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Syria Deal Revives a Partisan Divide
Republicans, Democrats Split After Brief Accord on Military Action
WASHINGTON—Senior Republican lawmakers sharply criticized an agreement reached Saturday between U.S. and Russian diplomats to eradicate Syria's chemical weapons, while President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress lined up behind it.
Reaction to the U.S.- Russian agreement on a plan to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal split along the partisan lines that had briefly blurred during the debate over earlier White House plans for military action against Syria.
Democrats and Republicans were also divided on the deal's implications for Mr. Obama's presidency and on whether an international deal co-starring Russia stood a chance of success.
Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom had backed U.S. strikes in Syria, criticized the Saturday agreement leaving out an explicit threat of military force for any failure by Syria to comply. They called it "an act of provocative weakness" in a joint statement.
"It requires a willful suspension of disbelief to see this agreement as anything other than the start of a diplomatic blind alley," Messrs. McCain and Graham said. "We cannot imagine a worse signal to send to Iran as it continues its push for a nuclear weapon."
Administration officials said the U.S. retains the right to undertake military action on its own against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Moscow, but have pointed out that Russia opposes the inclusion of force as part of the diplomatic process.
Democrats, meanwhile, moved quickly on Saturday to close gaps that had emerged between the president's backers on Syria and the sizable ranks within the party unwilling to wade into a new war. Congressional Democrats who both had backed and opposed military action embraced the diplomatic deal as evidence that Mr. Obama's recent pivot on Syria had proven successful.
"It is an enormous vindication of President Obama," Rep. Gerry Connolly (D., Va.) said in an interview Saturday, commending the president for first seeking congressional authority to take military action in Syria and later halting that when a diplomatic path appeared.
"I don't believe the Russians and Syrians would have entertained this proposal if there hadn't been the threat of a strike," said Mr. Connolly, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who had supported taking military action in Syria.
Minnesota Rep. Rick Nolan, one of the most vocal Democrats to oppose bombing Syria, echoed other Democrats' by crediting the president and Secretary of State John Kerry for an agreement that would remove chemical weapons, "and equally important, for establishing an international regime for enforcement through the United Nations."
If all goes as planned, the diplomatic resolution could mark the best possible outcome of the turmoil in Syria, Mr. Obama's allies argued Saturday.
Former top White House adviser David Axelrod said in a message on his Twitter account Saturday that if fully implemented, the U.S.-Russia deal would be a "more effective" response to the Assad regime's alleged used of chemical weapons than a military strike against Syria.
But as partisan allegiances were resurrected on Saturday, Republicans labeled the international agreement toothless and questioned the wisdom of relying on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Absent the threat of force, it's unclear to me how Syrian compliance will be possible under the terms of any agreement," said Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
If Syria fails to comply with the deal, international groups could report the problems to the United Nations Security Council, where penalties would then be discussed under U.N. rules, U.S. and Russian officials said on Saturday. Russian officials made clear that Moscow would not approve any military retaliation against Mr. Assad through the U.N.
But administration officials said Mr. Obama is maintaining the right to strike Syria alone or with allies if Mr. Assad doesn't comply with the demands of the international agreement.
"It is significant that this agreement will allow for enforcement under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter in the event the regime does not comply," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said.
With Saturday's diplomatic deal, Syria is likely to more rapidly fade from congressional attention, a shift that already had begun because of pressing U.S. fiscal deadlines.
Congress must pass a short-term spending bill by the month's end to keep the government running when the next fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. Lawmakers have also struggled to reach an agreement to extend federal support for farmers and nutrition programs, known as food stamps, that lapse at the end of September.
Democrats said Saturday that the administration's diplomatic maneuvering would boost the president's standing with a public that had little appetite for intervening in Syria, and his influence among lawmakers heading into the coming fiscal negotiations.
"He's in a stronger position having avoided an attack on Syria while still getting something done about their chemical weapons," said Democratic strategist Steve Murphy. "The budget negotiations will be conducted in the afterglow of this agreement."
But Republicans said Mr. Obama made an obvious decision to pursue diplomacy only when it was clear he was unlikely to get the congressional approval he sought to take military action.
Mr. Obama has already seen several major legislative failures in his second term, including the collapse of gun-control legislation and a stalled effort to overhaul immigration laws, said Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who worked in several GOP administrations.
Many lawmakers had endorsed pursuing the diplomatic negotiations earlier in the week as a welcome alternative to a controversial resolution authorizing Mr. Obama to use military force in Syria.
With deep public resistance against intervening in Syria, few on Capitol Hill were hungering to vote on the polarizing measure, which appeared to have slim chances of passing the GOP-controlled House and might have failed in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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The Knights of Columbus Council #2296 surpassed their annual giving to The Arc of Butler this year by more than $200.
Grand Knight Chris Hoffman presented the check for $2,344.80 to The Arc of Butler Board of Trustees last week.
Money was collected from the Knights annual Tootsie Roll Drive and will assist The Arc of Butler in program operation.
Programs The Arc provide include a Special Olympics team that participates in six sports or seasons with the state Special Olympics organization, a tennis team called Arc Tennis, Friday Fun Nights for teens and young adults held in Andover and Circle of Friends groups in 15 Butler County Schools. The Arc of Butler also hosts seasonal parties for school aged friends with special needs and Circle of Friends groups throughout Butler County. Informational meetings and workshops are offered for families, caregivers and guardians.
For more information on The Arc of Butler County and programming, contact The Arc of Butler County through their Web site at www.arcofbutlerks.org or by calling (316) 680-4240 or e-mailing Director Jennifer Stanyer at email@example.com.
Organizations like the Knights of Columbus Council #2296 make it possible to provide programs and services to the developmentally disabled. Those who would like to assist with this mission can contact The Arc of Butler County at 316-680-4240.
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Feb. 2, 2012 -- You've got to love a scientific paper entitled "The Pleasurability of Scratching an Itch."
We've all been there, done that: "Ahhh." But did you know that scratching one part of the body is more pleasurable than scratching another? And no, not your first thought. Lower. Try the ankles.
Actually, the authors of the new paper didn't study the "private" region, "a totally different ball game," says co-author Gil Yosipovitch, MD, founder of the International Forum for the Study of Itch. For one, Yosipovitch says, psychological factors probably help determine how pleasurable it is to scratch that part of the body.
Yosipovitch, a dermatology professor at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and his co-authors compared itching and scratching on the back, forearm, and ankle -- and they say they are the first to report the pleasurability of scratching an itch on different parts of the body.
Most itch research has focused only on the easy-to-study forearm, ignoring the fact that the back is well-known to be a preferred site for scratching, as evidenced by the centuries-long popularity of back-scratchers, Yosipovitch says.
The back, forearm, and ankle are all common sites of scratching in lichen simplex chronicus, a skin condition that is associated with chronic itching and scratching, which in turn leads to thickening of the skin. Lichen simplex chronicus sometimes occurs in people with eczema, psoriasis, or disorders such as anxiety or depression.
Yosipovitch and his co-authors recruited 18 healthy adult volunteers who didn't have any itch-provoking conditions. Researchers induced an itch on their backs, forearms, and ankles by gently rubbing tiny, pointed pieces from a tropical legume known to cause intense itching into their skin.
They then asked the volunteers to rate the intensity of the itch on a scale of 1 to 10 at 30-second intervals.
Scratching That Itch
In the next phase of the study, an investigator used a tiny brush to scratch the itch immediately after it was induced. The volunteers were asked to rate the intensity of the itch and the pleasurability of scratching on a scale of 1 to 10, again at 30-second intervals.


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Class and excellence highlights of Hamilton track sectional
There were brilliant and exciting races too numerous to count at the WIAA Division 1 Sussex Hamilton track sectional May 30.
Like veteran Homestead boys track coach Dan Benson said before the meet: "Give us all something to go 'woo' about!"
