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Aili Schreiner, a project manager and fundraiser for non-profit groups, is the new manager of the Oregon Cultural Trust. Schreiner succeeds Kimberly Howard, who recently accepted a position with PGE's social responsibility team.
The Cultural Trust, which relies on donations, gives $1.5 million annually to arts groups throughout the state.
Schreiner was most recently program director for the Confluence Project, a nonprofit associated with the star architect Maya Lin, restoring public land at heritage sites along the Columbia River. During her four-year tenure, she raised $6 million and created "Gifts from Our Ancestors," a K-12 program working with tribal artists and elders.
From 2006 to 2009, she served as the senior project manager for Oregon 150, the state commemoration of Oregon's sesquicentennial. She created Oregon Stories, a project to collect more than 600 written, audio and visual first-person narratives from Oregonians.
She graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in history from Lewis & Clark College, where she focused on Native American history and gender studies. She is a member of the Estonian Society of Portland and served on the advisory board of the Chinook Nation Website Project and the planning board for the 2012 centennial commemoration of Oregon women's suffrage.
"Our culture is the face of Oregon," she said in a statement. "The strength of our arts, humanities, heritage, preservation and tourism initiatives are points of entry for all Oregonians, both new and old. I am proud that Oregon is the home of this unique enterprise – cultural funding for the people, by the people."


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Tsai pointed out that the ruling partyŌĆÖs penchant for conducting ŌĆ£black boxŌĆÖ methods of negotiation and development means the DPP must be extremely careful and institute rigorous reviews and checks of the FEPZ bill. She said a wide range of additions, deletions and amendments need to be made in order to assure that the bill will be valid and workable and suited to its purposes.
The suggestions made by the DPP fall roughly into two main categories including the development of a systematic and complete infrastructure for the FEPZs and a number of regulations which need to be deleted
Changes in the area of infrastructure cover requiring the government to carry out comprehensive planning and impact assessments and demanding that the government present concrete plans and blueprints for industrial development before entering into any regional or integrated agreements on behalf of the entire nation. In addition, the authority of competent government organs should be limited in order to avoid over-regulation and unclear delineation of responsibilities regarding industries in the FEPZs. Priority for businesses in the park should be given to those in already existing industries in order to avoid the dangers of under-utilization or over-exploitation of an areaŌĆÖs resources.
The second category of suggestions relates to measures designed to prevent undesired actions such as speculation by large conglomerates, operations that could damage the environment and limits on businesses which might attempt to bring in large numbers of white-collar workers. It also proposes limits on agricultural imports and specifies standards for medical care, education and other aspects of professionals who will be working in the zones.
Part one: Proposed adjustments:
1. Provide a balance between integrated participation in international economic and trade groups and the social impact of such moves. The Executive Yuan should carry out studies assessing the social costs of greater participation in international trade and economic activities once every two years and report them to the Legislative Yuan for review.
2. The locations of FEPZs should be compatible with the regulations followed in industrial development programs supported by various organs in the Executive Yuan and be in line with proposed plans and strategies for industrial development.
3. The governing authority for FEPZs should be the National Development Council.
4. The number of government offices with management rights over FEPZs should be limited.
5. The locations of FEPZs should take into account already existing institution s such as free trade zones; agricultural, science and technology parks; export processing zones, industrial parks and the like as well as areas which have been set aside designated for certain uses by local governments.
6. First-class FEPZs will be designated on the basis of their contribution to economic development and their impact on employment as well as their impact on related industries and their ability to fit into their surrounding communities.
7. Second-class FEPZs will be limited to businesses in the financial services industry.
Recommended deletions include certain regulations on the location of FEPZs to ensure that land speculation and harm to the environment will be avoided, the removal of certain tax incentives for investment purposes such as the waiving of the 10% business tax on domestic sales and the waiving of half of the salary and business income taxes during the first three years of an employeeŌĆÖs service in Taiwan. Other deletions cover the opening up of FEPZs to international medical institutions, educational services and professional services (accountants, lawyers, architects. etc.) and the elimination of ŌĆ£black boxŌĆØ provisions regarding trade to ensure that currently prohibited agricultural and industrial products are not allowed in.
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Expectant moms with a due date after June 8, 2012 are eligible to enter the contest. To enter, visit
"St. Vincent's is always looking for ways to give back to the community," said John O'Neil, president and CEO of St. Vincent's Health System. "The nursery contest gives us the opportunity to help a deserving family as they prepare for the arrival of their child."
Entries will be narrowed down to three finalists by a panel of judges. The finalists will share their stories on ABC 33/40's Talk of Alabama, and the community will vote online to select the winner.
The contest winner will choose between two designs Marianne Strong of Marianne Strong Interiors has created for the nursery. Strong will then work with the winner to implement her design in their home and add personalized details to the nursery. The completed nursery will be revealed in June of 2012 on ABC 33/40's Talk of Alabama.
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The Presidential Suite - Villa Layali: is compromised of two master bedrooms each with a master bathroom, one mutual living and dining room/area in between which overlooks the polo field. The courtyard features a big private swimming pool with a sunbathing patio and pantry.
Description: This exclusive two-bedroom presidential villa, surrounded by lush grass and colossal palm trees, is a walled sanctuary. Built from Jordanian stone, this villa is centred around on open-air courtyard with a large swimming pool and water features, perfect for private sunbathing or outdoor entertaining. Parallel to the swimming pool is a long and spacious living room incorporating the lounge, dining and surround sound theatre system. The two bedroom suites each feature a private courtyard garden, king sized bed, personal business and "Bang & Olufsen" entertainment system with CD/DVD player, wi-fi internet access, "Sony Bravia" flat screen, Apple iPod, flat screen and sitting area. Behind a hidden doorway guests will discover an airy dressing room and bathroom with luxurious amenities from "Ren"...
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Saving Power (and one day, money) with XENPublic blog posted on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 by Simon Redfern
We wanted to reduce our power consumption in our production rack.
We used XEN virtualisation to move services from physical servers to virtual machines on a single (larger) server.
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quote ProudLozPokener15, Oh your song issue? Probably a corrupt library file within your phone's setting. Let me see if I can find something.
quote Pokenerd15I just had that happen to me today, a quick respring will rehide all those icons again. Strange that it happens, would love to know the root cause of it.
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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:2233-44. 2010..Until then, variance inflation techniques and two-stage approaches should offer pragmatic and flexible approaches to modelling correlated data...
- Integrated population modeling of black bears in Minnesota: implications for monitoring and managementJohn R Fieberg
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PLoS ONE 5:e12114. 2010..g., age and sex) are often readily available. Increasingly, integrated population models are used for natural resource management because they synthesize various relevant data into a single analysis...
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They stood toe to toe.
Black patent leather lined up against Lightening McQueen Red.
One white gloved hand reached out for the other and I'd swear later that a smile passed between those palms.
A bearded face gazed down into its clean shaven mirror, delighting in its rosy cheeked twin.
I took in their Mutt and Jeff version of their holiday namesake as they compared fur covered collars and white snowballs hanging like ornaments from their furry hats.
Charmed by their mutual appreciation of one another, I covered my mouth to keep the glee mixing with salty tears from seeping too quickly and simply watched as the taller sank to one knee.
Twinkling blue eyes met inquisitive chocolate ones.
"It's me…" a tiny voice whispered.
Then just like Magic, I saw it happen.
All the wonder I expected to fill the tiny brown eyes lit the cerulean ones instead.
"I know you…" the jolly voice answered.
Because that's what happens when someone believes in you.
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WONDER (great word for the season)
****December 2013: From Tracie (Hi Tracie!!!) is hosting a "Going Green Christmas Edition" where we can "recycle or spruce up an old Christmas post to share with you"
I didn't spruce anything up with this one. It's just one of my favorites. Jacob is still dressing up like Santa, he still has WONDER and MAGIC in his eyes and I still tear up thinking of the day he met the Guy in Red and this happened.
thanks for visiting, hoping you're having a BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS SEASON.
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We present preliminary results of a deep near-infrared survey toward Chamaeleon II, a star formation region being observed in the mid-infrared as part of the Spitzer Legacy Program: "From Molecular Cores to Planet Forming Disks". A deep 1-10 micron survey is the key to identifying candidate young, Jupiter-mass objects. The limits of our survey (24.5, 20, 19, and 18 in I, J, H & Ks) combined with the Spitzer IRAC limits permit us to detect young (t < 10 Myr) objects down to 2 Jupiter masses. The availability of photometry over the whole range where these objects emit will make it possible to more accurately distinguish cloud members from background stars than has been possible to date when only near-IR data were available. Our objects provide a testbed for validating atmospheric and evolutionary models of massive planets in a context where light from a parent star does not overwhelm the emission of the substellar object. For objects in the broad gap between the 2MASS limits and out limits, our data provide information about the photospheres. By looking for excess emission in the mid-IR, we detect circumstellar disks around brown dwarfs. For the subset of objects in our fields with disks, we constrain the IMF to masses below the deuterium burning limit. We will use the Spitzer results in combination with current disk models to learn about the presence and nature of cicumstellar disks around young brown dwarfs.
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Smith as principal and Samuel Maxwell
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State of Missouri each in the sum of two hund
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bind [ ourselfs ] our heirs executors and adminis
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that wherein the county court of St Louis county
and State of Missouri have this day Granted unto
said Robert Smith a License under the provision
of an act of the state legistlature of said State [ aproved ]
February 23d 1843 now that the said Robert Smith
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Cowboy Ken
No, this isn't a saucy "He Said/She Said" post about the hotness of cowboys. (For the record, SHE SAID COWBOYS ARE HOT!) This is about my Cowboy Ken Barbie doll.
Many of you read in my "Perspective" post a few days ago about how my Mama had glued cotton to the face of Cowboy Ken and transformed him into Joseph from the Bible, complete with colorful tunic and beard. The next day, I received a frantic text from Mama:
I read your blog and thought how rude and insensitive I was when I kidnapped Ken and made him into Joseph. I immediately ran upstairs to your childhood closet and found Joseph. I scrubbed and scrubbed and "goo goned" him to death. He's as good as new! Luv Mummy.
Cowboy Ken is alive! And he doesn't have facial hair! And he's wearing his super cool, 70s cowboy hat!
I immediately called Mama to thank her for "goo goning" Cowboy Ken and apologize for being so dramatic and sensitive.
Me: "Thanks so much for fixing Cowboy Ken up Mama. You didn't have to do that."
Mama: "No, no. I did. And he looks exactly the same as he did before. Except I can't find his jeans."
Me: "Actually, he wore black leather pants."
Perhaps he was more of the Village People cowboy instead of the rodeo kind?"
Whatever. Check out those piercing blue eyes! He could give Harrison a run for his money!


