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Arbuckle: March 2. Elevation 5 3/4 ft. below normal, water 48 and clear in the main lake and stained in the feeder coves and upper end of creeks. Crappie slow around docks early morning; moving from deep water. White bass also on the move, some are in the upper creek arms, gulls and terns will sometimes show you where to fish. Bass slow on crankbaits in shad patterns, jigs, jerk baits and Alabama rigs. Report submitted by Jack Melton.
Blue River: March 5. Elevation normal, water 53 and clear. Trout good on rainbow, orange and yellow Power Bait, in-line spinnerbaits with hook dressing and gold spoons. Fly fishing good on egg patterns, green woolly bugger, caddis flies and midges around riffles and current in larger pools and below falls. Channel catfish good on stinkbait, chicken liver and minnows in larger pools around breaks in the current. Smallmouth and spotted bass fair on small crankbaits fished slowly in deeper pools around structure. Approximately 2,000 rainbow trout were stocked on March 5. Report submitted by Matt Gamble, biologist at the Blue River Public Fishing and Hunting Area.
Broken Bow: March 3. Elevation 9-10 ft. below normal, water 50. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass fair to good on jerk baits and crankbaits around structure and points. Walleye good on rogues, rattletraps and 5-inch twirl-tail grubs with 1/4 ounce jig heads in the upper end of the lake. Report submitted by Dru Polk, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Eufaula: March 3. Elevation 3 1/2 ft. below normal, water clear in the east and murky in the west. Largemouth bass fair on jerk baits and plastic baits along rocky areas near the dam. Blue catfish fair on shad along the flats. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around docks with brush and around riprap areas. Report submitted by Ed Rodebush, game warden stationed in McIntosh County.
Hugo: March 3. Elevation normal. Crappie fair on minnows along the river channel. Catfish fair on trot lines baited with cut bait and live bait. Report submitted by Jay Harvey, game warden stationed in Choctaw and Bryan counties.
Konawa: March 4. Elevation normal, water 52 and clear. Largemouth bass good on plastic worms at 4-8 ft. along the edge of the cattails. White bass and striped bass hybrids fair on minnows and jigs at 15 ft. in the discharge canal. Report submitted by Daryl Howser, game warden stationed in Seminole County.
Lower Mountain Fork: March 3. Fishing has been great. In addition to midges and blue-winged olive mayflies, March Browns and tan caddis flies are beginning to take trout throughout the river. Report submitted by Mark Hannah, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
McGee Creek: March 3. Elevation 11 ft. below normal, water 51 and clear. Largemouth bass fair to good on soft plastic bait at 15-25 ft. Crappie fair on minnows at 12-28 ft. over cedar brush in creek channels. Report submitted by Larry Luman, game warden stationed in Atoka County.
Pine Creek: March 3. Elevation below normal, water clear. Boat ramps have been reopened. Bass good on most jerk baits. Crappie good on jigs. Report submitted by Mark Hannah, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Robert S. Kerr: March 5. Bass fair on crankbaits and stick baits off points, along creek channels and in coves up river. Spotted bass excellent up the Canadian River; look for concentrations of gulls. Crappie fair up Big San Bois Creek around deeper submerged brush. As water clears from recent rains look for improvement. White bass and striped bass fair on minnows and shad crankbaits upriver in deeper holes and around rock ledges. Channel and blue catfish excellent on trotlines and juglines baited with cut bait at 12-20 ft. close to creek and river channels. Report submitted by Allen Couch, game warden stationed in Haskell County.
Sardis Lake: March 1. Elevation slightly above normal. Largemouth bass fair to good on plastic worms and jerk bait at 5-10 ft. Blue and channel catfish good on cut bait and dead minnows. Crappie fair to good on minnows and jigs at 8-12 ft. Walleye fair trolling at 10-12 ft. Report submitted by Dane Polk, game warden stationed in Pushmataha County.
Texoma: March 3. Elevation 6 ft. below normal, water 50 and clear. Largemouth and smallmouth bass fair to good on large crankbaits, plastic combination baits and spinnerbaits at 10-20 ft. around the river channel drop-offs. Striped and white bass fair to good on live bait, sassy shad and salt craws at 10-30 ft. from Burns Run to Caney Creek. Channel and blue catfish fair to good on live bait, stinkbait and cut shad at 10-30 ft. from Johnson Creek to Platter Flats. Crappie fair to good on minnows and jigs at 10-20 ft. in underwater brush and fish attractors. Report submitted by Danny Clubb, game warden stationed in Bryan County.
Wister: March 3. Elevation 1 1/2 ft. above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits. Crappie good on minnows and fair on white grubs at 10-12 ft. around brushy cover. Catfish fair on juglines and trotlines baited with cut bait and dead minnows at 10-15 ft. Report submitted by Randy Fennell, game warden stationed in LeFlore County.