And though there were plenty of such "woo" moments, they were almost dwarfed by the acts of class and decency that were part and parcel of this joyous and thrilling event which sent qualifiers to next weekend's WIAA State Meet in La Crosse on the beautiful spring day.
At the top of the list was Whitefish Bay hurdler Adam Strehlow, who as winner of both the high and intermediate events at the North Shore Conference outdoor the previous week, he had every right to expect a run at state in both events this week.
But when asked to sacrifice the high hurdles in order to lend a hand and give the Blue Dukes a better chance at qualifying the 4x100 and 4x200-meter relays, he didn't four-step the opportunity.» Read Full Article
Man threatens ice cream truck driver because he didn't like music
A man was arrested after threatening an ice cream truck driver because he didn't like the music the truck was playing May 26.
According to the Whitefish Bay police report:
The man, age and residence not released, threatened the driver by throwing ice at the truck's windshield, damaging it in the 5100 block of North Diversey Boulevard about 7 p.m. May 26.
He yelled at the driver, "I have a gun, don't ever come back here."
The man told police he didn't like the music.» Read Full Article
New Salotto Zarletti in Mequon puts a new spin on Italian classics
Diners in Mequon were taking Salotto Zarletti's tagline of "a place to gather" seriously. They crowded into the bar; they filled the tables in the dining room. Waiting until the same day to make a reservation meant I could dine quite early or quite late.
A couple of weeks in at chef-restaurateur Brian Zarletti's new restaurant, and it looked as if the decision to open a place outside Milwaukee was a good one. The house was full.
Salotto means living room, but this isn't Nonna's cozy little sitting area in a bungalow; with a soaring, two-story ceiling, this is the suburban home of her upwardly mobile grandchildren.
The menu stands firmly in the present day, as well — classic dishes or ingredients, in a traditional appetizers-pasta-entrées format, but rendered in a modern way. The restaurant is billed as drawing inspiration from Italy's south, but with plates like veal milanese and others from the north, it's clearly not a rigid theme.
When a menu says the restaurant makes its own burrata ($9), the fresh mozzarella ball filled with cream and curds, who can resist? It's a luxurious treat, seasoned with sea salt and a splash of olive oil, and served with grilled bread.» Read Full Article
Germantown softball team's big bats earn it regional title over Nicolet
After last week's lackluster 4-1 loss to Homestead that broke the Germantown softball team's 51-game North Shore Conference winning streak, Warhawk co-coach Kurt Raguse read the team the riot act about its lack of aggressiveness at the plate.
Well, senior shortstop Erika Berry and the rest of the team heard the message loud and clear Thursday night, as the four-year letterwinning Berry hit a first pitch leadoff double to start the game and then launched a two-run homer in the second as the Warhawks cruised to an 11-2 WIAA regional final victory over North Shore rival Nicolet.
"It's kind of hard sometimes when you don't hit as well as you'd like to," said Berry, who finished with three hits on the night. "As a leader I just try to set an example. We all try to help each other out."
It succeeded as the Warhawks finished with 19 hits for the game.
The Warhawks (15-8 overall) will try to use that example as they take dead aim at their third straight WIAA State Tournament berth. They will host archrival Homestead at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 3 in a sectional semifinal game. The sectional final will be back at Germantown on Thursday, June 5. Top-seeded Brookfield Central will host DSHA in the other sectional semifinal.» Read Full Article
Homestead rides tidal wave of offense
Down 5-0 against a division foe it had already fallen to twice during the regular season, it would have been easy for the Homestead softball team to fold on Thursday evening. Instead, Homestead elected to hit.
The Highlanders (14-7) erupted for 15 unanswered runs as they stormed past Whitefish Bay, 15-5, in a WIAA Division 1 regional final at Thiensville Park. The game was called after a sacrifice fly from junior Michaela Rusch scored sophomore Julia Warshauer to give Homestead a final 10-run cushion in the bottom of the sixth.
"We fell into an early hole, but we were able to just stay positive and rally back," said Homestead junior Hannah Behnken. "We got used to their pitcher and were just able to find some holes and score runs."
The Blue Dukes (14-11) jumped out on Homestead starter Allie Beckers early, as a run-scoring double, single and sacrifice fly staked Whitefish Bay to a 3-0 lead after the first inning. They pushed their advantage to 5-0 in the second behind an RBI base hit by junior Allison Severin and a wild pitch that scored another run for the Blue Dukes.
"We knew from watching their pitchers that they can get a little wild at times," said Whitefish Bay head coach Jess Middendorf. "I told our girls to stay aggressive but swing at strikes. Our selectivity helped us to the early lead."» Read Full Article
Public meeting scheduled on fate of Estabrook Dam
The Milwaukee County Parks Department has scheduled a public meeting June 5 to discuss the fate of the Estabrook Dam on the Milwaukee River.
The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the upper level of the Blatz Pavilion at Lincoln Park, 1301 W. Hampton Ave.
Milwaukee County is under orders from the state Department of Natural Resources to fix or demolish the 1930s-era dam by Dec. 31. The county has proposed repairing the dam.
Before the DNR can approve plans for rebuilding the structure, however, the county must receive a temporary work access agreement from the federal Bureau of Land Management, owner of an island in the river at the dam site.
As part of an environmental study being done for the Bureau of Land Management, the county is evaluating the impacts of three options: dam reconstruction; dam removal; construction of a rock ramp on the river bed to provide a shallow pool of water for recreation should the dam be removed.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay girls soccer team beats Homestead to win NSC title
The Whitefish Bay girls soccer team didn't want to talk about winning the North Shore Conference title with a 7-0 record,
They didn't want to talk about their 11-game winning streak or their sparkling 16-2-3 record or their number one ranking in the state or the fact that they will be the number one seed in their WIAA D2 sectional bracket.
No, all the Blue Dukes wanted to talk about after beating Homestead, 2-0, to clinch the North Shore title Tuesday night was their blue good luck hair scrunchies,
"They're our superstition," said senior midfielder Caroline Fink, who scored the second clinching goal in the first half. "We decided to all get them. We don't know if they helped us go 7-0 in the conference but they definitely didn't hurt."
Then she pointed to the likely real reasons that the Blue Dukes won the league title this spring for the first time since the 2006-07 season.» Read Full Article
Homestead breaks Germantown's 51-game NSC softball win streak
Homestead girls softball coach Dave Keel knows something about long winning streaks.
After all, his football squad, which he also coaches, has dominated the North Shore Conference and won four state titles in the last 15 years.
But he and his Highlander softball team have been on the wrong side of an imposing streak by powerful neighbor Germantown that has stretched for close to four years.
That was until Wednesday afternoon at Thiensville Park, as sophomore hurler Allie Beckers pitched the game of her life, scattering three hits, with three strikeouts and two walks, as Homestead ended the Warhawks 51-game North Shore Conference win streak in a 4-1 decision.
"They're always a good team, very well-coached. You have to play well to beat them and we did today," said Keel. "It's really something about streaks in this conference. We had that run in football (in the 2000s), Port was unstoppable in wrestling until this year and Germantown (bioys) basketball has been winning forever.» Read Full Article
Shorthanded Whitefish Bay girls still able to win North Shore track title
Senior distance ace Sara Coffey was out nursing a hip injury while state placewinning pole vaulter Lily Hayes wasn't at full steam because of a bone bruise in her foot.
But that didn't matter to the Whitefish Bay girls track team which proved its depth over and over again Tuesday night in the North Shore Conference outdoor, winning seven events en route to easing past Homestead, 146-140, for the league championship.
"It shows how strong we are as a team when everybody pulls their own weight," said sprinter Kaitlyn Jackson, who won the 100, 200 and 400-meter dashes. "It's awesome to do something like this."
