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What were the top online stories for The Gilbert Republic in 2011? Some of them might surprise you. Some won't.
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>> Gilbert's most controversial stories of 2011 >> Gilbert's top online stories of 2010
No. 20: MOM, SONS ACCUSED OF ASSAULT
Online publishing date: Sept. 6, 2011.
Summary: Gilbert police arrested a mother and her son and are looking for a second son in connection with an alleged Labor Day home invasion that officers say was motivated by revenge. The suspects allegedly entered a home illegally and assaulted a 27-year-old woman.
The story: Read it here
No. 19: SHOCKING ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
Online publishing date: Sept. 12, 2011.
Summary: A Gilbert woman is in custody on allegations she abused her adopted son, 10, by burning his penis with a lighter and sodomizing him with a toothbrush, authorities said. According to court documents, the boy told investigators she had on one occasion also bound his hands and feet, then forced dog feces into his mouth and taped it shut.
The story: Read it here
No. 18: SOFTBALL PLAYER MOURNED
Online publishing date: Aug. 12, 2011.
Summary: Meagan Griffin, a talented softball player who joined the Highland High School varsity team as a freshman, died from injuries sustained in a car crash at Hawes and Elliot roads. "She was one of the biggest personalities," one of her coaches said.
The story: Read it here
No. 17: WEDDING MELEE
Online publishing date: March 23, 2011.
Summary: A joyous occasion for a couple getting married in Gilbert dissolved into a massive melee that sent partygoers fleeing from police pepper spray and could result in criminal charges for the bride and a pregnant guest.
The story: Read it here
Bride in brawl gets probation: Read it here
No. 16: ATV CRASH
Online publishing date: Feb. 2, 2011.
Summary: A Gilbert man faces a misdemeanor charge for allegedly allowing his 12-year-old boy to drive their street-legal ATV, which rolled over on a greenbelt, injuring the boy and two girls, police said.
The story: Read it here
No. 15: POPULAR PRINCIPAL RESIGNS
Online publishing date: Dec. 16, 2011.
Summary: The Higley Unified governing board approved San Tan Elementary Principal Alfonso Alva's resignation, three weeks after the popular principal was put on administrative leave. The move upset some parents who said they believe he was forced out.
The story: Read it here
No. 14: BOY PULLED FROM POOL DIES
Online publishing date:March 26, 2011.
Summary: A 3-year-old boy who fell into a neighbor's swimming pool was pronounced dead after arriving at the hospital. Officers were searching for the boy they heard a scream come from a neighbor's house, where the missing child was found floating in the pool.
The story: Read it here
No. 13: MUSIC IRKS STUDENTS
Online publishing date: April 29, 2011.
Summary: Some Mesquite High School students were so annoyed with a student council fundraiser that played a continuous loop of the "Hampster Dance" song between classes that 553 signed a petition seeking to stop the music.
The story: Read it here
No. 12: MAN'S THROAT CUT
Online publishing date: June 23, 2011.
Summary: A man's throat was cut during an assault behind a Gilbert shopping complex, police said. The 24-year-old victim was taken to the hospital. Police said the attack may have been the result of a failed drug transaction.
The story: Read it here
No. 11: FATHER ACCUSED IN BOY'S DEATH
Online publishing date: Oct. 7, 2011.
Summary: An angry and frustrated father admitted to Gilbert police that he squeezed his 2-year-old son until the little boy stopped breathing, thinking throughout the killing about the marital problems he had with his wife, records state.
The story: Read it here
No. 10: CANAL TRAGEDY
Online publishing date: June 29, 2011.
Summary: A 6-year-old boy died after being pulled from a canal near Pecos and Recker roads in Gilbert. His 5-year-old brother, also pulled from the canal, survived. They were reported missing after going for a bike ride.
The story: Read it here
No. 9: DVD TARGETS LDS
Online publishing date: Jan. 14, 2011.
Summary: A group called Concerned Christians mailed a DVD that disputes tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to some 5,000 Gilbert residents who live close to the site of a new Mormon temple.
The story: Read it here
No. 8: NAKED MAN RESCUED
Online publishing date: March 3, 2011.
Summary: Firefighters rescued a naked man after he climbed down a 40-foot sewer hole. The Gilbert man told officers he did it after smoking PCP and marijuana and consuming mushrooms, police said.
The story: Read it here
No. 7: ROAD-RAGE KILLING
Online publishing date: April 10, 2011.
Summary: A 56-year-old man was fatally shot by a 23-year-old after a traffic altercation at Williams Field Road and Market Street near the SanTan Village shopping center. It was a case of self-defense, police said.
The story: Read it here
No charges: Read it here
No. 6: SEX-TAPE ARREST
Online publishing date: Dec. 20, 2011.
Summary: A 41-year-old Gilbert man was accused of sneaking onto his ex-girlfriend's property to videotape her having sex with another man. The suspect originally said the ex-girlfriend had asked him to videotape her because she "is into kinky [things]," police said.
The story: Read it here
No. 5: RESTAURANT FIGHT
Online publishing date: Aug. 2, 2011.
Summary: A 41-year-old mother was arrested after assaulting her daughter in the parking lot of a Gilbert restaurant, officials said. Investigators said a verbal argument between the pair escalated into the mother striking her daughter with her fists.
The story: Read it here
No. 4: BEAR ATTACKS GILBERT WOMAN
Online publishing date: June 29, 2011.
Summary: Lana Hollingsworth, 61, was attacked by a black bear while walking her dog in Pinetop. The bear approached and attacked the Gilbert woman three separate times before running away, officials said.
The story: Read it here
Bear-attack victim dies: Read it here
No. 3: 'BUMPS' T-SHIRTS
Online publishing date: Oct. 13, 2011.
Summary: Gilbert High School asked cheerleaders trying to raise money for breast-cancer research to not wear their pink shirts because the administration contends they carry an objectionable slogan.
Story: Read it here
Also: Community split | Shirts for sale | Opinion/vote
No. 2: McCAIN FACES ANGRY TOWN HALL
Online publishing date: Aug. 9, 2011.
Summary: U.S. Sen. John McCain's town-hall meeting broke down into a shouting match at times as "tea-party" activists directed their anger and frustration toward the senator over a variety of issues.
The story: Read it here
Event raises security concerns: Read it here
No. 1: TEEN JUMPS IN FRONT OF CAR
Online publishing date: Nov. 17, 2011.
Summary: A 16-year-old Gilbert girl, a new student at Gilbert High School, was killed shortly after midnight when police said she walked into traffic. "Subsequent investigation revealed she had jumped in front of a vehicle that was westbound on Elliot in an effort to end her life," Gilbert Police spokesman Sgt. William Balafas said in a report.
The story: Read it here
"A good girl," mom says: Read it here
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As everybody else seems to have jumped into the A-Rod pool . . . here I come, too.
While I understand that current circumstances suggest that any trade of Alex Rodriguez shouldn't inspire anybody to faint into the potato salad, I submit that the notion remains preposterous nevertheless.
Slump or no slump, Rodriguez belongs on any properly-thinking baseball person's Top 3 or Top 5 or Top 10 list of the best players in the game. That caste in stone, then, why would the New York Yankees get rid of the guy? Who would they import who'd be any better?
Would the Cardinals send Albert Pujols to them? Would the Marlins package Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera? How about the Twins? Would they ship Johan Santana and Francisco Liriana to the Bronx for A-Rod? Short of deals of that nature, what would be the point of the Yankees moving the guy . . . you know, even if he would agree to waive his no-trade clause (which he won't)?
Here are the facts: Rodriguez is the reigning American League Most Valuable Player (and, probably, should have four such awards on his mantel rather than "just" two). He's on a pace to hit .280 with 35 home runs, 120 RBIs and 115 runs scored in this, a "bad" year for him. He carries himself in so professional a manner that every other pro in every other sport should take notes.
