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Preview: New Tomb Raider a grindhouse/horror thrillride
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The new Tomb Raider is a thrilling, intense and at times disturbing game that surprised me by how satisfying it was.
While the old Tomb Raider games were a bit like an Indiana Jones movie featuring ridiculously over-sized boobs and a silly, fun tone, the upcoming reboot is dark and hardcore with a feel more like Deliverance meets The Descent.
I recently played the first few hours of Tomb Raider, and especially as a fan of exploitation and horror cinema, I loved it.
The spectacular intro of this origin story / reboot has the franchise's main character, Lara Croft, endure a shipwreck somewhere off the coast of Japan. She washes ashore on an island along with about 10 other of the ship's crew members.
As she cries out for the attention of the other survivors, an unseen assailant knocks Lara out. The credits then appear on-screen over a sequence in which her unconscious body is dragged off and into some sort of horrifying tomb.
She wakes up hanging upside down inside this creepy underground lair, which is filled with bones, candles and bodies. The music and camerawork help drive up the tension, shouting loud and clear – this is not your father's Tomb Raider.
The first thing you have to do as Lara is escape from the cave system. This involves a bit of puzzle-solving, walking around with a flaming torch, wading through neck-high water and a couple of quick-time events. The whole area is filled with blood, bones and general scariness that evokes a number of horror movies.
With the push of a button, things go into 'Survival Instincts' mode. Using this, pertinent objects are highlighted, making sure you never get stuck in an area too long, without spelling out exactly how you have to pass it.
There is a bit of violence before you make it back above ground – I won't spoil what that is, but it further emphasises the danger of the island Lara is stranded on, and that she will have to constantly fight to stay alive. Lara's demeanour is one of a young woman who is wounded and frightened, yet determined. She's about as far from Angelina Jolie's sassy, pouty movie version of the character as you could imagine.
Away from the horrors of the caves, rain starts to pour and Lara shivers in the cold. A Blair Witch Project-style piece of bone art hangs from a tree but will only be seen if you stop to look around, as Lara moves to find shelter. She builds a fire under and manages to make contact with a fellow survivor over a walkie-talkie. Plans are made for a reunion, but only after she has rested and the rain stopped.
Lara also finds a video camera dropped by one of the other survivors and watches footage on it beside her campfire, launching a cinematic that provides a back story to the shipwreck opening. Lara is on a mission to find sacred relics of the Japanese sun queen Himiko. She persuaded the ship's captain to venture into an area of ocean known as the 'Dragon's Triangle', much to the chagrin of another crew member named Whitman.
When Lara turns the video off, the rain has stopped, and she ventures off in search of food. She finds a bow and arrow on a corpse and uses it to slay a deer, something that clearly troubles her. This segment teaches you the third-person bow control system, which is nice and intuitive. While looking around the jungle, wooden crates and other collectibles provide Lara with 'salvage' points.
Arriving at a campfire will allow Lara to rest and presents the player with a menu to spend experience points on skill upgrades, or salvage points on weapon or equipment creation and upgrades.
Leaving her campfire in search of fellow survivors, tribal music attracts Lara into a hut and when she enters, the door closes shut behind her. A passage leads underground and to more skulls, dead animals, hanging meat and the general ominous feel of that original tomb. Once through this underground area and back into the island wilderness, Lara comes across her friend Sam, who we met in the ship video earlier. She is resting with a fairly dodgy chap named Matthias, whom Lara is immediately distrustful of, but falls asleep beside anyway.
Naturally, that doesn't work out well.
I won't give away what happens next, but before long, Lara is alone again and desperately fighting off a pack of nasty wolves. Once they're dispatched, she catches up with a few of the other survivors and helps them in search of the rest.
After a little more exploring, Lara and her friends are ambushed by a gang of thugs. They speak in an Eastern European language for which there are no subtitles, and they are very menacing. A guy who seems to be the leader of the group approaches Lara while the captives stand around with bound wrists and guns pointed at them. He touches her in a predatory manner, causing another captive to protest before being shot.
Chaos spreads as captives try and run away and captors shoot at them and try to catch them. Lara manages to escape. This leads to a challenging and intense sequence in which you have to use cover to evade the baddies. Eventually, the binds are removed from your wrists and you have to use both the bow and guns to dispatch a number of enemies and flee their camp.
After successfully escaping, Lara meets up with the wounded captain of her ship and must embark on quests to get equipment to help him. Her next major accomplishment, which took place at the end of my preview session, was climbing a radio tower to boost communication signal and hopefully get a rescue mission on the way.
Leading up to that was a lot of rock climbing, zip-lining and, of course, killing. One of the enemies was a boss, referred to by his companions as "the big guy". He basically had massive metal plates over the front of his body, protecting him from Lara's projectiles. Key to putting him down was his slow, lumbering pace and vulnerable back.
Overall, the game strikes a great balance between action and exploration, but what really makes it succeed is the atmosphere. Despite Lara freaking out when she kills that first deer, as in Far Cry 3 - which also tried to show a naive young person developing quickly into a Rambo-like killing machine - it's hard to take that dramatic shift in personality seriously. But it doesn't really matter.
The intense, grindhouse-style tone of the game made a big impact on me and genuinely surprised me more than a few times during the preview session. If you're an adult and are into entertainment that is as disturbing as it is thrilling, playing this bad boy with the lights off and the sound up is likely to be a massively satisfying gaming experience.
The game I'm looking forward to most in the first half of 2013 is still definitely The Last of Us, followed closely by Grand Theft Auto V. Tomb Raider is now my third-most highly anticipated game after the preview session, which elevated it above BioShock Infinite, SimCity and Aliens: Colonial Marines.
That's a long-winded way of saying that it impressed me hugely and I can't wait to get into the whole thing when it's released March 5.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Parise: Devils expecting to make playoffs even with all of their injuries
Dealing with injuries, particularly at center, has been a challenge for the Devils this season since even before training camp began.
That isn't going to earn them any sympathy, however, from the teams they are battling to make the playoffs, which have their own injuries.
Devils captain Zach Parise views it as an obstacle all teams must overcome to reach the postseason and certainly not an accomplishment worthy of taking a bow.
"With the injuries, we're still expecting to be in the playoffs," Parise said today. "I don't think any of us will be patting each other on the back if we make the playoffs (just) because of all the injuries. At least, we shouldn't. We should expect to get there. We shouldn't be surprised."
There is still a lot of work to do and a lot to deal with.
The Devils stand in seventh place in the Eastern Conference with a 27-19-3 record and 57 points. That puts them only four points behind sixth-place Ottawa with four games in hand, but also only two points ahead of ninth-place Florida, which has a game in hand on the Devils.
With so many clubs fighting to get in the postseason picture and jostling for position, this is the time of the season when teams have to elevate their play further – regardless of their situation health-wise.
"No one has it set that they're in the playoffs," Patrik Elias said. "No team, if you look at the standings, East, West, no team has it all set that they can kind of maybe take a breather for 30-something games and just say, 'We're there. We'll be OK.' Every game is tough. You have the Islanders playing well. You have Buffalo playing well. You have the top teams playing well. Then, at certain times, everybody is struggling. So, there's no easy games. You just have to worry about yourself and play your games and we believe we're good enough to be in the playoffs."