With the win, the Blue Dukes avenged their loss to Homestead in the NSC relays two weeks ago and book-ended the league indoor title they claimed last month.
Before the final scores were announced, Bay head coach Ben Van Male admitted to being nervous despite just watching Hannah Lyons lead a one-five-eight effort in the 3,200.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay soccer team knocks off top-ranked DSHA< 1-0 in double OT
In the second half and throughout the first overtime, the Whitefish Bay girls soccer team had several great chances against top-ranked in state D1 polls DSHA Friday night
A shot was tipped away at the very last second by Dasher goalie Olivia Myszewski in the first overtime, and Bay even had a good look early in the second overtime, when Myszewski got caught out of position and a Bay player had a point blank shot only to have it knocked away by a fast moving defender.
Nothing would go in it seemed.
Until senior midfielder Leah Rothstein stepped to the leftside corner kick spot midway through the second OT and deftly knocked a high, looping shot towards the far upper right corner of the goal. Myszewski got her fingertips on it, but the ball slid just inside the post and down for the only goal in an important 1-0 nonconference victory.
"It was a tough game," said Rothstein. "We had a lot of shots. We just knew that eventually one of them had to go in. It felt good (when I kicked it)."» Read Full Article
Glendale woman, daughter killed in Texas car crash
A Glendale mother and daughter were killed in a car crash in Texas on Tuesday morning, police said Wednesday.
Katrina Holloway, 19, was driving a 1997 Volvo about 11 a.m. Tuesday when the Volvo crashed into the back of a 2009 Freightliner truck that had stopped at a red light at Highway 59 and College Drive in Lufkin, Texas, according to a Lufkin police news release.
The car was pinned more than halfway under the trailer, KTRE-TV in Texas reported. Holloway and her passenger, her mother Susan Holloway, 52, were killed in the crash. The driver of the van, Jose Hernandez, 49, was not injured, police said.
Katrina Holloway was a college student and an open map was reportedly found in the car, a police spokesman said.
Fatigue may have been a contributing cause, "however, we will probably never know for sure," Lufkin police Sgt. David Casper wrote in an email.» Read Full Article
Man accused of stealing cognacs, steaks from Cedarburg Piggly Wiggly
Courvoisier and Hennessey as well as t-bone steaks at the Cedarburg Piggly Wiggly ended up under arrest after mouthing off to a police officer, according to mycedarburgonline.com.A 44-year-old Glendale man suspected of helping himself to expensive cognacs
According to the report, the thefts occured on three occusions May 5 and May 6. Then on May 7, police responded to a nearby nursing home for a report of a disturbance between a man and the staff, with man telling police "they must not be very busy" for responding to an argument.
Actually they were, police said, noting they were investigating the thefts from Piggly Wiggly. His sudden change in tone led police to question him about the thefts.
Aeropostale will close at Bayshore
Financially challenged Aéropostale Inc. will close its shop in Glendale's Bayshore Town Center at the end of business Tuesday.
The closing will leave the teen apparel retailer with two stores in the Milwaukee area, at Southridge and Brookfield Square. Aéropostale has been at Bayshore since late 2006.
The company announced earlier this month that it will close about 125 of its "P.S. from Aéropostale" stores, which sell children's clothing. There are no P.S. stores in the area.
The New York-based retailer operates 931 Aéropostale stores and 150 P.S. shops. The company lost $141.8 million last year.
DeKeyser named Whitefish Bay girls basketball coach
Rick DeKeyser, who recently resigned after coaching the Nicolet girls basketball team for the last two years, was named the coach for the Whitefish Bay girls basketball team this evening.
DeKeyser was offered the position this weekend and immediately accepted, said Bay Athletic Director John Gustavson. DeKeyser plans on meeting with the returning basketball players sometime this week at lunch.
DeKeyser said he was not actively pursuing any head coaching positions after his resignation and had accepted a job as an assistant at another school before the Bay position came up.
"This was the only job I would have accepted," said DeKeyser. "In fact, I was offered two other jobs (head coaching) after I resigned and I said 'no' to both of them."
DeKeyser takes over for former Bay assistant Dave Markson, who served as a successful interim coach this season.» Read Full Article
Dredging to remove contaminated muck from Milwaukee River
Milwaukee River between Lincoln Park and the Estabrook Park dam, state and federal officials said.An estimated 36,000 cubic yards of contaminated muck will be removed this year from the
There are nine places in this mile-long stretch where chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, accumulated in the river-bottom sediment, said Marsha Burzynski, a water resources management specialist with the state Department of Natural Resources. Total cost of dredging the deposits from the river is estimated at $15 million.
Information on the locations of the contaminated muck and proposed dredging methods will be discussed at a May 20 open house at Lincoln Park. The informational meeting is scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. inside the Blatz Pavilion, 1301 W. Hampton Ave.
Most of the muck will be disposed of at landfills in Wisconsin, Burzynski said. An estimated 500 cubic yards of highly contaminated sediment must be shipped out of the state to specially licensed landfills.
The majority of cleanup costs will be paid by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Great Lakes Legacy Act.» Read Full Article
Life sentence for homeless man who killed former benefactor
A homeless man convicted of killing a Glendale resident who was found buried under clutter in his home days after he was reported missing last fall was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
Nicholas Retzlaff, 26, who as a troubled teen had been taken in by the victim, pleaded guilty in March to first-degree intentional homicide, as party to a crime, in the death of 65-year-old peace activist Peter Holzberger.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Timothy Dugan, noting that a friend said Holzberger believed anyone could find redemption, even in prison, made Retzlaff eligible to apply for supervised release in 45 years.
Retzlaff's attorney, Gregory Renden, read a statement from his client expressing his apologies and saying "the only person who ever cared about me was Peter."
Rendan said Retzlaff, who suffered abuse and neglect from his parents until they kicked him out in 2004, suffers from Asperger's syndrome and doesn't really have the capacity for empathy, to understand how his actions affect others.» Read Full Article
North Shore Boulangerie combines cafe with bakery in Shorewood
North Shore Boulangerie opened Wednesday at 4401 N. Oakland Ave. in Shorewood, with baked goods as well as prepared foods for lunch.
Customers can expect to find items like croissants ($2.50) and quiche such as goat cheese-leek ($6.25 a slice) in the cases. The bakery-cafe has a barista making espresso drinks.
Owner Gene Webb said he has seating for 30 at North Shore Boulangerie, which is open daily from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
To contact: (414) 963-2153.
Homestead boys and girls track teams win North Shore Relays
Homestead pole vaulter Elyssa Tracy is said to be "as mentally strong as they come" by Highlander girls track coach John Krueger.
She has endured multiple surgeries on her feet and ankles after a lifetime of competing in sports, including a successful run for the Highlander gymnastics team.
A team it seems, that has made an en masse transition to the track squad.
So with that tough backstory behind her, it was small potatoes for Tracy when she decided to go for and clear 10 feet-nine inches in at the end of the North Shore Conference Relays on a chilly day in Grafton on Wednesday and break the tie with Nicolet for the event title in the final competition of the night.
And with that effort, the Highlanders completed their rally and overcame a challenge from a young and talented Germantown team to claim the meet title in a stunning three-way battle with Germantown and league indoor champ Whitefish Bay.» Read Full Article
Tasting room closing could change Shorewood loan
A village loan to help finance the opening of a craft brewery's Shorewood tasting room could change with that tavern's recent closing.
Big Bay Brewing Co. in December 2010 received a $25,000 loan to open the tasting room, at 4517 N. Oakland Ave., and to buy kegs for its beer.
Big Bay, which brews its brands at Stevens Point Brewery, in April closed the 2,100-square-foot tasting room, which opened three years ago. The adjacent Three Lions Pub is remodeling it as an addition.
The village loan required Big Bay to maintain its business within Shorewood's Oakland Ave. tax incremental financing district.
