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98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey was thrown out of the Bengals-Chargers football game in San Diego on Sunday after he allegedly choked a fan of the home team. Lachey, a die-hard Cincinnati Bengals fan, said he "couldn't be prouder" to get kicked out of the stadium. Video obtained by TMZ appears to show Lachey fighting with the fan after Lachey allegedly used a profane slur against the fan's wife when she insulted his boy band. A rep denied anything more than a verbal exchange happened, while the 39-year-old singer said on Twitter: "I simply don't appreciate someone turning around and putting their finger in my face. Call me crazy, but that deserved a reaction."
» Watch the video and read more at the Los Angeles Times.
Ted Nugent is not happy with Bob Costas, the Syracuse University alumnus who used his halftime segment during "Sunday Night Football" on NBC to advocate stronger gun control laws after the alleged murder-suicide of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. Costas stated that if Belcher didn't have a gun, then he and his girlfriend Kassandra Perkins would still be alive today. Nugent, a longtime member of the NRA, responded vehemently on Twitter. "We thought Bob Costas was smarter than that. Only fools blame tools instead of human failings. Shame Bob. Blaming guns for crime is like blaming helmets for headbutts. WTF Costas! Uve lost it," the 63-year-old "Cat Scratch Fever" rocker said.
» Read more at Huffington Post.
Just months after breaking up with Conor Kennedy, Taylor Swift is dating Harry Styles of One Direction. The 22-year-old country starlet was spotted holding hands with the 18-year-old boy band singer headed to a party after One Direction's Monday night concert at Madison Square Garden. The pair reportedly retired to her hotel room in NYC shortly after 4 a.m. Tuesday morning. Awkwardly, Swift had just been honored by Kennedy's family at the 2012 Ripple of Hope Awards earlier on Monday.
» See photos and read more at the New York Daily News.
"Celebrity Rehab" star Kari Ann Peniche may lose custody of her child after a friend claims he helped her cheat on drug tests. The former Miss United States Teen winner reportedly ordered clean urine off the Internet and injected it into her genital area so she would "secrete the purchased urine" if tested. A judge has yet to rule on her baby daddy's bid for sole custody, but a rep for the reality star said "Kari Ann adamantly denies any and all negative allegations that have been made against her in her case."
» Read more at TMZ.
The Destiny's Child singer who now has a child herself, Beyoncé, is sharing intimate footage from her pregnancy for a new HBO documentary. A teaser trailer shows the "Single Ladies" hitmaker in the studio and at home, including images of her baby bump where Blue Ivy Carter, her daughter with husband Jay-Z, first grew. "I always battle with 'How much do I reveal about myself?'" Beyonce tells the camera, adding later, "If I'm scared, be scared. Allow it. Release it." The documentary airs Feb. 16 on HBO.
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Libbie's Place Senior Day Program is joining 50 other senior care providers at the 1st Annual Seaside Senior Expo on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Moody Methodist Church in Galveston. This FREE community event for older adults and family caregivers in Galveston County offers the opportunity to meet providers of senior care and learn about available resources.
Flu shots will be offered by Randall's Pharmacy for traditional Medicare recipients and a box lunch will be provided for all seniors who attend the event. Door prizes will be provided for senior attendees and educational sessions will be offered regarding Veteran (VA) benefits, Qualifying for Nursing Home Medicaid, Alzheimer's Update, and End of Life options.
Come out and enjoy this air-conditioned venue. Free parking is available at Moody Methodist Church, 2803 53rd Street (North parking lot).
Call Libbie's Place, 409-741-2538, or Texas Home Health, 409-502-8657, for more information.
Libbie's Place
While the right health care provider is invaluable for seniors, it's not the only factor in continued health and overall wellness. Libbie's Place has been providing senior day care for more than 10 years. More than just basic adult day care, Libbie's Place provides a place for seniors to forge friendships in a nurturing and safe environment. We serve people age 55 and older who are experiencing decreased physical functioning, memory loss, depression or social isolation.
Socialization is now being recognized as an integral part of a senior's overall health. Many seniors that attend Libbie's Place experience positive changes such as becoming more alert, eating better and becoming more physically active.
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Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center - Houston, Texas
Houston VA Opens New, State-of-the-Art Hybrid Surgical Suite
January 23, 2007
Wei Zhou, M.D., vascular surgeon; Joseph Huh, M.D., Cardiac Surgery chief; VA Secretary R. James Nicholson, Salwa Shenaq, M.D., Anesthesiology chief; David Berger, M.D., Operative Care Line executive; and Grace Mathur, RN, Operating Room nurse manager cut the ribbon opening a new, state-of-the-art hybrid surgical suite at the DeBakey VA Medical Center.
HOUSTON - On January 19, 2007, Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James "Jim" Nicholson cut the ribbon opening a new, state-of-the-art hybrid surgical suite at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC).
This new operating room combines endovascular, cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgical, laparoscopic, and radiological capabilities, allowing maximum flexibility and speed in the treatment of patients with even the most complex cardiac and vascular conditions.
"The new operating suite greatly advances the ongoing collaborative work of cardiac and vascular patient care. Our physicians will now be able to provide collaborative clinical care for treating high-risk cases by combining cardiac catheterization and open heart surgery in one setting. This operating room brings the doctors to the patient instead of the patient to the doctors. In addition, we can provide the latest cutting-edge endovascular procedures to our veteran patients to repair their aneurysms or blocked vessels," says Peter Lin, MD, MEDVAMC Vascular Surgery chief.
The suite combines highly advanced equipment and computer systems; state-of-the-art technology; skilled surgeons, cardiologists, radiologists, and anesthesiologists; and specialized nursing and technical staff to perform complex cases involving two or more major services. With VA's revolutionary e-technology, surgical team members are able to immediately access and retrieve critical health data and images such as X-rays, Computed Axial Tomography (CAT) scans, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as a procedure progresses.
Using a state-of-the art digital angiography system to reconstruct arteries, physicians can now manipulate images and obtain a better vision of complex anatomy or overlapping blood vessels. This new technology improves decision making during interventional procedures such as placing a stent in a narrowed blood vessel or a stent-graft inside an aortic aneurysm.
The hybrid suite enables less invasive, more accurate, and very precise treatment of cardiac and vascular diseases and conditions. Many veterans with complex aortic aneurysms, for instance, will be able to undergo multiple procedures including open surgical and minimally invasive catheterization procedures utilizing the state-of-the-art imaging technology.
"This endovascular hybrid suite is also equipped with a high-tech laparoscopic imaging system. Because we already have a surgical robotic unit in the operating room, we will be able to offer minimally invasive robotic vascular procedures to our patients. This means instead of a large abdominal incision to repair a blood vessel, we can use a surgical robot guided by a small camera," says Wei Zhou, M.D., MEDVAMC vascular surgeon.
"This is a tremendous opportunity to provide unmatched medical care to patients with serious heart conditions, because we can now provide minimally-invasive cardiac surgical care such as percutaneous heart valve repair by working jointly with our cardiology colleagues. This means rather than performing risky open heart surgery, we can provide collaborative clinical care in repairing a heart valve with little or no surgical incision," says Joseph Huh, M.D., MEDVAMC Cardiac Surgery chief.
"Two obvious advantages are in the areas of time and space. The patient no longer needs to be moved to a different procedure or operating room to accommodate multiple heart and vascular procedures or surgeries," said Biykem Bozkurt, M.D., MEDVAMC Cardiology chief.
MEDVAMC is a leader in the treatment of cardiac and vascular disease in the VA health care system. Even with a remarkable increase in cardiac surgery patient volume, the MEDVAMC cardiac surgical service is continually ranked as one of the best programs in the VA, not to mention the nation, for its excellent surgical patient outcome.
In 2006, the MEDVAMC received notification from the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program Executive Committee that it has demonstrated consistently low observed-to-expected mortality rates in general surgery, all surgery, and all non-cardiac surgery six years in a row. The MEDVAMC is the only VA facility with this record.
In January 2007, the MEDVAMC received praise from the VA Continuous Improvement in Cardiac Surgery Program (CICSP) for decreasing its already exceptionally low cardiac surgery mortality rate under unique and challenging circumstances. The CICSP report examined a total of 422 cardiac surgery cases performed in a two year time period at the MEDVAMC. From August 29, 2004 to August 28, 2005 with 132 cases, the operative mortality was 3 percent or an observed-to-expected mortality ratio of 0.79. From August 30, 2005 to August 29, 2006 with 290 cases, the operative mortality was 2.8 percent or an observed-to-expected mortality ratio of 0.56.


