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Reports published May 3, 2013 in The Mexico Ledger
MHS SOCCER: The Mexico Lady Bulldogs soccer team traveled to Boonville Thursday night and were shutout by the Lady Pirates 3-0.
"It has been a bit of a run of tough results here lately, but the attitude last night was better and we feel like there is still time to turn the corner," remarked MHS Coach Brad Ellebracht.
Mexico's record is 5-11 on the season. The junior varsity team also lost 1-0.
MMS TRACK: The Columbia Relays on Tuesday was a good way for the Mexico Middle School to end its track season.
The boys finished third as a team and everyone on both the girls and boys side competed well and continued to have several season bests. Some highlights included a 2-3 finish by Gabe Deimeke and Terrese Aaron in the discus, season best second place from Bryan Roth in the 100M, a season best boys 4X400 (AJ Tracy, Marcus Moore, Cameron Baumgartner and Kellen Ekern) for third in a highly competitve race, season bests by all of the players in the long and triple jump and a season best by the girls 4X400 (Amber Shaw, Elizabeth Finck, Rebecca Rothermich and Nyja Mitchell) by 12 seconds and they ended up placing fourth coming out of the slower seeded heat.
"Track can be a very tough sport and training was particularly hard with the weather this season. I am proud of all of the kids that finished the season," remarked MMS Coach Cindy Allison.
Boys team scores: Camdenton 123.5, Thomas Jefferson 109.5, Mexico 59.5, Moberly 55.83, Lewis and Clark 55.5, Fulton 41, Centralia 40.5, Jeff Jr. 38, Oakland 24.33, Columbia Catholic 22.33, and West 16.
MEXICO BOYS SCORES (SB=Season Best, PB=Person Best)
Bryan Roth: 100M 11.88 SB.
Gabe Deimeke: Discus, 104-5 SB.
AJ Tracy, Marcus Moore, Cameron Baumgartner, Kellen Ekern: 4 X 400M Relay 4:08.55 SB.
Terrese Aaron: Discus 100-11.
Avion Williams, Cameron Holman, Jeffrey Burgess, Roth: 4 X 200 M Relay 1:46.92.
Ekern 400M 1:01.01 SB.
Michael White: 100M 12.30.
Williams, Burgess, White, Roth: 4 X 100 M Relay 51.23.
Tracy: 800 M Run 2:27.40.
Aaron: Shot Put 34-1.5.
Holman: 800M Run 2:28.90.
Holman: Long Jump 15-9.
White: 200M Dash 26.02 SB.
White: High Jump 4-10 (tie).
Holman: 100M Hurdles 17.80.
Girls team scores: Lewis and Clark 129.5, Camdenton 81.5, Thomas Jefferson 67, Centralia 63.5, Oakland 60, Jeff Jr. 58.5, Columbia Catholic 40, Moberly 32, Mexico 26, West 24, and Fulton 3.
Amber Shaw, Elizabeth Finck, Rebecca Rothermich, Nyja Mitchell: 4X400 M Relay 4:51.50 SB.
Elisabeth Gooch: Discus 67-9.
Lesli Key: 1600 Run 6:18.00.
Rothermich: 400 M 1:13.23.
Shaw: 1600M Run 6:19.00.
Shaw: 800M Run 2:49.50 SB.
Taylor Brown: Discus 67-1.
Pascoe 100M 14.2.
Pascoe, Rothermich, Peyton Johnson, Mitchell: 4X200M Relay 2:04.78.
Pascoe, Costley, Johnson, Mitchell: 4X100M Relay 58.47.
Key: 800M Run 2:50.20 SB.
Adria Costley: Triple Jump 26-11 SB.

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Currently, I'm in Dallas for a few weeks and this city will host Superbowl 45 in Feb 2011 and will be the first time that DFW hosts a Superbowl. (ofc talk of the town/ESPN is how the Cowboys are choking big time, unlikely to make it to become first team in NFL history to play superbowl in its home stadium, but thats another issue)
So was looking at future Superbowl hosting cities 46 is IND, 47 is in NOLA, 48 is in some stadium in NJ, which is a completely open stadium.
I remember KC voters turning down some tax increase to put a retractable roof on Arrowhead, which according to Wikipedia, NFL was going to award Superbowl 49 in 2015 to KC provided it had a roof!
So is there still plans to try to put up a roof on Arrowhead? Or how likely is NFL willing to host a Superbowl in a fully open stadium?
Would be totally awesome to see Superbowl come to KC...and by 2015 hopefully our team will have matured and be considered as much of a Superbowl contender as Steelers/Colts/Pats/etc.


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Rick Santorum's grassroots campaign effort proved effective in Mills County and across the state last Tuesday in the Iowa Caucuses, the first presidential primary test of the 2012 campaign season.
The former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania finished in first place in 62 of Iowa's 99 counties, including Mills, and lost the statewide poll by just eight votes to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's perceived front-runner.
In the closest race in the history of the Iowa Caucuses, Romney edged Santorum, 30,015 - 30,007. In Mills County, however, Santorum was victorious, garnering 163 votes (31 percent), compared to 132 (25 percent) for Romney and 84 (16 percent) for third-place finisher Ron Paul. Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich finished fourth in Mills County, followed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
Santorum and Bachmann were the only two candidates to make campaign appearances in each of Iowa's 99 counties. Santorum visited Glenwood in October while Bachmann came to town in late December.
While over 500 Republicans were participating in their party's caucuses, conducted at various sites throughout Mills County, less than two dozen Democrats were on hand in Malvern for their party's county-wide caucus.
President Barack Obama is unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
Caucus goers in both parties spent time discussing potential platform issues for their respective parties and making delegate appointments for upcoming county conventions.
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TOWNSEND -- The Planning Board has delayed until February a decision on a special permit for St. John's the Evangelist Parish because the board did not have enough members at its meeting Monday night.
Jeanne Hollows, the Planning Board administrator, said four members of the board must be present to vote on a special-permit application, as deemed by state law. The board has two vacancies and only four active members, and one of them was not at the meeting.
As a result, she said, the board could not close the hearing and vote on the application. Instead, all of the information presented Monday night will be forwarded to the absent member, who must review it and sign off on it before the public hearing can be closed.
The two-story church activity center at St. John the Evangelist Parish on School Street was destroyed Dec. 29, 2011, after a fire that started in a garage next door spread to the center.
The activity center, valued at just over a quarter of a million dollars, was considered a total loss by Fire Chief Donald Klein, and the home attached to the garage was severely damaged.
There were no injuries, but the blaze displaced dozens of local groups that used the parish center to hold meetings and gatherings.
The Rev. Jeremy St. Martin, who is listed as the applicant for the special permit, hopes to build a 38-foot-by-90-foot, two-story parish center at the church for meetings and social gatherings.
The application previously went before the Board of Selectmen, who referred it to the Planning Board to be considered.
The public hearing will likely be closed at the board's meeting of Feb. 28, and as long as all four members are present, a vote will be taken.
