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Glendale Hilton to be converted to Holiday Inn
The Milwaukee River Hilton Hotel, in Glendale, would be converted into a Holiday Inn under a new proposal filed with city officials.
CMH Milwaukee River Inn LLC, a newly formed investors group, has the 162-room hotel, 4700 N. Port Washington Road, under contract, according to a Glendale Plan Commission review application.
If CMH completes its purchase of the hotel, the property will go through significant renovations, including expanding the lobby to give it a new bar area, views of the Milwaukee River and a more contemporary look, according to the application.
The ballroom and meeting spaces also would be renovated. And the hotel's guest rooms would get new bathrooms, carpets, furniture and other upgrades, the application said.
CMH is negotiating with the Holiday Inn franchise to give the hotel a new brand once the Hilton franchise expires in April, the application said. CMH is conducting its due diligence review of the properrty, and hopes to take ownership around April 15.» Read Full Article
East's Wheeler's free throws lead to upset of Shorewood
Wauwatosa East senior wing Sean Wheeler stood on the free throw line at Shorewood with 2.6 seconds left holding the Red Raiders' chances to advance in the playoffs, as well as the basketball, in his hands.
With Tosa East trailing in a hard-fought barnburner, 49-48, Wheeler had been fouled driving to the basket. He calmly sank two free throws and gave the Red Raiders a 50-49 upset win over Shorewood in the first round of the WIAA Division 1 playoffs.
Suddenly hot Tosa East won its fourth straight game to improve its record to 9-14. The Red Raiders now play at second-seed Whitefish Bay on Friday.
The Red Raiders led 13-11 after one quarter and then held the Greyhounds to one basket in the second quarter to take a 21-13 halftime lead.
Both offenses showed up in the second half, however, as Shorewood outscored Tosa East, 36-29, taking the game down to the wire.» Read Full Article
Three vie for two seats on Bay Village Board
Whitefish Bay — Come the April 1 spring election, incumbents Tara Serebin and Garry Davis will attempt to stave off former write-in candidate Will Demet for two seats on the Village Board.
Serebin, 48, is a 21-year village resident who was appointed to the board last year when trustee Lauri Rollings stepped down. Serebin has a bachelor's in elementary education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was a longtime elementary and substitute teacher before taking on the executive director post at the nonprofit Peace Learning Center of Milwaukee. She is married with two children.
Davis, 56, has lived in Bay for 15 years and is two years into his first term on the board. He grew up on an Iowa farm before earning a bachelor's in German, French and political science at the Central University of Iowa and a master's and PhD in Germanic languages from the University of Michigan. Davis is a professor of linguistics at UWM, is married, and has two children.» Read Full Article
O'Connor, Siegel square off for Bay presidency
Whitefish Bay — Newcomer Anne O'Connor is attempting to unseat incumbent Village President Julie Siegel in the upcoming April 1 spring election.
O'Connor, a seven-year Bay resident, grew up in Madison and later went to high school in Green Bay. She earned a bachelor's in business administration with a specialization in marketing and international business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since then O'Connor, 48, has lived in Madison, Chicago and the London area while working in marketing and fundraising.
More recently, O'Connor has gone back to school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is working on a master's in art history, which she intends to use someday to pursue a career that would "combine artistic expression and community building."
» Read Full Article
Two women arrested for escort without a license in Glendale
Milwaukee women were arrested in separate incidents for escort without a license after police set up "dates" with them in Glendale on Feb. 6.Two
According to the Glendale police report:
The women, 19 and 22, were arrested in separate incidents for escort without a license after police set up "dates" with them on a known website used by prostitutes at La Quinta Inn, 5110 N. Port Washington Road, one at 7:50 p.m. and one at 11 p.m. Feb. 6.
Two Milwaukee men, 29 and 32, who drove the women to the Inn, were arrested as they sat in their cars for party to the crime of escort without a license.
The 19-year-old woman was also arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, a .38 special revolver, that she said she had for protection because she'd been robbed once.» Read Full Article
Bearden's two free throws lift Germantown boys to win in 58-56 thriller
Germantown point guard Lamonte Bearden got to the foul line a lot Thursday night in the Warhawks' regular season closer basketball game against Homestead, but was indifferent in his results, hitting just 12 of 20 for the game.
But he saved his best effort at the line for last, as he calmly drained two throws with 2.7 seconds left in a tie game to give Germantown the lead. And when the Highlanders' desperation heave from Jack Popp was off the mark, Germantown had completed its fourth straight unbeaten run through the North Shore Conference, 58-56.
"He's probably a career 80 percent free throw shooter," said coach Steve Showalter of Bearden. "He was far from that tonight, but he hit the big ones though."
With the victory, the Warhawks finished the regular season at 14-0 in league play and 20-2 overall. They have now won 59 North Shore Conference games in a row dating back to 2010 and now have won an even 100 games over the last four seasons combined.
"These things are something all the guys can be proud of," said Showalter. "We as a staff are proud of them. Our first goal (every season) is to work hard and win conference."» Read Full Article
River Hills man dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head
River Hills — The Medical Examiner's Office ruled Wednesday that a 50-year-old River Hills man died Tuesday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and the cause of death was a suicide.
According to a news release from the River Hills Police Department:
At about 4:25 p.m. Tuesday, River Hills police officers were called to a residence on North Pheasant Lane for a person who had been shot.
According to witnesses, the 50-year-old man had been cleaning a gun and then started handling it in a careless manner. In addition, the man placed one round of ammunition in the gun and "made random and reckless statements about the weapon and its use. This resulted in a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head."
The man was airlifted to Froedtert Hospital but did not survive.
Mequon police arrest eight at drinking party
Mequon police arrested seven teenagers for underage drinking and one for furnishing a place for underage consumption after a Tip-411 call reported an underage drinking party Feb. 8.
According to the Mequon police report:
A caller alerted police to the underage drinking party in the 10100 block of North Vintage Court through Tip-411 at 10:15 p.m. Feb. 8.
The parents allowed police into the home saying their son was having a few friends over. The teens were in the basement along with alcohol and beer.
It was then when police heard a loud noise in the living room and saw a boy running away after crashing through a patio door screen. The boy, who was not wearing shoes, ran through several yards followed by an officer before falling to the ground wet and shivering and appearing intoxicated.» Read Full Article
Weickardt unveils new River Club subdivision deal
Mequon — River Club of Mequon owner Tom Weickardt is bringing back his plans to build a 19-home subdivision on a 42-acre lot near the club and along the Milwaukee River.
At a River Advisory Committee meeting Feb. 12, River Club representatives unveiled plans similar to those shot down by the Planning Commission in 2012. The plans will be filed this week at the Plan Commission for consideration in March.
The main difference between the 2012 proposal and new version is Weickardt's willingness to concede development rights on a number of easements throughout the Ville Du Parc neighborhood and donate a tract of land along the Milwaukee River to the city. The concessions constitute Weickardt's latest attempt to win over the neighbors and various Ville Du Parc homeowners associations, whose support will be crucial when the Planning Commission takes up the proposal.
Mequon developer Dave Leszczynski said talks between River Club representatives and neighbors have produced "groundswell" support for the plan.
"We're going to move this thing forward next month at Plan Commission," Leszczynski said. "We're going to talk to all the homeowner groups, and we'll probably have support from all of them except Deer Trail."» Read Full Article
Daniell-Rhodes eliminated in Shorewood primary
Shorewood — Newcomer Wendy Daniell-Rhodes has been eliminated in the Tuesday primary election for the School Board.
Incumbents Paru Shah and Ruth Treisman led the field with 34.3 and 25.6 percent of the vote, respectively, followed by newcomers Gregg Davis with 18.2 percent, Margaret Schmidt with 14.7 percent, and Daniell-Rhodes with 6.9 percent.
Shah, Treisman, Davis and Schmidt will vie for two seats on the School Board in the coming April 1 spring election.
Results remain unofficial until certified by the Board of Canvassers (bold eliminated):
Paru Shah (i): 323» Read Full Article
Bunge, Izard eliminated in Brown Deer primary election
Brown Deer — Newcomers Richmond Izard II and Otto Bunge have been knocked out of the running for two seats on the Village Board.
Newcomer Jamie Awe led the field in the Tuesday primary, followed by incumbent Terry Boschert and newcomers Bruce Thomas and Sherry Yusuf.
Results remain unofficial until certified by the Board of Canvassers (bold are eliminated):
Jamie Awe: 327
Terry Boschert (i): 287» Read Full Article
Nicolet financial forecast foretells 2016 referendum
Glendale — A review of the Nicolet School District's financial forecast makes a 2016 referendum a near necessity, barring substantial budget cuts.
The forecast, presented to the School Board at a working meeting last week, shows how the district has avoided dramatic budget cuts in recent years through a combination of referendum funding and employee benefit reductions after Act 10.