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2012 Conference for Early Childhood Professionals
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 to Friday, November 9, 2012
Parents as Teachers
This conference offers participants a variety of ways to learn and develop practical skills, including expert presentations, workshops, peer networking, and hands-on learning opportunities. Keynote speakers for the conference will be Roland C. Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, and Dr. Temple Grandin, a scientist and author of "The Way I see It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's." This conference is intended for a range of early childhood professionals, such as supervisors, program coordinators, parent educators, and home visitors.


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Timberwolves settled down to win title
Northwood fans were squirming a little after their team fell behind by 13 points to Corona del Mar in the second quarter of Tuesday's PCL boys basketball showdown at Northwood.
But there was no panic in the eyes of Coach Tim O'Brien or any of his players.
The Timberwolves rallied in the second half and went on to defeat the Sea Kings to win the league title.
"We were tight, we were edgy in the first half," O'Brien said. "Once the game settled down and the flow, we started asserting ourselves at both ends."
It's the fourth league title for Northwood, all under O'Brien.
"I don't keep track, honest to God, if the banners in the gym weren't there, I wouldn't know," he said. "The fun part is learning, that's the important part."
Off to the playoffs
Northwood will be competing the 3A division and was seeded fifth this week.
"We're in a tough bracket for playoffs," O'Brien said. "But we're league champs and we're gong to enjoy it for a while."
Dealing with tragedy
Concordia University men's basketball coach Ken Ammann has earned a reputation as one of the best college coaches in the nation.
He's been able to handle just about every challenge in his 12 years at Concordia, leading the Eagles to two NAIA national championships.
But Ammann, like his players, is struggling to cope with the loss of former player Keith Lawrence, shot to death Sunday along with Lawrence's fiancée, Monica Quan, a former Concordia women's player.
"We don't know what to do," Ammann said. "All of his teammates have been calling, they're just shocked, they can't believe it," Ammann said Monday.
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The regular season in the Pacific Coast League ends today but there could be as many as three playoff games Friday to determine who advances to the CIF playoffs.
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"Although he is enormously proud of his work with The Blow, as well as happy for The Blow's continued success, he would like to clarify any confusion: the reason he was not on stage during any of this year's Blow performances is because he was performing live as YACHT, and working on his new YACHT album I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. which was released last month via Marriage Records."


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What does it mean to be a Christian?
Ask 100 people that question and you are likely to get 100 different answers. One reason people have such difficulty defining what a Christian should be is that the Bible never gives a definition. The followers of Jesus did not defer to themselves as Christians, it was a label placed on them from the outside. The early believers called themselves disciples, and the Bible is very clear in defining what a disciple looks like.
Jesus gave his disciples one word that should define them. What if we as his followers embodied this one word? What if our behavior was so consistent with this word that folks around us were drawn to us - and to God?
In Christian, you will learn:
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- How Jesus followers should treat those who are outside the faith
- Why people love Jesus but cant stand his followers
This participants guide with help you engage the teaching from Andy Stanley on the corresponding DVD and includes discussion questions for individuals and/or small groups, between-session devotions, DVD teaching overviews, and a leaders guide.
In this eight-session small group study, Andy challenges us to change the name and reputation of Christianity by becoming a group of followers characterized by one thing Love.
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As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over five million messages each month through television and podcasts, and author of more than 20 books, including The New Rules for Love, Sex & Dating; Ask It; How to Be Rich; Deep & Wide; Visioneering; and Next Generation Leader, he is considered one of the most influential pastors in America.
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The work ethic and dedication that are inherent qualities in Realtors have been maligned in letters by Karen Gutmann and Melissa Sherwood.
They dismissed the pivotal role agents have in legal closings and believe that an understanding of property and real estate law to be inadequate and unrelated experience to the probating of wills.
What do they think the largest assets in a will usually are, if not property?
Gertrude Mahan in her letter this week mocks the code of ethics that Realtors pledge to be overvalued in the 2010 mass appraisal.
There is a big difference between a real estate licensee and a Realtor. In South Carolina, licensees are required to meet educational, testing and continuing education requirements; while Realtors meet all of those plus additional annual training and operate under 88 standards of practice and the 17 article Realtor Code of Ethics.
Many of these principles are also in the Code of Judicial Conduct. Realtors work with people at every phase of life where compassion and understanding are paramount.
Analytical skills, management abilities and attention to detail that they must have is definitely related experience for the administrate office of Probate.
Realtors maintain confidences, protect clients interests and know how to compromise.
As a licensee myself, I know the difference between just doing what you need to stay licensed and doing the maximum to stay current and to perform at a higher level of professionalism.
The choice is: do you accept the minimum efforts because that is all you have ever had or do you choose the maximum level of service and engagement that a Realtor provides.
The current judge has been just a licensee, while Jane Page Thompson has been a Realtor and gone beyond that to be an accredited land consultant.
Thompson is smart, her work skills are related to the probate office and her vision will provide more for Aiken County as Realtors provide more in their service to clients.
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Pollsters failed dismally to predict the strength of support for Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives in this week's national election -- just as happened in 1992 when John Major scored an unexpectedly decisive victory. Here's Reuters' take on why the polling industry got it so wrong, 23 years ago.
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If the Supreme Court rules against gay marriage at this point, it could potentially invalidate thousands of same sex-unions across 37 states. Such a decision would also show just how far behind the rest of the country the court is on the issue.
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Brazil's job market hints at more painful downturn
The rapid erosion of Brazil's job market is taking most economists by surprise, an analysis of Reuters Polls data shows, in a worrying sign that already-grim expectations for Latin America's largest economy have not been pessimistic enough.
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Obama's ultimate indignity: Bush seen as more competent
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That's why the outlook for Democrats this November looks bleak. More and more Americans now agree with Democrats on the issues. But they are increasingly dismayed by President Barack Obama's inability to get results.
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Ask an economist a question about the euro zone, and the answer will as much depend on the location of their head office as any analysis of the data.
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By George Terhanian
The views expressed are his own.
Nearly every product you interact with — from the car you drive, to the TV and movies you see, to the advertising to which you're exposed — has benefited from market research, a $32-billion-and-growing global industry. Businesses value such research. They demand it. And why shouldn't they? Good research is vital to innovation and competitive advantage, bringing to light new needs as well as clues on how to satisfy them. Market research has some downsides too. It can be complicated, slow, and expensive — available only to big spenders with plenty of time on their hands.
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James E. Harris, Minot
I can't help sympathize with the local "Old Timer" keeping his local fire hydrant free of snow for years, only to find the city plow covering it up.
I have done the same for 40 years. I just came in from 15 below to snow blow out the corner hydrant from drifting.
Whatever the city laws dictate about hydrant/sidewalk snow removal, only half the residents are doing it.
May I suggest our local fire departments give their fancy exercise rooms/equipment a break, grab some grain shovels and go out and shovel out hydrants for exercise.
Just a phone call from a fire and the hydrant you just shoveled out may be the one you may need to use. Great exercise and community exposure.