St. Martin, whose assignment as pastor of the church began just two days after the fire, said that it's an exciting time for the church.
"It presents a lot of positive opportunities for the parish," he said. "This will allow us to continue the critical services we provide. We're trying to rebuild in a timely fashion. The services we provide aren't going away."
Ultimately, he said, it's less about the building and more about the variety of programs the building allows the church to run.
"The building is the means to the end," he said. "I wouldn't say I'm excited about the building as much as I am about the services we can provide as a result. The goal is driven by the people we're serving and the needs of the church."
Currently, there is a worship hall, administrative building, function hall and temporary meeting space provided in temporary trailers. The proposed addition will replace the trailers and have meeting spaces on the lower and upper levels.
Temporary buildings have been sitting on the property to help continue the services, but St. Martin said insurance will only cover the cost of them for another four months, and the church does not have the means to continue paying for them.
The temporary buildings cost about $3,000 a month to house, he said.
"The frugal solution is to build," he said. "We're building in a way which is very simple so that it can be in keeping with our economic ability while being timely."
St. Martin anticipates the cost to rebuild is about $800,000.
The insurance money received from the fire will cover at least a third of the cost of the new building, he said, and the church has qualified for a loan to cover the remaining costs.
In a report prepared by Jesse Johnson of David Ross Associates, he says that new sidewalk access is being proposed to both levels of the building, which will also be handicapped-accessible to both levels from the main parking lot. There is no plan to add additional parking, and traffic patterns for the site will remain the same.
Johnson said the town's zoning requirements call for 60 parking spaces at the site, and there is currently room for 67 cars.
A new parking lot will be provided off School Street that will allow for access to the lower level from the School Street side. The existing curb will be widened.
The new building is expected to be 3,430 square feet.
Johnson also wrote in his report that there is no anticipated flooding impact to any of the abutting properties.
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== Reason 5 ==
At the end of the first comment on the fifth argument, it says "energy requires no space". Is that supposed to say that or perhaps "energy doesn't require space?" -- [[User:Daemonowner|Daemonowner]]
At the end of the first comment on the fifth argument, it says "energy requires no space". Is that supposed to say that or perhaps "energy doesn't require space?" -- [[User:Daemonowner|Daemonowner]]
Revision as of 15:09, 27 January 2011
Initial discussion
To be honest, so much of this is simply gibberish, it's going to take a while to sort out proper responses. And we thought Gish galloping was dead! Nullifidian 14:01, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
- Many of them can all be lumped together or the responses can be repeated. For instance, 15-20 may probably all be dismissed with Douglas Adams' "sentient puddle" analogy. Is there another name for that besides the fine tuning argument? --Kazim 15:37, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
- As far as fallacies go, these could be a combination of unaccepted enthymemes, the existential fallacy, tautology, and/or denying the antecedent, and, of course, a priorism. -- Nullifidian 19:48, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
- Thanks for translating my makeshift "puddle fallacy" responses to the more correct "anthropic principle" -- knew I was missing a better way to say that.fishbulb 22:29, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
I understand the need to remain entirely objective, but I'm having trouble coming to an answer that isn't a giant "you're an idiot" with response to "26. If man has evolved from an animal, why doesn't he behave like an animal? Yet man is civilised." War, famine, corruption, oppression, slavery, hatred, racism, homocide, infantacide, genocide. That's what runs through my head, and I don't think argument ad ignoratiam alone covers it. Anyway, I'd be interested in how to elegantly, neutrally and directly explaining this one. --Zurahn 18:41, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
- +1 for the "you're an idiot" response to most of these. Is that allowed, or do we have to play by the rules even when they refuse to/are unable? Nullifidian 19:31, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
Anyone know why the history page lists all the edits that have been made today, which is actually June 18 unless I've stepped into some time warp, as occurring on June 6? (Wait: Goddidit?) fishbulb 20:28, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
- It's most likely that the system date of the server and separate offset in MediaWiki are conspiring to provide conflicting dates. It may be prudent to check the date on the server, and any date manipulation being done by MediaWiki. -- Nullifidian 20:43, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
And we now have an answer for every claim. 50 arguments, thoroughly demolished in less than 10 hours. Applause all around.
My next thought: how do we get this in front of the people who need to see it? I know, even if everyone who received the original email read these answers, we'd likely gain very few converts, but often just getting people to stop thinking on the level of this nonsense and considering their faith in logical terms can be the seed that sprouts into freethought, to appropriate their metaphor. I wouldn't want to start mass spamming people, but I certainly think anyone who forwards the original is fair game for a rational response, having opened the debate. What other methods can we use to make sure this effort (not that it took much, honestly) doesn't amount to us talking amongst ourselves? fishbulb 22:27, 18 June 2008 (CDT)
- I dunno... google the wording of the original post periodically, find copies of it on the web, and publicly reply to them with this link? (i.e., post it on blogs) --Kazim 01:04, 19 June 2008 (CDT)
I...um...broke it. I've tried to fix the Comment Box for #7, but for some reason it just won't show up.
- I couldn't identify the cause of the problem but I essentially just retyped it and it works now. fishbulb 20:14, 19 June 2008 (CDT)
Most of these "arguments", I've noticed, aren't even "arguments for the existence of God" at all; about half are just stupid straw man assertions like "Atheists should get a life" or "Einstein said that religion and science should mingle". Of the half that aren't just ad hominem qualifiers, the list is still chock full of the false dichotomy between natural selection and creationism by a specific god. Even when I was a Christian, I don't think that I would actually take any of this seriously. walkertheatheist
Split into sections?
Does anyone have a strong objection to splitting the contents of this page into 50 sections? For example:
== Reason 1 == ... == Reason 2 == ...
Now that all the "reasons" have rebuttals (and the page has grown to 31K), I think this would make future editing much easier, since much of it will probably be minor tweaking or expansion of individual responses. - dcljr 03:37, 20 June 2008 (CDT)
- Sure, I'll do it. --Kazim 11:22, 20 June 2008 (CDT)
- It Is Finished. --Kazim 11:52, 20 June 2008 (CDT)
Integrate the responses into existing articles
Some of the responses are now very long -- which is nice, but also doesn't quite match what I had in mind originally. I was hoping that any material which requires a lengthy response or multiple responses would be integrated into existing articles, so that it can improve the state of the articles as a whole. For example, "Reason 29" is about the use of the "BC/AD" system as proof that Jesus lived. It has three separate comment boxes on it. I would hope that this text could be folded into some article, such as Anno Domini or a new apologetic argument focused article with a header such as "The Western calendar proves that Jesus was real." Also, any comment box that has external links would likely be better off pointing to an article which includes those links in the "external links" section. What do you think? --Kazim 12:23, 20 June 2008 (CDT)
Snappy comebacks?
I hate to say this, I really do, because TheTrueScotsman has clearly put a lot of work into it. But I am just not sold on the idea that "Snappy comebacks" belong here. I love Mad Magazine, but this isn't a site for practicing comedy; it's for sincere counter-apologetics.
