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Ten Teens to Watch
Kit Noble
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Their credentials are impressive, their accomplishments already remarkable. What an incredible group of smart, funny, talented and motivated teens. But what makes them so inspiring is that each one is passionate about something. That passion is what feeds the dreams of some to become doctors, actors, journalists, scientists or professional musicians. It is what influences the direction of their college choices, their volunteer work and how each one chooses to spend what little free time is left after homework. Meet ten of Stamford's future stars. You'll be amazed. You'll love them. Join us in cheering them on as they take on the world.
Morgan Temple
Stamford High School
Morgan climbed into the saddle at age six, never imagining the meaningful ride her love of horses would give her.
Two years ago the senior became a volunteer for Pegasus Therapeutic Recreation and began sharing her passion for riding with a thirteen-year-old special- needs student. Horseback riding, Morgan explains, can help a physically or mentally challenged child tap into muscles and abilities they've never experienced. Morgan and her protégé learned that together with a horse named Dundee at Kelsey Farm in Greenwich.
Her student was named Most Independent Rider last spring, an honor Morgan says was thrilling. "I was so proud of her."
Morgan, who also loves dogs, has never had a pet because her parents have allergies. "I love animals so much. I see a farm and it hurts." So she bonds with them through volunteerism. When a friend started a program that brings local teens and dogs into the Richard L. Rosenthal Hospice to visit with patients, Morgan began making the rounds. Some kids might be intimidated working with the terminally ill, but Morgan is inspired. "It never even occurred to me to think of it as sad or difficult," she says. "Research has shown it's beneficial for human health to be with pets. And people are just so happy to see us and the dogs."
Her caring heart is a given, but Morgan is also an A student who excels in math and science. She has played varsity tennis for the Black Knights since freshman year. Because chemistry is Morgan's favorite subject, it's easy to imagine her pairing that with her animal instincts and becoming a veterinarian. "It's possible but I have also thought about following my father into dentistry." One thing's for sure: "Animals will always be in my life." Ride on.
Reuel "Rudy" Camacho
Academy of Information Technology & Engineering
Rudy marches to his own beat, one he's often playing. "I hear rhythm all the time. There are songs in my head when I'm walking to class," the talented drummer says. At his photo shoot, Rudy can't stop twirling the drumsticks he's brought along. "Even my music teacher tells me to stop," he smiles.
Rudy, a senior honors student, began playing piano in kindergarten. Then came guitar, trumpet and his true love, percussion. His maternal grandfather, Tito Camacho, who died of Alzheimer's when Rudy was young, had him listening to Latin music at an early age. Raised by his single mother and grandparents, Rudy says those early musical bonds have always been strong. "For as long as I can remember, music has made me happy. It will always be part of my life."
This explains his growing list of gigs. There's his alternative/punk garage band, Something for Nothing, and his commitments with the Seymour-based Connecticut Hurricanes drum and bugle corps and the Stamford High School Marching Band. He's also played drums for the choir at Stamford's Union Baptist Church, where his family worships, and given volunteer performances throughout the area, including at the Greenwich Woods Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, where his grandfather lived the last years of his life.
When it comes to what's on his iPod, Rudy doesn't discriminate. "To be a great musician, you have to love and appreciate all kinds of music," says Rudy, who also hits high notes with his studies. "Even though I'm busy, I try very hard to get all A's."
Jackie Schechter
Westhill High School
Jackie has the perspective of some veteran newshounds.
As editor-in-chief of The Westword, her school's acclaimed student newspaper, deadlines mean her busy teenage life comes to a halt. Homework for this honors senior can sometimes begin late, after the paper goes to press. "It's a long day, but I love it," she says. "The most satisfying thing about newspapers is, after all that hard work, you have a finished product."
Words are like friends to Jackie, who has written for or edited almost every section of The Westword since her freshman year. Although she's not ready to say news is her future, she's already reported serious stories with curious zeal, and among those she's interviewed are Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
In her scant spare time, Jackie plays volleyball and has had a long-term volunteer "buddy" relationship with a special-needs child. "It was something that scared me when I started, but it has become a very meaningful relationship."
Jackie seems to intuitively understand that "almost every story has at least two sides." It's an instinct she demonstrates as she describes how The Westword covered the controversy that erupted last year when some fellow students came to school in blackface at Halloween.
"I understood why people were offended, but I also got that the students who did it were naïve and did not mean to hurt anyone. We tried very hard to cover it fairly."
Jackie's passion extends beyond the high school beat. She's active in Write On For Israel, which teaches Jewish teens media advocacy skills. "I'm not afraid to ask questions or speak up, which will serve me well in anything I do in life."
Sean Ormond
Stamford High School
Take a bow, Sean! We see standing ovations coming for this Broadway-bound senior, whose comfort zone is center stage. "I love the spotlight. There's no better feeling I have than the one when I'm on stage," says Sean, who favors musical theater. No wonder. We hear the golden-voiced teen brought down the house last year when he played Pippin in a school production.
Sean was only seven when he starred in Big at Stamford's Curtain Call, but it took him a while to realize the arts were his heart. "As a kid, I played a ton of baseball and that was my passion," says the former shortstop. After winning successive leads in school and community theater productions, he traded batting practice for stage rehearsals and voice lessons. He's also on the youth board at Curtain Call, where he's known to sweep floors or help organize casting calls.
And while Sean may have his eye on the Great White Way, this thespian is no one-act wonder. He's been elected president of the Black Knights Class of 2011 for four consecutive terms, a political feat he attributes to his diverse assortment of friends (and, we suspect, his abundant charm). "I'm not just hanging out with the drama kids. I like knowing everyone, and I get along with everybody."
This dual role also gives him a platform to speak out about a personal passion: the diminishing role of arts in education "We struggle to fill seats for great performances, and that's too bad because a great performance is a gift to the audience." Spoken like a true leading man.
Morgan Lyew
King Low Heywood Thomas School
As Morgan explains her year-long project of exploring the energy potential of the oil-rich camelina seed, you have to remind yourself she's just a high school senior—not a seasoned chemical engineer on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough. The seventeen-year-old's scholarly passion is science, which she pursues with vigor.
Last year Morgan was the only junior (and girl) invited to join King's select Biomass Research Team. This year she's its captain and gets a say in what scientific questions her team will explore. "I'm thinking it will have something to do with more effective ways to treat sewage," says Morgan, who has an interest in environmental issues.
Expect her hallmark tenacity to propel the project forward. "I'm not afraid to fail. Any good scientist knows you have to try things again and again."
Morgan imagines a future in pharmaceuticals research, a dream she says was inspired as much by personal circumstance as affinity for science. When she was just six, her father was diagnosed with nasal cancer. "He's a ten-year survivor, and because of that experience I appreciate what science can and can't do. If I could be part of finding a cure for diseases, that would be amazing!"
Morgan's interests are not limited to the petri dish. She's an accomplished equestrian, pianist and scuba diver and a committed volunteer. Last year a mission with her youth group at Shippan's Our Lady Star of the Sea Church had her assisting the frail and elderly making pilgrimages to the holy shrine at Lourdes, France. "Many of them could not speak English. But what was so amazing was that their appreciation for what we were doing transcended languages."
Emma Hart
Westhill High School
Emma, a sixteen-year-old violinist, will be reaching for more high notes when her first CD is released this fall and she begins studying at Manhattan College's precollege music program with jazz great Sara Caswell.
This junior, a Suzuki-trained violinist, began lessons at four. She played her first recital by six. "She heard an older cousin play and said, 'I want to do that.' I think she was two,'" says her father, musician and composer Dave Hart, who accompanies her on her CD.
Emma's musical tastes include bluegrass, jazz, Celtic and serious classical stuff. "As a musician, I feel like it would be wrong at this age to pick a style," she says. "My classical lessons just seem to improve my bluegrass, so I look at all of these niches I explore as making me a better musician." She's just started to play the mandolin, but she strummed a few notes at her photo shoot and sounded like a pro.
Curiously, Emma has a hard time listening to her music, even begging us not to play any of the sublime recordings on her website, emmahartmusic.com. "I can't stand it. All I hear is my imperfections," she says, sounding a bit like a teen who discovered a blemish on prom night. We listened anyway and heard youthful magic.
Emma's music studies are often consuming, but she still finds time for other teenage pursuits, including a part-time job as a cashier at Giovanni's Country Market. She gets terrific grades, is a serious photographer and also plays attack for Westhill's nascent junior varsity lacrosse team. Don't count on her trading her bow for a stick though. Music is her one true love. "I can't imagine my life without it."
Khori Davis
St. Luke's School
This scholar-athlete arrives for his photo shoot carrying his baseball bat, looking every bit the sandlot slugger. Yet there's none of the swagger that can come with a guy that boasts his charm, athletic abilities and brains.
Khori, an honors senior, spent the summer playing center field for the Connecticut Tides, an elite regional AAU travel team of top high school ballplayers. Even though he's thrilled to play the same position as his baseball hero, homerun legend and ten-time Gold Glove winner Ken Griffey Jr., he doesn't want anyone thinking he's some kind of ace. "I love the game," he says. "I'm thrilled to play at this level, but I don't even know if I'll play in college."
School is more important, says Khori, who aspires to be a lawyer and excels in English and the humanities at St. Luke's. There, he has taken to heart the school's credo of community service. He long ago exceeded the requisite eighty hours of volunteer service students must perform to graduate.
As a leader of St. Luke's Black Student Alliance, he has been a "buddy" to a minority student in the lower school and initiated a fundraising project to build wells in African villages. But most of his 140-plus hours have been served as a volunteer summer camp counselor at the Waterside School, where Khori's work tutoring inner-city Stamford campers in reading and math and "just playing games" has "been one of my greatest experiences." What a catch.
Christopher Kremer
Academy of Information Technology & Engineering
It's intimidating to quiz a teen who received a perfect score on two SAT sections, corrects Wikipedia entries "for fun" and taught himself German and Dutch. When we tell Christopher, a senior, we're going to call him "the linguist," he has a better idea. "Try grammarian. I think that actually sounds pretty cool."
Like just about everything we touched on with Christopher, the seventeen-year-old had already given the subject considerable thought. "It's fun to be pedantic," the self-described perfectionist says. We wanted the scoop on how he got those 800 SAT scores in critical reading and writing. "Actually, at first, my writing score wasn't perfect, but close, so I went back and took the test again because it was kind of driving me crazy that it wasn't perfect."
Besides being a whiz kid, Christopher is also on the school debate team, competes for AITE on the News12 quiz show The Challenge and was one of three local high school students chosen to sit with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for a 2009 roundtable discussion on early childhood education.
His volunteer work includes leading a group of AITE students spearheading efforts to help the Stamford Senior Center raise funds in the wake of city budget cuts. His enterprising plan? Selling snacks from the popular Garden Catering to fellow students. His facility for languages has relatives predicting he'll be a CIA code breaker someday. Christopher, however, has no interest in civil service. "I want to do something that involves making a ton of money," he says. "And then I would take that money and start some kind of global philanthropy initiative." Look out Bill Gates.
Michael Schneider
King Low Heywood Thomas School
Michael isn't old enough to vote yet, but he already has the makings of a diplomat. He founded the King chapter of Project Vote Smart, a nonprofit, bipartisan group that encourages the electorate to scrutinize the records of candidates and elected officials. "I'm very interested in the idea of holding people responsible for positions they take and promises they make," he says.
So logic would suggest that the title Senator might appeal to a teen who loves the debate podium and has charm to spare. Don't assume. For Michael is that rare academic talent who is passionate about multiple subjects. The seventeen-year-old senior had Hobbes and Locke down pat by seventh grade, and this month he'll prove he's equally adept at science when he begins studies in King's elite Biomass Research class. "I consider myself more of a philosopher than a politician, and that manifests itself in all sorts of ways. What I get excited about is ideas, all kinds of ideas. Science is brimming with ideas, and questions too!"
No surprise, Michael enjoys exchanging ideas with intensity as cocaptain of King's debate team. For fun he often takes part in school theater productions, explaining that the stage is a comfortable place.
Michael has already come up with a creative idea to merge his passions for science, politics and philosophy. Intrigued that the global scientific community has become increasingly polarized, he envisions becoming a scientific diplomat. "In a perfect world, I'm working for some kind of big scientific research group and I am their voice." We're already listening.
Shilpa Kolli Trinity
Catholic High School
Paging Shilpa! She may not have an MD after her name yet, but a white coat and stethoscope are accessories in this senior's not-so-distant future. Shilpa was part of a select group of tristate area high school students who interned at Yale University's School of Medicine this summer. The honor meant a daily train commute from Stamford to New Haven, but Shilpa was more than up for it. "I think it's safe to say medicine is probably the only career I've ever considered, so to do this at my age is a huge opportunity," she says.
The elite internship gave Shilpa, the daughter of a pharmacist and a nurse, a chance to conduct her own medical research. "I'm thinking something involving the reproductive system," is her ambitious plan. That's intense stuff for a seventeen-year-old, but this National Honor Society president likes a challenge in and out of the classroom.
Eager to make friends when she entered Trinity from Scofieldtown Magnet Middle School, Shilpa tried out for the girl's soccer. She made the team even though she had never played. Because academics come naturally to her, she also tried studying mixed martial arts. "I am not someone that finds sports easy. I have to work really, really hard at them," she says. "The martial arts takes me completely out of my comfort zone and I like that." She earned her black belt last year.
Shilpa also loves languages. She is fluent in Spanish as well as Teluga, the language of the Andhra Pradesh state in India, where she spent part of her childhood. A future goal is a medical mission to her family's homeland. "If I could give something back with all of the opportunities I've had, that would be amazing."