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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. - Fresh off a record-setting effort the Truman State women took on Lincoln at Pershing Arena and pulled away in the second half for a 71-53 MIAA victory.
With just over 11 minutes left in the game Truman trailed 39-35. Then Amy Briggs stole the show as she drove the lane on a fast break and pulled the Bulldogs within two at 39-37.
Next time down the floor Becka McHenry found an open Briggs who drilled a three-pointer and put TSU up 40-39 and the ladies never looked back from there.
Briggs would score eight of her team high 15 points within a three-minute span that saw Truman go from down four to up 10.
One thing that helped jump start Briggs and the rest of her teammates is when head coach Michael Smith decided it was time to shake things up and go with the full-court pressure defense.
"Our full-court pressure is something we have implemented since our Christmas break, it helps to slow some teams down, it was very effective tonight and I thought it was the difference in the game," said Smith.
The pressure was nicely timed when Lincoln's main ballhandler Jackeya Mitchell went to the locker room after falling hard on her knee.
"When their point guard went down I thought why not? Let's try this and see what happens. We didn't get a whole lot of traps, but we did come up with some key steals," said Smith.
Lincoln kept the game close throughout the first 30 minutes, forcing Truman to play a slowdown halfcourt game. Jennifer Conway carried got the Bulldogs offensively through the early part of the game scoring seven of her 13 in the first half, and drawing constant double-teams from the Blue Tigers defense.
"We were able to pound it inside on the post tonight. We did a good job at that, a lot of teams have been taking away our inside game. Tonight, Lincoln was bound and determined to take away our three-point shot so it was nice that we could bang away inside and get some high-percentage shots," said Smith.
The win moved Truman's record to 9-2 overall and 2-1 in the MIAA.
Briggs was forced into a new role tonight as she made her first career start replacing the injured Nicole Gloor, who is out with a mild concussion.
"She usually brings a big spark for us off the bench as our first girl in, but with Nicole's injury we put her in the starting lineup and she responded really well. She was able to still bring the same kind of energy, and she is a lot of fun to watch," said Smith.
Briggs is a junior college transfer from Johnson County CC.
"We won, and that's all that matters," said Briggs.
Truman had three other players in double-figures including McHenry, who also had 15. Jessica Redd also had 13 and Courtney Strait had 10, including some timely three balls of her own.
The Bulldogs also got big contributions from two players who didn't register a single point. Bianca Szafarowicz and Megan Sharpe both had eight rebounds for Truman.
Gloor, who suffered her injury in practice, is expected to be back for Truman's game against Central Oklahoma on Jan. 11. Between now and then the Bulldogs have a trip to St. Charles to take on Lindenwood.
"It's always a sign of a good team when you don't play a very good game and still find a way to win," said Smith.

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BILLERICA -- Kay Durost wrapped her bare fingers around the handle of a plastic gallon jug filled to the brim with frigid spring water, bubbled up from a source thousands of feet below the frozen ground.
The date was Jan. 23, a day when the high temperatures barely tickled the low 20s, yet the water was still faithfully flowing from the Blinn family's spring, located in the woods just steps away from busy Andover Road.
Durost would carefully place five of the jugs into the trunk of her car, a routine she said she's been done every week for the past decade or so.
At 40 cents a jug, it's a pretty good deal.
Durost said she has no idea how long residents in the area have been visiting the Old Indian Spring at 101 Andover Road, an address that is also home to the Whiffle Tree Country Store.
Turns out, Billerica natives have been getting their mineral water fix at this location even before the town was incorporated in 1655.
Steve Blinn, whose family has owned the Whiffle Tree and the land where the spring is located, said the site was a draw for the area's American Indian tribes back in the day.
"Many spring water cocktails," Blinn joked in an interview last week.
The proof of the spring's popularity was in the ground. Blinn, who was raised on the same property, said he recalled growing up in the 1960s and finding caches of Indian arrowheads scattered across the grounds.
His father would sometimes talk about a farmer who lived nearby.
Blinn said he hasn't come across any more arrowheads in years. Those artifacts are just one historic detail when it comes to the Indian Spring. For Blinn, the most important fact is that he and his family have managed to keep it flowing and accessible to the public, even despite a threat a few years ago that it would close.
In 2007 the state Department of Environmental Protection issued new regulations for the sale of mineral water. The Old Indian Spring needed an upgrade, at a cost of roughly $100,000, or it would be shuttered.
"We never had a problem with the water quality, but I guess the chances always existed," Blinn said.
He recalled how he had to send nearly 100 water samples to labs located all over the country. Some of the tests cost nearly $2,000. Blinn had to even install sets of ultraviolet lights to help sterilize the water.
The only minerals that are removed from the water are traces of iron, which Blinn said are usual for springs located in the Northeast.
"I just remember there was a lot of concern from residents that we'd never reopen," he said.
