Henry Hudson Regional School Thursday to check on students, a couple took her aside more than once.
The students quietly pointed out friends who are having trouble dealing with the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, said Kathy Kilcher, who works with the Red Cross mental health division.
They really are looking out for each other, said Kilcher, who lives in Virginia. This really seems like a wonderful, tight-knit community.
On Thursday, students returned for the first time to Henry Hudson, which served as a shelter for mostly Highlands residents since the night of the storm.
Principal Lenore Kingmore referred questions about how the school fared on its first day to Superintendent Christopher Rooney, who could not be reached for comment.
Reopening schools is one of the best things that can happen for children in the Bayshore, where many homes are uninhabitable because of the damage caused by floodwaters several feet high, Kilcher said.
They need to be with their friends, to laugh like before, Kilcher said. They need that peer support.
Volunteers spent Wednesday shifting the shelter to Atlantic Highlands, to the community center at Firemans Fieldshouse.
As of Wednesday night, there were 25 people staying at the shelter, down from 37 on Sunday and a high of 130 in the days immediately after the storm, said Frederick Rast, Atlantic Highlands mayor.
While the borough hopes those at the shelter find permanent housing soon, it is committed to serving as a host for as long as is needed, Rast said.
Whatever it takes, Rast said. Were not going to throw anybody out to the curb, thats for sure.
The shelter at the fieldhouse became possible only after officials secured a mobile shower facility. Grady Hall drove it over from his church in Comanche, Texas.
Without something like this, my life doesnt have much meaning, said Hall, 68, a retired dispensing optician and part-time farmerwho believes he is simply following Jesus command to love one another. This gives me a purpose.
The facility, hand-built by members of First Baptist Church in Comanche, has six shower stalls, two washers and two dryers, Hall said. It mostly serves disaster victims of floods and wildfires in the Gulf Coast region, he said.
Red Cross volunteers knew a move to a new location was imminent, so they had spent the past few days packaging supplies, said Marsha Case, the shelters manager.
On Wednesday, it took volunteers about four hours to relocate the supplies, the shelters residents and their belongingsto the Atlantic Highlands location, Case said.
Volunteers then went back and assisted district staff in cleaning Henry Hudson, Case said.
When I saw that gym on Wednesday, with all the blankets and trash, I thought, Theyll never be able to get it done, said Kilcher, who assisted with the cleaning. Let me tell you: it sparkles.
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The IRS has failed to provide swift and effective assistance to victims of identity theft even as the number of crimes continues to soar, according to a federal report issued Wednesday.
Although former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman in 2008 vowed to create a "seamless" process to aid identity theft victims, the agency's actual response falls short, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate's annual report to Congress.
The issue focuses on IRS response to taxpayers whose identities — and tax refunds — are stolen by thieves who have gained access to the victims' Social Security numbers and other identifying information.
"Victims who come to the IRS for assistance today will routinely need to speak with multiple employees and wait more than six months to have their issues resolved," said the report by Nina Olson, whose agency aids taxpayers with IRS-related problems and issues.
Issues raised by the report — and challenged by the IRS — include:
Instead of a centralized approach using its 4-year-old Identity Protection Specialized Unit, the IRS handles identity theft complaints in 21 different units, "many with their own rules and procedures."
Although the tax agency has created a special Identity Protection Personal Identification Number to guard against the problem, it does not cover all victims.
The IRS Taxpayer Protection Unit, created to handle calls from filers whose tax returns were flagged for possible fraud, may not be sufficiently staffed to handle a high volume of victim calls.
The conclusions come amid a surge of tax-related identity theft.
In fiscal 2012, the report shows, the IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit received 449,809 cases, up nearly 80 percent from the previous year. The Taxpayer Advocate Service headed by Olson reported a 60 percent jump in similar cases during the same period.
Olson's report recommended that the IRS use the Identity Protection Specialized Unit as a centralized "traffic cop" that coordinates handling of all identity theft cases.
The IRS should issue identity protection identification numbers year round, as soon as the identities of the rightful Social Security number owners are determined, the report said.
The IRS said the issue is a top priority. "Although we cannot stop all identity theft, our efforts in filing season 2012 provide a solid foundation upon which we will continue to build and improve," the IRS said.
Kevin McCoy reports for USA Today.