In 2011, Nicolet voters approved with a 54 percent majority an operational referendum to raise property taxes and exceed the district's state-mandated revenue limit by $2.15 million annually through the 2015-16 school year. The biggest motivating factor of the referendum was continued declining enrollment, which has a direct impact on district finances because funding is tied to overall enrollment, Finance Director Jeff Dellutri said.
According to Dellutri's presentation, as enrollment has declined over the years a gap has grown between Nicolet's allowable revenue under state law and its operating expenses. Since 2011, that gap has been filled with the extra taxes allowed by the referendum and cuts to employee pension plans, health insurance changes and other budget cuts.
By tracking enrollment numbers at Nicolet's feeder districts and usage of bus services for area private and parochial schools — for whom Nicolet is obligated by state law to manage busing — district administrators predict a continued decline in enrollment. Their forecast shows a roughly 100-student decline between now and the 2018-19 school year.» Read Full Article
North Shore Library's director retiring after 20 years
Glendale — From his place among the stacks, North Shore Library Director Dick Nelson has seen the world transform throughout the course of his four decades in the library business.
Where there was once a sprawling card catalog to track the library's collection there is now a countywide digital system at anyone and everyone's fingertips. In place of the phonograph records and the room-filling, card-fed computers of old are desktop PCs, DVDs, CDs, e-book readers, audiobooks, and, of course, rows upon rows of books on almost every topic imaginable.
All-told, the North Shore Library's collection contains more than 121,000 items. About 25,000 physical items are checked out each month. When digital media are included in the count, roughly half a million items circulate annually between the North Shore Library and its member communities of Glendale, Fox Point, Bayside and River Hills.» Read Full Article
Glendale woman reports BMW taken after inviting stranger into her house
A Glendale woman reported Feb. 6 her BWM and other items were missing after she invited a female stranger in to her home and then fell asleep.
According to the Glendale police report:
The resident met another woman at a gas station and felt sorry for her because the woman said her boyfriend beat her up.
The resident first took the woman to her work, a bar restaurant, and then home in the 6400 block of West Willow Glen Lane. The resident said she fell asleep and when she woke up, the stranger and her property were gone.
The woman called police to report the theft of her wallet, $50 cash, a $400 cellphone and her BMW, value not available.
Dunham's closes Milwaukee store near former Northridge
The Dunham's Sports store on Milwaukee's far northwest side has apparently closed, marking another major store shutdown for the retail area near the former Northridge Mall.
The store, with around 36,400 square feet, operated at 9191 N. 76th St., in a 79,500-square-foot strip retail center owned by Davenport, Iowa-based Windmill Hill Inc. The Milwaukee location is no longer listed on the Dunham's website, and its telephone number isn't being answered.
An executive from Troy, Mich.-based Dunham's Athleisure Corp. didn't respond to a request for information. Dunham's operates around 175 sporting goods stores in 10 Midwestern and Southern states, including stores at 17300 W. Blue Mound Road, Brookfield and 2550 S. 108th St., West Allis.
Word of the Dunham's closing comes after Monday's announcement that Madison-based American TV & Appliance is closing all 10 of its stores, including its 81,525-square-foot Brown Deer location, at 6700 W. Brown Deer Road.
Several nearby retailers have closed following Northridge's decline.» Read Full Article
Early school start times in question due to alarming impact on teens
Joanne Lipo Zovic got up after midnight on a recent weekday to find her daughter Haley, a senior at Shorewood High School, and some classmates still studying for an exam.
Haley, 17, does not have a first-hour class this semester, so she didn't have to start school until 8:33 a.m. — giving her at least a little extra sleep.
It's a schedule many think should be the norm. The Shorewood district has formed a committee of parents, students and School Board members to help it consider whether to join two other area schools, and hundreds of others around the country, in pushing back high school start times.
At issue is whether the start of the school day — which has shifted earlier in recent decades, to around 7 a.m. for many local schools — is making it harder to educate teenagers.
Sleep researchers say adolescents' circadian rhythms, or "body clocks," are different from those of younger children and adults. Teenagers don't usually get sleepy until about 11 p.m. and aren't ready to wake up until nine hours later, about 8 a.m.» Read Full Article
Federal officials investigate Mequon lawyer accused of fraud
Federal authorities are trying to seize some of more than $2 million entrusted to a Mequon lawyer last year by an elderly West Allis couple.
It's the latest step by authorities who for three years have investigated serious complaints against attorney Sarah Laux, who remains a member in good standing of the state bar.
Mark Franzen, the West Allis couple's son, said when he read about Laux's legal trouble in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in May, he returned from Arizona to check on his parents. He learned that the couple had hired Laux after attending a free luncheon seminar about trusts that Laux put on in Greendale.
"I went back to look at my parents' affairs and estate, and uncovered some money was missing," Franzen said. "It appeared Laux was behind it and it focused on annuities."
According to records in federal court and from the state commissioner of insurance, Laux persuaded Harold and Mary Ann Franzen to redirect about $2.1 million of their investments into a series of annuities.» Read Full Article
Bay girls fall to Cedarburg, 62-50, now game behind in NSC race
Now it gets much harder for the Whitefish Bay girls basketball team to win the North Shore Conference title.
The Blue Dukes saw their 14-game winning streak come to an end Friday night when visiting Cedarburg dominated the fourth quarter and beat Bay, 62-50. It was Bay's first loss since an 82-77 decision to North Shore leader Germantown back on Dec. 6.
With the defeat, Bay (10-2, 15-3) fell out of the tie for the league lead it previously had with Germantown. The Warhawks (11-1, 15-5) crushed Nicolet this night to maintain their lead.
"I still find it incredible that this team had not been defeated since December," said Bay coach Dave Markson, "but they (the Bulldogs) made the adjustments and they didn't flinch (when it counted).
"Now we need some help. We need somebody to beat Germantown (to get a share of the lead) and that's never a good situation to be in."» Read Full Article
North Shore United to improve complex, expand
Mequon — Several improvements to the North Shore United Soccer Club's Port Washington State Bank complex, W6499 Layton St., were approved by the Planning Commission on Monday.
Under an amended conditional use permit, NSU is now allowed an increase in parking to 170 vehicles, an increase in patrons from 250 to 492 with three annual exceptions for tournaments, nighttime lighting for Monday through Thursday practices from September to Thanksgiving, and an allowance for adult players.
The new site plan approved Monday allows for a four-foot fence around the recently installed synthetic field, two sets of 72-spectator bleachers, protective netting behind several of the fields, and a four-stall restroom trailer on the northwest part of the complex parking lot.
The operational changes both codify expansions of the program which have been in violation the original use permit dating back to the 1990s and allow for much-needed improvements, according to NSU representatives.
"The modifications go to help ensuring that all the players and families in our club enjoy the game," Coaching Director Joe Hammes said. "It keeps them happy and safe."» Read Full Article
Man arrested for taking $3,300 worth of items from Sendik's
A man was arrested on Jan. 31 for taking more than $3,300 worth of items from Sendik's Fresh2Go.
According to the Bayside police report:
The man, age and residence not released, worked as a demonstrator for a food company working at Sendik's Fresh2Go, 340 W. Brown Deer Road, over a number of days.
The store discovered items missing during an inventory, and the man, who was then questioned, admitted taking the items but not eating or selling them, just storing them at his home. He blamed an anxiety disorder for the thefts.
He was found in possession of about 25 items valued at $281. He and police then went to his home but the man would not let them in, saying it was a relative's home and that relative was ill. He went in and came out with more than 70 items valued at $1,510.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer police seeking BP armed robbery suspect
Brown Deer — Police are on the lookout for a man suspected of robbing at gunpoint the BP gas station at 51st Street and Brown Deer Road Wednesday evening.
According to a Brown Deer Police Department news release, the man entered the gas station about 7 p.m. Wednesday and wanted to purchase a cigar. The clerk asked for identification, which the man handed over. According to the clerk, the ID provided matched the man.
While the clerk was handing over change, the man pulled out a black gun of unknown style from his backpack and demanded money.
The man made off with an undisclosed amount of cash, running to and entering the passenger side of a late-model, dark-colored Chevy Impala, which was last seen going south on 51st Street.
The man was described as a black male, 18- to 20-years-old, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches with an average build. He was wearing a black baseball cap; dark coat and pants; white tennis shoes; and a black backpack.» Read Full Article
Authorities identify man killed in Glendale house fire
man killed in a weekend Glendale house fire was identified Wednesday as 49-year-old Steven A. Kleiber.The
The fire occurred about 9:45 p.m. Saturday and was reported by a Glendale police officer who noticed it while on patrol. North Shore Fire/Rescue arrived to find the roof collapsing and saw the first floor eventually fall into the basement.
Kleiber suffered burns and was deceased when officials found him on the first floor of the house. The Milwaukee County medical examiner ruled the death accidental.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Tepper resigns as Glendale mayor
Glendale — Mayor Jerome Tepper is stepping down from his leadership post, after holding the role for nearly eight years.