To the extent that the "snappy comebacks" make legitimate points, I think they should be worked into the counter-apologetics sections of each of the various argument pages. If they're just there to repeat things that were already said in the arguments, I feel like we can do without them.
Can I get some discussion please? I wouldn't feel comfortable just wiping out everything that TheTrueScotsman has done by fiat. --Kazim 07:27, 24 June 2008 (CDT)
- Agreed in full. fishbulb 19:46, 24 June 2008 (CDT)
- All right then... I'll give Scotsman another day to suggest what we should do with his responses before I just take them out. --Kazim 20:55, 24 June 2008 (CDT)
- A few days ago, I added a "snappy comeback", as it were, to one of the comments, because, well, it seemed so necessary. Having two or three sarcastic retorts (worked into the main comments) seems to me to be entirely appropriate, but not on the majority of the responses. - dcljr 22:11, 24 June 2008 (CDT)
- All right then... I'll give Scotsman another day to suggest what we should do with his responses before I just take them out. --Kazim 20:55, 24 June 2008 (CDT)
Chaps, I've just seen that my "Snappy Comebacks" have been removed. Obviously I'm sorry if my tone was not in keeping with the objectives of the Wiki (you can tell it is my first idea at editing, having read the invitation from The Atheist Experience), I just thought that sometimes detailed comebacks are not always necessary. I though the answers given - whilst completely accurate - seemed to be a little formal. In any debate a well aimed barb can often disarm an opponent better than a detailed retort. I shall, of course, bear the comments in mind for any future editing. Regards. TheTrueScotsman
- Hi Scots. I really hope that you don't take this change in your writing as an implication that you are not welcome to post on Iron Chariots. I want to encourage you and others to feel free to make improvements and corrections, and even contribute new articles when necessary. What you have to understand, however, is that a wiki is a group effort, and sometimes your changes will be overridden. In this case, you made very sweeping changes to the style of the page across the board. I think it might have been a good idea to take your ideas to the discussion page first and see if you could drum up a consensus about this. Again, this is not a universal description of policy, but when you have something that constitutes a drastic change, it's a courtesy issue.
- As far as well-aimed barbs go: I appreciate humor as a rhetorical weapon also, but sometimes it can be overdone. Most comedians know that jokes lose their impact if you repeat them too many times. You could respond to a serious argument by saying "I know you are, but what am I?" This might even get you a laugh because of the unseriousness of the response. But if you do this fifty times, first of all it gets old, and second of all it doesn't help to make your case. Do you see what I mean? --Kazim 16:20, 27 June 2008 (CDT)
DNA argument, if addressed at all, need somebody knowledgeable to review it. RNA is perfect example of decoder(understander) , which supposedly according to this article is required for ID argument. RNA-DNA interactions are very tricky subject it should not be treated lightly as it seems to be in this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cheburashka1326 (talk • contribs), 9 September 2009
Stephen hawking quote - Doesn't answer 'why'
In the 45th reason, the stephen hawking quote one, the response is that religion or the bible does not answer the 'why' the universe began to exist, or why God made it. But there is a problem with that. If god made the universe, then he had a want or need to do so. Since a perfect being does not have any wants or needs then god is not perfect, and subsequently not a god. If god were to want to become a god, or more god-like then he would have a reason to create the universe (ignoring him wanting to create it for people, its just arrogant). Since he would never be more perfect than a being who was always perfect, he could never be a god, but he could become more god-like, hence his reason to create the universe (getting rid of a want or need to become more like a god). This is actually my argument I made, maybe missing a bit of reasoning but easy to understand i think.. feel free to respond with what you think of it. --Daemonowner 07:26 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I believe what you are referring to is the no-reason argument? I think it makes some sense, although I don't really think that the idea of a "perfect" being is even clear enough that I personally would base any argument off it. I thought we had a clear explanation of the that argument somewhere on this site, but I can't find anything but that stub. --quantheory 03:30, 16 July 2010 (CDT)
Yeah, I made the argument but I don't think I was the first to do so. Daemonowner
Reason 44
regarding the response to reason 44, isn't it true that nothing in the scientific sense gave rise to everything? unless i misunderstood lawrence krauss' speech which is very plausible. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daemonowner (talk • contribs), 15 October 2010
Maximum entropy?
At the end of the response to Reason 4, it says: "If the Laws of Thermodynamics apply to the whole universe/multiverse, this would mean that all of the closed systems within the universe/multiverse (and thus the universe/multiverse itself) tend to lose usable energy and that this energy is never recovered or used again. If the matter in our universe was eternal, it would have already reached its point of maximum entropy, which clearly has not happened yet." This would appear to be faulty reasoning: the universe can continuously increase in entropy (including "infinitely far" back in time) without actually ever reaching its maximum entropy, in the same way that the function t/sqrt(t2+1) increases (as t increases) for all real numbers t [i.e., in the interval (−∞,∞)], but never reaches a maximum value. - dcljr 14:36, 22 October 2010 (CDT)
Comment removed from article
I've removed this comment (submitted by User:Meruem on 16 June 2010) from the article:
- "Just on a side-note, the Anthropic Principle can be used to either help prove or disprove the existence of God (depending on how you use and interpret it), and that its application in the theist/atheist sense is not truly scientific. Science is not about theism or atheism, and I would hesistate to advise the use of the AP in relgious discussion, particularly given the limited frame of reference current-day humans have. Whenever someone does bring this up, this is what I say.}}"
It doesn't seem to fit in with the whole "responses to theist arguments" theme and appears more suited to a talk page. But perhaps I've misunderstood and it can be reworked into a more appropriate "response" for the article itself? - dcljr 16:12, 20 January 2011 (CST)
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At the end of the first comment on the fifth argument, it says "energy requires no space". Is that supposed to say that or perhaps "energy doesn't require space?" -- Daemonowner


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"We're enjoying the moment right now," Diggins said when asked about UConn. "We'll talk about that later."
The flashy left-hander shook off early foul trouble to score 24 points and the Fighting Irish rallied to beat Duke 87-76 on Tuesday night to earn their third straight trip to the Final Four. The Irish have lost in the past two national championship games.
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Duke trailed by as many as 16 before closing the gap only slightly in the desperate final minutes.
"It bothers me a little bit that we had to fight so hard at the end. It was like, `Where's that been?"' Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. "You've got to play 40 minutes at this level. It was inspiring but also a little irritating."
The Blue Devils, who lost in the regional finals for the fourth straight year, hurt their cause with 21 turnovers.
In the first half, the game developed better than Duke (33-3) could have hoped.
Diggins was whistled for two fouls in the first 4:10 and went to the bench, and after McBride hit a pair of jumpers, the Fighting Irish looked out of sorts. They extended their lead to 17-13 on a 3-pointer by Kaila Turner and two free throws by Ariel Braker, then went more than seven minutes without a point.
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"Sky's the best point guard in the country and she changes the game in everything she does," Achonwa said. "Her being off the court for 20 seconds changes the game."