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A series of staff errors in July 2012 placed two blood enemies in the same pod of cells at Curry County jail resulting in the beating of Jaime Perez, but there was no attempt to cover up the blunders, according to a private investigator's report.
The report was released Friday by Curry County Attorney Steve Doerr after a federal judge ordered it be given to fired jail Administrator Gerry Billy, who is suing the county for wrongful discharge.
Doerr denied a CNJ request last January for the same report, saying it was exempt from state public records inspection laws because it fell under attorney-client privilege.
The county offered the same argument in Billy's civil lawsuit. However, U.S. District Judge Lourdes Martinez ordered the county on Oct. 23 to turn it over to Billy and his attorney Eric Dixon of Portales because the investigation and subsequent report weren't compiled in anticipation of a lawsuit.
The report was finished in November 2012. Billy filed suit against the county shortly after being fired last January.
Dixon said Billy requested the investigation by Universal Investigation Services of Albuquerque to clear his name after Commissioner Robert Sandoval said he thought there may have been a cover-up in the beating of Perez by now-convicted murderer Louis Guerra.
Sandoval was referring to a controversy over a 100-page report compiled by jail Capt. Keith Farkas. Doerr initially declined to release the Farkas report to the CNJ saying Billy's position was that it was prepared in anticipation of a lawsuit by Perez. Doer later released the report after another CNJ public records request turned up county emails disclosing the 100-page Farkas report was finished the day Perez's attorney filed notice of a pending lawsuit.
The recently released Universal Investigation Services report concludes although there were many errors by jail staff resulting in discipline, there was "no indication that CCADC (Curry County Adult Detention Center) staff intentionally or maliciously put Jaime Perez in the same pod as Louis Guerra.
"There was no indication that CCADC tried to hide, delay or withhold information regarding the incident," according to Universal's Doug Shawn.
The report also discloses that four jail staff members were handed out disciplines ranging from a four-day unpaid suspension to reprimands.
Guerra was in the jail, accused of murdering Perez's brother. Perez was also a state's witness against Guerra in another case.
Jail staff placed Perez in the same pod of cells with Guerra despite numerous warnings from family and the district attorney's office the two were to be kept separated because of the blood feud.
Shawn concluded the fight lasted five minutes and a detention officer monitoring surveillance cameras failed to see any of the attack. Guerra was caught on videotape beating Perez with the handle of a broom left in the pod in violation of jail policy.
Perez was treated at Plains Regional Medical center for injuries. His claim against the county is still pending, according to County Manager Lance Pyle.