So, Big Bay President Jeff Garwood is asking the Shorewood Community Development Authority to waive that requirement while the company continues to pay off the loan. Big Bay still owes $15,657, with the loan scheduled to be paid off by Jan. 1, 2018, according to a village report.» Read Full Article
MMSD goes with mandate to disconnect downspouts from combined sewers
disconnect roof downspouts from combined sanitary and storm sewers.The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is moving forward this month with new regulations requiring owners of most homes, duplexes and four-unit apartment buildings in central Milwaukee and eastern Shorewood to
The mandate would take effect Jan. 1, 2016, and apply to all buildings served by combined sewers. Deadline for disconnections is Jan. 1, 2025.
Primary targets of the regulations are residences with lawns big enough to absorb the water, MMSD Executive Director Kevin Shafer said Monday.
Most commercial businesses and large apartment buildings likely would be exempt since they generally are surrounded by pavement and water from a disconnected downspout would drain to the street and enter a combined sewer anyway.
Any property owner could be granted an exemption from disconnecting one or more downspouts if there is not adequate space on a lot for the water to seep into the ground, under the regulation.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay's Davre beats state-level 1,600 field at Benson Invite
It was a race meant to be run at the WIAA State Meet on a warm day in June in La Crosse.
Instead, it was the girls 1,600-meters at the annual friendly hometown track festival in Wauwatosa known as the Dan Benson Invitational, contested on a cool, dank day Friday afternoon in front of a knowing crowd that knew something special was going to happen.
They were not let down, as the astoundingly talented freshman Cami Davre of Whitefish Bay led a WIAA state meet level field to the finish line, using a burning kick to beat last fall's state cross country champion Elizabeth Flatley of Brookfield Central to the finish line.
The first five times in the race obliterated and completely re-wrote the state honor roll, as Davre beat a field of stunningly talented field made up mostly of seniors. Her blistering 66-second closing 400 gave her a state-best time of 4 minutes, 54.08 seconds while Flatley came across in a personal best of 4:57.45, which is now the second best time in the state.
But those two were only the tip of the iceberg, as it is a very good bet that on a normal day, the next three finishers could and would win almost any other 1,600 race contested in the state of Wisconsin on almost any given day of the season with the times they turned in.» Read Full Article
Police respond to Glendale bomb threat
Man arrested after using broken coffee mug to cut woman
A Milwaukee man was arrested for battery after he used a broken coffee mug to cut a woman April 19.
According to the Glendale police report:
A 30-year-old Milwaukee man used a broken coffee mug to cut a woman in the 2800 block of West Mill Road at 11:50 p.m. April 19.
The man, who also injured himself, fled after attacking the woman and entered a home in the 6400 block of North Range Line Road.
The residents heard the man screaming and found him on the floor of the mud room and called police.» Read Full Article
Facebook post caused lockdown at Brown Deer High School
Brown Deer — A "questionable Facebook post" prompted Brown Deer High School to go into lockdown mode for less than an hour Thursday afternoon.
The Facebook post caused Brown Deer police and school officials to go into lockdown for about 30 minutes to 45 minutes , said Christie Odenwald in the district superintendent's office. Brown Deer police determined the concerns were unfounded, and canceled the lockdown shortly thereafter. Odenwald did not comment on the nature of the Facebook post.
Brown Deer police are investigating the matter, but are not releasing any more details about the lockdown at this point in time.


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A Bowling Green couple is also celebrating their anniversary today.
Scott and Jackie Gliddon were married at 12:12 in the afternoon on December 12, 1998.
Today they celebrated yet another anniversary and our camera was there.
Scott decided to show up at Target, where Jackie works at 12:12 on the dot to surprise her with balloons and flowers.
A topic of discussion on WBKO's AM Kentucky was about couples celebrating anniversaries on 12-12-12, and Scott tuned in.
"Tina and Chris were talking about it this morning. They were talking about how it would be easy to remember, and how the guys always forget their anniversaries so we made ours so I could never forget," Scott said.
Scott and Jackie have been married for fourteen years.


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More than 340 students graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery during its fall commencement exercises on Dec. 14. Among those receiving degrees was Erman E. Samelo, the university's first graduate from its Master of Science in Cybersystems and Information Security program.
Samelo enrolled at Auburn Montgomery in 2011 upon retiring from the U.S. Air Force as superintendent of the Education Support Squadron at the Spaatz Center for Officer Education at Maxwell Air Force Base. With 23 years of experience in information management, he decided to embark on a second career in information security and turned to AUM for training.
"When I was still in the Air Force, my job was the one that implemented information security policies," said Samelo. "The CSIS master's program at AUM taught us why policy makers want those policies implemented. This was a challenging program and I know that the knowledge I gained from it will help me in my next career. I would definitely recommend it to others."
Established in 2010, AUM's cybersystems and information security program is the first program of its kind in Alabama. It prepares students to become leaders in the field of information and network security, offering instruction and research opportunities that provide graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively assess, develop, and manage secure information networks and respond to newly developed threats
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Sociologists who study the 1960s attribute much to the Beatles' arrival in America 50 years ago this week. Some credit the cheeky, high-energy quartet with being just the boost the U.S. needed after having endured the assassination of its president. Others cite the band's seemingly instantaneous popularity as a sign of an emerging teenage consumer culture. Such claims obscure a more fundamental question: In February 1964, were the Beatles any good?
By the time the Beatles came to America to perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum, they were already veteran performers. Since the summer of 1960, they had given live shows on an almost-daily basis, often several sets per night. Their stature was elevated by playing live for a national audience on the BBC beginning in March 1962, including on their own program, "Pop Go the Beatles." While the Carnegie Hall gig may have seemed unduly prestigious to those not yet converted to the band's style of rock and pop, the Beatles had already played the Royal Albert Hall twice in 1963. Shortly before leaving for the U.S., they had been at the Olympia Theatre in Paris for nearly three weeks, doing at least two sets a day.
By 1964, the Beatles were a tight quartet who could play pop, rock 'n' roll, rockabilly and R&B with equal force and efficiency. They had studied their predecessors—their repertoire included compositions by Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Buddy Holly, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Smokey Robinson, among others—but had developed their own sound: John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave the group two versatile, easily differentiated vocalists; and George Harrison, who contributed a third voice to the vocal harmonies, was a lead guitarist with a feel for several styles. Mr. McCartney wasn't yet the exceptional bass player he would become; for the most part, Lennon provided color and support as a rhythm guitarist. But with the savvy, rock-solid Ringo Starr on drums, they were built on a platform of driving rhythm.
What distinguished the group, though, was its songwriting. From its first recording session in 1958 as the Quarrymen, the group knew original material would improve its chances for success. When the Beatles entered EMI Studios on Abbey Road on June 6, 1962, to audition for producer George Martin, they performed their own songs, along with the 1940s Latin standard "Bésame Mucho." Returning three months later, they cut "Love Me Do," a simple sing-along that Mr. McCartney wrote when he was 16. In late November, they recorded "Please, Please Me," written mostly by Lennon and influenced by Holly. It was the band's first No. 1 hit in the U.K. The album of the same name, the bulk of which was recorded live at EMI on Feb. 11, 1963, also topped the U.K. charts. So did the quartet's next album, "With the Beatles," issued Nov. 22, 1963, the day of the Kennedy assassination.
Thus, when the Beatles turned up for the Feb. 9 "Ed Sullivan Show," the group may have been new to America, but they were hardly newcomers to live performance. Their first two albums, with different track lists than the U.K. versions, had been available in the U.S. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was this country's No. 1 hit during the week of their arrival.