Diggins returned with about 8 minutes to go in the half and while playing passively on defense to avoid a third foul, hit three 3-pointers in a span of 2:16, cutting a nine-point deficit to 32-31 with 1:07 left.
A basket by Williams and Wells' 3 just before the half gave Duke a 37-31 advantage.
The weekend was a homecoming for Williams, a Virginia Beach native, but Duke's scoring leader missed several shots from in close. She finished 3 for 9 and scored 8 points, roughly half her average.
"It's really hard. We felt like we deserved to be here but we didn't play a full game," Williams said.
Haley Peters added 15 points and 10 rebounds for Duke, and Richa Jackson scored 12.
Notre Dame 87, Duke 76
Peters 6-11 1-2 15, Williams 3-9 2-4 8, Jones 3-11 3-3 9, Jackson 4-8 4-5 12, Liston 6-9 6-7 19, Wells 3-10 0-0 7, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Vernerey 3-4 0-2 6. Totals 28-63 16-23 76.
Achonwa 4-10 9-11 17, Braker 2-3 2-4 6, Diggins 9-16 2-4 24, McBride 6-17 3-4 18, Loyd 6-15 4-7 17, Holloway 0-0 0-0 0, Turner 2-2 0-0 5, Cable 0-0 0-0 0, Mabrey 0-0 0-0 0, Huffman 0-0 0-0 0, Wright 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-63 20-30 87.
Halftime—Duke 37-31. 3-Point Goals—Duke 4-10 (Peters 2-2, Liston 1-2, Wells 1-5, Jones 0-1), Notre Dame 9-16 (Diggins 4-8, McBride 3-5, Turner 1-1, Loyd 1-2). Fouled Out—Jackson, Jones. Rebounds—Duke 40 (Peters 10), Notre Dame 40 (Achonwa 13). Assists—Duke 11 (Wells 4), Notre Dame 25 (Diggins 9). Total Fouls—Duke 24, Notre Dame 17. A—6,606.
Louisville 86
Tennessee 78
OKLAHOMA CITY — Shoni Schimmel scored 24 points and giant-slaying Louisville claimed another big upset Tuesday night, beating second-seeded Tennessee 86-78 and earning the school's second trip to the Final Four.
Two nights after taking down Brittney Griner and defending national champion Baylor, the fifth-seeded Cardinals (28-8) built a 20-point lead and then withstood a second-half comeback by the powerhouse Lady Vols (27-8) before celebrating another big victory.
When it was over, the Cardinals huddled at center court and celebrated. Tennessee headed home with a third straight loss in the regional finals, failing to make the Final Four for a fifth straight year.
Taber Spani led the Lady Vols with 20 points, and Meighan Simmons and Kamiko Williams chipped in 12 apiece.
Louisville's win puts both of the school's basketball teams in the Final Four.


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Zoe Chace and Robert Smith are reporting from European borders this week. This is the third story in a four-part series.
The eurozone was supposed to create one big labor market by making it easy to cross borders for work.
But Gerhard Wiegelmann, a CEO in Stuttgart, Germany, can't find enough workers to staff his company — even with unemployment in Spain over 20 percent. He's had to turn down projects because he can't hire enough people.
Ignacio Valero is the company's only Spanish employee. He says that part of the problem is the language barrier — students in Spain learn English, not German. But even if you know the language, there's still a cultural barrier.
"People are not so open here in Germany," Valero says. "Getting along with people is not so easy."
Some German companies are trying to change their culture, to appeal to more workers like Valero. Andreas Rohm is a consultant who coaches German CEOs how to attract foreign workers. He shows them how to be a little less cold, little less aloof.
"You have to send warm signals," he says.
We asked Wiegelmann to make his best pitch to foreign workers.
He said: "If you are a young, highly motivated engineer, you will see that we make a lot of interesting projects."
Really, Gerhard Wiegelmann? That's it? What about the German weather? Or the food?
"You can stay alive here," he says.
Many countries in Europe have been racing to remove economic barriers between them, which is not easy, but cultural barriers can be even tougher. In parts of Spain, 30 percent of workers do not have jobs. Germany is actually short of workers, with some regions reporting an astonishing three percent unemployment rate.
Which raises a question. Why aren't more Spaniards, or Italians or Greeks, for that matter, moving to Germany? NPR's Planet Money team is reporting this week from the borders that divide Europe.
ROBERT SMITH, BYLINE: I'm Robert Smith in Stuttgart, Germany, and we're visiting an engineering firm - B&W, it's called - and they design these beautiful little things made out of metal. Look. It's like a little - it's like a little gearbox. I don't really know what they do. Something to do with sports cars. Anti-lock braking sensors. Clutch cases. (Makes car noises)
We're playing with all the products when we meet the CEO, Gerhard Veegelman. He'd like to make more of this stuff, but his company's severely short-staffed. In fact, Veegelman says when a customer comes to them now, this summer, for a new design, he has to break the news to them.
GERHARD VEEGELMAN: Now we cannot do this. We would like and we are able but we can start in December.
SMITH: He has to turn down work because he has unfilled positions for 15 designers. That's a quarter of his entire staff. And think about how wild this is. Unemployment all over Europe, and Veegelman can't get a lot of foreigners to even take a look at his jobs. Why?
There is one Spaniard working here, so we asked him. Ignacio Vallero is from Zaragoza. He says the number one reason more of his countrymen aren't coming to Germany is, well, partially America's fault. Young people in Spain learn English as a second language instead of German.
IGNACIO VALERO: And German it's very difficult. I mean it's not an easy language.
SMITH: But there's something else. Valero says he's had a little trouble adapting to Germany's peculiar social style.
VALERO: People are not so open here in Germany, and getting along with people is not so easy. That's what I think.
SMITH: It wasn't supposed to be this way. The idea of the European Union was to create one big labor market. They figured if they got rid of the legal barriers stopping a French person from working in a German factory, then that would be enough. If there were jobs in Germany for French workers, the French would move there. But as we discovered, that's not the case.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: I'm Zoe Chace in a little village just outside the city of Strasbourg, France, and life is pretty sweet. It's beautiful here. You can smell the lavender, the birds are chirping, and every morning the French people who live here pile into cars, busses and trains and they cross the German border to go to work in Karlsruhe, Germany, but at the end of their work day they get back into their cars and they drive back across the border into France. We met Raymond Keith. He works for Siemens just over the border.
RAYMOND KEITH: I like working in Germany because everything is well organized. But for my private life I don't like if everything is organized. It's much better for me to live in France.
CHACE: What's so great about France again? Well, Yannick Pebret - he lives in France, works in Germany - he gave us his most important reason.
YANNICK PEBRET: I eat French bread. I can't eat German bread. It's impossible.
CHACE: I know, it sounds like bad stereotypes, like the Frenchmen who love their bread and the uber-organized Germans. But the cultural issues are very powerful here. Even if legally a Frenchman working in Germany is not an outsider, culturally he feels like one.