And people are clamoring for New York to hose him off of third base and out of town?
There are three problems here:
(1) A-Rod is not Derek Jeter.
(2) A-Rod is in the midst of a $252-million contract that sang to him from the shores like Sirens and "forced" him to move from a city and a team he never should have left -- Seattle and the Mariners. And,
(3) A-Rod is not Derek Jeter . . . but I repeat myself.
The point is, if folks would forgive A-Rod his great sin of not being Jeter and if they'd allow that nobody -- nowhere, no how -- would have passed up a quarter-billion offer . . . well, maybe they'd accept the idea that Alex Rodriguez is an asset.
And assets, even those in slumps, you keep.
-- Bud Poliquin

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Officials found a woman passed out in a car with two young children in the back seat.
Easton police were sent to the McDonald's parking lot at 300 Larry Holmes Drive around 8 p.m. Sunday.
They found 32-year-old Cheryl A. Strauch of the 400 block of Gordon Street in Allentown unconscious in the driver seat of a car, holding a can of Ultra Duster in her hand, police said.
In the back seat they found a one-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy, both in car seats.
Strauch was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
The children were released to their mother.


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While most people are bundling up in Atlanta this November, Mandeville resident Sarah Trattler will be putting on a bikini. The 44-year-old mother, college math teacher and fitness instructor will be there to compete in the finals of the National Physique Committee Bikini Contest.
Although Trattler has taught group fitness classes for more than 25 years, she is a "newbie" to the sport of bodybuilding. Last year she was slowed by an ankle injury, which relegated her to coaching her classes instead of actively leading them. She said the result was a sort of malaise that led to decreased physical activity and weight gain. With a new year, and a healing ankle, she made a fitness resolution. In fact, in February she joined a "Resolution for Results" program at one of the three fitness clubs in which she instructs.
Shortly thereafter, a friend referred her to Danielle Kifer, who trains and leads a local female bodybuilding team named "Pink Muscle." Thanks to a diet and exercise regimen, Trattler dropped 22 pounds and seven percent of her body fat. She decided to begin competing in the bodybuilding bikini competitions.
Trattler met with instant success. She placed second in two National Physique bodybuilding divisions, based on height and age, in Louisiana's State competition and won first place in her age division at the Baton Rouge Red Stick Classic. The result was a qualification for NPC Nationals in her first year of competition.
The recipe for such success has been a commitment to the diet and exercise program. The cardio part of the regimen is easily met by leading "Boot Camp," "Zumba" and "Ballefuse" classes nearly every day. In addition to instructing at the three clubs, Trattler teaches Zumba to fellow faculty and staff at Southeastern Louisiana University.Add four days of weight training and a diet laden with protein and she is able to compete with women nearly a decade younger.
Like many competitors, Trattler draws inspiration and motivation from a variety of sources. She is grateful for support from a network of northshore fitness leaders, fellow competitors, close friends, her sister, Debbie Trattler, and teenage daughter Rebecca, who willingly shares protein shakes and fish dinners.
There is also poignant symbol of lasting friendship and the fragile nature of life. The rhinestone bracelet she wears in competitions is missing a few stones and is somewhat tattered. Her best friend, Lori Ulfers, wore the bracelet as the reigning Queen of Eve several years ago. Trattler remembers that it was the last time she saw Ulfers' daughter, who was lost soon thereafter in a tragic car accident.
"I feel I have both of them with me when I am on stage," said Trattler.
Trattler believes she will be one of the oldest competitors in Atlanta. She views it as an honor, a challenge and a "measuring stick" for any future national competitions. Her goal is placing high enough to qualify for a "Pro Card," the credential of a bodybuilding professional. Another goal is to compete as long as it is feasible.
Her example may well also inspire others to step up to the plate, even late in the game.
"After teaching mathematics for 20 years, I finally realized age really is just a number and it's never too late to make a change," said Trattler.


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Luis A. Aguilar is a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This post is based on Commissioner Aguilar's remarks at the Practicing Law Institute's SEC Speaks in 2013 Program; the full text, including footnotes, is available here. The views expressed in the post are those of Commissioner Aguilar and do not necessarily reflect those of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the other Commissioners, or the Staff.
As many of you know, I am now in my second term as an SEC Commissioner and this is my fifth time participating at SEC Speaks. During that time, I have served with three different SEC Chairmen, and a fourth is now in the works. It has been, and continues to be, a great privilege to serve at a time during which the SEC's role as the capital markets regulator has never been more important. However, I must admit being frustrated that we haven't done more to protect investors.
Clearly, my tenure as a Commissioner has been dramatically impacted by the financial crisis and the pressing need to address the many failings that were brought to light by that crisis. Throughout my tenure, I have worked to be a strong advocate for fulfilling the Commission's mission to protect investors, facilitate capital formation, and promote a fair and orderly market. To that end, I want to talk to you today about the need to protect investors through robust and effective market oversight.
I am growing increasingly concerned about the stability of our market structure as we lurch from one crisis to another, be it the flash crash or the Knight trading fiasco. Today, I plan to focus on the dangers that investors face from a trading market structure that has shown too many signs of weakness and instability.
The Evolution of Our Markets
Over the past two decades the securities markets have experienced significant changes, evolving from a collection of a few, mostly manual markets, to a large number of high-tech trading centers. The new trading systems that have been developed by exchanges and alternative trading systems ("ATSs") rely almost exclusively on fully-electronic, automated technology to execute trades. The speed and capacity of automated systems has contributed to dramatic increases in trading volume. For example, the average daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange in 1990 was 162 million shares. Today, the average daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange is approximately 2.6 billion shares — a 16 fold increase.
In addition to these increases in speed and volume, there has been an increase in the number of trading venues. No longer are trading activities controlled by a few trading venues, as it was two decades ago. Today, equity trading occurs across 13 national securities exchanges and more than 40 dark pools, with no single stock exchange having an overall market share greater than 20% of the consolidated volume for all National Market System ("NMS") stocks. We also now have approximately 33.2% of trading volume occurring on dark pools, broker pools, and other "non-exchange" venues.
The rise in the number of trading venues — on exchanges and off-exchanges — and the fragmentation of trading volume, and the reliance on automated systems have increased the potential for system failures to spread quickly and affect the entire market.
Market Failures
Unfortunately, we have already seen too many instances of system-wide problems that have affected our capital markets. Some of the better known examples include:
- The flash crash of May 2010;
- The series of problems associated with the initial public offering of Facebook, Inc. in May 2012;
- Knight Capital Group Inc.'s $440 million trading loss in August 2012; and
- The issues associated with BATS Global Markets Inc.'s initial public offering in March 2012, as well as the recent admission by BATS that, for a period of more than four years, its computers for two equity exchanges and an options platform allowed trades to take place at prices that violated the Commission's regulations, which seek to ensure that investors receive the best price.
Market failures of this magnitude and significance are unacceptable. Moreover, I am also concerned about reports that indicate that the recent market events caused by technology-related issues may have eroded investor confidence and impacted the stability and price-discovery function of our capital markets. According to recent data, since the May 2010 flash crash, investors have pulled over $377 billion from mutual funds that invested in U.S. stocks. While there may be competing reasons for these outflows, there are credible reports that indicate a causal connection between the flash crash, and the subsequent market disruptions, and the outflows of investor funds away from the equity markets. It is clear this is an area that requires regulation and oversight that result in transparency, stability, and accountability, and it is the Commission's responsibility to propose and adopt solutions.
Although I recognize that there has been a steady uptick in the stock market over the past few months and that, according to recent media reports, some investors seem to be returning to the equity markets, I'm concerned about adverse effects that may result from future disruptions. To that end, I believe that we need to be proactive to prevent future market disruptions due to breakdowns in back-office systems and technology. It is not enough to merely respond to a past crisis, without solving the broader market stability issues.