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The new budget calls for a 1.5-cent increase, which is the first increase in local purpose tax since 2009, Mayor William Miller said.
The total budget for 2012 is $1,197,372.63, which is an increase of $70,776.93 from the 2011 budget.
Last year, the total budget was $1,126,595.70, according to Chief Financial Officer Jim Hackett.
For the new budget, with the 1.5-cent increase, the local purpose tax will be 15.3-cents.
In 2011, the local purpose tax was 13.8-cents.
For the average assessed home in the township, assessed at $189,500, the 1.5-cent tax rate increase will mean an additional $28.35 per year in taxes.
Miller broke down the budget stating the local purpose tax was only 6 percent of total taxes, 52 percent was for education, 41 percent will go to the county and one percent goes to the county open space fund.
Miller added that raising taxes was the only option to make up lost revenue in this year's budget, something the committee did not want to do.
According to Miller, the tax collection rate was 95 percent and in 2011 the tax collection rate was roughly 94 percent which meant a drop in the tax collection rate by one percent.
Oldmans Township received $230,610 in state aid this year, which was a flat-line from 2011.
There was a two-percent increase in wages for township employees.
Additional savings came from the retirement of a public works employee, George St. John, on April 1. The position was filled with a part-time worker, James M. Ware, who will work a scattered week.
Hackett said this allowed savings in the streets and roads salaries.
"As far as the budget, I would just like to say thank you to our chief financial officer for doing a terrific job on our budget," Miller said.
There were no public comments regarding the 2012 municipal budget after the committee opened the floor for public discussion.
The committee adopted the 2012 budget with a unanimous vote.
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Last week, the state released preliminary results for the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP) and High School Proficiency Exams (HSPE) showing areas of improvement and weakness for the Central Kitsap School District.
"It's clear we have work to do," said CK Superintendent Hazel Bauman. "We did see success in some areas, but we do have room for improvement.
As we prepare for the start of the new school year, that's my focus: on improving teaching and learning."
Reading scores are up in third and fifth grade classes, along with math scores.
Fourth graders have shown improvement in writing scores. Tenth grade science scores also increased by more than 10 percent for the second year in a row.
"I would be safe to say there's some areas of celebration," she said. But she also cautioned there are areas to work on and that she will be taking a "deeper look, deeper analysis" of student needs.
The district plans to focus on the expansion of all-day kindergarten options because of research and practice links the option to improved academic performance.
The 2013 preliminary results are from state-wide tests proctored in the spring.
The tests measure students' knowledge in reading, writing, math and science.
Students in grades 3-8 took the Measurements of Student Progress (MSP) test. High school students took the HSPE in reading and writing and End of Course (EOC) exams in math and science, states a CK press release.
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Sacred Aspect bounced back from defeat at Royal Ascot with an ultimately impressive display in the Danehill Dancer Tipperary Stakes.
No match for the likes of Kiyoshi when well beaten in the Albany at the Royal meeting, the Ken Condon-trained filly nevertheless showed she has plenty of talent as she overturned hotpot Abbakova in the Listed contest.
Abbakova (1-2 favourite) was one of three to share pacesetting duties and looked to be on the way to victory heading for the furlong pole, but Sacred Aspect (7-1) was driven up to challenge by Shane Foley and in the end won a shade cosily by a length.
Illinois responded well to an aggressive ride from Seamie Heffernan to run out a convincing winner of the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden for juveniles on his debut.
Aidan O'Brien's son of Galileo (2-1) was pushed to the front early on and kicked for home off the turn into the straight, holding the odds-on favourite Warbird, the only one in the field with experience, by three and a quarter lengths.
David Wachman's three-year-old Bronte (100-30) showed her older rivals the way home as she won the Summer Sunday Family Day On 21st July Handicap from the front under Billy Lee, quickening clear from the two pole to score by a length and a half.
Kevin Prendergast's 4-5 favourite Dorothy Parker could not have done it any easier in the Fillies Friday Night Out 9th August Maiden, bouncing out in front and staying there without being asked a question by back-from-injury Sam James to score by two and a quarter lengths.
The fact that the Dermot Weld-trained Magnolia Ridge was sent off the 8-13 favourite for the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden probably said plenty about the opposition, and he had only to be kept up to his work by Pat Smullen to record a facile victory by five and a half lengths.