The Devils' injury troubles started when center Travis Zajac tore his left Achilles tendon during an off-ice, off-season workout on Aug. 17 and it's been a scramble for them pretty much from that moment on. Zajac made his season debut on Dec. 16 and played in only eight games before his Achilles flared up on him and he hasn't played since Jan. 2 or skated since Jan. 10.
The Devils also lost Jacob Josefson only five games into the season with a fractured right clavicle, an injury that kept the second-year center out of the lineup for nearly three months. Rookie center Adam Henrique emerged during Josefson's absence, but now Henrique is sidelined with a groin strain, which has forced Dainius Zubrus to again shift from right wing to the middle to play between Parise and Ilya Kovalchuk on the top line.
Devils coach Pete DeBoer doesn't even want to think about the idea of having to play without Elias, who didn't practice today because of "maintenance", but is expected to play against Montreal Thursday night. Elias, who shifted from left wing to center, continues to lead the team in with 47 points in 48 games.
Although the hope is that Henrique won't be out too much longer, no one seems to know when Zajac might return. He has to see the surgeon in Winnipeg again before he's even cleared to start working out again.
"It would be better if all the guys were healthy at that position, no question," Elias said. "We knew coming into the season that Travis wasn't going to be ready for a while and having Adam step in and do such a great job was a pleasant surprise. Now, it is a different league, a little different pace and you get injuries. You've got to take care of your body to sustain playing all 82 games, but you go through it."
"Maybe we had a couple of questions marks in the middle, but guys are stepping in and doing the job. We have some centers playing wing and some wingers playing center."
Zubrus is better fitted to play right wing, but will have to do the best he can in the middle until Henrique is ready to play. Elias dismissed the idea of him moving up to center Parise and Kovalchuk because it would hurt the team's scoring balance without him playing on the second line with Petr Sykora and David Clarkson (subbing of Zubrus).
"It wouldn't help if I played with them," Elias said. "I think we would do well offensively, but we need to have it spread out. We've been playing pretty good as a line with Zubie on the wing and we just have to fill the holes and just adjust."
As Parise noted, the Devils haven't had Zajac, Henrique and Josefson in the lineup for the same game all season. Dreaming about what their lineup would look like with all three healthy is all they can do for now.
"You look at teams that win the Stanley Cup or have gone far in the playoffs and it seems like they're always deep down the middle," Parise said. "And you look at the good teams around the league and they're always deep down the middle. So, that's a really important part. That's one position that's really hard to replace, center."
The Devils have had to deal with significant injuries at other positions as well. Kovalchuk (groin) and goaltender Martin Brodeur (shoulder) both missed stretches early in the season.
They also lost defenseman Andy Greene for 22 games because of a broken foot. Greene returned Tuesday against the Rangers, but defenseman Henrik Tallinder is out now for six to eight weeks with a blood clot in his lower left leg.
"Hopefully, if we get everyone back, just from where we are right now, if we get everyone healthy, you would expect us to get better," Parise said. "Hopefully, that day is going to come soon, but I don't think it's going to be in the near future."
Josefson, who has now played five NHL games since returning from his injury, said he felt more comfortable in Tuesday's 4-3 shootout win over the Rangers than he had in earlier games.
"It takes some games to get back to where you were before with all the games I missed and all that," Josefson said. "I felt the last game was a step forward for me and I felt a little bit more like normal. In the games before I felt like I got tired early and last game I felt like I had energy through the whole game. I played two games in Albany during the (all-star) break and I think that helped a lot because I got to play a lot of minutes there and really used to playing a lot."
Still, Josefson was dropped to the fourth line for today's practice.
"I just go out and play wherever they tell me to play," Josefson said. "You can't really think about all that. I just have to work hard when I'm out there."
DeBoer feels Josefson is progressing, but reminds that he doesn't have a lot of experience in the league to fall back on while he finds his game. He played only 28 NHL games as a rookie last season, partly because he was sidelined for 30 games with a detached ligament in his right thumb.
"I see him coming along, but this is a kid that has missed a significant amount of time, is jumping into the league at probably its highest point until the playoffs with the way the desperation is and how teams are playing for points right now," DeBoer said. "It's not an easy spot for him to jump into with a limited number of games. He's a young guy. He doesn't have a 10-year history or career under his belt where he's had long-term success here. So, he's dealing with some things, but we need him and we're going got push him to keep raising his level."

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WARE — Marcia Vadnais handily beat two challengers for a seat on the Ware School Committee during Monday's election that had turnout of less than 9 percent.
Chris DiMarzio, who failed to return nomination papers, was re-elected to the planning board as a write-in candidate with 38 votes.
Vadnais received 319 votes out of 541 cast, according to the town clerk's office. Challenger Veronica Slattery received 117 votes and Kristin Bateman polled 93 votes. There are 6,216 registered voters in town.
"We are an amazing school system; we have so much to offer," Vadnais said in an interview Monday night after she was declared the winner.
"My goal is that we bring some focus to this town on how important education is for the kids. We need to bring education to the forefront; our kids are our future and we need to focus on that. Our children deserve a good public school education."
Vadnais is a Ware High School graduate and a lifelong resident along with her husband of 28 years, Joe Vadnais. They have two daughters; one has graduated from the school system, the other is a junior and a member of the National Honor Society.
Vadnais will fill the the seat vacated by Chris Desjardins, who resigned earlier this year. The unexpired terms is for two years.
Voters also approved a ballot question to amend the town charter.
The change creates a Planning and Community Development Department directed by the town manager. The agency will be composed of the planning board, zoning board of appeals, community development authority, tax increment financing committee, and a planning and community development advisory committee.
In addition, approval of the amendment to the charter has created a director of planning and community development position; the town planner's role was eliminated. The planning and community development director is to be appointed by the town manager and will report to that office. The changes take effect on July 1.
The following were unopposed:
- John E. Carroll and John A. Desmond, incumbents who were re-elected to three-year terms on the Board of Selectmen.
- Moderator, Kathleen H. Coulombe
- School Committee, Aaron R. Sawabi
- Board of Assessors, Theodore Balicki
- Board of Health, Joseph J. Ciejka
- Cemetery Commissioner, Margaret D. Sorel
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Zhang arrived for his first-ever official visit to Taiwan on Wednesday and immediately held formal talks with Wang, which resulted in a general agreement. In future, when Taiwan and China will have representative offices in each otherŌĆÖs territory, officials will be allowed to pay humanitarian visits to prisoners, reports said.
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Taiwan has repeatedly mentioned this yearŌĆÖs Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in China as the perfect site for a historic encounter between Ma and Xi, but Beijing has rejected international conferences as unsuitable for a cross-straits meeting. Taiwan from its side was also skeptical about Chinese proposals for a meeting in a third location or for a Xi trip to Taiwan.
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Because of the March 18-April 10 occupation of the Legislative Yuan by students opposed to the trade-in-services pact with China, eventual trade concessions by Beijing will be regarded as too little, commentators said. The communist leaders needed to come up with major groundbreaking moves if they wanted to win TaiwanŌĆÖs trust, reports said.
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Syracuse has a two-pronged approach to combat the vacant housing problem -- rehabilitating homes worth saving and demolishing those that are beyond repair, officials said.
The city began targeting the vacant housing problem in 1999 when former Congressman James Walsh created the Syracuse Neighborhood Initiative to revitalize city neighborhoods. Since then, the city has demolished hundreds of homes, sold adjacent lots to homeowners and built new homes, officials said.