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Hello all.
Just read from autobloggreen about some new battery manufacturer called "Planar Energy". (http://green.autoblog.com/2010/07/27/planar-energy-to-begin-small-scale-...)
They seem to have tech for pretty good Wh/kg batteries. From one of their pdf (http://www.planarenergy.com/Press%20Releases/Technology%20Review_%20Safe...)
"One of them combines lithium manganese oxide with other ions, and operates at about three to five volts with a charge capacity of 200 milliamp hours per gram."
Calculating that as 3.5V * 200mAh/g you get 700mWh/g or 700Wh/kg. to put that in right context: Roadster battery: 450kg. Drop 30% off as supporting structure: 315kg battery * 700 = 220.500kWh battery. Nearly four times as much as current tech is. That would allow roadster to go 200 * 4 = 800 miles with one charge.
let's do it
I wonder if Tesla would be interested in an idea that would, Absolutely guarantee, that Tesla would be around for twenty years. People would choose Tesla over any other brand. At least until the other brands caught up. And the idea would mean the end of Petroleum as the basis for propelling vehicles. Tesla could do for the automotive industry, what cell phones did for the communication industry. (email@example.com)
You'll have to engineer your own direct contact with TeslaMotors. The previous forums were frequented by all sorts of people with brilliant ideas for them, which generally turned out to be unphysical ideas for free energy or the like. AKA loons.
Thx; another multiplier for LiIon tech! And here's a report on the use of graphene within batteries to expedite ion and current movement:
BTW, really hate the loss of all the tech refs etc. embedded in the previous fora. The new broom has been altogether too sweeping, IMO.
I would like to see Tesla help drive forward battery technology for electric vehichles by combining the best available technologies to extend the distance and minimize charging time which are both perceived drawbacks to EV's. To this end I submit two weblinks of technologies that appear ready for prime time. #1 nanowire technology to provide 10x the current from existing lithium batteries. I have read that there are several factories already pruducing this breakthrough in Michigan & China and that BMW Mini has already contracted to use them. http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2008/02/21/nanowire-batteries-will-kick-th... #2 the use of super capacitors to better power manage sudden acceleration which drains most batteries and better recover energy in egenerative braking systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor. I realize tesla is not a battery manufacturer but technologies appear to be off the shelf and ready for prime time. Why not use them now?
I have heard that these batteries give off dangerously hight EMF radiation and wondered if anyone knew or has tested the levels of TESLA's car batteries.....also, could a lead barrier or casing be made to protect passengers from long term exposure?
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Tesla needs to permanently alleviate all these battery fears that people love to disseminate. The big fear is that as soon as you pay $20k-$35k for your battery, something 3x better will come out next year.
Tesla needs to release a "Battery Mission Statement" that reads something like this......All new Tesla batteries will fit into the existing vehicles. All new Tesla batteries will be offered to existing customers with older batteries or batteries with smaller capacities for a substantially reduced upgrade charge, based on the age and condition of them. A nice graph showing the exact amounts would be easy too, as they don't really have too many different batteries to begin with.
Who really cares what battey makers do? I'm covered!!!!
untesla, batteries cannot produce EMF radiation. They only produce a static DC potential.
Of course the car's power electronics, like any electronic gadget, will generate electromagnetic fields at some level. That said, the car isn't a microwave oven! It's not going to produce anything even remotely hazardous.
Hi guys,
Just want to share about my idea.mileage/range for electric car is very important. My idea is to install wind turbine, wind turbine or rotary device that extracts energy from the wind, so it can charge the battery while car on moving . My idea is to place the wind turbine under the hood without sacrificing the beauty of the car.We can place two battery pack. battery pack (A) is charged by the wind turbine while the car moving, in the other hand, another battery pack (B) uses for car propulsion. once the propulsion battery pack (A) almost finish, electrical devices automatically change the battery to battery pack (B)so the car can keep on moving without stop or jerk. battery pack (A) continue charged by wind turbine. This cycle of battery charging will make electric cars go more than 1000km without charging/or single charge.Hope this idea will help u all. thank you.
kumar palani,
go green.
I'm sorry, but your idea reminds me of cartoons I used to watch. A character would be in a sailboat, and he would get the boat to move forward by blowing onto the sail. In real world physics, that doesn't work.
My suspicion is that your turbine will add to the wind resistance of your vehicle. So you will only be capturing the energy you lose from the increased wind resistance.
kumar5750, that's called a "perpetual motion machine", which violates the known laws of physics.
untesla, the EMF has been measured in a Roadster. I don't remember the exact number, but it was way less than many common household appliances.
I couldn't get the button to work to create a new topic, but I have a thought on charging. We have all heard about the challenges of persons living in multi-use buildings (apartments, condos, lofts, etc.) without garages or without electric in their parking garage. I'm one of those people, but I'm not an engineer. So I don't know if this is even possible, but what if there were a portable charger? I'm thinking of something that is the size of a briefcase that would detach when the vehicle is not in use. It could be taken inside a person's home, office, hotel, or wherever else there is an available 110V connection (or whatever is standard in your country). It would be charged, then reconnected to the vehicle for more driving. Or, it could be 2 "briefcase batteries" and a person would need to charge 1 for x number of miles or both for 2x number of miles.
Just a thought... again, I'm not sure if this is even possible.
Sorry, TANSTAAFL.
When is Tesla going to switch to large format batteries ?
I would hope they are working up proto types ask we speak.
I can't believe having 6700+ batteries to manage is the proper way to go (KISS).
You may be right, but the upside to small units is that a failure of one has a tiny effect.
Slightly OT, but the "New Topic" function is busted:
SF is putting up some free charging posts around the city. Don't know if it's just civic promotion, or a clean air initiative.
fnfargento, more batteries is not the answer. Batteries = weight. Weight is the enemy of performance.
He's way more confused than that. He wants to charge Battery B while running on Battery A, and vice versa, using the motor as a generator. One more free energy loon.
Kumar's idea of a wind turbine on vehicles isn't terrible.
We currently use wind to cool radiators
but what about the stronger forces of wind our cars come in contact with when we're driving at high speeds?
Seems wasted that we're not using the force to 'drive' auxiliary motors.
One problem I see is the price per output efficieny.
You'll have to consider the aggregate output of X number of installed turbines and the price.
Overall, what does Tesla think?
Isn't Telsa's goal to make there cars aerodynamic...so the air goes around the car? The last thing you want to do is "catch" the wind.
Combine the added weight of a wind turbine, and the losses associated with wind resistance, and I'm sure it equals a net loss.
The wind turbine idea is thinking outside of the box, but unfortunately, it's a perpetual motion machine and will not work. You still have resistance losses from the wind, at most it will not do anything, and at worst will decrease the range dramatically.
What we could do is place wind turbines on major highways or other busy roads on the side of the road so the draft of the cars and trucks move the turbines. Possibly use the helix turbines since they thrive in turbulent conditions
In theory if it could be coupled with wireless energy transfer (one of the inventions the original Nikola Tesla worked on, and i believe Intel managed to get 75% efficiency in 2009), that could solve the problem- not really "free energy", just recovering waste energy and sending it back to the cars or grid. Unfortunately wireless energy transfer is still in its infancy, so the most viable option would be to send it back to the grid
Hello, long time since I follow their progress online and I can only congratulate him on his initiative and effort they have made to get where they are, because I suppose they had to overcome many pitfalls of the most diverse nature. But my statement is just to ask why the S model is not added a solar panel, however small, not to move the car, but to enhance the autonomy and "never reach zero charge", although it is a wonder car, just 45 minutes to 3 hrs. is a really long time if we consider that to fill a pond are 10 '. So while we wait 45 minutes, at least we know that we charge for many miles.
Sorry, but its theme is exciting, what do you think the use of piezoelectric ceramics in suspension?
Efficiency is more then just battery technology, some years ago I invented an electronic circuit to measure electrical signal ratios, later patent. One application of this technology was traction control, with respect to drive and driven, as in wheel contact to road or stator and field of electric motor. In either case, traction is the unity between the drive and driven. Efficiency is the measure of power applied versus energy required, and achieved through modulation, and prolonged by regenerative power. All factors contribute to efficiency and include weight, aerodynamics, traction efficiency, battery capacity, and regenerative power.
No, all day with the whole roof as a solar collector would only provide a few miles. It's costly and pointless.
Here's a new one: virus cathodes, with 10X the capacity of graphite ones.
Option for regenerative power application,
There are various methods to increase efficiency, one alternative is to separate the power sources used by motor/drive and standard systems. Many standard systems used in common automobiles and trucks operate from 12VDC sources, and include lighting both interior and exterior, instrumentation, power seating, radio, heat and cool, amongst others. An alternative is having two power sources, one primary for motor/drive and secondary for standard systems. These standard systems can operate from Generator and 12VDC supply, and under certain conditions battery charged using solar energy as well. This can be implemented by operating standard systems from primary battery until vehicles forward motion is constant (highway and other), once controller senses this condition, it can electrically switch standard systems to Generator and 12VDC source. The Generator, (somewhat like alternator) can be coupled to rotating shaft or built within wheel for charging battery and power to standard systems. Solar Cell Roof can be applied as another source for charging the 12VDC battery given certain conditions. It's feasible with smaller battery, the standard systems can be switched from primary to secondary whenever power level is adequate, controller seeks best solution. There's more detail then stated above, this is basic description. I would implement a permanent magnet generator using one or more wheels, to reduce frictional components.
