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Popcorn Delays Game in Iowa
When I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles, I spent many a night listening to legendary Lakers announcer Chick Hearn talk about putting a guy in the 'popcorn machine' when said player was faked off his feet on defense. Other than that, I haven't heard of too many connections to the great fluffy snack and basketball. Until now.
In Des Moines the other night, a game between West Des Moines High and crosstown rival West Des Moines Dowling High was delayed more than 20 minutes after halftime because a malfunctioning popcorn machine filled the gym with smoke, setting off smoke detectors and forcing some 2,700 fans to go outside into the bitter cold.
Eventually, the machine was unplugged, the building was aired out and the teams returned to action. First time right? Nope. According to MaxPreps, the school had suffered through two previous popcorn-related delays in the 1990s.
Maybe pretzels next time?


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Municipal bond prices are bubbling up again as investors load up on the seemingly safe bet of tax-exempt bonds. But buyers should beware.
Even though the "fiscal cliff" has passed, industry experts believe Congress could still take aim at municipal bonds in its hunt for new tax revenues, and those discussions could heat up in the next couple of weeks.
"We're operating under the presumption it pretty much is on the table. Everybody you talk to on the Hill…even this week, will tell you it's very much being considered," said Bond Dealers of America CEO Mike Nicholas.

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Well the season was looking off to a weird start. Because I changed day jobs, I was worried that I would miss some time on my Home waters. As contracts and projects seem to be rumbling along pretty well, Liliane and I are setting our sights on a few weekends of fishing.
I remember that I rambled on a few months ago about tying up flies for the 2010 season. All that got done. The Bombers and big streamers are all lines up and ready for the big water we come up against the first few weeks of the season.


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By Bridget Kelly
Catholic News Service
ROME — The month of May is associated with motherhood and new life, and the church dedicates the month to honoring and praising the Virgin Mary. Marian shrines in Rome receive special attention during the spring season because devotees and pilgrims visit the shrines, leaving flowers and gifts for the Madonna.
Street-corner shrines in Rome honor Mary and are places of prayer and thanksgiving. The Marian shrines are built into walls and the sides of buildings, allowing those who pass by to view the Madonna from various angles. Each shrine is unique and varied in color, size and shape.
Stories of miracles surround some of the "Madonnelle" shrines and are very popular with pilgrims who tend to pray the rosary at the sites. Faithful Romans visit their neighborhood shrine daily and offer thanksgiving. They also leave flowers and light candles at the shrines in order to thank and honor the Virgin.
Bridget Kelly is an intern in the CNS Rome bureau while she attends Villanova University's Rome program. Her video story on the street shrines can be found here.


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If you're seeing anything wonky in the new Squarespace interface — CLEAR YOUR CACHE! This is resolving a huge percentage of issues and hiccups, as your browser may have files stored from v4 that can conflict with v5. Below are screenshots of how to clear cache in all supported browsers:
Introducing Subscriptions for Squarespace Commerce: A New Way To Sell This Holiday Season
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Leaders With Social Heart: Three Companies on a Mission to Better The World
At Squarespace, we take special pride in customers who are not only working to make their own dreams come true, but are also focused on making the world a better place. That's why we're honored to be partnering with professional creative network, The Dots, on their latest 10x10 project that celebrates 100 influential leaders who use their creative platforms to make a social impact.
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Make It Happen with Keanu Reeves
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Introducing Conversion Metrics for Squarespace Analytics
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jamoon needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 18 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
RadioFlag is a web and smart phone-based software application that filters broadcast content on terrestrial, satellite and internet radio, by searching the sound waves in real time and delivering to you the live interviews, information, news and entertainment you desire.
Conventional search engines only search documents while at its core, RadioFlag monitors live radio and surfaces live streams to stations playing what you want to hear.
The target audience for RadioFlag is men and women between the age of 18 and 54 that listen to terrestrial, satellite and internet radio.
RadioFlag is a young startup creating a unique search engine built around radio and social media. The web design for this application should be simple, fresh and encompass web 2.0 principals. The design should have it's own identity, we are not looking for Twitter or Facebook clones. The design should allow users to socialize around radio by searching for content and creating "Flags" about it in real time as it's being broadcast. A "Flag" is a bookmark for radio that can be shared allowing other users to identify content they also might be interested in. Searching and Flagging radio content is the cornerstone of the RadioFlag service and will provide a mechanism for users to socialize around radio.
Features Common to All Pages
Site Navigation
-Trending Flags
-Local Flags
-Sign In
Features - Focus areas of the application
-Search (Icon selection to choose search context)
-Find Stations
-Find People
-Find Flags by Keyword(s)
-Create Flag Icon
-Trending Topics (most talked about topics)
-Trending Stations (most talked about stations)
-Media Player (Play Internet Stream)
-About Us
-Terms of Service
Refer to attached Design Brief for more detailed information
User Home Page
Registered users are users that have registered and are logged into the the application. The user home page should illustrate all the public details about a user including User Name, Location, Mini Bio, how many friends they have, how many stations they are following, how many flags they have posted and how many tags they are following.
The main content of the page should be a listing of "Flags" that user is interested in. By default, the user should see the latest 20 "Flags" that apply to all the user interests and should have icons to filter the list to specific interests (All, Filter by Friends, Filter by Interests, Filter by Tags, Filter by Station).
Flag Format
The flag will have some information visible in the list of flags and user can expand the flag to see more information related to the flag
Visible Information by Default
-Profile picture of the creator
-User name of the creator (Link to User Profile Page)
-Call Sign of the Station the Flag was created for (Link to the Station Profile Page)
-Icon indicating the station has an online stream(Link to listen to stream)
-Time that the flag was created
-Flag Message Body (140 characters)
-More info icon
Expanded Information
-Tags related to the flag
-Geo-Location of the flag
-Delete Button (Owner Action)
-Share Button – Facebook, Twitter
-Re-Flag icon
-Additional creator detail
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http://www.twitter.com (new version)


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Job Split Doesn't Always Work Magic
Efforts to split the posts of chairman and chief executive at U.S. companies are finding success. Now all that is needed is evidence it actually helps investors.
Studies show a mixed impact on shareholder returns when independent chairmen are named to keep a better eye on CEOs. While the evidence suggests a split could help companies that are struggling, it also shows the step could hurt shareholders in many other cases.


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France, Argentina tied at 1-1 in Davis Cup QF
Buenos Aires, Argentina – Former Australian Open runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Juan Monaco were Friday's opening singles winners in the best-of-five 2013 Davis Cup quarterfinal between France and host Argentina.
The first bout of the day saw the powerful Frenchman Tsonga outlast a game Carlos Berlocq 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in 3 hours, 52 minutes, while the nightcap saw Argentina get on the board when Monaco handled French replacement Gilles Simon 7-6 (7-2), 6-2, 6-4 in 2 1/2 hours. Simon was placed in the draw Thursday when world No. 9 Richard Gasquet made himself unavailable due to an ankle injury. Both of Friday's winners recorded six service breaks, compared to three for each of the losers.
This matchup is being staged outdoors on red clay at Buenos Aires' Parque Roca.
Saturday's doubles rubber will feature a French duo of Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra, while the hosts will counter with a tandem of former Wimbledon runner-up David Nalbandian and Horacio Zeballos, who shocked the great Rafael Nadal in a clay-court final in Chile in February.
Sunday's reverse singles call for the eighth-ranked Tsonga to meet the world No. 19 Monaco and the 13th-ranked Simon to tangle with the No. 71 Berlocq.
Team France is captained by rookie skipper Arnaud Clement, while the Argentines are guided by Martin Jaite.
Argentina is competing without world No. 7 star and former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, who also made himself unavailable for the Argentines' opening-round tie against Germany in February.
Nine-time champion France is a perfect 5-0 all-time versus Argentina in Davis Cup play, dating back to 1952. The French prevailed 5-0 in their last meeting in a World Group semifinal in Lyon in 2010. France is also 1-0 in Buenos Aires, with that victory coming 31 years ago in the opening round.
France last won the Davis Cup in 2001, while Argentina is still seeking its' first-ever title, having finished as a runner-up on four occasions, including as recently as 2011.
The Argentina-France winner will meet the Czech Republic-Kazakhstan victor in the semifinals in September.