But a year later, in 2008, the state determined that Blinn had done enough to satisfy the new regulations. The tradition of Billerica's own special source of spring water continued. Blinn, whose family started bottling and selling the water in 1973, was back in business.
He's not sure if his $100,000 investment has paid off, but that was never the point. Years ago, he said, the spring was looked upon as business opportunity. Boston Water Cooler Company ran it as a "satellite source" during the 1960s, Blinn said, "when nobody really knew what spring water was."
The executives at Coca-Cola, however, could sense the spring-water revolution coming. Blinn said Coca-Cola arrived in Billerica during the early 1970s.
"They had a vision back then and knew that good natural water would be in demand some day," said Blinn.
But Coca-Cola never stuck around. The springs were left alone for a year or two until 1973, the year Blinn's father built a small shack, installed a pump and started selling the water on an honor basis.
That's still the business model, although Blinn acknowledged that he recently installed surveillance cameras after discovering that some customers were abusing the honor system.
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Each year Blinn gets visitors from all over the country, even from places as far away as Iceland. Blinn said he's still amazed that he meets other residents in Billerica who say they've never heard of the springs or the Whiffle Tree store.
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Skip to comments.Classless Coulter Gets Her Facts Wrong
Posted on 04/08/2013 9:33:29 PM PDT by Bratch
Its disturbing that Ann Coulter is so desperate for attention that she would stoop this low on the day Margaret Thatcher died. Just like Politco (as Steve pointed out in another post) Coulter used Thatchers passing as an opportunity to take part in some trashy PDS. During an interview with Geraldo Rivera, Coulter starting punching up and didnt stop until she made a complete fool of herself.
Transcript, courtesy of Real Clear Politics:
COULTER: One thing that I know, because I know people who know her, is when Sarah Palin first burst on the scene, the political scene, she wanted to have a meeting with Palin, because she saw raw political talent, but wanted to teach Sarah Palin to do what she did.
COULTER: To teach her to speak proper English. Palin did not meet with her, and just a year or two ago, when Sarah Palin was promoting some reality show or something, she went to England. And she announced to the press that she was planning on dropping by to see Lady Thatcher, and Lady Thatcher put out the word that she was not available.
COULTER: What, I think, a lot of us saw, that Sarah Palin did have raw political talent. And if she had been willing to put her nose to the grindstone and pursue improving herself, speaking proper English, reading stuff, knowing lots of things, she could have been great. Shes a fine person, but that isnt what shes pursuing.
First of all, what business does Ann Coulter have demeaning a highly accomplished former executive like Governor Palin? What has Ann ever done to place herself on such a pedestal? Any noteworthy accomplishments, Ann, besides trashing good conservatives and promoting squishy moderates? At least for the past couple of years anyway, because we all know Coulter used to act and talk much differently than she does today.
Second, I realize Governor Palin does not use the same pretentious snob accent Coulter does, but Governor Palin speaks proper English. Does she use slang from time to time? Sure, and there is nothing wrong with that. Its called being human and having a sense of humor. Two things I guess Coulter is having trouble identifying with these days.
Third, if Ann Coulter knew anything about Governor Palin, she wouldnt make those comments about reading stuff, knowing lots of things etc. Perhaps Ann should read some of the stuff Governor Palin has written, or maybe take some time to watch some of her speeches. Coulter would certainly learn some things about the Governor she clearly doesnt already know, and considering what business shes in, she should. Nothing worse than an uninformed opinion writer.
Last but not least, Coulter repeats a debunked story by the left-wing Guardian from 2011. Margaret Thatcher never put out the word that she was not available to meet with Governor Palin. As former Thatcher aide, Niles Gardiner wrote (emphasis):
I have spoken to Lady Thatchers Private Office regarding the story, and they confirm that the attack on Sarah Palin definitely did not come from her office, and in no way reflects her views. As a former aide to Margaret Thatcher myself, I can attest that this kind of thinking is entirely alien to her, and that such remarks would never be made by her office. She has always warmly welcomed like-minded figures in the United States, and has in the past met with numerous US presidential candidates and political dignitaries when they have visited London. But at the age of 85 she is now able to receive very few visitors at all.
There was never any snub of Sarah Palin by Lady Thatchers office. However, there has been a great deal of mischief-making and unpleasantness from sections of the liberal press in a vain and futile attempt to use Margaret Thatchers name to smear a major US politician.
Add Coulter to this mix of mischief-makers.
Jim Hoft also reported the Thatcher Foundations response when asked by one of his readers if the story was true:
The Guardian, of course, is not a newspaper at all sympathetic to Lady Thatcher (or to Mrs. Palin), so reports on this topic, from that source, have minimal credibility. If nothing else, would Lady Thatcher have ever described a prominent US conservative politician as nuts, or approved an ally who used the description? I would hope that question answers itself.
Of course, sadly, Lady Thatchers health is not good these days and such considerations naturally dominate her schedule. That much is true. Someone once said that if you plaster together the true and the false you thereby manufacture the plausible, but in this case I dont think even that much has been achieved by the Guardian.