Clearly, a reliable and robust market infrastructure is a critical component for protecting investors and ensuring fair, orderly, and efficient markets for all market participants. It is particularly disturbing that market professionals are losing confidence in our markets. A recent survey found that 26% of capital markets professionals had "very weak" confidence in our current market structure, up from 3% in May 2010.
Regulatory Measures to Promote Market Stability
Addressing the weakness and instability in the market structure must be a top Commission priority. To that end, the Commission must proactively develop an oversight and regulatory structure that is aligned with the purpose of serving the needs of investors.
In response to some of the market dysfunction, the Commission has adopted a number of regulatory measures designed to limit the broader impact of deficiencies and shortcomings of our market structure, such as single-stock circuit breakers, the ban on stub quotes, and rules banning naked access, and requiring pre-trade risk controls. In addition, the Commission has also adopted rules that require large traders, many of whom use high frequency trading strategies, to identify themselves so that the Commission can better monitor and analyze their trades.
While these measures are positive steps in the right direction, the Commission needs to do much more to update our regulatory framework and ensure that our capital markets develop and maintain systems with sufficient capacity, integrity, resiliency, availability, and security.
I recognize that our capital markets are very complex and inter-related, and all of the proposed solutions to the instability in our capital markets must keep this in mind. However, to not act is to turn a blind eye to the market instability that has had significant negative impact. The impact is compounded by the fact that our capital markets are complex and inter-related.
There is a great deal about our capital markets that we can all be proud of; despite its limitations, the U.S. capital markets are among the most developed, competitive, transparent, liquid, and vibrant capital markets in the world. Our capital markets truly set the standards for others to follow. The recent market malfunctions, however, have raised important questions that must be addressed to make sure that U. S. markets are working effectively — and, in particular, that they are working for retail investors. Some of these questions include:
- Have liquidity and price discovery been impacted by the flow of stock trading volume to off-exchange, and less transparent trading venues?
- Are exchanges, ATSs, and dark pools on a level playing field?
- How has the operating model of exchanges been influenced by their transformation from not-for-profit organizations to for-profit companies?
These questions crystallize issues that I cannot address in the limited time I have this morning, but I do want to highlight a few market stability measures that deserve serious consideration. These include:
- The Implementation of a Mechanism To Limit or Shut Down Orders — Such as a "Kill Switch"; and
- Live Simulations and Robust Testing of Business Continuity Plans for Trading Software.
The Implementation of a Mechanism To Limit or Shut Down Orders — Kill Switches
Just a few months ago, on October 2, 2012, the Commission conducted a roundtable entitled "Technology and Trading: Promoting Stability in Today's Markets ("Roundtable"). The Roundtable examined the relationship between operational stability and integrity of the securities markets and the ways in which market participants design, implement, and manage complex and inter-connected trading technologies.
During the Roundtable, there was a robust discussion as to whether there should be a regulatory mandate to implement a mechanism referred to as a "kill switch." The term "kill switch" is used to refer to mechanisms pursuant to which one or more limits could be established by a trading venue so that if a participant exceeded those limits, the trading venue could stop accepting incoming orders from the participant — in essence, a "kill switch" that would stop further trading.
I believe that the concept of a kill switch designed to catch extreme events and prevent market disruption is an idea that should be developed. Although I do not believe that any one individual safeguard will comprehensively eliminate risk in all situations; I do believe that a multi-layered approach to market structure with multiple, independent, coordinated, and overlapping risk checks are critically important, and that a kill switch would be one such important safeguard.
Live Simulations and Robust Testing of Business Continuity Plans for Trading Software
I also believe that the Commission should mandate robust and routine testing of trading software at exchanges and other liquidity centers. This need was amply demonstrated by Hurricane Sandy. When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in late October 2012, all U.S. stock trading closed for a period of two days. Despite having existing business continuity plans that would have allowed for substantial trading to continue in the wake of a hurricane, trading was halted. Hurricane Sandy was predicted to hit the New York City area for a number of days prior to coming to shore, which would have been an adequate trigger for these plans. Yet, that is not what happened.
Specifically, two days before the storm, on October 27, 2012, the securities industry conducted its annual test for trading firms, market operators, and their utilities to operate through an emergency by using backup sites, backup communications, and disaster recovery facilities. The test did not uncover any issues that would preclude the markets from opening with backup systems, if they chose to. However, the markets did not open, reportedly due to concerns about their operational effectiveness and, more importantly, the physical safety of individuals during the storm. Still, it is important to note that the business continuity plans in place did contemplate the possibility of a hurricane, and many of these plans anticipated the need to operate from off-site facilities. It is clear that these business continuity plans were not considered sufficiently robust to keep the markets open. I believe that market participants must be confident enough in their back-up plans to utilize them when the needs arise. Perhaps one way to increase the confidence in the effectiveness of a business continuity plan is to require that such plans be actually implemented in a live or near-live trading environment on a periodic basis.
In my mind, there's not much difference between failing to have a business continuity plan and having a plan that you're not confident enough to use. Hurricane Sandy should serve as a warning sign. It is not enough to have the false comfort of a business continuity program on paper. It is critically important for entities to robustly test their contingency plans and be prepared to use them.
In addition, I believe that we need a regulatory scheme that would extend the SEC's Automation Review Policy ("ARP") to include additional market participants such as alternative trading systems, plan processors, and clearing agencies. As many of you know, the SEC published the ARP as a policy statement in 1989, largely in response to the 1987 market crash. Noting the impact that systems failures could have on public investors, broker-dealer risk exposure, and market efficiency, the Commission expressed its view that SROs, on a voluntary basis, "should establish comprehensive planning and assessment programs to test systems capacity and vulnerability." Although this is currently voluntary, the Commission is currently working on a rule proposal that will make this process mandatory, and I hope that we soon act on the proposal. The many malfunctions have amply demonstrated that a voluntary environment is not acceptable.
I have been asked how codifying guidance from 1989 can be the answer to the market structure issues of 2013. The question is a good one. Codifying the ARP guidance is only a first step towards addressing the concerns related to market structure. It by no means is the whole solution. Moreover, in codifying the ARP guidance, it is critical that the Commission propose rules that create transparency, accountability, and integrity in order to make sure that market participants develop policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to ensure that their systems have the levels of capacity, resiliency, availability, and security that will allow them to operate in an appropriate manner. If the ARP guidance is not codified in the right way, neither regulators nor the investing public will have the right information to provide a clear assessment of whether key market stakeholders are addressing their system compliance issues.
As the country's capital markets regulator responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation, the SEC must be at the forefront of proactively addressing changes in our capital markets structure, and not merely responding to events that have occurred. The challenges posed by large, automated, complex, and fragmented trading centers are real, and solutions cannot be put off to an unspecified future for consideration. Our investors deserve a proactive regulator.


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A month after causing confusion among developers about its commitment--or lack of it--to its streaming media technology, Microsoft announces a major new version coming soon.
Articles Written by Stuart Johnston
Researchers Have a 'BLAST' With Microsoft Azure
High-performance computing (HPC) may be coming to a cloud near you as Microsoft makes an important life sciences analysis tool available to run on its Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
Microsoft News: The Software Giant Talks Up Private Cloud at TechEd Europe
Microsoft continues to expand its options for customers who want to migrate their applications to the company's cloud, including ones who want to host the cloud themselves.
Microsoft News: Microsoft Says HTML 5 Won't Kill Silverlight
Will Microsoft jettison its Silverlight cross-platform, cross-browser media streaming technology or not? Microsoft says 'not' -- yet.
Microsoft News: Microsoft 'All In' on Windows Phone 7 and on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft paints a rosy future for cloud computing at its annual developers' conference.
When Will Windows Phone 7 Arrive?