The Beatles opened their Ed Sullivan performance with Mr. McCartney's "All My Loving," which displayed the group's many talents in well under three minutes. The meticulous, syncopated arrangement found Lennon playing triplets on rhythm guitar while Mr. McCartney, who sang lead, offered a walking bass line and Mr. Starr altered his accents on his snare drum as his cymbals sizzled. After adding tidy country licks on the turnarounds, Harrison played an eight-bar interlude at the bridge with nods to rockabilly. A cleverly crafted pop gem, "All My Loving" was delivered with confidence and an infectious élan born of experience.
After performing "Till There Was You" from the Broadway musical "The Music Man"—perhaps as a bone thrown to Sullivan's traditional viewership—they played another compact gem: the Lennon-McCartney composition "She Loves You." As on the recording, the live reading was driven by Mr. Starr. Two- and three-part harmonies delivered the lead vocal, which built to the twin hooks: "woos" and "yeah, yeah, yeah!" Lennon played folk chords on electric guitar, thus enriching the midsection and freeing Harrison to add colorful filigrees. In front of more than 70 million viewers, the quartet knew they were on their game: At the midway point, Lennon, who had been relatively static in contrast to Mr. McCartney's bubbly exuberance, exchanged a smile with Harrison. High on his platform, Mr. Starr continued to bob behind the cymbals. His fills and the rumble of his kick drum and toms made the performance. (The Feb. 9 appearance on the Sullivan show is available on DVD; portions can be found on YouTube.)
The Beatles returned in the second half of the show with the Berry-influenced "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand," but by then notice had been served. America's teens knew the Beatles could make hit records, but now the Sullivan audience saw that the band could deliver the hits live with authority and charm. Two years after Mr. Starr joined them, the Beatles were what they had set out to be: a self-contained group capable of writing, arranging and performing increasingly challenging and ever-engaging rock and pop of the highest caliber.
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STEUBENVILLE - The Franciscan University of Steubenville women's basketball team looks to embrace all the new aspects of this season and build a team ready to move forward. Made up of a new head coach and several new players, the Lady Barons seek to better its 3-21 mark from last season.
Suzy Delaney, an assistant coach for the past two seasons, was promoted to head coach earlier this year.
Delaney said this year's edition of the Barons wants to concentrate on staying consistent.
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The team also added two new assistant coaches to its staff to further the growth of the team. Joining Delaney and assistant coach Carrie Mitchell are Erin Brennan and Tim Delaney.
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Huck was the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Newcomer of the Year last season and was named to the all-conference third team. O'Keefe comes off of a successful freshman season in which she averaged 12 points and eight rebounds per game. Cooney has worked hard in the off-season and also brings leadership to the young team.
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Juniors Hannah Flanagan and Louise Craig are expected back in the spring after returning from studying abroad in Austria during the fall semester.
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Although the team is young, Delaney said the women did not come in lacking experience, but they have some learning and growing to do which will come with the experience of games.
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The annual World Day of Prayer service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 1. The host church this year will be St. Polycarp Catholic Church. The service will be held in their parish hall followed by a soup and sandwich lunch. Members of several other churches will take part in the readings. The theme this year is, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." The featured country is France.
All Christian women of the Carmi area are invited to come together and pray for the women of the world, especially France and the Carmi area. The offering will be divided between the World Day of Prayer Organization and Carmi's WADI food pantry.
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HILLSDALE COUNTY — With six local teams spread over three tournaments, Hillsdale and Hillsdale Academy had the best Saturdays.
Hillsdale Academy rebounded from a rough start to win the Bronze Division of the Carrie Adams St. Phil tournament in Battle Creek, while Hillsdale went undefeated en route to a Silver Division win at Parma Western.
Camden-Frontier and Jonesville also competed in Battle Creek, North Adams-Jerome played in Bronson and Reading traveled to Addison.
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Hillsdale's first tournament of the year brought them a Silver Division title and kept them undefeated.
The Hornets' pool play kept them from a shot at the championship, as they split two of their first three matches Saturday.
They topped Jackson Northwest 21-9, 21-15, but split with Pennfield 21-12, 14-21 and tied Onsted 16-21, 21-19.
But Hillsdale turned it up for the silver division. They beat Perry 23-25, 25-16, 15-8 in the quarters, and put away Pennfield 25-17, 17-25, 15-11 after the earlier split to make the finals.
There, they topped Jackson Lumen Christi 25-21, 21-25, 15-9.
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Lean construction can raise competitiveness for an EPC business, thereby increasing its profitability and improving its delivery success rate and brand image.
[project managment]
Go to any large capital expenditure construction site the
world over, and discuss issues of inefficiency, and then expect
to be inundated with information about the processes being
applied to manage this issue. The highest priority for the
constructor is maximizing profit and meeting deadlines.
Pressure to deliver the construction project on time can
sometimes create apparently unavoidable inefficiencies.
Efforts to maximize efficiency, increase productivity and
reduce waste are executed inline with agreed processes.
However, onsite subcontractors may not share the same ideals,
or even be motivated to do so only due to terms of their work
agreements. This collectively results in an uncoordinated
approach to improving site efficiency.
Moreover, no singular vision or philosophy for managing and
reducing waste and maximizing efficiency is applied to the
whole project. Local solutions are applied
but are not bound by any guiding philosophy or framework, which
extends outside of each team to include the whole project
ecosystem. Result: This fragmented approach
can only ever provide a modicum of success. All of these issues
existed in the automobile industry at the end of the 19th
century, where craft manufacturing (producing one-offs) was the
only route for vehicle production.
The move to mass production was a fundamental change for the
automobile industry as Henry Ford pioneered techniques such as
conveyors to control output, and gauge standardization for mass
part production as part of the drive to produce huge volumes of
cars. The 1950s saw the dawn of a new philosophy for
manufacturing introduced by Eiji Toyoda, then owner of Toyota
Motor Cars. This new approach, dubbed lean
production, focuses on doing more with less. The aim was
to double production using half the resources. This lean
philosophy is founded on three key principles:
All of the values for lean production are aspirations for
engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects that
yield more efficiency, more accuracy, better quality and
profitable delivery ahead of schedule. So why not adopt this
Significant pressures are applied to EPC companies to
complete the project under extremely short timescale, with high
levels of scrutiny, compliance to standards on ever larger and
more complex engineering problems to solve. The EPC business is
presented with some distinct challenges in adopting the
lean-production philosophy:
These large-scale projects are made up of a diverse
multicultural management team with distinct methods of
workingdeveloped to give them competitivenessand a
diverse set of business models.
Fragmentation of the stakeholders provides a significant
hurdle to adopting a unified vision and philosophy for the
project execution. Each contractor is paid based on timely
delivery of information, materials or other measurable
milestones to the next internal customer. Conversely, each
contractor is often penalized for late delivery. This
reinforces behavior where each contractor assumes a
single-minded focus on providing deliverables for the next
internal customer only.
Each project has different requirements. They are met with
different technologies and engineering, and are located in
different parts of the world and delivered by diverse teams of
engineers. Most projects exhibit a degree of uniqueness, which
would best suit a craft production model, although not
entirely. These projects offer very little
opportunity for repeatable construction processes to occur.
Plant business has to manage much longer cycle times, where the
design, fabrication and construction of any part of the
final asset can take many months to complete. This provides
very little opportunity for the continual improvement on
fabrication, assembly and installation at the site.
With the introduction of affordable laser scanning and
mobile and cloud computing, there is significant disruption to
the market; it will prove to be the kick-start for a new era
under lean construction adoption.
The market is enjoying a greater degree of affordable laser
scanning for large-scale construction sites. Laser data capture
is often used to record the as-built environments for brownfield
projects. But, more frequently now, it is used for collecting
construction information during greenfield projects. It has
never been easier to justify the use of laser data capture for
both brownfield and greenfield projects. But, laser scanning
should become a routine activity for the fabricators and
constructors. By recording the real geometry of the fabricated
part or the spool or construction details, and the sending this
information back to the design office, it provides a platform
for more rapid rework of the designs.