So there you have it. Ann Coulter used the day the world lost Iron Lady Thatcher to trash Governor Palin with rehashed, debunked lies and insults to play to the ignorant. Bravo, Ann! You, like Politico, have reached a new low.
She jumped the shark when she was actively supporting Romney EARLY in the primaries!
That's some good satire writing there .... oh, you're serious? Hahahahaha! Yeah, if only Gov. Palin had declared her intentions earlier, Mitt Romney would be in the White House right now! LOL
Total BS. There are far to many Palin blind followers on this site. Palin is lacking in areas that Coulter could have helped. Palin was a damn disgrace as a VP candidate. Make no mistake about Palin, and, if you think she is anywhere near Ben Carson-WRONG. Carson is smarter then 90% plus of us.
Ann has become a mixed bag but what can I say. Sometimes I like her sometimes I don't. She still has a good deal of North Eastern snobbery but she isn't alone. I worry about Ann. She's 51 and is not married and has no kids. It has to be humbling for her to see a woman like Palin not only marry a real man, have plenty of kids, and rise to a governorship without any of the hoity-toity merit badges she has. Beyond that I don't understand her need to criticize Palin so harshly but she seems to have become more bitter with age as her innate inferiority as a women becomes more and more evident.
Actually Coulter lost it about a year before she bit into the Romney apple. Perhaps she heard a rumor that Joe Scarborough may be retiring soon or something.
Total BS.
looks more like a chicken neck.
Palin ran into a brick wall. Every effort she made failed to launch. Of course I am just guessing, but my impression is that she got rugs pulled out from under her and was not surefooted enough to recover. Something like what happened to Colin Power in 1996. Powell and Palin are both natural politicians and in the end that was held against them.
False! Ann Coulter has become nothing more than a female Joe Scarborough (with a few (very few) conservative stances left just to keep being invited on the "conservative" shows so she can sell her books). Even when she was a conservative she managed to get pies thrown in her face by liberals in the audience. There is NOTHING she could teach Sara Palin unless we want to see our Candidate running off stage looking as if she were just attacked by Snoopy Sales.
No thanks!
Again... How many times is that now? I've lost count in the last four years. She's been off my Real Conservatives list for a long long time.
Powell, Coulter, Palin, Cristie
One of those names just does not belong
Ann's shark is doing tail stands.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Go to bed. You're embarrassing yourself.
I know what I saw. Palin didnt read the landscape very well when she started out. I dont think that McCain was at all happy to be outshown by his #2. One reason why Ryan hid his light under a bushel: If the top of the ticket is a poor campaigner — I have seldom seen worse than McCain or Romney—then the #2 has to be very careful.
Wasn't one of the last stories about Coulter (before endorsing Cristie and then Romney) something to do with a gay or lesbian group she was involved with?
Ann is GoProud.
She is a conservative Like McCain is a conservative- for cash and prizes.
If you mean Powell, he is now a very bitter man. But imagine him rather than the guy we have now as the first black President. Remember they called him the Black Ike, He would not have been a conservative President, but I do know that he would not have been a Barack Obama.
If the number one is vulnerable to being "outshown" by the number 2, then the number one had no business running for President in the first place.
What a load of bull s#$%!
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PemberDucky wrote:man. this is going to be difficult.
taternuggets wrote:Pulling for Josephus.
Leahbh wrote:Plus, it's only 7 inches. It's perfect for what it is meant for.
SkekTek wrote:I just f***d an old army man. With a parachute.
FenStar wrote:Would it be ok if I was a woman?
Ah....sure! Who am I to judge?
no1 wrote:i am here for the poking party.
pooflady wrote:I supposedly have extra wide slots, but if I put in big hamburger buns, I have to smoosh them a little.
dontwantaname wrote:
OK, I'll go measure now.
dontwantaname wrote:
You couldn't put something 2 inches thick in it. There is a wire mesh inside, I guess to hold thinner pieces in place. They look like they would accept 1 3/4 inch.
Gatzby wrote:I'm saving my chestplate for ramyb.
Gatzby wrote:Nipples for eyes. All I'm sayin'.
no1 wrote:GATZ IS 100% GRADE A BEEF, BABY.
dontwantaname wrote:...can I smack you...alone?
Iceback wrote:I'm ok with five guys although I find the ****s are always too s**** for my ***king.
ThunderThighs wrote:Everything was too greasy for us.
DianaSprinkle wrote: I have a good boob and a bad boob.
I do too.
dontwantaname wrote:
Well, if you are lucky...maybe you might share the other salami.
I wonder where the pictures are?
dontwantaname wrote:
I wish I did it with the second guy.
We were in front of Dunkin Donuts!
AZGman wrote:Took me about an hour . . .
AZGman wrote:Nobody needs over two inches ...!
that's what she told me, but i think she was just trying to make me feel better about it.
no1 wrote:that's what she told me, but i think she was just trying to make me feel better about it.