But it isn't always easy to do, said Tim Carroll, the city's director of operations.
Seventy-five percent of the vacant homes are not tax-delinquent, so the city can't seize the property, he said. Many property owners are protecting their rights by paying their taxes, he said.
"People see a vacant house and they wonder why isn't the city tearing it down," Carroll said. "People are paying taxes on them. The city is seizing tax-delinquent properties."
The city has to go to court to get permission to acquire a property in order to demolish it, and that's a long process, he said.
This year, the city is working with nonprofit housing agencies to develop plans to spend $1.2 million in federal stimulus money to demolish 67 more vacant houses, Carroll said. The city has earmarked an additional $1 million for demolition, he said.
The city has also applied for a $2.9 million state grant from Restore New York to demolish more houses and build new ones. Most of that money will go toward the Near West Side -- which also has problems with vacant homes -- because Home Headquarters has already acquired properties targeted for development, Carroll said.
Friday, the city will break ground for two of four homes planned in the 100 and 200 blocks of West Kennedy Street, near Beard School, said Paul Driscoll, the city's housing director.
"It's a nice street, but a ton of vacant houses," Driscoll said of West Kennedy Street, one of the neighborhoods with the most vacant homes. "We need to focus on these two blocks."
Several weeks ago, the city demolished a two-story brick apartment building at 170 W. Brighton St. that had been a blight in the neighborhood for years.
The city works closely with nonprofit housing agencies such as Home Headquarters, Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corp., Jubilee Homes, and Southeast Gateway Corp. to identify areas for housing development.
The city has asked the Southeast Gateway Corp. to identify a four-block area for revitalization in one of the census tracts with a high concentration of vacant homes, Driscoll said. The goal is to develop anchor projects instead of demolishing properties all over the place.
Many of the houses targeted for demolition are still privately owned so the city is working to acquire them from the owners, Driscoll said.
"We don't have site control on a lot of these properties," he said. "We just have a wish list from the neighborhood groups. We have to develop an acquisition strategy, but we wanted to get the input from our housing partners that are implementing these plans."
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New Orleans police are looking to speak with a man seen on surveillance footage who may know information about a murder victim whose body was found in an abandoned house that someone had intentionally set on fire. The incident happened Feb. 4 around 7:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of Deslonde Street in the Lower 9th Ward.
After extinguishing the fire, New Orleans firefighters found the burned body of 54-year-old Glynn Coston inside the abandoned house, police said. The firefighters determined the fire was an arson; the Orleans Parish coroner later determined Coston was the victim of a homicide.
Lead Homicide Detective Robert Bachelder is seeking to speak with the man in the picture. Police stressed the man is not a suspect.
Police ask anyone who knows anything about this homicide or the man in the picture to contact Bachelder at 504.658.5300 or Crimestoppers at 504.822.1111.


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| Hotel in Corso Italia in Cortina d'Ampezzo within easy to reach of the Dolomiti Superski ski slopes
The elegant structure of the 4-star Hotel Cortina is situated along Corso Italia, in front of the nineteenth century bell tower of Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the center of the shopping area, close to the ski-bus stop bound for the Dolomiti Superski ski slopes and skiing school.
In the pedestrian area are the international high-fashion boutiques, antiques, numerous artisan shops and the most popular locales of Cortina; a little further, skiing enthusiasts can purchase the best equipment at the shops in the center.
Sport in Cortina plays a leading role. During the winter season the ski run hosts World Cup races, while the great tradition that accompanies the ice hockey championship ignites the enthusiasm of a lot of fans; not to mention the high-speed bobsledding challenges, an exciting and unpredictable discipline.
Cortina is at the center of the Ampezzo Valley, a paradise surrounded by high peaks, forests and streams that descend silently into the valley, a natural oasis protected within the Dolomites National Park and the area of Lagazuoi - 5 Torri, where it is easy to see mountain goats, Golden Eagles, marmots.
Around Falzarego Pass are some of the most interesting hiking trails, paths for mountain biking, rock climbing; in this pristine area, rich with tourist services, we suggest spending a night in the mountain hut, admiring the mountains, a hair's-breadth from heaven, rose-tinted by the sunrise. A truly enchanting moment.
With the inauguration of the Palalexus and Alexander Girardi Hall conference center, Cortina has major multifunctional centers, capable of hosting conventions, musical events and conferences; events managed by the Cortina Meeting company, with the participation of various major players in international culture.
During the summer season, folklore and traditional festivals are frequent in Cortina. From the numerous weekly rustic festivals, up to the Bands Festival – a triumph of music, traditional clothing and gastronomic specialties that blankets Corso Italia – igniting a contagious enthusiasm that will not fail to amaze and cheer you.
By Train. The nearest train station is at Calalzo di Cadore, 22 miles away. The main railway line is Venice-Calalzo di Cadore from where you reach Cortina by bus; the total duration of the trip (train + bus) is around three and a half hours. Upon arriving at the bus terminal head on foot towards the Cortina bell tower, the Hotel Cortina awaits you right in front of it.
By Car. Take highway A27 Venice – Belluno and then the state highway towards Cortina; just before the center, go through the roundabout and turn right where Franchetti street merges into Marconi street, turn left entering the center and into the hotel parking lot, directly in front of the bell tower.
By Plane. The Venice Marco Polo airport is 93 miles. Reach Cortina by car, following the directions above, or -- during the winter season -- use the transfer that connects Venice and Cortina every Saturday.
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In the vicinity of our hotel is the 'Mario Rimoldi' Museum of Modern Art, notable gallery with beautiful works by De Chirico, Guttuso, Morandi and many others. The Paleontological Museum, the Ampezzo Ethnographic Museum and the recent inauguration of the 'open museum' - dedicated to World War I - enriches Cortina with a first-rate cultural repertoire.


text: Hotel Four Seasons offers free transfers to the Lastrebec lift, 5 miles away, and accommodations with a private patio. Guests can relax in the sauna, hot tub, or get an unwinding massage. The rooms and suites are decorated with wooden furniture and beamed ceilings. They include free Wi-Fi, cable TV and a work desk. Hotel Four Seasons has a seating area which is decorated with plants and paintings. It is equipped with lounges, a fireplace, a dining table and a TV. The 24-hour reception can help out with car rentals and bike rentals. It is also possible to arrange transfers from any airport in Bulgaria as well as picnics and jeep safaris. Hotel Four Seasons is situated 1.2 miles from the town centre of Samokov and 7.5 miles from the Iskar Dam Lake, which is a popular area for fishing.


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Nevada County seeking to recoup costs for Lester case
May 20, 2013
State Senator Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, one of the two state senators currently representing Nevada County, has sponsored a bill that would allow counties to secure reimbursement for the provision of public defender services for persons prosecuted by the California Attorney General.
The law relates directly to the Phil Lester case, where Lester, his wife, Ellen Lester, his sister, Susan Laferte, and his former business associate, Jon Blinder, were arrested in September for allegedly defrauding investors of millions of dollars over a period of eight years.
Charges have since been dropped against Blinder and Ellen Lester, but Laferte and Phil Lester have retained public defenders, claiming they cannot afford to pay legal bills to fight the case.
Gaines' bill was introduced after an urgent request for legislative assistance by Nevada County, according to County Executive Officer Rick Haffey's weekly memo.