@DanAderhold; your proposition to drive ancillary systems with generator just causes more losses than driving them directly from battery pack.
Now: battery -> motor & ancillary systems
Your: battery -> motor -> generator -> ancillary systems.
With every conversion there are losses. Your suggestion added one conversion and energy still comes from same battery pack. And your system would affect car performance because that generator would work as brake that switches on and off without driver knowing when that happens.
Brian H,
That's an interesting article, as for developing automotive frameworks into battery platforms. This would disperse cell area more equal amongst the chassis and frameworks, and suspect technology feasible in near future. Maybe application is chassis and framework for battery platform, and body as energy collector. But electric motor technology needs improved as well, applying superconductive materials to reduce size and minimize thermal loses, for equal magnetic drive distribution.
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I will be the first to admit that I love having a hard copy of a book but with SW that is not always an option. One of the things I love about my NOOK COLOR is the way it reads most PDF files as ebooks. I have PDFs of all my books and the ereader works fine with most of the newer ones like SWDE, Horror Comp., Dead Lands Reloaded. What I am finding however is that older ones like Fantasy Comp., Super Powers Comp., Ness. Evil and so on only seem to work well with the PDF reader on my NOOK? Has anyone else had this issue?
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Can't really answer you questions, but do have some suggestions on PDF readers if you go down that route.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the NOOK is Android based.
I recently got a new Android tablet and it took me awhile to find a PDF reader I liked and loaded quickly.
Try ezPDF Reader Pro, its not free but after trying 5-6 it was by far the best. Worse case if does not work properly you can return it within 12 hours (or something like that). They also have a Lite version..but haven't tried that.
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I'm loving my Nexus 7 so far. I use Ebookdroid for reading pdfs, and its great so far. I haven't used it at the table yet, due to my current lack of a group, but I have no doubt it will be very useful. I've also got some other apps for drawing quick maps (a pint-like program), StoneTome for messing with Obsidian Portal, and Truly Random, a dice roller I can program with adventure generator tables.
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I bought a Kindle Touch last spring, primarily for reading PDFs. If you ask the support people, they will sometimes admit that it has a 40 Mb limit to the PDF size that it can handle. What they seem not to even be aware of is that it is also unable to handle PDFs with layers, regardless of size. Unfortunately, this has really limited it's utility for me, as many SvgW PDFs (both by PEG and other licensees) have layers.
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Im using a Motorola Xoom. I've found that the actual free Adobe Acrobat Reader loads large gaming pdfs the fastest of all the apps I've tried. EZ reader, Quickoffice (all forms of it) take for ever to load.
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Thanks Kertain...
I went to the NOOK store and got the EZPDF reader and it works great! Just what I needed.
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I am using a Kindle DX, and I have no probs (apart some bordered image).
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Using Motorola Xoom with ez PDF reader.
While I really like this reader when you use it to actually read the pdf, it's a major pain if you just want to flip through the pages because it only buffers the very next page, so when you flip through the next page while take while, about 3-10 seconds.
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While I really like this reader when you use it to actually read the pdf, it's a major pain if you just want to flip through the pages because it only buffers the very next page, so when you flip through the next page while take while, about 3-10 seconds.
That is actually the thing I find most inconvenient about reading any book in a reader rather than as layers of pulped wood: I often know where something is in a book by feel (the thickness of pages I'm holding in each hand) and by the pages around the thing I'm looking for. I might now know (making something up) precisely where the table of standard rodeo gear is, but I *do* remember that it's a few pages after the picture of the big-top full of zombies.
So, odd question: are there any PDF readers that load pages fast enough to flip through them quickly? As in: hit the "next page" button and the next page comes up. *Hold* the "next page" button and, after a brief pause, it flashes the pages past, displaying each one for something like a quarter of a second. Any reader you folks know of behave that way?
(I recognize that this kind of feature might be of interest to, literally, *nobody* but me. But it would be great to find out something had it.)
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So far, the Adobe PDF reader is the only one that comes close to being able to flip through a book. It also depends on the complexity of the PDF. SW books, so far, have been easy on my tablet because they aren't really graphically intensive, and don't have as many pages as some. There's also the option of using the "Text Reflow" option which eliminates the graphics, but with the way so many rpg books are laid out, it sometimes jumples up the text boxes and tables, etc.
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Try ezPDF Reader Pro, its not free but after trying 5-6 it was by far the best. Worse case if does not work properly you can return it within 12 hours (or something like that). They also have a Lite version..but haven't tried that.
I use Lite version and it works great. It's fast, and it has link and TOC support (both a must for rpg manual reading, specially during play, IMHO).
If you are only going to use it to read pdfs, no annotations, no fancy tools, no forms, no text-to-speech, lite is more than enough and it's cheaper.
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I'm also on a Nexus 7 and I really like it for reading. Using ez pdf reader on it. I really like how the reader can zoom in on columns. Makes reading the PDF easier.
The only bad thing about current tablets and PDF is they can't flip through them quickly. They tend to cache a page or two ahead so page turning isn't slow, unless you try to flip through a lot of pages at once. Then it can bog down some.
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Which I don't really understand. I know that tablets don't have the same power as a desktop or even a laptop, but you'd think it could handle a PDF, even a large one. Is it a software thing, or is there just something about how it all works that I don't understand?
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Rendering complex pdfs are a compute expensive thing. Even netbooks have usually problem with them.
Role-playing books, which are usually heavy on high resolution art (high resolution is needed to allow good quality printing). Paizo was a bigger offender than Pinacle, their harbook pdfs rendered slow even on middle range machines, the problem was so real that Paizo now is publishing "Lite" version of their hardbook pdfs.
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I think it has more to do with the PDF format being a complete bloated mess.
I can flip through full color magazines in Google's Play Magazine with beautiful high resolution images on my N7 but PDFs make my Linux desktop bog down.
People are using PDF because there isn't really any other format to use outside of epub/mobi which is for novels and not magazine or art heavy book layouts.
It'd be nice if say rpgdrivethru came up with an Anrdoid/iPad app and would push a nice open source magazine format through for that, but it'd probably be more $$ to create than they'd be interested in handling. At some point though something like that will get created and you'll see magazines and other similar publishers flock to it.
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The app I use is simply called PDF Viewer. It's options include the ability to disable images, which make it extremely fast. It's not pretty, but it's fast, and I don't need pretty for most of the reading I do.
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Is that the APV PDF Viewer? I can't seem to find an app simply called "PDF Viewer"
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Serali wrote:I REALLY love the first one. I would like to know more about it. Is it an alphabet, logography, syllabary, abjad, or abugida?
Serali wrote:I would love to see more of it and a key to it if possible. I would like to play with it and see what comes out.
Serali wrote:And the last one looks like it was done on a computer. It's Jurchen right?.....or is it one of the Khitan scripts?
VROOR wrote:The first image shows a special writing-style for the Chinese characters of which, appears to be similar to 女書 (however, much more complex and devoloped). This writing-system combines certain Chinese characters into term-words. This writing is used for ancient religious texts and rites as well as magic practices (not the taoistic system, more of the shamanistic and/or southern sorceries).
VROOR wrote:Alright. I will make a cross-reference sheet of some of the characters between Standard Chinese and this writing-style (it is alanguage actually, its grammar is different from Standard Chinese and, it has its own phonologies apart from the Chinese language).
VROOR wrote:It's Jurchen and, yes, it was written on the computer with the mouse.
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Serali wrote:The first 3 characters look like Nüshu characters.
Serali wrote:How many characters are there in this language?
Serali wrote:Wonder what it sounds like?
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Be the one to unite the stands against any opponent who threatens your Phillies when you show up to the game sporting this Golden Child pullover hoodie from Majestic. With a felt appliqué team name sewn on across the front, a team logo embroidered on the back of the hood, contrast stitching and another embroidered twill logo on the left sleeve, this sweatshirt blends the right combination of team spirit and bold style to keep you ready for battle all season long!
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- Contrast inner hood lining
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- Tackle twill logo
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Phil Mickelson holds up the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland on Sunday.
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As he wrapped up his practice session Sunday and started his march to the first tee, Phil Mickelson had a chat with his coach, Butch Harmon, who told his star pupil that even-par or 1 over could win the 142nd edition of the oldest championship in golf.
"I'm going to be better than that," Mickelson told Harmon despite the fresh breeze blowing in from the nearby hay fields and the Firth of Forth.
"He wasn't lying," Harmon said. ...