Count on it.
DaveInSoCal wrote:I really like these, but ... too small for 15"
apologies as always.
pooflady wrote: I was dripping ... Hot, hot, hot.
no1 wrote:they can smell a$$.
no1 wrote:i need new batteries.
dontwantaname wrote:Had it once at a family party. It was really good.
Must have been in Arkansas
dontwantaname wrote:
BTW I got that steamer because of you.
dontwantaname wrote:Look! I...Ate...normal poop.
not even close. i'm sorry d'name.
PemberDucky wrote:not even close. i'm sorry d'name.
wait. i can come back with this:
dontwantaname wrote:
really fast, but not that long...Felt bad for the mailman.
no1 wrote:i bet that help turn you into a real regular guy.
uswjas80 wrote:1 screw and brute force.
dontwantaname wrote:it doesn't seem to be working.
dontwantaname wrote:
Never gonna happen.
But if it ever does, I've got stuff to put in it!
i feel badly, because this person has no idea, but i need the practice.
andert wrote:I am loving mine. I had a major weed problem...Only thing better would be if I could convince my teenage son that it is FUN and get him to use it. LOL Not holding my breath.
kristina1225 wrote:Already have my 3 pieces taped together, it's so pretty!
ThunderThighs wrote:Make sure to get the kind with the stick in it. It tastes best.
pooflady wrote: I need at least 12. The length doesn't matter. (If No1 doesn't jump on that ...)
You can't wait for any1
preventive misquoting.
PemberDucky wrote:disappointing?
...for me, it was a neat little thing to behold.
dontwantaname wrote:It is a silly looking fuzzy caterpillar.
PemberDucky wrote:boy, this package is seeing a lot of action!
That's what she said
Really, she said that.
dontwantaname wrote:There is a sweet spot on the back of the throat.
... what? ... oh. never mind.
no1 wrote:I THINK YOU CAN WRITE A MOVIE BASED ON THIS!
dontwantaname wrote:
Doggie feels great.
missionary's not bad either.
no1 wrote:then why haven't you sent her a bag of **men yet?
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Spring is in the air, and that means that it's just about farmer's market season — when you can get fresh food from local producers. But if you've just moved to a new area or are just not that plugged in to the one you're in, you may be at a loss when it comes to finding where (or when) your friendly neighborhood market is operating.
Farmstand is here to help. The app, for iOS devices, depends on user-generated data to let shoppers know the locations and hours of their local markets. Obviously, the information in your area gets better the more people in your area use the app.
As a growing community of vendors and users participate, the app also lets you add further information, such as whether the market takes SNAP food stamps. Users can also add photos and comments to the listings to share what's on offer that week or offer advice on who the best vendors are. And if you don't have a good community on the app yet? Well, you can help create one. Free, for iOS devices.
Link between devices
Have you ever been looking at something on your phone and really wished that you could send it on to your home computer? Or maybe you've downloaded a document on your phone while in transit, but would like to see it on a bigger screen.
Sure, there are ways to move files around — emailing to yourself, uploading to a service like Dropbox, etc. — but they can often be clunky.
Enter Pushbullet. This app, which can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices as well as to Firefox and Chrome, takes the hassle out of juggling devices.
With one click or tap, it lets you send links, files, notes and even to-do lists between devices. Sending an address over the service will even automatically open the location in Apple or Google Maps, for easy navigation. Free, for iOS and Android devices.


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Yesterday I was awakened by a fellow from the City of West Melbourne, FL. He is the Deputy City Manager assigned to assist the new City Manager of West Melbourne, Florida. I became his first assignment – such a lucky fellow! He has been present at the City Council meetings so he already knew a bit of the history but I gave him another earful. I refuse to allow all of the mis-statements and inaccuracies continue unchallenged. Anyway yesterday was the start of the job for our new City Manager – the previous one has been let go of course. (Not only because of me!) Supposedly the City of West Melbourne, Florida wants to get this job finished although FPL has yet to set the meter in the one panel box. They wanted to know if I would accept a test of the system on Monday using a generator. I told the fellow go ahead – maybe we will get lucky and it fails and blows itself apart. I am tired of the mess at this point but not the fight.