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I was resting in my bed after a hot bath to sooth my aching body, when I heard Kathy Dunderdale on the radio spouting off about her government's layoffs.
Needless to say, my rest was short-lived and I sprung up and ranted on. Reminds me of Grade 11 history and Louis XIV and absolute monarchy.
This is a government with no conscience and they will proceed as they see fit. Almost like divine rule.
Jerome Kennedy struts around like he is the only person who has it right to adjust our budget, as he surely has all the answers.
What's in that briefcase, I wonder?
Maybe a $1,000 Superman comic that most people could care less about. Hmm!
An oil-rich province laying off employees is an act of a government with absolutely no conscience.
Whether they are pencil pushers or not, they deserve better than being put on that paltry government pension.
Yes, Kathy, they have spouses and children to feed, and you say that you can understand the hardships.
Can you?
How would you feel, with hungry mouths to feed?
But you care about these people so some will get a severance package and of course we can always offload the expense to the feds with EI.
These people will be the rest of their lives playing catch-up.
Seems to me that a slight income tax increase with an absolute time limit, could arrest some of the problems.
Yes, yes, a time limit.
Make sure if you can that The Telegram puts it on the front page.
And then a rollback after a certain time.
How much would we need — .5 per cent, one per cent?
And give us a firm time as to when you will roll back that increase.
How much revenue would that create?
Bet you sure as hell, the people won't re-elect you if you don't roll it back!
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GLENDALE, Ariz. - Former Great Lakes Loons outfielder Jerry Sands is in the mix for spot on the Los Angeles Dodgers, but Dodgers manager Don Mattingly insists that he will only keep Sands on the Dodgers if he can get consistent at-bats.
If not, Mattingly's plan is to send Sands back to Triple A.
Much depends on the ability of outfielder Andre Ethier and first baseman James Loney to hit left-handed pitching. Both are left-handed hitters who have struggled against left-handers.
Sands, who played for the Loons for parts of the 2009 and 2010 season, would fit in a right-handed hitting platoon with either Loney or Ethier.
truebluela.com: "We all like Jerry, but he's at a point where he can still get better. It's not like he's a five-year veteran; we don't know quite what we're going to get yet from Jerry. We know we get a competitor, we know we get a good athlete who can play first and corner outfield," said Mattingly. "He has hit lefties pretty well, but struggled on the other side with the righties. I think he can do that, but still remains to be seen."


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6th March 2012, 11:37 AM
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First of all, forget using your 9.0 dedicated slalom sail for wave riding. You should need a much lighter and softer sail without cambers (with on/off power) to vastly improve the manoeuvrability while riding the waves. The slalom sail is way too heavy, rigid, powerfull and costly to be ridden in waves...
You have several options depending on what kind of wave board you want to ride: short board or long board.
1) For true waveriding, better consider a 2009 Evo 100 with either a Severne Blade 6.7 or a Hot Sail Maui Superfreak 7.0 m2 sail. Anything larger than that is killing the wave board manoeuvrability on this Evo.
2) For true wave/freewave riding in light wind, the Kode 103 with a Superfreak 7.0 m2 sail will fit the bill nicely.
3) For freemove/freeriding in small waves, the Kode 113 with a Superfreak 8.0 sail or a Kode 123 with a Superfreak 9.0 sail might be worth considering.
Option 1 is a 100% dedicated wave combo for heavyweight waverider.
Option 2 is a wave/freewave/freeride combo and you can adjust footstraps + fin setting (3 inboard and front + a wave fin; 4 outboard and back + a freewave/crossover/freeride fin) depending on what kind of programm you want to do depending on the wave & wind conditions. A true "3 boards-in-one" combo IMHO.
Option 3 is a freemove/freeride combo. Keep in mind that a 8.0 or a 9.0 wave sail is still quite big to handle when doing quick transition and manoeuver in waves...! When planing, this is still shortboarding manoeuvrability in waves as compared to what you can get while longboarding.
Your proposition of matching a Kode 113 + your current slalom sails 6.7/7.7/9.0 m2 combo is OK for freeriding or B&J, but as soon as you want to do some manoeuvers or serious ride in waves, you will be limited by these sails. You have to match the manoeuvrability of the board with that of the sail. Better take a Gator 7.0 and 8.0 m2 sail combo for freemove/freeride or a Superfreak 7.0 and 8.0 m2 sail combo for freewave/freemove program.
BTW, a Kode 113 + your slalom 9.0 sail is not an efficient match with your weight because you will be limited by a fin of 43 cm long (width OFO : 44.7 cm) which is a bit too small. This will never be as efficient as your iSonic 122 + 46 cm fin + 9.0 sail combo.
As for long board wind SUP-ing in waves, I don't have enough experience and I will leave that to other to comment.
The new concept of the SUPer Wave 8'10 looks very interresting for light wind wave riding. Freeriding is possible but the 19 cm long main fin in the thruster limits the sail size you can use on such a board (4.7-6.5 m2 according to specs) and certainly not with a full-on slalom 6.7 m2 sail...
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I found this piece by Joseph Bottum in the Weekly Standard Book Review both interesting and amusing, especially in its comments on British reviewers, which I thought bang on target. It's a review of Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr published by OUP.
Here are the introductory paragraphs:
The early British and American reviews of this book are hilarious—hilarious, that is, in the sense of proving two of Melissa Mohr's minor theses. In her account, the sex-based swear words so reviled by the Victorians have become almost commonplace: No real stigma attaches to their use these days, although certain classes may still feel a little antiquated frisson when they write or say them. The real swear words of our time, she notes, are race- and gender-based epithets, which polite society has banned—words that, indeed, almost define polite society by their absence.
And sure enough, the reviewers (especially the British ones) have gleefully put into print all the once-prohibited words they know for fornication and excrement. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, gerunds, even adverbs—all-purpose bits of grammar that seem intended mostly to prove, among the writing classes, that their users want us to admire them for having broken free from the stultifying strictures of the linguistic past. Then, when they reach Mohr's discussion of racial and sex-preference terms, they suddenly turn into prissy Victorian matrons, clicking their tongues in disapproval. A little euphemism, a lot of typographical gesturing, some elaborate circumlocution—it takes work to review a book about these modern unspeakables and not actually quote them.


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Brand of the Week: BMW
This week, the Elf on the Shelf ditches the sleigh for a set of German-engineered wheels. Grab a seat and strap-in for a tour of one of the world's oldest and most recognizable automotive brands. This is "BMW: Brand of the Week." Founded in Munich, Germany in 1916 and currently the leading brand in the luxury automotive category, BMW …


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India is growing into an automotive hub that will supply not only their growing domestic demand but also that of the developing world.
LCVs and SCVs leading the way and are to grow at a CARG of 13% until 2020. M&HCVs are currently positioning themselves to not only deal with the expected increase of local demand spurred by new infrastructure projects and increased port activities, but are also looking at how to capitalize on India's dominance in the industry through exports.
To deal with this increase in demand, established OEMs are investing in plant expansions across India currently and new entrants are quickly developing their own plants to achieve their piece of the pie.
The 4th Annual India Commercial Vehicle Summit will bring together OEMs, Government Officials, Associations Auto Suppliers and Institutions to discuss the issues India is currently facing and to foster communications that will allow India to rightfully take it's place as a major international automotive hub.


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- Start MailStore Client and log on as MailStore administrator (admin).
- Click on Administrative Tools > Miscellaneous and then on SMTP Settings.
- Under Server, enter the host name of the SMTP server or its IP address.
- If a non-standard port is to be used, enter the port number in the Server field as well, separated by a colon. For example: exchange.orange-2k10.local:587
- In the field Protocol, select SMTP if the connection to the SMTP server is to remain unencrypted. If the connection to the SMTP server is to be encrypted, select SMTP-TLS or SMTP-SSL under Protocol. If the SMTP server does not have an official or installed SSL certificate, mark the checkbox Ignore SSL Warnings; if it is unchecked, the sending process will fail.
- Especially SMTP servers which are accessible through the internet require a login (SMTP authentication). Mark the corresponding checkbox and enter the appropriate access data. Often times, the POP3 access data of any user on the email server can be used.
- Under Sender, enter the Display Name and the Email Address of the email sender. Many SMTP servers require an existing email address to be entered. The display name can be chosen freely; ideally the name indicates that the email was sent by MailStore Server.
- Under Recipient for Notifications, enter the email address of the recipient for administrative notifications of MailStore Server.
- Once all settings have been specified, MailStore Server can be instructed to send a test email to the email address entered for notifications; simply click on Apply and Test. If an error message appears or the recipient specified does not receive the email, the following hints for troubleshooting may be helpful.
- If no error occurs upon sending but the email does not arrive, please check the spam or junk mail folder of the mailbox. Perhaps the email was filtered out.
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- If an error message appears indicating that "One or more recipients rejected", the SMTP server probably requires authentication. Enter the appropriate access data as described above.
- If an error message appears because of invalid access data ("Incorrect authentication data"or "Authentication failed"), verify the data entered. Often times, the access data match those of the corresponding POP3 server.
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Brown started on the front row and led from start to finish en route to winning Saturday's night's SOD Sprints on Dirt feature main at Crystal Motor Speedway. Brown led all 25 laps.
Jason DeVos, Rockford
DeVos won Saturday night's 4 Cylinders A feature race at the Berlin Raceway in Marne. It was DeVos' second win of the season and first since taking the checkered on opening night.
J.R. Hotovy, Hartford
Hotovy won Friday night's Late Model feature race at Hartford Motor Speedway from the sixth-place starting position, outrunning Jon Henry to the checkered flag.
Matt Corliss, Kalamazoo
Corliss won the track Super Stock championship in dramatic fashion Saturday night at Kalamazoo Speedway. Corliss won the feature race to lock up the title, and he went crashing across the stripe to earn it.
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Massuch won Saturday night's Late Model feature race at Springport Speedway, then took second Sunday in Spartan Speedway's Harvest 300 Plus to Andy Bozell.