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Ray Nelson Services, located at 215 E. Third St., Jamestown, is still providing gasoline and repair work for vehicles. The business is for sale by owner Ray Nelson. He said until it is sold, he will still be operating the business. The service station is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
"We're an old-fashion service station," he said. "We do lube jobs, change the oil, exhaust work, tune-ups and general repairs."
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Ray Nelson Services, located at 215 E. Third St., Jamestown, will continue to operate while the business is for sale. The service station provides gasoline and vehicle repair services.
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Nelson has been located in downtown Jamestown for 31 years. He has operated a service station in the Jamestown area for the last 48 years. He had two previous locations, one on Foote Avenue and the other on Forest Avenue. Nelson said once the business is sold he will retire.
"I'm going to be 76 years old next month," he said. "I got a farm, and I got four horses that I'm going to retrain."


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a couple of pics of the phoenix rudder
Flying with & without a rudder on gliders- both useful
I've done a lot of 'Bank & Yank' flying over the years, too- had a blast doing it!. For some types of flying- specifically for hard-core slope combat like we fly here in Colorado, a rudder would be a useless piece of extra mechanism that would simply add weight, drag, & vulnerability to damage.
And for hotliner / warmliner flying, the rudder has little to offer... yes, it's handy for lining up landings in tight landing sites, & other than that, mostly remains unused.
On my ~40" Me163b, I built in a rudder... when I complete the larger one, I'll omit the operational rudder completely; that's simply relative to the way I choose to design & fly each aircraft.
With the thermal hunting opportunities I have here in Colorado's high country, I occasionally go out to hunt lift, flying low level tight thermals of very modest diameter & light lift dynamics. (Above 600 feet, the whole sky seems to be going up some days... there's no challenge in staying in lift up there. It's down close to the ground where the fresh thermals are born that the real challenge lies.)
But when doing a quick climb to only 250-300 feet AGL, chopping power, & hunting the smaller tight patches of lightly rising air that you'll encounter there, your ability to stay in lift and ride it up to speck out sometimes benefits from employing different flying techniques. That's where staying in a tight column of lightly rising air calls for turning relatively tightly without dropping a wing tip much at all- if you do, you'll loose lift & drop out. In my experience, a "bank & yank" approach just isn't as effective as working with both rudder & ailerons to keep the aircraft's bank attitude flatter while still staying within the tight patch of rising air. [Try it if you get a chance- you just might find it useful...)
Deflecting a rudder slightly does produce a bit of drag... and deflecting ailerons also produces some drag (and adverse yaw in some cases, some setups). It's simply part of flight path control - options available to the pilot to use or not.
Different strokes for Different folks! - It's all fun, all useful!
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Rudder to control airspeed???
Sorry Pete,
You can do a lot of things with 3 axis control, including things that were not intended. But rudder for airspeed control, in a turn, is not one of them.
A coordinated turn is all about lift vector.
I don't type fast enough to attempt to prove this, but over forty years with my butt strapped in sailplanes, J3 Cubs, ejection seats and flying busses through the 767-300 tells me it is not so.
No offense intended but there is already too much in accurate info on the web.
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I use rudder all the time on most of my planes.For lining up on runway and keeping wings level,to HELP in turns,to do a flat circle (rudder is a must) to do snap rolls, i wouldn't want to try flying many of my power gliders or 3d planes with no rudder.
My post had very little to do with the advantages/disadvantages of turning with rudder or ailerons. If you want to fly an incredibly large circle in the most inefficient way possible, go ahead, yaw away. My point was that Viking had said in numerous posts how poor the rudder response was when initiating a turn with the rudder. I pointed out that the Phoenix 2K has a completely flat wing, and the rudder isn 't going to do anything except yaw the plane along its longitudinal axis. It's certainly not going to initiate any turns. He listed 3 other planes that had much better response to 'initiating a turn' using only the rudder, and I pointed out that the 3 he listed all had polyhedral, which rolls the sailplane along its longitudinal axis (no ailerons needed) after application of rudder. Of course they're going to have better (faster) turn response with only the rudder.
I'm just trying to give the P2K a fair shake, as it's doing exactly what it was intended, its rudder does an excellent job.
Good day (and I mean that).
I am thinking to buy this plane, its only 65 usd ARF in EU!
1. Can I use 1600-2200kv motor with it? 1200kv seems to slow Maybe smth like Turnigy2836 brushless Outrunner 2350kv
2. Can I use a NON folding prop? Will it break durin landing?
3. How long can you glide with 2200mah 3s + 2836 1000kv motor? 20 min?
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Hi, RoboSerg.
A sailplane, not a hotliner, will generally use a motor with a kv from 850-1200. One wants to be able to swing a large prop to generate thrust at low speed.
A non folding prop will generate so much drag, particularly if it windmills, that soaring will be virtually impossible.
Soaring time depends on how much current one uses with the motor. A sailplane with four micro servos will be able to run the radio for well over an hour if one doesn't spend time flying under power.
I'm not sure that foam in the can I used to fix my wings would be good for more repairs. So far it has not become rock hard. I did use it to fix my wings but I also coated the top and bottom with that spackling I bought and then covered the top and bottom with shoo goo. But I'm still experimenting with it though.
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1. Lower RPM = more torque = ability to swing a larger prop.
2. a - it will most certainly break on landing, b - if it doesn't fold back, it's adding quite a bit of drag, not good.
3. The size of the battery is only indirectly proportional to 'how long you can glide'. How long you can glide is dependent on lots of things, mostly catching updrafts (either thermals or wind deflected upwards). I would say it would be possible to glide for days on a 2200 mAH battery pack, assuming you could catch enough rising air to stay aloft. Somewhat more difficult at night.
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11-02-2000, 04:13 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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I was wondering if anyone had any experiences or have heard of anyone else's experiences with Inovaware's ISP software called Prism and Resolve.
It is very expensive software but we are thinking about adopting the software.
We currently use Alabanza's system and looking for a system which supports NT and Linux systems if possible. We have a new business alliance with an e-ecommerce company and are expecting a few thousand new web sites who require NT servers.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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How'd you ever learn about them? All three of their URL's don't respond: http://www.inovaware.com, http://www.innovaware.com and http://www.isppower.com.
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I Remember ISP Power
On my PC I have an old copy of "ISP Power" from a couple of years ago. It was offered for free without support to companies with less than 100 clients, I think.
ISPPower used an Access database for its engine. You could set it up with client details and hosting/dialup access prices, etc. It was really meant for NT systems and could allow clients to signup/order products/add themselves to your system online. However, since I was on a Unix box I just used it to manage/print invoices on my PC for a while.
It was a whole billing system, keeping track of balances and payments, etc. Not sure if it did the credit card posting. Maybe it did. I do know it would have sent statements by email to the customers if I was on an NT box. Very nice system, but its interface was difficult to use and since I was using the free version with no support, I didn't get any better at using it, so I went to QuickBooks.
I read that Alabanza was going to move its billing systems to BillMax . Nigel you may want to wait or ask your Alabanza rep about it. BillMax is a very nice system, I hear.
I'm cutting this out from another discussion. It is a cut and paste of a press release (thanks to Annette for providing it):
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Alabanza Corporation Chooses BillMax Software For Web Hosting Billing and Customer Care Solution
FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2000--BillMax, a t rnkey billing and customer management software and outsourcing service for ISPs, ASPs, BSPs, ICPs, and Web Hosts, announced today that Alabanza Corporation will deploy BillMax as the web hosting billing and customer care application for its customers.
Alabanza Corporation is a leading web hosting company providing the only virtual web hosting automation software in the world that allows other web hosting companies the ability to sign up customers worldwide, twenty-four hours a day, without human intervention.
The enhanced functionality, flexibility and speed of BillMax allows Alabanza to seamlessly bill its customers and leverage an ASP model "Web Hosting In-A-Box" solution where Alabanza's clients can be a web host and bill their customers too.
"BillMax is pleased to be selected by Alabanza after a comprehensive evaluation process," said Jeffery D. LaCoursiere, Chief Executive Officer at iSpark and BillMax. "We view Alabanza as a strategic technology customer. We are integrating BillMax with industry leaders and forming new strategic alliances so we can continue to enhance our product and strengthen our growing market position in the fast-growing, next generation global billing industry."
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Anyway, it made me think of ISPPower. So I went to ISPPower.com and ended up at Inovaware.com. Guess they bought the ISPPower product and renamed it.
Sorry to see they no longer offer a free trial system for a limited userbase like ISPPower did.
That's all I know.
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They have renamed their company to Inovaware.
They seem to have developed a lot more of their product now. Some large hosts use it now including Innerhost, hostpro / Vservers.
I'm having a product demostartion very soon so I'll let you all know how it goes.
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The program makes available $1 billion for police departments across the country. The Obama administration projects it will create or save 5,500 law enforcement jobs.
At a joint appearance in Montclair, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-8th Dist.) and Donald Payne (D-10th Dist.) urged police departments across New Jersey to apply for the federal dollars.
"In these tough economic times, our police officers and firefighters need every resource we can provide to help ensure public safety," Lautenberg said.
The money is in addition to nearly $48 million in federal grants awarded to 180 New Jersey police departments earlier this month. Those grants also were funded through the stimulus package, officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The police hiring program fully funds entry-level salary and benefits for each position for three years. Departments must agree to keep -- and pay for -- those jobs for at least a year after the federal investment ends.
The infusion could make a big difference in cash-strapped towns like Maplewood, which had planned to lay off three police officers by the end of the month.
"This money is extremely important to the town because it allows us to have the same level of police services," Police Chief Robert Cimino said yesterday. "It's also extremely important to the officers because it allows them to keep their jobs."
Cimino said the department will seek funding to keep the three officers and to fill three more positions that have been left unfilled because of budget constraints. If all six positions are approved, the department would return to full strength, with 66 officers in a community of nearly 23,000 people.
Struggling through a recession that is poised to become the longest since World War II, towns across New Jersey are in much the same predicament as Maplewood. Since the end of January alone, nearly 360 police officers statewide have either lost their jobs or been threatened with layoffs because of budget woes, according to the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association.
Fire departments face the same budgetary pressures, and a second stimulus program outlined yesterday aids them. The program provides more than $210 million for firehouse construction across the nation and makes it more affordable for towns to make new hires.
Previously, fire departments that took advantage of federal grants to make new hires had been required to pay an increasing percentage of each recruit's salary for five years. Language in the stimulus law suspended the matching requirement, meaning the federal government will now fully fund the first five years' pay.
Unlike the program aiding police departments, however, fire departments cannot use the grant money to rehire firefighters who have been laid off.