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Shawn Got His Lungs! Benefit Still Happens Sunday
Renee and I met Shawn, who has Cystic Fibrosis, when he was just 13 or 14. He's now in his early thirties. All this time, he's had to fight for something we all take for granted: air. Well, now, thanks to a donor, he has new lungs and a new lease on life!


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2016 Allstate Sugar Bowl Crescent City Classic 10k
Crescent City Classic
Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 8:00 AM (CDT)
*$5 discount for Military; Active, Reserve, Guard, Retirees, Dependents, DOD employees are all eligible;
ALL ENTRY FEES ARE NONREFUNDABLE; NO RACE DAY REGISTRATION OR NUMBER PICK UP AVAILABLE; Kids 3 years and younger do not need to pay registration fee.
Runners wanting to be seeded in the faster starting groups A, B, or C must provide proof that they have run a 10k time of under 45:00 minutes within the last 6 months of registering. If you do not provide a link to the results page or mail in written verification (i.e. a copy of printed race results and/or a finisher's certificate), you will not be seeded in the faster groups. You may also use your Fall Classic 5k time or CCC10k time from the previous year to qualify.
Runners wanting to run and fundraise for a local Charity will register & create a personal fundraising page on Firstgiving (www.ccc10k.com/charity-and-fundraising for more info). Please note there is a fundraising minimum required ($200 minimum) and only 100 spots per charity team in the race.
If you would like your bib number mailed to you prior to the race, the fee is $5 extra per bib number & you must SELECT THE MAIL BACK OPTION BEFORE HITTING SUBMIT! The deadline for the mail back option, WITH FIRST NAME PRINTED on your bib is Jan. 11th. The deadline for the mail back option, WITHOUT first name printed is February 15th. No t-shirts will be mailed. Everyone else will need to pick up their bib number at the Expo.
This fast, point to point course is a USAT&F sanctioned and certified 10,000 meters. It starts on Poydras at Loyola Ave near the Superdome, and runs you right through the financial district, historical Jackson Square, tree lined Esplanade Avenue to beautiful City Park.
Entrants will be assigned to a corral based on their estimated 10k times, which you will provide when you register online. Please choose your accurate pace, as slower participants who start ahead of faster participants create a severe hazard to the faster runners who attempt to pass. Entrants not supplying an estimated time will be placed in the slowest group. All participants who plan on participating with a stroller MUST select the last walking group: 90+ mins for the safety of themselves and others (no jogging stroller allowed).
After the race, plan to enjoy road racing's greatest post-race party, the Michelob Ultra RaceFest, in City Park, complete with a free concert featuring some of New Orleans' most famous and favorite musicians. Water, fruit, jambalaya, red beans and rice, beer and soft drinks are provided free to all registered race participants compliments of our sponsors. For a $10.00 cover charge, friends and family will be able to join in the fun and receive the complimentary refreshments offered at the post race party. There is also a Family Fun Zone, with activities fun for the whole family! *Children 12 and younger enter free & do not need to pay $10.00 fee. Fest passes can be purchased when you register online, at the Expo (at New Registration) or at the Door on Race Day.
AWARDS: All participants will receive a scoring chip (attached to your bib number) to be eligible for race awards. All finishers will receive a finishers medallion. Limited edition Crescent City Classic race posters are given to the first 500 male and female finishers, based off chip time, at 10:30am. Unique trophies and prize money will be awarded to the top finishers during the Michelob Ultra RaceFest, around 10:30am.
The Hyatt Regency New Orleans on Loyola Ave. is the Expo site and Race Headquarters. Plan a weekend in New Orleans at our host hotel and enjoy the City's restaurants, the French Quarter, and the shops and sites along Poydras St. Because of the limited room space available at the special Crescent City Classic rate, please plan ahead and make your reservations early to take advantage of this great bargain! See our website: www.ccc10k.com for reservation instructions.
The Classic Races Series includes 6 races per year:
For more info on each race, please visit ccc10k.com.
All CCC races are produced by the Crescent City Fitness Foundation, a not-for-profit entity whose sole pupose is to promote health, fitness and a better lifestyle for the people of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area.
In order to purchase these tickets in installments, you'll need an Eventbrite account. Log in or sign up for a free account to continue.


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Australia won't be putting all of its economic and investment eggs into China's basket, Trade Minister Andrew Robb says.
Mr Robb and Prime Minister Tony Abbott will embark on a trade and investment tour of Canada and the United States next week.
It will include Mr Abbott's first meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House.
Mr Robb will lead a separate business delegation to Ottawa, Toronto, New York and Houston.
China accounts for 30 per cent of Australia's exports and about $151 billion in two-way trade.
Critics say this leaves the Australian economy open to danger should the Chinese economy slow down.
But Mr Robb said the argument was misguided, particularly given the interest in Australia from the US, Canada, Indonesia, the Gulf States and Singapore.
"I've done 28 investment roundtables in 10 countries," he told AAP.
"They want a stable, certain investment environment.
"I think we are quite attractive and we are restoring the gold standard for sovereign risk."
The US had 10 times more invested in Australia than it had in China, and Australia had $30 billion invested in China but $450 billion in the US.
"I'm very conscious of the fact that the long-term investors - the US, UK, Switzerland and Japan - will continue to be the mainstay of our investment," Mr Robb said.
"A lot of the growth may come out of China and others but you still need the mainstay.
"We can't put our eggs in the one basket but it's fair to say we are not."
The focus of Mr Robb's mission will be pension funds and other investors in North America with an interest in tourism and hospitality, medical research and devices, resources and energy, education and agribusiness.
"These are five things we feel we are as good as anybody and better than most," he said.
There was also the potential for investment in some of the $200 billion in potential state asset sales spurred on by the government's offer of a 15 per cent bonus if the money is put back into infrastructure.
Capital was needed to build five-star hotels to service the growing number of high-spending Chinese tourists.
Agribusiness investment was essential to growing high-value food and fibre products, processing it and shipping it overseas.
Mr Robb's next trip after North America will be to Switzerland and the UK.


