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Bob Holt is a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he is a member of the Football Writers Association of America, and voter for the Heisman Trophy, Biletnikoff Award and AP Top 25 basketball poll. Holt was awarded Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year in 2000 and 2015.
Ex-Razorback sets feelings aside
Kirk Botkin was on Bobby Petrino's first staff at Arkansas. Now he's an assistant coach for South Carolina.
COLUMBIA, S.C. Twenty years after Kirk Botkin became Arkansas' first All-SEC football player, he'll coach against the Razorbacks today in Williams-Brice Stadium.
It's also the site where Botkin and the Razorbacks won their first SEC game, 45-7 over South Carolina on Sept. 12, 1992.
Botkin, a first-team All-SEC tight end in 1992 and a member of Arkansas' All-Decade Team for the 1990s, is in his first season as South Carolina's linebackers coach.
"Arkansas is my alma mater and I love it, but I love my brother, too, and if I'm playing him I want to kick his butt," Botkin said. "I want to win every game, no matter who's on the other side.
"That's just the way you've got to be as a competitor."
Botkin also has coached against the Gamecocks as Arkansas' outside linebackers and special teams coach for two seasons in 2008 and 2009 before he was fired by Bobby Petrino.
Being fired, Botkin said, is "just part of the business." He declined to speak negatively about Petrino, who was fired as Arkansas' coach in April for off-the-field issues.
"He had a different idea about stuff than I did, and he and I just didn't see eye-to eye on some things," Botkin said. "That's the way it works sometimes."
After playing in the NFL for four seasons, Botkin began his coaching career in 1999 at Sterling High School in his hometown of Baytown, Texas. He worked as a college assistant from 2000-2009, then returned to the high school ranks in 2010 as defensive coordinator at Texarkana, Texas.
Now he's back in the SEC with the 7-2 Gamecocks, who are No. 8 in the BCS rankings.
"Coaching is coaching," Botkin said. "The stadiums are bigger in some places, but it's still all about football. You're working with your kids to get them to do things the right way, teaching fundamentals.
"I played in the NFL and I've coached in high school and college, and I know there are good coaches at every level and there are bad coaches at every level. I've seen it firsthand. I know some high school coaches that probably could be coaching in the NFL, and I know some NFL coaches that probably shouldn't be coaching on that level."
When Lorenzo Ward was promoted to South Carolina's defensive coordinator after last season, he called Botkin and offered him a job. The two worked together as assistants at Arkansas in 2008 before Ward left for South Carolina after one season.
After Botkin and Ward joined the Arkansas staff, they were roommates in an apartment for several weeks before their families moved to Fayetteville. They became good friends.
"We share a lot of the same philosophies on defense," Botkin said. "So when Coach Ward gave me an opportunity, I said, 'I'll work for you any day,' because he's a good person and a dang good football coach."
South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier said Botkin has been a good hire.
"Kirk's done an excellent job," Spurrier said. "His linebackers have played well, and Kirk's an excellent recruiter. So yeah, we're fired up he's with us."
Botkin said he couldn't be happier working for Spurrier, who has a 204-77-2 record in 273 seasons as a college head coach.
"Coach Spurrier is a great family man, and he loves his family and he loves football and he's a competitor," Botkin said. "He's a guy who tells you exactly what he thinks and there's nothing wishy-washy about it, and I appreciate that. I couldn't ask for a better boss."
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I am a resident of Germantown and was encouraged to see that I had a choice in candidates for District 24 in the State Assembly. I always vote and consider it a privilege and a civic responsibility. I research the candidates and take each election seriously. Shan Haqqi is the candidate I chose to vote for in the 24th State Assembly race. I had the opportunity to meet Shan Haqqi and he struck me as a candidate with a strong sense of community and family and outstanding experience in finance and working to improve economic conditions for individuals and communities. Shan was clear in articulating what it takes to generate good jobs. Shan worked as the Special Assistant to the Mayor of Houston. He succeeded in bringing high-tech jobs to the Houston area through strong negotiation skills and an understanding of how we are all impacted by a global economy. Shan also worked to revitalize communities with real estate development projects binging jobs to these neighborhoods. We could use this expertise in Germantown, the 24th District and the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin continues to lag in creating jobs and experience like Shan's is essential to grow our economy.
Shan continues to serve the economic needs of families and companies. He is President and CEO of S&L Global Consulting. This is a financial planning company that helps Wisconsin families budget, save and invest for the future. He is able to balance the challenging financial demands of our times with a clear focus on what it takes for us to succeed in the future.