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Ramapo does not return a winning wrestler from a team that only won one dual meet last season. Filling the lineup is one of the main concerns for Ramapo; 106, 113, 132, 138, 182, and heavyweight are currently unknown. John Douma and Edward Jerkain return after winning more than ten matches last season. 145 pounds through 170 pounds will be able to hold their own, but if Ramapo forfeits six weight classes, it will be difficult to keep matches close.
Projected lineup:
106: Unknown
113: Unknown
120: Matt Kasabian (1-11)
126: Joe Serulle (1-19)
132: Unknown
138: Unknown
145: Manuel Camilo (1-0), Dan D'Amico (0-1)
152: John Douma (12-14)
160: Nick DeMarco (4-13), Kenny Crocamo (1-4)
170: Nick DeMarco (4-13), Kenny Crocamo (1-4)
182: Unknown
195: Edward Jerejian (10-17)
220: Unknown
HWT: Unknown
Wins: Queen of Peace
Losses: Northern Highlands, Old Tappan, Fair Lawn, Hackensack, Demarst, John F. Kennedy, Elmwood Park, Ridgewood, Leonia, Indian Hills, Manchester, Don Bosco, Tenafly, Cresskill, Butler, Pascack Valley, Teaneck, Waldwick/ Midland Park, Mahwah, Wayne Hills, Pascack Hills,
Graduates: Andrew Bell (6-20 at 132 pounds), Blain Bradley (1-5 at 170 pounds), Pete Douma (6-15 at 170 pounds), Chris Mutterer (23-10)


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Irish-American ensemble Cherish the Ladies will perform Friday as part of the Cultural Series season at Messiah College, a fitting division for the group that has taken its traditional Irish music around the world with performances in Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
The all-female group includes performance in vocals, instrumentals and dancing, and in 1985 broke ground in an Irish music concert series for being the only all-woman band. They have since earned the Best Musical Group of the Year award from the BBC and recorded 14 albums.
Though the group has an obvious touchstone with Irish culture, including performances with some of the worlds greatest step dancers, they also have shared the stage with performers such as Joan Baez and James Taylor and made appearances on programs such as "Good Morning America" and "CBS This Morning."
WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday
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The Landrieu administration this morning released a list of 14 "surplus" city-owned properties that officials plan to sell at auction as soon as this spring. The roster includes former community centers, police and fire stations, an apartment complex and vacant lots.
Deputy Mayor Cedric Grant said the properties - some admittedly in very poor condition - are just the first batch of fallow municipal buildings that the city plans to sell. By law, all revenue from the sales must go to the city's capital building fund to be reinvested in repairs to streets, sidewalks, playgrounds and working buildings, he said.
Selling unused city real estate is one of several strategies the administration has employed in Mayor Mitch Landrieu's effort to eliminate 10,000 blighted properties by 2014. The initiative also aims to raise needed capital revenue.
"For six years, I've been asking for this type of action, and I'm so excited that we've got it," said City Councilwoman Stacy Head, chairwoman of the Housing & Human Needs Committee, which received the administration's report during its Monday meeting.
Bureaucrats must get authorization from the mayor, the City Planning Commission and the City Council before the properties can be sold, Grant said. Buyers will have to comply with all zoning laws in rehabbing the properties, including strict rules that apply in historic areas.
In at least some cases, purchase agreements may require buyers to begin renovations within a set period of time, according to the administration's presentation.
The properties, alphabetical by street name, are:
- 200 N. Alexander St., former Golden Age center
- 7311 Chef Menteur Hwy., unused storage facility
- 2900 Feliciana St., vacant building
- 3601 General Taylor St., vacant lot
- 4877 Laurel St., former community center
- 7450 Paris Road, former visitor and information
- 1000 Poland Ave., former Police Department stables
- 6038 St. Claude Ave., former fire house
- 2552 St. Philip St., former community center
- 1348 Richland Dr., former 4th District police station
- 801 Rosedale, former city crime prevention office
- 2019 Third St., slab on a vacant lot
- Tracts 1 & 2, 28.5 acres adjacent to Dillard University, between Paris Park subdivision and London Avenue canal
- 4415-4435 Wilson Ave., two-story apartment building
The city's property management director, George Patterson, said residents who live around the 14 proposed sale properties have not clamored for the facilities to be revived as municipal sites. Many have been shuttered since Hurricane Katrina, he said.
In a few cases, such as a large vacant tract near Dillard University and a former storage facility on Chef Menteur Highway, potential buyers already have approached the city about making a deal, Patterson said.
The committee also got an update from the city's Code Enforcement & Hearings Bureau on city demolition programs, though the details provided by Director Pura Bascos left Head and her colleagues, Kristin Gisleson Palmer and Jon Johnson, largely unsatisfied.
Bascos reported that of 919 Katrina-wrecked properties that FEMA last summer agreed to pay to demolish, 111 have been torn down or are awaiting the wrecking ball. Another 287 have been remediated, including some that were leveled by the owner, she said.
The remaining cases are in various stages of pre-demolition review or are on hold, some because of teardown plans have been rejected by local boards charged with protecting the city's historic or neighborhood character, Bascos reported.
Bascos also gave updates on the number of properties demolished in January under two other federally financed programs, one that targets near collapse and another aimed at condemned buildings.
However, she could not immediately say how much money remains to continue the first program through 2012, and she came up short when asked for similar budget figures on the second.
The council members asked for a more thorough update next month.
Palmer also asked Bascos to provide statistics during the administration's monthly BlightStat meetings about the number of nuisance properties that can be "deconstructed, salvaged or marketed for reuse" as play spots, urban farms or other shared uses.
"Right now, we're giving the public a false choice: tear down a piece of property or leave it the way it is or (let it) be mothballed," said Palmer, who ran a historic preservation program before her election in 2010.
BlightStat sessions suggest "tear down or not tear down ... are the only solutions" to curing the city's blight problem, she said.View the surplus property presentation.
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BMW is pulling out of Formula One racing at the end of this season.
The withdrawal is the second for a major manufacturer from F1 in less than a year. Honda pulled out at the start of the season.
BMW Sauber has had a difficult season with drivers Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld and the team is eighth in the constructors championship standings.