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The girl with the dirty blonde hair reminds me of Kelly Bundy! Oh, yeah!
We loved seeing those two blondes getting spanked and anally reamed! Those nice firm ass cheeks, red and screaming for more cock! Love to see them mounted as the stud takes turn with the four hot holes!
J'ai trouve c'est Fuck-U-Mentary avec la delicieuse Kristi Myst et l'autre thon de Nomi ;-) ce film m'a flanque des ampoules !!!
I love ass to mouth, I love the taste,just love it
x elena amici ne trovo è l'amica che manca
have seen the girl with the tattoo on her arm before in a movie called cunt caves, and once on a dvd cover in france, but thats the only places. does anyone know her name? or any other movies on here with her in it? those names provided in the comments above are incorrect. thanks
kristy myst
Very nice performance ladies. Nothing wrong with some ATM...Especially when it goes from one chick's ass to another girl's mouth. Like Crazydude said, with most girls, it's just a matter of getting them worked up enough that they want your cock in their mouth no matter where it's been.
u r not so sexy
Mais ou est la suite Quelle est cette superbe blonde qui leche la bite dans le cul ? svp je la veux !!!!
damn wheres the cumshot?!?!?
She good assfuck ,wish i could cum in her
OK - all of the above comments are stupid - sexual eroticism is an individual thing - my wife's lover is a bi-sexual Italian toyboy with a massive cock - my wife luvs to suck and lick his dick whilst he is fucking his male lover - my wife seems to go into a sexual trance where nothing is forbidden - and I luv to watch her kicking her legs like waving palm trees when her toyboy starts to fuck her - unfortunately, I only have an average 6" which is way too small for my wife - but she really gets off on my watching her servicing her toyboy - the good news is she has a very tight asshole, so I fuck her ass to get myself off whilst she sucks on toyboys dick - we call this our Friday nite "fuck fests"!
ALL chicks should watch, understand and do it like these two lovely creatures do. Just fantastic work girls really. And while my wife would not type here she was truly the lucky one when I slid my throbbing cock into her oiled-up asshole. She squirted all over the sheets and cried between agony and ecstacy before I filled her ass with cum.
These kind of sluts,making me come! :P
Have some cum in my mouth now... tastes better wacthing this clip...
un jour un cul un jour une bouche un jour une bite dans le cul lechee goulument un jour le reve de tout homme se realise enfin
Perfect ass to mouth,when girls are really horny,they do almost everything.Tried swingerclubs,guys !
Nasty girls...wish I knew some like that!
the babe wiz tatoo in her arm is damn so hot,,,, i would have fucked her navel also
lucky bastard...
When fucking my gf's Mom ,she took my dick in her hands and told me it smelt like her daughters ass and asked if last had been there,I nooded yes and she said then we have to clean it and she engulghed it in her mouth before she climbed aboard.
sex sex sex that all i think
Ass juice is the best when its running down a Big Stiff Cock fresh outta the butthole.
yure good preformer
golfpro-How big is your putter?how many strokes are you giving me? and are you willing to play my back nine!!!Do you want to play a threesome?
Love tasting a cock fresh out of juicy girls ass.
That first girl has a very tight ass.Love watching 1 girl take the dick outta another girls ass and suck the ass juices off and stick it back in for more.Very nice assfucking!!
well Jo annie let try it sometime, I mean if you are serious.
I love taking a big dick outta my sisters ass into my mouth several times during the ass fucking and then after he blows in her ass the cum that leaks out onto his dick is great too.
very good performences!!
Girls like ass to mouth is never a yes or no answer. It reallys depends on the heat of the moment.. Ipmy girl does itevery now and then but i have to get her really f 'in horny..that they dont care..and i dont mind cause she is extremely clean. N alwsy prepared for possible anal sex...if you think its weird why r you watching it.?!
the oldest girl is NOMI (french actress)!!
what a lucky man ;-))
Do Girls realy like Ass to Mouth? does anyone knows one who likes it?
where to see you 89???????
The blonde with the tattoo is Kristi Myst I love her and have done for years, a goddess
en chile se debe dar pero vos no lo ves!!! Beautiful
nice girls like these are hard 2 find
mega Geil wöt das au e mol erläbe
kiara non è difficile, basta avere gli amici giusti ;)
yeh.. just like in the video
nice ass fuck!, aqui en chile se da poco eso xd
kiara non credo sia difficile in italia, io non ho mai provato , ma non penso sia difficile. almeno per una ragazza.
humm sa grosse bite vasy encule mmoi
where do u live? i wanna fuck you
su cu e meu
The guy looks like Charlie Sheen.
yes i dream a girl and a man with my pussy and ass but italy is so difficult
the name of the womans please ? very hot ;-)
Kiara you like this fucked her. want fucked with me?
Fantastic I need a day like this
absolutely fantastic!! it's my dream!!!
nice fuck
" Bad to the bone ! " Cock cleaning service included. Nice, ... really nice. What some girls do for extra cash. I could vomit.
nn lo so
si kiama sto cazzo
The Name Is Martina Zalewsca
Her Name Is Jamie King
thats just like going ass to mouth
ashley corn
y u want to know
Name of the girl with the tattoo on her arm?
Hi Yvonne, does ur friend's asshole taste like vanilla ice-cream the times u sucked that dick??


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I spoke with a few senior people from Microsoft's SQL Server group recently and they shared a sentiment that surprised me. Apparently, some reasonably large customers, who might otherwise be very open to running large parts of their business on SQL Server, are opting to stay on Oracle because they perceive that there simply isn't a large enough supply of very senior SQL Server DBAs and professionals in the work force compared to the Oracle space.
That thinking wouldn't have surprised me a decade ago, but in 2010? I'm surprised. I learned the adage "perception is reality" early in my consulting career. So, in this case, does it really matter if there's an actual lack of qualified staff if business decision makers are acting based on that perception being true?
In the short term, this perception might influence whether a company uses SQL Server regardless of whether the perceived lack of senior staff is real. However, if the perception isn't based on reality addressing the matter with a company is an exercise in helping them understand that there are senior SQL Server technologists available to hire and where and how to find them.
I suspect that reality is a little bit of both.
There are certainly many world-class SQL Server experts, and there have been for quite some time. I suppose it's more of a matter if there are enough available to satisfy demand. One observation I'll make is that many of "famous" SQL Server experts I know are consultants who presumably aren't interested in working full-time for a single company in a DBA capacity. Note that I didn't say the best SQL Server people are consultants; I used the word "famous." I've long suspected that for every PASS pre-con speaker there are dozens of people who are just as talented on a technical level and don't desire to be famous or simply haven't had the break that propels them to attention on the community stage. So, I wonder—am I right about that? If I'm right, then I suspect that the lack of expert and very senior SQL Server technologists is largely perception rather than reality.
I'm not going to share any more of my thoughts on this topic this week. Instead, I could really use your help. I'd love to know what you think. Is there a shortage of very senior SQL Server professionals? If yes, what skills do you think are most lacking? What do you see in your company or companies that your friends work at? I'm thinking that a bit of grass roots detective work can help uncover the truth behind this perception. Please feel free to email me directly at [email protected] or comment on this article. I'd really like to know what you think.
By the way, I plan to cover this topic more than once over the coming weeks and months. Yes, I said weeks. I'm not going back to writing more than one time per month in SQL Server Magazine UPDATE, but I'm excited to announce that I'll soon be launching a new blog on www.sqlmag.com that will focus on SQL Server business decision maker's and those who aspire to be business decision makers. I'll be writing there at least weekly, and sometimes more often. We hope to launch the blog sometime in September.