Haffey estimates the defense will cost county taxpayers in the excess of $600,000 annually.
"The astronomical cost regarding a trial of this nature was not anticipated when the county's budget was planned and approved, and there was no warning as to the impending charges when the case was filed by the Attorney General," the memo states.
The county's budget for the myriad indigent defense cases that occur each year is about $488,000, Haffey said.
"It's offensive to think that poor people are paying to defend these formerly rich people in order to get restitution for other rich people," said Nevada County Public Defender Don Lown last December.
"The county is trying hard not to lay people off — and now here we are, representing former millionaires. It's very frustrating."
Lown joined County Counsel Alison Barratt Green in Sacramento this week to testify in front of the Senate Governance and Finance Committee.
"Providing legal counsel matched against the resources of the state's Attorney General is a daunting fiscal task and may result in sever impacts to Nevada County's general fund," said Nevada County Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Hank Weston in a letter to Senator Lois Wolk. "Due to the nature of the case, which is paper-intensive and requires major resources to review all documentation, it is expected to be a lengthy trial with untold hours of legal time devoted to the defense."
Gaines' bill next will be reviewed by the Senate Standing Committee on Public Safety.
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A fast, simple, and low-cost optical time-gating scheme for counting single photons is presented. Its construction consists of a silicon photodiode connected in series with a resistor and that operates in the photoconductive mode. The temporal resolution at the FWHM of the photon counting system was measured to be . The profile of a single-photon pulse measured with the counting system agreed well with analytical results. The system was also used to successfully resolve a pair of targets with separation inside a highly scattering medium by the use of time-gated early-arriving photons.
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New rules have been added to 326 IAC Article 8 concerning emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from Architectural and Industrial Maintenance (AIM) Coatings and Consumer and Commercial Products (CCPs). These rules limit the amount of VOCs that Indiana manufacturers and importers can put into their products in order to meet the United States Environmental Protection Agency's newly issued 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
AIM coatings include varnishes, shellacs, stains and lacquers which contain solvents that when applied to a surface evaporate and create VOCs. The new rule intends to regulate any person who supplies, sells, offers for sale, or manufactures any AIM coating as well as any person who solicits* the application of any AIM coating within the state of Indiana. The rule also contains VOC content requirements and application standards for traffic marking coatings during the ozone season (May 1 - September 30). The new rule requires compliance with the following:
The AIM Coatings rule will become effective in Indiana on December 1, 2010. Beginning October 1, 2011, all AIM Coatings products manufactured, blended, repackaged for sale, supplied, sold and solicited for application within the state of Indiana must not exceed the VOC content limits stated in 326 IAC 8-14.
There are over 170 consumer products listed in the new regulation with VOC content limits which include items like adhesives, deodorants, household cleaners, hair spray and insecticides. The new regulation will apply to any person who sells, supplies, offers for sale or manufactures consumer products for use in Indiana. The new rule contains the following:
The Consumer and Commercial Products rule will become effective in Indiana on December 1, 2010. Beginning June 1, 2011 any person that sells, supplies, offers for sale or manufactures for sale in Indiana any consumer product that contains VOCs must not exceed the VOC content limits specified in 326 IAC 8-15.
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For the third time this season, a Southern Super Series race has been rained out at Mobile International Speedway. Scheduled for Saturday night, the Miller Lite 125 presented by RE Suspensions has been canceled, track officials announced on Thursday, because of the threat posed by Tropical Storm Karen.
Saturday night's local races have been rescheduled for Oct. 12, but the Southern Super Series won't return to the Irvington oval in 2013.
Sunny South Raceway also has scrambled its plans for the weekend because of the expected wet weather. The Grand Bay oval was supposed to host racing on Friday and Saturday night as Southern States Racing produced the Dixie Clash at the one-quarter-mile track. Sunny South officials announced on Thursday they were moving Saturday's lineup to Friday for one night of racing.
The Friday lineup will include a pro challenge national championship event -- a 40-lap feature paying $1,000 to the winner - as well as 50-lap stinger, 40-lap legend, 30-lap bandolero, 30-lap senior pro clone and 12-lap junior 1 champ features.
Mobile International Speedway lost a Southern Super Series event to rain on July 27 that was not rescheduled. The SSS race on Sept. 21 also was rained out and rescheduled for Oct. 5. With another rainout, the super late model season at MIS consisted of two races. Five Flags Speedway ran companion SSS events on Fridays to the Mobile International races on Saturdays and was able to hold all four of its super late model races this season.
The rainout means John Hunter Nemechek of Mooresville, N.C., is MIS' Miller Lite Series champion and Daniel Hemric of Kannapolis, N.C., is the Sunoco Gulf Coast champion in super late models. The Gulf Coast Championship Series standings combine the results at Mobile International and Five Flags.
In addition to the Southern Super Series race, Mobile International also had modifieds, sportsmen and bombers in its Saturday lineup. Those races are now on the schedule for Oct. 12 to conclude the local racing season.
In the modified division, Donald Crocker of Citronelle has a 13-point lead on Brandon Howell of Lucedale in the season standings as he seeks his second straight track championship.
In the Gulf Coast Championship Series modified standings, Donnie Hamrac of Semmes will go into the final race of the season seven points ahead of Howell.
The other divisions aren't nearly as tight in either set of standings
Steve Buttrick of Cantonment has a 107-point lead on second-place Bob Bryant of Ocean Springs in Mobile International's sportsman standings. Jayme Corry of Theodore has a 239-point lead on second-place Collin Kraft of Grand Bay in bombers.
The Gulf Coast sportsman and bomber titles are locked up. Buttrick has a 387-point lead on second-place Brannon Fowler of Molino in sportsmen, and T.J. Williams of Poplarville is 385 points ahead of second-place Tracy Soles of Pensacola in bombers.
Mobile International has been rained out six times this year.
The Southern Super Series has one race remaining on its schedule -- the All American 400 at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville on Nov. 2. Bubba Pollard of Senoia, Ga., will carry a 46-point lead on Hemric, the second-place driver, into that event.


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The last two matches on the court served as a subtle reminder that nothing is won until the final point is scored.
The Marshalltown boys' tennis team came within two third-set super-tiebreakers of sweeping Des Moines Hoover in Monday's regular-season finale, hammering the Huskies 9-2 in cross-CIML play at MHS.
The Bobcats (6-4) won all six singles matches by straight sets to seal the dual meet, and the first three doubles bouts to finish were also in Marshalltown's favor.
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MHS junior Drayton Lents makes a backhanded return at the net during No. 2 doubles action on Monday against Des Moines Hoover.
The last two marathon matches dodged the Bobcats in the end, as both super-tiebreakers were decided by the minimum two-point margin.
"Nine-to-two is nothing to be too upset about," grinned MHS head coach James Christensen. "We played very well in singles today and the first three doubles matches finished in our favor. The last two were really close, we just couldn't get that final point we needed."
Marshalltown's march through singles competition against a hapless Hoover bunch made the doubles outcome irrelevant in terms of the dual, but with Class 2A district competition lurking for Thursday, Christensen was hoping an 11-0 sweep of the Huskies would give the team more steam for the postseason.
"Tie-breakers are huge, they're huge," he said. "In district play we play the whole three sets, so that hopefully might be in our favor the way some of our super-tiebreaks have gone lately.