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Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert spent most of the season being the fourth scoring option behind Paul George, David West and George Hill.
Hibbert was fine with that. His mind was strictly on the defensive end.
"As long as I'm defending and rebounding, I'm OK with that," Hibbert said repeatedly during the season. ...


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A Chrysler dealer South Sioux City can do more than just sell you a car. South Sioux City Chrysler dealerships should have a leasing branch too. There will be a massive amount of factory car parts on-hand at a South Sioux City Chrysler dealer. Warranty repairs can be redeemed at almost any Chrysler dealers in South Sioux City as long as the vehicle and conditions meet the warranty requirements. In the event that your vehicle breaks down and the warranty has already expired; you can get repairs done at various South Sioux City Chrysler dealers. There are other assets offered by a Chrysler dealer South Sioux City including a body shop and a certified pre-owned sales department.
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Why do we hate? Is it from pure dislike of the rival fans? Or is it because of winning? Winning does fuel hatred!
Why do fans across the country hate the Yankees, Red Sox or Mets? Or all the New York sports teams for that matter? Do rival New Yorkers hate one another so much just because we cheer for the opposing squad? Why hate the Cowboys, Patriots, or Raiders? The Lakers,etc. You get the point!
Speaking from a New York state of mind....I believe everyone not in New York hates the New York teams because we spend money, lure all the free agents, and compete to win. I believe everyone hates New Yorkers because it is labeled by so many the "greatest city in the World". Is that what fuels the hatred? Just because the city that "never sleeps", or the "Big Apple", has so many knick names, does it drive residents from other states insane? New Yorkers are wonderful, passionate, opinionated, and stubborn when it comes to their sports. Just like every other fanatic in the world. So many of you hate Philadelphians, or Bostonians; why?
Yes, Philadelphia fans threw snow balls at Santa Claus. That was really, really classy. But Rangers fans dressed up like Santa Claus at the Nassau Coliseum and then Islanders fans rumbled with them. I ask again, where's the love? What is it about the Phillies, or the Eagles that drives Mets and Yankees, or Jets and Giants fans nuts? I realize the Phillies won the NL East this year and last, taking it from a collapsing Mets team. But to hate the fans? I need some concrete information about what makes Philly fans so terrible. They yell, they cheer, they make obnoxious comments at fans that wear the opposing colors of their teams, and they drink plenty of alcohol at the games. News flash New Yorkers, so do we. Do Philly, or Boston fans hate us just as much, or our winning teams?
I honestly believe that because New York wins, opposing fans hate our teams, and then the fans that associate with them. I ask you, do you really care about the Kansas City Royals? What about the San Diego Padres? Maybe you care about the Detriot Lions? I can tell you that it made me sick when the last out was recorded at Shea Stadium and the Phillies won the east again. I hated those Phillies. But, I thought it was amazing to see Citizens Bank ball park rocking into the wee hours of the morning for the World Series and thought, it should have been Shea! When the Red Sox finally won their World Series in 2004 after that endless drought, I am sure all Yankees fans were screaming, "I hate the Sox." But does the hatred trickle down to the fans that are celebrating something that they deem sacred, that they have waited for during their lives. Listen New Yorkers, we do the same thing!
All in all, hate is a pretty strong word. Mets fans will hate the Yankees because of all the championships. Jets fans will hate the Patriots because they stole Bill Belichick and won all the championships. Yankees fans will hate the Red Sox because Boston is stealing the Yankees spot light, and so on, and so on. Hatred fuels the rivalry. But the passion fuels the hatred.


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Stuart Poulter '08
History major
History major connects to campus by cheering alongside fellow Ruff Riders.
When you arrive on campus, you'll see students all over Santa Clara's campus wearing shirts that say "Ruff Riders"—they're the official student fan club for all Bronco sports. Ruff Rider Stuart Poulter '08 says joining the group is a good way to start your college career.
Being a sports fan in college is something everyone can share, Poulter says. "The Ruff Riders get people going to games, making sure you know when big games are coming up and when teams are doing well. We get people going to away games locally, like at St. Mary's, USF, or Stanford. Once when I was visiting people at Cal Poly, I went to a women's soccer game and saw Ruff Riders there, too."
Soccer is our football: "Santa Clara is well known for sports, especially soccer. You never know if you're going to see the next big star, if you'll be able to say 'I went to school with him or with her'—and that always gets people interested in the game," says Poulter.


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HOPKINS COUNTY, Ky. (6/4/13) – The United Way of the Coalfield announces the availability of grant funds totaling approximately $16,900. Youth and Human Service agencies serving Hopkins, Muhlenberg and Webster counties are eligible to make application to receive funding.
The grant application deadline is July 10, 2013. A committee of community volunteers from the areas served will review each application and make funding recommendations.
The grant is made possible by the Heidi Badgett Fund. The goal of the grant is to maximize community resources through collaboration among agencies that serve basic health and educational needs of children ages birth to 17 years old and their families.
Funding priorities include grants that support projects where agencies collaborate to address the stated need, seed money for innovative projects with matching funds, funding for ongoing programs that have matching funds, and capital campaigns with match funding if maintenance plan for the project is shown.
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Hidden Springs Farms soaps and jellies are made in Springfield. / Dipti Vaidya / The Tennessean
Made in Tennessee is a weekly spotlight featuring products produced in our state. Reach Jen Todd at 615-313-2760 or firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on Tennessee products, visit www.picktnproducts.
Hidden Springs Farms products reach more than just taste buds. Farm manager Karen Wortman also uses her goats milk to create soft and natural soap.
Karen Wortman, farm manager
Name/product: Hidden Springs Farms, goats milk soaps
Contact: www.hiddenspringsfarms.com, www.girlygoats.com, 615-210-7525
Location: 5586 Gunn Road, Springfield
Number of employees: Just my husband, Ken, and I. Our son, John, helps, and our 5-year-old grandson loves to work in the garden.
How did your company get started? My husband got me a dairy goat for Christmas one year, and I fell in love. She produced more milk ... than we could consume. I thought Id try to make soap. I purchased enough ingredients to make one batch. I thought, This is not as bad as it sounds. I took it to friends, and it kind of snowballed from there. Now, I have 12 dairy goats that I milk. I make lotion and other bath products, and I grow the herbs I put in the soaps.
Why soaps? We still have one goat we utilize for us, so we have milk and cheese. I didnt sell cheese because, in order to do that, wed have to be a licensed dairy. It was cost prohibitive to set up a dairy.
Where are your products available? I sell at the Robertson County Farmers Market from May to October, and people can also purchase it online.
Where are they manufactured? Everything is made right here. I have a soap room in one of my barns.
How long have you been making these products? Ive been making soaps for four years. We purchased the farm in October 2005.
Whats next for your company? My focus this year is I want to be able to do more wholesaling. I also would love to focus with some of the wineries and use wine as part of the soaps ingredients.
Is this a full-time or part-time job? I work full-time with what I call my paying job. I work probably another full-time job with the soap and the farm.
Whats your favorite Tennessee-made product aside from your own? Our neighbors right down the road, Josh and Kathy Gunn, sell Gourmet Pasture Beef.


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President Obama makes a statement in the White House briefing room about the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday in Washington. The two blasts, near the finish line, killed three people and injured scores more. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
President Obama vowed Monday night to get to the bottom of who is behind a pair of deadly explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, but he warned Americans not to jump to any conclusions.
"We still do not know who did this, or why, and people shouldn't jump to conclusions before we have all the facts," Obama said in a brief statement to reporters hours after the deadly explosions at the iconic American sporting event. "But make no mistake: We will get to the bottom of this."
He added: "We will find out who did this. We'll find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice."
While Obama cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the motive for the explosions, a senior administration official said the incident was "clearly an act of terror and will be approached as an act of terror."
"We don't yet know who carried out this attack, and a thorough investigation will have to determine whether it was planned and carried out by a terrorist group, foreign or domestic," said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Obama was notified about the blasts at about 3 p.m., and administration officials have been coordinating with Massachusetts and Boston authorities since.
Obama spoke with Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and told them he was ready to offer Boston any support needed to respond to the incident. Obama was briefed by FBI Director Robert Mueller and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on the investigation and response to the incident in Boston. The president also spoke to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Boehner ordered American flags to be lowered outside the U.S. Capitol to half-staff Monday evening.
"Words cannot begin to express our sorrow for the families who are grieving so suddenly right now," Boehner said. "The House of Representatives offers its prayers to the victims and the city of Boston. We also give thanks for the professionals and good Samaritans who prevented further loss of life. This is a terrible day for all Americans, but we will carry on in the American spirit and come together with grace and strength."
On the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid held a moment of silence shortly after 5:30 p.m. And the president called on Americans to keep the city of Boston in its thoughts.
"The American people will say a prayer for Boston tonight," Obama said.
Vice President Biden appeared to have learned of the explosions in Boston from television.
During a call with gun-control activists Monday afternoon unrelated to the incident, Biden said, "As I am speaking here, they just turned on the television in my office and apparently there has been a bombing — I don't know any of the details of what caused it, who did it."
Biden added, "Our prayers are with the people in Boston who have suffered injury. And I don't know how many of them there are."
Not long after the explosions in Boston, authorities in Washington closed off an area near the White House to pedestrian traffic.
Washington Mayor Vincent Gray also said commuters would see a stepped-up police presence Monday night.
Politicians from New England and throughout the country responded with a mixture of heartbreak and outrage:
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, and our heartfelt thanks go out to those first responders, medical personnel, volunteers and citizens who were on the scene to help those in need," said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. "I have faith that law enforcement will get to the bottom of this and hold whoever is responsible accountable to the fullest extent."
"Our hearts are heavy with the news out of Boston today. #PrayforBoston," tweeted 2012 GOP presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
"Heartbreaking day for Boston. Praying for everyone back home as this terrible tragedy unfolds," tweeted Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass.
In another tweet, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said he was praying "for those murdered."
Within hours of the incident, the five candidates running in the special Senate election in Massachusetts announced they were suspending their campaign activities out of respect for the victims.
Alan Gomez, David Jackson and Catalina Camia contributed.