After reading about Shan, reading the history and legal issues of his opponent and meeting Shan on two occasions (one being the recent debate in Mequon) I believe that Shan is clearly the best candidate for the job. I hope you will take the time to read about each candidate and consider the future of our state and our district. Please vote for Shan Haqqi on November 6.
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EMA granted Pfizer approval to market Xiapex® (collagenase clostridium histolyticum) for the treatment of Dupuytren contracture. The treatment is expected to be available for use in some European markets later this year.
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So, we're going to get some answers today -- about world peace, the future, the meaning of art and how to use LinkedIn.
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"ONE OF THE BEST COP NOVELS TO COME ALONG IN YEARS." --Jeffery Deaver
Pharmacy clerk William Dremmel is hooked—on drugging pretty young women and lulling them into slow, blissfully quiet deaths. Then he packs his victims in luggage—a nod to the cops that he works alone. Dremmel's no fool, he's also a college professor. He just likes using his intellect for darker purposes. . ..
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Haunted by his own daughter's unsolved disappearance, Detective John Stallings is committed to finding runaways and busting their abductors. When a series of girls is found dead and stuffed into duffle bags, he's consumed with capturing "The Bagman"—at the risk of his marriage, his career, and possibly his tough-as-nails partner, Patty Levine. . .
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Chapter OneLee Ann Moffit sprawled across the slick leather couch with a brown stain on the middle cushion and let her head slip onto the guy's broad shoulder. Why not? It was a clean house, and he'd been nice to her all evening. He bought her a fried shrimp dinner at Popeye's (the big shrimp dinner, not the snack meal), gave her a couple of Vicodin to keep her sane, and now he sat quietly with her as she drank a Rolling Rock and watched some cheap rip-off of America's Next Top Model. It had been awhile since she was someplace she could watch TV this time of night, especially a show like this. One of the few fantasies she still held was being a supermodel on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Everyone at Sandalwood High had told her she was pretty enough to model. She was convinced of it too until she scraped together three hundred bucks for a "photo-shoot." She believed the tubby, bald photographer when he said she could be a star. It wasn't until she found out what kind of star he meant that her dreams came crashing down.
Now she realized that at an even five feet she was too short to be a model, even if God had given her good cheekbones and an athletic body. Her high school career had been as successful as her attempt at modeling. Aside from playing lacrosse, she didn'taccomplish a whole lot in school. She was nice to people and loved kids, so why was it so important to find France on a map or know that President Reagan didn't free the slaves?
She had fights with her mom and new stepdad that she now understood were useless. It was just her way of showing she was growing up. Her stepdad wasn't that bad of a guy. Even her new stepbrother and sister didn't seem so annoying. Lee Ann had to prove she was independent and knew what was best, so she moved out (her mom called it running away) at fifteen. She'd been on her own for a few months when she was found dancing at a strip club off the interstate and sent back home.
Then, at sixteen, she moved out for good. Or so she thought. It was frustrating six months later when the same cop found her, bought her lunch, then took her back home to live. She even knew the cop a little. She had played lacrosse in the same league as his daughter, and that embarrassed her mom.
The third time was the charm. She was close enough to eighteen that her mom didn't even bother calling the cops. She'd moved out and was on her own. Now, Lee Ann didn't like where she had ended up.
It felt like her luck was changing. The right guy might give her the chance to turn things around. Lee Ann was working two different jobs. During the day she was a clerk at a copy/printing place. She liked the word "clerk," and that's what she told people when they asked what she did for a living. It was nice to have a legitimate job. A couple of nights a week she still worked as a dancer. The money was too good to ignore, and she no longer looked at it like a lifetime job, what most people called a career.
She didn't have a drug habit like a lot of the dancers at the Bare Belly Club. She only used prescription drugs, because they were safe. A few painkillers a day, some Oxy when she had the cash, and then the Lunesta to sleep. It all helped and kept her drug-free. That was important to her. She always bought her "safe" prescription drugs from the same two guys. One was a friend of hers named Malachi and the other guy, Ernie, was a sweet college kid who made sure she only took pills that wouldn't hurt her long term. He always stressed that she couldn't get addicted to pills; that's why he sold them instead of crack.
Now, in this pleasant house she felt a thick arm wrap around her bare shoulder. This guy was quiet but smart, really smart. His whole house was wired with cool electronics and he used a few words she had never even heard. He was some kind of teacher in college and seemed just that brainy. The guy also worked at a pharmacy, and that's what interested her. If she got a good hookup in a pharmacy and introduced him to Malachi, things might get better for her. She told Mal she'd met a pharmacy worker, but he told her to play it cool for a few weeks before asking him about supplying some pharmaceuticals or "Farm Aids."