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DALTON TOWNSHIP -- Nugent Sand Co. has been seeking a new truck route in Dalton Township so it can transport large amounts of sand to a proposed railway loading facility, without disturbing residential neighborhoods.
Muskegon County officials share Nugent Sand's interest in a new truck route, to help attract companies to their new industrial park in Dalton Township.
Upgrading country roads to Class A truck routes, however, requires money, something nobody involved in the situation seems to have. Officials from Nugent Sand and the county say they can't do the upgrades on their own, and no state or federal agencies are lining up to fund them.
The stalemate might end if some unknown company promising new jobs settles in the new industrial park, because job creation usually equals grants. But no companies fitting that description are on the horizon.
"We could have somebody knocking (at any moment) with jobs to offer," said Paul Roy, the county's director of public facilities. "Then we would have a way to go after the money for the roads."
The issue dates back to last year, when Nugent Sand proposed building a railroad loading facility on property it owns near West River Road in Dalton Township.
The facility would be used to transfer large amounts of sand from company trucks to railroad cars, which would be bound for a General Motors plant in Ohio.
The need for rail transportation appears to be great. While Nugent Sand officials declined to comment for this story, several local government officials say it's their understanding that GM officials in Ohio only will accept the sand by rail, and that Nugent Sand's contract with the automaker depends on it.
But the existing truck route between the Nugent Sand mining site on Russell Road and the proposed loading site on River Road turned out to be a problem. The long route goes from Russell to southbound U.S. 31 to M-120 to River.
The last leg of the route, which goes through a residential neighborhood on River Road, was particularly thorny. Several residents attended township meetings to protest what they said would be noise, dust and danger the trucks would bring to their neighborhood.
The township's planning commission recommended approval of a zoning change for the new railroad loading facility, but recommended denial of a necessary special-use permit. Nugent Sand can take its case for a special-use permit to the township board, but has yet to do so.
Instead, company officials have been focusing on alternative options.
Nugent officials have wondered if government dollars could be found to upgrade the largely uninhabited route of Russell to Tyler Road to Central Road to River into a Class A truck route, so neighbor concerns would no longer be an issue.
To be a Class A truck route, a road needs at least 18-24 inches of drainable sand, about 8 inches of compacted gravel and 3-4 inches of asphalt, said Ken Hulka, the Muskegon County Road Commission's managing director.
Most of the roads in the proposed truck routes in Dalton Township are nowhere near that quality, Hulka said.
Company officials also expressed interest in establishing their loading facility in the county's new industrial park at the former Cordova Chemical site just east of Whitehall Road. The new park, due to open this summer, has the railroad access the company would require to cancel its River Road plan.
But Bob Chandonnet, the president of Nugent Sand, talking to township officials, said the company was having difficulty securing a site in the new industrial park, without mentioning any reasons.
County officials also were tight-lipped about the situation.
"Let's just say we've had trouble coming to an agreement, and leave it at that," said John Warner, the county's deputy director of public works.
Even if a site was secured, Chandonnet told township officials he would like to see a new truck route between his mining site and the industrial park -- following Russell to Tyler to Central to McMillan -- to cut the time and expense of trucking sand.
County officials agree wholeheartedly with the last part of that plan. They would love to see that route upgraded to Class A truck status because it would allow quicker truck access to U.S. 31 and help their effort to market the industrial park.
As it stands, companies settling in the park would have to use the existing truck route from Whitehall Road south to M-120 to U.S. 31, which officials say takes too much time and fuel.
"Industrial production, by its very nature, typically uses trucking, whether it's for products going out or raw materials coming in," Warner said. "I think (the new route) would be a selling point."
County officials said they've contacted state and federal officials about potential grant money to upgrade the proposed new route, with little luck.
Upgrading the proposed Russell-Tyler-Central-McMillan route would cost about $1.2 million, according to Muskegon County Road Commission officials.
State agencies like the Michigan Economic Development Corporation usually need to see companies coming in, offering to create many new jobs, before investing in transportation improvements, Roy said.
The county has yet to sell any of the 19 lots that will soon be available in the industrial park. Nugent Sand would create only a handful of jobs if it built its loading facility in the park -- not enough to draw grant money, officials said.
The federal Economic Development Administration does not have job-creating requirements for grants, but the EDA recently gave the county $2.5 million toward development of the industrial park, so a new grant request may not fly at this time, Roy said.
Despite the need for a job-creating company at the industrial park, county officials say there's no point in aggressively marketing sites until the park is read for occupancy this summer.
"We just have to get it done," Roy said. "If somebody comes out (to visit the park) and we're not done, they're not interested."