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I believe in a restoration of a Constitutional Government no matter what it takes.
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Clackamas Community College finished off a dominating run through the NWCA Multi-Division National Duals Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa, with a 30-13 win over No. 2-ranked Northwest Wyoming. The Cougars, ranked No. 4, won the dual-meet national title for the second time in four years -- Clackamas also won in 2011, when it went on to win the NJCAA championship, too.
Northwest Wyoming had beaten Clackamas in a dual meet Dec. 14, but the Cougars rode bonus-point wins from Kenny Martin at 149 pounds, Eleazar Deluca at 157, Adrian Salas at 184 and Ihoghama Odighizuwa at 197 pounds to reverse the outcome this time.
To get to the final, Clackamas rolled over No. 19 Pratt CC (Kan.) 52-3 and No. 7 Northern Iowa Area CC 35-10 on Saturday, and No. 5 Ellsworth CC (Iowa) 41-4 earlier Sunday.
Oregon State also righted its listing ship this weekend with a pair of Pac-12 dual meet wins in California. The Beavers benefited significantly from the return of Joey Palmer at 125 pounds and Austin Morehead at 184 -- both had missed most or all of the first half of the season.
Morehead's defensive pin of Stanford's Zach Nevills on Saturday keyed No. 24-ranked Oregon State's 21-14 win over the No. 21 Cardinal. On Sunday, both Palmer and Morehead claims wins as the Beavers beat Cal State-Bakersfield 25-10.
It was a rough weekend for OSU 141-pound freshman Joey Delgado, who damaged his changes at an NCAA berth with a pair of losses to drop his record to 12-9 on the season. The Beavers, though, recorded two-match sweeps from Scott Sakaguchi at 149 pounds, RJ Pena at 157, Joe Latham at 174, Morehead at 184, Taylor Meeks at 197 and Amar Dhesi at heavyweight.
Oregon State 21, Stanford 14
125: Evan Silver (S) def. Joey Palmer (OSU), 12-3
133: Ryan Mango (S) def. Drew Van Anrooy (OSU), 6-3
141: Peter Russo (S) def. Joey Delgado (OSU), 6-5
149: Scott Sakaguchi (OSU) def. Donovan Halpin (S), 10-5
157: RJ Pena (OSU) def. Bret Baumbach (S), 7-3
165: Jim Wilson (S) def. Toney Chay (OSU), 10-2
174: Joe Latham (OSU) def. Kyle Meyer (S), 9-4
184: Austin Morehead (OSU) pinned Zach Nevills (S), 3:23
197: Taylor Meeks (OSU) def. Dan Scherer (S), 5-1
HWT: Amar Dhesi (OSU) def. Josh Marchok (S), 11-4
Oregon State 25, Cal State-Bakersfield 10
125: Joey Palmer (OSU) def. Sergio Mendez (CSUB), 6-4
133: Jose Mendoza (CSUB) def. Drew Van Anrooy (OSU), 5-4
141: Ian Nickell (CSUB) def. Joey Delgado (OSU), 9-0
149: Scott Sakaguchi (OSU) def. Dalton Kelly (CSUB), 12-2
157: RJ Pena (OSU) def. Spencer Hill (CSUB), 14-1
165: David Meza (CSUB) def. Toney Chay (OSU), 3-2
174: Joe Latham (OSU) def. Jesus Ambriz (CSUB), 12-3
184: Austin Morehead (OSU) def. Sean Pollock (CSUB), 16-2
197: Taylor Meeks (OSU) def. Ruben Franklin (CSUB), 7-3
HWT: Amar Dhesi (OSU) def. Sam Cervantes (CSUB), 3-1
Clackamas 41, Ellsworth 4
125: Stevan Knoblauch (CCC) def. D. Robertson (Ell), 10-5
133: CJ Palmer (CCC) pinned E. Franklin (Ell), 5:22
141: Robbie Rizzolino (CCC) def. M. Stewart (Ell), 10-2
149 Kenny Martin (CCC) pinned L. Williams (Ell), 2:21
157: Eleazar Deluca (CCC) pinned T. Johnson (Ell), 3:47
165: R. Guillaume (Ell) def. Kyle Bateman (CCC), 16-6
174: Tyler White (CCC) pinned E. Wilson (Ell), 6:48
184: Adrian Salas (CCC) def. M. Hurford (Ell), 8-3
197: Ihoghama Odighizuwa (CCC) def. C. Grace-Reyes (Ell), 11-4
285: Brandon Johnson (CCC) def. D. Mcintyre (Ell), 10-1
Clackamas 30, Northwest Wyoming 13
125: Cody Vichi (NW) def. Stevan Knoblauch (CCC), 4-3
133: CJ Palmer (CCC) def. Ben Jorgensen (NW), 5-1
141: Zach Loveless (NW) def. Robbie Rizzolino (CCC), 3-0
149: Kenny Martin (CCC) pinned Zach Loveless (NW), 3:45
157: Eleazar Deluca (CCC) pinned Hayden Heap (NW), 2:08
165: Diorian Coleman (NW) def. Kyle Bateman (CCC), 7-5
174: Cole Mcarthur (NW) def. Tyler White (CCC), 9-1
184: Adrian Salas (CCC) pinned Miles Nixon (NW), 4:23
197: Ihoghama Odighizuwa (CCC) def. Jonathan Wixom (NW), medical forfeit
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Trying to identify Nick Saban's best coaching job is like picking out the greatest Beatles song.
There are a few choices.
The Alabama coach likes to say that every team and every season is different, but a lot of us tend to ignore that truth because the results are so similar year after year.
This year's bottom line looks awfully familiar just past the midpoint of the regular season. The Crimson Tide started the season at No. 1 in both major polls and has given no one a reason to drop them. They began the BCS rankings on top, too, and it'll almost certainly take a loss for someone to jump them.
They've won all seven starts and been threatened only once by a one-of-a-kind player in Johnny Manziel. Otherwise, their biggest challenges have come from within.
It goes beyond having to replace three starters, all of them NFL draft picks, two of them first-rounders, from one of the best offensive lines in school history.
There were the off-season suspensions and then dismissals of four players. There were the preseason suspensions of three more players, two of them defensive regulars in Trey DePriest and Geno Smith. There was the in-season suspension of starting safety and defensive leader HaHa Clinton-Dix.
There was the injury that sidelined starting center Ryan Kelly for several weeks, and now comes the injury that'll put starting safety Vinnie Sunseri on the shelf for the rest of the season.
There was the episode when it appeared wide receiver Kenny Bell was going to leave the team but changed his mind after Saban granted him a personal day.
There was the Yahoo! Sports story alleging that former player Luther Davis funneled extra benefits from agents - one of them an Alabama grad - to five SEC players, one of them former Alabama tackle D.J. Fluker. That story raised at least the possibility of an NCAA investigation to come.
That's almost a season's worth of wounds, real and potential, self-inflicted and otherwise, yet the growing pile of clutter and misfortune has had zero impact on the bottom line.
That's a tribute to Saban and his staff and their ability to keep their minds and the minds of the players on the business of winning football games. It's also a credit to their recruiting. Few teams can replace first a Clinton-Dix and now a Sunseri with a five-star impact player such as Landon Collins.
Despite its issues, Alabama's been a model of consistency as usual, which stands out even more as most of the rest of the SEC struggles to maintain its balance.