It seems as if everyone has a hunch about when Windows Phone 7 will roll out, but Microsoft isn't saying -- and so the rumors fly.


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Reviews from my friends are mixed, so I'm interested in hearing what other runners have to say.
I'm glad the movie was made. I'm glad it was written with a very inspiring voice. I'm glad we got to see Deena Kastor's smile and Daniel Njenga's sense of humor. I'm glad that Leah, Lori, and Rona finished their first marathon and that Gerald had so much fun finishing another. They should definitely be proud of themselves and I hope that at least one "not a runner" sees this, gets inspired, and changes their life by becoming one.
But there was a big gap in the performances that represent what most of the "runners" I know train for. Where were the people who were what I consider "local elites" or those who apply a more serious approach to their training, nutrition and overall preparation to replace their 3:40 PR with a 3:37?
I'm really trying to *not* sound disrespectful to the group I myself am in--those that many others consider "slow". But I do feel that the stark contrast between the elites and the first-timers in the film might paint the picture that you're either a world-class athlete, or you're just happy to be there.
Yes, there was Ryan. But his comment about Boston being slanted towards women and older runners didn't sound like something someone who respected other runners would say. I've got plenty of friends that are "women and older runners" that work hard to earn their trip to Boston. But maybe he was just confused by the whole Katie Holmes thing.
A good movie, yes, but I don't think it did the sport justice. If if does anything, I hope it gets people to get out and cheer the next time their home city hosts a marathon. That, more than any movie, will be what really conveys the Spirit of the Marathon.
There is an Encore Presentation scheduled for Thursday, February 21. Visit the website to see locations and purchase tickets.


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Dynamic Modeling of Bacterial and Organizational Colony Networks for Coordinated Response to Influenza
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We propose to develop biologically inspired dynamic social network algorithm for developing robust monitoring, prediction and evaluation of the spread of infections as well as the robustness in coordinated response to infections. In our proposed study, new bio inspired dynamic network algorithms would be developed to perform the real time monitoring of spread of infections which would be used to perform optimized link prediction in a distributed spread of infections network. We aim to provide statistical validation of our proposed spread of infections monitoring and link prediction algorithm by using past spread of infections test case scenarios. We then plan to provide an analysis of how the area health services network evolve and adapt dynamically during the spread of infections for providing robust coordinated response. For the purpose of testing and validation of robustness of coordinated response, we will use spread of infection and response dataset from previous situated infections as well as simulated experiments. The outcome of our study would lead to the development of not only new optimized approach to monitor and link prediction of the spread dynamics of the bacterial colony, but also to explore the robustness of organizational colony of Area Health Networks in responding to the infections optimally. We investigate the following questions: How can we provide robust monitoring of the dynamics of bacterial colony networks (i.e., spread of infections) using biologically inspired dynamic social networks? What are the implications of dynamic monitoring of the spread dynamics and their rate of infections for predicting future link of the spread of infections optimally? How does the organizational colony (i.e., groups, subgroups, and cliques of the Area Health Networks) formed within the network involving multi organizational coordinated response structures? Who is central to each of these multi organizational coordinated response structures? Who serves as a bridge among multi organizational coordinating teams? Can we optimize the robustness of coordinated response by integrating the bacterial and organizational colony network dynamics in a single predictive framework?
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The objectives of this study are as follows:
- To determine the bacterial colony dynamics by applying dynamic social network modeling;
- To determine the structure of existing organizational colony networks within the Area Health Network teams;
- To compare existing bacterial and organizational colony networks with the corresponding structures in biological networks;
- To map the algorithmic description of biological networks to the structure and nature of agency-public and agency-agency information networks in multi-organizational colony networks;
- To develop new information network structures based on the biological models;
- To compare the dynamics of current information networks with those predicted by the biologically-inspired networks.
- To compare the scalability of current information-networks with that of the biologically-inspired networks by studying the dynamic behavior in (3) for different sizes of network and spatial structures.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 1353
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Grease Grit & Grime opens for Exquisite Corps Friday
November 7, 2013
Fresh from a stripped-down opening for blues legend Buddy Guy last week, local "dirty blues" band Grease, Grit & Grime breaks out the full crew to open for Sammie Award nominees Exquisite Corps this Friday.
As the Crow Flies Presents and Sailor Rick have teamed up to showcase a dance concert featuring these two dynamic acts starting at 9:30 p.m. at Cooper's Ale Works in Nevada City.
Exquisite Corps has been described as "orchestral indie" or "chamber rock." Their original sound is driven by a six-piece ensemble that includes two violins, keyboards, bass, guitar, vocalists and drums. The band has been nominated this year for two Sammies (Sacramento Area Music Awards) for Best Indie and Best Live Performer — with the awards scheduled to be announced the night of this Friday's show. Exquisite Corps toured this summer, opening for national acts, including Blonde Redhead, Minus the Bear and Imagine Dragons.
Nevada County's own Grease, Grit & Grime brings a new edge to the traditional blues of the early 20th century. GG&G features Scott "Philharmonica" Hickman (blues harp, vocals), Seth Miner (guitar, vocals), Hayes Burris (bass), Ty Smith (drums) and Chad Conner Crow (vocals and general mayhem). The band includes past and/or current members of the Chillbillies, Organic Flood, Earles of Newtown and Single Jack, among others.
Miner, Hickman and Crow warmed up the audience for Buddy Guy last week in Grass Valley, but Burris and Smith will bring on the full heat to fire up the audience for Exquisite Corps this Friday.
There is a $7 cover and only 21 and older are allowed. Coopers is located at 235 Commercial St. in Nevada City.


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This week's gloomy weather can easily depress, especially if you're a golfer. But we're already halfway through February and, before you know it, spring will have area golf courses bustling with growth and activity.
If you want to take your mind off the weather and get it on the coming warmer days of spring and summer, go to the Louisiana Golf Association's web site, www.LGAgolf.org, to see the list of championships for this year.
In fact, online registration has begun for the first event of 2013, the LGA Club Team Championship, which will be played at Oak Wing Golf Club in Alexandria on April 27-28. The Riverlands Golf and Country Club of LaPlace won the event last year.
The LGA's biggest tournament, the Amateur Championship, will be held June 6-9 at Southern Trace Country Club in Shreveport. The New Orleans area qualifying tournament for the Amateur Championship will be held May 14 at Money Hill Golf and Country Club.
Patrick Christovich captured the Amateur title last year, winning at TPC Louisiana. Christovich also won the LGA Mid-Am as well as The Mackel, the New Orleans area amateur championship, capping off an impressive 2012 season for him.
The LGA Mid-Am will be held Aug. 2-4 at The Bluffs in St. Francisville. The New Orleans area qualifier for that tournament will be July 9 at Lakewood Golf Club.
The Junior Amateur tournament is scheduled for July 10-12 at TPC Louisiana. Sam Burns of Shreveport won that title last year by nine strokes.
The Senior Amateur is scheduled for Aug. 15-17 at Bayou DeSiard Country Club in Monroe. Doug Farr of Monroe was the Senior Am champ in 2012.
Registration is now available for the first three events of the year, the Team Championship, the Net Amateur Championship (May 18-19 at The Bluffs) and the Amateur Championship.
"Our policy of sending $100 refunds (from the $200 entry fee) to individuals that do not proceed past qualifying round play in both the Amateur and Mid-Amateur Championships will continue again this year," said Logan Ray, LGA Director of Championship Operations. "With the continuation of this policy and the superb slate of venues that we have on tap this year, we anticipate strong entry numbers for all of our events."


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The email subject line read "Where do you put your bag when you first come in the house?" Okay, why is that so important?
It's on the top of the sideboard hutch. Sometimes open (for easy access to my cell phone!), some times zipped up. All the time in easy access to a curious jumping cat (read here, Clio because Mack just can't leap any more).