The Common Council on Monday considered Tepper's resignation, submitted in a letter dated Feb. 6 and effective Feb. 12. Tepper explained that his frequent travel since his wife took a job in Virginia about 14 months ago has taken a toll on him physically.
"I promised my wife that as soon as the resolution of the (North Shore) Fire Department modification was completed that I would tender my resignation and become a full-time husband," Tepper said. "This was the first opportunity for me to really do it at the right time."
Being able to work with the leaders of the six other North Shore communities to modify the fire department funding agreement is one of the accomplishments that stands out for Tepper since he first took on the role of mayor in April 2006. Although it took nearly eight years to complete, he noted, it was worth the effort.
Other accomplishments listed by Tepper include keeping taxes at a level the community can handle, under the leadership of City Administrator Richard Maslowski, running efficient meetings, and keeping Glendale Days alive — something he credits in part to resident Bryan Kennedy. When he recommended that Kennedy serve as chair of the Fourth of July Committee, he happily accepted, Tepper said.» Read Full Article
New scholarship honors deceased Shorewood grad
Shorewood — Debra Spector lives on in the thoughts of her family, in the words of her friends, and now in the lives of the students helped in her name.
Sunday was the one-year anniversary of her abrupt and untimely passing at the age of 39 due to diabetic complications. This Friday, Valentine's Day, marks the bittersweet anniversary of the funeral attended by her family and several hundred friends.
Creating a memorial fund
To honor her name and the love she had for Shorewood High School, her father, Howard Spector, has donated $25,000 to fund the self-sustaining Debra Spector Memorial Scholarship.
The memorial fund has been invested by the high school. Every year $500 worth of proceeds will be awarded to a student bound for nearby University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where Debra earned her undergraduate degree.» Read Full Article
Mequon approves Marshalls store plan
A new Marshalls store proposed for Mequon Pavilions Shopping Center has been approved by the Mequon Plan Commission.
The commission at its Monday night meeting approved plans for the clothing and home goods store to use 24,822 square feet at the shopping center, 10930 N. Port Washington Road.
Marshalls will take space currently occupied by Men's Wearhouse and two smaller adjacent vacant spaces, according to a commission report. Men's Wearhouse will move to another vacant space at the shopping center.
The plan includes a 300-square-foot addition at the front entrance, a 500-square-foot expansion at the rear of the building for a loading dock, and changes to the building's façade, including new storefront windows.
Marshalls will be among the largest tenants at the 218,116-square-foot Mequon Pavilions, which is owned by New York-based Brixmor Property Group Inc. Other anchors include Sendik's Food Market and Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Homestead edges AHS in seeding battle
Germantown coach Steve Showalter and Kettle Moraine coach Brad Bestor were among those on hand Tuesday at Homestead High School to watch the Highlanders face Arrowhead in a nonconference boys basketball battle. The next time coaches from the four teams will be in the same room is Sunday, when the annual seeding meeting will hash out where each team falls in the WIAA postseason.
It was Homestead that came away with a huge feather in its cap for that very occasion.
With a 56-51 win over Arrowhead, the Highlanders attained the inside track on the No. 3 seed, with Germantown and Kettle Moraine the momentary odds-on favorites for the top spots in a loaded corner of the sectional.
"When we dropped to Port (Washington on Jan. 24), that kind of put us behind the 8-ball, but these guys have responded all year with stepping up," Homestead coach Kevin McKenna said. "We talked all week about how this game is a bracket-buster game. We knew going into the seeding meeting on Sunday, this was going to play big."
Jerrod Walton scored 23 points and could do no wrong for the Highlanders, and Luke Mueller caught fire for a key fourth-quarter stretch to give the Highlanders a late lead.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer boys clinch second straight Woodland East title
A lot of new faces, a couple of transfers but the same old intensity.
And that's how the Brown Deer boys basketball team clinched its second straight Woodland Conference East Division title Tuesday night, as it rolled past a stubborn Shorewood squad with a 16-0 start to the fourth quarter en route to a 69-47 decision.
"It was a great win for us," said Falcon coach Kelly Appleby. "Back-to-back conference titles is a great achievement for this group. We've been unbeaten on the East side for the last two years and we've had just four (conference) losses total.
"This team (Shorewood), was in second place, so we needed to separate ourselves."
They did, as with the win, the Falcons are now 13-3 in league play and 15-5 overall having won seven games in a row and nine of their last 10. Meanwhile, Shorewood fell to 9-6 and 12-7, respectively and saw its five game winning streak come to an end.» Read Full Article
Memory care facility proposal again tabled by Mequon Planning Commission
Mequon — The Planning Commission's second crack at the Azura Memory Care of Mequon proposal played out like a court trial Monday, with an abundance of resident testimony interspersed with attorneys on both sides of the issue arguing their cases before an attentive, near-capacity crowd.
It was then up to City Attorney John DeStefanis to attempt to make sense of the various legal claims and clarify for the commissioners what they could and could not do according to state law. Yet even with his advice, the commissioners weren't sure their actions could hold up in court and tabled Azura's request for the second time.
Colorado-based Azura Memory Care has proposed a 60-bed memory care facility at the former Beth El synagogue property at 2802 W. Mequon Road. After a lengthy discussion in January, the commission tabled Azura's request after residents and the developer offered conflicting claims.
The 14 residents who addressed the commission on the proposal were unanimously opposed to Azura's plans. Faced with conflicting legal opinions from attorneys representing the developer and neighbors — who unsurprisingly offered interpretations favorable to their clients — the commission tasked DeStefanis with sorting it all out to produce a definitive legal opinion for their next meeting.
"I'm troubled that if we go forward tonight we're going to put Mequon back in court," commissioner Pat Marchese said.» Read Full Article
Committee selects facilitator to aid in Mequon-Thiensville financial talks
tasked with finding a way to financially sustain the quality of the district, on Thursday chose noted mediator Howard Bellman to aid them in their deliberations.Mequon — The newly formed Mequon-Thiensville School District ad hoc committee,
Bellman is a longtime mediator who has worked on a number of high-profile negotiations over the years. According to his website, Bellman has worked with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Education, and Federal Trade Commission; his recent cases include negotiations over the Kalamazoo River Superfund site cleanup, Archdiocese of Milwaukee clergy sexual abuse, and employment discrimination settlement negotiations.
While at least one committee member had qualms about hiring Bellman, saying he has a reputation for being biased in favor of teachers, the consensus among the group was that he has impressive experience and could be dismissed in the event he shows a bias.
"I got the sense that as a process champion, as a facilitator, he would separate those things out," committee co-chair Brian Levy said. "...If we're cognizant that he's got a bent or something, we can filter that out."
Committee avoids resident candidates» Read Full Article
1 dead in fire that destroyed Glendale house
One person is dead after a fire Saturday evening destroyed a home on Bridgewood Lane in Glendale.
The fire was first reported at 9:45 p.m. by a Glendale police officer who noticed it while on patrol. Fire crews responded and found the fire had taken over the front and back of the house, delaying firefighters' entry into the home, North Shore Fire/Rescue said in a news release.
The roof collapse shortly after the firefighters arrived, and the damage was so extensive that part of the first floor eventually collapsed into the basement.
Crews later were able to locate the unidentified victim on the first floor. The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office is investigating the cause of death and helping to identify the victim.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but it appears to have started in a first-floor living room, North Shore Fire/Rescue said. Fire crews were unable to locate any smoke detectors in the home.» Read Full Article
Bay boys sharing on offense leads to 61-39 win over Messmer
In a game that will likely have major WIAA D2 sectional seeding ramifications, the Whitefish Bay boys basketball team took a 9-0 lead on host Messmer and never looked back in earning a 61-39 victory Saturday afternoon.
"That's a tough team and the score is not indicative of how tough this game was," said Blue Duke coach Kevin Lazovik. "We were able to get stops when we needed them and we've been encouraging the kids to share the ball and they've bought in.
"When you share the ball good things tend to happen."
With the victory, the Blue Dukes improved to 15-5 overall and ran their winning streak to five games. Meanwhile, the Bishops saw their nine-game winning streak come to an end as they fell to 16-3.
Both are in the same WIAA sectional bracket.» Read Full Article
Bay boys hoops team gets defensive in overpowering Nicolet, 62-26
If the Whitefish Bay boys basketball team continues to play defense like it did against overmatched host and rival Nicolet Friday night, don't be surprised if the Blue Dukes make another strong WIAA tourney run like they did when they won the state D2 title in 2011.
The Blue Dukes limited the Knights to just nine second half points, held them to just five field goals for the night and went on a 26-0 run in the third quarter in winning their fourth game in a row and their second of the week in an easy 62-26 decision.
Coach Kevin Lazovik said the defense all comes down to communication.