This guy was built too, with a hard strap across his shoulders and biceps she couldn't fit both hands around. She knew how much dedication it took to put on muscle like that. Her old manager, Jamais, who now went by his real name, Franklin, had the same kind of build, only a little taller.
"You okay, Lee Ann? Can I get you anything?"
She purred and gave him a peck on the cheek.
He held out his hand with a couple of Oxycontin pills.
She just nodded and he set them on the coffee table, then used the bottom of his glass to mash them into a light powder. A black cat scurried past when he started to grind the pills.
The guy said, "That's Mr. Whiskers IV. He's a little skittish."
Lee Ann smiled, scooped up the powder, then licked her hand to take in every grain of it. She gulped her beer to wash away the bitter taste.
The room already had a hazy quality to it, and she felt a slight whirl. This was some good shit. She reached for the green Rolling Rock bottle again and knocked it onto the throw rug on top of the hard, cold terrazzo.
"I am so sorry." She meant it, but the words sounded slurred. She hoped she hadn't frightened the cat even more.
He shrugged. "Don't worry about it." He stroked her face, then added, "You wanna go into the bedroom?"
She didn't really, but he'd been so nice. "Maybe just to lay down for a few minutes. This stuff is really hitting me."
He stood and helped her to her feet. Earlier she'd stepped off the path to the front door and her left foot slipped out of her shoe into the decorative sand. Lee Ann was afraid she had twisted her ankle, but now with the Oxy in her system she couldn't tell. Since then she'd carried the shoes around the house with her. Now she discarded the clogs with three-inch heels next to the old couch and allowed him to lead her through the small house. She tripped twice on funky little steps between rooms. It was weird that each room was on a different level. She stumbled once more as they stepped through a doorway near the front of the house.
She paused as he flipped on the overhead light. The room was bare except for a mattress on the floor. Her knees buckled and she lost her balance, but he steadied her. What a gentleman.
An empty duffel bag lay on the terrazzo floor next to the bed.
Lee Ann said, "I've never had Oxy hit me like this before."
"That's because it's not just Oxycontin."
She stared at him, but her eyes couldn't focus well. She felt herself falling, but he helped her land on the soft mattress. In an instant he had slipped off her tank top and was working the hook on the back of her bra.
Before she could protest, her breasts swung free as the room seemed to turn at odd angles. For the first time, she was worried, twisting her head around to see where he was standing. Her heart started to pound.
He chuckled and said, "Lay down. This'll be fun."
His powerful hand pulled her flat onto the bed, then jerked her arms over her head. A pinch around her wrists made her squirm to look over her shoulders. Now her stomach had a block of ice in it as she realized the guy had handcuffed her to some kind of hook in the wall. Fear washed over her, making her head spin faster, like the whirly-wheel at the fair.
She lost track of where he had gone. Her jeans were unsnapped and roughly yanked off along with her favorite pair of panties. She tried kicking her legs, but they felt like cement as he secured her ankles with another set of steel cuffs. Lee Ann thought she might vomit from fear.
Now he sat on the edge of the bed, writing in a small blue journal. His eyes focused on the precise movements of his pen.
"What are you doing?" She couldn't form the question in her mind.
He smiled, revealing strong, healthy teeth. "Just a few notes. All has to do with my pharmaceutical work. I think I gave you just the right amount of Oxy and 200 milligrams of Anafranil, but I want to see what happens."
Panic surged up her throat. "Right amount for what?"
"We're gonna see how long I can keep you here quiet and happy and with me."
Detective John Stallings scanned the front of the shitty old lime-green motel, nasty parking lot, and the alley that led to the beach behind it. The low clouds and light drizzle gave the whole image the perfect accent of grime, gray, and grit. Typical Jacksonville.
A behemoth in a cheap jacket standing in the front of the building was his main concern. Just some guntoting crack dealer from Springfield hoping to stake out a new zone over here. He was a mountain of "show" muscle, all chest and biceps, probably an exjock who used his gym time to look scary but not necessarily to stay in shape. All street cops could tell the difference. Probably scared the damn hotel owner into silence and set up a stash in one of the rooms upstairs. That's why a lanky kid in a Patriots hoodie was at the base of the stairs. If they moved in too quick the whole place would know the po-po were on-site.