I opened the weekly pet safety tip from The Preventive Vet and found out why it is important to consider where you put things and how easily your pet could get into something harmful.
So what's in my purse that could cause a curious cat harm? Ibuprofen, Aspirin, and Excedrin, all in a cute little pill box decorated with a kitty. All toxic to my pets.
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The total amount of water on the Earth ____________ from year to year and the hydrologic cycle ________________.
stays about the same; moves it from one place to another place
The process of _____________ explains why your ice cubes shrink when they have been left in the freezer for a long time.
The amount of water vapor that air can hold _________. Warm air is able to hold _____ humidity when compared to _____ air.
varies greatly; more; cold
Relative humidity is a measure of water vapor in air compared to the
maximum vapor air can hold at that temperature.
The dew point is
the temperature at which a certain concentration of water vapor will begin to condense.
The rainiest or snowiest zone on the mountain in the diagram above would be in the area marked
from A to B.
Air moving in the direction indicated in the diagram above will become warmer as it moves from
B to D.
Air moving in the direction indicated in the diagram above will become dryer as it moves from
B to D.
Residence time of water in oceans is a measure of the
average amount of time a water molecule spends in the ocean.
The zone of saturation is the portion of groundwater where
all soil or rock pore spaces are filled with water.
The amount of water in aquifers in the United States is
over thirty times greater than all surface water in the United States.
22. The atmosphere has the greatest ________ of the earth's hydrologic compartments.
turnover rate and smallest water volume
A country's renewable water supplies are generally made up of
surface runoff and infiltration into accessible aquifers.
Which of the following factors is the most important factor in determining whether a country is "water rich" or "water poor"?
Renewable water supplies.
Human water withdrawals have been increasing at about ___________ rate as worldwide population growth.
twice the
On the graph of domestic water use per person above, each letter represents a country. Which of the following is most likely?
A is the United States; B is China.
The Ogallala Aquifer supplies water to ___________ and once held more water than the surface water __________.
the central Plains states, in the world
Withdrawal of groundwater often causes subsidence, a situation where
porous rocks settle and ground level falls.
In some regions groundwater withdrawals can contribute to sinkholes, in which
empty underground caverns suddenly collapse.
A method of increasing water supplies that has been successful, if expensive, is
desalinization by reverse osmosis.
Consequences of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt include
A. increase in the need for buying fertilizer.
B. increase in the occurrence of schistosomiasis.
C. decline in the Mediterranean fisheries.
D. "increase in the occurrence of schistosomiasis" and "decline in the Mediterranean fisheries" are consequences of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
E. All of these are consequences of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
All of these are consequences of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
Principal problems that have resulted from the construction of large dams include the relocation of people.
Many experts think that in the future, water conflicts will be a major cause of international conflict. Currently, however, there are no international conflicts over water.
Charging a higher proportion of real costs rather than subsidies has led to water conservation.
_________ sources of water pollution are relatively easy to monitor and regulate while _____________ sources of water pollution are difficult to monitor and cleanup.
Point; nonpoint
____________ is to point source of water pollution as _____________ is to nonpoint source of water pollution.
Power plant effluent; golf course runoff
Coliform bacteria populations are routinely monitored in drinking water supplies, swimming pools, and at beaches because these bacteria
indicate the presence of feces in water.
On the graph of clean drinking water per person, each letter represents a country. Which of the following is most likely?
A is the United States; B is India.
In the diagram above, which of the following units would probably be used to label the numbers on the horizontal (X) axis?
The most active decomposition occurs in the area marked _____ on the horizontal axis of the diagram.
0 to 1
In the diagram above, which of the following organisms would probably be found in the area marked 3 and higher?
mayfly and stonefly larvae
In the diagram above, which of the following organisms would probably be found in the area between 1 and 2?
mosquito larvae
When natural waters are overloaded with plant nutrients, such as nitrate and phosphate ions, they become
Algae blooms are a common problem in the Mediterranean Sea because of
heavy tourism and untreated sewage.
Which of the following are inorganic toxic substances sometimes found in water supplies?
salts and lead
Itai-Itai developed in Japanese people living near the Jintsu River. This disease was traced to
cadmium poisoning.
Rivers in California's dry agricultural valleys are often toxic because they
have high concentrations of metals and salts.
Acid precipitation is especially disruptive when it occurs in areas with______________ because of the lack of _____________.
granite bedrock; buffering capacity
The range of tolerance for temperature in an aquatic organism is likely to be _____ the tolerance range of a terrestrial organism.
less than
In order to avoid producing thermal plumes, power plants often
warm entire rivers to ease temperature gradients.
The main reason that surface water pollution has largely decreased in the United States since 1950 is
the Clean Water Act.
In 1998, a change in the approach to water quality was initiated by _________ with an emphasis on _________.
the EPA; watershed management
Feedlots are a major cause of _________ in water.
A. viruses
B. coliform bacteria
C. nitrates
D. phosphates
E. All of these choices are correct.
All of these choices are correct.
______________ is an example of a natural process that is accelerated by human activities.
A. Eutrophication
B. The weathering and release of toxic inorganic minerals from rocks
C. The mobilization and concentration of soluble salts from groundwater
D. Sediment loading of rivers
E. All of these are examples of natural processes that are accelerated by human activities.
All of these are examples of natural processes that are accelerated by human activities.
Aquifers are especially susceptible to contamination
A. around wells.
B. near their recharge zones.
C. when they are shallow.
D. around injection wells.
E. All of these choices are correct.
All of these choices are correct.
The following statements explain why contamination of aquifers is dangerous. Which of the statements is false?
A. The contaminants are concentrated by the different densities of water in the aquifers.
B. Pollutants are extremely stable once they contaminate an aquifer.
C. Minuscule amounts of a pollutant can contaminate an entire aquifer.
D. Aquifers can take an extremely long time to turn over their water content.
E. All of these statements are true.
The contaminants are concentrated by the different densities of water in the aquifers.
Municipal sewage can be an excellent source of _____________ that are otherwise expensive to mine.
useful metals
The potential problem with natural decay for human waste is that
it only works where population density is low.
__________ should never be allowed down a drain when a septic tank and drain field system is being used for sewage disposal.
Chlorine and antimicrobial cleansers
The advantage of effluent sewerage is that
since solids are removed, pipes and pumps to the central treatment plant can be small and cheap.
The city of Arcata, California, is notable because it designed a _________ to treat its sewage.
natural marsh
Using Bentonite slurries to stabilize liquids in porous substances is an example of
a containment method of remediation.
Best available economically achievable technology (BAT) standards are standards set for
toxic substances.
Wetland protection is one of the most controversial provisions of the ___________ because opponents believe that the legislation is _____________
Clean Water Act; an infringement on their use of private property
The cheapest and most effective way to reduce water pollution is to use technology to separate wastes for nonpoint sources.
Open sea bilge pumping and tank cleaning are legal ways to clean ships, once the ship is at least 300 miles off shore.
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Published on August 05, 2013
Daniel Browne navigates his way across a bog on a boardwalk. Centre Hill is visible in the background. — Photo by Susan Flanagan/Special to The Telegram
Published on August 05, 2013
Swimming hole in Centre Cove River, is a nice way to cool off after your ascent of Centre Hill.— Photo by Susan Flanagan/Special to The Telegram
Published on August 05, 2013
Camping platform and shelter at the base of Centre Hill, 1 1/2 hours from the start of the hike in Sunnyside; the platform is broken, but one could set up a tent in the shelter, an outhouse is not too far off along the path.— Photo by Susan Flanagan/Special to The Telegram
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Daniel Browne relaxes at the summit of Centre Hill, the highest point on the Avalon Peninsula and isthmus. — Photo by Susan Flanagan/Special to The Telegram
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The descent can be more challenging than the ascent. Hands are definitely needed on certain sections. — Photo by Susan Flanagan/Special to The Telegram
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The broken boardwalk on Centre Hill Trail. Money is needed for upgrades to the trail. — Photo by Susan Flanagan/Special to The Telegram
On a good day atop Centre Hill, you can see for miles
At 1,153 feet, Centre Hill in Sunnyside is the highest point on the Avalon Peninsula and the isthmus connecting it to the rest of the island.