SMITH: Back here in Germany, the CEO of the engineering firm, Gerhard Veegelman, says it's hard for Americans to understand how crippling this is to the European economy.
VEEGELMAN: United States people grow up with the idea, if things in the north are better, I will move to the north. And I think European people don't want to move.
SMITH: And so some companies are trying to go beyond what the European Union has done, changing the laws. They're trying to change the culture. Some of them hire Andreas Rohm. He's a consultant that coaches German CEOs in how to attract foreign workers. He shows them how to be a little less cold, a little less aloof, a little more Spanish.
ANDREAS ROHM: You have to send warm signals. For instance, to meet candidates in their country.
SMITH: Do you tell these CEOs when they go to Spain or Italy or Greece, do you tell them to take off the suit, to hug? Or you can't convince them to hug?
ROHM: I tried.
SMITH: I should say Veegelman, the CEO, did not try to hug me. But I asked him to give us his best sales pitch for foreign workers to come to Germany.
VEEGELMAN: If you are a young, high motivated engineer, you will see that we make a lot of interesting projects.
SMITH: Sure, but what about the German weather? What about the German food?
VEEGELMAN: You can stay alive here.
SMITH: Way to sell it.
CHACE: That's quite a pitch.
SMITH: Robert Smith.
CHACE: Zoe Chace, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Bad genes are to blame for the hernia and subsequent surgery I faced at the end of August.
It was a routine procedure that I'd already endured once before, as a teenager. But prime climbing season was just around the corner, and this time fitness became my obsession.
The surgeon advised me to limit exercise to walking for the first two weeks, then ease back into normal activity the following week. I obviously couldn't plan on getting stronger, but I could take walking to a new level.
Two days post-op, loaded with painkillers, I stumbled about 200 yards at a centenarian's pace. It was all I could muster. The next day I felt more alive, so I walked up and down Mount Sanitas. With some energy remaining, I also walked about six miles on the Boulder Creek Path.
On day four I walked up Bear Peak. Day five was Green Mountain, and day six was a 10-mile round-trip "walk" up North and South Arapaho Peaks. A little fourth-class scrambling is sort like walking ... right? Afterward my abdomen ached and burned, but like any zealot I was happy. I popped two Percocet so I could sleep.
My second week of walking involved several thousand feet of fifth-class scrambling in the Flatirons. I also bouldered a few times indoors and pumped sets of weight-assisted pullups. It didn't hurt too much until a flash of pain seared my lower abdomen on a thrutchy move in the gym. I doubled over and took a few deep breaths.
"You OK, dude?" asked a fellow climber.
I wasn't sure, honestly.
Turns out the guy just happened to work in surgery as a physician's assistant. "You're only two weeks out?" he said, incredulous. "I'd be reeeeeeally careful if I were you. I've seen what happens when hernias re-tear. It's ugly."
I climbed a little longer out of spite, if nothing else.
Week three finally arrived and I could gradually increase activity. I began by climbing four days in a row, doing my best to ignore the sharp, tearing pains near my incision that became the status quo for the next several weeks.
Then one night in bed, about a month ago, I uncurled from the fetal position. A fierce and fiery pain like I'd never experienced jolted me awake with a yelp. It felt like a flame on my skin.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!" I thought, wide-eyed and fearful. "I am so stupid!" I was certain that the internal sutures that held my guts in place had ripped. I should have listened to the doctor, and to my friends who told me to chill out, and to that guy in the gym. "IT'S UGLY " echoed through my skull as I quietly understood that I was totally screwed.
In the days leading up to my doctor's appointment, I'd never been so mad at myself. I swam in a pitiful cesspool of self-loathing, unable to see beyond my own little world where climbing was no longer possible.
But at one point something, somehow, clicked deep inside. I snapped out of my gloom and recognized that climbing itself is peripheral (as are fitness and "walking," believe it or not). What matters are the people, and the intangibles, that climbing has already given me: friends whom I consider family; a life in the outdoors; and dreams that fuel purpose and meaning.
At the doc's office a miracle happened. He said that everything seemed fine except for a tweaked nerve that was causing the pain. I hadn't done any damage. He assured me the pain would subside over time, then he shot me up with four vials of an anti-inflammatory, plus lidocaine that would numb the nerve for about 16 hours.
Sixteen pain-free hours? I immediately drove to Eldorado Canyon and climbed until dark.
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Property owners in the Neosho Transportation Development District voted on Tuesday to re-elect Gene Schwartz and Jeff Maxwell to the district's board of directors.
Property owners in the Neosho Transportation Development District voted on Tuesday to re-elect Gene Schwartz and Jeff Maxwell to the district's board of directors.
Both men were re-elected without contest to three-year terms.
Landowners within the district serve as the voters in the TDD, with their number of votes based on the amount of acres they have in the district.
The district, which stretches from Waldo Hatler Drive to Industrial Drive, and from Kodiak Road to just east of Laramie Lane, is made up of 550.48 acres.
Of that, 235.98 votes were cast for Schwartz and Maxwell, the total of all votes cast in Tuesday's election.
The election only drew approximately 43 percent turnout, with the district's largest property owner, the City of Neosho, opting not to participate in the property owners meeting and election.
The city also chose not to partake in the previous TDD property owners election, due to their ongoing legal challenge of the validity of the TDD.
With the ownership of the golf course, the city's acreage makes up roughly 40 percent of the TDD, at 219 acres.
The Neosho R-5 School District also chose not to participate in Tuesday's election.
With the Neosho Middle School property, the district owns 24.46 acres.
The remaining 306.91 acres represent private ownership.
"Seventy-six percent of the private property owners voted in the election by acres," said consultant Darrell Gross on Tuesday.
He said a certain percentage of voters is not required for the TDD election.
Though they are required to hold their annual election the first week in April, because of an Aug. 2012 court ruling, the most recent TDD election was held just six months ago, in October 2012.
The October election was held after Judge Kevin Selby ordered to throw out the results of the TDD's July 16 election, due to lack of lawful notice of the meeting for two consecutive weeks, and because of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission's participation in the election.
The TDD had originally scheduled their current election to be held the first week of April, as a June court order had called for, however, an error in the published legal caused the meeting to be postponed until Tuesday, to allow time for the legal notice announcing the meeting and election to be published correctly as required by state law.
In other business, the TDD board of directors also met Tuesday, following the property owners meeting and election, and voted to re-appoint Ray Stipp as the TDD board's chairman.
The board also re-appointed Maxwell to his role as vice-chairman of the board, and Schwartz to his role as treasurer.
The board then met in closed session, to discuss legal issues.


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WESTFORD -- A new SUV police cruiser fully equipped for responding to calls for a K-9 unit hit the streets recently due to a community-wide fundraising effort.
The effort was spearheaded by Ginni Burgoyne, a Westford woman, who was appalled that K-9 Officer Corey Peladeau traveled with his two police dogs in an ill-equipped Ford Crown Victoria.