Just past the halfway point of the regular season, only Alabama and surprising Missouri are undefeated. Only surprising Auburn checks in with one loss. Everyone else has suffered at least two defeats, which means unless the apocalypse is upon us, only three teams have any kind of shot to extend the SEC's streak of BCS titles to eight.
Those three would be Alabama, Missouri and Auburn.
Missouri and Auburn have reached this point without bearing the expectation of getting to this point. Not so for Alabama, which carries the weekly expectation of not just winning but dominating.
The Tide is 6 for 7 when it comes to dominating, 7 for 7 on the bottom line. Somebody deserves some credit for facing a higher bar than anyone else in college football and clearing it again and again.
Saban's probably not going to win any coach-of-the-year awards, even if he leads this team to an unprecedented third straight BCS title, but it looks like he's navigating a journey more challenging in some ways than 2012, 2011 or 2009.
Put it another way, and so far, he's putting together the best coaching job of his Alabama tenure.
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The fallout from former police chief Dewayne White's termination continued to brew Wednesday at a heated hearing after a motion to quash a search warrant for a cellphone unearthed accusations a Baton Rouge detective "shopped around" for a second judge to sign the warrant after it was initially denied.
Jill Craft and Amanda Love, attorneys for White, told District Judge Chip Moore Detective Cleveland Thomas "shopped around to another judge within this jurisdiction" after District Judge Louis R. Daniel refused to sign the warrant. The warrant was eventually signed by Commissioner Nicole Robinson.
The warrant in question was issued for a cellphone belonging to Kim McCants in an effort to locate a cellphone issued to a Baton Rouge police officer, according to an affidavit for the search warrant dated March 25. The affidavit doesn't name the officer, but White's attorneys allege the warrant was meant to use criminal proceedings to uncover evidence in his pending civil trial to reinstate him as police chief.
"Are you going to put out any evidence about that?" Moore asked Love when she stated her claim.
"We will, your honor, and I'm sure the officer will testify about it," Love responded.
Thomas had been subpoenaed to testify at the hearing but Wednesday's proceedings ended early because Moore's father was having surgery. The case will reconvene Thursday at 2 p.m. at the 19th Judicial District Court.
"If you look at the warrant itself, it has a date scratched out. The original date of the warrant is the 19th [of March]. On the 19th, Judge Daniel was on duty. What we have reason to believe is that this officer… sought a warrant from Judge Daniel and clearly judge Daniel didn't sign the warrant when he was on duty," Love said. "I think there's no other explanation, really."
Parish attorneys didn't respond in court to Love's accusation and didn't immediately return a phone call left after hours by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.
Parish Attorney Joseph K. Scott told The Advocate that, "at this point, it's just another claim made in court with nothing to substantiate it."
Craft has admitted in emails to city-parish attorney Mary Roper that she is in possession of the missing cellphone. She's said that she intends to use it as evidence when White contests his termination before the Baton Rouge Police and Fire Civil Service Board in May. According to the affidavit, the Baton Rouge police officer said he had never been issued a phone when police officers showed up at his home to reclaim it Feb. 27.
According to the affidavit, the parish seized McCants phone because "the recovery of the data from Kim McCant's cellphone is essential to confirm the relationship between the BRPD Police Officer and Kim McCants and show possession of the phone by the BRPD Police Officer."
Over 99 percent of the text messages sent to or received from the Baton Rouge police officer's cellphone were to or from McCants' cellphone, the affidavit said, and 285 of the 337 phone calls from the cellphone were also to McCants' device. McCants' phone is still in possession of the parish and Craft said she's concerned about the private data that's been stored on the device.
"I think that was directly and deliberately designed to embarrass Chief White, his family, Ms. McCants and everybody involved," Craft said. "And I really think the mission still is to force my client to drop his appeal."
Wednesday's hearing was about a motion filed by Craft to quash the subpoena for McCants' cellphone, which had already been served. Parish Attorney Tedrick K. Knightshead said this is the first time in the parish's history that an attorney has tried to quash a subpoena that's already been executed.
"It could bootstrap law enforcement everywhere," Knightshead said to Moore.
While the affidavit cited public records requests as a reason for seeking the phone, Knightshead and Scott contended that the warrant was also meant to simply get parish property back.
"It's the city's property. No one's denying that," Knightshead said. "At this point, it's still city-parish property and we're still entitled to our property back."
Love said after the hearing the underlying issue is the fact the parish seized a cellphone from a citizen just because it had been in communication with a phone issued to a Baton Rouge police officer. Craft said it "was beyond comprehension...they subpoenaed some third party who happens to show up on the chief's cellphone bill to get her phone."
"It's absurd and it's outrageous and every citizen in this city should be outraged," Love said.
In response to the search warrant, Craft also subpoenaed a copy of the cellphone records from a phone issued to Thomas, a copy of the current duty roster from the police department, and a copy of all emails to and from Thomas' police department email account.
Moore threw out their request for the roster and parish attorney's said Thomas had not been issued a police department cellphone. Craft and Love narrowed down their request for emails to and from Thomas and Mayor-President Kip Holden's office. Craft argued in February after White was fired that Holden "micromanaged" the Baton Rouge Police Department.
"I'm really excited and looking forward to seeing exactly how many emails there are between Officer Thomas…and William Daniel with the Mayor's Office. Obviously there are some, let's find out what they say," Craft said.