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But he never ran low on heart.
The Bay City boxer fought through a battle with dehydration to capture the Silver Gloves boxing state championship in Port Huron. The 14-year-old was one of three champions from Bay City's American Athletic Association boxing team while three others earned state runner-up honors.
Eyre stopped Davison's Cameron Zaylor in the third round of the 139-pound title fight. But it nearly didn't go that far, as Eyre was hampered by cramps after the first round.
"He knocked the guy down twice, but (Eyre) was in real pain," AAA trainer Bob Arsenault said. "I asked him if he wanted to stop. There's always another day to fight. But he wanted to continue."
AAA's other champions, Ray Roope and Christian Rodriguez, were crowned uncontested. Roope took the 112-pound title with no other fighters in the bracket while Rodriguez won the 201-plus crown when the two other fighters in his division chose not to fight him.
"He can fight," Arsenault said of Rodriguez. "They saw him fight in Bay City and they wouldn't do it."
Nathaniel Williams (95 pounds), Jacob Brissette (125) and Benjamin Brissette (132) all reached the championship bout before falling short and settling for runner-up honors for AAA.
The local club hosts its annual Winter Fight Night on Feb. 9 at the Michigan National Guard Armory in Bay City. Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields of Flint is scheduled to attend to meet fans and sign autographs.


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This black-tie evening welcomed some special guests. U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and his wife, Martha, along with Mayor Tommy Battle and his wife, Eula, were in attendance.
The 11th annual gala featured Lt. Gen. James H. Pillsbury as the speaker and he addressed the crowd about the importance of education.
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Also contributing: Marie Leech -- The Birmingham News
A dispute over who owns the city of Birmingham's oldest school property is over after a realty company relinquished its 137-year-old claim to the site.
But while the agreement gives the city clear title to Powell School, a building nearly gutted by fire this month, the fate of the 123-year-old school building remains uncertain.
Barber Companies has signed a quit-claim deed, ending ambiguity over who owns -- and is responsible for -- the former school building. Don Erwin, Barber's vice president for development, said Thursday that the company dropped its claim to the school to end an issue that might hamper redevelopment.
"We have never had possession of the Powell School building, and our intention has never been to make a penny off the property," he said. "Our only motivation has been to find a good use for this historic property."
The origins of the ownership conflict dated to 1873, when a deed transferred the property from the Elyton Land Company to the city. Elyton was the predecessor of the Birmingham Realty Company, which is now a part of Barber Companies.
The building later was placed under the auspices of the Birmingham Board of Education. The deed set up a trust stipulating that the land went to the city for educational use, but Powell School closed in 2003.
The school board transferred ownership back to the city in 2009 following a land-for-cash deal to aid the cash-strapped system. But the fire revived interest in the century-old, handwritten original deed.
The building had been vacant since the school closed.
Mayor William Bell said he would prefer to restore the school, but said that would depend on the structural integrity of the building and the cost. A report on both is expected soon, he said.
City officials Thursday confirmed the building was insured for $350,000 but did not know the actual replacement value of the structure. Bell's chief of staff, Chuck Faush, declined to guess how far $350,000 would stretch toward restoring it.
Officials earlier had believed the school board still had insurance on the property, but school officials said it didn't.
"According to our records, the school district no longer has insurance on the main Powell Building. We do have insurance on the annex building, which is a former Trailways bus station that was purchased for a gymnasium and classrooms for Powell," said Michaelle Chapman, spokeswoman for the Birmingham city schools. "After Powell closed, several administrative offices were moved into the annex building, which the district still owns."
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The ambient music scene in South Florida is a little like George W. Bushs opinions on global warming some peeps think it doesnt exist, but that doesnt mean its not there. Now, DJs Jeff Wrye and Floyd Kelley the dudes behind the Foundation nightclub reunion parties are spearheading the charge to bring ambient back into the forefront of the collective consciousness. Theyve started Global Warming, a downtempo component to their now monthly Foundation Fridays night at Respectables (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach).
The theme may sound political, but its actually a bit more politics of dancing than insistent activism. Wrye says the name refers to the call for change in not just the environment but the music scene as well. (Global Warming was also the name of an ambient dance club in Fort Lauderdale that spun wax around the time of the O.G. Foundation.) On the first Friday of each month, the duo will fire up the decks on RSCs back patio and spin an eclectic mix of ambient, trip-hop, acid-jazz, down tempo, and abstract in short, groovable tunes from the likes of Aphex Twin, Coldcut, and Future Sound of London. Best of all: No cover. Wrye and Kelley are also looking to get some environmentally active supporters and live artists on board to flesh out the nights ethically focused element takers can contact them at www.myspace.com/globalwarmingrsc.
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Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera apparently didn't appreciate Ryan Raburn breaking up Jose Alvarez's no-hit bid in the pitcher's Major League debut on Sunday.
The reigning AL MVP took the gum he was chewing out of his mouth and threw it at Raburn as the Indians' left fielder rounded the bases after hitting a solo home run with two outs in the fifth inning.
Raburn took the sticky situation in stride, literally, cracking a smile as he trotted home.
Cabrera and Raburn were teammates in Detroit for five seasons. Tigers fans can't stand Raburn for some reason.
Alvarez gave up just three hits in six innings in a spot start as the Tigers won, 4-1. He was promptly sent back to Triple-A.
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These riots are not going away, and the more the West cravenly appeases and capitulates to Muslim grievance mongering, the bigger the demands and Islamic supremacist calls for accommodation to sharia. Thousands of Muslims protest free speech at Google HQ
Exercising free speech to silence free speech
From a UK reader: The original video was in my in-tray coming back. I know North American ears often have real trouble making out sub-continent accents, so I've spent some time today making the subtitled version above, to this startlingly honest footage.
The recent demonstrations in London outside Google's offices over the Innocence of Muslims trailer, have drawn a lot of international attention, though the protest two weeks' previously (September 30th) in Ireland is far more illuminating, and underreported here.
The London speakers largely spoke Urdu, but these remarks given outside both the Dublin US Embassy and the local Google offices are in English, and are clearly intended to communicate as much menace as possible. (Like many multinationals Google is registered in Europe in Ireland, for tax purposes.) The speaker is the Sufi cleric Moulana Ghulam Ahmed Rabbani one of the key figures behind the growing "Muslim Action Forum" who are coordinating these anti-Google/YouTube protests in the British isles.
Does anybody really think these demonstrations would be happening, if the Obama administration hadn't vocally validated the false flag narrative that the planned embassy attacks were about the video?Something for my American friends to ponder.
Muslim protesters march to Google headquarters in Dublin over video -- Leaders call to take down You Tube video that sparked Muslim violence Irish Times September 30, 2012
Hundreds of Muslim protesters marched from O'Connell Street in Dublin to the European Headquarters of Google in the dockyards district of the city.
The protest, which passed without incident, was against the Anti–Islam YouTube video that has caused violent riots in the Middle East.
"You should not allow these (filmmakers) to use freedom of expression to hurt the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims around the world," Muslim cleric Alam Ghulam Rabbini said, according to the Irish Independent.
The crowd was made up mostly of young men.
"I've come to take action against this (video), to ban this, it insults Muslims," said Assam Mohammed, who has lived in Ireland for seven years.
After protesting Google, the march moved to the American Embassy in Ballsbridge.The Dublin protests came days after a lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles calling on Google to take the video down from Google-owned YouTube.
In an earlier statement, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said: "Google has a very clear view on this, which is that we believe the answer to bad speech is more speech.".