"Yes, we're doing a great job of talking to one another," he said. "That's the biggest job on defense, communicating with one another. Guys stepped up and were really flying around tonight."
The Blue Dukes cemented their third place standing in the North Shore at 8-4 and improved to 14-5 overall.» Read Full Article
VIDEO: Shorewood man captures Grand Canyon from space
Shorewood — From the edge of space, even the Grand Canyon looks small.
At an altitude equal to three times the height of Mount Everest, John Flaig of Shorewood shot photos and video from his homemade weather balloon, capturing breathtaking vistas from the furthest reaches of the atmosphere.
Flaig, 39, a programmer by day, is one of few amateur weather balloon photographers in the country, and a pioneer of the burgeoning hobby.
So much so that he is the subject of a recently released National Geographic micro-documentary. The roughly four-minute film follows the trip that he and adventure filmmaker J.J. Kelley took as they launched a gadget-laden balloon last Thanksgiving to capture stratospheric shots of the Grand Canyon:» Read Full Article
Thiensville police ticket 11 at underage drinking party
Thiensville — Police busted eight underage drinkers Saturday and ticketed three Thiensville men for providing the alcohol.
According to a department news release:
Following a report of loud music at an apartment, police responded to the 100 block of Grand Avenue at 11:55 p.m. Feb. 1 and were met at the apartment door by the three Thiensville men. The officer at the door noticed beers cans in the living room behind them.
At the same time the officer heard on another officer's radio that there was a large group of people running out a rear door. The second officer chased the group as they broke into another apartment within the complex, where they were found hiding in a closet.
The eight young men and women, ranging from 18 to 20-years-old, were all ticketed for underage drinking and resisting arrest. The three 21-year-old men who were hosting them at their apartment were ticketed for providing alcohol. In total police issued 19 citations.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer Village Board primary election voters guide
Jamie Awe
Age: 34
occupation: annuity specialist at Robert W. Baird & Co.» Read Full Article
Mequon-Thiensville district confronts challenge of keeping best-in-state performance despite declining enrollment and funding
Mequon — It's a straightforward question with a not-so-straightforward answer: How to keep the state's top rated K-12 school district up to snuff when student enrollment, and therefore funding, have been steadily decreasing over the years?
That is the quandary a newly formed committee will take on as it attempts to rectify the Mequon-Thiensville School District's high-flying performance with its perennially red ledger.
Over the years the district has attempted one referendum and implemented numerous budget cuts to offset revenue losses. Nevertheless, with an awareness that the funding dilemma could someday jeopardize the quality of education within the district, the School Board decided last year to create the committee.
In January, the board approved the 17-resident committee roster, which includes lawyers, businesspeople, education advocates, and others representing the Mequon and Thiensville communities.
The board recently brainstormed its own, six-part definition of quality education. It's now up to the committee to create a plan to financially sustain that quality.» Read Full Article
Preserving our Past, February: Ice skating in Whitefish Bay
By Tom Fehring:
Shortly after publishing a book entitled, "Images of Whitefish Bay," I received a letter from Mary Hansen Lourigan. The book included two images of men working on flooding the annual ice rink at Cahill Square, taken in the 1950s. I had assumed that the men worked for the village's department of public works. Mary recognized them and wanted to pass along their names.
"I received a copy of "Images of Whitefish Bay" as a gift. The picture of the man wearing the skates in front of the Quonset hut is Mr. Norbert Studelska. The gentleman with the fedora is Mr. Adelbert Rietz. Norbert and Adelbert were both history teachers who worked as chaperones at the skating rink. I believe the man in the center is Mr. Richard VandenAvond. He came to Whitefish Bay as a teacher after I graduated (class of '59'). I used to skate almost every night and many weekends and remember them well. Mr. Studelska and Mr. Rietz were two really good teachers.
"I have really enjoyed the book and the many memories that it has brought back."
The images that Mary refers to are shown below.» Read Full Article
Shorewood TCF Bank robber claimed he had a hand grenade
Shorewood — Police are searching for a man suspected of robbing the TCF Bank in Shorewood late Tuesday morning.
According to an announcement from Shorewood police, the man entered the bank at 11:39 a.m. on Tuesday and announced that he had a hand grenade. He demanded money from a teller and handed over a red Sendik's bag. He told the teller not to give him a dye pack.
He made off on foot with an unknown amount of cash.
Police describe the man as white, about 5' 7", wearing a dark puffy waist-length jacket with the hood up and his face covered.
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Shorewood police at (414) 847-2610.
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Shorewood faces $450,000 in alley work
Shorewood — Alleyways in need of reconstruction or major maintenance are likely to begin receiving more attention under Shorewood's pavement management plan.
In a report to the Village Board on Monday, Public Works Director Leeann Butschlick provided an overview of street and alley repairs completed since 2005 and an outlook of what is planned for 2014 and beyond.
As required by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the village rates its roadways each odd calendar year, using the state's pavement surface evaluation and rating system scale of 1 to 10, with 10 representing the best condition. The ratings apply only to residential streets, Butschlick noted, which excludes Capitol and Wilson drives and Oakland Avenue, due to their classifications by WisDOT. Although not required, the village also rated its alleys in 2013, Butschlick said.
The pavement management plan adopted by the village in 2009 takes those ratings into consideration and specifies that street reconstruction projects are to be completed in even calendar years, with a budget of $1.5 million to $2 million and coordinated with major utility, other infrastructure and development projects, Butschlick explained, and that major maintenance projects are to be done in odd calendar years, based on need, with a budget of $225,000 to $250,000.
Aside from pothole patching in various alleys and the 2011 resurfacing of the alley serving the 4400 blocks of Cramer Street and Murray Avenue, completed with Community Development Block Grant funding, no reconstruction or major maintenance of alleys has been funded since the plan was adopted.» Read Full Article
Homestead, Shorewood orchestra musicians to perform at Carnegie Hall
More than 60 students from Homestead and Shorewood High Schools will appear Feb. 16 at Carnegie Hall in New York after their orchestra was selected to perform a concert.
The 66-member Homestead and Shorewood High School Chamber Orchestra will play works by Mendelssohn, Doyle and Bloch in the concert and will be joined by Milwaukee-area pianist Jeannie Yu, according to a news release from the Mequon-Thiensville School District, of which Homestead is a part.
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International Auto dealership could land on 51st and Brown Deer
Brown Deer — In his first year here, Village Manager Michael Hall says many residents and businesspeople have voiced a strong desire to replace an abandoned gas station at the southeast corner of Brown Deer Road and 51st Street.
"People are always asking me what's going to be done about that," he said in an interview.
The Village Board on Monday night took a first step toward action on that corner by unanimously approving a memorandum of understanding with the International Autos Group of West Allis for the gas station property and the adjacent KinderCare day care facility, 8750 N. 51st St. The village would acquire the two properties, then sell the combined site to International Autos, which would build a dealership for an unspecified luxury car.
According to its website, International Autos operates 18 showrooms in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Auto brands the group sells include Audi, Infiniti, Lexus, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Jaguar and Volvo.
Hall said International's dealerships include Audi North Shore, 4400 W. Brown Deer Road, and Infiniti North Shore in Glendale.» Read Full Article
River bluff housing considered for Shorewood
Shorewood officials have started negotiations with a developer for a possible housing project overlooking the Milwaukee River.
Village Manager Chris Swartz declined to provide details. The Shorewood Community Development Authority is to discuss negotiations for possible financing assistance in a closed session at its Friday meeting.
The state open meetings law allows governments to discuss such negotiations in closed session. But any action must occur in open session.
The site cover over 4 acres at 3900 N. Sherburn Place, Swartz said. It includes an industrial building that once housed Milwaukee PC, which would be razed.
The parcel is just south of where Vero Beach, Fla.-based Harbor Retirement Associates LLC will develop 94 assisted-living and memory-care apartments on a 3.2-acre site south of E. Capitol Drive, between the Milwaukee River and the biking trail overpass.» Read Full Article
Primary election voters guide for Shorewood School Board
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5 Shockingly Progressive Policies from Insane Dictatorships
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking in black-and-white terms about foreign countries. America is a free country, so we assume that all these repressive dictatorships must be like America in Opposite World, restricting every freedom they can get their hands on. But it's not that simple. We don't want to take away from the fact that a lot of these places are hellish nightmares, but some of them actually have (or had) policies even more progressive than those in the West. For example ...
#5. Weed Is Totally Legal in North Korea
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When your stoner friends complain about how tyrannical the government is for refusing to legalize marijuana, you may be tempted to point out that there are a lot of people in the world living under horrendous regimes so strict that questioning the government can get you executed by flamethrower. That's not a joke; that's something they actually do in North Korea. But then your friends might rightly point out that even in North Korea, weed is totally fine.