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Just days away from closing on a new house, a Dallas couple has discovered the Veterans Affairs Department wont guarantee their new home loan because it doesnt count the income of a non-veteran spouse for same-sex married couples in states that dont recognize such marriages.
That came as a shock to former Army Sgt. Earl Rector and his non-veteran spouse, Alan Rodriguez, after they sold a house on Nov. 16, got married in Seattle on Nov. 22 and on Nov. 27, sold their house and signed a contract for a new one.
Their plans were built around the belief they would get a veterans home loan, based on Rectors military service from 1992 to 1999.
We found out yesterday that VA told our lender that they would not guarantee the loan, Rector said Tuesday. That notice came eight days before closing, and after we were preapproved weeks ago, he said.
The lender is dealing with VA in trying to get the loan on track, and Rector and Rodriguez are looking for help in understanding how VA benefits can vary from state to state for gay couples.
If the couple is unable to buy the home, they may face a breach of contract penalty.
The seller is an attorney, which could make our lives difficult. Our financing bank is doing everything they can, but the VA approval process has been ambiguous and now appears impossibly complex and arbitrary, Rector said.
Rector and Rodriguez are not the first same-sex couple to face this problem. The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is considering legislation that would order VA to change its rules so that such cases do not depend on the definition of a married couple within a particular state, but that measure is unlikely to pass in time to help them.
Additionally, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., asked the Obama administration to change its income-counting rules after a Colorado couple faced a similar problem. VA officials have been studying options for changing a variety of definitions used for married couples, but it has not announced changes to its home loan process.
Rector said he never expected to have problems with the veterans loan, viewing it as better than other options. VA loans may have a lower interest rate and monthly private mortgage insurance payments are not required, he said, adding that they also reduce closing costs.
In our case, being denied a VA loan results in about a $400 per month increase in our payment, he said, noting the couple is still trying to calculate the financial penalty they face. We are now unable to meet our closing date, which creates substantial legal risk to us both.
We were under the impression that VA, being a federal agency, would follow the same rules as the Defense Department on this matter and recognize same-sex marriages regardless of the state of residency, Rector said. If the IRS recognizes our marriage regardless of state of residency, why would VA act differently?
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Video: Armored Truck Robbery Suspects Linked To Other Robberies
HIGH POINT, N.C. -- A police report indicates one of six men accused of robbing a Brink's armored truck in High Point worked at the bank where the robbery happened.
Ahmed Sharif Ali, from High Point, is listed on the report as a Personal Banker at the SunTrust Bank at 1301 Eastchester Drive.
Police said Ali and five other men robbed the Brink's truck that was parked outside that bank on July 25. Four of the suspects - armed with guns - took a bag of money from the truck while the two guards were gathering money bags from the back, according to the police department.
Investigators said the guards fired shots.
The suspects drove away in a stolen getaway van, smashed through a fence in a parking lot and then got into another stolen getaway vehicle. Police said one of the six suspects actually made a bogus 9-1-1 call about a robbery taking place at another bank location to confuse police. It was all part of an elaborate and well-organized crime.
High Point Police Chief, Marty Sumner said, "I cannot recall a single armored car robbery in High Point in my career. Most of the crimes we deal with are not this carefully planned and involve that many people. This is pretty rare."
Police solved the crime using tips, evidence, and investigative work including a fingerprint inside the getaway van that matched one of the suspects.
Greensboro Police are now connecting this crime ring of six men to 3-5 other unsolved armed robberies in Greensboro. Two of which happened at two Food Lion locations in July.
Read here: Police: Greensboro Food Lion Robbed, Employee Hit With Gun
Read here: Police Investigating Another Food Lion Robbery
The High Point Police Department along with several local agencies and the FBI, U.S. Marshal's Office, and the ATF all worked together to apprehend the suspects Wednesday.
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Did you know that below 7˚C, the rubber molecules in your summer-spec tire treads progressively harden and freeze? This means the tire is less able to adapt to the contour of the road surface, which in turn reduces grip levels, to such an extent that when braking on a wet – not icy – road from 50mph, summer tires will need 40 meters to stop, when winter tires will stop in 34 meters.
It's a big difference and it's surprising how few people know that there is such a fall-off in performance of the tires we normally buy, just because the weather is colder. Of course, the difference on ice and snow is even greater, as the winter tires' design cuts through snow and into ice to give a far greater margin of safety than on normal tires: braking on icy roads from 20mph, summer tires take 68 meters to stop, while winter tires will bring you to a halt in 57 meters.
In northern or mountainous regions of Europe where locals are often required to fit winter tires, the fact that yours is on summer tires will make insurance companies blame you first for any accident you're caught up in. Germany requires drivers to swap tires with the seasons unless using 'all-season' tires.
Of course, it's wrong to look at these comparisons in isolation: there are many more influences on tire performance. Pressure is one. Manufacturers used to recommend that winter tires were inflated to slightly higher pressures than their summer equivalents, on the grounds that winter tires don't heat up as much in the cold weather, but Robin Winter (yes, really...) of Vredestein says that the advice now is to maintain normal pressures.
Tread depth also affects performance. The difference between a new tire and one worn but just legal is even greater than the wet road comparison above.
The age of the tires can have an even greater effect, partly because modern compounds are around 30% better in braking than they were 25 years ago, but also because age hardens tire compounds and makes them less supple and hence less grippy. There's increasing evidence that we really should change our tires once they're 10 years old, whatever their wear levels. How do you know the age of your tires? Use the checklist below…
So why not use winter tires all year round? The simple answer is that at higher temperatures, on wet or dry roads, they're not as good as summer tires: tire technology has moved forward a long way but temperature still has a big impact on longevity and performance.
As a result, we have summer tires, winter tires and all-season tires, the last a compromise for all-year-round use but not matching the ultimate performance of either winter- or summer-specific tires.
Winter tires use a higher proportion of natural rubber, with silica compounds to maintain flexibility in cold conditions. Michelin's Alpin range (made in Dundee, Scotland) even use a compound containing sunflower oil for better wet grip. Winter tires also have far more sipes for cutting through water and deeper tread than summer tires but the side effect is that they can make the steering feel imprecise in the dry; much effort has gone into encouraging the sipes to 'lock' when cornering, to reduce this effect.
With current tire fitting costs, the most cost-effective way to use winter tires is to have two sets of wheels (usually steel for winter, since alloy corrodes so badly from road salt) and swap summer for winter in October, then back in April. About 25% of motorists on the European continent do exactly that. If you use your car all year round, the arguments for changing to winter tires when the temperature drops below 7˚C are compelling.
How old are my tires?
The DOT code, which is required for the American market, can tell you when the tire was made.
If it ends with three numbers, it was made in the 1980s; if it ends with three numbers followed by a triangle, 1990s; if it's a four-number code, 2000s.
Within the code, the first two numbers are the week of the year, followed by the year of manufacture (single-digit 1980s/'90s, two since). So, 256 is the 25th week of 1986; 256 is the 25th week of 1996, 2506 is the 25th week of 2006.
If there's no DOT code, either the tires were not offered on the US market or they are over 25 years old… The two letters in the DOT code tell you the factory/country in which the tires were made: see www.carbibles.com/tiremanufacturercodes.html.
What else can my tires tell me?
M+S tires are for Mud and Snow; if they also have a very chunky tread pattern, they're primarily for off-road use, but M+S-marked tires that are primarily on-road patterns are increasingly common. Winter tires that are marked with a snowflake symbol have passed an industry standard braking test on snow.
All tires sold in Europe after July 1997, unless they're for pre-1939 cars, must be E-marked (though there is no law to prevent you fitting non E-marked tires to your car). The code tells you the type approval certificate, the country in which it was issued ('11' in a circle is UK) and the European requirement it complies with.
A yellow (usually) dot on the sidewall indicates the (fractionally) lightest spot on the tire – it's impossible to get them absolutely 100% uniform. This should be mounted adjacent to the valve to minimize the need for balance weights. A red dot indicates the highest spot (it's also impossible to get them absolutely 100% round). If the wheel rim has a dimple in it, that marks its lowest spot, so the two should be mounted adjacent to one another (this takes preference over the yellow dot).
Radial colored stripes in the tread indicate a tendency for the tire to pull slightly to one side. If the stripe is near the centre, it will have little pull. If it's further out, try to mount that tire opposite one that has its band to the other side, so they tend to pull/push each other. Remember, though, that some tires are unidirectional, so cannot just be flipped round.
You may also find USA-required markings that rate the tire for temperature (its ability to resist heat build-up), traction (grip) and tread wear. Temperature and traction are rated as A, B or C, in descending order: ideally you want to see A or B on your tire. Tread wear is measured as a figure between 60 and 600, where 60 means the tire will be worn out in a few thousand miles and 600 means it will last into the next millennium. Much still depends on how you drive...