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Health Service Journal, vol.111, Feb 22nd 2001, p.26-27
The NHS Litigation Authority has a great deal of information on individual doctors that should be made available to trusts in order to ensure patient safety. The Authority is so focused on managing clinical negligence cases that it neglects its wider mission to serve the NHS. It should be reformed to make it more accountable.
P. Stephenson
Health Service Journal, vol.111, Feb 22nd 2001, p.8
Summarises the General Medical Council's plans to speed up its handling of complaints, reform its governance structure and collaborate more closely with health authorities and trusts.
J. Carvel
Guardian, Mar 7th 2001, p.5
The number of nurses struck off the professional register rose by 50% in 2000 as the authorities responded to increased complaints from hospital managers, patients and relatives.
J. Laurance
Independent, Mar 6th 2001, p.1
Reports that one doctor a week is being banned from practising by the General Medical Council under emergency powers introduced in response to the Shipman case. These emergency suspensions reflect the gravity of the allegations against the doctors and are made pending a full disciplinary hearing.
B. Salter
Social Science and Medicine, vol.52, 2001, p.871-883
The recent politicisation of medical regulation in the UK has destabilised the historic relationship between medicine, society and the state. The medical profession has responded to a series of scandals by proposing a reformed version of self-regulation. This is insufficient to secure the trust of an increasingly sceptical public. Government, on the other hand, wishes to impose a bureaucratic apparatus to ensure public accountability. Argues that the medical profession should seek active alliances with consumer interests in health to pre-empt the government's attempt to impose its bureaucratic agenda.


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PARMA The owner of an assisted living-nursing home on State Road wants to build independent senior housing here.
Franciscan Communities Inc., which has headquarters in Homewood, Ill., would build the housing next to its Mount Alverna Village, 6765 State.
The senior housing would target those 55 and older.
Also, Franciscan Communities would build an "activity-education pavilion" onto the existing assisted living-nursing home, which is just south of Padua Franciscan High School.
On Monday, council referred the plan, and a proposed rezoning that goes along with it, to its Planning Committee and to the Planning Commission.
Information was incomplete at press time. Figel Public Relations in Chicago, speaking for Franciscan Communities, provided no details about the plan.
However, Franciscan Communities has asked the city to rezone three vacant parcels next to Mount Alverna from a multi- and single-family zone to a mixed-use district.
According to the Cuyahoga County Auditor's Web site, one of the parcels is 18.24 acres. Sizes of the other two lots weren't available on the Web site.
"The rezoning of the land would enable us to explore additional senior housing options at Mount Alverna Village," Franciscan Communities said through Figel. "We have no plans for selling the land."
Mixed-use zoning allows various types of uses — including retail stores, offices and homes — in one district.
However, Mayor Dean DePiero, through his spokesman Jack Marschall, said the rezoned land would be used primarily for senior housing, although "the process is still in the planning stages at this point."
DePiero said an assisted living building was on the site previously but was torn down about five years ago.
Neither DePiero nor Franciscan Communities discussed the type of housing — homes, apartments or condominiums, for example — that might be part of the plan.
It was just last week, on Jan. 4, that council approved the creation of a mixed-use zoning classification.
The city administration, with help from students at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, had proposed a mixed-use ordinance in November.
It was one of five proposed ordinances that aim to improve the environment here.
On Jan. 7, just three days after council approved mixed-use, Franciscan Communities submitted its rezoning request and its senior housing plan.
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Cool House is back.
We return for a special one off party on December 15th @ Aura.
Over the years the likes of Argy, Burnski, Deep Dish, DJ Sneak, Ewan Pearson, Funkdavoid, Ivan Smagghe, Jamie Jones, Layo & Bushwacka, Lee Burridge, Loco Dice, OMID 16B, Josh Wink, Nic Fanciulli, Mr C, MURK, Paul Woolford, Peace Division, Ralph Lawson, Steffi, Sven Weisemann, Sebo K, Slam, Steve Bug, Tania Vulcano and Yousef all graced the decks.
Not a bad CV for a night that started in small basement with a few friends playing records to each other!
To celebrate we rewind the clock exactly ten years by recreating the line up from our first birthday. To all our Cool House friends we ask you to dust off those dancing shoes again, book the Monday off work and re-live all the magic of those hedonistic days.
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1. Rules officials frequently say, "The rules are there to help the players." I don't know if the rules have ever helped a player more than they helped Tiger Woods on Saturday. No matter what happens today, Tiger's image will take another hit, especially in the eyes of Tiger haters.
2. I also had this thought: WWJD? (What would Jack do?)
3. Early last week, I thought the kid's name was Tianlang Guan. An editor convinced me it was Guan Tianlang because several news agencies, including the Associated Press, were reporting it so. So, too, did the PGA. The Golf Channel had it as Tianlang Guan and the PGA reported it as such on Saturday. I'm still not sure which is correct.
4. Isn't it amazing how an unknown comes out of the pack and hangs around near the top of the leaderboard throughout one of the majors? Australian Marc Leishman is the man this tournament, joining the likes of Edoardo Molinari, Anthony Kim, Thomas Aiken, Simon Dyson, Michael Thompson and Kevin Chappell in recent majors.


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On Monday, Oct. 22, In Awe Foundation, Inc. will present an exciting workshop for leaders in the business community on "Enthusiasm in Action through coaching" at the Clinton Firehouse from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Corporate executives, human resource managers and senior level management can reduce their own stress and strengthen relationships with their employees by utilizing their highly successful approach to develop and implement uniquely innovative team building workshops.
The workshop will be at the Clinton Firehouse at 1 New St. in Clinton and was created to help executives and managers become better leaders by learning techniques to understand stress, how to address employees who are having problems and to help them balance work and personal life which will support them develop an "enthusiastic" approach to life.
For more information or to make a reservation, visit inawecoaching.com/2012-non-profit-event. In Awe Foundation is a nonprofit focused on empowering individuals afflicted with abuse and/or addiction to re-build their lives; to bring hope and awareness through action into the surrounding communities; and to become a catalyst for change at every level in worldwide multi-cultural societies.


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Watch Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Whether you love the game of baseball or not this television show is a delight for the entire family. The show reminds us that the sport was once pure in the since that you some the vigor and youth of your favorite player on display and there was never any question if he had an unfair advantage over the other players because of drugs.
The show takes us to the humble beginnings of the sport and shows the viewer just how wide spread and deeply rooted the game is. A past time during the civil war, both fighting sides could be seen taking a Sunday off to enjoy the sport under a bright sunny day. The rules are universal and have changed little over the years even though our country has.
The show reveals how discrimination in society almost ruined the game and how the game ran concurrent with how are country grappled with the acceptance of all people in the sport as we did in society.
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- Episode 11 - The Tenth Inning - Bottom of the Tent...
As the new millenium dawns, baseball on the field is better than ever before. In an era of offense, Pedro Martinez and a handful of other pitchers still manage to dominate. Ichiro Suzuki proves that Asian players can be superstars, while Barry Bonds becomes one of the most dominant hitters of all time. In the fall of 2001, when a badly frightened country yearns for normalcy, baseball helps provide it. In an epic battle with the Yankees, the benighted Boston Red Sox stage the greatest comeback in history. Baseball is more popular and profitable than ever, but suspicions and revelations about performance enhancing drugs keep surfacing, calling the integrity of the game itself into question.
- Episode 10 - The Tenth Inning - Top of the Tenth
In an age of globalization and deregulation, a cataclysmic strike over money and power brings baseball to the brink, dazzlingly talented Latin players transform the sport, Cal Ripken, Jr. becomes baseball's new Iron Man, and Ken Griffey, Jr. and Barry Bonds are simply superb. The Braves dominate the National League while the Yankees build a new dynasty. As home run totals soar, sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa smash one of the game's most hallowed records. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, players on every team must make life altering decisions about how far they are willing to go to succeed.
- Episode 9 - Home
- Episode 8 - A Whole New Ball Game
The 1960s are a turbulent decade for America. There are race riots, anti-war protests, hippies, Woodstock. It is also a turbulent decade for baseball, as one by one its "sacred" institutions fall. It starts with Bill Mazeroski bringing down the mighty Yankees with one dramatic home run, the first ever to end a World Series. Then, in 1961, Roger Maris pursues Babe Ruth's "untouchable" record. In 1962, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants are replaced by the New York Mets, who compile the worst single season record of the century.
- Episode 7 - The Capitol of Baseball
- Episode 6 - The National Pastime
- Episode 5 - Shadow Ball
- Episode 4 - A National Heirloom
- Episode 3 - The Faith of 5 Million People
- Episode 2 - Something Like a War
- Episode 1 - Our Game


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Some of the events include: Breast Cancer Awareness "Think Pink Week" , Blazers Night, Portland Winterhawk Night, food drives and other fundraising events. The Big Event of the year is the Employee Appreciation Week and a family picnic for all County Employees and their families. The A-Team meets the first Wednesday of the month from 11:30-12:30. If you are interested, please contact your supervisor and then e-mail the A-Team for more information.