Hidden a couple of blocks north with his black Impala in front of them, Stallings twisted his six-foot frame to stretch a kink out of his back, then looked down at his partner and said, "I just see the two assholes. The one that looks like a Jaguars lineman out front could cause some shit." He had a good sense of danger. At least danger to himself. After sixteen years with the Jacksonville Sheriff 's Office he trusted his judgment when it came to tactical operations. It had taken a few too many beatings, a knife wound, and a bullet in the leg to teach him that, but no one acquired knowledge without suffering or work. Sister Mary had taught him that his first day in kindergarten.
Patty Levine nodded at his assessment, then said, "We should get narcotics in here for these two, then check out room 2-B." Her blond hair hung in a loose braid down her muscular back. Stallings thought she looked like a cheerleader who would kick your ass. And he had seen her do it on several occasions.
"No time for the street team. If she's up in the room, we gotta move right now." He didn't want to get his younger, more ambitious partner in the shithouse with the agency, but this was what kept him going. Finding a young girl who had run away with some middle-aged jack-off gave him the will to move in the morning and fall asleep at night. At least on the nights he slept at all. Unlike most of his fellow detectives he needed work to give him a break from home once in a while. And he needed lucky tips like this one to feel like he was doing all he could for these kids. God knows he hoped some cop somewhere was doing all he could for his Jeanie.
Stallings had asked to be assigned to the missing persons unit. First time they had ever had a detective transfer in. Usually it was just a way for a patrolman to make detective, then move on to the more interesting narcotics or high-profile homicide. For Stallings it was logical, after everything that had happened, to work in crimes/persons and handle missing persons. Even if the other detectives called it the "runaway roundup," he didn't care. It meant something. It also gave him the schedule to see his family more, to coach soccer, and to help Lauren with her homework. Maybe he could correct the mistakes he'd made with Jeanie. He knew his partner, Patty, wanted to try robbery or homicide if she got the chance, but this was the only unit that made sense to him now.
They had the run of the county, and way out here in Jacksonville Beach, fifteen miles east of their main office, he had the freedom to make choices and do the right thing no matter what policy said.
Patty saw his mind drift and smiled at him. "What is it you like to say? Is today the day?"
"C'mon, I know you went through the academy ten years after I did, but they had to still be preaching it. 'Is today the day that changes the rest of your life?'" He glanced back across the two blocks to the monstrous crack dealer, with a neck like a spare tire, in front of the hotel. When he was sure no one had moved, Stallings turned his attention back to Patty. "It's a way to stay focused on the job. I've said it before every assignment, and it keeps me alert."
Patty said, "What if I don't want a change today? What if, and I know this sounds crazy to you, we call for backup before we tangle with a drug dealer who looks like a brown Incredible Hulk in a cheap vinyl jacket?"
Stallings let out a quick laugh. Patty was a great partner: smart, tough, and knew when to crack a joke or two. It had been hard to be around him the past few years, but she never complained or let him down. He hoped he could return the favor. But right now he was on a mission. Keeping his eyes on the mountain of dark flesh and the young lookout at the base of the stairs, Stallings untucked his shirt to cover his Glock and gold badge clipped on his belt.
Patty flipped over the cover of the battered gray metal notebook case she carried everywhere that stored all aspects of their work and her life, including her schedule, to-do lists, her family's birthdays, and a complete schedule of the University of Florida's sports teams games. She slid out a small photograph of a fourteen-year-old girl with bright orange hair holding a small black dog.
Stallings glanced at the photo. "I saw her picture before. If there's a girl in that room she's coming with us. I don't care who she is."
"And if there's a man with her? We got no PC or warrant. Just a shaky tip."
"Jail is the least of that creep's concerns if he's in a hotel with an underaged girl." He looked down the empty street again. They'd have to walk down there, because the Impala the county issued him was too obvious. "Can you handle the guy by the stairs?"
Patty gave him a sly smile. "No sweat."
Stallings never had to worry about Patty having his back. She could kick just about anyone's ass and moved like a leopard in a fight. Her looks sometimes lulled men into thinking she wasn't a threat. They were always wrong. He gave no more thought to the smaller thug by the stairs.
He was about to start walking when he saw someone at the base of the stairs of the little hotel. Stallings paused, then slowly ducked back into his car and retrieved a small set of Bushnell binoculars with the logo for the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club on the side. He surveyed the area under slightly more magnification and then said, "Shit, hold on."
"What is it?" Patty held a closed ASP expandable baton in her small hand.
"A family is gettin' ready for a trip to the pool. Looks like an Asian family with three little kids." He checked again and saw one small girl holding a bright pink plastic tube as her mother bent to adjust her tiny suit.
"Who'd go swimming in this weather?"
"Let's wait a minute. I don't want to ruin these kids' vacation if this is the only place their parents could afford."