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South African government boycotts Israel
There was alarm among South African Jews last week after the country's International Relations Minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told reporters of a government policy not to engage with Israel at ministerial level until progress had been made in the peace process and in addressing Palestinians' grievances.
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies said in a statement that Ms Nkoana-Mashabane's "misguided" remarks contradicted assurances given to the Jewish leadership that the government would engage with both sides of the conflict.
"They are inconsistent with South African foreign policy in general, which is not to boycott other governments but rather to continually engage with them."
South Africa would "contribute nothing to the process by applying discriminatory punitive measures against Israel alone."
The Board slammed as "alarmist and inflammatory" MK Avigdor Lieberman's suggestion that the comments might lead to pogroms in South Africa.


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DEPTFORD TWP. -- A man wanted in connection with a robbery who failed to appear for sentencing on Feb. 2 was arrested Monday a short time after a description of him was posted on the Gloucester County Times Web site.
Jeffrey L. Bond, 44, was arrested at about 6:35 a.m. Monday after being caught hiding in the bedroom closet of a girlfriend's apartment on Glenside Drive, authorities said.
He had pleaded guilty to robbing a convenience store, but had failed to show up in court to be sentenced, said authorities.
A tip prompted by the "Wanted" feature in the Times led police to Bond.
Bond was charged with bail-jumping and was held at the Gloucester County Jail in Woodbury without bail, pending sentencing on the robbery charge before Superior Court Judge Walter L. Marshall Jr.
Bond's girlfriend, Kathleen Waters, 48, was charged with hindering apprehension for allegedly misinforming police officers about Bond's whereabouts, authorities said.
Bond pleaded guilty to holding up a Wawa Food Market in Mantua Township on March 13, 2006. It's expected he will be sentenced to five years in prison, as part of his guilty plea agreement.
Detectives from the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office Fugitive Unit, members of the U.S. Marshal's Service New York-New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force in Camden, Deptford Police and police and a a K-9 unit from East Greenwich were involved in the arrest.
"Bond was the second arrest of a fugitive in less than a month after the individual being sought was publicized in the Times," said Bernie Weisenfeld, spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office.
Another tip resulted in the Jan. 17 arrest of Tyrone Davenport, who had failed to appear for sentencing on a charge of cocaine possession with the intent to distribute.
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The couple had hopes of divorce settlement
Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, appear headed to trial today after nearly two days of high-road negotiations and hopes for a custody settlement regarding their daughter collapsed last night.
"The judge has asked us to be in court by 9:30 to start taking testimony," said Matos McGreevey's attorney, John Post. "There is not a settlement at this point."
It was unclear yesterday whether a settlement still could be reached overnight.
"We have two parents who have a difference of opinion," said Stephen Haller, McGreevey's lawyer. Earlier yesterday, Haller had walked into the Union County Courthouse in Elizabeth waving a Honduran cigar that he hoped to light in celebration of a settlement.
McGreevey and Matos McGreevey both left the courthouse at 6:07 p.m.
The couple, whose divorce has been publicly bitter, had tried over the past two days with their lawyers to reach agreement on custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Jacqueline.
In a case that was stalemated for more than a year, the parties earlier yesterday had said the mere fact that everyone was on speaking terms -- or that a victory cigar was on the premises -- was encouraging.
"God willing, we are making progress," McGreevey said as he walked past roughly 20 reporters and photographers and into the courthouse midway through the afternoon. McGreevey, now a seminary student, left office in 2004 after saying he had an affair with a male aide.
The morning was spent in the Roseland offices of Post, where the lawyers tried for more than three hours to reach a deal.
The McGreeveys' dispute centers on three main issues: custody of their daughter; money, such as child support and alimony payments; and Matos McGreevey's claim that she is owed damages because she was defrauded into marrying a man who knew he was gay.
Testimony in the trial, which could be sensational and salacious, originally was to begin Tuesday. The case was postponed while the parties privately tried to hammer out a settlement.
"We still have a lot of talking to do," Haller said.
The bulk of yesterday's discussions revolved around custody, said Nancy Thaler-Gerber, a press liaison for Superior Court in Union County who is being briefed by presiding Judge Karen Cassidy. But she said all three aspects of the case, which have been divided into three trials, are on the table.
"There's a lot of positive discussion going on," Thaler-Gerber said before the talks broke down. "It's still congenial. They're still trying to work things out."
McGreevey is seeking to have 50 percent of Jacqueline's time. Matos McGreevey had been pushing for a continuation of the couple's current parenting arrangement, which works out to roughly eight days a month for McGreevey.
Now the sticking point seems to be less about how many days Jacqueline spends with each parent -- Haller yesterday afternoon said they were close to agreeing on a number -- and more about who has final say in decisions regarding the girl.
"She does not want to give up control," Haller said. "Our position is neither parent should have complete control. Jim wants joint parenting, joint input."
It's possible the couple could settle just one or all three parts of their case. The off-record talks took place behind closed doors in Cassidy's chambers -- sometimes in her office, other times in the jury room.
Both sides said Cassidy was actively pushing the couple toward a settlement, as she has been doing since she was assigned the case more than a year ago.


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Draft prospects who arrive early in town typically elect to visit the Boston Celtics' training facility to get up shots in advance of the next day's audition. For Isaiah Austin, getting to a new gym early is a necessity, particularly in his quest to play at the NBA level.
Austin, a 7-foot-1 center out of Baylor University, revealed earlier this year that he is blind in his right eye, the result of a torn retina sustained before high school. As he visits NBA teams this month trying to boost his draft stock, Austin finds it helpful to test his depth perception in new gyms before his formal workouts.
Blind Side: Austin Sees NBA Opportunity-Chris Forsberg
This is just a great story about an even greater kid. Isaiah Austin, a 20 year old 7 footer from Arlington, Texas, worked out for the Boston Celtics last week. Austin was struck in the right eye with a baseball at the age of 15, and then two years later, he completely lost sight in the eye after he dunked a ball during pregame warm ups. His retina was detached, and he thought he'd never be able to play sports again. But after 5 surgeries and inner battles with fear and doubt, Austin is now making the rounds for NBA teams and hoping to be playing in the league next year. He wrapped up his sophomore season for Baylor a few months ago and averaged 11 points, 3 blocks & 5 rebounds in 28 minutes a game for the Bears. The kid just loves to play ball and hopes to inspire others with his story of hope & courage. He's already made quite an impression on coach Brad Stevens:
"First of all, I'm a big fan of him. I think his story is inspirational," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "And him coming out and sharing his story was inspirational. I've got a good friend of mine who has gone through some issues with his eye, and that was one of the first stories that I shared with him. He's a really neat kid."
As Forsberg notes, Austin is an exceptional athlete with a freakish wingspan and the length to bother & block shots at the NBA level. However as with most college players, he'll need to get in the weight room and bulk up lest he get pushed around down low by bigger & stronger guys in the league. Brad Stevens echoed those sentiments..
"He's long, athletic, he can play out on the perimeter. I think he's got a high ceiling," Stevens said. "I think, obviously, he's a guy that, if he continues to shoot the ball really well from the perimeter, can really be a versatile offensive player, and, defensively, he's got such length. He's got to put on some weight, there's no question about it, but he's a young guy that's only going to get better and better and stronger and stronger."
Scouts see Austin as a second-round pick, and that could make him a guy that does not end up being drafted by the guys in green. But which ever NBA organization decides to give this kid a shot has absolutely nothing to lose. He's not just another skilled athlete- he's also a down-to-earth young man who truly wants to help others and also possibly make a career for himself while doing what he loves.
"Being a basketball player is one thing, but being a great person is a whole different thing," Austin said. "It's a whole bigger standard. And I pride myself on being a great person. Basketball is a privilege, and I'm thankful for it, and I'm blessed to be able to play it. And I'm blessed to be this far. But as far as life goes, I have to make sure that I touch people with my personality first."
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On behalf of everyone here at Red's Army, I want to wish all the dads out there a very happy Father's Day. And on a Sunday when we'll all be pulling for the Spurs to send those creeps from Miami packing, what could be more fitting than a Daddy Duncan pic. GO SPURS!!!!!!
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• Using some different approaches to tank-mixing chemicals and on-farm storage help Warren Hardy with timeliness in his farming operation and a new SprayCoupe with an 80-foot boom and some new nozzles have helped keep him efficient in his custom farming business.
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The wheat crop in North Carolina and Virginia will likely end up being one of the best on record, certainly it will be one of the top yielding crops in recent years. Hardy says his wheat crop was really outstanding.
He planted Pioneer 26R12 and USG 3665 wheat. When his entire wheat crop is cut, he will likely average over 80 bushels per acre and some fields will easily top 100 bushels per acre. How much of that yield is due to fungicides, he says, isn't certain, but he is convinced using them helped.
In a 10-year test conducted by researchers at Virginia Tech, using both triazole and strobilurin fungicides separately and together from 2000 to 2010 showed a consistent yield advantage for fungicide-treated versus check wheat plots.
Virginia Tech Researcher and Plant Pathologist Pat Phipps says over the 10 year period, on multiple sites across the state, they averaged 12 bushels per acre more on fungicide-treated fields. Last year's drought kept yield increases around 5 bushels per acre, but in some years 20 bushel or more increases were recorded.
The North Carolina grower says he became a believer in using fungicides on soybeans when he used Quadris on part of a 100 acre field. "I forgot about us using it, and when we started combining that field, the machine I was driving had a yield monitor.
"I was picking across the field and had sprayed the fungicide in a strip running lengthwise down the field. Every time I crossed one of those treated strips in the field, the yield monitor would jump.
"Sometimes the yield bump would be 15 bushels an acre and other times only five bushels per acre. In this field of soybeans the yield increase varied, but there was always some increase versus the parts of the field in which we didn't spray the fungicide," Hardy says.
"I'm not a big believer in the accuracy of yield monitors, so I can't say for certain we got 15 bushels per acre more soybeans — that's what the yield monitor showed. However, I am very sure the treated parts of that field produced more soybeans than the untreated parts," he adds.
Two years ago he started working with Illinois-based TeeJet Technologies, a company that manufactures nozzles for sprayers. He had recently added GPS and AutoSteer to his new SpraCoupe. Hardy was looking for more accurate and uniform spray application across the 80-foot spray boom on the sprayer he uses extensively for custom application.