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The Blackman-Leoni Township public safety department reported the following activity Wednesday, July 23, and early Thursday, July 24, 2014:
Officers responded to 54 incidents.
At 7:20 a.m. officers responded to a suspicious situation near the intersection of W. Parnall Road and Leonard St. in Blackman Township for a subject or ran from police.
At 12:46 p.m. officers responded to the 2300 block of Seymour Road in Blackman Township for an abandoned vehicle. The vehicle was towed.
At 4:03 p.m. officers responded to a juvenile fight in the 3400 block of Sunnyheart Ave. in Leoni Township.
At 4:35 p.m. officers responded to an animal complaint in the 900 bolck of Roasehill Road in Blackman Township for a report of a dog bite.
At 12:34 a.m. Thursday officers responded to the 900 block of Concord Boulevard for a complaint of loud music in Blackman Township and made contact with the resident.
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The committee who approved this can and nozzle has obviously never used a gas can in their lives.
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Trying to get the nozLe positioned correctly in order to start dispensing fuel is very difficult especially considering you're trying to position 35 lbs and hold it in place while it takes forever to dispense since there is no (or an inadequate) vent. I have 3 of these that are free to anyone wanting a 5 gallon gas can.
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Stick up for your customers and come up with a better solution than buying another nozzle to circumvent what was intended. This option doubles the cost of the can. You can do better than this.
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US Government CARB compliance is supposed to prevent spillage and fumes from polluting. I spill much more gas with this ridiculous, but supposedly "safer" nozzle. What a joke.
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spilled in all over my trunk. we're in real danger. will throw it away.
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Let me start by saying this, I hate the new CARB compliant gas cans. That said, this one isn't as bad as most of the other ones. I picked up two of them to hold 100LL avgas that I can mix with my dirtbike. Typically, I mix 1.25 gallons of the avgas with 3 gallons of 93 pump gas. I was pleasantly surprised when I used this can. The flow rate was nowhere near the old cans, but it wasn't painfully slow, either. It probably took around 25 or 30 seconds to pour 1 gallon. Like I said, the rate isn't the greatest, but for today's cans, that isn't really that bad. Overall, I will probably be buying a couple more when I go back again. I feel it was a good purchase.
On a sidenote, if you pair this with the EZ-Pour Hi-Flo nozzle, it will pour gas FAST. For around $20, it will be just like the old cans.
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Every gas can you buy now the spouts are horrible. When I buy a new can I also buy a EZ-Pour Replacement Spout. Fill times are much faster like the old days before goverment regulations. Best price on the Internet for gas can
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Had can for about a one week and the nut split. A lot of complains on the about the defect. I emailed Midwest can company via their web site. I received no answer though I made several attempts. Warranty don't hold your breath.
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Great can, great price, horrible spout. If you buy, this invest in the EZ-Pour replacement spout kit.
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I'm very happy wit the product. Seems to be plenty solid enough for the task. And the price was way less than similar gas cans that I was looking at when I shopped around. Excellent value.
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Wonderful! Simple and functional
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- Quality of the plastic container is Good Review by Horrible Filler neck
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The actual plastic gas container is good but the fuel filler neck is horrible. The catch which holds the fuel flow open is too small and even when you can get it to stay open the flow rate is painfully slow.
The price was good, best I found on the internet but based on the poor fuel flow filler neck I would never consider buying this gas can again.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Hiltzik's "Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century" is aptly named, especially when you hit an early chapter about the meetings Herbert Hoover led in the 1920s -- 15 years before Hoover Dam -- to somehow divide the Colorado River's water among seven thirsty and clamoring states.
Dry stuff indeed, even for Hiltzik, who has a way of limning the human tension underlying the most arid of meetings. But knowing that history, and that of the earlier dreamers and schemers who diverted the Colorado through channels carved in the desert to make the Imperial Valley bloom (and whose blunders created the Salton Sea) -- is part of understanding Hiltzik's argument that Hoover Dam was far more than the sum of its millions of tons of concrete and steel. It was instead the fulcrum of America's future.
"The United States became in that post-dam era a very different country from the United States that built it," Hiltzik writes in his introduction. "It was transformed from a society that glorified individualism into one that cherished shared enterprise and communal social support ... Social Security, the Works Progress Administration and other New Deal programs forged in the crucible of the Depression played their essential role, as did the years of war. But the dam was the physical embodiment of the transformation, a remote regional construction project reconfigured into a symbol of national pride."
The water controlled by the dam and the power generated created the vigorous and politically powerful West that exists today, Hiltzik writes. The can-do spirit of the dam lived on in projects such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Manhattan Project, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the interstate highway system and America's race to the moon.But Hoover Dam's story is hardly one of unalloyed triumph.
"Gazing upon it today, we are reminded of a time when American might and engineering seemed invincible ...," Hiltzik writes. "A modern perspective requires us to ask other, darker questions. Among them whether it was right to build the dam even then. For all that Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix and Las Vegas owe to the dam, these city-states have also become its prisoners, and the would-be human masters of the Colorado have become its dependents ... the region's population now faces the sobering truth that the river's gift was never as extravagant as generations of reclamation promoters had promised ... Hoover Dam made a new West, but also confined it in a strait jacket."
The central act of the drama is the dam's construction by thousands of American workmen in the depths of the Depression, and Hiltzik tells that story wonderfully well. He begins with a portrait of Frank "Hurry-Up" Crowe, the unyielding boss who built dams across the West and never worried overmuch about the human toll. Hiltzik talks about the creation of the Six Companies, the consortium formed to take on the huge project, and the building of Boulder City, where the workers and families lived.
Some of the most chilling stuff is how the workers died, their lives tossed away with what seems these days to be a cavalier disregard on the part of the Six Companies and a reluctance of state and federal regulators to enforce even the few safety rules then extant. He tells of workers overcome by carbon monoxide from trucks idling in the four long diversion tunnels that had to be dug before construction.
Dozens of workers at a time might be hauled out and sent by boat to the nearest hospital to recover -- or not. Those who didn't were listed by company doctors as dying of pneumonia or heart trouble, so the company didn't have to pay compensation to families. Electric vehicles would have solved the problem, and were common in underground work sites in the 1930s, but the Six Companies reckoned that it would cost $300,000 to buy such a fleet and would delay the work by weeks or months, so men died instead.
Hoover Dam was built on what was thought to be stable rock, but later surveys found it to be porous and riddled with faults. Worse, the grout curtain designed to prevent water from seeping underneath was probably inadequately designed and certainly not properly built. Three years after the dam's dedication, workers spent more than a decade fixing its invisible but potentially disastrous faults.
In short, Hiltzik tells as true a story of the dam as he can, and if it is something less than the gleaming alabaster tribute to the Machine Age that we grew up with, it's all the more fascinating and human a story.
-- John Foyston, special to The Oregonian
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December 1st, 2011
Zumaya to throw for teams mid-December
In case you missed it, I wrote an article for the site today about Joel Zumaya and the decision he faces as a first-time free agent after five injury-shortened seasons: Stick with the only team he's known and the team that knows his medical history, or get a fresh start somewhere else where his injury history won't be such an overriding theme. As the story shows, it's not an easy choice for him.
At this point, Zumaya is looking around to see what's out there. He's going to throw a bullpen session for teams on or around Dec. 14 in Houston, where his agents are based. About 10 teams have expressed some interest in taking a look, he said, including the Red Sox, who expressed interest soon after he became a free agent a month ago.
The Tigers may or may not have somebody there, but they already know his history and his rehab from this fall. One 30-pitch session isn't going to give them anything they don't already know.