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DAYTON - For the second night of rodeo action at the annual Dayton Championship Rodeo, nature was much kinder to the hillside covered with seated fans cheering on their favorite cowboys and cowgirls.
One of them even got up to dance.
Matt Pohlman, of Manson, was the lucky member of the crowd that got singled out by rodeo clown Keith Isley, of Goldston, North Carolina, as he entertained the crowd.
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Noah Haines, 2, of Garner, works on getting his cowboy hat positioned just right Saturday evening at the annual Dayton Championship Rodeo. His mom, Megan Haines, reaches up to get it turned back 90 degrees.
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Danny Fye, of Dayton, has a bad moment Saturday evening when he got bucked off the horse he was riding, then got kicked in the chest at the annual Dayton Championship Rodeo. Fye took the accident in stride.
Pohlman was a good sport about being dared to dance if each calf roper made it under a certain time.
"I figured he wasn't going to quit," Pohlman said.
He did put on quite a dance.
"I think I did a better job than he did," Pohlman said - perhaps issuing a challenge to a dancing contest with Isley.
Of course, he was pretty sure he didn't get selected because he wasn't wearing a cowboy hat. Instead, Pohlman donned a baseball cap.
"I actually lost my cowboy hat," he said.
While Pohlman was having a great night in the stands, Dayton cowboy Danny Fye was having a horrible night in the arena.
He not only got bucked off the horse he was trying to ride but it stepped on him to add injury to insult.
It's the reality of rodeo. Anything can happen, and it can happen quickly.
"I had 79 points last night," he said while washing himself off with a hose behind the chutes. "I got kicked in the chest tonight."
Other than an angry-looking red mark, the only other casualty of the accident was his shirt. It was ripped beyond repair.
He's a firm believer in getting back in the saddle.
"I'm going to the next rodeo," he said.
His girlfriend, Jessica Peterson, of Fort Dodge, was helping him clean up.
"I was just scared," she said. "It's a dangerous thing to do."
Noah Haines, 2, of Garner, was watching the rodeo with his parents, Bill and Megan Haines.
He was having a little trouble with his cowboy hat. He found out it doesn't fit too well when you turn it 90 degrees sideways.
His mom came to the rescue.
For Bill Haines, the rodeo is a long tradition that he was happy to share with his son.
"I've been coming to this since I was about his age," Bill Haines said.
Is a ride on something with four legs that's trying very hard not to have somebody riding it in his son's future?
"We're checking into the age limit for the mutton bustin'," Haines said
The Dayton Championship Rodeo continues today with a performance starting at 7 p.m. The Monday show is at 1:30 p.m. and the annual Labor Day Parade is at 10 a.m. on Monday.


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Police can be heard in videos yelling to burn the cabin down as they raided the fugitive's hideout
By Michael Zennie, Thomas Durante, and Lydia Warren
The Daily Mail
BIG BEAR, Calif. — Dramatic new details have emerged today about the moment police smashed their way into the mountain cabin where Christopher Dorner made his last stand. According to one report, furious SWAT officers shouted 'burn that f****** house down!' before the cabin went up in flames.
Aerial photos show the small building burned to the ground after it caught fire following a raging gun battle in which the fugitive ex-LAPD cop shot dead one sheriff's deputy and gravely wounded another in the mountains of San Bernardino National Forest on Tuesday. The standoff ended after 5pm local time when the cabin went up in flames after deputies began blasting tear gas canisters through the windows. A single gunshot was heard coming from the cabin before the structure was fully engulfed by the blaze.
Authorities announced on Wednesday that they believe Dorner is dead. A charred body was found in the remote cabin where he barricaded himself and held officers at bay for about two hours. The cabin caught fire and burned to the ground in the midst of the standoff.
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After sinking a couple of arrows into a pair of nicely antlered deer Saturday morning in John F. Kennedy Memorial Park, Kyle Mosley, of Algona, and his son Jon Mosley, 14, both managed to avoid getting arrested for poaching.
In fact, they casually strolled on down the trail and then shot a raccoon and two wolves before continuing their arrow slinging at a variety of other animals.
Each of those punctured critters was made of durable foam.
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Kalee Beckman, of Fort Dodge, takes aim a foam raccoon before moving onto shooting the 3D buffalo behind it. She was one of about 80 archers who participated in a Webster County Bowhunters and Archery Association 3D Shoot at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.
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Kyle Mosley, of Algona, and his son Jon, who turns 14 today, retrieve their arrows and add up their score Saturday morning as they participate in the Webster County Bowhunters and Archery Association 3D shoot at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.
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Kyle Mosley, of Algona, takes aim at a foam racoon Saturday morning as he participates in the Webster County Bowhunters and Archery Association 3D shoot at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. The critter was among a variety of targets that included a cobra and bison.
The two were enjoying the challenge of a 40-station course of fire set up by the Webster County Bowhunters and Archery Association at its 3D shoot.
On some of the animals, it is indeed a challenge; Kyle Mosley described the highest scoring ring on a skunk target.
"It's not much bigger than a dime," he said. "You have to be pretty precise."
Mosley has been shooting for about 30 years, he said, his son, about nine.
They said it's an activity they enjoy doing together and have both harvested real whitetail deer during the season.
Mosley said the targets have gotten better and better. Not only are they more realistic but removing the arrows, which used to require someone to hold the target and someone to pull it out, has gotten easier.
Ben Kingland, president of the club, and Chad Neiland, who helped organize the event, said the shoot gives the archers a more lifelike experience.
They also set up the firing lanes and targets to make it a challenge.
Some require shooting from slightly awkward positions and even though there are marked firing points for shooters with different levels of experience, none of those reveal something critical to bow hunters - distance.
"You have to guess the yardage," Neiland said.
They also put a few surprises into the course. In addition to the whitetail deer, elk, caribou, buffalo, raccoons, skunks, bears and other animals that can be hunted in North America, there are a few hunters are unlikely to see here.
"We have a spitting cobra and a baboon," Neiland said.
There are also a couple straight out of Hollywood and the fertile imagination of a bored taxidermist.
"There's a stegosaurus and a jackalope," he said.
The pair are quick to praise the trails at the park that they were able to use. He said they are smooth enough for a family to bring a stroller along.
"Most 3D shoots don't have trails as good as we do," Kingland said.
Kalee Beckman, of Fort Dodge, is new to the sport.
Her boyfriend, Tyler Rokes, not only introduced her to the sport, he gave her a bow for Valentine's Day this year.
Her reaction?
"I loved it," she said. "This lasts. Roses die."
She won't be an archery widow.
"This gives us something to do together," Rokes said.
Of course, bringing a novice shooter to a 3D does carry the risk of them shooting circles around the veteran.
For Todd Hauge, of Williams, his son Alex Hauge, 12, and family friend Vanessa Wickett, 12, were giving him a good run for his money.
"I think I'm going to leave the kids home next time," he joked.
Exactly how bad were the children beating him? They were in the process of adding up the scores.
"We're figuring it out," he said.
Both of them enjoyed the more unusual targets, including a lion.
"I love lions," Wickett said. "I hugged it."
After she pulled the arrows out.
The 3D shoot continues today from 8 a.m. to moon. It's located at the northeast corner of John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. Adult admission is $12, youths 13-17 are $5 and those 12 and under shoot free. The club is also hosting shoots on July 26 and 27 as well as Aug. 24 and 24. Hours are Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to noon.
For more information see www.webstercountybowhunters.com. The group is also on Facebook.