"But being able to be put in those pressure situations on a night like tonight is always good. It simulates some of the pressure they'll feel on Thursday."
That's the good news for the Bobcats' top doubles tandem of Alex Brada and Kyle Dalluge, who worked their way to a big lead in the super-tiebreaker but couldn't lock down the victory. Hoover's Anthony Kaiser and Matt Andorf rallied for a 3-6, 6-4, (12-10) decision.
"Hoover hasn't lost a lot of matches at No. 1 doubles this year, I think they might have only lost one," shrugged Christensen. "Kyle and Alex are a good team. I thought they were in the right position tonight, just failed to execute on a couple shots and that's something I'm confident they'll clean up for Thursday.
"Part of me hopes it does bother them just a little bit. They definitely won't be overconfident going into Thursday. I never want them to lose, obviously, but maybe tonight will be enough to spur them to take that next step in practice to get themselves ready for Thursday."
Brada and Dalluge, who are 7-3 in dual meet doubles play, both breezed through singles like the rest of the Bobcats. Adam Podhajsky posted a shutout at No. 5 doubles, Dalluge allowed only one game at No. 4, while Kalei Platt at No. 3 and Ben Anzis at No. 6 surrendered just two games to their Huskies counterparts.
Brada won 6-1, 6-3 at No. 2 singles to bolster his record at 8-2, while Marshalltown's only returning state qualifier from a year ago - Ryan Shomo - scored a 6-1, 6-2 triumph at No. 1 singles.
A pair of Bobcat seniors played their final match as the No. 5 doubles team. Kody Zuercher and Donovan Reyes upped their record to 6-3 with a 6-0, 6-1 rout of David Jordan and Owen Geiken.
Thursday's district play begins at approximately 9 a.m. at Linn-Mar High School in Marion. Other teams vying to advance in singles, doubles or dual team competition are Cedar Rapids Jefferson, Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Dubuque Hempstead, Dubuque Senior, Marshalltown and the host Lions.


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NEWARK — Sakir Epps is just like any 13-year-old kid in middle school. He plays football and basketball. He hangs out with friends. He is excited to be around girls at dances.
Except Sakir was born with a neuromuscular disorder that affects the bottom part of his legs, leaving him mostly wheelchair bound. Wandering through the school hallways, often a difficult experience for any adolescent, can often mean dirty looks and petty taunts from kids looking to earn their spot on the junior high totem pole.
Sakir, never the type to ask for pity, said he takes all the insults in stride.
"I just put on my iPod," Sakir Epps said. "I don't even let it bother me. They can say whatever they want."
Still, the teen says he had to develop a thick skin to deal with everyday life.
But, he says, those walls come down when he's at summer camp. At Easter Seals Camp Merry Heart in Hackettstown, which accommodates kids with special needs, he is surrounded by kids who know daily life on a wheelchair. There, he isn't different.
"At the camp I get to act like myself. I don't have to impress anybody," Epps said. "There I don't have to act like I'm tough."
But summer camps are expensive, especially facilities like Merry Heart. And Tamika Epps, Sakir's mother, hasn't been able to find full-time work since the beginning of 2009.
Thankfully, Sakir was able to go because of the Greater Newark Fresh Air Fund, which helps needy kids from urban areas go to summer camp.
Tamika Epps, 34, said her son's disorder has progressively worsened as he has gotten older. Compounding the problem is that doctors cannot pinpoint an exact diagnosis, making it more difficult to treat his condition.
But she said Sakir is good at "adapting." Sakir crawls around their second-floor apartment on his knees in Bloomfield without anyone's help, his wheelchair waiting for him down the stairs on the first floor. He plays football with his school friends on his knees and shoots basketball while on his chair.
Proudly, she said her son has always been mature, even earning the nickname Pop because he behaves "like an old soul."
"He's just always acted a little wiser than his years," Tamika Epps said. "Even at a young age, he was using words that I didn't teach."
This was Sakir's third summer at camp, and his mother said she has clearly seen a concrete impact on his personal growth. He's more outgoing. He has made more friends.
He feels more comfortable showing his emotions.
"He's definitely come out of his shell," she said.
Sakir said he learned to be more open from his counselors at summer camp.
"If you're scared to do something, they'll help you overcome your feelings," Epps said.
"When you go there, you feel like it's a family."'
Tamika Epps said she has had her own learning experience through the last two years. She has always had to do both a full-time job and separate part-time work to support Sakir and her 18-year-old son, Stefan, so being let go from her clerk position was devastating.
But rather than feel discouraged, she decided to enroll in a nursing program last year. She says the school year has been difficult — two days before the first semester started, one of her closest friends was killed — but she said the life lessons she gleaned from her own son has kept her going.
"I've learned from my son the definition of tolerance, humility," she said. "It's definitely been a journey, to say the least."
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I've got 4/4 on 20m at 100 and 50 feet. The stack is usually louder to Europe BUT: often in the afternoon, maybe 1900z or so, the lower antenna is signifantly better, a couple of "S-Units." I rarely see significant benefits to the lower antennas alone in the 10m (25/50/75') or 15m (35/70/105) stacks. 73 Ted, KR1G >From: Pete Smith <firstname.lastname@example.com> >To: <firstname.lastname@example.com> >Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Are higher HF antenna's really better? To: <email@example.com> >Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:29:05 -0500 > > >At 03:12 PM 1/10/02 -0000, Sain'T Tom wrote: > > > > I once used 2 of the same 3 element 15 meter yagis simultaneously >from > >my old QTH in South Carolina. One was at 70 feet on the tower top and >was > >rotatable. The other was fixed on Europe at 40 feet. Both had >electrically > >equivalent (same electrical length) feed lines of RG213. > > > > Reports from Europe generally, but not always, gave the stack a >slightly > >stronger signal report. The lower sometimes would be reported just as > >strong as the upper, but NEVER was it reported that the lower was >stronger. > >I think band and sunspot cycle phase have a lot to do with this. >Certainly, as N4KG says, if you can have multiple antennas there are lots >of reasons to do so, including but not limited to stacking. But if you can >only have one, and particularly if it is a tribander, somewhere between 75 >and 100 feet is very nice indeed, but I'm not sure it makes a lot of >difference which end of that range you're at. > >My 2-high stack of C-3Es is at 97 and 69 feet, and I have only heard >signals louder on the lower antenna than the upper one, on any band, on one >or two occasions. My hunch is that if I had a third antenna at 32-33 feet, >there's a greater chance that I'd notice differences between single >antennas, but most of the time, the whole stack together would still be >best. > >73, Pete N4ZR > >The revised World Contest >Station Database >is online at www.pvrc.org > > > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >This list is sponsored by the new eHam.net Store. When you buy products >like ICE filters, Array Solutions StackMatch, or M-Squared Antennas from >the eHam Store for the same price you pay direct, a portion of the sale >price goes to support this list. Check it out at http://www.eham.net. > >----- >FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk >Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com >Administrative requests: email@example.com >Problems: firstname.lastname@example.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ________________________________________________________________________ This list is sponsored by the new eHam.net Store. When you buy products like ICE filters, Array Solutions StackMatch, or M-Squared Antennas from the eHam Store for the same price you pay direct, a portion of the sale price goes to support this list. Check it out at http://www.eham.net. ----- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk Submissions: email@example.com Administrative requests: firstname.lastname@example.com Problems: email@example.com
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Samsung has officially uploaded the source code for the Epic 4G Touch, Ice Cream Sandwich software. This fits right in line with the supposed release of the update tomorrow to Sprint customers everywhere. This release will give an early look for developers who want to start building and compiling ROMs for the device.