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Kansas science standards under fire
The November 8, 2005, vote of the Kansas state board of education to adopt a set of state science standards that systematically impugn the scientific status of evolution is, unsurprisingly, receiving criticism from all over. Some of the reaction is facetious, such as The New Republic's (November 21, 2005) quip [Link broken], "Governor Kathleen Sebelius worried that [the vote] would scare away high-tech employers. No word yet on projected growth in the state's lucrative necromancy, astrology, and alchemy industries," or the Annals of Improbable Research's suggested warning stickers (PDF) indicating which areas of science are now not valid in Kansas.
More seriously, in The New York Times, reporter Dennis Overbye concentrated on the redefinition of the term "science" in the standards (November 15, 2005). The previous definition reads in part, "Science is the human activity of seeking natural explanations for what we observe in the world around us." The new definition describes science as "a systematic method of continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena." The crucial change, Overbye explained, is in the deletion of the phrase "natural explanations."
Adrian Melott, professor of physics at the University of Kansas, argued, "The only reason to take out 'natural explanations' is if you want to open the door to supernatural explanations," and historian of science Gerald Holton concurred, saying that the effect of the deletion is to imply that "anything goes." The Nobel-prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg added that investigating the supernatural is beyond the competence of science. "This doesn't mean that [scientists] commit themselves to the view that this is all there is," he said. "Many scientists (including me) think that this is the case, but other scientists are religious, and believe that what is observed in nature is at least in part a result of God's will."
Acknowledging that the task of providing a rigorous definition of "science" has proven to be difficult, Overbye noted that "[o]ne thing scientists agree on, though, is that the requirement of testability excludes supernatural explanations. The supernatural, by definition, does not have to follow any rules or regularities, so it cannot be tested." Accordingly, "[t]he redefinition by the Kansas board will have nothing to do with how science is performed, in Kansas or anywhere else." But as Holton explained to the Times, the lives of students and science teachers in Kansas -- and elsewhere, should other states emulate Kansas's redefinition of science -- will be complicated as a result.
In a sidebar to the story, Kenneth Chang briefly described four of the antievolution changes to the standards and presented responses from mainstream science. The changes involved defining evolution as "unguided" (to which NCSE deputy director Glenn Branch was quoted as replying, "'Unguided' is a very slippery word"), claiming that the results of molecular phylogeny contradict the idea of common ancestry, suggesting that macroevolutionary changes are difficult to explain in part because of "irreducible complexity" (a phrase associated with "intelligent design" advocate Michael Behe), and implying that the open questions in origins-of-life research in effect invalidate the field.
Writing in The American Prospect on-line, Chris Mooney -- the author of The Republican War on Science (Basic Books, 2005) -- noted, "These days, it seems, the less the creationists say about what they actually believe, the better they're likely to fare," and cited Kansas as his main example. He wryly remarked, "Call it the Ghostbusters approach: According to Kansas, scientists are now free to go hunting for ghosts, genies, and other supernatural entities. If they happen to discover God along the way so much the better, but let no one say the board has explicitly required it." Mooney concluded that the savvier creationists "have so shrunken the substance of their positive position that it has all but disappeared."
Back in Kansas, the Lawrence Journal-World hopefully suggested, in a November 13, 2005, editorial, that "the board's vote ... may have almost no effect on what is taught in most Kansas schools. Although the inclusion of arguments against the scientific theory of evolution will have some impact on state assessment tests, many teachers and school districts say they have no intention of changing what they teach in science classes." But the editorial expressed concern that "[t]he fact that many local school boards and teachers will ignore, if not overtly defy, the state board's decision on evolution may be the first wedge in a growing chasm between local districts and the Kansas Department of Education."
Perhaps the pithiest reaction appeared in the editorial pages of a small newspaper in a different state: the York Dispatch (November 16, 2005), fresh from covering the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial. The editorial [Link broken] described the antievolution additions to the Kansas state science standards as "rather goofy" and as effectively introducing "[i]ntelligent design in new bottles," advising Kansas citizens to "[g]o to the polls and kick 'em out." "The religious zealots will keep trying to change the tone of science education in this country, but they have a losing game plan. Common sense will always win out in the end."


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It's been a long time - nearly 20 years - since I took the SAT (yikes, I'm getting OLD!) but I still remember how nervous I was before the test.
The test itself is a blur now. I basically recall only one thing about it: a very boring reading passage about the moon. I do remember my feelings afterward, though, when I walked home after the test, mulling over questions I was unsure about and pondering my future. For weeks after the test, my AP classes were a-buzz with everyone talking about SATs, ACTs and colleges they were applying to. It was an anxious time, for sure.
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Scientists studying threatened loggerhead sea turtles in the northern Gulf of Mexico have found the turtles cover hundreds of miles from their nesting sites to feeding grounds offshore in a single season.
Scientists studying threatened loggerhead sea turtles in the northern Gulf of Mexico have found the turtles cover hundreds of miles from their nesting sites to feeding grounds offshore in a single season.
This migration takes them through waters impacted by the oil and fishing industries, and evidence from a new U.S. Geological Survey study suggests the turtles may require broader habitat to recover. The findings also cast new uncertainty on estimates of the turtles' population size, which could be smaller.
"This is the first study to locate and quantify in-water habitat use by female loggerheads in the northern Gulf of Mexico subpopulation during their reproductive periods," said lead author Kristen Hart, a U.S. Geological Survey research ecologist. "Our tracking results show they depend on a much broader range of habitat during this critical part of their lives than was previously thought to be required."
The study challenged the widely held view that loggerhead sea turtles remain near one beach throughout their nesting season. It detailed loggerhead movements between nesting seasons, showing patterns that vary for individual turtles.
The period between nesting begins when females return to shore from the open Gulf around May and lasts until September. Efforts to protect these turtles generally targeted beaches with high nesting activity under the assumption that once turtles had nested on those beaches, they remained in the immediate area or migrated back to sea.
"The satellite data and our observations on the ground tell the same story: loggerheads in this subpopulation nest at multiple beaches, sometimes hundreds of miles apart," Hart said. "Some of the females we captured and tagged on beaches in Alabama traveled over 250 miles to nest in Florida, where we recaptured them. Likewise, we also captured some females in Alabama that had previously been tagged at the Florida site in earlier breeding years."
Researchers analyzed where 39 adult female sea turtles went after they nested on beaches in Alabama and Florida between 2010 and 2012 to learn where they spent time in the water during the breeding season before migrating back to sea.
Loggerhead sea turtles are found throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast, nesting in the U.S. from the coasts of Texas to Virginia.
"We were surprised to find a lot of variation in their behavior," said Meg Lamont, study co-author and U.S. Geological Survey biologist.
On average, the tagged turtles visited areas about 20 miles from shore and moved about 17 miles to nest at another beach, she said. But some of them journeyed more than 124 miles to nest at additional beaches, while others simply cruised back out to sea after the first nesting.
The study results explain a mystery that had puzzled Lamont, who has 16 years of data from the St. Joseph Peninsula in Florida. It found that few of the nesting loggerheads they tagged returned to nest again in the same place.
"We didn't know whether they were dying or simply nesting elsewhere," Lamont said, "Now we know they aren't as faithful to one nesting site as was once thought. The data shows it is not sufficient to just protect habitat around high density nesting beaches — such as the St. Joseph Peninsula — because many turtles that nest on the peninsula use the entire region from the eastern Florida Panhandle to Louisiana."
There could also be fewer female loggerheads nesting in the northern Gulf than current estimates suggest because they are calculated using nest numbers.
"Our research shows that the same turtle could easily deposit eggs in Alabama and Florida if nests are separated by about two weeks," Hart said. "Population numbers based on nest counts may therefore be biased upwards if nests at the two sites were assumed to have come from two different females."
The study also noted that the areas the loggerheads visited between nests overlapped human activities such as shrimp trawling and oil and gas drilling.
Hart said scientists are working to define areas where sea turtles concentrate their activities at sea to create a map of Gulf of Mexico "turtle hotspots."
"The more we know about their habitat use, the more questions are raised about their behavior and ability to adapt. We hope to build a better understanding of how frequently turtles return to these same locations and whether or not they move to new habitats when those locations are impacted, she said.
That can help scientists to develop better management strategies to help these endangered turtles recover.