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Ever since our post season ended rather abruptly at the hands of the Providence Bruins, everyone has been asking me what went wrong.
First of all, the parity in the American Hockey League is pretty impressive. As I have said many times, the difference between a first-place team and a last-place team is very small. A couple of key players, great goaltending, injuries at bad times and a losing streak at the wrong time can easily separate the playoff and non-playoff teams. The Hershey Bears are a good example this year of how things can change. The Bears are always a playoff team, but this year due to a couple of key injuries and call-ups, along with a mid-season slump and despite a heck of a run near the end of the year, they fell short of the playoffs despite having 88 points.
The other thing to remember is that when you fall far behind, it is very difficult to make up ground quickly because of the three points that are always up for grabs. This is another reason why I hate the shoot-out. But that's a story for another blog.
So what went wrong for the Falcons after having such a tremendous regular season with 100 points and another division championship? The bottom line for me is that Providence simply played better most of the series and their top two lines caught fire at the right time.
In most elimination games goaltending is in the spotlight as it was for us in the decisive Game 5. It would be easy to throw Mike McKenna under the bus, because unfortunately Mike did not have a great game. However, sometimes our memories are short in this business. If it were not for Mike we may have not made it to a Game 5, as he was outstanding most of the series.
Sometimes, no matter how hard it hurts, you have to give credit to the opposition and the P-Bruins deserve kudos for playing a great series and showing that anything can happen once you get to the post season. Manchester and Binghamton, the other top seeds in our conference who also lost, can certainly vouch for this.
it should be an interesting off-season. The good news, as already reported, is that all three coaches will be back for another year. There will be some changes as several players are unrestricted free agents, others need to be qualified and there will be an influx of some younger players waiting in the wings to turn pro. The heart of our team, captain Ryan Craig, is under contract for another year. If Ryan does not make the Columbus Blue Jackets, he will be here again and you could not ask for a better leader to build the rest of your team around.
Have a great summer and don't forget that the Falcons have a ticket plan to fit any budget.
Bruce Landon is president and general manager of the Springfield Falcons. He can be reached by commenting on this blog or sending him an e-mail at email@example.com. For more information visit the team website.


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All the iPhones, iPads and laptop computers in the store were among the items stolen from the Radio Shack in Arrow Mills Plaza, Clinton Township.
Randel Whitehead of the store reported the burglary to police Dec. 13. Between 8:45 p.m. on Dec. 12 and 9 a.m. the next day, the thieves entered the store by ripping out the front door lock cylinder. They then disabled the alarm and forced entry into a cabinet in the back room.
All the iPhones, iPads and laptop computers along with PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles were stolen, Whitehead told police. He said he could not give an exact value amount of the stolen items until he did a complete inventory of the store.
The Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office was contacted and is assisting with the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the Clinton Township Detective Bureau.


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HOLYOKE - Ray Hepper recalls his mother carting loads of Braille books in the back of her station wagon throughout his childhood.
Now 58, and the top legal executive at the region's energy supplier, Hepper accesses most of his visual information needs through three sleek little devices, including a Braille reader that links to his iPhone's voice and a "Victor Reader" that transcribes print into the spoken word.
A self-described "techno geek" and newshound who was born totally blind, Hepper starts his day as many do: scanning his favorite periodicals. He also spends many evenings as his sighted peers do: reading novels. As general counsel at ISO New England, Hepper concedes he has the means to purchase all the latest technology, but many sight-impaired do not.
"The unemployment rate among the sight-impaired is astronomical, something like 40 or 50 percent," Hepper said.
Consequently, the free services available to an estimated 100,000-plus sight-impaired across Massachusetts by Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library are critical, he says. They enrich Hepper's life and others by providing a world of content, including ts "Newsline" program.
While it surely will not be the biggest-ticket item up for debate in this 2014 'FY budget cycle, the Watertown-based Perkins Library is still fighting for $66,000 over what the House has proposed to keep current services afloat.
Sen. Stephen M. Brewer. D-Barre, Chairman, Senate Committee on Ways and Means, said that arm's proposed budget for the Perkins Library is about $2.5 million, which is about $55,000 higher than previous versions. The Senate released its budget on May 15 and begin debate in the coming days.
"Gosh. If I can't help the blind in the effort then I don't want the job," Brewer said in an interview on Tuesday.
Kim Charlson, director of Perkins Library, said there are scores of people eligible for the services who may not know they exist.
"We're one of the largest talking book libraries in the country," Charlson said. "We estimate there are about 100,000 more who are eligible for our services, but don't realize they exist or that they're eligible."
In addition to thousands of Braille books on-site, the agency has its own recording studio and offers access to 350 newspapers daily either through a free telephone service or free hand-held device like Hepper's.
Even Hepper said he had no idea of the breadth or depth of the organization's services, even though he was on the higher end of information access for the blind, before he joined the board of directors.
"It's places like Perkins that have changed the way people look at being blind," he said, adding that the sight-impaired sector is growing as our population ages and the need becomes more widespread.


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Nameplate Collages Art Project
This inventive craft helps you get to know your students at the start of the school year.
By Laura Murray
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
What You Need:
- White construction paper, 9- by 12-inch size
- Stencils
- Colored pencils
- Magazines
- Scissors
- Glue
What You Do:
- Cut a piece of white construction paper in half lengthwise. You will need a half sheet for each student.
- Using stencils, have the students trace the letters of their name on the paper.
- Have children color in the letters of their names.
- Have students browse the magazines and cut out pictures of things they like, such as animals, sports, hobbies, food, or places to travel.
- Students glue the pictures around their names, creating a collage.
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- Subjects:Paper Crafts, Back to School, Autumn Themes


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Colorado Department of Education was awarded the federal Jacob K. Javits Grant in 2005 for its "Take Five: Unfolding Gifted Programming" project.
This grant provides the funding for two state initiatives:
Modules: Addressing the Needs of Gifted
Eight modules were developed during the three-year grant period to increase capacity of educators to meet the instructional needs of gifted learners. Each module will be offered in both online and traditional kit formats.
Provides teacher training and supplemental science materials at treatment school sites in Colorado. Project U-STARS supports teachers in the early recognition and nurturing of potential in children from economically disadvantaged and/or culturally diverse families and children with disabilities in order to improve achievement and provide access to advanced educational opportunities.


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Did we say available? We meant 'Free'.
A coin is pushed from the fingertips of one hand into the palm of the other. The fist is closed and the back of the hand rubbed. Immediately both hands can be shown empty - the coin has vanished.
The False Messiah vanish is a kind of homage to Jay Sankey's 'Messiah Vanish' - however it contains a twist that allows the hands to be shown clean after the coin vanishes. This is a simple, pleasing effect that will turn any card man to coins.
If you're not a coin trick type of person, take the time to download this - free - and see if Justin Miller can't change your mind.
Difficulty: Beginner.
Run Time: 5 minutes.
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It's free so why not pick it up and see if you can learn anything new from it. Personally, I am not a fan of this. But it's free so I won't complain as much haha.
looks Great!Easy to learn and the greatest thing is that it is free!!
free download from JM, what isnt there to like? cool move to add to your coin sleights and vanish techniques
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Quick and easy to learn.
Should be considered a standard vanish/sleight in all magician's repertoire.
Taking coin manipulation to a new level and the ellusionist staff is leading the way
I would be crazy to brew critical of a free download by someone as talented as JM, so I will simply say it's fun, it's easy, it's free.
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I had a chance to meet and interview Kevin Mitnick, who at one time was the most wanted hacker in the world. Today he's one of the most sought after security experts, helping others to understand how hackers break into computer networks.
Anthony De Rosa
How Anthony Weiner's Twitter account could have been hacked
Anthony Weiner is about as uncensored online as he is offline. But is he really bold enough to post a photo of himself sans pants over a Twitter account?