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Prototype " Rice Industry Hub" is a device for connecting multiple components into systems together and making them act as a single network segment.It is an organizational system for balancing urban and agricultural land. An increasing problem in Chengdu is a significant contrast of agricultural and urban areas. In addition to this, agricultural area became uncontrollable space which is more and more often occupied by industrial and residential buildings. It leaves no space for traditional idea of being in harmony with nature in living environment.
After research it appeared that agricultural land in 5th ring is mostly occupied by rice paddies. Rice straw waste could be recycled in a different ways to get eco products. You can get food, building materials and energy. Prototype " Rice Industry Hub" increases profit of agricultural land makes it enjoyable as well as controllable. Also disappearance of the farmland will have an impact to the future food production as the population is growing there will be more import which means more co2 emission and increased food prices.
Our prototype tried to deal with this problem by making agricultural land profitable, usable, enjoyable and controllable. After research it appeared that agricultural land in 5th ring is mostly occupied by rice paddies.This means that adding additional processes into rice growing process it is possible to get eco products,like building materials and rice husk energy.
The idea of the project is inspired by emergence urbanism concept which uses fractal geometry to create principles of chaotic environment. Our created system works with 5 components placed in areas around urbanized zone creating centers, which can attract more investors interested in similar business.
Although, the agricultural land is shrinking and the future of it is vertical farms. However,its energy consumption is not efficient way of supplying community with food. Our main concern is to create structure which would accommodate agricultural land reducing its footprint. It also should be easily built, using inexpensive sustainable materials.
Our structure creates green corridors with public spaces around the suburban street,making the street lively. The ground floor of the structure can be used for retail.
Joint project: Laura Petruskeviciute, Paulina Naruseviciute, Huang Zhen
Status: School Project
Location: Chengdu Shi, CN


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"Every day you open up a newspaper and there's another shooting in a school, church, courthouse and I feel responsibly to be prepared for that," said Special Agent Ben Finkelstein.
Fresh off a plane from Washington D.C, Special Agent Finkelstein and Special Agent Christopher Deedy talked about why Finkelstein has carried a gun, every day, for the past five years.
"I said a firearm is like a pen. I walk through every day with a pen in my pocket, because I may need to write something and some days I may not, but it's there in case I need it," said Finkelstein.
Finkelstein, with relatives on the island and a positive view on Hawaii life, also warned Deedy about being seen as an outsider.
"I made the distinction between haole and FN-haole, which was used in a derogatory way likened to the 'N word,'" said Finkelstein.
"He mentioned that with the information I'd given him about for potential of incidents in this environment, that he intended to carry a firearm from that point," said Finkelstein.
"The only word that sticks out is haole," said McDonald's customer Michel Perrine.
That very next morning, after partying with friends, Finkelstein's earlier advice appeared to be put to the test. With drunken patrons at a Waikiki McDonald's, including Kollin Elderts and his friend Shane Medeiros, coming together in all the wrong ways.
"I could see someone standing up to say something, but to shoot somebody, I didn't see a reason," said Perrine.
Perrine says, despite Elderts' words to him, he doesn't remember feeling threatened.
He was surprised when Deedy and Elerts clashed -- the image of Deedy flapping up his shirt, exposing his gun. That was the last thing he remembers until it was over.
"I didn't know what to do. It was more the shock of seeing something go from an argument to the end result," said Perrine.
Perrine admitted he had three shots of tequila and a pitcher of beer that night. He said he didn't even remember the fight or the shooting until another witness told him about it later that morning.