Late yesterday afternoon I received a phone call from our new City Manager himself. Seems I was the project that he got greeted with to start his job – of course, along with all the other messes he was left. He'll be using the inheritance theme for awhile I am sure! I welcomed him to West Melbourne, Florida and he felt obligated to apologize to me on behalf of the city. He wanted me to understand he cannot change what has been done but wants to finish the job and at least give me back some semblance of a front yard. After that we will need to talk obviously. I went through what was in the past and explained to him that the missteps, inaccurate comments, and lack of honesty are all symptomatic of a bigger problem. With my construction background I could speak to the poor management and even misuse of trust and funds on this job. Every time a task needs to be redrawn, or redone, it costs more money. Wrong in this recession/depression. This is not being good stewards of the public trust! More importantly I warned him that employees who were responsible for managing this project didn't do their job properly and were being disingenuous at best. That signals they will not be his best friends or good employees – beware! He laughed and said he was glad someone in the city was aware of that and would continue to remember that as projects are enacted in town. All in all, I will be honest and say I do not feel this new fellow is 'out to get me' – and I suspect he will be as fair as possible in finishing the job. At least he had the courtesy and class to apologize on behalf of the city for previous behavior – and that goes a long way in my estimation! Bottom line is that my home values are and will be down-valued. Some degree of landscaping will help but not change that fact. I still believe the City of West Melbourne, Florida owes me for that – and I do not owe anyone else because it is good for them. They don't pay my bills and they will not give me a pension to make up for lost equity in my home. And that is one fight I will not back away from – hang it on principles – if something is right based on legal technicalities, that does not guarantee it is ethically or morally right. Would you want it done to you or someone you care about? Then don't expect me to accept it either – I do not owe it to anyone!
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Before Americans start celebrating July 4th, some residents will turn their attention to Mexico as our neighbor to the south holds its presidential election on Sunday.
The Mexican presidential election takes place every six years, but this time the process has been streamlined and well-publicized to encourage more voter participation by Mexicans living abroad.
It is only the second time that Mexican citizens living outside the country have been eligible to vote. The first time, in 2006, would-be voters found the process restrictive and bureaucratic and there were costs associated with mailing and registering a ballot.
As of last week, the Instituto Federal Electoral, the public organization responsible for organizing Mexico's federal elections, was expecting about 45,500 votes from the United States in this year's election, The agency was anticipating about 3,000 votes from Florida, with some of those coming from Gadsden County.
To encourage participation in the election by Mexicans living in Gadsden County, the Instituto Federal Electoral sent prepaid mailing envelopes for prospective voters to the Migrant Education Program office in Quincy
The small number of absentee votes expected from the United States is based on the number of mailed-out ballots. Numerically, these votes would not be expected to have any real impact in an election that will draw from the nation's 70 million-plus registered domestic voters.
But putting it in some perspective, the Migrant Policy Institute points out in a background article on its website that in Mexico's 2006 presidential election, less than 1 percent of the vote separated winning candidate Felipe Calderon from the second-place candidate, Lopez Obrador.
It was so close, Lopez Obrador famously did not concede and for months the candidate and his followers claimed victory.
Lopez Obrador is back and the main four candidates, including Mexico's first-ever woman running for president, in 2012 are:
Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, the PRD candidate had held the number two spot in most of the polls up until this week. He heads the ticket for a left-leaning coalition party. He became know internationally in 2006 when, after barely losing the presidential election to Felipe Calderon, he organized a large protest that briefly shut down Mexico City.
According to a variety of polls, Enrique Peña Nieto, the PRI candidate, has been the front-runner by a comfortable margin; however, organized student opposition has dogged his campaign. Some fear returning the PRI to power would mean a return to the past. The party had controlled Mexico for more than 70 years (1929-2000) and was known for corruption and election fraud.
Josefina Vazquez Mota, the PAN candidate, hopes to become Mexico's first female president. Her party has been in power for the past 12 years, but she has worked to distance herself from the current administration. As of this week, some polls had her even with Obrador.
Gabriel Quadri de la Torre, the PNA candidate hashad a lock on the low spot in the polls. Before announcing his candidacy he was relatively unknown, He has been described as an environmentalist and wants to reform the state-owned oil industry and privatize a large part of it.
The four candidates share Mexico's top issue, the war on drugs and the related deadly spillover violence. Each has proposed various solutions.
"Drug trafficking is the major issue in Mexico because almost 6 years of the Calderon government has produced almost 60,000 deaths and the Mexicans are fed up with violence and bloodshed," said Dr. Bruce Bagley, who is with the University of Miami Department of International Studies. "More than 60 percent of all Mexicans feel that the war on drugs has been a failure and has not solved their problems."
Bagley does not see much of a solution coming in the next years.
As for the role Mexico's drug cartels are playing in this election, Bagley said, they have channeled drug money into the election to get candidates willing to work with them, to turn the other way and to tolerate their activities. "They are equal-opportunity corrupters," Bagley said.
David Peñaflor, with the Migrant Education Program in Quincy, recalled the voting difficulties of the 2006 election and the improvements this year to encourage more participation in 2012.
He said there is considerable local interest in the race, especially among young people fueled by the Internet and social media, and they are anxious to exercise their right to vote.
It's an aspect he is quite familiar with, having four sons and a daughter of voting age who do not all share the same political views. "It's a little war," he joked. "But I am sure the young people in Mexico will make the difference in this election."
In fact his youngest son was not 18 during the registration period, but would turn 18 before the election. So being adamant about his right to vote, "he fought for it and went through the process so he could participate," Peñaflor said proudly.