Finally, after several minutes of waiting, the little troupe moved down the walkway toward the pool at the rear of the building, and Stallings watched as Patty slipped down onto the beach across the street to approach from another direction.
Stallings crossed the two-lane road and then started strolling toward the hotel and the giant sentry out front. He didn't hurry; that way Patty had time to set up. He also didn't want this monster to have any reason to suspect that Five-0 was in the area. This wasn't downtown; he probably expected a more polite police force. That assumption would be shattered in the next minute.
Stallings wasn't cocky. He knew he could be the one on the wrong end of a fist or a cheap pistol, but he had surprise on his side. He focused on the academy mantra: "Is this the day that changes my life?" It really was something he'd said his whole career. The hell of it was now he really did need a change. He needed a miracle to get back all he had lost.
There were cops he knew who were quick to mix it up with a suspect. They liked the thrill and violence. Violence accomplished a goal, whether it was an arrest or a lesson; physical aggression was just another tool in a good cop's bag of tricks. If you took it too far you had to be prepared to explain yourself. He could admit, at least to himself, that he enjoyed confrontation with the right thug. Bullies, pimps, and predators often didn't understand anything but a good thumping. And sometimes he didn't know how to deal with them except with a good thumping.
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This is a fast-paced thriller that grabs you from the start. The author does a great job in this first book in a series about a missing persons detective whose own daughter ran away three years ago of introducing his main characters. The bad guy is exceptionally creepy. It wasn't really a "who-dunnit" kind of mystery for the reader, because the author lets the reader in on that piece of information. The excitement builds up as you follow the detectives piecing the information together. This was a great read on police procedure, and after reading this, I am anxious to get the other books in the series. Thanx Mr. Andrus for a fabulous read!!! -- SPeeD
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John Stallings is a police detective in the Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff's Office Missing Person's Unit. Most of those assigned to this division use it as a step up the ladder. Stallings asked for the transfer after his oldest daughter Jeanie vanished three years ago. Now he spends his free time looking for runaways so he can help them while he and his family struggle with a return to normalcy. However, a case hits home, which leads to Stallings distancing himself from his loved ones as he diligently seeks the Bagman. A serial killer the Bagman is William Dremmel, a pharmacy store clerk and part-time community college science teacher. He abducts young runaways in order to perform drug experiments on his victims until they die. While following a tip on a runaway, he finds a corpse. The lieutenant adds Stallings to the investigation, which angers lead detective Mazzetti as each despises the other. When the Bagman kidnaps a female close to both cops, they team up to try and save her. The Perfect Woman is a taut action-packed police procedural that keeps the reader on the edge of the seat throughout. Stallings is wonderful as his family life is fragile because no one has moved on from the vanishing of Jeanie and he hides from his loved ones with his obsessive dedication to the job . Various characters tell the tale in a third person voice to include the Bagman, which adds to the gritty realism of capturing the serial killer before the next female is dead. Harriet Klausner


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|Hatter's Castle
|Directed by
|Lance Comfort
|Produced by
|Isadore Goldsmith
|Written by
|A. J. Cronin (novel)
Rodney Ackland
|Robert Newton
Deborah Kerr
James Mason
Emlyn Williams
|Music by
|Horace Shepherd
|Mutz Greenbaum
|Distributed by
|Paramount Pictures
Release dates
|19 April 1942
Running time
|102 minutes
|United Kingdom
Hatter's Castle is a 1942 British film noir based on the 1931 novel Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish hatter set on recapturing his imagined lost nobility. The film was made by Paramount British Pictures and stars Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, and Emlyn Williams. It is believed to be the only film that depicts the Tay Bridge disaster.
- Robert Newton as James Brodie
- Deborah Kerr as Mary Brodie
- James Mason as Dr. Renwick
- Emlyn Williams as Dennis
- Henry Oscar as Grierson
- Enid Stamp-Taylor as Nancy
- Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Brodie
- Anthony Bateman as Angus Brodie
- June Holden as Janet
- George Merritt as Gibson
- Laurence Hanray as Dr. Lawrie
- Claude Bailey as Paxton
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) appropriated $7.2 billion to subsidize broadband deployment, including $2.5 billion to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Priorinvestigations have shown that RUS' broadband subsidy programs were not cost effective, and often funded duplicative coverage in areas already served by existing providers.
In this study, we analyze three large projects subsidized by the ARRA-created Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP). These projects received a total of $231.7 million in Federal support (including subsidized loans as well as grants), or about seven percent of total RUS' subsidy obligations. The evidence indicates that RUS' history of funding duplicative service has continued under BIP, and that the current program is not a cost-effective means of achieving universal broadband availability. Specifically, we find that:
- RUS defined eligibility for the BIP program so as to permit subsidies to areas in which very high proportions of households were already served by multiple existing broadband providers.