"The main thing was to have the cruiser that would accommodate the dogs safely and would allow them to do their job," said Burgoyne.
The vehicle could not have been purchased through Police Department funding.
"We couldn't have purchased the vehicle at this time, without the community's assistance," said Police Chief Thomas McEnaney, according to a press release.
"We're so grateful that people came together to help out so we could purchase the equipment," said Burgoyne.
Working with Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog, Burgoyne raised more than $23,000 through a calendar raffle, donations, coordinating events and activities to raise awareness and funds.
Peladeau and his partners Misty, an Australian cattle dog, and Beny, a German shepherd and Belgian malinois mix, appeared all over town conducting demonstrations at different events and festivals.
When Peladeau appeared at career day at Blanchard Middle School, he captured the attention of a then-seventh-grader Christopher Ramoutar, 13. When Ramoutar saw a flier for the fundraiser for the K-9 unit, he made a collection box and put it in the cafeteria, collecting $125 for the project.
Westford Girl Scout Troop 60492 raised more than $700 by baking and selling dog treats, selling calendar raffles and assisting at several events.
Local businesses gave donations of cash or items and gift certificates for raffles.
Especially for Pets in Sudbury and Acton ran a month-long fundraiser to fund equipment for the cruiser, such as a kennel, an overheat detector/alarm that will sound when the car is overheating and the dogs are inside, and a remote door-popper system that will allow Peladeau to remotely open the doors so the dogs can run out if he needs immediate assistance.
The town Finance Committee held an emergency meeting to contribute $10,000 to the effort.
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CARY, N.C. – The Duke's men's tennis team opened its 2013 campaign Friday, Sept. 13, at the Duke Fab Four Invitational in Cary, N.C. The Blue Devils fielded four doubles teams and eight individual competitors on the first day of action at the annual tournament, held at the Cary Tennis Park.
Duke opened the tournament on a strong note as sophomore Bruno Semenzato and freshman TJ Pura advanced to the finals of the white doubles draw. The top-seeded tandem defeated Elon's Jordan Kaufman and Brian Kowalski, 8-4, in the first round. In the second round, the pair upended Wake Forest's Nicky Kunz and Nicholas Osterline, 8-5, to reach the finals, where they will face VCU's Wilder Pimentel and Michal Voscek Saturday.
In the black draw, Duke's team of redshirt junior Cale Hammond and sophomore Josh Levine will face off against VCU's Alejandro Argente and Jean Baptiste Mateo in the third-place consolation match after a first round 8-6 loss at the hands of Radford duo Nicholas Sayer and Patrick O'Keefe. Hammond and Levine returned to action Friday afternoon against William & Mary's John Banks and Ben Hoogland in the consolation semifinals match, ultimately falling to the Tribe in a tough 8-5 decision.
In the same draw, the tandem of senior Fred Saba and junior Raphael Hemmeler started their 2013 season with an 8-5 victory over Louisville's Chris Simich and Albert Wagner. The Duke duo then faced NC State's Robbie Mudge and Sean Weber in the second round, falling by a score of 8-3. Saba and Hemmeler will compete against Radford's Sayer and O'Keefe for third place in the men's doubles black draw.
In the blue draw, the team of sophomores Daniel McCall and Michael Redlicki reached the consolation finals after falling, 8-4, to Louisville's Sebastian Stiefelmeyer and Van Damrongsri in the first round. The pair rebounded with an 8-6 win over William and Mary's Aaron Chaffee and Will Juggins, setting up a consolation final matchup Saturday with South Florida's Sasha Gozun and Vadym Kalyuzhnyy.
The Blue Devils compiled a 6-2 record in the first round of singles play Friday afternoon, with Semenzato, Saba, Hemmeler, Levine, Redlicki and Daniel McCall all posting first-round victories.
Saba, ranked 26th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's preseason singles poll, defeated South Florida's Vadym Kalyuzhnyy 6-4, 6-2 to advance in the black draw, while Levine overcame William and Mary's Ben Hoogland 6-4, 6-4. Meanwhile, Pura suffered a 6-3, 6-4 setback to the Tribe's Aaron Chaffee, moving him to the back draw of the black bracket.
In the blue singles draw, Semenzato edged fourth-seeded Wagner of Louisville by scores of 7-6 (6), 6-3 to earn a meeting with NC State's Beck Bond in Saturday's quarterfinals. Second-seeded and 49th-ranked Hemmeler also advanced with a 6-2, 7-5 defeat of Wake Forest's Anthony Delcore, while Hammond fell to Louisville's Damrongsri, 6-2, 6-1.
The opening round of play in the white singles draw saw No. 22 Redlicki battle back from a tough first set to defeat Oliver Pramming of South Florida, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, and McCall down Sayer of Richmond, 6-1, 6-3.
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El director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Tigre y Dragón) crea una impresionante y espectacular película sobre un joven que sobrevive a un fatídico desastre en el mar y se embarca en un viaje épico de aventura y descubrimientos. Quedando a la deriva en un bote salvavidas, labrará una emocionante, increíble e inesperada relación con el...
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El director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Tigre y Dragón) crea una impresionante y espectacular película sobre un joven que sobrevive a un fatídico desastre en el mar y se embarca en un viaje épico de aventura y descubrimientos. Quedando a la deriva en un bote salvavidas, labrará una emocionante, increíble e inesperada relación con el otro superviviente del barco, un tigre de bengala.
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There is a lot that could go wrong with a big screen adaptation of Life of Pi, the 2001 bestselling novel by Yaan Martel. Which may explain why the story of a young boy stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger — juggling deep themes of religion, family, nature, and human existence — has been developed and let go by many big names in Hollywood. For nearly a decade, filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) have grappled with the project, but it wasn't until Oscar-winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) that the film was fully realized.
Lee's Life of Pi is an inspiring film, sporting imaginative visuals and pushing the art of 3D in new directions. Even more impressive is what's underneath it all: a character-driven narrative that depicts the book's grand ideas with unexpected tenderness.
Life of Pi dreams big. Thanks to Lee's expert direction and a solid script from David Magee (Finding Neverland), the survivor tale avoids the pitfalls of such an ambitious effort, never straying into hokey melodrama. The film opens with a writer (Rafe Spall) visiting an adult Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan) at his home in Canada, after being told that the Indian immigrant had an amazing life story in need of capturing. ''Amazing'' may not be enough of a superlative. Young Pi (newcomer Suraj Sharma) begins his life as a regular kid in Pondicherry, India, growing up on his family's bustling zoo while attempting to fit in with the world around him. His major struggle is with religion — while his father resents faith and his mother is dedicated to Hinduism, Pi wants a little of it all. He's Hindu, he's Catholic, he's Muslim, he's a wanderer between all ways of thinking. When he attempts to feed the zoo's tiger, only to be caught by his father and disciplined for considering the beast to be anything remotely soulful. It's clear that his upbringing in the lush environment has seeped deep into Pi's way of life.