At the very least, we know the software, numbered FF18, is ready for release to the public. This should be a good indicator that rumored update dates are correct. Starting tomorrow, get ready to repeatedly hit the check for updates button. Hopefully, the wait is almost over.


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The wrath of winter put Lower Dauphin School District's athletic field and access road project months behind schedule, but work is scheduled to resume March 22, the school board learned March 15.
The project, which includes two artificial turf fields, was supposed to be done by spring, but now isn't expected to be done until July. "We lost at least 14 weeks from the winter," Mark Barnhart of EI Associates, district architect, told the board.
The athletic director "has his hands full" scheduling athletic events on available fields, said Superintendent Sherri Smith. She said Hersheypark has been helpful in making its stadium available for games and practices.
The $2.8 million project includes adding a new access road on East Main Street to Lower Dauphin Middle School, more parking, and two artificial turf fields with bleachers, lighting, sound system and scoreboards. The fields will be lined for use for football, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse.
Two sinkholes have to be repaired before work continues, Barnhart said. Grandstands should be erected in three to four weeks, he said.


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I know I should have planted in the fall but life was a little hectic then and I forgot all about them. I have tulip and daff bulbs would they be ok to plant now? Will they bloom?
Too late to plant bulbs?
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SUQUAMISH People slowly trickling into Kiana Lodge Dec. 28 came from a variety of backgrounds, though they all hoped to hear a presentation on one topic preserving the environment for the next generation. The evenings program, Protecting Our Place of Clear Water, also served to showcase a new community group growing out of Suquamish, the Suquamish Environmental Stewardship Council, and discussion between the council and other North Kitsap groups and governments.
The subject of Friday nights gathering centered around Al Gores climate change presentation, given by Beverly Duperly Boos, co-founder of the council. The event was infused with stories by Suquamish tribal elders about when they were children and how the world has changed since.
Tonight is a very special night within all of the community, said Michael Pavel, who emceed the evening for the roughly 150 attendees. Tonight, the elders who have lived all life, have seen the changes that have occurred, so many changes are taking place. Were learning, sharing, none of us can do what needs to get done alone.
The gathering, which included members from the Poulsbo City Council, Suquamish Tribe, Port Gamble SKlallam Tribe and other community and government organizations, began with Suquamish tribal elder Bob George reciting Chief Seattles speech warning white settlers in 1855 to be mindful of the environment so there might be a healthy planet for the next generations. It seemed Chief Seattle was a prophet, George said, because he spoke of pollution and wondered how any one human could buy and sell the land or sky.
When I talk about the climate, I think about our legacy, how it ties in here to what we leave behind, Duperly Boos said. Fortunately, were living in a place, in a time, when people live close to their roots. We thought we would mix the climate presentation with some personal stories.
The stories told by elders and a younger member from the Suquamish Tribe provided examples of the changes over the last century, not only in climate but also growth and modernizations in Kitsap County. They warned children gathered at the event to listen to history and become stewards of the planet.
We need to live in sustainability, said council member Lydia Sigo, who spoke during the climate presentation. We are all connected, what befalls one befalls all.
Tribal elder Betty Pascal, another co-founder of the stewardship group and who coordinated the elders stories, told of how she and her grandfather would gather food, sometimes just on a walk. They feasted on clams, salmon, duck, berries native to the area, anything available that was edible. Now, people clam digging have to be cognizant of red tide and other pollutants, and hunting and fishing are only allowed during certain seasons.
I still remember the taste of duck, and I havent had it since I was a child, Pascal said. I just remember the food we had was so plentiful ... We had just everything you could think of ... We had food all winter long.
After the storytelling, the stewardship council opened up discussion with those in attendance, fostering its mission to build bridges to help preserve the environment. Kelly Gemmell, co-founder of the council, said it will be working in the future with myriad groups to promote sustainability and living healthfully and green. The group will also seek funding sources and space for an office in the first quarter of the year.
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Hogs for the Cause organizers confirmed earlier this month that in October they'll stage a second barbecue festival in Charleston, South Carolina.
That event will be smaller than the New Orleans original, which this year attracted a crowd of 20,000 and raised $1.2 million for families with children suffering from brain cancer. In Charleston, there will be fewer pit masters and no barbecue competition.
On Tuesday (June 10), Hogs organizers announced that alt-country band Drive-By Truckers will headline Hogs for the Cause in Charleston, giving the new festival a higher profile music line-up than the New Orleans original.
"The Charleston event won't be a competition, so we thought the music would be a big selling point," said Hogs for the Cause's executive director Becker Hall. "This is a name that can draw that attention."
For the last three years, Hall had tried to book Drive-By Truckers for the New Orleans Hogs for the Cause, which is held each year in March.
"Scheduling and tour routes have not been in our favor," Hall said. "We definitely want to build up the music side of Hogs in New Orleans."
Hall would like to see a stronger line-up of national acts on the Friday night of Hogs in New Orleans with Saturday devoted primarily to the barbecue competition.
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I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've seen the second half of the movie "Jaws." As one of my favorite all time films, I've seen it about five times in its entirety, but the latter portion I've seen countless times.
That is because when in channel surfing mode on my television, if I come across "Jaws" already in progress…I find it almost impossible to change the channel. It's just such a well-made, gripping tale I can't physically force myself to move on. Whether it's Chief Brody ominously announcing the need for a bigger boat or Quint dragging his fingernails across that chalkboard or Hooper fighting for survival in his laughably flimsy shark cage…without fail my finger puts the brakes on my remote and I am transfixed. Whatever plans I may have had for that hour or more…postponed or cancelled. I am helpless to resist the call of the Steven Speilberg classic.
Perhaps you too have a movie that stops you in your tracks – no matter how many previous viewings. I talk to people about this from time to time and practically everyone has not one, but several flicks that render them motionless until the credits roll. Movie lovers refer to them as rewatchable.
Other movies with that rare quality, at least on my list: "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Sleepless in Seattle," "The Untouchables," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "Rocky," "The Matrix" and "The Shawshank Redemption" are yet a few.
And it doesn't matter if the features received glowing reviews or not. Many of my show-stopping favorites were panned by critics. Some of Marcus's guilty pleasures include "Malice" with the fetching Nicole Kidman in a knockout villainess performance; "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" ushering Jim Carrey's zaniness into unsuspecting theaters; and "Tremors" – a campy sci-fi horror flick.
Cable channels are obviously hip to the rewatchable factor as they air these movies constantly. Movies like "Tombstone," "Die Hard," "Jurassic Park," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Lethal Weapon" "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "The Godfather"…and of course, my personal theatrical meth, "Jaws."
It's patently unfair. I am in the middle of a busy Saturday afternoon mowing through a list of chores and as I pass through the den where the television has been left on I hear the unmistakable signature theme…"duh-duh, duh-duh, duh-duh…"
"NOOOOOOooooooo! I must resist! I've got too much to do! I've seen most of this movie how many dozens of times? Just keep walking Marcus."
"Duh-duh, duh-duh, duh-duh…"
"Oh, this is the scene where the shark pulls the two fishermen into the water."