In a country where "human rights" is considered a strange foreign concept that goes against the spirit of the prosperity of Best Korea, getting hit by a flamethrower isn't the only way to get blazed. While most of the rest of the world is still wringing its hands over whether to make marijuana legal, the DPRK is ahead of the game, in that they never made it illegal to begin with: The North Korean government doesn't consider marijuana a drug and has never regulated its use. You might think this is because the country does not give an actual crap about the well-being of its people, so it doesn't regulate drugs whatsoever, but you'd be wrong: The government is extremely harsh on users of hard drugs like meth, for example.
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Reminder: This is a country that really has its shit together when it comes to the phrase "extremely harsh."
But weed is no more scarce or taboo than tobacco in North Korea -- in fact, the local name for it is "ip tambae," meaning "leaf tobacco." Growing hemp is also completely fine, with marijuana plants being cultivated along railroad tracks all over the country due to their extractable oils, which are used for industrial purposes, and their deep roots, which help hold the tracks.
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Meaning North Korea probably had the happiest hobo population in the world before they were all inevitably executed.
What about that super impressive military force that they like to remind us has its guns pointed at the USA, just itching for an excuse to strike? Apparently, smoking weed is a super popular pastime among the ranks of the North Korean military. It kind of blows away that frightening image of North Korean soldiers marching toward America when you picture them enveloped in a haze of suspiciously pungent smoke and laughing at their own uniforms.
#4. The Nazis Were Aggressively Pro-Animal Rights
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A high regard for the sanctity of life probably isn't the first thing you think about when it comes to Nazi Germany. It's safe to say that a regime that deliberately murdered over 13 million people probably didn't put compassion near the top of its list of priorities. If the Nazis treated people like that, how do you think they treated animals?
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Clearly well enough to escape history's most deserving mauling opportunity.
The answer is "astonishingly well."
Nazi Germany had some of the strictest animal protection laws of its time for a group of people you probably assumed drowned cats for sport. In fact, one of the first things the Nazi party did when they got into power was pass a set of laws tightly regulating how animals are slaughtered for food and outright banning any form of cruel animal experimentation, such as vivisection. In fact, many of the animal protection laws that are still on the books in Germany today were originally put in place by Hermann Goering, Hitler's BFF and second in command.
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The hierarchy governing racial superiority among cats thankfully vanished into history.
While you'd probably assume that any law the Nazis passed was designed in some way to spite the Jews (and you'd be partly right -- Jewish kosher butchering was cited as part of their reasoning), the animal protection laws applied to everybody, even the very rich, and Hitler (a devout vegetarian) was fucking serious about it. Even hunting had to be carried out as morally as possible -- hunting on horseback and using hounds were both banned due to being considered unethical and a means of causing unnecessary suffering for the game. Never having hunted without these perks, the aristocracy became furious, but that didn't stop the Nazis from prohibiting them, a ban that remains in action today. Oh, and a biologist was once punished for not giving enough anesthesia to worms during an experiment.
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"You monster! This is literally the worse atrocity ever committed by a German!"
There are a few theories about how the Nazis reconciled their animal protection policies with the fact that they were, you know, Nazis. Psychological studies of war criminals revealed that many of them were environmentalists to the point where they placed the lives of animals above the lives of humans (or at least certain races of humans). It kind of sheds a new light on the situation when you think of the Nazis as the extreme version of that hippie Facebook friend who keeps posting pictures of their cats and lamenting about how humans are shit.
#3. Rwanda Is the World Leader in Gender Equality
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If you know anything about Rwanda, the word "genocide" will likely turn up in your description, as well as a rant about how you need to put a vowel between the letters "R" and "W." But mostly the genocide thing. Back in the 1990s, Rwanda was one of the most violent places on Earth, and for the past couple of decades it's been ruled by a dictator, Paul Kagame, who has a funny way of making his political rivals disappear, while keeping a tight clamp on freedom of speech among his citizens. That's disappointing, because in terms of women's rights, Rwanda kind of shits on the rest of the world.
Rwanda's got so much gender equality, it's breaking (its own) world records for the highest proportion of women in office. In 2013, women won 64 percent of the seats in Rwanda's parliament. And they did so thanks to a voter turnout that would make Thomas Jefferson green with envy.
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Assuming that he could feel anything besides pure swagger under that fur collar.
For a country that was basically synonymous with all the problems that Africa has become known for, it has undergone a pretty incredible transformation. Two decades ago, lawlessness, rape, and murder were endemic, but today you'll find harsh penalties for rape, hotlines for victims, and widespread access to contraception. And businesses are following the example set by Rwanda's female-led parliament, ending years of entrenched discrimination. It's also the cleanest country in Africa. Plastic bags are outright illegal (it's a $150 fine if they catch you), street hawkers aren't allowed, and armies of government-employed cleaners work around the clock to make sure there's no litter messing up the public spaces.
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In fairness, it's easy to remember to stay tidy when half your trash is the remains of political dissidents.
And in case you assume that this is all just the happy mask they're using to cover up some really shady underground, it turns out that daily life in Rwanda is more or less as peaceful as it appears. Crime is low and police corruption is minimal, which is surprising for a country ruled by a guy who suspiciously gets over 90 percent of the vote each election.

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12 Dec 2011 9:19 AM #1
[PR3] selectfield getValues issue
If the "value" config is passed to a selectfield, "getValue()" does not call the specified "getValue" function defined in Ext.field.Select (on line 49921 in sencha-touch-all-debug), but the optimizedGetter function (line 3285).
Maybe it's an even bigger problem for other fields or components, too.
var fieldset = new Ext.form.Panel({ items: [{ xtype: 'fieldset', items: [{ xtype: 'selectfield', store: [...], value: 1 // this disturbs the config }] }] });
12 Dec 2011 10:03 AM #2
Thank you for the report.
12 Dec 2011 9:50 PM #3
Is there a workaround to get the value? I'm getting the same issue with sliderfields in a fieldset.
13 Dec 2011 3:32 AM #4
Another error on getValues is that a toogle returns now an Array and not the given value.
16 Dec 2011 2:49 AM #5
I too can reproduce the problem. See below on a snippet of my code on how I "worked" around the problem on PR3. on PR2 it works fine. If I don't set a default value then getValue(), works fine. Its only then you set a value you get returned a object which you have to go into. Unless I'm doing this wrong and its working by chance 100% of the time :-)
{ xtype: 'selectfield', name : 'carriercountry', label: 'Country', valueField : 'countryid', displayField : 'countryname', value: country_code, store : CountriesStore, listeners: { change: function(newOption) { apncountry = newOption.getValue().data.countryid; // PR3 //apncountry = newOption.getValue(); // PR2 CarriersStore.read({ params : {country:apncountry} }); } } },
16 Dec 2011 4:05 AM #6
I had the same issue with a sliderfield.
As a workaround, I set the value using the setValue function instead of setting it through the config.
I'm guessing the issue happens because of automatic getter and setter functions set on each config, but I'm not sure as I don't know how that works.
If that's indeed the case, it should be fairly easy to fix, by checking if a function already exists with the same name before creating the getter or setter.---
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This issue has been fixed for the next release.


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Nebraska's high school graduation rate ranks fourth nationally with 86 percent of seniors graduating in 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Education' first-ever study focusing on a new method for determining graduation rates.
The results were released this week and are available at U.S. Department of Education study. Under the new calculation method called the Cohort Graduation Rate, Nebraska and other states are required to track students as 9th graders to determine how many graduate four years later.
Iowa ranked at the top with an 88 percent graduation rate followed by Vermont and Wisconsin each with an 87 percent graduation rate. Nebraska ranked fourth with an 86 percent four-year cohort graduation rate, tying with five other states: Indiana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas.
Nebraska's 2011 five-year cohort graduation rate was higher, 89 percent. Some students take longer to graduate from high school for a number of reasons, such as illness or family circumstances, and students with special needs may attend school until age 21.
"Our teachers and administrators work hard to support all students, especially those students who find school challenging and are at risk of dropping out," said Nebraska Education Commissioner Roger Breed. "While this is good news for our students and their schools, the results are uneven. Some groups of students graduate at lower rates. That is our challenge: Closing the gaps in graduation rates and in student achievement.
"Nebraska's overall goal is to graduate 90 percent or more of our high school students, year after year," Breed said.
New data released recently showed that the state's 2012 four-year cohort graduation rate was higher than that used in the study, with 88 percent of Nebraska's seniors graduating last spring. And, while the gaps among student groups persisted, most student groups graduated at higher rates when comparing the two years of data.
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Council Business Plan 2011+
Council Business Plan 2011+
The Council Business Plan for 2011+ sets out the high level medium term corporate plan for the council, incorporating our key priorities and the budget, resources and workforce plans that support them. It sets the direction for business planning across the whole organisation for the medium term. The detailed implementation plans to achieve the key priorities will be captured in the Directorate Business Plans and in Cabinet Member and Committee reports at the start of the financial year.