The main character's passion for the world around him gives Lee the opportunity to direct Life of Pi with a painter's eye. Nearly every shot is exquisitely composed — from bold colors to camera movement to the layers of 3D. This holds true even when Pi's story takes a turn for the worse. Having run into financial troubles, the Patel family packs up the animals and heads to Winnipeg on a French freighter. While crossing the Mariana Trench, the ship encounters a catastrophic storm that floods it into oblivion (a moment of disaster that rivals the artistic destruction of Titanic). Pi and a few of the animal passengers escape on a lifeboat, the glow of his past life slowly fading away into the depths of the Ocean. The set piece is gorgeous, but Lee never forgets the impact the incident has on Pi's life. It's indicative of the entire film.
The brunt of the story focuses on the man vs. nature we've seen in films like 127 Hours and Cast Away, but in an even more terrifying landscape and played out with an expressionistic touch. Pi finds himself on a lifeboat with the Bengal tiger, ''Richard Parker,'' lowering the already minuscule chance of his survival to something unimaginable. He copes, building a second raft out of wood planks and life preservers, but his survival is a ticking clock. All he can do is sit, fish, write, and pray.
Lee approaches Pi's journey of floating in the middle of the Pacific with a jungle cat like a fever dream. Like the swirling universe he imagines as the residence of his various gods, the deserted ocean is a luminescent wonder, filled with giant whales, glowing jellies, flying fish, and deep caverns that unlock Pi's wild imagination.
All the while, Pi tends to his tiger; their brotherly relationship is the core of Life of Pi. Sharma has heavy material to tackle for his big screen debut, but even with its weak moments, stands as a tremendous breakout. Over time, Pi loses himself to the ocean, reaching for understandin
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Today's Blind Items - Truly Awful Humans
It always creeps me out when I see a known child molester or a predator who goes after teens act like a concerned person or someone who won't do what they have been doing if given a second chance. Over the past few months I have been talking to someone who has provided me with some truly horrifying information and each time I wonder if it can possibly get any worse it does. This celebrity used to be A list back in the day and he wants nothing more than to be A list again. He is a performer. He and a couple of his fellow performers have a thing for young teen females. It doesn't matter of they are strangers or family although they prefer family because they pressure the women to remain silent. The problem is there is one they can't pressure because of her status and I literally almost threw up this week when I heard this predator talking about someone he has molested and groped and done truly awful things to just smile and act as if he is a saint and that he is someone who is filled with nothing but love for everyone. What he is filled with is evil and he is not the only one close to him that has acted the same way. They all could use a lifetime in jail but no one close to them will speak publicly out of fear. Not just fear for themselves but fear of what will happen to those close to them if they speak.


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Coaches meeting will be held Thursday
The West Side Recreation and Park District's youth basketball season is just right around the corner but the Rec is in need of basketball coaches.
No experience is necessary and there will be background checks. There will be a coaches meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. at the new Rec Center.
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FRANKFORT – The first week of the 2012 Session was a combination of the ceremonial and the new.
We gaveled in on Tuesday of last week with the traditional establishment of the membership of the Senate and approval of our chamber's rules. Over 200 bills have already been filed in the General Assembly and will start making their way through the committee process beginning in earnest this week.
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Quiz time, art lovers:
1. Why do you see a hint of columns on the far right and left in the Mona Lisa?
2. Where in The Last Supper do you find Judas knocking over the salt?
3. Why does the man stand next to the window and the woman away from it in Giovanni Arnofini and His Wife (sometimes called The Marriage of the Arnolfini)?
Patrick De Rynck deals with these and other questions in his How to Read a Painting: Lessons From the Old Masters (Abrams, 2004), an excellent collection of analyses of more than 100 great paintings, each shown on a two-page spread with callouts that highlight some of its interesting aspects. Many good books for children or adults take a similar approach to art, but this is the best I've found in more than a decade of keeping an eye on the category. I'll have answers to the art quiz later this week and more on How to Read a Painting soon.
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Tom Gordon began his second tenure as County Executive Tuesday, just one week after being elected back to his old office.
Tom Gordon began his second tenure as County Executive Tuesday, just one week after being elected back to his old office.
Gordon, who held the position from 1997 to 2004, took office Nov. 13, seven weeks earlier than anticipated.
He was welcomed back into the New Castle County Government Center at 8 a.m. by a crowd of county employees and supporters.
"It was great to see all of the county employees welcome me home," he said.
A "Welcome Back Tom!" banner was hung above the doors to the County Government building Tuesday morning. When Gordon entered with his family, the crowd erupted in applause.
In September, Gordon unseated incumbent Paul Clark in the democratic primary election.
"Today we will have an orientation on the problems and decide on what staff to bring to the county," Gordon said Tuesday. "We will be briefed on the issues we need to be briefed on."
Two new appointees began their new jobs Tuesday morning as well.
David Grimaldi was sworn in as chief administrative officer and Bernard Pepukayi has been appointed county attorney.
"Dave is a financial expert from Wall Street and Bernard is a fantastic attorney," Gordon said.
Gordon said he decided to run in 2012 because he didn't like the path that County government was on.
A ruling from the Attorney General's office last week said that Gordon could take office now rather than in January because Clark had never actually been elected to office.
When former County Executive now U.S. Senator Chris Coons began his tenure in Washington, D.C. two years ago, Clark was boosted from his role as County Council President to Executive per procedure.
Clark's term ended Friday night. Several of Clark's appointees sent out farewell e-mails last week to members of County Council informing them that Friday was their last day as well.


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Age Group(s): Adults
Date: 4/17/2014
Start Time: 9:30 AM
End Time: 11:30 AM
This class includes using Google and other Internet search engines to find information, how to save websites as Favorites and printing from a website.
Prerequisites: Intro to Computers I, Intro to Computers II, Internet I or equivalent experience.
All classes are free. Registration is required and begins 28 days prior to the class date. To register for a class, please call or visit any branch. Registered students MUST give 24 hour cancellation notice to allow others on the waiting list to attend. Please arrive on time. We'll hold your reservation for the first five minutes of class. After five minutes, any unclaimed seats will be assigned to waiting list or walk-in customers. First day to register for this class is: March 20, 2014.
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The Old Dominion wrestling team is preparing for another exciting season, their second year in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). You can come along for the ride with an economical ticket package.
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The Wrestling Monarchs are fresh off a solid 2013-14 campaign, in which the team compiled a 4-4 record within the MAC and won five of their last seven dual meets as a first-year member of the conference. Additionally, they secured an impressive third-place finish at the MAC tournament and sent six wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in Oklahoma City where they finished tied for 22nd with UVA. Freshman 184-pounder Jack Dechow (Richmond, Ill./Richmond-Burton) topped off an incredible rookie campaign with a fourth-place finish at the NCAA tournament and thus garnered All-American status.
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Cassandra v1.2, the latest version of its big data distributed database. Reputed for its scalability and fault-tolerance, these days we find Apache Cassandra aligned to running in the cloud or partially on-premise in a hybrid data store.