Two hours later.
"Honey, I thought I asked you to wash the car," my wife says as she enters the living room. I just look at her helplessly.
""Jaws" was on wasn't it?"
Yes it was. And I got caught up again. Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the den.
Marcus Hyles is senior news correspondent for WVAS Radio in Montgomery. His career as a writer and news broadcaster spans 20 years in the Montgomery market. The Hyles Files is his outlet for all things NOT news. "The Hyles Files" was awarded "Best Commentary or Editorial" on Alabama radio by the Associated Press for 2010.


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congrats on finishing this mammoth task - Can`t wait to see it .
I have got a Claire Shaeffer jacket pattern in my sewing queue and I have started procrastinating already - it has been on my bedside table for the last month all ready just to read through the instructions as step one says to do.
Yeah! I can feel the excitement of having finished this project. Good for you. I am sure it is going to look great on you.
Checked out your previous posts and your jacket looks great. Also lovely fabric haul. What will become of the black fabric.
Congratulations on perservering -- you'll love your jacket, I'm sure! And I love the idea of vest/skirt combo ... it's something in the back of my mind as well.
Congrats on finishing the jacket, you will really enjoy your jacket and now onto the next project.
Can't wait to see this finished jacket, I am loving the fabric.
Congratulations!Can't wait to see the finished jacket.
Oh you tease! I'm so looking forward to getting a good look at your jacket. You definitely deserve to make yourself something fun and quick now - I like the look of your possible projects!
What a great feeling! Congrats on persevering to the end.
Fantastic. Always a relief to get those longer projects finished. I am looking forward to seeing the final result of the jacket.
Congratulations! That is SO exciting!
I have that PR pattern too and it is high in my sewing queue!!


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Wyoming's Sara Kerckhove and Lindsey Harms each rolled a 549 series for three games, and Melanie Spriggs rolled a 517 series.
"The girls did a nice job today, they bowled their averages and it looks like we are getting some improvements already," Wyoming coach David Bandstra said.
Wyoming won with a 3,178 total, followed by Belding (2,979) and Sparta (2,787).


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The Allegan Conservation District is one of the conservation districts in Michigan and Indiana that will benefit from $27 million in funding as part of the USDA's Agricultural Water Enhancement program (AWEP). The funding was made available through the 2008 Farm Bill.
The program will provide a total of $58 million in funds for 63 water conservation projects in 21 states. Two million dollars have been approved for Michigan and Indiana for the 2009 fiscal year. The program allows eligible partners to enter into multi-year agreements with the Natural Resources Conservation Service over a five-year period, the length of the Farm Bill.
"We must take steps to protect and preserve our water resources, and the Obama administration is committed to using this program to provide financial and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to improve water conditions on their land," said U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Dave White.
Michigan and Indiana conservation districts, along with a variety of watershed partners, worked together to bring the new program to the Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Black River watershed districts.
"Conservation districts are local units of state government, delivering conservation financial and technical assistance to private landowners throughout the states of Michigan and Indiana," said Michigan Association of Conservation District Executive Director Lori Phelan. "AWEP brings a significant additional funding source to these watersheds to address conservation improvements on agricultural lands, which will forward the progress of watershed wide initiatives
to improve water quality."
The Southeast Lake Michigan watersheds of the Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Black River encompass 21 counties in southern Michigan and Northern Indiana, draining around 6,992 square miles of primary rural farmland. AWEP funds will be available over a five-year period, resulting in up to $27 million of on the ground conservation practices.
Around 90 percent of Allegan County is located in the Kalamazoo River watershed, said Allegan Conservation District Project Manager Shawn McKenney. Allegan County producers located in the watershed interested in receiving AWEP funds should contact the Allegan Conservation District. After making an appointment with a field representative, the representative will visit the site and discuss possible cost sharing practices.
Water enhancement activities that may be implemented through the AWEP are identified by water quantity and quality, sediment and nutrient management, pathogens, pesticides, fish and wildlife, greenhouse management and energy conservation. There are 113 different projects that would be eligible for AWEP funding, including installation of livestock exclusion fences to prevent livestock from accessing creek, streams or rivers and the creation of composting facilities, McKenney said.
A complete project list is available online at www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/awep/2009projects.html.In Michigan and Indiana, projects are aimed at improving irrigation water utilization and system uniformity by 10 percent over a period of five years and monitoring and evaluating and improving water quality in the Southeastern Lake Michigan watershed.
"The AWEP partnership will accelerate ongoing watershed scale efforts aimed at keeping healthy soil and excess nutrients on the land, conserving water everywhere and maintaining rural character," said St. Joe River Association President Matt Meersman.
Allegan County farmers and producers can learn more about the program by visiting the Allegan County Conservation District at 1668 Lincoln Rd., or calling McKenney at (269) 673-8965. For more information about the variety of resources available through the Allegan Conservation District, visit www.allegancd.org.


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#2266 closed bug (fixed)
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A validate of a recent GHC HEAD on a machine that didn't have haddock installed ended with the report:
if ifBuildable/ifBuildable ghc-prim; then \ cd ghc-prim && setup/Setup haddock --html-location='../$pkg' \ ; \ fi Setup: haddock version >=0.6 is required but it could not be found. make[1]: *** [doc.library.ghc-prim] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/tn/tn/GHCDarcsRepository/ghc-HEAD-complete-20080503_0226/ghc/libraries' make: *** [stage1] Error 2
This requirement is not mentioned on http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Prerequisites and ought, if kept, to be checked and reported in the initial configure phase.
Best regards Thorkil
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by igloo
- difficulty set to Unknown
- Milestone set to 6.10 branch
This is a bit fiddly - it's Cabal that finds haddock, so it's hard to know if it will succeed or not. Maybe we should detect it ourselves instead, and tell Cabal where to find it.
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by igloo
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
We now do tell Cabal where to find haddock, and this means we can fail early if we can't find it. This ticket is therefore fixed by:
Sun Jul 13 17:53:05 BST 2008 Ian Lynagh <firstname.lastname@example.com> * If HADDOCK_DOCS is YES, then fail the build early if we couldn't find haddock This fixes trac #2266.
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by simonmar
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comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by simonmar
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A new friend gave me Chuck Smith's phone number.
I called him directly.
We had a long conversation. It was extremely direct. Chuck listened.
I asked very specific questions and I received answers. I was able to express my frustrations with the Calvary Chapel System and broach many of the areas of criticism that I believe are valid with regards to Chuck Smith and the Calvary Chapel Ethos. He listened.
He agreed to have both a meeting with me and Bob Grenier and Bob's accusers….and to meet with me to hear how I and others think Calvary Chapel can make changes to address much of the grievances and criticisms and frustrations out there.
I will be transparent and faithful. I am no CC apologist. I want to see reform and repentance. I do not want money or power. I want truth and change and I want Calvary Chapel to hear the cries of those who have been hurt and "try" to make some common sense changes and set a new course.
That's my heart. That's been my heart from day one.
I told Chuck that I don't want a dime of his money and I don't want to see lawyers take a bunch of it either. I want them to listen, consider and make changes.