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It's Official: Minnesota Vikings Will Play Two Seasons at TCF Bank Stadium
A tentative agreement has been reached between the Minnesota Vikings and the University of Minnesota to let the NFL team use TCF Bank Stadium for two seasons, starting in 2014.
The only remaining hurdle is getting approval from the university's Board of Regents, which could come as early as Friday.
According to a letter of intent last May, the Vikings will pay the school $3 million a season, plus revenue sharing. The Vikings would play outdoors on the university's Minneapolis campus in 2014 and 2015 while the NFL team's new stadium is built on the site of the Metrodome.
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November has arrived. The leaves are falling (and clogging up the storm drains), tailgate parties are under way at stadiums across the country (providing an economic boost to the nation's bratwurst and beer makers) and the ferrous scrap and steel industries are slowly entwining in the year-end buy or not-to-buy scrap waltz.
The counterparts on the popular TV show demonstrate how even the most glamorous celebrities have two left feet on a dance floor yet are willing to work with a skilled partner to compete against rival couples. The scrap and steel waltz, by contrast, pits one partner against the other. No trophies are awarded and no prize money is donated to a favorite charity. It's more like a seventh-grade school dance, with the boys on one side of the auditorium and the girls lined up along the opposite wall.
But the year-end buy/no-buy dance has changed. Most of the large mini-mills, the major users of scrap, are now scrap suppliers as well as steelmakers. They resemble the integrated steel industry of decades past, which not only owned the means of production—rolling mills and furnaces, for example—but also the raw materials like coal and iron ore.
A few steelmakers have owned scrapyards for decades. Others, like Nucor Corp. and Steel Dynamics Inc., have acquired theirs only in the past few years, and have prodded their new subsidiaries to buy up even more yards near their mills in an effort to assure supply and minimize freight costs.
For some of these mini-mills, that means not only a steady supply of both prompt industrial steel scrap from auto stamping plants and other metal manufacturing industries, but also obsolete scrap like shredded vehicles and appliances and structural steel scrap drawn from demolition work. Some of those mills cut off deliveries as they approach year-end, with executives anxious to impress shareholders and industry analysts that they are being frugal and not locking up money in stockpiles of raw materials. But rather than piling up at mills, of course, the scrap instead accumulates at their scrapyards.
Scrap dealers aren't fools. Most realize the annual year-end frugality is coming. It used to be just December, but now most expect the dance to begin in November and even continue into the new year in some instances. But the two partners aren't dancing to the same tune that has played year-in and year-out for the past two decades. Nowadays, the domestic scrap-consuming steel mills have a new set of competitors who have added their instruments to the band. Steelmakers in Turkey, China, South Korea and several southeast Asian nations realize that they have an opportunity to buy—and to buy in large quantities—when U.S. mills are sitting on the sidelines.
And the export market has a special appeal to some U.S. scrap processors, especially those not located as closely to key port cities like Philadelphia and New York. When export activity is strong, buyers have no trouble reaching as far inland as they have to and paying the additional freight costs for what they need. After all, an extra $5 per ton of rail or truck transport costs is small when matched against the demurrage charges for a 35,000-tonne vessel sitting at the docks for an extra day or two. Plus, specifications for export scrap aren't as demanding and onerous as they can be at many domestic mills. Some dealers even joke that they can sell virtually anything to the offshore market as long as it sinks in water and sticks to a magnet.
Likewise, they no longer have to wait until the big export yards book orders for two or three bulk cargoes. There are more and more smaller traders ready and willing to buy up enough shredded and heavy melt to fill a 20- or 40-foot container and load it onto a ship for delivery to smaller steel mils in, say, India or Vietnam.
Other domestic scrap dealers have adopted practices that their fathers and grandfathers pioneered in the days when their only markets were open-hearth furnace mills. In those days, some mills only bought scrap on the open market when they needed to boost raw steel production and either lacked additional blast furnace and coke oven capacity to produce enough hot metal or were unwilling to fire up those that had been banked or idled when steel demand was weaker.
In those days, dealers and processors would talk about "sitting on their scrap." Their point was simply that they had banked some of the profits made earlier in the year and could withstand the lack of sales for a month or two at year-end, when few of them were thrilled with the idea of working outdoors in subfreezing or snowy weather. When January arrived, most believed the mills would be starving for scrap and if the winter weather was dumping a foot or more of snow in some northern cities that would only serve to feed the mills' desperation and fears that supplies would run too low.
One veteran mill buyer used to offer his younger co-workers in the purchasing department this warning "We'll never shoot you for paying too much for scrap, but we might if you let us run out of it." In other words, paying too much for scrap is better than paying workers in the melt shop and the rolling mill for standing around with their hands in their pockets.
So once again it's time to tune in this year to "Dancing With or Without Scrap." Watch closely to see which partner is the first to slip on the dance floor.
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Pince-nez or nose-pinching spectacles reached their height in popularity in the late 1800s. They had been around in some form since the 1500s. This pair is typically designed with a C-shaped nose bridge. This example also has a padded leather bridge. The lenses fold at the nose bridge and are secured by a steel latch. Pince-nez spectacles required skill and practice to balance on the nose. These spectacles can be carried in a snap lid case once folded.
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Jean Toomer
On December 26, 1894, Jean Toomer was born in Washington, D.C., the son of a Georgian farmer. Though he passed for white during certain periods of his life, he was raised in a predominantly black community and attended black high schools. In 1914, he began college at the University of Wisconsin but transferred to the College of the City of New York and studied there until 1917.
Toomer spent the next four years writing and published poetry and prose in Broom, The Liberator, The Little Review and others. He actively participated in literary society and was acquainted with such prominent figures as the critic Kenneth Burke, the photographer Alfred Steiglitz and the poet Hart Crane.
In 1921, Toomer took a teaching job in Georgia and remained there four months; the trip represented his journey back to his Southern roots. His experience inspired his book Cane, a book of prose poetry describing the Georgian people and landscape.
In the early twenties, Toomer became interested in Unitism, a religion founded by the Armenian George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. The doctrine taught unity, transcendence and mastery of self through yoga: all of which appealed to Toomer, a light-skinned black man preoccupied with establishing an identity in a society of rigid race distinctions. He began to preach the teachings of Gurdjieff in Harlem and later moved downtown into the white community. From there, he moved to Chicago to create a new branch of followers.
Toomer was married twice to wives who were white, and was criticized by the black community for leaving Harlem and rejecting his roots for a life in the white world; however, he saw himself as an individual living above the boundaries of race. His meditations center around his longing for racial unity, as illustrated by his long poem "Blue Meridian." He died on March 30, 1967.
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A federal judge Monday approved the release of videotaped testimony by President Ford, later used in the trial of Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme, who tried to assassinate him in Sacramento 37 years ago.
Portions of the 20 minutes of testimony taken in Washington in 1975 were played for jurors during Fromme's trial. The Sacramento Bee obtained a copy of the tape Monday.
In his testimony, Ford calmly described seeing a woman in a bright red dress at Capitol Park in Sacramento and thinking she was drawing near to shake his hand.
"My first impression was that she wanted to come closer and extend -- I thought at the time -- a hand to shake, or to say something to me," Ford says on the tape.
Then, he said, he noticed the gun, a .45-caliber Colt semiautomatic pistol, adding that "the weapon was large."
Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, was 26 when she pointed a pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento. Secret Service agents grabbed her and Ford was unharmed.
The tape was later sealed and largely forgotten.
Its release was the result of a motion filed last month by the Eastern District Historical Society, a 12-year-old nonprofit dedicated to preserving the history of the federal court based in Sacramento.
The society petitioned U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller for the tape's release "to preserve the historically significant deposition." The Sacramento Bee also intervened in the case.
Fromme was arrested Sept. 5, 1975, after approaching Ford in the park and pulling a pistol out from her clothing.
The gun didn't go off, and Fromme was wrestled to the ground by a Secret Service agent, a Sacramento police officer and bystanders.
She was convicted Nov. 26, 1975, of attempting to assassinate the president. She was released from prison in 2009 after 34 years.
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"My purpose is always to be better at what I do," says Charles Collingwood, a pre-calculus, AP calculus, and statistics teacher at Rincon High School for the past 16 years.
That desire to be better, is what inspired Charles to develop his own "project-based" method of math education.
Instead of grinding through endless series of equations, Charles challenges his students to investigate the mathematics behind issues of social justice, environmental responsibility, literature or art. Through lab projects, students not only analyze higher math concepts, they communicate those concepts through essay writing.
Charles' goal is to offer every student a chance to succeed. He recognizes that "speaking math" may come easier for some students through words and ideas rather than just numbers and symbols, alone.
For the past year, Charles has found a partner in Jordan Schettler, a PhD student in mathematics at the University of Arizona. The two were partnered through a National Science Foundation fellowship called G-Teams, a program that places math graduate students in K-12 classrooms to develop communication and teaching skills.
Together they have created a culture of curiosity and accountability. They hosted an after-school AP calculus tutoring session every Thursday evening where students work through AP math problems over pizza. Jordan has lectured on the hidden mathematics behind the paintings by Salvador Dali and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Out of his own pocket, Charles attends and presents at math education conferences across the country.
But despite all their efforts, Charles and Jordan's work was impacted head-on by our nation's current education crisis.
Charles, was part of the mass-firings at Rincon High and the funding for Jordan's G-Team fellowship has been eliminated.
Charles begins by describing one of their first classroom projects.
Note: This conversation was recorded on the day Charles received news that he had been fired as part of the mass-layoffs at Rincon. But, we can now report that Charles has since found a new home at another TUSD high school.
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(Funding for the production of Teachers' Voices is provided by Wells Fargo and the University of Arizona College of Education. The series is produced by Matt Felix for Arizona Spotlight.)