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Avalanche goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere lunges for the puck as defenseman Shane O'Brien tries to keep Red Wings left wing Justin Abdelkader away in the second period tonight in Denver.
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DENVER - The Detroit Red Wings came in looking for redemption, and left with relief.
Pavel Datsyuk scored first and again in overtime to deliver a 3-2 victory over the Avalanche Friday night at Pepsi Center, poking the puck into the net with 15.4 seconds remaining to earn the Wings a crucial two points in the Western Conference standings.
Just 10 games, half of them on the road, remain for the Wings to solidify a playoff spot. ...


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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (second from left) and British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond (second from right) lead their delegations Feb. 22 during a bilateral meeting at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense Ministers Meetings at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. (Chip Somodevilla / AFP pool)
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BRUSSELS — NATO may station up to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan to train and assist Kabul's forces after the alliance's combat mission there against the Taliban ends in 2014, U.S. officials said Friday.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said NATO was considering a deployment of between 8,000 and 12,000 troops, including any U.S. contribution, but no final decision has yet been made. Reports of a U.S. presence of 8,000 to 12,000 troops "are not correct," he said.
President Barack Obama "is still reviewing options and has not made a decision about the size of a possible U.S. presence after 2014," he said, adding that discussions will continue with NATO allies and Afghanistan.
Earlier, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had declined to give precise figures for the post-2014 mission and stressed that NATO was looking at a variety of options and seeking to maintain the most flexibility. Panetta, who also rejected the report of 8,000 to 12,000 U.S. troops being involved, said the training and advisory mission would have a presence throughout Afghanistan.
There "will be a presence in Kabul and in the North, South, West and East," he told a press conference at the end of a two-day NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels. He also detailed the U.S. troop withdrawal program after Obama last month announced that 34,000 soldiers — just more than half the current number — would be brought home within 12 months.
U.S. forces will be largely maintained during the upcoming Afghan fighting season and then reduced to about 50,000 by November and 32,000 by February, staying at that level during elections, after which the remainder would leave, he said.


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MURRAY, Ky. (5/1/13) – The Murray State baseball team suffered yet another ninth-inning heartbreaker Tuesday afternoon as Arkansas-Pine Bluff scored three runs to walk off with an 8-7 victory in the first game of a two-game series at the Tori Hunter Baseball Complex.
Trailing by two heading into the bottom of the ninth, the Golden Lions loaded the bases with no outs. A balk was called on the next batter, but the ball got away from the catcher and allowed a second runner to score from second. An intentional walk and a base hit loaded the bases, and Jacob Whitney drew a walk to plate the winning run.
The Breds (17-27) got off to a quick start in the first inning as Ty Stetson singled and Brandon Elliott doubled. Brandon Eggenschwiler drove in both runners with a bloop single down the left-field line.
The Golden Lions (18-26) answered back in the home-half of the first with four base hits. Warren Stehn and Kirby Campbell each drove in a run with their singles.
MSU regained the lead in the fourth as Noah Zipko and Rick Linton singled to start the inning. Taylor Mathews advanced both runners with a sacrifice bunt and Paul Ritzheimer walked to load the bases. Stetson followed by delivering a double just inside the bag at first to plate all three runners.
UAPB (18-26) got single runs in the 4th and 5th innings to pull within one run at 5-4. But, the Breds had another big hit in them as Zipko singled and Linton was hit by a pitch. Mathews followed with a triple into the right-field corner to score both runners.
The Golden Lions got one of the runs back in the seventh as a throwing error on a stolen base allowed the unearned run to score.
Andrew Bramley (1-3) took the loss after allowing three runs without retiring a batter. Stanten Jones (5-5) picked up the victory after allowing one hit and striking out five over 2.1 innings.
Stetson went 2-for-4 with three RBIs in extending his hit streak to 18 games. Eggenschwiler went 3-for-5 with a pair of RBIs, while Linton went 3-for-3 with a walk and a hit by pitch. Elliott and Zipko each added two hits.
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Emollient, with Mike Smith riding, cruises to victory over Summer Applause in the Juddmonte Spinster Stakes on Sunday.
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For the 3-year-old filly Emollient, making the break had been the make-or-break factor in her recent races. And Sunday's $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster certainly was an unfortunate time to get out of the gate lackadaisically, given that her owner is the Grade I stakes' sponsor.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped in the Lake Tahoe area.
The Tahoe Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/O93dtf ) 51-year-old Anthony James Katello escaped Thursday after a judge released him from jail for a few hours to take care of personal business before beginning his sentence at a state prison on spousal abuse charges.
El Dorado County Sheriff's Lt. Pete Van Arnum says Katello ran off when a volunteer from a local church drove him to the area surrounding Barton Memorial Hospital.
Van Arnum says sheriff's deputies, South Lake Tahoe SWAT and a CHP airplane were searching the area for hours.
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Miami, FL (Sports Network) - Giancarlo Stanton hit a grand slam and the Miami Marlins erased an early four-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies, 7-4, in the opener of a three-game series.
Austin Kearns went 4-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored for the Marlins, who started a 10-game homestand on Monday.
Mark Buehrle (4-4) allowed four runs on five hits over 7 2/3 frames to pick up the win. He also had a double and a run scored.
"It's one of those games where the first thing I thought was that it was going to be a long night," said Buehrle. "Right off the bat we're down 4-0 and it ain't looking good. I just had to go out and try to throw as many zeros to try and get us back in the game."
Troy Tulowitzki hit a two-run homer for the Rockies, who have lost five in a row. Michael Cuddyer added two RBI.
Jamie Moyer (2-4) gave up six runs on nine hits over 3 2/3 innings. The 49- year-old struck out five and walked four while falling to 0-3 in four road outings this season.
"I kind of backed myself into a corner with all those walks," said Moyer. "A lot of pitches, deep into the count is not the way to be an efficient pitcher. Ultimately I got what I deserved."
The Rockies scored all four of their runs in the first inning. With one out, Jordan Pacheco reached base on an infield single that deflected off Buehrle's right foot. Carlos Gonzalez followed with a base hit of his own before Cuddyer knocked in both runners with a double off the wall in left. Tulowitzki then hit a homer over the wall in left to make it 4-0.
But Miami's offense got going in the third. Hanley Ramirez hit a bloop double to right-center field and raced home on Kearns' single to left.
The Marlins tacked on five more runs in the fourth to take the lead. With one out, Buehrle hit a double off the wall in right. Jose Reyes followed with a single to left-center field and Buehrle scored on Dexter Fowler's fielding error. Ramirez and Kearns both worked walks to load the bases with two outs. Stanton then smacked a 3-2 pitch just inside the left-field foul pole and off the scoreboard, giving Miami a 6-4 edge.
Kearns added an RBI single in the seventh to give the home team a 7-4 margin.
Randy Choate recorded the final out in the eighth and Heath Bell tossed a scoreless ninth to seal the victory. Bell picked up his sixth save of the year.
Colorado and Miami split six meetings a season ago...It was Stanton's fourth career grand slam...Moyer fell to 13-7 in 20 career starts against the Marlins. The left-hander has now pitched in 50 Major League ballparks. Since 1921, Moyer has pitched in more parks than any other major-league player...The Rockies started a six-game road trip on Monday...Colorado went 2-for-4 with runners in scoring position and stranded two.
Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in September has altered the date of the Penn-Villanova football game.
Kyle Busch won Sunday's road course race in Sonoma, California, but he still has a long way to go to become eligible for a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
NFL players have a very short shelf life to make significant amounts of money so it's tough to fault anyone who has outperformed a contract when they go knocking on the door to ask for more.
Pete Mackanin will remain interim manager of the Philadelphia Phillies for the remainder of the season, the team announced Tuesday.
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So some people were boosting my reputation, so I've tryed to do the same wit somepeople. well I use to be able to do it, but now my computer for some reason won't let me do it. It like freezes up when I try and its realy pissin me off, is there anything I can do bout it?