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Fatoumata Diawara, Malian Singer/Songwriter
Carrying on Mali's rich musical traditions, Fatoumata Diawara performs a joyous amalgamation of the vibrant and the understated in songs about love, politics, and empowerment. This Malian-raised, Parisian singer/songwriter brings elements of jazz, pop, and funk to her compositions, accompanying her voice with rhythmical guitar playing and her own percussion work. Her distinctly African spin on the contemporary folk sensibility has found an enthusiastic audience; Diawara's 2011 debut album topped European world-music charts for six months and she was named to TIME's 2012 list of "the best in world music."
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TeraGrid Software Project Wins CLADE 2006 Best Paper
CHICAGO, May 22, 2006 — A paper that describes a system for aggregating processors on demand from across the distributed resources of the National Science Foundation TeraGrid has won the best paper award for the 2006 CLADE (Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments) workshop to be held June 19 in Paris, France.
The paper, "Creating Personal Adaptive Clusters for Managing Scientific Jobs in a Distributed Computing Environment," describes a virtual environment built on top of an existing middleware tool called GridShell. The combination, including the pre-existing middleware, will be renamed MyCluster. It is already in production use on the TeraGrid, where it has handled about 100,000 jobs and 900 teraflops of scientific computation.
"MyCluster solves a problem," says lead author Edward Walker of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), "in how to efficiently support multiple users in the submission and management of many thousands of simultaneous serial jobs across a heterogeneous mix of large compute clusters connected in a distributed environment."
Walker's co-authors are Jeff Gardner of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Vladimir Litvin of the California Institute of Technology, and Evan Turner, also of TACC.
MyCluster responds to a TeraGrid user survey finding that many users have a need to submit, manage and monitor many hundreds or even thousands of jobs simultaneously. Two large scientific projects in particular provided initial motivation: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle physics project (in which Litvin participates) and the National Virtual Observatory (NVO) astronomy project (in which Gardner participates). Both these projects require extensive analysis of enormous amounts of data for which the computational demand involves between 50,000 and 500,000 simultaneous jobs.
The NSF TeraGrid comprises a heterogeneous mix of compute clusters and other systems of varied architectures — totaling at present over 100 teraflops of capability — running different operating systems at eight resource-provider sites. The TeraGrid therefore realizes a benefit from a middleware tool — provided by MyCluster — that offers a seamless environment for users to harness aggregate capabilities across sites transparently.
Walker will present the paper at the last session of CLADE on June 19.
CLADE is held in conjunction with the 15th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-15), also in Paris.
The TeraGrid, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure, is a partnership of people and comprehensive resources to enable discovery in U.S. science and engineering research. Through high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates a distributed set of very-high capability computational, data management and visualization resources to make U.S. research more productive. With Science Gateway collaborations and education and mentoring programs, the TeraGrid also connects and broadens scientific communities.
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#HeartTravel photo competition: A few of our favourites
Earlier this week, we launched our #HeartTravel photo competition on Instagram in time with Valentine's Day, asking you to share your favourite travel place with us.
We were overwhelmed with the range of breathtaking photos and heartfelt reasons why certain places had a hold of your heart. From stunning scenery, rare wildlife encounters, meaningful exchanges with locals and places that were special for personal moments, the responses were truly inspiring.
So, we thought we would share just a few…
#hearttravel Instagram Photo Competition
Sure, being in love with a real-life, actual person can be pretty great – we wouldn't deny that. But sometimes being in love with a place can be pretty special too. It might be the food your place-crush feeds you, the beach strolls it takes you on or just that you met your real-life, actual-person lover there. Whatever the case, places deserve some loving too.
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Pipe firm opens locally
BEECH BOTTOM – In a community hard hit by the bankruptcy of its biggest employer, having a pipeline company spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a staging yard is "huge, bigger than huge," Mayor George Lewis said Wednesday.
"We lost a lot of our business and B&O taxes when the corrugating plant shut down," he said. "That was our revenue to operate on."
On Wednesday, Lewis and several of his council members were among dozens of community leaders at the idled mill to celebrate the new life Tulsa-based Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Co. is breathing into the 650-acre property.
"I just think it's fantastic, to see development in this part of the county," Beech Bottom Councilwoman Becky Uhlly said. "To me, this is a first step. I hope the whole area develops more."
The Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle and Los Angeles-based Hackman Capital acquired the property in November from bankrupt RG Steel, announcing four months later that their first tenant, Sheehan, would use a 20-acre parcel as a launch pad for a 40-mile section of Enterprise's ATEX pipeline extending from Canonsburg, Pa., across the Northern Panhandle and into Ohio.
"We're not your normal industry that's going to come in and build a warehouse facility or anything," Sheehan Superintendent Joe E. Parrish said. "We travel where the pipeline industry needs us, we have to be mobile. It (took) a lot of pre-planning, a lot of hard work to get the yard where it is today."
BDC Executive Director Pat Ford said Sheehan brought in about $75 million in state-of-the-art equipment, mobile offices, a water purification system and vehicles on site.
Parrish said they spent about $300,000 to lay down a gravel base on the parcel and thousands more to build a new school bus turnaround, bring water and electricity to the site and carve out two new entrances. Village leaders said they've also been assured the company will have a street sweeper to control dirt and mud being tracked from the staging yard onto state Route 2. They'll also have trained medical personnel on site to address minor worker health issues, like colds, bee stings, allergies and eye injuries and to administer drug tests.
The company will employ about 500 union workers.
Ford said Wednesday's ribbon cutting brought together public officials from throughout Brooke and Hancock counties, suggesting Sheehan's representatives seemed somewhat surprised at the enthusiastic reception they've experienced over the past three or four months.
"It helps us showcase not just Brooke County, but the entire Northern Panhandle as a great place to do business," he said. "Not only can we provide all the amenities for a business to locate here, but we can also clearly show how much we embrace business and industry in the Northern Panhandle."
The park's newest tenant, Ohio-based Integrity Kokosing Pipe Line Services, "will have a very similar setup as Sheehan, but on a smaller scale," Ford said. "They'll have 2 acres instead of 20. They're working on a smaller pipeline, but there'll be 14 people on site, office trailers, trucks and pipeline. They'll actually have pipeline on their site, use their site for pipeline staging."
Ford said Sheehan's excitement about the site helped sell Integrity Kokosing on it as well.
"Really, Sheehan has been a catalyst for us to get other pipeline and energy-related companies to Beech Bottom," he said. "One of the most important things we can market right now is the excitement our tenants have to be here. If we can harness that and market that, it will be a selling point. Who would have thought that just over six months ago when we bought a factory that was on its last leg, owned by a company that was in bankruptcy, we'd see this much excitement, this much interest?"
Uhlly did a walking tour of the idled corrugating plant a few weeks ago and said it was apparent employees had walked out the doors expecting to return. "There were coffee cups on desks still, and coats hanging on hooks," she said. "It was like a Twilight Zone, they'd left one day and never came back."
Uhlly and Councilwoman Linda Clelland said the paint lines are still in the plant and they'd like, one day, to see them being used again. For now, though, they said they're content to see oil and gas to fill the void.
"Look what it's bringing into the community," Clelland said. "We're been trying to get things in here for people, maybe one day we'll get a convenience store and gas station. But right now, we'll take what we can get."


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Join Action for Older Persons for a seminar on how to reduce senior health insurance cost. You will learn about the eligibility guidelines and application process for programs such as the Medicare Savings Programs, Medicare Part D Extra Help/Low Income Subsidy, NYS Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC), and Broome County's Discount Prescription Program.
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