It is widely claimed that as much as 30% of construction
workers time is wasted waiting for information and
decisions to be made. This is often a consequence of the serial
nature of requests, changes and clarifications from the prime
contractor and the client. Lack of availability of key staff
and a less-than-optimal process can be the main cause of
The availability of up-to-date design information to these
construction personnel will help them to make more informed
decisions and also assist them to validate information received
in drawing about the construction. Information can quickly
become outdated during a rapid project execution phase. In
return, these devices will also provide a method for the
construction team to share information with the fabrication
teams and, ultimately, take it back to the design team.
Constructors will be able to provide status updates for the
items on site, and to also share laser data with the design
Designs created within 3D models are sent to the fabricator
who, in turn, repeats a great deal of this work by creating
non-intelligent 2D drafts of the 3D model and then detailed
fabrication drawings for the design. This introduces
unnecessary wastage into the process and an opportunity for
errors to be introduced. The opportunity to streamline the
process between layout design and detailed design, with a view
to providing accurate fabrication drawings straight from the
model reduces waste and wasted time. With the recent
acquisition of new CAD software, the production of accurate
fabrication drawings directly from the 3D design model is as
easy as the click of a button.
The move to lean is unquestionably a significant
challenge, but is it one with huge benefits. A lean
construction approach can add a greater degree of
competitiveness to the EPC business, increasing its
profitability, improving its delivery success rate and,
consequently its brand image (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Vision for
plant design based on
traditional and lean construction methods.
As laser scanning, mobile computing and cloud computing
become more accessible and affordable to EPC companies we will
see a new rate of adoption of these techniques to improve the
project execution efficiency. Owners
can help to accelerate the adoption of lean approaches to construction if they are able to
present a contracting environment that is conducive to a
unified philosophy of shared benefits, efficiency improvements
and culture. HP
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Keith E Bowers
Mr Bennett illuminates the potential for cost and schedule improvements in mega projects. Many of the techniques mentioned have been in routine use for decades. For instance, automatic direct piping spool take-offs from 3-D design models and fully automated spool fabrication has been a Bechtel/Shaw standard work practice forwell over a decade. Spool field re-work has been driven to near zero for both green and brown-field projects. Use of well developed FEED programs has dramaically reduced 'changes' in detailed engineering, procurement, and construction. Bechtel in particular has been a strong advocate and user of highly integrated project teams, including empowerd and working representatives from each and every 'participant' in the work process, including early in the pre-FEED project development. 'Alignmenr' of all parties-from Owners to raw material suppliers at earliest possible moment in project concept develpoment can dramatically reduce inefficiencies throughout the asset lifecycle.
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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I got George the Animal Steele and I think this is self explanitory:
Hawaii can be Ricky Steamboat:
Pappy gets to be Bruno Samartino since he's the oldtimer:
Silver and Black can be Dusty Rhodes cause we gotta get him in different colors:
Ruthless can be the leader of the 4 horsemen which include Jigga, MJG, Wallace, Preacher, Prok, Shawn, Eni, cruzer, and probably a couple others. There were at least 10 different guys or so that made up the 4 horsemen, these guys just couldn't seem to count and the first pic I found had 5 of em.
Starlifter can be Hulk Hogan and we'll chant USA, USA, USA for him:
while he puts HeHateMe in his own Cobra Clutch
I picture Chadman as a Captain Lou type:
Siss can be the Fabulous moolah:
SN1 is the most famous and coolest fan I know on PS, so he can be the Honkey Tonk man:
Ovi's probably a Dr Death, Steve Williams type:
Stlr-d can be the world famous Mouth of the South:
And Mach1 sounds like a guy who drives a P Wagon, so he can be Pretty Boy
Alright, I gotta stop, I'm getting carried away. If I didn't give you an old school wrestler identity and you want one let me know.
Chadman thought it was a gee-up when he saw both Aussie_Steeler & Steelerchad had joined up.
Turns out it's just two new punks encroaching on Chadman's territory.. :lol:
But that's ok- Chadman is like Star Wars IV A New Hope- better story, better thought out, more interesting. These others are Empire Strikes Back & Return Of The Jedi- good, but more about explosions, incest & Ewoks than any real substance. :D
Captain Lou, Flip?? Chadwoman says Chadman looks like A-Train. But personally, Chadman has always thought Stone Cold fashioned himself on Chadman.
Which did you like better? "Jedi" or "The Empire Strikes Back?"Quote:
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"Empire" had the better ending. Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader is his father, uh, Han gets frozen, taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All "Jedi" had was a bunch of Muppets.
SID: one of various nicknames
SMYTHE: my last name is Smith and way too common so I once had everyone convinced it was pronounced "Smythe"
First off, I'm obviously new here and this is my first post. I came over from Steelers Fever where I posted under the name "Andy Witmyer". I decided to take this name over my old one because I just felt that it would be more prudent to take on a Steeler's influenced handle over that of my real name. So now, whenever I post stupidly, I won't have to live with my my actual name being associated with my actual stupidity!
And besides, people who know me in real life also know that I have a soft spot for Sweed. With the possible exception of Ben Roethlisberger, He's gotta have the worst luck of anyone in the NFL right now.
Anyway - hi!
Well, for anyone that has attended an Oregon Ducks game in Autzen stadium, it is self explanatory. Autzen Stadium is rated every year as one of the 5 loudest stadiums in the country. If you ever have a chance to watch a game there, do it. I have used this handle for about 10 years now on various forums.
I was thinking along the lines of you're one of the biggest personalities on the board., not what you look like.Quote:
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I mean, I'm a little better looking than George the Animal. At least a little :lol


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Award-winning photographic artist Ellen Arden has announced that several pieces of her historical process photography series "Metamora : A Discourse on Depression" were chosen for the ArtPrize 2013 exhibition at the Women's City Club in Grand Rapids.
Ellen Arden's photography series "Metamora : A Discourse on Depression" was chosen by Women's City Club curator, Fred Bevins, for display as part of the world's largest art competition - ArtPrize. Arden's collection of images is intended to create a discussion focused on depression and disorder.
Each photograph represents a physical manifestation of an emotional concept anchored to a colloquialism. Antique imagery is used to bring historical context to a contemporary social discussion. Arden recently stated,
"I am very pleased to have been selected by the Women's City Club for the Artprize exhibition," Arden said. "It is an honor to be displaying with such great artist, local and otherwise."
The exhibition will be open to the public from Sept. 18 through Oct. 4.
Ellen Arden was born in Ionia, and attended Ionia High School. Arden currently lives and works in Michigan as photographer, video installation artist, and is an active member of the motion picture community. Arden received her Bachelors of Fine Art with an emphasis in Photography and Intermedia from Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University, and an Associates of Fine Art from Grand Rapids Community College. She is a member of the Society for Photographic Education, a founding member of the West Michigan Photography Collective, and a recent recipient of the Rose Notzorg & James Wilfrid Kerr Gallery Award.
Her work can be found at www.ellenarden.com.
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What is the Torah view on the dinosaurs? There's no mention of them in the Torah, only that the world was created in 6 days. If they existed, Adam and his descendants should have seen them. Yet there's no mention. Yet we know they lived since we find their bones. One cannot say they lived before Adam since the world existed only 5 days before him.
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Prof. Nathan Aviezer wrote a book "בראשית ברא" answering questions about the creation in torah view.
There he claims the 6 days of creation to be 6 periods of time that didn't necessarily last 24 hours. Moreover - maybe it was one cycle of dark&light, but things happened at a quicker pace.
Take, for example, a person's growth. If you were to calculate the rate of growth during his first two years, you would conclude that at the age of 20 he'd be as tall as a skyscraper. Similarly, scientists calculate age of things according to he worlds' pace today, but things may have worked differently in the past.