Peñaflor thinks the race is between Peña Nieto and Lopez Obrador, but said he did not know who the general favorite is among local Mexican voters. "Many people have hope for the leftist Manuel Obrador, because many people felt that he was the winner six years ago, but other people have hope for Vazquez Mota, the PAN candidate.
And of course, he said, there is PRI, which has a huge political machine and a strong organization to get out the votes.
"But I don't really think anyone knows who is the favorite of the Mexican-American voters," he said. "Except for the organized blocks."
Maria Pouncy Migrant Education Program Coordinator pointed out that only Mexican Nationals or Mexican-Americans with dual citizenship can vote.
With little domestic media coverage of the race, Peñaflor said Mexicans living here rely on the Internet and cable TV to follow the campaign. He said the Mexican population in the United States is engaged through Spanish-language television networks such as Univision and Telemundo.
"This is the first way," he said, "and the second way is through the Internet, which has become a very important way of a providing a balance of opinions." He explained that the Internet, especially social media and political blogs, have become popular in this race because many people believe the big TV companies are favoring the PRI party and its candidate, Peña Nieto.
The clerk at Quincy's Tienda Discolandia and Bakery did not have strong views about the election, but just up West Jefferson Street at El Campesino, a Mexican market, there was no doubt where the owner stands.
"PAN. I want PAN again," said proprietor Samuel Roman. "They have been in power for two terms and done a lot of good. The PRI kept the people down."
As for the expected low voter turnout of Mexican-Americans, Bagley is not surprised. Most of them this time are not particularly concerned with the election in Mexico and not highly motivated to vote, he said. Neither the Mexicans nor most analysts expect the Mexicans living here to go out of their way to vote.
Peñaflor concluded that the three major parties will have to work together after the election, but whoever wins will be the president of all Mexicans.
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A reader sent along a note yesterday to warn me his machine picked up a virus infection from a page on CVG after following a link to there from here. I was skeptical this was the case on such a major site, so I visited the page to see what was up. A couple of minutes later I got an antivirus pop-up that started scanning, saying I was infected with a virus, except this was not actually from my AV software. I killed this with the task manager, and removed the infection using Malwarebytes, and restored my system from earlier in the day. I got some weird responses from my antivirus software, and the infection recurred, so I realized the AV software got hijacked along the way, and I repeated that procedure adding an uninstall and reinstall to the checklist, which seems to have cleared things up, ending my tale of woe.
You hear stories about being able to get a virus payload from visiting a page and not even clicking links, but I never knew anyone who actually experienced that (until now), with the weird part being I must have visited the site to post the link in the first place, without incident. Anyway, I notified CVG about the problem, and can only hope that not many of you were impacted by this, and if you were, you managed to clear things up without having to do anything drastic.
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The National Weather Service is most often in the business of talking about what's coming. But this week, it has a team in Boulder exploring instead the question: What happened?
Specifically, the NWS wants to evaluate how its forecasters performed in the days leading up to, and during, the historic record-shattering rains and flooding that ravaged the Front Range in September.
A team of about 10 specialists brought in from around the country is conducting on-site interviews this week with people from a wide range of disciplines and professions -- including this reporter -- to evaluate its staff's forecasting of, and response to, one of the most extreme weather events ever recorded in the Boulder area.
The purpose of the NWS "service assessment," according to a statement from the NWS's David Vallee, is "to evaluate the performance of NOAA's NWS offices affected by the event. It is designed to (a) identify and share best-case operations, procedures, and practices, and (b) address service deficiencies. Partner engagement is a key component to help us identify services that worked and deficiencies to improve."
Vallee is one of two officials heading up the assessment team. He is the hydrologist in charge at the NWS Northeast River Forecast Center in Taunton, Mass.
There was a widespread acknowledgment, during and after the storm, that no one had predicted a storm of the magnitude Boulder witnessed, in the days that preceded it.
For example, Boulder meteorologist Matt Kelsch had told the Daily Camera at the storm's peak, "If you had had asked me (in the previous week), I would have told you it looked like a wetter, cooler period (ahead). But there is no way I would have told you we were going to have 10 inches of rain."
Boulder registered 17.15 inches of rain from Sept. 9 to Sept. 16, including 9.08 inches in one 24-hour period.
Nezette Rydell, NWS Boulder meteorologist in charge, said the review launched this week "is not routine," and can be a lengthy process -- for example, the agency's 66-page assessment from Hurricane/Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy, which struck the Northeast in late October 2012, was only recently completed.
"It can take from three to six months, from start to finish," said Rydell. "They will write a report. There will be best practices that are shared, and there will be findings, equipment that didn't work, processes that could benefit from changing."
The team's review also has a "social science" component, Rydell said, examining how information conveyed by forecasters affected, or was utilized by its recipients.