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Apache Cassandra VP Jonathan Ellis says that his team has worked to improve support for dense clusters to power multiple terabytes per node. They have also simplified application modelling and improved data cell storage/design/representation. "Systems are able to effortlessly scale petabytes of data," he said.
NOTE: Cassandra v1.2 also marks the release of CQL3 (version 3 of the Cassandra Query Language), intended to simplify application modelling, allow for more powerful mapping, and alleviate design limitations through more natural representation.
The Apache team says that software developers have welcomed the introduction of vnodes to simplify managing clusters while improving performance when adding and rebuilding nodes. v1.2 also includes new performance improvements to lessen the burden on the JVM garbage collector.
"Apache Cassandra continues to be a leading option for scalability and high availability without compromising performance and, with the improvements provided in v1.2, reinforces our commitment to growth while preserving backwards compatibility," added Ellis.


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Junior diver Nick McCrory earned the third All-America accolades of his career on the 1-meter springboard Thursday, finishing second in the event final on the opening day of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships. Following the first day of action, Duke is in 19th place in the team standings with the 17 points earned by McCrory.
After totaling 360.35 points to finish fifth in the preliminary round, McCrory advanced to the 1-meter springboard championship final for the third time in as many appearances at the NCAA Championships, which are being contested through Saturday, March 30 at the IU Natatorium and the IUPUI Sports Complex in Indianapolis.
In the championship final, McCrory earned a season-best 436.60 points to take second behind only Stanford's Kristian Ipsen, marking the Chapel Hill, N.C., native's highest career finish at the 1-meter height in an NCAA Championships meet. He received an award of 76.50 on the first dive of his list, a forward 3 ½ somersault in the tuck position, and then matched that score in the third round on a reverse 1 ½ somersault with 2 ½ twists.
Senior Jordan Long made his NCAA Championships debut Thursday, joining McCrory in the trials of the 1-meter competition. Long concluded his list with 221.35 points to finish 34th, and his highest-scoring dive came in the opening round, when he earned a score of 53.30 on a forward 2 ½ somersault in the pike position.
With seven All-America accolades for his career, McCrory will look to add to that total Friday, March 29 in the 3-meter springboard competition. Both McCrory and Long will be among the field, as trials get underway at 11 a.m. Live results will be available at divemeets.com while live video of Friday evening's finals will be streamed on ESPN3.
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10-minute intermission starting immediately at the conclusion of the relay
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10. 200-yard Freestyle
11. 100-yard Breaststroke
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14. 800-yard Freestyle Relay—All but last three heats of time finals
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Happy Bday BT...but don't you dare start to get "old" on me. Your life has just begun and don't let that little woman talk you into thinking you want to sell that beast. As is, she's already playing with your little beast...hope she's good at the "pump" action...or is that the "hump" action? Anyway, keep the beast!Originally posted by BTAutoMag
wuts up peoplez.
havent been on for a while and this is the first place i goto (and only now)
its my bday and im 19, yeah me! what a boring life. im surprised this thread is still going...
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BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick is hoping to streamline the state's public-housing system by eliminating 240 local public-housing authorities and replacing them with six regional agencies aimed at ridding the system of corruption and saving taxpayer dollars.
Patrick proposed a bill Thursday that he said would help modernize the system that shelters 300,000 low-income families and elderly residents. There are now 83,000 public housing units in the state.
The proposal would consolidate public-housing management -- including budgeting, planning and administrative functions -- into six central offices. Local communities would retain control over land use and redevelopment decisions.
The Democratic governor said he hoped the overhaul would "professionalize our public-housing system, improving transparency and accountability."
The proposal follows revelations in 2011 that the former head of the Chelsea Housing Authority had been taking home a $360,000 annual salary, which he had underreported to the state as required by law.
Patrick demanded the resignation of Michael McLaughlin of Dracut after it was shown he was one of the country's highest-paid public housing officials. McLaughlin stepped down.
Ken Martin, a Dracut Housing Authority board member until last year, came under criticism for serving as housing authority director in two towns: Methuen, where he served full time, and Ayer, where he was part time.
Martin's two jobs paid him a total of $184,000 a year. After McLaughlin resigned, Martin was the highest-paid housing director in the state.
Housing directors are now banned from serving full- or part-time in the position in more than one community or earning more than $160,000 annually after legislation was filed by a Methuen state representative.
Local housing officials were quick to criticize Patrick's proposal and said they planned to present their own proposal to lawmakers next week.
"This is an overreaction to what happened in Chelsea," said Stephen Merritt, executive director of the Norwood Housing Authority.
Merritt and other members of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, which represents the state's 242 local housing authorities, said their plan would streamline housing services and strengthen accountability without dismantling the current local system.
Patrick's bill now heads to the Legislature, where it could face skeptical lawmakers.
Sen. Bruce Tarr, the Republican leader in the state Senate, said he appreciated Patrick's decision to address the issue of public-housing management but questioned whether replacing local housing authorities with larger, centralized bureaucracies is the best approach.
"Productive reform needs to be about more than a power shift to Boston of responsibilities currently handled locally," the Gloucester lawmaker said in a statement.


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LONGMONT -- Police are investigating the Thursday evening discovery of a body in the creek at Lanyon Park.
The body was reported just after 7 p.m. on Thursday and firefighters and police responded to the park to investigate, according to Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur.
Satur said the body is of an adult male and was found floating face up in the water.
According to Longmont Police Sgt. Paul Campbell, a family from the 1900 block of Meadow Drive who was walking in the park found the body shortly before 7 p.m. At this point, foul play is not suspected. There are no apparent signs of a struggle.
"We just don't know," Campbell said. "We always look for that."
Detectives remain on the scene, as well as investigators from the Boulder County District Attorney's and county coroner's offices. A police dog was being brought in to search the area. An autopsy has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Friday.
A couple of dozen neighbors were standing along a nearby fence on the 1900 block of Meadow Drive watching the investigation.
One neighbor who asked not to be named said he was skeptical that the victim could have drowned in the ditch because the current flow of water is quite low.


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Rachel McAdams sounds like she's a fan of Lindsay Lohan.
Lohan's 35-year-old "Mean Girls" co-star recently told Allure magazine that, contrary to reports, she was intimidated by the troubled, former Disney actress, not the other way around.
"If anything, I was in awe of her talent," said the "The Notebook" actress. "I looked at her as this experienced actor, and she had great comedic timing, so natural."
"Awe?" She wasn't bad in the Herbie car movie, but ...
"Mean Girls" director Mark Waters recently told Vulture that Lohan was "very shy" while working with McAdams, who was "older and a very accomplished actress."
"She'd come in the room and not talk to Lindsay -- she was very focused," Waters said. "Lindsay kind of got nervous around her, and I thought that, more than anything, was going to be the deciding factor, the fact that she affected Lindsay in that way."
McAdams says that wasn't the case.
"It's just funny to hear that because you never know what people are thinking," McAdams said. "We all try to act like we've got it together."
Tony Hicks provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Contact him at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.