We climbed it on one of those stinkin' hot days last week when the humidex was screaming 99, which any sane person takes to mean: go to the basement and stay there until the rain comes. But not us. Instead of staying indoors we realized a two-year-old dream of visiting Sunnyside to tackle Centre Hill.
On the way out the highway, we stopped in at the Bull Arm interpretation centre, which is just before the turnoff to Sunnyside, and watched a silent movie on the Hebron project. Hebron employs a good number of Sunnyside residents as, of course, does the nearby Come By Chance Oil Refinery. Massive well-kept houses, spiffy boats, side-by-sides and quads are testament to the good salaries being made in some households.
I was hoping to do a bus tour like I did back in the Hibernia construction phase, but tours are offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and the third Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. We were there on a Friday.
Children must be at least six years of age and those under the age of 15 must be accompanied by an adult and those under 19 must have an adult sign a waiver. There is no fee, but visitors must wear closed-toe shoes. To reserve a spot, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call 709-463-1033. Tours continue until October.
So after a sandwich and a quick visit to the facilities, we drove the five miles to the far end of Sunnyside and parked at the well-marked trailhead across from the government wharf to begin our ascent of Centre Hill, which operated as a fire watch tower from the 1930s to '60s. It was 1:40 and the sign informed us that the 10-km return trip should take four hours.
Shorts and stouts
As soon as we got out of the vehicle the stouts, or horseflies, started to dive bomb us. We covered ourselves in Skin So Soft and DEET which prevented them from biting, but did not deter them from swarming our upper bodies for the entire trip. I did not try to swat them away, but if I moved my arm in the normal way one does to walk, it would bump into a stout or two. We got used to the drone.
The hike begins with a short overgrown ascent that crosses a dirt road leading to a spectacular waterfall and swimming hole in the Centre Cove River.
It then meanders through wet valleys dissected by boardwalks that need some tender loving care.
It's been a decade since the Centre Hill Trail Association built the extensive trail/boardwalk system that allows hikers to get through the many bakeapple and pitcherplant bogs between the town and Centre Hill. In the past 10 years, nature has reclaimed some of the wood. We had only been walking about half an hour when one of the two teenagers in my charge took a knee high soaker that would have been much worse if he hadn't kept his other foot on the half of the boardwalk that was still intact. Once he schlepped his leg out of the muck, he rinsed off in nearby Leech Pond. He travelled the rest of the day with one wet sock and boot.
It's a shame the trail has disintegrated, but I understand the prohibitive cost of upkeep and maintenance on a 10-year-old nature trail that crosses wetlands in Newfoundland. Perhaps the new town council this fall can apply for government or private (oil sector?) money to upgrade the path. It would be a shame to let it revert back to a nature trail as the ground is so wet hikers wouldn't get through except in winter when the ground is frozen.
Somehow I don't think the summit would be quite as welcoming as the day we were up there.
We plodded along through dead forest and open meadows with fresh moose prints firmly embedded in the wet mud.
After about an hour and a half, we were at the base of Centre Hill where we came upon a tent platform and camping shelter for campers to leave their gear before entering the Hobbitville forest that precedes the abrupt ascent that makes up the final 15 minutes or so of the hike. The last hurrah requires hands as well as feet to get up. The sweat blurred my vision. I had to mop my entire head with my shirt. We drained the last of our Gatorade and water.
This was not the Sunnyside that is often enshrouded in thick fog. This is the Sunnyside for which it was named. We must have been there on the clearest day of the year. For 360 degrees, the views were resplendent. Placentia Bay to the west with Come By Chance in the foreground and three oil tankers in the bay. To the east, Trinity Bay with Bull Arm and Deer Harbour.
We rested and sent a few emails — cellphone coverage was perfect — before starting back. It had taken exactly two hours to get to the top and, with our stop for a dip on the way down, it was exactly two hours back.
Centre Cove River reminded me of Manuels River with its deep swimming holes carved by waterfalls. What a great way to cool off on one of the hottest most humid days of the year. It's the only time in my life I remember being fully submersed in my clothing outdoors in Newfoundland and not feeling shockingly cold when I came out. I walked back to the car sopping wet and warm.
After our hike, we set up camp in a splendid spot on the recommendation of the lovely Robert Snook, outgoing mayor and descendant of the first permanent residents of Sunnyside who came over from New Perlican. It was hot enough to sleep in the open, but the vampire mosquitoes kept us safely inside the mesh.
Mayor Snook told us of a short (just over one kilometre) hike to Truce Sound where a white teepee commemorates the place where John Guy first made contact with the Beothuk in 1612 — and called the area Truce Sound because of the good relations that were established between the two parties.
So, if you'd like to go to Sunnyside and not hike uphill, you can still enjoy a beautiful trail and even a soak in the gorgeous Centre Cove River.
When we woke up, Sunnyside was shrouded under a veil of fog. It was hard to believe it was the same place we had entered less than 24 hours before.
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Ryan got sucked in by the Dumocraps just like Rubio. The Rep want so much to be part of the game they will settle for anything. Just what did they get for selling out? When the RNC calls we say we support Ted Cruz do you?
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When I look at that buring cross I see Grayson trying to intimidate us. He's saying this is what we want to do the TP. To me he is the KKK member.
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October 22, 2013 at 7:41pm
This man is evil. They have bad mouthed the TP from the beginning, because we have the nerve to stand up and speak out. They do not like dissent
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You have Cruz confused with BO. Did anyone ever hear who won the dinner with the dog during the campaign?
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You have him confused with BO.
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I think Pelosi proves you don't have to be too smart to be elect to Congress or the Senate. Looks at Reid, Boehner, McConnell, Cummings, Davis (the Communist) Shelia Jackson Lee, Waters, etc. Just promised the folks more FREE stuff.
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October 21, 2013 at 7:55pm
Was Hitlary prepared for Benghazi???? If she can/t protect our people under her watch, why would we want her protecting us???? Pelosi is probably hoping Hitlary will pick her for VP.
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October 18, 2013 at 6:00pm
Anyone Barry wants must be part of the machine. I would not trust anyone Barry nominated, but the Senate will probably approve him, just like all the other Marxist.
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October 18, 2013 at 5:40pm
Does CNN stand for Communist News Network?
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October 18, 2013 at 5:33pm
Did you know that as the Majority Leader, anyone can e-mail old Dingy Harry. I just did. Go to http://www.reid.senate.gov and let Reid know what you think. We need to support Cruz.
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October 17, 2013 at 6:03pm
Cruz knows what we face as a country. His father is from Cuba and has witnessed Communism. He is a fighter not a quiter and I support him 100%. You don't successed at first, try, try again.
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Chris is part of the propaganda machine. It's his job to inject racism every chance he gets. We know he's an idiot, so why waste our time in caring about what he thinks.
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October 17, 2013 at 5:48pm
Everyone of these Marxist starting with BO should be trialed for treason.
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October 17, 2013 at 5:41pm
You wish. The fight the TP is fighting is bigger than the government shutdown. It was Commiecare. Your not so much leader wants fairness for everyone, than BO and Moo should go on Commiecare if it's so great. You are obvisously a leftist plant.
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October 17, 2013 at 5:33pm
Louie is one of the good guys. As for McCain he has lost his soul and is on his way out. Just not soon enough. I voted for the idiot because of Sarah.
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It's only because of Trey, Cruz, Lee and others that I am able to keep my sanity.