The Government's Spending Review 2010 set an unparalleled financial challenge for local councils. The Government grant settlement announced in December 2010 means that we shall need to make savings of over £300m over the next four years. Information on the national financial context is outlined later on in this part of the document.
The Council Business Plan for 2011+ is set within the context of realising these savings whilst continuing to work to achieve the priority outcomes for Birmingham people.
How This Plan Is Set Out
A summary of the priority outcomes is provided in part 2 of this Plan. The priorities were developed in consultation with Birmingham residents and businesses, partners and other stakeholders as outlined in part 4.
The priorities will be delivered through fundamental service redesign across the majority of Council services. To deliver "better for less", we are developing new ways to provide services, built around seven clear principles of service redesign outlined in part 3. The planned service changes are summarised in Appendix 1.
The financial plans and budgets are summarised in part 6 and explained in full detail in Appendix 2. Our strategic approach to managing property, assets and other resources is summarised in part 7.
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To support the implementation of the Council Business Plan 2011+ , each of Birmingham's 6 Directorates produces its own business plan. These business plans are informed by a Corporate Planning Framework.
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To the Editor,
There are over 20,000 gun control laws on the books across the country, with more coming. Most, if not all, are unconstitutional, which firmly states that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Yet many, including too many in government, consider this ridiculous overkill "lax," because people frequently do use guns to hurt others. The fact that many, if not most, of those came into possession of their weapons by illegal means, is lost on them.
The average person buys a gun like they buy insurance; hoping they'll never really have to use it.
Last year, around 300 people were killed with semi-automatic "assault rifles;" nearly 500 people were bludgeoned to death with hammers. As they say, "no one is calling for more hammer control laws."
Chicago, New York and Washington, DC have the most stringent gun laws in the nation; they say it's almost impossible to buy a gun in Illinois, due to all the legal hoops you must jump through.
These three cities also have the highest rates of violence and murder, involving guns, in the nation; Chicago, the worst of the three, is coming to resemble the mythical "Old West" Progressive liberals like to point to, when they want to make some hysterical point about gun violence. In truth, gun violence in the Old West was relatively rare, simply because everyone knew most everyone else had a gun. It's called "deterrence."
Truthfully, where gun laws are most prevalent, so is gun violence. The opposite is also true; as gun sales rise, crime rates fall. However, the anti-gun zealots ignore these facts and statistics. Only their agenda matters.
I'd bet that many "elite" liberals are absolutely gleeful, when some depraved whacko shoots up a school and kills innocent children. It gives them ammunition - pun definitely intended - for their anti-gun demagoguery.
I wonder if Obama's 23 shiny new executive orders on this issue will do anything toward rounding up the thousands of firearms his ill-conceived, criminal schemes let pass into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels? After all, there have been over 300 deaths involving them.
Obama used the Newtown tragedy to advance his agenda. Do you really think those kids he surrounded himself with for his speech were there for more than emotional set dressing? Liberals constantly, cynically, use "the children" to push their authoritarian, ever-intrusive agendas.
They know they can't actually confiscate or outright ban guns, altogether. However, if they can wrap the issue in enough red tape to make it a big enough legal inconvenience to own a gun, and/or perhaps throttle the ammunition supplies, it may get to the point where fewer will bother, and then it won't matter either way.
20,000 laws.
Truthfully, the progressive left's tyrannical "gun control" ideal has nothing to do with controlling guns, or crime. Instead, like all tyrannies, it has everything to do with controlling - disarming - the law-abiding masses. It's not about protecting people. It's about rendering people defenseless, against oppression.
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The growing nanny state
June 30, 2013
To the editor: On a recent shopping trip, I bought some usual household product....
The quote is so NOT Jeff Foxworthy.
I personally don't think that warning against the misuse of pesticide is a bad thing.
It has nothing to do with envying tour neighbors plasma.
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If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently sought, but couldn't be found — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
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Go to Wal-Mart tomorrow and see the Nanny State in real life.
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You might write NYC Mayor Bloomberg a letter and ask him. He is a control freak.
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5 Medical Breakthroughs That Make Life Shockingly Easy
Everyone has that one thing they'd like to change about themselves -- quitting the booze, getting in shape, kicking that public masturbation habit -- but they continually put it off, because making major lifestyle changes is hard. Damn it, science, it's the 21st century! Where's the pill that makes all of our human flaws disappear?
Not far away, apparently. At this very moment, they are testing ...
#5. A Pill That Replaces Exercise
When it comes to the competition between food and exercise, how could exercise ever stand a chance when food is just so goddamn delicious? That's apparently a sentiment many Americans share, because according to the CDC, over one-third of us are fatasses. See, what we need is a pill that just magically makes fat go away, and we're not talking about the bullshit diet pills they have on supplement shelves now (hint: their "appetite suppressant" is just caffeine). Well, it looks like the future is going to be an awesome place for people who hate to sweat.
Say goodbye to your extra chins and hello to ... everything else you're already doing.
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a hormone that mimics exercising by increasing the body's ability to burn fat, theoretically allowing you to get in shape even as you watch Firefly marathons while choking down Hungry-Man frozen dinners. (PROTIP: You're supposed to cook them first.) The newly identified hormone, called irisin, causes the body to transform white "bad" fat into brown "good" fat, which generates heat. The result is the same as exercise -- burning calories, improving the processing of insulin ... everything that could bring us every fat guy's greasy wet dream: an exercise pill.
So how did the scientists discover the true potential of irisin? How else? After studying and isolating the hormone, they shot up some roly-poly mice with it. Within 10 days of treatment, the mice had better blood sugar and insulin levels and had lost some weight, with the assumption being that longer exposure would "reduce the damage done by a high-fat diet, protecting mice against diet-induced obesity and diabetes."
For Squeaky, the weight may have gone, but the crippling self-esteem issues remained.
Researchers think that irisin could potentially be used to address a wide range of health problems -- obesity, mental health disorders, neuromuscular diseases like muscular dystrophy -- but come on, we all know what it'll really be used for: getting all the benefits of exercise without doing one iota of the work. After all, isn't that exactly what all of human civilization has been progressing toward for the last thousand years or so?
#4. A Real Hangover (and Possible Alcoholism) Cure
After thousands of years of headaches, heavy eyelids, and how the hell did the world get so loud?, we might finally have a solution to one of the world's most pressing health issues. That's right -- thanks to the tireless work of scientists who couldn't give less of a shit about that "curing cancer" nonsense, we might soon have a preventive cure for the common hangover. And it'll come in handy-dandy pill form.
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles have developed a drug called dihydromyricetin, dubbed DHM, which they claim will drastically reduce hangover symptoms. The drug was developed using chemicals derived from the fruit of the oriental raisin tree, which has been used by people in China to prevent hangovers for over 500 years.
Thanks, China. See if we give you any of our sweet democracy or morbid obesity.
Once again, the scientists first tested the drugs on rats, which were injected with heavy doses of alcohol and later made to run a maze. Rats that were not given DHM behaved pretty much how you'd expect hung-over rats to behave, stumbling into walls or cowering in a corner, presumably begging the scientists to inject them with some coffee and turn down the damn lights. The rats that were given DHM, however, ran the maze as if they hadn't been given any alcohol, behaving as inquisitively as any sober rat.
According to the researchers, the drug's benefits don't end with curing hangovers: DHM was also shown to be effective at preventing rats from getting drunk in the first place. In another phase of the experiment, the scientists laid some rats on their backs and injected them with a shit-ton of alcohol -- the human equivalent of drinking 15 to 20 beers in two hours, or what many of our readers refer to as "a pretty good start." The researchers then grabbed some popcorn and snickered as the rats tried to right themselves.
"Ha! She's going home with him?"
The liquored-up rodents provided the researchers with 70 minutes of weebly-wobbly hilarity, but rats that were given DHM at the same time as the booze were able to get back on their feet in just five. And long term, DHM prevented the rats from developing cravings for alcohol, effectively keeping them from becoming filthy little disease-ridden alcoholics.
"One puke tray per mouse. Trust us, they'll need every ounce of space."
That's all fine and good for the drunken rodent population of the world, but what about us humans? Well, you don't have to wait long. Human trials of DHM are going on in the USA, but if you really need that hangover cure, you can just book that Korean vacation you've been putting off: Drugs made from the oriental raisin tree have already been approved by the Korean Food & Drug Administration and have been sold in the country since 2008.
#3. Finally, a Male Birth Control Pill
Ever wonder why there's never been a male version of the birth control pill? Well, for starters, it's a problem of magnitude: To stop a woman from getting pregnant, all you have to do is block a single egg each month, whereas a man produces about 1,000 sperm every single time his heart beats. Then there's also the challenge of getting the drug across the blood-testis barrier, a nifty little roadblock that evolution built to protect a man's tadpoles from any nastiness floating around in his bloodstream. So it's long been considered damn nigh impossible, but researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute told impossible to go fuck itself when they set out to discover a compound that just might result in the first effective and hormone-free birth control pill for men.