Hence, dinosaurs might have lived and died prior to Adam Harishon. Maybe created on "day" 5 and extinct before 6.
(Somewhat related: What is the meaning of יוֹם (yowm) in Bereshit?)
The Malbim (on Noach 7:23) addresses "large animals" that couldn't be "wiped out" by the flood, but were buried in depths of the earth following quakes the Mabul created. He is clearly addressing dinosaurs since he's talking about (my free translation): "... geologists who dig and find large animals who have become extinct, they use this to show earth existed long before Bereshis creation..."
Some attribute "התנינים הגדולים" (Bereshis 1:21) to the dinosaurs as a reference of their existing (not mentioned in Malbim).
Another opinion I've heard from reliable people (suggested by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in this letter) is that the world was created "old", such as Adam Harishon was created as a man of 20 and not a newborn baby. Hence, dinosaurs could have either existed - or their remains and footprints were melded into the creation.
In the sefer "Q&A Thursday Nights With Rabbi Avigdor Miller" Volume 2, pg 284, he was asked why were the dinosaurs and the mastodon not saved from the mabul? He answered simply because there was no room for them on the teivah (ark) .He said that all species fit but the extra big ones simply didn't fit.
Taninim Hagedolim can possibly mean dinosaurs. The word Tanin means a reptile or serpent (like when Aharon's stick become a sepent - Vayehi l'tanin. The dinosaurs were reptiles. See Dr. Schroeder's "The Science of G-d" which discusses this.


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By mistake I started a bounty and lost 200 reputation points leaving me with only 215.
Is there a way to remove this bounty function from your own question?
Bounties in play:
By mistake I started a bounty and lost 200 reputation points leaving me with only 215.
Is there a way to remove this bounty function from your own question?
Bounties in play:
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No. Bounty grants are irrevocable.
That's why there's a JavaScript confirmation dialog, informing you of the permanence of the bounty, when you initiate the action.
I somewhat doubt that it could be removed, since that'd allow the potential to "game the system" by starting bounties, getting people to reply, and then removing them.
I wouldn't worry too much about reputation - it's fairly easy to acquire over time if you're active on the site, and if you're not active, then it doesn't really matter anyways.
You can get the points back. I started on SO 2 weeks (+1 day) ago and have about 2,000 points, so that's 133 points/day.
If I lost 200 points I would be losing less than 2 days.
I learn a lot answering questions carefully and googling things the questioner didn't. I think you can get them back without too much trouble and be better off for it...
While I don't think the system needs changing, in fairness I suppose it could be possible set up a new feature to allow bounties to be removed as long as it was within, say 60 seconds, and no answers had been received. Maybe even if no views had been registered, to be super-strict.
But, as Jeff points out, there is a confirmation, and the permanence is quite explicit, so I don't think there's much added value with such a hypothetical feature request.


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March 16, 2013
St Patrick's Day 2013: Places to celebrate in Cape Town
Enjoy green beer this weekend as we mark St Patrick's Day, an Irish holiday to remember one of the most prominent and beloved Irish saints.
Tonight Table Mountain will be lit up in green ahead of St Patrick's Day, which is celebrated tomorrow, March 17.
Even though Cape Town does not have a large Irish community, there is a long history that dates back to the 19th century. According to Wikipedia, a third of the Cape's governors were Irish, including Lord Caledon and Sir John Francis Cradock. And Sir Lowry's Pass is named after Dublin-born Lowry Cole, who was the governor of the Cape in the 1830s when the pass was opened.
It should come as no surprise, then, that we have taken to celebrating St Patrick's day with gusto. Some of the pubs that will be offering green beer and Irish bands include the Slug and Lettuce in Newlands, O'Driscoll's on the corner of Hout and Burg streets, and The Dubliner in Long Street. The Orphanage in Bree Street has lined up a delectable variety of Irish-themed cocktails.
The V&A Waterfront will be putting on a massive green show on tomorrow, with the giant Ferris wheel being lit up in green and the Amphitheatre a hive of activity, including live music. Most of the buskers will be dressed in green.
Quay 4, Ferrymans and Mitchell's are making a weekend of it, with live Irish bands and prizes up for grabs. Wherever you may find yourself on Sunday, may the luck of the Irish be with you.


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What can an attacker do with a stolen website certificate and key?
What should the website admin do upon learning this?
What can an attacker do with a stolen website certificate and key?
What should the website admin do upon learning this?
Attack Vectors
If an attacker uncovers your SSL private key, you are minimally vulnerable to the following attacks:
1) Traffic Eavesdropping
To the attacker, everything being sent over SSL can be decrypted and should consequently be thought of as cleartext. This means passwords, credit card numbers, and other Personal and Private Information is vulnerable to being either harvested or leveraged against you as the attack escalates.
2) Man-In-The-Middle
Part of the reason to use an SSL certificate is to uniquely authenticate yourself to the clients connecting to your server. If the private key is stolen, a hacker can create a Man-In-the-Middle attack where data flowing either from the server-to-client or client-to-server is modified in-transit. This could be done to ask a user to reauthenticate (and thereby surrender their password), ask for a credit card number, or implant malware into file downloads.
As you can see, if someone has compromised your SSL certificate, they can quickly escalate the attack to either gain unauthorized access to your system or attack you or your users.
How to Recover
If a private key compromise is suspected, one should add the SSL Certificate to the Certificate Revocation List (CRL). This will alert other participants in the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) that the certificate in question can no longer be trusted. In order to do this, you will usually need to login to the account you created with the Certificate Authority (CA) who issued the SSL Certificate or otherwise notify them of the suspected breach. Godaddy provides instructions for this online, as does Network Solutions.
With the SSL certificate revoked, you will need to again go through the process of generating a new certificate and private key in order to re-enable SSL services for your web site or application.
If your site has been breached, I would recommend recovering in the following steps:
Attackers in possession of the private key can:
They should contact their Certification Authority to revoke the CA, and get a new one (with a new key part). Once revoked, clients checking for revocation (via CRL or OCSP) shouldn't accept the old certificate. (Clients that do not check this will still be vulnerable, until the expiry of the certificate.)
Telling users that this incident happened isn't a bad idea, at least to encourage them to check their browsers check for revocation (and perhaps take necessary action, should they suspect some of their communication have been vulnerable).
Note that, if the attackers have recorded past communications using that certificate and that a non-PFS cipher suite was used at the time, the attackers should be able to decipher those past communications with the private key.


text: This is the last animal lesson that I will submit today and as you can see it's on "how to draw an anime unicorn", step by step. The anime unicorn in the picture reminds me a lot of the unicorn from 'The Last Unicorn'. I had a lot of fun with this drawing because it took me back to when I was a kid. Whenever I start to reminisce, I realize that life is short so why not live it to the fullest. Although I mainly stay indoors, I still get my fair share of having fun and exploring what the world has to offer. I guess there really isn't much more to say because I have talked about a unicorn before. I will be back later with some other tuts for you all so have fun and stay tuned in.


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Brief Program History
Senate Bill 1953 (SB 1953) was introduced on February 25, 1994. It was signed into law on September 21, 1994 and filed by the Secretary of State on September 22, 1994. The bill was an amendment to and furtherance of the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Seismic Safety Act of 1983 (Alquist Act). SB 1953 (Chapter 740, 1994), is now chaptered into statute in Sections 130000 through 130070 of the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act, and part of the California Health and Safety Code. The regulations developed as a result of this statute are deemed to be emergency regulations and became effective upon approval by the California Building Standards Commission and filing with the Secretary of State on March 18, 1998. An overview of SB1953 is available through this link.