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If NewGenWars said it did.
It's true.
Has the wii sold four million already?
If NewGenWars said it did.
It's true.
Well do you?
are you serious?Originally Posted by blueradio
Do you really believe anything you see/hear?
No one really knows, but id say between 4-6 million
seems like a more accurate site if you ask me.
sorry it said 3.19 million worldwide, not in one month. My bad
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Originally Posted by RivalDestiny
I was mistaken, I still think its far fetched at least 4 million have bin sold.
The 3.19 million is at the end of Dec. So most likely it is over 4 million by now.
how many did the ps2 sell in the same amount of time?
i thought it said 7 mil the other day....
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Renton CROP Walk to end hunger is Sunday, May 5
For the 30th year, walkers in Renton will raise money in the Renton CROP Hunger Walk on Sunday, May 5.
The goal is to raise $30,000 this year; in the last 29 years walkers have raised more than $512,000, including about $128,000 that was contributed to Renton food agencies.
Last year, the Renton CROP Walk made the top 100 walks in the nation, raising nearly $26,000 to place 95th out of 1,411 walks, according to Sharon Kenyon, the Renton walk's longtime coordinator.
It is a fun, family, community walk/run for all ages to help end hunger, says Kenyon. Walkers can sign up through their participating church or organization, at the walk or online at www.rentoncrophungerwalk.org.
Those under 18 need a parent's signature on the form or parent's permission online. Strollers, wagons and wheelchairs are the only wheels permitted.
More information is available online. New groups wishing to participate or anyone with questions can contact Kenyon at 425-271-2080.
Renton Area CROP Hunger Walk 2013 is 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the Cedar River Trail, starting at the Liberty Park Shelter. Registration is 1 p.m.-1:25 p.m. Runners start first.
Churches, scouts, schools, clubs, organizations, businesses and individuals are typical participants in this event designed to end hunger around the world.
The route begins at the Liberty Park Shelter, with parking beyond the Renton Library.
The 11K/6.8-mile walk heads east along Cedar River Trail, to Ron Regis Park and then returns. Checkpoints along the way have snacks, drinks, phones, first aid kits and rides back.
The "Golden 1.5 Mile" is from the Liberty Park Shelter east to the first checkpoint at Riverview Park Shelter. Rides back are available at all checkpoints.
CROP donation envelopes are available for CROP Hunger Walk volunteers and walkers.
The Renton CROP Hunger Walk is sponsored by the REACH (Renton Ecumenical Association of Churches). CROP Hunger Walk is a program of Church World Service (CWS). Seventy-five percent of the money raised goes to fight hunger globally and to help people around the world meet their own needs.
These are the agencies helped locally:
• The Salvation Army Renton Rotary Food Bank, which provided food to more than 2,500 people a month in 2012.
• ARISE (Area of Renton Interfaith Shelter Endeavor), which provides food and shelter for about 20 homeless men in the Renton area and placed 53 men in permanent housing in 2012.
• The Margie Williams Helping Hands, which provides food every Saturday and helped more than 1,000 people a month in 2012.
• St Vincent de Paul Food Bank, which provided 80 large food sacks and 230 lunch sacks to about 100 people a month in 2012.
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OK, so I found out what it is that I have to install for my wonderful Ruby on Rails environment. It's time to start installing.
Keep in mind that much of what I'm doing here is an experiment (and thanks Luis for being so patient with me). I don't claim to know what works and what doesn't, I'm just trying to find my way around here. Follow my steps at your own risk – they seem to lead to a working environment for now.
Update 2009-07-03 02:16: There's a followup post now that does less evil and wrong things, hopefully. It also happens to result in a working Ruby on Rails plus MySQL environment, something this post doesn't quite achieve.
Getting Ruby to run
Admittedly, I was a little surprised by how easy this was. Get Ruby and the Development kit from here. Extract them (using 7-Zip, which you should use by default anyway), and put all the contained directories where you want your Ruby. Mine resides in F:\Ruby.
Next, add the newly installed bin directory to your path. Quickest way: Open the control panel, search for "environment", then click "edit the system environment variables", and add the bin after a semicolon to the "Path" variable. Then, change the path in devkit/msys/1.0.11/etc/fstab to where you put your stuff – you won't have to do this if you put Ruby into C:\Ruby.
This is what we get:
Yay. That was easy. And the greatest thing is that the One-Click installer (even if it's not entirely one-click, currently) also already adds support for Ruby Gems.
Getting Rails
The next step is to install some gems. There is a long list on Akita on Rails, but after realizing how little stuff works with Ruby 1.9.1 and Windows 7, I chose to (nearly) only install the things I need:
gem install rails
This installs Rails and the gems it depends on.
ImageMagick, and Some More Stuff
Next, since I planned to do so and not out of some technical necessity, we install ImageMagick for Windows – get the newest Win32 Binary Gem version from RubyForge and extract it somewhere. Install the gem by going into the directory it's extracted into and then executing this:
gem install rmagick-2.10.0-x86-mswin32.gem
Substitute the gem name with the version you're actually using. Then install ImageMagick itself, with the .exe that you just extracted as well.
If you're like me, you won't be able to resist attempting to install some more gems. Here's a nice video with some suggestions from Railsconf 2009. Personally, I installed googlecharts, twitter, cucumber and pdf-writer, but haven't gotten to try them out properly yet.
Testing What We Have
We have Ruby on Rails now. Yep, that's it. Rather painless so far, eh? Test it by going to the directory you want your projects in and typing this:
rails testproject
You'll see Rails creating plenty of directories and files now. After it's done, do this:
cd testproject ruby script/server
Point your web browser to http://127.0.0.1:3000/, and you should see Rails, in all its glory:
Not Installing MySQL
I started out by attempting to install MySQL 5.1, thinking it was stable and all. However, as it turns out, there are plenty of problems with that, and none of them stem from MySQL:
- The mysql gem relies on libmySQL.dll, which has to be in the path.
- The mysql gem is precompiled, there is no 64-bit Windows version, and the 32-bit version relies on msvcrt-ruby18.dll, rather than the newer msvcrt-ruby191.dll.
- There is a segmentation fault that I haven't found the cause of.
I was able to fix the first two problems by adding the mysql/bin directory to the path, and installing a Ruby 1.8.6 alongside the Ruby 1.9.1 to get the 1.8 DLL – but nevertheless, I never got rid of that segmentation fault, despite multiple reinstalls and even trying MySQL 5.0 instead of 5.1 (Google search for the exact cause, none of the proposed solutions helped).
(Do not install the 1.8 DLL, that's apparently very evil.)
Nothing worked until I gave it a try with Ruby 1.8.6 (after all, I had that installed from attempting to get that DLL, and only needed to change the path variable and install the rails gem to have a go), and lo and behold everything worked fine.
Which convinced me not that I should use Ruby 1.8.6, there's too many shiny new features in 1.9.1. Instead, it convinced me that I should forget about MySQL.
Installing PostgreSQL
Since Rails migrations make database dependencies a thing of the past (or at least, to a very, very large extent), I decided to install PostgreSQL instead. Their one-click Windows installer for PostgreSQL 8.3 worked a treat and installed the service and everything just fine. Next step, have Rails be able to talk to it – there are two PostgreSQL gems, only one of which (postgres-pr, not ruby-postgres) currently seems to work in Windows. So let's get it:
gem install postgres-pr --platform=mswin32
(Not sure if the platform is necessary, but it can't hurt.)
Set up a database user ("login role" in PostreSQL-speak) with pgAdmin – I called mine rails – and give it a password and the ability to create databases.
Now we change the database.yml in the project's /config/ directory. Open it with some text editor (I like EditPlus myself) and change it to fit your configuration.
This is the database.yml that makes my test project fly:
development: adapter: postgresql database: testproject username: rails password: *** pool: 5 timeout: 5000 host: localhost
Note that host:localhost (or the equivalent for your database) is important, as otherwise Rails will attempt to connect to PostgreSQL using UNIX Sockets – which obviously wouldn't work. After that, let's test. Go to your shiny rails project in a command window, and type or paste these:
ruby script/generate scaffold test title:string description:text rake db:create rake db:migrate ruby script/server
After that, point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:3000/tests/ and poke around a bit. You should have your first Rails app running, including all four CRUD actions.
I Think I'm Done Here
Done after installing aforementioned Firebug (just click "install"), Web Developer (yep, "install") and Git for msys from Google Code (which seems to work fine so far). There's a Ruby gem for Git, too; install with this:
gem install git
I then also got gVim 7.3 – not for the faint-hearted, I do have some experience with vim from coding Python on Linux though. I will also test how well editing works with my EditPlus, and probably some IDEs. Either way, I'll probably make a little personal user interface evaluation post later on.
Looking back to the assessment post, I'm actually not done at all. The following things are still missing – most of them, for a reason:
- ruby-debug doesn't work with Ruby 1.9.x yet, so that falls flat. It's merely a wrapper for the built-in debugger though, so I will be able to debug anyway.
- Mongrel has "ruby script/server" produce another segmentation fault, and I don't want to spend another 7 hours for not finding a solution to it.
- Apache doesn't make much sense in a pure development environment, particularly not if we don't have Mongrel anyway.
- Subversion has plenty of versions on their download page. I downloaded the one from Slik SVN myself, but haven't installed it yet until I actually need it. So that's technically missing, too.
Where To Go Now
There are some resources that can get you started with your most splendid new Ruby on Rails environment. If you have no idea what Rails is yet or why you should use it, have a look at this presentation. I found the Head First Rails book to be a very good introduction, too. Concerning Ruby, Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (available as pdf, too) is both free and great, albeit talking about Ruby 1.8.2, a tiny bit outdated. If you like it thorough, get the book only known as the Pickaxe. It is as good as they say.
Thanks for listening, and I hope I can help one or two among you out. You like it? You hate it? You found something I didn't? Let me and all your fellow readers know in the comments!