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To Take a Life
Matthew 5:21
Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
According to
Random House Webster's College Dictionary to kill means:
- to deprive of life; cause the death of; slay.
- to destroy; do away with; extinguish.
And life means:
lifelaɪf(n.; adj.)(pl.)lives
- (n.)the general condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, a means of reproduction, and internal regulation in response to the environment.
Who decides when it is appropriate to end the life of a being? In a civilized society it is a matter for those who are responsible for enforcing the law, to decide if the crime a person has committed rises to the level of ceding their lives for their crimes. We are no longer living in a civilized society!!!
Somehow we have passed beyond the thin veil of civilization into a degenerate and lawless society where death is appropriated simply on the whim of those doing the killing. And these degenerate ideas spawn the infantile excuse that somehow, just for the fact that you are born a woman, you have some greater empathetic knowledge on who is justified to live or die. All on the very thin excuse that a woman should be able to decide what is best for their own welfare, body and future.
It is simply such a stupid argument, I wonder at the intelligence of those who state it and those who accept it as if it must be true. If a woman was that intelligent, she would never have gotten to the place where she has the choice to make. After all, she is the one who invited the action in which she became pregnant. I am not talking about rape and incest here. I am talking about the women who think that they can sleep with any man who comes along and either not get pregnant, or rid themselves of the product of their carelessness by simply disposing of it like it is so much waste to be flushed down the toilet or tossed with the trash. And yet these are the same people who tell us that they have the right to decide what to do with their body. They seem to think that this is a sign of intelligence. If these same women were foolish enough to get an arm cut off or a permanent mark on their body, these things they would have to live with and explain how foolish they were in their actions.
So how did we get here? We got here by a Supreme Court that made a foolish decision, and gave every woman that comes along and makes a bad mistake, the opportunity to kill. Shall we start saying at some point that these women now have the right to decide that their children don't have the right to exist if they are handicapped or if in someway they are just a burden to them? Should we give men this same right? If not why not? If you come down to it, the life that begins in a woman's womb would not be possible without the input from the man. Should that not give them just a much right in the decision? If they decide that a baby is not in their interests, should they not have the right to make that decision?
Or is the woman somehow so much more intelligent and caring? Again I say, for most of them, they wouldn't be in the position they were in if these were the deciding factors. So since we can say these are not applicable, we take away their reasoning for them to be in the position to make that decision , don't we?
Abortion is not about the life of the woman, it is about the death of the baby and the denying of the responsibility of the woman for her own actions. Truly, if you follow this argument through, what you will find is that the woman if displaying a lack of intelligence and therefore cedes the very responsibility that she argues gives her the right to make a life and death decision.
I read this the other day and it haunted me:
"Can it be that women know something very deep inside, even deeper than fear and shame? Can it be that women know it is their responsibility to decide when to bring new life into this world? Women are not the enemies of our children–even those we decide not to bring into the world."
– Quoted in "Good Women have Abortions," which appeared on the pro-abortion sitewww.rhrealitycheck.org/node/21883
Truly sad, and yet this is the argument that they use!!!! Do they think that they know more than God then? Are they somehow so smart and empathetic that they just somehow know? If this sounds foolish, it is because it is foolish. As foolish as your child telling you that it isn't their fault that they did something wrong, somebody else started it. Because that is the real excuse this woman is using, it isn't her fault because some man impregnated her. She was just minding her own business. When do we stop listening to the excuses our children and hold them accountable for their actions?
We must quit letting women murder their own children in order to escape the responsibility of their own actions…


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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
LATROBE, Pa. - Titan first-year head coach Scott Benzel and senior defensive back Jared Heck (Pittsburgh, PA / North Hills) represented Westminster at the 2014 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Football Media Day on Wednesday. The event was hosted by Saint Vincent College at the Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion in Latrobe, Pa.
The Titans were picked to finish 10th with 96 points, as voted on by the conference's head coaches, sports information directors, and media panel.
"We have six national championships and so much history," Benzel said. "I think just putting on the "W" and getting back to having a lot of pride in that program and being competitive is what we need to strive for. Our goal as a staff and as a team is to have a winning season."
Five "Players to Watch" for Westminster were named, including senior defensive lineman Rich Ellebie (New Wilmington, Pa. / Kennedy Christian), junior offensive lineman Nick Fiorentino (Franklin, Pa. / Franklin), senior linebacker Corey Neill (Aliquippa, Pa. / Central Valley), junior punter Jacob Schnelbach (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Bishop Canevin), and Heck.
"Individually, I would like to be a leader on and off the field and bring energy that my teammates can build off of every day to practice," Heck said. "Our team goal is to get back to winning ways, to bring the tradition back to Westminster, and to leave it better than we found it."
2014 PAC Football Preseason Poll:
School (first-place votes)---Points---2013 Record (PAC)
1. Thomas More (29)---367---9-1 (7-1)
2. Washington & Jefferson (2)---330---8-3 (7-1)
3. Waynesburg (1)---293---7-4 (5-3)
4. Case Western Reserve (1)---246---5-4
5. Bethany (1)---202---4-6 (4-4)
6. Geneva ---200---5-5 (4-4)
7. Carnegie Mellon ---157---3-7
8. Grove City---154---5-5 (3-5)
9. Thiel College---149---3-7 (3-5)
10. Westminster---96---4-6 (3-5)
11. Saint Vincent---46---0-10 (0-8)
About Westminster College...
Founded in 1852 and related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Westminster College is a top-tier liberal arts college and a national leader in graduation rate performance, according to U.S. News Best Colleges guide. Westminster is also honored as one of "The Best 378 Colleges" by The Princeton Review, and is named to the President's Honor Roll for excellence in service learning.
Nearly 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students benefit from individualized attention from dedicated faculty while choosing from 41 majors and nearly 100 organizations on the New Wilmington, Pa., campus. Visit www.westminster.edu/advantage to view "Advantage: Westminster" A Strategic Plan 2010-2020.


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HOUSTON -- The experience wasn't what Indiana Pacers swingman Paul George expected.
The first of what he believes will be many trips to the NBA All-Star Game was even better than he envisioned when he drove his parents crazy dribbling the ball through the house in Southern California as a kid.
? Sitting next to 14-time All-Star Kevin Garnett in the locker room. ...