- More than 85 percent of households in the three project areas are already passed by existing cable broadband, DSL, and/or fixed wireless broadband providers. In one of the project areas, more than 98 percent of households are already passed by at least one of these modalities.
- In part because a large proportion of project funds are being used to provide duplicative service, the cost per incremental (unserved) household passed is extremely high. When existing mobile wireless broadband coverage is taken into account, the $231.7 million in RUS funding across the three projects will provide service to just 452 households that currently lack broadband service.
- Based on the expected cost to taxpayers of the program (i.e., the cost of the grants, plus the net cost of the subsidized loans), we estimate the cost per incremental home passed at $30,104 if existing coverage by mobile broadband providers is ignored, and $349,234 if mobile broadband coverage is taken into account.
- The RUS approach of funding duplicative coverage is directly at odds with the approach recommended by the National Broadband Plan. According to the FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative, the cost of making broadband available to every currently unserved household in the U.S. is approximately $23.5 billion, so long as duplicative service is not funded. Funding duplicative service (as RUS has done under BIP) increases the cost of a nationwide buildout by $63.7 billion, to $87.2 billion.
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65-year-old Senior Firefighter retired on Tuesday after 47
years in the New Zealand Fire Service. Of those, more than 20
were spent at Lookout Point Fire Station. Samantha Mcpherson
caught up with Mr Woodford before he hung up his uniform for
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The 65-year-old Senior Firefighter retired on Tuesday (his
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''I have never lay in bed and thought `bugger it I am not
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some second-hand gear and I was put in a fire engine without
any training. But that has all changed now,'' he said.
When Mr Woodford started working, he didn't have any form of
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Mr Woodford did stints at all the fire stations but Lookout
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While technology has changed, a fire engine is a fire engine
to Mr Woodford.
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family, gardening and helping restore fire trucks.
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worked on are retired but they are still going. I will keep
looking after the school grounds and doing the odd job so it
gets me out of the house to give my wife a break. I have to
thank her a thousand times. I will easily fill in time,'' he
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Mexi Ground Beef-Rice Skillet
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 20 mins
This is quite tasty, the jalapeno pepper is only optional I like to add in for extra heat, Italian sausages with the casings removed may be used in place of the ground beef or use ground turkey, I also like to add in some cooked crumbled bacon or smoked dry sliced sausage but that is only optional :)
Ingredients Nutrition
- 453.59 g ground beef
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 14.79-29.58 ml fresh minced garlic
- 1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1-2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
- 35.43 g package taco seasoning mix (can use more to taste)
- 354.88 ml chicken broth (can use water)
- 1 small zucchini, diced (about 4 cups)
- 411.06 g can stewed tomatoes
- 354.88 ml frozen corn or 354.88 ml peas
- 354.88 ml instant Minute Rice
- 4.92-9.85 ml seasoning salt (or to taste)
- 4.92 ml fresh ground black pepper (or to taste)
- 473.18 ml shredded cheddar cheese, divided (you may use more cheese)
- In a medium 4-quart heavy pot over medium heat cook the ground beef or sausage meat with onion, garlic, bell pepper and jalapeno pepper; cook until browned then drain fat.
- Add in the taco seasoning mix with a wooden spoon until well combined.
- Add in all remaining ingredients except the cheese; stir with a wooden spoon to combine and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Reduce heat to medium-low or low.
- Cover and simmer for 25 minutes or until the rice is tender.
- Season with seasoned salt and pepper.
- Mix in 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese until melted, the sprinkle the top with 1 cup; let stand for 5 minutes until melted.
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I made this exactly as stated in the recipe and it was very tasty. Kids came home and grabbed a bowl and everyone said it was a "do again" recipe. I had friends over for drinks later and they sprayed a cookie sheet with non-stick spray, placed corn tortillas on pan and topped with filling and put cheese on top. Topped with sour cream after taking out of the oven and was delicious. They weren't baking fast enough for everyone. It's great to find a recipe that's versatile.
I made this for supper tonight, cut up the pepper and onion before I left for work. Truly took 30 minutes to make. I used ground turkey, skipped the jalape?o pepper (hubby & I like them, kids...not so much). Also didn't add corn or peas, thought there was enough starch with the rice (used brown minute rice). Also used much less cheese, about half cup, and then sprinkled a little over each serving. Everyone loved it - definitely a make again meal.