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WESTFIELD – "Some things in life aren't supposed to change," one veteran politician remarked here on Thursday morning.
The political landscape of the Whip City is changed, though, with this week's death of one of the city's longest serving city councilors and a former mayor, Charles W. Medeiros.
"They broke the mold after Charlie I think," said another longtime public servant, former Ward 4 Councilor Barbara Swords. "He didn't mind taking on anyone or anything."
Medeiros, often bombastic, never shy, always intense but also, some attest, a sweetheart of a guy, died early Thursday at the Governor's House. He had been battling lung cancer in his final weeks. He was 66.
When he retired from politics in 2009, Medeiros had served 32 years as a councilor, was council president for eight terms and had twice served as mayor in six-month stints when those serving as chief executive stepped aside.
Medeiros cut his teeth in the world of politics as the campaign coordinator for the late state Rep. Robert W. McGinn, another legend in his own time of Westfield politics back in 1960s and early 1970s. First elected as a member of the city's Recreation Commission, Medeiros, even then as a newcomer, never shrank from confronting issues or talking about things in very public forums.
At one point in 1971, as recreation commissioner, he found himself called before the City Council to answer questions about whether he'd butted heads – literally – with then-Mayor John Palczynski. "Well, I didn't hit him," Medeiros is reported to have told the council when asked if he'd come to blows with the mayor.
In 1973, the same year he was named an "Outstanding Young Man in America" by the Jaycees, Medeiros' first attempt at a City Council seat failed. But, returning to the political arena in 1975, Medeiros ran for an at-large post and was elected with a group of young newcomers to politics who made for an interesting contrast with old-guard councilors.
The late Richard Swords was among that group of stalwarts who Medeiros joined in his early years on the council; Swords' widow, Barbara Swords, would later become a council colleague to Medeiros.
"Charles was always respectful of me because of Dick," Mrs. Swords recalled. "He would be mad with me for always poking around in his Ward 1, but he never lost his patience and never yelled at me."
Barbara Swords, who led council efforts to protect the Barnes Aquifer that sits beneath a good chunk of what was Medieros' home ward on the city's North Side, said she worked to help Medeiros understand her environmental concerns and the need to protect the underground water resource. "He was always very respectful even though he felt like wringing my neck, I'm sure."
"You either liked (Charlie) or you didn't, but he made a lot of friends and he helped a lot of people. He was just so good a person," said Swords, who's also retired from politics.
The stories about Medeiros are legion, like the 1978 psychological sparring match he had with former council president Edwin Morawiec as the result of a dispute over the presidency post. Medeiros began eating peanuts – crunching them right out loud – at the council meetings; an angered Morawiec turned to the council's ethics subcommittee and got an opinion from the city solicitor which gave him the power to deal with issues of decorum and the right to end the munching by Medeiros.
"I didn't do it disrupt the entire council, only one person. I believe the council president and I have reconciled our differences," Medeiros told the press as he called a truce.
Former Mayor Richard K. Sullivan had heard all the stories – and some myths – about Medeiros by the time he met him in the 1980s as a young politician "He was certainly bombastic and kind of prone to be in your face," said Sullivan, who is now state secretary of energy and the environment. "He tried to be somewhat intimidating."
Though their styles and approaches to politics were totally different, the two became allies in many causes, Sullivan said. "Charlie was totally grounded in his beliefs; he represented the blue-collar worker, the average citizen of Westfield. He was the best at knowing what was going on at the ground, knowing what mattered to them. He was an absolute street politician, and he did it well."
Not always on the same side of an issue, Sullivan said, he and Medeiros developed a friendship which lasted to the end. "We probably voted against each other (on the City Council) more times than not, but he never lied to me. He always told me what he was doing and why."
Sullivan said he is likely not to be alone in learning that Medeiros' most proud moment as a councilor was that he never voted against a School Department budget.
"It surprised me a little bit," the former mayor said of the response Medeiros gave him recently as they discussed what his legacy might be. "He could be loud and bombastic on the floor the council (chambers), and he only had an eighth-grade education. But, that answer (about supporting school budgets) that tells you something about him. Not to say the hard-scrabble outside wasn't necessarily an act, but inside he was always trying to do the right thing for the city of Westfield."
It was those instincts to help people which made Medeiros a consummate politician, added close friend Michael Powers. A lawyer who grew up in West Springfield and who worked for the likes of U.S. Rep. Edward P. Boland and longtime Hampden district attorney Matthew J. Ryan Jr., Powers said Medeiros held strong to the old political ways of doing right by his constituents.
"He had the desire to serve and to do the right thing for people. All he cared about was everybody else. He always put everything and everyone else above himself. He was the consummate public servant," Powers said. In fact, in his final days in a Springfield hospital, Medeiros shared with Powers his desire to go home. "He wanted to die in his city."
Calling hours at the Firtion Adams Funeral Service, 76 Broad St., will be Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m.. A memorial Mass will be held Monday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary Church on Bartlett Street. Burial will be at the convenience of the family.
A "Charlie Medeiros Memorial Fund" has been created at Westfield Bank. Donations can be sent to the fund, c/o Westfield Bank, 141 Elm St., Westfield, MA 01085.
Staff writer Ted LaBorde contributed to this report.


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SUNY ESF Professor James P. Gibbs,will lecture Wednesday evening on efforts to save Russia's rare and endangered snow leopards.
The free talk is the first in the Dale L. Travis Public Lecture Series and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at ESF's new Gateway Center. A dessert reception will follow the lecture.
Gibbs, director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station and associate chair of the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, will discuss his conservation work with Russian and US partners to save the last snow leopards in Russia's Altai Republic, according to a SUNY ESF press release.
"The Altai Republic is in southern Siberia, bordering China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan in central Asia and distinguished by its remote mountain landscape and ancient herding-based culture," according to the release.
"Snow leopards are one of the most endangered species in Russia, where the species' distribution is generally limited to where the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion a portion of which falls within the Altai Republic's borders. According to recent surveys, less than 100 leopards inhabit the area."
Free parking will be available on the ESF campus.
The public lecture is timed to also celebrate installation of the Roosevelt Wildlife Collection display in the Gateway Center's main concourse.