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Beaverton [1] is a western suburb the Portland Metropolitan Area.
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By Plane
The nearest airport is Portland International Airport (PDX), which is northeast of Beaverton; see that article for more details.
By Train
By Bus
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The immediate areas around Cedar Crossing Mall [12], Beaverton Transit Center and old town Beaverton are compact enough and "walkable" by foot if getting here without a car. Other areas beyond are typically suburban with everything further apart which will require a private automobile to get around efficiently. Otherwise Trimet do provide all sort of buses to various places in and around Beaverton from both Beaverton & Sunset Transit Center hubs which are also also MAX (light rail) stations.
Some of the activities in Beaverton include various malls including Washington Square, and Cedar Hills Crossing (formerly Beaverton Mall). Both of these malls contain many activities such as great food, including fast food, or formal restaurants. Washington Square recently built a Cheesecake Factory, which is always a popular place to dine. Both malls have movie theaters along with stores that fit anybody's taste. There are many beautiful parks located through out the Beaverton area that are frequented by many people. And, of course since it is the NorthWest, there is a coffee shop on every corner.
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PLC Programming
The Three Top Reasons Why RLL - Ladder Logic - Remains the Control Language of Choice of PLC Users Worldwide Are - It's Easy to Learn, Robust to Use and Offers Transparency Across Platforms
By Dave Harrold
Dick Morley, the "father" of the PLC explained in a recent exclusive interview, "Our design philosophy was simple; put a bunch of relays in a box!"
At the time, Morley was working at Bedford Associates, and because this was the 84th Bedford Associates project, the first Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) was dubbed "084." Eventually the team named its invention the MOdular DIgital CONtroller—Modicon for short—and the rest is a well-documented history of the PLC.
The PLC was born in the early years of microprocessor development, when all sorts of software development languages were emerging, so the question occurs: "Why choose Relay Ladder Logic (RLL) as the programming language for the PLC?"
A Language for All Seasons
To that question Morley is quick to reply, "Technology doesn't count. It's what you do with the technology that counts. Because our philosophy was to put a bunch of relays in a box, we felt that 'our box' was more likely to secure user acceptance if it 'felt' more like what plant-floor users already had accepted and understood, and that was RLL. You see, at the time we created the PLC, we viewed, and still do, that PLC users are really the plant floor electricians and instrument technicians. Since these folks rely almost exclusively on RLL schematics to do their troubleshooting, it made sense then, and it makes sense now, that we provide them access to technology in a way that they are already comfortable using, and that is RLL."
Obviously, the decision of Morley and his buddies working on project 084 was the correct choice because, despite the existence of the programming standard IEC 61131-3 and its inclusion of Sequential Function Chart language and four interoperable programming languages (Instruction List, Ladder Diagram, Function Block Diagram and Structured Text), RLL remains the programming language of choice among users and integrators worldwide for most PLC applications.
Worldwide Acceptance
The original creator of RLL schematics is lost forever in the chronicles of history, but we do know that during the 19th Century's Industrial Revolution, ladder logic schematics became the preferred graphical illustration method for a wide variety of electrical control systems. Today RLL schematics are found glued to the back of your dishwasher and clothes dryer, included in your refrigerator and garage door opener user manuals, and tucked into panels throughout processing and manufacturing plants worldwide.
Why? Because a recent discussion about RLL's popularity on the plctalk.net forum produced similar responses from Bob in Australia, Cameltoe in Tonga, Nathan in Korea, Thomas in U.S. and Sergei in Canada. Each said in their own way that RLL enjoys worldwide acceptance because it's an intuitive, graphical means of depicting both simple and complex control logic.
Jean Pierre Vandecandelaere, a trainer with VDAB Competentie Centrum in Belgium, explains that, "I teach seven different brands of PLC, and the elements of relay ladder logic schematics differs very little from brand to brand."
Mark Muhaw, an automation engineer with Ind-Concepts (http://plctrainer.net/) in South Carolina, provides another legitimate perspective about RLL's universal appeal, "My clients expect me to turn over PLC implementations that don't require them to contact me for on-going support. If they ever do need my support, I find that RLL makes it much easier for me to get myself back-up-to-speed on a particular implementation months or even years later."
So there you have them. The three top reasons why relay ladder logic remains the control language of choice of PLC users worldwide: it's easy to learn; robust to use; and is transparent across a huge number of platforms.
Figure 1. A typical relay ladder logic schematic for starting and stopping a motor.
Easy to Learn
RLL is simple. Relay ladder logic functions are illustrated with two vertical rails connected by several horizontal rungs, thus the name "ladder logic." Typically, the two vertical rail are powered such that together they represent an electrical circuit. As with any electrical circuit, each rung must include some sort of electrical load (i.e., relay coil, indicator lamp, etc.) On/off control of each rung is achieved through one or more sets of contacts (i.e., relay contacts, pushbuttons, etc.) In a ladder logic circuit, normally open (NO) contacts are type-A contacts, and normally closed (NC) contacts are type-B contacts. Connecting multiple contacts in series where all contacts must be closed in order to complete the circuit forms an "AND" function. Connecting multiple contacts in parallel provides a means of completing the circuit when any one of the contacts closes, thus forming a logical "OR" function. Relay coils, whether real or a "virtual" device mimicked by the PLCs internal software, control one or more sets of contacts. When a relay coil is energized or "picked up," its NO contacts close, and its NC contacts open. Conversely, when the coil is de-energized or "dropped out," its contacts return to their normal (shelf) state (Figure 1).
Instructor Bill Simpson of The Learning Pit advises, "Based on teaching PLCs for 15-plus years, there's one thing that I can guarantee that you will find out about PLCs and particularly about RLL. The simple programs and instructions you learn early in your training are by far the hardest to grasp and clearly understand. As you advance, you'll be amazed at how much easier it all seems to get! So, take heart, take it slow, and don't skip to those advanced instructions until you know the simple ones by heart. Yes, they really are that important!"
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Last year for the Swirling Brain (2011):
I constructed a Raspberry Pi case on Shapeways. I keep thinking I'm finished but it seems like I keep having to adjust things or it gets rejected so I have to revise something. I hope to have it for sale soon. I decided to make this case after writing the Raspberry PI article for robots.net. It sounds like it will be a very popular board and I hope to use it for a robot perhaps.
My daughter Bethany went into the hospital a couple of times because of her CF. We got to spend Christmas in the hospital. We planned to have a vacation the week after Christmas, maybe even go to Disney World (that's more of a dream than reality) but I'm glad we hadn't committed since all of the plans were out the door when we got the news. Her CF hospital visits are increasing the older she gets. Her PFTs (pulmonary function test) were down to 32% which is super low. She got them to 52% and they let her out of the hospital. That's still pretty low and it's hard for her to breath anymore. They put her on 3 IV home antibiotics that she had to administer through her two picc lines. Now she's back on aerosol tobramycin (tobi). She doing better and she went back to work but she's still not doing that great. Pray for her.
I'm on the media team at First Baptist Garland. I've been running the sound board for the teens on Wednesday nights and helping with setup on Sunday Mornings. I've actually got to run the big board in the Sanctuary but just for band practice and not for a real live Sunday yet. It's sort of a big deal at a big church but perhaps someday.
My white car the Buick Rivera finally bit the dust. I was without a car for a while and my wife had to take me to work. We couldn't afford another car so I kept hounding my wife for a motorcycle or a scooter. She finally caved and let me buy a scooter. I got one off of craigslist. It's a chinese scooter so the odometer is apparently in kilometers so I have to convert to miles. I seem to get about 72 to 80 mpg! At the current gas price of about $3.50 a gallon that's about 5 cents a mile. It's about 7 miles to work so the cost to drive to work is about 70 cents a day. My dad let me borrow his truck for cold or bad weather days and it gets about 18 mpg which is about 19 cents a mile or about $2.72 a day. So I save about $2 a day or I save about $10 to $15 a week driving the scooter to work and church and other misc places. Just in gas that's a savings of about $500 to $700 a year. Everything else such as fees, insurance and taxes also seems to be cheaper for a scooter. Insurance was like $70 a year. I'm driving lesser driven streets to try to be safe.
I played with jpct (www.jpct.net) and wrote a 3d speedometer android app. It is pretty cool. I wrote some other cool things with jpct too. So then someone broke into our house, stole my laptop, stole my xbox 360 and kinect and stole a dvd player and some money we had at the house. They stole a few other items also. My biggest loss I still feel was the various software I had written on that laptop that I didn't have backed up anywhere else. I think I found an old backup of some of it but still it's a loss. So I've been down about that. Since then I've bought some IP cameras and installed them around the outside of my house. I feel like a theif may get away with it again but at least I might get a picture of them that I could give to the police.
I made some more rolling ball sculptures and sold them on ebay. Besides that I video recorded the building of some of them and listed them on youtube. Google invited me to be a part of their adsense and I agreed and wow I'm getting about $50 a month from that! That's like free money for doing practically nothing. I can now see why there are so many stupid videos of people making a complete fool of themselves because they are laughing all the way to the bank! Click on my videos and help me make some money! ;-)
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EASTER CLASSIC: Bears, Tigers win in consolation
Bunker Hill bounced back from a difficult loss in the opening round of the Easter Baseball Classic with an 8-2 win against Maiden on Tuesday.
In other Classic consolation action, Fred T. Foard took down South Iredell.
For more on both of these games, pick up the Wednesday edition of Catawba County's community newspaper, The Observer News Enterprise, at newsstands throughout the county.