The Facilities Development Division formed the Seismic Retrofit Program Unit which is now referred to as the Seismic Compliance Unit. This Unit, headed by Hussain Bhatia, is comprised of structural engineers and senior architects responsible for review and approval of the following submittals to OSHPD:
- Seismic Evaluation Reports (structural and non-structural)
- Compliance Plans
- Extension requests
- Design criteria and conditional approvals of voluntary seismic compliance projects
Additional Program Functions
- Seismic Compliance
- Public Education Campaign for Hospital Seismic Safety
- Senate Bill 1953 (SB 1953) Regulations
- Legislative Changes
- Related Information
For questions or comments related to the Seismic Retrofit Program, please e-mail the Seismic Compliance Unit.
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- What's New?
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- eServices Portal Client Access
- Forms, Applications, and Reminder Lists
- Code Application Notices (CANs) and Policy Intent Notices (PINs)
- Regulation Codes, Interpretations, and Policies
- Legislation Changes
- Pre-Approvals
- Construction Observation and Building Permits
- Hospital Inspector Certification Program (HICP)
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Greatest moments in presidential speeches
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Presidential speeches can be memorable for many reasons: they can capture the nation's mood after a tragedy; they can issue warning; they can be a call to action. This September 11th is the 11th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. Listen to Bush's famous 9/11 speech, as well as many others and see how many lines you recognize from these famous presidential speeches.
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Inaugural Issue of the NYU College of Dentistry's Journal of the Academy of Distinguished Educators Online Now
Feb 1, 2013
An online-only, open-access journal, JADE is the publications component of the NYU Academy of Distinguished Educators. The mission of the Academy is to enhance overall teaching at NYUCD and to stimulate excitement among teachers around their intellectual content.
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Infiniti is going to reveal the third-generation M series at the Geneva Motor Show next month. Infiniti M37 at the show will be a S model with four-wheel active steering system and powered by a 3.7 V6 320 PS engine with a maximum 360 Nm of torque. Both petrol and diesel M Line cars come as standard with Infiniti's 7-speed Adaptive Shift Control automatic transmission, with manual shift paddles on the S version behind the steering wheel for when the sporting urge takes over.


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Find $\dfrac{d}{dx}(\cos x)$
I know the answer is $-\sin x$ only by process of elimination. I can find solution graphically but I need to know algebraically. Here is my proof so far.
$\begin{align*} \dfrac{d}{dx}\cos x=\lim_{h\to 0}\dfrac{\cos (x+h)-\cos x}{h} &=\lim_{h\to 0}\dfrac{\cos x\cos h-\sin x\sin h-\cos x}{h} \end{align*}$
And that's where I end up and I have no clue where to go from here. Can someone please give me the next step but not the complete answer.


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Growing up in Washington, D.C., after her parents fled the Jim Crow South, Isabel Wilkerson felt like she was raised as the daughter of immigrants.
Her father, a civil engineer from Virginia, and her mother, a teacher from Georgia, held old world values from their former homelands where oppression was the everyday landscape and lynchings occurred every few days.
Education and a strict upbringing eventually became Wilkerson's pathway to leaping over racial barriers to become the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win the prestigious award for individual reporting in 1994. She also pioneered her way to becoming the first African American to work as the Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times and a highly acclaimed award-winning journalist.
When her parents trekked up North, the writer's only connection to the South was comforting home-style food, the Southern jargon and the former southerners all around her while sorrowful stories of the mass exodus that drew six million people to the North were stored away only in her parents' memories.
"Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home," Wilkerson said. "They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured."
But the untold stories of the country's Great Migration ignited Wilkerson's biggest endeavor yet. Her parents' inexpressible memories of the greatest risk they ever took sparked the inspiration for her first book The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration in 2010.
Because she wanted to tell the larger story, Wilkerson conducted more than 1,200 interviews and spent 15 years of reporting, archiving and digging into the past to craft a chronicle of one the most influential periods in the country's history from World War I to the 1970s.
"It actually calls us to question what it means to be a hero. Those who left the South may not have seen it that way or called themselves that. But when you hear these stories, you realize you don't have to go to popular culture to find heroes," Wilkerson said. "We have heroes in our own background who can be more inspiring to us because they are in our own families and can guide us on how we can uniquely survive."
We're all affected when we have neighbors and family members who are suffering," Wilkerson said. "We all should feel that suffering."
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Her words shaped the hardships of the book's protagonists, Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling and Robert Foster into forceful frameworks for conversations about minority struggles in our country more than half a century after the Great Migration. Through these accounts, Wilkerson, a brave, steadfast storyteller, challenges the country to own its shameful Jim Crow history while empowering minorities everywhere to steer their own futures.
"What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history," Wilkerson said. "Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude."
The Warmth of Other Suns received critics' praise as it was chosen as the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 2010 and placed on numerous 'best books of the year' lists. Wilkerson's work opened a floodgate of tales from the South and brought to light "the first big step the nation's servant class ever took without asking."
Wilkerson's journalistic archeology has uncovered narratives of community struggles in The New Republic, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Her writing portfolio reads like a volume of social and racial justice records as she has uncovered the grim truth of the wave of youth committing violent crimes in the early 1990s, the plight of those living under apartheid regime in South Africa, the effects of skyrocketing poverty in urban areas and increasing prison populations that all too often pull minority youth into barbed wired penitentiaries.
"The facts are disheartening and alarming and should be a cause for concern for all Americans because we're all affected when we have neighbors and family members who are suffering," Wilkerson said. "We all should feel that suffering."
Wilkerson, now a professor of journalism and the director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University, has carved her place as a historical raconteur magnifying a brave generation of millions of Americans looking to start over in a place they could call their own. For Wilkerson, these tales of sorrow become indispensable when so many people are silenced in the media, namely minority communities. Her writing and her role as a professor have emphasized the need for more journalists with diverse backgrounds to get into the newsroom.
"To tell the story of this country would require that there be many different voices because there are


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With election day now 5 days off, both of Bowling Green's mayoral candidates fired off several verbal shots Friday, accusing each other of beginning the negative campaigning that has overtaken the race.
"The dirty politics in this campaign has been introduced by Elaine Walker. This is a Washington-style campaign," Jones said.
"Mayor Sandy Jones has resorted to lying in an effort to keep her position as Mayor of Bowling Green. So honesty, truth, and integrity have become central issues in this campaign," Walker said.
Walker called a press conference Friday morning to refute a series of charges leveled in a series of new "Jones for Mayor" campaign ads.
In the ads, a soundbite from the Mayor's forum shows Walker describing the influence a Congressman (her former employer) had on her life. The ad implies that statement is referring to Congressman Bud Shuster, who resigned from office amidst an ethics investigation. But Walker played more of the clip from the forum, which includes Walker saying it was Congressman John Saylor, not Shuster.
"She took those comments about a very good and honorable man, and twisted them around so it looks and sounds as though I made them about a less than honorable man, Congressman Bud Shuster. She is using technology to lie," Walker said.
"She's the one who drops the names Shustter and the other gentleman. It's on her website, she mentions it, she gives no dates. So it's a logical conclusion that she learned what she learned from Bud Shuster," Jones said.
Both candidates expressed regret that the campaign had evolved into a bitter back-and-forth, but both claimed they were simply defending against attacks from the other side.
Walker also distanced herself from "Citizens for Honest Government," a 527 political group that has been running full-page ads questioning the mayor. "I have no connections with that organization. I have intentionally kept my distance from the--I know the Bakers, and I understand there are other people involved as well. But that is something----my dog is not in that fight," Walker said.
"I disagree with that. She lives 3 or 4 doors down from the Bakers, she's been in lockstep with Jim Bullington since the day she filed her papers," Jones said.
To see the complete Walker press conference click here: Elaine Walker Press Conference
and to see WBKO's complete interview with Mayor Jones, click here:WBKO Interview with Mayor Sandy Jones


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