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Wednesday nights are normally an off-night for high school basketball, but a slew of makeup games and a lot of great hockey meant there was plenty of action tonight, including an OT thriller involving one of the top teams in Class B. Let MLive.com get you caught up on all of Wednesday's action.
LakeVille transfer Shawn Pardee's clutch free throws gave Millington, the third-ranked boys team in Class B, a thrilling 85-77 victory in overtime over Saginaw Valley Lutheran.
Third-ranked Romulus outscored Detroit Douglass 34-19 in the final quarter for an 86-68 victory in boys basketball action.
A dominant defensive effort helped the Canton girls basketball team claim the KLAA Kensington Conference title with a 30-20 win over Novi.
The Forest Hills Central hockey team won the OK Tier 2 championship with a 4-2 win over Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills.
Josh Smith scored both of Muskegon Reeths-Puffer's goals to help the Rockets grind out a 2-1 over rival Mona Shores on the ice.
The Bay City John Glenn boys and Bay City Western girls won Bay County Championship titles by slim margins in bowling action.
Keyon Addison had two steals and four points in the final minute to help the Saginaw High boys basketball team pick up a road win over Mount Pleasant, 54-51.
Jake Daniels had 25 points to help the Holly boys basketball team claim a share of the Flint Metro League title with a 66-52 win over Flint Kearsley, while Lapeer West's Matt Place had a double-double to keep the Panthers alive in the FML race with a 62-47 win over Swartz Creek.
Zach Cramer's near-perfect night helped the Unionville-Sebewaing basketball team clinch a share of its first GTC West title since 2009 with a 60-41 win over Vassar.
Ann Arbor Skyline junior Jeremy Bourque scored a natural hat trick to give the Eagles their first win over Dexter in school history in boys ice hockey action.
We have a lot more basketball coverage from Friday. Please visit the high school website for more scores, boys and girls stats and stories from all of our coverage from around the state.
You also can sign up to be a high school reporter for your favorite team.
You also can vote in our MLive.com Game of the Week polls that determine which games get our top-flight coverage each week. The voting ends Saturday at noon.


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The wife of a Huntsville man jailed in Pakistan under suspicion of spying told WHNT News 19 Wednesday she has filed a lawsuit against the Pakistani province that's holding him.
Binosche Barrett said she's filed the lawsuit challenging the detention order under which Matthew Craig Barrett, a 27-year-old Huntsville native, is being held.
Barrett, 27, was imprisoned in June after being found in his car in May near Fateh Jang, home to an advanced military research facility that produces long-range missiles and depleted uranium tank ammunition. Barrett got lost while traveling to obtain parts for his car, his wife said.
A hearing that had been scheduled for Tuesday has been delayed until Sept. 19, according to Barrett's wife.
Click here to read previous coverage and see a video of Barrett when he was taken into custody.


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Jim Alexander, 87, of Amarillo died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday, April 27, 2014 in Oklahoma City. Jim was born on February 15, 1927 at his family's ranch in Hemphill County, Texas to Ralph and Polly Polk Alexander.
He attended Valley Park School in Lipscomb and graduated from Canadian High School in 1943 at the age of 16. He earned his Chemical Engineering degree from Texas A&M University in 1949 and was very proud of his Aggie heritage. He was a Cadet Corps Commander while at A&M. His education was interrupted by his service in the United States Army in Hawaii. Upon graduation from college, he went to work for Phillips Petroleum Company In Borger. He met and married Nada Lee Moon in 1951.She was the love of his life and his wife of 54 years. They were blessed with two beautiful daughters, Jim's career with Phillips took the family to Antwerp, and Brussels Belgium, Bartlesville and Houston. Jim loved his work and made many lifelong friends during his tenure with Phillips. His very successful 36 year career ended in Houston as Vice President of Plastics and Petrochemicals . He retired in 1985 and returned to the Texas panhandle making a home in Amarillo. Jim was a very kind, intelligent, generous and loving person.. He touched the lives of all who knew him and was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend. He was active in his church and a true Christian. He was an avid collector of science fiction and Bowie knives and had quite a collection of both. He enjoyed going to gun shows, Aggie football games and used book stores. After a courageous battle with leukemia in 2004, Jim overcame that hardship and went on to live a long and healthy life. Heaven gained a kind and gentle man. He will be greatly missed. He lived an extremely happy, full life and we are all better for having known him.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife and his great-nephew.
Survivors include his daughters and sons-in-law, Lynn and George Pettyjohn and Beth and Billy Croll; two grandchildren, Alex and Elizabeth Croll; a sister, Nancy Coffee; nephews and nieces, Ron and Joan Rounsaville, Jamie and Terri Rounsaville, Dr. Keith Coffee and McKay Otto, Kayla and Chris Anderson, and Kari Coffee; nine great-nieces and great-
nephews; a great-great niece; and his beloved cats, Molly and Mimi.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be to Texas A&M Foundation, 401 George Bush Drive, College Station, TX 77840; or to a charity of choice.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in First Christian Church Newton J. Robinson Chapel with the Rev. Barry Loving officiating. Burial will follow in 3 p.m. in Westlawn Cemetery in Borger by Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 S. Bell St.
Sign the online guest book at www.griggsschoolergordon.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, May 1, 2014


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The two major parties have been in the process of nominating their respective slates of candidates for the fall elections lately, but their ways of going about it have been very different.
The usually rambunctious Democrats conducted very business-like affairs with no surprises in both their borough and state conventions. The party's ticket is headed by gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo statewide and Rep. Michael McMahon locally.
The usually buttoned-down Republican conventions were stormy by comparison.
On Staten Island, the GOP inexplicably first nominated scandal-tainted Vito Fossella to try for his old congressional seat amid much controversy and then selected Michael Allegretti for Congress after Mr. Fossella demurred.
The Republicans' statewide convention was even more entertaining, if sturm und drang are your thing. District Attorney Daniel Donovan became one of a handful of Staten Islanders ever nominated for statewide office when he was named the GOP's candidate for attorney general, but that was peaceful compared to the rest of the convention.
The real fireworks came when the fractious Republicans, after a three-hour floor fight, nominated Rick Lazio, who lost badly to Hillary Clinton in the 2000 Senate race, to be Mr. Cuomo's opponent. Longtime Suffolk County official and recent Republican convert Steve Levy came in second with 28.4 percent of the vote.
Mr. Lazio immediately called for party unity, but it was clear that wasn't happening. Both opponents refused to get out of the race.
The candidate who put on the most notable performance in this defiance was Buffalo developer Carl Paladino, purportedly the Tea Party activists' preferred candidate.
The Erie County maverick got just under 8 percent of the delegates' votes when all was said and done, but made it sound like he got robbed.
In a fiery speech in which he seized the microphone to nominate himself, he said, "I'm up here because our party leaders have blocked us from speaking. That's dysfunctional, that's ridiculous and that's flat-out wrong."
He insisted he's the only Republican who's tough enough to clean up Albany, saying of his GOP opponents, that one would do it with a whisk broom and the other with a mop.
He added, "Me? I'll clean up Albany with a baseball bat."
Now he's vowed to spend millions of his own money to get himself on the ballot. Fortunately for the nominee and the Republican establishment, Mr. Lazio has already sewn up the Conservative Party's nomination as well, preventing a three-way contest that would virtually hand the election to Mr. Cuomo.
But it appears the tough-talking Mr. Paladino isn't going away quietly. Stay tuned.