I wanted to try something different and this was great! My husband is a picky eater and he liked it! Thanks!


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Vermont DCF worker charged with felony in MaineAugust 29,2013Vt. DCF worker
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A caseworker for the Vermont Department for Children and Families is charged with sexually assaulting a child in Maine.
Jeffrey Parfitt, 26, of Middlebury, was indicted Wednesday on a single felony charge of unlawful sexual conduct, according to the Bangor Police Department in Maine. Lt. Paul Edwards said Parfitt is expected to surrender himself to Maine authorities.
Bangor Police made few details on the case available Wednesday, saying that Parfitt was in Maine to follow-up regarding the living situation of a juvenile female there. The girls father made a complaint to police after Parfitt made an unnecessary and inappropriate examination of the child after asking the father to leave the residence to allow for privacy.
Two Bangor detectives came to Vermont and interviewed Parfitt before the local prosecutor brought the case before a grand jury.
DCF commissioner Dave Yacovone did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday afternoon, but did issue a statement saying that Parfitt had been placed on administrative leave and that his department had cooperated with Bangor Police and reviewed the safety of children and youth Mr. Parfitt had contact with as part of his official duties.
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Travel Channel is all about what moves you. But not just from point A to point B. Travel Channel invites viewers to summon up something deep within their collective DNA: The desire to go. To explore. To journey beyond the destination and experience travel as few tourists ever do—and bring back an incredible story. Viewers look to Travel Channel for programming that is information-rich, culturally diverse and inspirational. They want to be guided through the world's most unique destinations—at home and abroad—by authentic personalities who are passionate about what they do, and are up for doing anything.
New series includes Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America, Baggage Battles, Hotel Impossible, The Layover, MIA, Mile High and Trip Flip. They join returning hits Anthony Bourdain's No Researvations, Bizarre Foods America, Ghost Adventures, Mysteries at the Museum, Off Limits and Sand Masters.
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ProJect Pharmaceutics and ImevaX have entered an agreement they hope will lead to the development of a formulation for IMX101, a recombinant vaccine against Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium linked to gastric ulcers. The firms say that the formulation development will be a challenge for them as IMX101 is a multicomponent vaccine.
The contract, according to the firms, covers activities in developing a rational formulation based on Predictive Formulation Analytics, a technology introduced by ProJect Pharmaceutics in December 2011 that allows users to design optimized protein formulations by determining the most favorable composition for the native structure of the protein with regard to its intra- and intermolecular physicochemical properties. ProJect Pharmaceuticals says the technology uses analytical methods to characterize the physicochemical state of proteins and analyze their response to certain excipients, allowing users to identify promising formulation candidates quickly.
ImevaX is a spin-off project from the research group of Markus Gerhard, Ph.D., from the Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich), Institute for Medicinal Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene. As part of the GO-Bio start-up program of the German Ministry of Research and Education, the spin-out aims to develop highly specific vaccines against pathogens that cause chronic infectious diseases. Plans to found ImevaX as a biotech company in 2014 are currently in the works.
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Who's Atop the Yankee Mound?
In Our Rankings of the Team's Best Pitchers in History, Mariano Rivera Is First by a Landslide
Andy Pettitte needs just two more wins to tie Whitey Ford, who, with 236 career wins, is the all-time Yankees leader.
But when you compare these two great pitchers by almost any objective measure, it's really no contest.
Mr. Ford was not only more popular and culturally relevant in his time than Mr. Pettitte, but his record was superior in everything from ERA and winning percentage to his efficiency in the postseason. By one measure, Mr. Ford raised the likelihood of a Yankees win by 14% every time he took the mound, compared with just 4% for Mr. Pettitte.
Pinstriped Pitching Greats
For these reasons, among others, Mr. Ford ranks No. 2 on The Wall Street Journal's list of the top Yankees pitchers of all time, while Mr. Pettitte didn't manage to crack the top 10.
Ranking the greatest Yankees pitchers is a bit like comparing the contributions of the kickers in past Super Bowls. With a few exceptions, pitchers have played supporting roles in the franchise's triumphs, and their second-class status in Yankees lore is evident everywhere.
Since 2006, there are 160 Mickey Mantle items that sold for more than $10,000 at auction, according to Sports Collectors Digest's auction database. Together, our top 10 Yankees pitchers barely sold that many thousand-dollar items.
And if Paul Simon has written a song about Spud Chandler, no one has heard it.