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Keith Urban is set to undergo throat surgery later this month, to remove a polyp which has developed on his vocal chords.
The surgery, an out-patient procedure, while minor, will require complete voice rest for the country superstar, followed by an undetermined period of recuperation that will require the postponement of the "All For The Hall" benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Although Urban has had to substantially scale back his appearances requiring multiple songs, he will be honoring his pre-existing one-song performance commitments leading up to his procedure at the end of this month.
All other concert appearances will be rescheduled in 2012.
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PITTSFIELD -- Town Players of Pittsfield has scheduled auditions for a staged reading of "Didn't See That Coming," a collection of short one-acts by Mark Harvey Levine, Thursday evenining at 6:30 at the Whitney Center for the Arts, 42 Wendell Ave.
Needed are males and females of any age. The performance will be 2 p.m. March 16.
Jaime Sayers is directing.
"Scripted," "Surprise," and "Misfortune" find three ordinary couples in extraordinary circumstances.


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Select-A-Seat Weekend at Safeco Field
While you're at Safeco Field this weekend for FanFest, and of course you'll be here, check out the great locations that are available for season tickets.
It's the annual Select-A-Seat Weekend, and here's how it works. All seats that are available for season tickets are color-coded (red for full season, blue for weekend, yellow for half-season and white for business plans). Once you find a spot you like, stop by the Select-A-Seat headquarters at Edgar's Home Run Porch (Main Concourse) or near Sec. 128 (Main Concourse) to speak to a Mariners season ticket representative.
Seats available for 16 Game Plans have tags and information about the plan options that are available at each location. Just take the tag with you to the Select-A-Seat HQ.
Speaking of tickets, there will be a special FanFest presale of Opening Night tickets this weekend. From 10am Saturday until 11:59 pm Monday, you can buy tickets to the Mariners home opener against the Los Angeles Angels on April 8th. Tickets will be available online at mariners.com/tickets, at the Safeco Field Box Office and at Mariners Team Stores (downtown Seattle, Bellevue Square, Southecenter and Alderwood Mall). After the presale, Opening Night tickets will once again be available on March 8 when all single game tickets go on sale to the public.
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PORT ROYAL: Rick Lafferty turned a pretty good car and a little bit of luck into a much-needed victory Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway.
Brent Marks dominated the first seven laps from the pole, but his race came to an end when he made contact with the lapped car of Davey Sammons.
The incident sent Sammons flipping on the backstretch and brought out the red flag. Marks also had damage and was towed back to the pit area.
Lafferty took over and was never challenged. He drove away over the rest of the 25-lap distance and was never challenged.
Lynton Jeffrey was second, followed by Mike Wagner, Dave Ely and Curt Michael. Chad Layton, Greg Hodnett, Mike Erdley, Doug Esh and Danny Holtgraver completed the top 10.
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LAKEWOOD, Ohio – Water main repairs and street resurfacing get under way today, affecting city traffic. Details are in today's community news.
Road closure: Coutant Avenue will be closed at the intersection of Madison Avenue today while contractors complete work on a water main. The city is asking motorists to take alternate travel routes to avoid the construction zone. Normal traffic is expected to resume by 5 p.m. Coutant runs north of Madison and is one block west of W. 117th Street.
Road resurfacing: Contractors this week begin resurfacing Nicholson Avenue, North Marginal Drive, South Marginal Drive, Franklin Boulevard, Archdale Avenue, Seneca Avenue and Atkins Avenue. Parking bans will be in effect during construction hours, according to the city website. The days of the parking bans will be posted. Starting today, the streets will be closed — except for local access — and motorists are encouraged to follow posted detours. Weather permitting, the resurfacing projects will be finished by mid-October.
Softball tournament: The Lakewood Community Recreation and Education Commission, the Adult Athletic Commission and the Youth Athletic Commission on Aug. 8 will host the third annual Lakewood Commissioner's Softball Tournament benefiting Lakewood Youth Recreation Scholarships. These scholarships are given to the community's youth who would otherwise not have the funds to participate in our Recreation Department's many activities each year. Details are available on the Lakewood city school's website.For more Lakewood news, like us on Facebook.


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Tales out of turn
On (mis)telling other people's stories
The challenge of telling other people's stories is an occupational hazard for journalists, historians, memoirists, conflict mediators and even preachers. Getting the facts accurate is only part of the challenge. Storytellers have to grapple with the most effective way to tell the story and what perspective to take or interpretive remarks to include.
Storytelling is not just a matter of craft; it's also a moral problem—because to a large extent we are our stories. If our stories are violated, so are we.
It is often said that in telling someone else's story, you should imagine that other person being in the room. Would she find your version of her story accurate and fair?
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The gluten-free category is a new one this year. Met Foods' Bill Fani felt the subject deserved a spotlight on its own. "With so many persons suffering from various food allergies, home chefs have to be very creative to come up with dishes that end up tasting good," he reasoned.
He needn't have worried: Each finalist's presentation tasted so delicious the judges were thoroughly impressed: They didn't miss the flour one bit.
Debra Capurso's Chocolate Chip Cookies employ coconut oil and honey instead of butter and processed sugar. In fact, all of the recipes she submitted to the Cookbook contest offer a "clean" take on food, relying mainly on unrefined ingredients whenever possible.
Another sweetly delicious entry is Marie DeSimone's super simple Fudgy Chocolate Almond Cookies. A wonderful confection for a novice baker, it uses a mere six ingredients.
Barbara Lanzante took a savory approach to the category with Lentils and Shredded Brussels Sprouts has an excellent gluten-free pie crust that can be used both in sweet and savory combinations.
(no flour, dairy or refined sugar)
Debra Capurso, Dongan Hills
3 tablespoons raw honey
½ cup coconut oil
4 eggs
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
‰ teaspoon sea salt
1 cup coconut flour (you can find at almost any health food store)
½ cup shredded unsweetened coconut
¾ cup gluten free chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Melt the honey and coconut oil together in a microwave for 15 seconds.
In a large bowl, mix together the coconut oil/honey combination, eggs, vanilla extract and sea salt.
Stir in the coconut flour, shredded coconut and chocolate chips.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and roll out little tablespoon-size balls of cookie dough. Place on the baking sheet and gently press down.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Makes about 20 cookies.


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PLCBy choosing the right programmable logic controllers, companies can cut costs while expanding to markets that they were unable to reach. Mikron Technology Group, which specializes in assembly systems, is one of such success stories.
NETWORKSGone are the days of fieldbus squabbles, trade organizations hope. Driven by growing demands of interoperability, suppliers and vendors of industrial networks are cooperating--at least on the surface. We show you side-by-side these manufacturers' achievements and the latest applications of their products.
DIGITAL DRIVESThe use of digital drives was unheard of when it comes to printing presses, which require high speed and precision that only analog drives could deliver. But RG Engineering has recently dropped a digital drive into its eight-color printing machine, noting that it's a worthwhile test given the potential benefits.
MOTION CONTROL PROTOCOLSEthernet has proven to be disruptive to the growth of FireWire, says Sal Spada, Director of Research at ARC Advisory Group. In an exclusive interview, Spada tells what you need to know about integrating motion and I/O, and more.