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Island poet David Lloyd Whited will read from his latest book, "Olde Man Coyote Goes to Towne," this Friday.
From start to finish, this book tells the story of Coyote residing in downtown Tacoma, trying to make a living. Coyote, according to Whited, is a contradictory figure in Native American lore: full of good, full of greed, a trickster, a hero, a thief and an agent of change.
"The coyote is a survivor," Whited said.
In this book, 10 years in the making and published this month by Nine Muses Books, Whited's Coyote manifests all those traits as he navigates the urban world.
Whited, part Native American, said he has worked with tribes for 30 years and has listened to countless stories about Coyote. Those stories were the impetus for this book.
Whited, 61, commutes each day to his job on the Puyallup Reservation in downtown Tacoma, where he writes social service and health care grants to help deal with the effect of the urban environment on tribal cultures and values. Several poems speak to that experience, he said, noting that the Puyallup Reservation is one of the most urban reservations, and seven municipalities lie on reservation land, including Tacoma, Federal Way and Puyallup.
At the reading, listeners should expect to experience a lot of contradictions in their emotions, Whited said — sadness, but with sardonic laughter and joking in the midst of it.
Whited was first published in 1969, and is familiar to many Islanders; he has read at Vashon Bookshop before, he said, and he read at the Vashon Poetry Festival last year.
Whited will read at 6 p.m. Friday at the Vashon Bookshop. His reading will be the third in the Poet Laureate Reading Series. Ann Spiers, who organizes the series, said she hopes to offer two or three more readings, most likely in April as part of National Poetry month, and is open to suggestions of whom to include.
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Organizing tasks on schedule for Highland Fling
Greetings from Brookdale.
We continue to have snowy and sunny days. Warmer than it has been.
BROOKDALE - Greetings from Brookdale.
We continue to have snowy and sunny days. Warmer than it has been.
The Highland Fling request letters for the Button Draw Prizes have been mailed out and the donation and booth letters will be out by next week.
The annual meeting of the Cumberland Health Care Auxiliary will be held on March 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Boardroom, 1 and 2.
Autumn House will host International Womens Day on March 7 this year due to a space problem. It will be held at the Lions Club.
Sincere sympathy is extended to the families on the passing of Ellen Raddin and Leonard Nelson.
I also had a call early Sunday morning to say that a special friend, Anna (Tankard) Wright, Bermuda, had passed away a few hours earlier. She had a fall and hit her head and she died in the hospital. She would have been 95 in March. She was the last surviving member in her family.
Until two years ago, she spent many summers here at my home. She had lots of stories about living here in Brookdale from 1912 to 1924 when her father, a Bermudan, sold the farm and moved them all back to Bermuda.
One story was about one winter when they had so much snow at Christmas time that they were unable to get to the little Baptist church on the hill (Eldon and Jean McCormack live there now). She said that the leaders had filled bags of treats for the children, an apple, an orange, nuts and a few candies and they were hanging just waiting for the children.
However, with all the snow the church was closed for about three months and when they finally opened the church the mice had a field day. She said the mice had a party and everything was a super mess. I shall miss her but I am glad I had the opportunity to spend time with her.
There has been a lot of pros and cons on our soldiers supposedly doing peace keeping duty. We really need to support them because if it was us that was having to deal with the circumstances that the people over there have to deal with, we would want the opportunity to be free as well.
I came across this Earth Status Report for 2007 and thought I would close with this as it will give folk something to think about.
1- This morning, if you woke up healthy, then you are happier than the one million people that will not survive next week.
2 - If you never suffered war the loneliness of a jail cell the agony of torture or hunger you are happier than 500 million people in the world.
3 - If you can enter into a church without fear of jail or death, you are happier than 3 million people in the world.
4 - If you have food in your frig you have shoes and clothes you have a bed and a roof you are richer than 75 per cent of the people in the world.
5 - If you have a bank account money in your wallet some coin in a piggy bank you belong to the 8 per cent of the people in the world who are well to do.
6 - If you can read be thankful, as there are 200 million people who cannot read.
So, Work - as if you dont need money
Love - as if youve never been hurt
Dance - as if nobody can see you
Sing - as if no one can hear
Live as if the Earth was a Heaven
Blessings to all.


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May 14, Press and Guide: The Arab International Festival could be the first realized casualty of the city's fiscal crisis, unless organizers quickly find a way to raise $60,000.Each year, more than 300,000 people attend the three-day festival, providing a boost to the economy and a swell of local pride. In recent years, however, the city has been criticized for barring Christian pamphleteers and proselytizers.
The sum roughly equals what the city has spent in previous years on the annual Warren Avenue street fair, largely through providing public safety and public works services. But with the city facing a gaping budget deficit ' and the corresponding need to cut programs, services, and staff — this year, it could be a price too steep.
"We really need to be reimbursed for the $59,000 for those key responsibilities," Mayor Jack O'Reilly said Thursday at a special city council meeting on the festival.
Jones isn't causing the funding problems that threaten the festival, but he's certainly not helping. His last protest reportedly cost the city $46,000 in police overtime, and his plan to attend the festival on June 17 will force the city to boost police presence.
According to a Facebook posting, Jones "will be speaking about radical Islam and Jihad. He will also be reading the violent verses from the Koran and reading them aloud as well as explaining the difference between the Mecca and Medina translations of the Koran."
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What Are Tenants in Common?
Q. Several of my college buddies are getting together to pool their savings and buy a house, and they've asked me to go in with them on it. One of them used the term "tenants in common" to explain how we would buy a house with five owners. What are tenants in common?
A. Buying a home with friends can be a great way to build equity. That equity will give you money to use for a down payment on your next home.
If you're disciplined about your savings while renting—that's great, but building equity in a home is even better. You can pay down a mortgage while the home appreciates in value.
Presumably you're calculating the costs for buying a home with your college friends and comparing them to your rent payments. With five people owning a single house as tenants in common, your monthly housing costs could be lower than renting an apartment by yourself or with a roommate.
However, there are some risks involved with doing a tenants in common (TIC) arrangement. If you're not prepared for the responsibility of homeownership, you should think twice about joining a TIC. Here are some items to remember:
Consult an Attorney
Before you decide to buy a house with friends, it's important to consult an attorney with experience in this area. A legal expert will walk you through the ramifications of owning property together. You should also consult a tax advisor about the tax implications of owning part of a home.
Get it in Writing
In addition, you and your co-owners should be careful and get everything in writing. You need to note every aspect of owning a home together and living together. The expectations and responsibilities of each resident need to be clear.
Divide the Labor
As a group, you'll need to decide who will take care of home maintenance tasks and how the bills for utilities, insurance and unexpected repairs will be handled. If one tenant has to deal with the hassle and expense of maintenance and repairs, it can result in financial disagreements and difficult personal issues between you and your friends.
Know About Your Share
As tenants in common, each individual owns a share of the property. Those shares may not be equal, but all owners have the right to live in and use the property. Typically, the share of the mortgage, taxes, insurance, and maintenance costs for each owner are based on the share of ownership. The shares can be transferred to other owners or left to others via deed or will.
Be Prepared for Sudden Changes in Ownership
At any time, any owner can sell their share of the property or give it to someone else without requiring the consent of the other owners. This may result in your owning a house and perhaps living there with someone that you don't know or don't like.
Develop a Termination Plan
It's particularly important to discuss the possible ways ownership of the property could end. Perhaps one roommate wants to buy the others out. Everyone may decide to sell together, or your group may decide to rent the property in the future.
While owning a home with friends as tenants in common can be a great experience, it's important to recognize purchasing property together makes the partnership more difficult to dissolve than simply renting a home with friends. Professional advice is crucial to a successful agreement.
Related: Read previous Ask Michele columns.