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As if last week's makeup-free selfie wasn't enough to make you love her, this disarmingly candid and sweet video of Cameron Diaz playing photographer and cheerleader for a diverse group of women, just released to support her new project,
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Diaz's book, subtitled "The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, The Power of Knowledge and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body," is all about what she's learned about nutrition, exercise, diet and general well-being — as she says in the video, "it's not a … plan, it's just information for you to have." And she supplemented the text with photos she took herself of 40 very different women, which you can see in the video below.
Though showing oneself off from all angles in spandex isn't many women's idea of fun, Diaz instantly puts her models at ease, asking them what they love about their bodies and offering fitness and nutrition advice from her own experience. You can see the women warm up as they praise their butts, arms, chests and more — and especially as they giggle along with Diaz while she snaps photo after photo. Diaz's mission is very serious, though, as she says in a release: "Wake up. Love yourself. Care for yourself. Your body is the most precious thing that you have."
What do you think of Diaz's photoshoot? Does it make you excited to check out her book? Let us know in the comments.
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Mary E. Roth
Mary E. Roth (nee Mathews) passed away unexpectedly Monday, Aug. 26,
2013, at Waukesha Memorial Hospital after a short battle with leukemia.
Thank you to the staff for the great care and support for Mary and her
Mary was preceded in death by her father, James G. Mathews, and her
brother, Michael E. Mathews.
She will be sadly missed by her husband, James A. Roth; stepsons, Jim,
Dan and Jeff; her mother, Novabelle Mathews; brother, Timothy J. Mathews
(Susan); sister-in-law, Janiece Mathews; and her nieces, Jennifer
Cullert (Patrick, Jackson, Grace), Jessica Kroening (Brett, Sutton,
Evan), Amanda J. Mathews and Tracy E. Mathews. She is also remembered by
many special friends who have been a big part of her life.
Mary enjoyed the Green Bay Packers, playing cards and games with her
friends and family. She loved traveling, shopping and creating beautiful
Christmas cookies. She was employed at Kalmbach Publishing in Waukesha.
Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until the 3 p.m. Mass of Christian
Burial on Sunday, Sept. 1, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 225 S.
Hartwell Ave., Waukesha.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Devine Word Missionaries or
Family Memorial Donations.
Church and Chapel Funeral Home is serving the family. For more
information, call 827-0659 or visit
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Cooler Master N600 Review
Cooler Master N600 Introduction:
Over the years, Cooler Master has been known for a wide variety of products - power supplies, fans, CPU coolers, and gaming peripherals - but for me the first thing that comes to mind is the wide range of Cooler Master cases. From the HAF and COSMOS series monster cases down to the LAN box, Cooler Master has a case for you. Recently I reviewed the N200 and it is really a nice little case packed with features.
At the other end of the spectrum is the N600. This is a mid tower case with even more features. If you are a fan of liquid cooling and many fan mounting locations, you will love this case. Ever seen a side radiator? Well, this case supports it. Up to 280mm on top and 240mm on the side.
Cooler Master N600 Closer Look:
First, let's look at the box. Up front we have a nice color graphic of the case and on the rear there are three shots that illustrate the internal features of the N600 with a set of detailed feature descriptions in eight languages in the charts below the images. On the ends we have a nice 3/4 view profile picture and full list of features.
The top is fairly simple. Just the Cooler Master logo and the model - and of course, the usual shipping labels. Open the top and the N600 is ready to be unpacked. There is something about opening a big case box - it makes me feel like a kid on Christmas morning.
Heavy Styrofoam end caps keep everything in pristine condition. A plastic bag does its job and protects the case on the journey to your door from the wear induced by the Styrofoam in transit. Remove the main packing and there is generous use of clear plastic film to cover the front trim and side window.


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In other news, the new Weird Al album comes out tomorrow, June 21. Tomorrow is gonna be awesome.
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Today was the big day... Any word on how it went over? I haven't heard a single peep from the radio or TV about it.. Did all 3 people hold hands and march from Moscow to DC? I wanna know.
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Perry Township man finishes project started in 1983. After 30 years, Kyle Brumfield will take to the skies in his hand-built airplane.
For 30 years, Kyle Brumfield has parked his car in the driveway.
Back in 1983, Brumfield decided to build an airplane inside his Perry Township garage. It's finally finished.
Well, almost. Earlier this month, with neighbors watching and friends helping, he wheeled it out of the garage and loaded it on a flatbed for a slow, careful trip to a hangar at Wadsworth Municipal Airport.
"I've had some withdrawal," he admitted, looking at the now empty garage.
After some final tweaks, tests and an inspection by the FAA, Brumfield will take to the skies.
So why did it take 30 years?
Unlike many hobbyists, Brumfield didn't use a kit with pre-cut, pre-punched parts. He built his Falco F8L from blueprints, painstakingly handcrafting every element.
"I milled all the parts myself," said Brumfield, a retired tool and die worker. He put each tiny number on every instrument panel, and even upholstered the seats — one of many self-taught skills.
"When my first wife had trouble with sewing, she'd holler for me and I'd straighten her out and get her going again," Brumfield said. "It just comes natural to me I guess. I'm not great but I got the job done."
Pete Klapp of Jackson Township begs to differ. He says Brumfield's work is impeccable.
"Everything is aerospace quality. I worked for Goodyear Aerospace for several years and what he made was every bit as good as what we sent out the door there," said Klapp, who is building a plane in his basement. "You look at his project and you want to go home and burn yours. He's done a stunning job."
The two men are long-time members of the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), and Klapp has watched Brumfield's progress from the start.
"The entire plane is built out of plywood. A lot of compound curves, so (the wood) has to be wetted and heated and gradually bent into the shape you want," Klapp said. "An awful lot of work went into that. Takes an immense amount of patience. Mine is part fiberglass and doesn't require that level of patience."
Brumfield's plane says "Experimental" on the wing, but that doesn't mean new-fangled. In fact, the Falco design is from 1955. When Brumfield saw it in an EAA magazine, it was love at first sight.
"It's an Italian design by Stelio Frati. This guy was way ahead of his time. Everything then was still rag and tube," Brumfield said, referring to the design of linen over a welded tube fuselage. Frati's all-plywood design, initially used as a military trainer, was a revolutionary development.
"Experimental" is an FAA classification meaning home-built, Klapp explained.
Brumfield said he can't even guess the amount of man hours or dollars he has put into his plane during the past 30 years. But Klapp said one of the appeals of experimental planes is the low cost.
"Mine might top out at $18,000," said Klapp, who, like Brumfield, is not using a kit. "A brand new Cessna might go for $125- or $150-thousand."
Brumfield said another appeal is speed.
"The cruise speed on mine should be about 200, 210. It redlines at 240," Brumfield said. "It is also aerobatic — has an inverted system so it will fly upside down as well as right side up."
Once he get the thumbs up from the FAA and he's airborne, will he do the loop de loop?
"I've done it before, so..." Brumfield paused, then chuckled. "Yeah, it probably will happen."