"Pbbbft, whatever."
Except that's not quite how it happened. As with many scientific discoveries, this compound's sperm-busting capability was found completely by accident. Dubbed JQ1, the compound was originally intended to be used in anti-cancer drugs, but when they started pumping copious amounts of it into mice, the researchers noticed something peculiar: a conspicuous lack of mouse babies. It turned out that JQ1 drastically lowered the amount of sperm the male mice produced, and those they did produce were gimpy -- if you picture a man's sperm as millions of tiny Michael Phelpses swimming for an Olympic gold medal (a much squishier, egg-shaped gold medal), JQ1 is the molecular compound running around kneecapping all of them with a microscopic baseball bat.
But we haven't even gotten to possibly the most important factor for a drug to be considered viable as a birth control method: reversibility. And JQ1 has that in spades -- when taken off of the drug, the mice were once again free to sire countless little mouse children to repopulate their strange, glass-encased worlds.
Well, some of them.
Of course, there's still a long way to go before the compound makes the jump from mice to men, and it remains to be seen whether guys will even go for a complete reversal of the birth control norm that has existed for half a century. If dudes can't be bothered to roll on a condom, who's to say they will remember to take a pill? Or tell the truth about not taking it?


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Students from Western Kentucky University announce their fundraising event to benefit the United Way of Southern Kentucky. The United Way "Penny Wars" will be held on Thursday, December 6th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. All student groups, large and small, are encouraged to decorate a "bank" and charge into battle to see who can raise the most money to help those in need during this holiday season.
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Build a Cool Bare-Bones InteriorWritten by on October 4, 2012 It's all about form following function
This story is all about form following function. When you build something with a priority on performance, sometimes you overlook the pulchritude. There are no apologies and no explanations needed. That's one of the things that makes rat rods so cool--they aren't trying to pretend to be something they're not. We wondered what would happen if we styled a muscle car interior after a late-'60s SCCA Trans-Am race car. The racing versions of the car still retained the classic lines of the production vehicles from the era, and the interiors were stripped and simplified versions of the original. They were functional, lightweight, and had most of the necessary features in a modern Pro Touring car, with a bend toward performance rather than having creature comforts such as A/C and a radio.
We started with a '66 Chevelle that had seen a variety of use over its 46 years, and the interior was in desperate need of gutting. The entire car was being remade for road racing, auto crossing, and Power Tour® duty, so a race-inspired interior would fit it well. The driving force behind a bare-minumum interior is the desire to shave weight. We weighed every part we removed and installed in the new interior to see how we netted out. If less weight was our only goal, we would have made some sacrifices to style, but we managed to reduce the overall weight of the car by a whopping 239 pounds, even though we added a 10-point rollcage. We also created an interior with loads of style that's easy to replicate. The best part is that the dashboard we chose is the only thing specific to a Chevelle. All the other modifications we show here can be used to put any muscle car on a diet while creating a stylish, retro interior.
Where We Cut the Fat
We weighed every piece of the interior that we removed and every new part that went in. We included the weight of the cage in overall reduction, but did not include the new Eastwood Thermo-Coustic sound deadener or C.A.R.S. Inc. Daytona Weave carpet. This chart shows how even small parts add up to make a difference, and it explains why race cars have gutted interiors.
|Item Removed Weight (pounds)
|Item Replacing It (pounds)
|Net Weight Reduction
|Complete original dash assembly (34.4)
|ABC Performance dash (21.2)
|Factory front bucket seats (46.4) x2
|Kirkey aluminum bucket seats (13.0)
|Aftermarket stereo with subwoofer cabinet (125.0)
|None (0.0)
|Carpet set (16.2)
|None (0.0)
|Previous sound deadener (50.0)
|None (0.0)
|Heater box (19.0)
|None (0.0)
|Rear seat (44.8)
|None (0.0)
|ABC Performance 'cage added (-96.0)
|Total Weight Reduction
Man, That's Loud!
For the sake of weight savings, we initially left the floor of the car completely uncovered. The sheetmetal was painted medium gray, which is a race-car trick used to make it easy to spot fatigue cracks. However, after just a few hundred miles of street driving, we decided this made the car much louder and hotter than we wanted to tolerate on a cross-country driver. We covered the floor with Eastwood Thermo-Coustic and found a cool-looking carpet in the C.A.R.S. Inc. inventory. The Thermo-Coustic has a peel-and-stick backing for easy application, and the butyl rubber material reduces vibration for less noise, making the sound much more pleasing. The product also limits the transfer of heat. The Daytona carpet from C.A.R.S. Inc. is a tight weave with a foam back. There's zero pile to it, so it creates a smooth and uniform look.
We measured the noise and temperature before and after and found interesting results. We used a decibel (dB) meter, which measures sound pressure. Generally, anything that makes more than a 2 dB difference is noticeable. We found a measured improvement with both the carpet and Thermo-Coustic. However, the products improved the sound quality much more than what the dB meter indicated. With nothing on the floor except paint, we measured 97 dB at 60 mph in Fifth gear, and the sound was downright irritating. Installing the Eastwood Thermo-Coustic over the floor (not the sides, doors, or roof) lowered the sound level to 94 dB and greatly mellowed the tone. Adding the C.A.R.S. Inc. Daytona Weave further reduced the sound to 91 dB. The interior noise went from creating fatigue after about 15 minutes to being enjoyable.
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01 The first step in this weight-loss program was to remove everything from the interior that was not welded in place. In pre-'68 Chevelles, that includes the dashboard, which comes out with four bolts and nine screws once the steering column is removed. With gauges, radio, and heat controls, our dash weighed 34 pounds.02 This car also had 125 pounds of subwoofer cabinet, subs, amps and six more speakers. We'll be listening to the tunes of a healthy powerplant and Flowmaster mufflers when the project is complete, so we realized the full weight savings of ditching this stereo equipment.03 We wanted to be able to adjust the seats fore and aft, so we kept the factory slider-seat mounts. Using 3/16-inch flat plate and 1-inch-square steel tubing, we made a seat frame that bolted to the sliders, then we bolted the Kirkey universal floor-mount brackets to the frame. Our steel frame added some weight you can save if you're handy with aluminum, but we wanted to work with readily available materials. We used an Eastwood MIG135 to weld the steel frame together for strength once we had everything trimmed to fit nicely.04 The Kirkey seats even have a reclining function--sort of. The seat brackets have five holes at the front and two at the rear so you can adjust the angle of the seat to your liking. It's best to mock up the seat when you have the dash, steering column, pedals and shifter in the car to ensure that you can reach everything when strapped into the seat. Kirkey sells these seats for racing purposes only; the decision to use them on the street is yours alone. There, we said it--everyone's lawyers should be happy.05 Replacing the factory seats with Kirkey 41V Series Vintage Class bucket aluminum racing seats made a huge difference in weight. The front seats alone (not counting the factory seat tracks, which we reused) shaved nearly 70 pounds off the car! And these Kirkey seats are a key part of creating the vintage race car look that we wanted.06 Next, we created a more functional dashboard that still looked right in a muscle car. ABC Performance makes a bolt-in steel dash for '66–'67 Chevelles that opens up the gauge area so you can fit a 5-inch-diameter speedo and tach. Each dash is custom built, so you have a ton of options regarding the number of gauges, placement of switches, and whether you want a radio and A/C controls.07 To perpetuate the early race car look, we chose Stewart-Warner gauges. The speedometer and tachometer are completely electronic and easy to calibrate, yet they look exactly as they would have on a car turning left on the high banks of Daytona in the '60s. ABC Performance offers dash inserts that hold the gauges in a few popular configurations, but what we wanted called for a custom layout that the company handled.08 In addition to the rack of Stewart-Warner gauges, we used a triple-position toggle switch from Painless Performance to control the park and headlights on the lefthand side, LED turn and high-beam indicators from ABC Performance, and five military-grade toggle switches from Painless to control all of the electronics. Black aircraft-style switch covers complete the look. The small black button between the speedo and tach is the calibration button for the Stewart-Warner electronic speedometer.09 We thought about using an old-style push-button for the starter but opted to give the new Painless Performance Phantom ignition system a try instead. This system uses radio frequency to sense when you have the remote fob on you, arming the car and allowing you to start it much like a current Dodge Challenger. It uses OEM rolling-code technology for high security. The stainless-steel button in the dash has a colored LED to indicate that the system is armed and ready to start.