Michele Lerner, author of "HOMEBUYING: Tough Times, First Time, Any Time", has been writing about real estate and personal finance since 1990. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, MSN Real Estate, Fox Business, The Motley Fool, Bankrate, HSH.com, The Washington Times and Daily Finance.


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Directional and Horizontal Drilling in Oil and Gas Wells
Methods used to increase production and hit targets that can not be reached with a vertical well.
What is Directional Drilling?
Most wells drilled for water, oil, natural gas, information or other subsurface objectives are vertical wells - drilled straight down into the earth. However, drilling at an angle other than vertical can obtain information, hit targets and stimulate reservoirs in ways that can not be achieved with a vertical well. In these cases, an ability to accurately steer the well in directions and angles that depart from the vertical is a valuable ability.
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Why Drill Wells That Are Non-Vertical?
Directional and horizontal drilling have been used to reach targets beneath adjacent lands, reduce the footprint of gas field development, increase the length of the "pay zone" in a well, deliberately intersect fractures, construct relief wells and install utility service beneath lands where excavation is impossible or extremely expensive.
Below is a list of six reasons for drilling non-vertical wells. They are graphically illustrated by the six drawings in the right column of this page.
A) Hit targets that can not be reached by vertical drilling.
Sometimes a reservoir is located under a city or a park where drilling is impossible or forbidden. This reservoir might still be tapped if the drilling pad is located on the edge of the city or park and the well is drilled at an angle that will intersect the reservoir.
B) Drain a broad area from a single drilling pad.
This method has been used to reduce the surface footprint of a drilling operation. In 2010, the University of Texas at Arlington was featured in the news for drilling 22 wells on a single drill pad that will drain natural gas from 1100 acres beneath the campus. Over a 25 year life-time the wells are expected to produce a total of 110 billion cubic feet of gas. This method significantly reduced the footprint of natural gas development within the campus area.
C) Increase the length of the "pay zone" within the target rock unit.
If a rock unit is fifty feet thick, a vertical well drilled through it would have a pay zone that is fifty feet in length. However if the well is turned and drilled horizontally through the rock unit for five thousand feet then that single well will have a pay zone that is five thousand feet long - this will usually result in a significant productivity increase for the well. When combined with
hydraulic fracturing
, horizontal drilling can convert unproductive shales into fantastic reservoir rocks.
D) Improve the productivity of wells in a fractured reservoir.
This is done by drilling in a direction that intersects a maximum number of fractures. The drilling direction will normally be at right angles to the dominant fracture direction.
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in granite bedrock usually get nearly all of their water exchange from fractures. Drilling at right angles to the dominant fracture direction will drive the well through a maximum number of fractures.
E) Seal or relieve pressure in an "out-of-control" well.
If a well is out-of-control a "relief well" can be drilled to intersect it. The intersecting well can be used to seal the original well or to relieve pressure in the out-of-control well.
F) Install underground utilities where excavation is not possible.
Horizontal drilling has been used to install gas and electric lines that must cross a river, cross a road, or travel under a city.
Rock Units that Benefit Most from Horizontal Drilling
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Vertical wells can effectively drain rock units that have a very high permeability. Fluids in those rock units can flow quickly and efficiently into a well over long distances.
However, where permeability is very low fluids move very slowly through the rock and do not travel long distances to reach a well bore. Horizontal drilling can increase the productivity in low permeability rocks by bring the well bore much closer to the source of the fluid.
Horizontal Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing in Shales
Perhaps the most important role that horizontal drilling has played is in development of the natural gas shale plays. These low permeability rock units contain significant amounts of gas and are present beneath very large parts of North America.
The Barnett Shale of Texas, the Fayetteville Shale of Arkansas, the Haynesville Shale of Louisiana and Texas and the Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin are examples. In these rock units the challenge is not "finding" the reservoir, the challenge is recovering the gas from very tiny pore spaces in a low permeability rock unit.
To stimulate the productivity of wells in organic-rich shales, companies drill horizontally through the rock unit and then use hydraulic fracturing to produce artificial permeability that is propped open by
frac sand
. Done together, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing can make a productive well where a vertical well would have produced only a small amount of gas.
Drilling Methodology
Most horizontal wells begin at the surface as a vertical well. Drilling progresses until the drill bit is a few hundred feet above the target rock unit. At that point the pipe is pulled from the well and a hydraulic motor is attached between the drill bit and the drill pipe.
The hydraulic motor is powered by a flow of drilling mud down the drill pipe. It can rotate the drill bit without rotating the entire length of drill pipe between the bit and the surface. This allows the bit to drill a path that deviates from the orientation of the drill pipe.
After the motor is installed the bit and pipe are lowered back down the well and the bit drills a path that steers the well bore from vertical to horizontal over a distance of a few hundred feet. Once the well has been steered to the proper angle, straight-ahead drilling resumes and the well follows the target rock unit. Keeping the well in a thin rock unit requires careful navigation. Downhole instruments are used determine the azimuth and orientation of the drilling. This information is used to steer the drill bit.
Horizontal drilling is expensive. When combined with hydraulic fracturing a well can cost up to three times as much per foot as drilling a vertical well. The extra cost is usually recovered by increased production from the well. These methods can multiply the yield of natural gas or oil from a well. Many profitable wells would be failures without these methods.
A New Lease and Royalty Philosophy
In the production of gas from a vertical well the gas is produced beneath a single parcel of property. Most states have long-established
mineral rights
rules that govern the ownership of gas produced from vertical wells. The gas is often shared by all landowners in a block of land or a radius distance from the producing well.
Horizontal wells introduce a new variable: a single well can penetrate and produce gas from multiple parcels with different owners. How can the royalties from this gas be fairly shared? This question is normally answered prior to drilling through a combination of government rules and private royalty-sharing agreements. How
are divided and how "hold-out" landowners are treated can be more complex than with a vertical well.
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(A) Target can't be reached by vertical drilling
Directional drilling can be used to reach targets that can not be drilled with a vertical well. For example: it may not be possible to get a drilling permit for a well located within a populated area or within a park. However, a well could be drilled just out side of the populated area or park and then steered directionally to hit the target.
(B) Drain a large area from one drill pad
One drilling pad can be used to drill a number of wells. This reduces the footprint of drilling operations. In 2010 the University of Texas at Arlington drilled 22 wells on a single platform. These wells are draining the natural gas from about 1100 acres beneath the campus. Over a 25-year life-time the wells are expected to produce a total of 110 billion cubic feet of natural gas. The alternative would be to drill many wells, each requiring a drilling pad, pond, access road and gathering line.
(C) Increase the length of the "pay zone"
If a vertical well is drilled through a 50-foot-thick reservoir rock then natural gas or oil can seep into the well through 50 linear feet of "pay zone". However, if the well is turned to horizontal (or the same inclination as the rock unit) and drilled within that rock unit then the distance of penetration within the pay zone can be much greater. Some horizontal wells have over one mile of pay zone penetration.
(D) Improved production in a fractured reservoir
Some reservoirs have most of their pore spaces in the form of fractures. Successful wells must penetrate fractures to have a flow of natural gas into the well. In many geographic areas there is a dominant fracture direction along which most of the fractures are aligned. If the well is drilled perpendicular to the plane of these fractures then a maximum number of fractures will be penetrated.
(E) "Relief well" for an "out-of-control" well
If a well has a problem and begins to flow out-of-control, it must be sealed at depth or the pressure must be relieved. In this situation a "relief well" can be drilled from a nearby site. The relief well will be a directionally drilled well that intersects the bore of the problem well to drain off some of the pressure or to plug the well by pumping cement into the bore.
(F) Installation of underground utilities
Utility service lines such as those delivering electricity, water or natural gas are sometimes installed by directional drilling. This method is used when they must cross a road where excavation would disrupt traffic, cross a river where excavation is impossible, or transverse a community where surface installation by excavation would be extremely expensive and disrupting.
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