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Hip openers are usually practiced during most of the general yoga classes. During the pregnancy they are one of the central exercises in yoga programs! Since I am myself getting to the end of my pregnancy, I thought to sum up some hip openers and their modifications, that I find very useful.
Butterfly: this is one of the best poses to practice during your pregnancy. It balances the reproductive system and tones& opens your inner tights, pelvic region and hips. Ideal pose for practicing pelvic floor exercises, too!
Make sure though you do not overstretch yourself in this pose! I suggest to use a strap or a belt to keep your back nice and straight.
Here is a modification of this pose for last trimester:
Squat: this pose increases mobility of your hips and pelvic area. It relaxes the pelvic floor, bowel and bladder too!
It is wise to practice modifications of this pose, the one I find easiest is with my heels on the blocks (or books 🙂 ) Again, keep your spine long and straight!
Here is a modification of this pose for last trimester:
After each pose take your time to relax, bend your knees and move your legs from side to side. This simple movement will release tension from your hips. You can also stay for few minutes in a child's pose which I find great for practicing pelvic floor exercises, too.
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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS - When patrons set foot in the quaint, artsy-craftsy store nestled on the corner of Mayfield Road and Lee Boulevard – called Isle of Beads – they usually have a tendency to spend money like water.
Then again, it's difficult not to. The full-service beads store located in Cleveland Heights has a massive inventory of miniature seed beads, which come in a number of colors and sizes. Add European glass beads, stones, gems, as well as both African and Indian natural beads as part of the selection. But wait, there's more – sterling silver and bali silver metals, beading kits, small articles called findings, which are used to make jewelry, and all types of cording. The list goes on.
Yet, contrary to the buyer's remorse often felt after purchasing a big-ticket, overpriced item such as a car or house, the response from Isle of Beads customers has been surprisingly different. The typical reaction from buyers happens to be, "At least it's cheaper than therapy," after finding out how much they have to pay for merchandise.
In other words, paying a hefty amount for beads, stones, and metals is more affordable than footing the bill for a licensed therapist.
That's because, "It's a therapeutic store," explains the store owner, Denise Newman. "Beading is therapy."
And this is the kind of feedback Newman has witnessed almost everyday, for about 23 years at Isle of Beads, especially during classes that taught skills including off-loom weaving, bead embroidery, and basic bead stringing – all offered by the store at a reasonable price.
"When we first opened, I can't tell you how many doctors came into this store and started beading as a hobby," said Newman, about the "getaway" beading provides. "It's kind of like going on vacation. Everything else goes away."
Interestingly enough, Newman's motto for Isle of Beads is, "Bead Happy."
But unfortunately, Newman will permanently close her doors at the end of March this year, after operating Isle of Beads in the Heights Rockefeller Building since 1991. It's mostly due to the growing trend of online beads stores, and the decrease in sales for brick and mortar shops. Some of the blame is the country's economic downturn. And a small percentage of the reason is that the time has come for Newman to move on.
Though, "I'm not giving up on beads," she said.
Isle of Beads will continue as a corporation, just not in the form of a brick and mortar store. But Newman is excited about having more time to complete projects of her own, mainly bead embroidery – which is the art of stitching tiny, colorful, seed beads to fabric. Newman's creative embroidered pictures of landscapes have been featured at the Cleveland Museum of Art. "For me, it's painting with beads. That's how I've viewed it."
And about those therapeutic classes – she's thinking of continuing beading classes for people interested. Only this time, from her home.
Newman said within the last few years, she gradually learned that full-service beads stores were slowly tapering off and saying farewell to the communities touched by them. "They're closing all over the country," she said. "I've talked to salesmen for the last three years about what's going on nationally in the brick and mortar industry. It's not a bright situation."
And to add to what she's learned, here's a little information about store closings across the nation:
- Saratoga Beads in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., shut down in 2013 after 18 years.
- Bead Barn in Tampa, Fla.: after 18 years.
- Bead It Inc. in Santa Cruz, Calif.: after 25 years.
- Caravan Beads of Chicago, Ill.: after 20 years.
- Bead Bin in Madison, Wis.: after 18 years.
- Beyond Beads Gallery in Spokane, Wash.: after 21 years.
- Glass Garden Beads in Northfield, Minn.: after 16 years.
Although several brick and mortar beads stores are still operating, many of the stores that have closed– like Bead Q! in Chagrin Falls, Ohio – have switched to selling merchandise online and/or at trade shows. And now, it's Newman's turn to close, and she too, is looking into selling her products online, though currently, internet plans are still vague.
Isle of Beads started in 1991 when Newman and a business partner established the store with just $15,000. Later, Newman became the sole owner and ran operations herself, with the the help of her three children. The 1990s was the period when Isle of Beads's sales were strongest, and that time of prosperity lasted until 2005, before sales started to decline.
"Nothing lasts forever, including my beads store. It was my baby and it's really hard to let it go," said Newman, who will miss the tear-jerking, heartfelt conversations shared with patrons in her store. "I've been like the 'bead bartender.' People would tell me their stories. I've heard some of the saddest stories and happiest stories."
She'll also miss the diverse bead traders who frequently came to visit Isle of Beads to
sell Newman their merchandise. Which is the reason her collection includes imports from countries such as South Africa, Kenya, China, Japan, France, India, Italy, and the Czech Republic – just to name a few.
"They would bring their beads out of the car and spread them out on the floor. I'd pick out the beads I wanted and I'd talk about their life," said Newman. "In a way it was kind of fun because you have a lively discussion with these people."
Her exotic collection even includes imported stones and gems that have healing properties, as well as two strands of beads that are 2,000 years old – literally.
Customers aren't too happy about the news of the store closing. Newman said they've expressed disappointment and sadness, but not anger. "They understand I've been there a long time and my need to move on," said Newman, explaining that her regulars noted concerns about difficulty in finding another bead store in close proximity to their homes.
And her clientele may slightly lose out on the art-of-beading guidance Newman generally provides. Take the young customer, for instance, who happened to walk into Isle of Beads one Friday afternoon. She tells Newman: "I just started getting into some of this stuff, but I don't have any idea of what I'm doing, but I just love being around it."
In turn, Newman suggests the customer find the one item she responds to. "And then you can draw other things. You don't need to put more than three different things in a piece," Newman says to her. "There are a million ways to do things, but everyone has a different vision."
The customer continues to browse the store for the item that catches her attention – that one "thing" she responds to. Minutes later, she finds it and returns to Newman for more advice.
Of course, Newman is more than eager to help, because that's what she loves to do – show others their artistic side.
"If human beings are anything at all, they are artistic. It can come out in a variety of ways like putting together an outfit, cooking, decorating your house," said Newman. "I just want people to recognize that in themselves. I am a cheerleader for human artistry."


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Business competition may be beneficial for Vashon residents, visitors | Letter to the Editor
Island Lumber's move to sell liquor has raised questions not just about access to intoxicants, but also about "harmful" competition. Competition, like it or not, is part of our capitalist society, and it doesn't mean the big guys always win. If island businesses compete strictly for the island dollar, Island Lumber is well-positioned to take business away from our small liquor store, our boutique pet shop, even our sporting and gift shops.
So, one survival strategy for Vashon's small, neighborhood stores is to attract business from off-island — a potentially costly promotional effort if shops undertake it alone. However, a less costly strategy is to join forces and "package" the unique character of Vashon Island as it is exemplified in our small shops, unique restaurants, art galleries, musical and theatrical venues, boutique farms, parks, seaside and wooded vacation rentals, compact and accessible outdoor adventure activities and more.
It is by attracting off-islanders — and their money — to our unique character that we level the competitive business playing field on the island. Visitors who know what Vashon offers don't come here to get the "big box" shopping they can get on the mainland. They come here to experience our rural, artistic and independent spirit; they come to interact with friendly shopkeepers who are genuinely happy to see them. And when they need the services our "big box" establishments offer, they can get them right here. In this scenario, rather than draining business from island entrepreneurs, the Island Lumber types stand in support of the community's economic diversity. When our small businesses thrive, we all do.
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We present a full theoretical and experimental analysis of a novel all-optical microwave photonic filter combining a mode-locked fiber laser and a Mach-Zenhder structure in cascade to a 2×1 electro-optic modulator. The filter is free from the carrier suppression effect and thus it does not require single sideband modulation. Positive and negative coefficients are obtained inherently in the system and the tunability is achieved by controlling the optical path difference of the Mach-Zenhder structure.
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