10 We didn't get a weight savings out of this next upgrade, but we did get rid of the early style Chevelle steering column that had problematic bearings. Flaming River offers a bolt-in column for Chevelles and many other muscle cars that use later GM bearings and turn-signal hardware. The company also makes a firewall mount with an aluminum swivel that holds the base of the column firmly in place. We opted for a tilt model and also ordered a collapsible double-D shaft and universal joints to mate the column to the Flaming River steering box in the car.11 At first, we thought we'd be clever and incorporate a steering-wheel quick-release for race-car flair. This would make getting in and out of the deep Kirkey seats and around the 'cage much, much easier. However, a regular race car quick-release is made for a very small-diameter column and leaves a significant gap between the base of the wheel and the top of column. Our street-car solution came in the form of a Grant Security System.12 The Grant Security System lets you remove the wheel to deter a thief, but it works equally well as a simple quick-release that fits the steering column and is designed for street use--a rare win-win. We used a Grant 14-3/4-inch race steering wheel (PN 332) for a size that is proportionate with the rest of the interior but offers easier maneuvering of the car.13 We deleted the rear seat to continue with the race-car image and remove another 49 pounds. To replace the seat, we made a cardboard template. On this car, the surface for the seatback is almost completely flat and even covers the wheeltubs. On other cars, you may have the wheeltubs protruding into this area.14 You could use sheet aluminum to reduce the weight even further, but we used 20-gauge steel so we could weld this panel in place to avoid squeaks and rattles. Once the piece was trimmed to fit perfectly, we used our Eastwood MIG welder to weld it to the factory X bracing as well as around the perimeter. You could also add a bead to the sheet for rigidity and appearance. We will eventual cover it with carpet, so we weren't concerned about this.15 Instead of going for ultra-lightweight aluminum door panels, we used reproduction pieces from C.A.R.S. Inc. that help soften the look and sound of the interior. The fronts come with the holes perforated--but not cut out-- in the backing for the armrest, door handles, and window cranks. This let us eliminate the armrests without leaving holes in the panels. Since we deleted the back seat, we used spray glue to wrap and glue the rear edges of the vinyl around the panel for a finished look.Though it goes against the goal of reducing weight, a 'cage is a necessary part of building a Pro Touring car--not only for safety reasons, but also because it's critical for chassis performance, as it adds stiffness to the chassis. We worked with ABC Performance to build a custom 'cage that ties into the suspension-mounting locations on the factory frame. It was tucked tight against the roof and run through the dash to make living with a cage in a street car as tolerable as it can be.The compromises we made to convenience really only came down to not having A/C and a stereo. The interior has all the performance equipment a Pro Touring car needs, including a full 'cage integrated into a design that mimics the race cars of the late '60s.


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Consider a (non-stellated) polygon in the plane. Imagine that the edges are rigid, but that the vertices consist of flexible joints. That is, one is allowed to move the polygon around in such a way that the vertices stay a fixed distance from their adjacent neighbors. Such a system is called a polygonal linkage.
As the linkage varies in its embedding in the plane, the area of the interior varies. The question is, When is the area maximized?
I have a specific answer I suspect is correct, but I am having trouble showing. I believe it is true that every polygonal linkage has as embedding where all the vertices lie on one circle (this isn't hard to show in the case when the linkage starts non-stellated). My claim is that the area is maximized exactly when all the vertices lie on a circle.
I can show this for a 4-sided polygon, but with techniques that do not generalize.
Also, my requirement that the polygon be non-stellated was only so that it was clear that there was a way to flex it to have all vertices on a circle. This question extends to the stellated case, but the question there is whether every stellated linkage can be flexed to one which is non-stellated.


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Visiting Nurses of Aroostook (VNA) is excited to celebrate 45 years of home health services! "We appreciate the hard work and efforts of staff and volunteers that have created a legacy of exceptional home care services," says Lisa Harvey-McPherson, President/CEO.
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I'm working on a portfolio management system at an investment company, which will include a list of stocks held and their attributes such as name, issuer, market price, value etc. These will be listed in an interactive grid with each attribute in its own column. What possible functions are there for user control over the contents in a column? I can only think of Sorting, Filtering and Grouping By, but would like to know of anything else in common usage to make the software more interactive. Any thoughts would be very welcome!
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I don't mean to sound rude but: what does your stakeholder want? Have you talked to him about it? What does he need? Or is he already content with sorting, filtering and grouping by?
This is a pretty open question. You can do a lot with columns. You can get very creative and create a lot of functionality, but if the stakeholder/user doesn't want it, he will just be paying for a bag of air and you'll have a hard time designing a user friendly interface with a lot of complexity.
If the requirements aren't clear, I would first talk with your stakeholder
Depending on the complexity of the system, you could implement something real fancy that wont take up that much room:
You have that as the basic format for the view, nice and simple. You can then implement a feature where clicking on a certain row will expand the details of said entry. Something like an accordion in HTML (I'm unsure as to whether you are more design or implementation)
So when you click, the display for that entry becomes something like:
If you have something like this, you can end up with a comprehensive data table, whilst keeping it nice and tidy. Everyone loves tidy UIs.
The actions can also be hidden within this expansion, keeping your UI even tidier.
Of course, I don't know what role you play in this system, so I'll leave it there for now...
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Not related so much to column functions but definitely related to ux & ui:
If done correctly these types of things can raise your table from merely showing data to showing meaningful information.
Of course the decision to use these or not depends on how important this table is to your system.
Subtotals on sorted columns wherever suitable. For example, if you have a column which lists the industry to which each stock belongs, than you could provide a subtotal whenever one industry ends and the next begins in the sorted column. So the column could start with say Aerospace and when Aerospace ends and Chemicals (or whatever) begins, insert a subtotals row which aggregates the Aerospace stocks. Not all columns will lend themselves to this and some will be more suited to summing (like total value of investments) and some to averaging (like rate of returns) but it will be useful.
If your users are sophisticated enough, you could also think of functionality like Excel pivot tables.
This advice comes from first-hand experience in the domain.
I also use "Select column" button in the column header (shown on mouse over). This was requested by the client, because when user selects a cell, he can perform some actions on this cell (submit, authorize, etc.). The grid can contain +2k rows so it's more convenient to select all cells in a column by just one click, and then perform desired action.
I support what Misha Scholte said. You might find out there is a real need for those features (though I'm a bit skeptical).
Anyhow, in this kind of situation, I find it useful to take a look at the demos of third-party component vendors. Since they want you to buy their component, they showcase all their advanced capabilities.
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At last you've reached a point in your life when some things are certain: Listening to Beatles music will definitely lift your spirits; wearing the color blue will get you compliments; your husband will surely forget to pick up his dirty socks; and you will always feel prettier when you slick on your favorite poppy-red lipstick. Or so you thought. "As your facial features evolve, so should your makeup," says makeup artist Laura Geller, founder of the Laura Geller Beauty Ingenuity cosmetics line. "Once you hit your 40s, moisture and collagen levels go down and skin tone can become uneven, sallow, or red." As a result, the same colors and textures that were flattering at 35 may be aging you a decade later. And what works in your 40s may not in your 50s or 60s. What should you try instead? We asked beauty pros for their best no-fuss, turn-back-the-clock tricks and product picks.
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You notice: Your complexion looks duller, and the tone is uneven. The reason: Skin no longer sheds dead cells as quickly as it used to. "It's like having 10 layers of paint under your makeup," says New York City dermatologist Ellen Marmur, M.D., author of Simple Skin Beauty.
Key moves: Makeup takes better to freshly scrubbed, moisturized skin. "The colors and textures will always look more flattering on a smooth canvas," says makeup artist Jillian Dempsey, global creative director for Avon. To speed up cell turnover, keep a gentle exfoliator, such as Aveeno Positively Ageless Warming Scrub ($9, drugstores), in the shower. Or turn your favorite face cleanser into a scrub by mixing it with a teaspoon of baking soda, suggests celebrity makeup artist Brett Freedman. Follow moisturizer with a silicone-based foundation primer, which can smooth any surface unevenness so you'll need less makeup. Primer also gives makeup more staying power. Try Pixi Flawless Beauty Primer ($29, target.com).
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You notice: Foundations and powders pool in the crevices, highlighting the wrinkles and large pores you're hoping to conceal.
Key moves: Look for a foundation with a touch of silicone (if you're not applying primer first). Try Smashbox High Definition Healthy FX Foundation SPF 15 ($38, sephora.com). "The silicone helps it move with skin and sit on top of fine lines," says Freedman. Apply foundation with a damp sponge, and press gently to keep it from sinking into creases, Dempsey advises. Use wrinkle-filling concealer on any still-bothersome lines. Try Avon Anew Wrinkle Zone Line Smoothing Duo ($12, avon.com), which pairs a lightweight concealer with a separate loose powder you dab on to hold the coverage in place.


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Let $s_n$ be a sequence defined as given below for $n \geq 1$. Then find out $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} s_n$. \begin{align} s_n = \int\limits_0^1 \frac{nx^{n-1}}{1+x} dx \end{align}
I have written a solution of my own, but I would like to know it is completely correct, and also I would like if people post more alternative solutions.