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Frequently Asked Questions
1. How many people can a helicopter hold? How is the seating done? Can I sit up front?
Sunshine's fleet of Astar helicopters seat (accommodate) six passengers plus your pilot. The weight & balance of the helicopter is computer generated and insures proper seat assignment. This system is used to equally distribute the weight, ensuring the pilot a level and safe flying platform. Both fore/aft and lateral balance are considered along with overall total weight of the helicopter. There are two seats to the left of the pilot and four seats directly behind. Our helicopters are made for touring, so each seat provides an excellent view for all passengers. Special requests for certain seats will be granted if allowed by our weight and balance system. Safety is Sunshine's #1 concern.
2. Do you have a set schedule? What's the best time to fly?
No, we do not have a set schedule. Tours are established solely upon your request of tour area, day and time. We will fly any tour anytime at your request, weather permitting. We suggest you book (reserve) your flight in advance to ensure availability. All of our tours afford an excellent view, and any flight time whether morning or afternoon should be fantastic.
3. What's the best tour?
Each of Sunshine's tours highlights particular areas of interest. Within these areas are many points of interest. We find our guests enjoy each of our offered tours. Repeat flyers generally choose an alternate tour, however sometimes passengers take the same tour over and over again. Also, each pilot choreographs his own music, narration and scenic sights so no flights are the same. Please select the tour that meets your flight-seeing desires.
4. Can we bring a camera? Best camera lens?
Cameras are permitted on board and recommended. We have found through guest comments that a 35mm with ASA 400 or higher with a wide-angle lens works good. Our tours offer some of the most unique photo-taking opportunities anywhere on the planet. We have disposable cameras for sale in our logo shop. Your pilot will create a video of your actual flight utilizing our five-camera system which includes a cabin camera, side and nose cameras and a unique tail camera. (Sold separately)
5. Does the wind affect the helicopter?
Helicopters unlike planes have no fixed wings. The main rotors act as a gyro and stabilize the helicopter in gusty conditions. If wind and gust are such that it will cause an uncomfortable flight, tours will be canceled. Your safety and comfort are our #1 concern.
6. What should I wear? Why do you recommend dark clothes? Will I be comfortable?
Clothing should be comfortable and casual. Dark shirts or tops are recommended for photo taking. Bright colored clothing may put a reflective glare on the helicopter plexiglass windows and reflect in your photos. Dark clothing helps to eliminate the reflection. Our climate control system keeps our helicopters at a comfortable temperature for the entire flight.
7. Do people get sick? Should I take Dramamine?
Although most of our guests enjoy our flights with no discomfort at all, some guests are prone to motion sickness. If this applies to you, we would recommend taking Dramamine or a similar product. As with all medicines, consult with your doctor before use. All of our flights are sightseeing tours and our pilots take pride in providing the smoothest, safest, and most enjoyable tours available. Helicopters have "Aloha" bags on board if needed.
8. How long has Sunshine been in business?
Sunshine's first tours were flown by Ross using a four-passenger turbine powered Bell Jet Ranger in 1985 on the island of Maui. By 1988 Sunshine was operating three Bell Jet Rangers and one six-passenger Astar. In 1998 we expanded operations to the Kona side of the Big Island and shortly thereafter to Hilo. Today we operate seven six-passenger Astars.
9. Are there restrooms on the helicopter?
No, helicopters are not equipped with restrooms. We do provide restroom facilities at each of our departure/landing sites.
10. How experienced are your pilots?
Sunshine is proud to provide our guests with some of the most experienced pilots in the islands. Each of our pilots receives extensive company and factory training. To find out more about our pilots and training standards go to (About Us/pilots) & (other links/T.O.P.S.)
11. Am I guaranteed to see everything in your tour description?
Tour descriptions are based on what sites have been most requested in the area to be toured. Every attempt will be made by our pilots to cover each site described or requested by you, weather permitting. Pilots will adjust their flight path for wind and weather. We have many alternate sites to recommend. You will have the very best helicopter tour of Hawaii! Again, your safety and comfort are our #1 concern.
12. Will I see lava?
Active lava viewing is available on the Big Island tours only. Lava is regularly seen on our flights over Volcanoes National Park.
Flights available throughout the day
Check-in 45 minutes prior to departure
Exact flight time provided in confirmation email.
Meet Sunshine Helicopters Pilots
|Name: Ross Scott
Position: Pilot - President
Flight Hours: 16,000+
|Name: Paul Morris
Position: Pilot/
Director of Operations
Flight Hours: 19,000+
|Name: Fred Adlard
Position: Pilot Suprvisor
Flight Hours: 19,000+
|Name: Bogart L. Kealoha
Position: Pilot
Flight Hours: 22,500+
|Name: Bruce Needham
Position: Pilot / Island Manager
Flight Hours: 20,500+
|Name: Martin Adams
Position: Chief Pilot
Flight Hours: 21,500+
|Name: Jedreck Squyres
Position: Pilot
Flight Hours: 6,000+
|Name: Joseph K. Song
Position: Pilot
Flight Hours: 35,500+
|Name: Grant Phillips
Position: Pilot
Flight Hours: 2,500+
|Name: Chris Currier
Position: Pilot
Flight Hours: 3,500+
|Name: Keith Benedick
Position: Pilot
Flight Hours: 8,500+
|Name: Justin Fisher
Position: Pilot
Flight Hours: 2,000+
Circle Island Tours (Area 1+2 on the map)
Whisper STAR - EC 130 B4
The EC 130 B4 Whisper STAR is the ultimate in sightseeing helicopters. More interior room, more visibility with added plexiglass and elevated rear seats. Sunshine customizes the standard factory interior with business and first class seating to further enhance passenger comfort and visibility. Soar in the state-of-the-art Whisper STAR and experience the superb quiet and ultra smooth most advanced technological sightseeing helicopter ever!
Whisper STAR First Class Seating:
The three front seat configuration is replaced with two front seats. Passengers enjoy "First Class" seating next to pilot, with extra arm and leg room. Maximum combined weight for two passengers: 490 lbs.
Whisper STAR Open Seating:
Up to six-passengers, seat assignment determined by weight and balance.
The industry standard "Black Beauty" has all forward facing customized bench style seats giving excellent visibility. Sunshine has flown over 850,000 satisfied passengers in our "Black Beauties" since 1985. Recently upgraded in 2008 to the all new ASTAR 350FX, the "FX" carries more weight, flies faster, is quieter and more fuel efficient. The increased capacity allows the FX to have "First Class" seating. The conversion from AS350BA to AS350FX is provided by Heli-Lynx Helicopter Service of Canada and approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Sunshine Helicopters uses David Clark Company aviation quality stereo headsets with left and right volume controls. David Clark headsets are specifically designed to provide hearing protection for pilots while also providing clear, isolated reception and crisp transmission at normal voice levels in a noisy aircraft. When used in the very quiet cabin of our A-Star helicopters you have the best noise attenuating aviation headsets available anywhere. We have found these headsets to have excellent performance with very low maintenance. For your comfort our David Clark headsets feature new flo-fit get ear seals (the finest Available) with soft, double knit, 100% cotton ear seal covers designed for hot, humid weather. With the super-soft, foam filled head pad and the comfort of our air-conditioned cabin there is no equal.
All Flights Include:
* Ground briefing


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