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Three trails have opened this summer thanks to Great Outdoors Colorado, partnerships between local and regional organizations, and a team of dedicated Evergreen residents.
The first trail is the sidewalk linking Evergreen Middle School to Bergen Meadow Elementary and the Bergen Park Fire Station. The trail arrives in time for a safer start of school for the 1,100 students who attend Evergreen Middle School and Bergen Meadow Elementary, which both lie along the trail.
The weekend concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre by the rock band Phish were subdued as far as law enforcement was concerned, allaying fears that these concerts would be a repeat of the last time Phish fans flooded the Morrison area.
"I was the on-call (police spokeswoman) over the weekend, and I wasn't advised of anything major happening," said Detective Sharon Avendano of the Denver Police Department. Red Rocks and the park's parking lots are owned and operated by the city of Denver.
There has been a great deal of excitement in Our Evergreen World this week, all due to a big concentration of ladybird beetles in Genesee Park.
I'm one of those people who can't help but shift into lecture mode whenever people complain about jury duty. I automatically launch into how jury duty is a privilege and that it and voting make living in our democratic society so special. Despite my civic pride, I hadn't been called for jury duty since 1994 and hadn't been on a jury since 1992.
I recently spoke to a political pollster, who told me he is seeing strong evidence that Americans (and Coloradans in particular) are increasingly frustrated with their government's culture of reckless spending, both at the state and federal levels. This is not a partisan issue, he said, since significant numbers of Republicans, Democrats and independents all share this concern to one degree or another.
Jefferson County commissioners appear to be rethinking a plan to seek legislation that would allow them to regulate bicycles on county roads.
After several public meetings about a proposed cycling event through Deer Creek Canyon - and amid a continuing debate about the safety of bikes and cars co-existing on narrow foothills roads - the commissioners had announced they would seek legislative authority to regulate cycling.
The Jeffco commissioners may have once again run afoul of the Colorado Open Meetings Law by using e-mail to discuss a common statement regarding the board's controversial effort to seek authority to regulate bicyclists on county roads.
The apparent violation comes less than two years after the Courier successfully sued the Board of Commissioners over a violation of the law in July 2007. In a settlement of that lawsuit, the commissioners acknowledged they violated the Open Meetings Law and agreed to follow all of the law's provisions in the future.
Jeffco's share of Scientific and Cultural Facilities District funds dropped 16 percent from 2008 to 2009, but the district still awarded more than $820,000 to various organizations and events.
Littleton investment banker J.J. Ament has thrown his hat into the 2010 race for state treasurer.
Ament, who is running as a Republican, has spent years in the private banking industry working mostly with governments on major investment projects, and he says taxpayers' dollars can be used and invested more efficiently.
"I've worked with this treasurer (and) with this governor," Ament said. "And it was frustrating for me to show them the right things to do and have them not do them, and then have to sit there afterward and show them the losses."
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"Mutts & Martinis" is the theme for the Adams County Humane Society "Paws for a Cause" event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. July 13 at the Lake Arrowhead Ski Chalet, 584 16th Ave., Rome.
A pet parade is set for 5 p.m., with awards for best in show, best costume and owner/dog look alike.
Food, beverages and raffle ticket will be available for purchase. All donations will go to the Adams County Humane Society.
Dogs are welcome. Participants do not need a dog to attend.
Call Jennifer Wolfe at 715-325-3480, Barb Dawes at 715-325-5171, Kathy Halverson at 715-325-6833 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.


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Estelle Davalos, right, bags her groceries in a reused plastic bag at the Fort Collins Food Co-op on Friday as cashier Kiri Saftler rings her up. Fort Collins is considering a fee or ban on plastic shopping bags. / V. Richard Haro/The Coloradoan
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What: Open house on options to decrease use of disposable shopping bags in Fort Collins
When: 4:30-7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Community Room, 215 N. Mason St.
Learn more: http://bit.ly/FCbags
Fort Collins is investigating whether to ban plastic shopping bags, or to force shoppers to pay extra for each bag they get from the grocery store.
Its part of the citys efforts to both reduce our environmental footprint and cut the number of trashy plastic bags that get caught in trees and fences.
Weve always heard reduce, reuse and recycle, and yet the reduce part always seems to elude people, said Susie Gordon, a city environmental resources planner.
No decisions have been made yet, and the City Council is scheduled to discuss the issue later this month. City staffers are inviting the public to offer opinions at an open house on Thursday.
City staff investigated the issue at the request of council members, spending $5,000 on a study examining how other cities have approached what are sometimes called bag bans. The study, conducted by local consultants the Brendle Group, examined what city leaders call the triple bottom line economic, environmental and social consequences.
The study considered three options: an education campaign, an outright ban and a fee paid by customers who wanted a bag.
The first option, the study said, likely would lead to a small reduction in plastic bag use. Today, only about 5 percent of plastic bags get recycled, in part because many of them are reused for trash or dog waste, the study said.
A ban would prompt the largest reduction in bag use, but also could be unpopular and likely would be opposed by merchants, the study said.
And a fee would create a moderate reduction in bag use, but could hurt poor people because theyd end up paying more to carry home their groceries. A portion of the fee would be used for educational campaigns and to buy reusable bags for the poor, city officials said. The consultants said Washington, D.C.s 5-cent-per-bag fee drove an 80 percent reduction in use.
The city of Boulder is considering a plan requiring shoppers to pay 10 cents for every plastic bag they wanted. Ordinances like the one in Boulder and the one being considered in Fort Collins exempt things like deli and trash bags.
Boulder officials say they have a bag recycling rate today of at least 20 percent, and that residents annually use the equivalent of 342 paper or plastic bags per person. The city spends up to $40,000 annually on street sweeping to clean up plastic bags.
The idea is that people would bring their own, instead of pay for bags, said Boulder city spokeswoman Sarah Huntley.
Thats already what happens most of the time at the Fort Collins Food Co-op in Old Town, said manager Lynn Chriestenson.Most of them bring in their own bags, or their own backpacks, she said.
Chriestenson said the co-op collects and reuses plastic bags from other stores if customers bring them in. But she said fewer customers are bringing in bags these days. We are getting to the point where we quite often run out of bags, she said.
Companies such as Walmart are already voluntarily reducing their use of plastic bags the company last year managed to eliminate the use of 3.1 billion bags globally, a 35 percent reduction from 2007. Stores have to buy the bags, and the price is usually rolled into the cost of your groceries.
In Brazil, for instance, Walmart stores gave customers a 3-cent discount for every bag they didnt use, saving 1 million plastic bags in its first two months. Walmart also sells reusable bags, which it says can reduce the use of 100 plastic bags over their lifetime. And in the United Kingdom, the Walmart-owned grocery store chain ASDA cut plastic-bag use by 30 percent simply by not offering them to customers unless asked.
Coloradoan reader Teresa Wilson Oswald said she thinks consumers should drive this kind of change, if they truly want it. Not the governments place. Consumers should be the ones to pressure companies to do the right thing, she said.
Michelle Griffin Doll said she thinks the city ought to stay out of this one. Invoking the recent changes to electric rates intended to prompt conservation, she asked: Why does this city feel the need to force me to do things? I recycle every bag. I dont throw them away. Why cant we make it easier to recycle them at the curb instead of ban them. People wouldnt throw them away if they could throw them in the bin and recycle them ...
Sherry Romero said she thinks charging would be the most effective way to change peoples behavior. The more people BYOB, the trendier itll become. That said, its tough to always bring enough bags/baskets to cover the need.
Gordon said addressing plastic bags is a way to ensure Fort Collins stays current on best practices. She said how cities address bags has become a bellweather, like single-stream recycling, composting and renewable energy.
Plastic bags are banned in San Francisco, Portland, Ore. and Maui County in Hawaii. Charging a fee on both plastic and paper bags occurs in Washington D.C., Basalt, and Montgomery County in Maryland. And theres a ban on plastic bags plus a fee charged on paper bags in Seattle, Marin County, Aspen, and Telluride.
Were not just trying to keep up with the latest fad, Gordon said. I think people really do hate plastic bags on several levels.


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Stars Lounge is a student recreation area and lounge located in the Student Life Building.
It provides commuter and residential students with a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere where they can enjoy a game of pool, ping pong, fooseball, board games, XBOX, and Wii. A large screen television and seating for 60 makes it ideal for movies and pizza, as well providing a space to host many of the student events on campus.
Our snack bar is second to none on campus. Our menu ranges from the sublime taste of Bosco Sticks, to the legendary prowess of the Nacho Supreme.
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