That's not to say pitchers haven't played pivotal roles in team history, of course. To give them their due, The Journal took the 25 most prominent Yankees pitchers and gave them each a score in nine different categories that incorporate the doggedly empirical (ERA, walks plus hits/innings pitched and "wins above replacement player") and the practical (longevity and impact on attendance) to more eternal factors like their upstandingness, their earning power on the sports-collectibles market and the number of times the player has been the subject of books or profiles in newspapers and magazines.
To allow starting pitchers and relievers to be included, these rankings swapped statistics like win percentage that apply mostly to starters with measures like the percentage of save opportunities converted or the percentage of inherited runners the pitcher allowed to score.
After each pitcher was given a score, from 1 to 10, in each category, there were a few surprises. The first was the presence of Goose Gossage, a former closer who was only with the team for six seasons, at No. 3.
Mr. Gossage broke into the big leagues in the 1970s when relief pitchers' roles were more loosely defined. As a result, he found himself in harm's way far more frequently than today's best relievers. In 1978, Mr. Gossage's best year as a Yankee, he pitched multiple innings 39 times and on 35 occasions entered the game with runners on base. Nonetheless, Mr. Gossage posted the lowest ERA among the 25 Yankees pitchers we looked at and had the fewest walks and hits per inning during the postseason.
At No. 5 is David Wells, a player who wasn't exactly a ray of clubhouse sunshine. In his 2003 autobiography, "Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball," Mr. Wells said he pitched his perfect game in 1998 "half-drunk," only to claim later he was misquoted. Joe Torre, his manager, later wrote, "The difference between Kevin Brown and David Wells is that both make your life miserable, but David Wells meant to."
What Mr. Wells lacked in decorum and longevity—his Yankees career lasted only four years—he made up for on the mound. His WARP was best among all Yankees pitchers, and his team was 6% more likely to win when he was the starter.
The clear winner, with a score of 78.3, was current Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. Since 1995, when former general manager Gene Michael decided to give Mr. Rivera a shot rather than trade him to the Tigers, the man they call "Mo" has changed the course of the franchise. He has converted nearly 90% of his save opportunities, making him one of the most reliable pitchers in history with the game in the balance. The higher the stakes, the better he has been, allowing fewer walks, hits and runs per game in the postseason than he has in the regular season.
Players, executives and statisticians generally agree that no single player bears more responsibility for the Yankees' modern run than Mr. Rivera. From 1995 through 2000, he allowed only five runs in 41 postseason outings and blew just one save.
During that stretch, the Yankees drew 2.6 million fans per season, almost 700,000 fans more per year than the five prior seasons. The team's four titles helped launch a cable network and pave the way for a new stadium, propelling the estimated value of the franchise from a couple hundred million in the mid-1990s to well over $1 billion today.
Right behind Mr. Rivera on the list was Mr. Ford, and perhaps the only thing that kept him there was his manager. Mr. Ford won at least 15 games in five seasons from 1953 to 1960, but he didn't fully realize his potential until 1961. That's when Ralph Houk replaced Casey Stengel as manager and promptly dropped Mr. Stengel's practice of saving his ace for the most critical games. Pitching every four days instead, Mr. Ford averaged 20 wins a year over five seasons through 1965. Even with the handicap, his .690 career winning percentage is third all-time.
The fourth-best Yankees pitcher of all time was Ron Guidry, who perhaps distinguished himself most by his ability to draw a crowd. The roots of his fan appeal sprouted on June 17, 1978, in a game against the California Angels during which Mr. Guidry struck out 18 batters. As the strikeouts accumulated, the Yankee Stadium crowd began to stand and cheer each time Mr. Guidry got his second strike on a batter, which is believed to have started the tradition that continues today. The game helped line Yankees owner George Steinbrenner's pockets, too. In Mr. Guidry's 10 subsequent home starts, the Yankees drew 37% more fans per game than the season average.
Taking the Nos. 6 and 7 spots behind Mr. Wells were Vic Raschi and Spud Chandler, who both won more than 70% of their starts as Yankees. Mr. Chandler was docked points because his best season, 1943, came during wartime, when only about 40% of players were of major-league quality, according to baseball statistician Bill James.
Sparky Lyle, a relief pitcher in the 1970s, was No. 8 on the strength of his postseason performances. Rounding out the list were Roger Clemens and Red Ruffing, who barely edged out Mike Mussina, Mr. Pettitte and Allie Reynolds for the top 10.
Mr. Clemens's pop-culture appeal and strength on the collectibles market were off the charts, and he would have ranked higher on the list three years ago. But since allegations of performance-enhancing-drug use surfaced in late 2007, the attention has been almost entirely negative, and his earning power has plummeted—only five of the 79 Clemens items that have fetched more than $1,000 sold after he appeared in the Mitchell Report.