"Sometimes we will find out that a county 100 miles away did something, takes some action based on our forecast, and we'll say, 'Oh no, that's not what we meant,' " Rydell said. "We think we know what we are saying, but, we're looking at how other people respond."
Not every member of the team is from the NWS, or its parent agency the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For example, joining Vallee in leading the analysis of the Colorado flood is Robert Kimbrough, associate director of the United States Geological Survey's Colorado Water Science Center.
Kimbrough is the official who first reported to the Camera that on the morning of Sept. 12, a gauge on Boulder Creek at North 75th Street showed the streamflow to have reached a level with a one-in-100 chance of occurring in any given year -- commonly known as a "100-year flood."
Subsequently, some experts concluded that in certain locations, rain had fallen at a pace that made the rainfall a one-in-1,000-year event.
Rydell cautioned that those calculations were made in the week immediately after the storm, and that stating such things with certainty takes more protracted gathering and studying of available data.
"(State climatologist) Nolan Doesken says, 'Be careful what the first number (reported) is, because that's the number everyone remembers,' " Rydell said. "He is still collecting rainfall information. He is still adding to the rainfall reports, to get just as thorough a documentation of the rain that fell, as possible."
She added, "They're still out there, literally knocking on doors, saying, 'How much rain did you get? At which point did your gauge wash away?' "
Kelly Mahoney, a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, said she has met several of the assessment team members during their visit to Boulder this week. She said she'd "love" to work on such a project.
"It's a really neat compilation of people," Mahoney said. "They're basically doing detective work and trying to piece together what happened, looking at different components and seeing what different people's perceptions are.
"Sometimes, there's a lot of separation between those two things, the perception and reality."
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I find this a wholly boring, forgettable comic. Yes, sometimes words are printed on the street/highway such that if you were to look at them in this way, they may seem backwards (not "backward"). But they aren't meant to be read that way; they are meant to be read in the way most useful to drivers, and that means: if you can't see the message easily and all at once, write it in segments so that drivers can read it logically. It's sort of like how if you read a blog from top to bottom, you'd be reading it "backwards" because it's the opposite order of how it was written. Crazy! (this is as good a time as any to point out that Randall recently passed the 3-months-without-a-blog-post milestone, an event which I note with no comment).
The point is, yes, the text is written in an unusual way, but it has a reason, and anyone who thinks about it will understand it. Jabbing at the highway engineers who wrote it in the best way seems pretty obnoxious to me.
Also, though Randall later changed his alt-text to be accurate, it did originally imply that Star Wars was released in 1973, a claim that laughably incorrect to anyone who is actually a nerd. But that's ok! You don't have to be a nerd, you just have to pretend. I have, of course, presented the alt-text as originally written. No acknowledgement of the change was made on the part of xkcd.com.
I, like many people, noticed that Ryan North co-edited a book based off an old comic he wrote. It's a collection of short stories, all written by different people, and as you can see by the list of authors, one story is written by Randall Munroe of xkcd fame and fortune.
I'm not sure what to think about that - one the one hand, most of what we've seen Randall create over the last few years has been pretty terrible. That said, this book got hundreds of submissions and I think highly of Ryan North (and David Malki, who has sent me some free books from TopatoCo, one of which i still need to review, dammit) and I don't think he'd include a sub-par story just because it was written by a well known comic person. Anyway - we'll see how it is, I guess! A cool idea for a book.


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Springfield police have taken multiple reports over the last few days of catalytic converters being stolen from parked vehicles.
At least two such thefts were reported Tuesday: one in a parking lot at First and Madison streets, and the other in the 900 block of South Seventh Street.
The incident at First and Madison involved a catalytic converter being taken from a Pontiac Sunfire sometime between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Friday. The owner of the car said it would cost about $600 to repair.
The Seventh Street theft occurred between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. April 10 and involved a Honda Element that was parked along the street. Damage was estimated at $400.
Catalytic converters are connected to the exhaust systems on the bottom of vehicles. They can be accessed without opening the hood.


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PARIS — Kim Kardashian might as well be naughty this Christmas, because even if she's nice her fiancé is unlikely to shell out for a Louis Vuitton handbag.
Rapper Kanye West, who gave reality TV star Kardashian a diamond ring worth millions to celebrate their engagement, told a U.S. radio show recently that Vuitton's prices are "just too extreme." The criticism by West, who has collaborated with the Paris-based label on products including a range of $1,000 sneakers, is a signal some luxury companies may be charging too much, turning off even the wealthiest clients.
Luxury prices are soaring as brands attempt to move upmarket amid slowing sales. The shift upscale, which often includes using more expensive materials, is designed to restore a veneer of exclusivity after years of churning out logoed handbags that were snapped up by shoppers the world over.
The strategy is a response to customers, many in Asia, who are abandoning logos in favor of designs they perceive as more luxurious. Problem is, only a handful of brands can pull it off, according to Rahul Sharma, managing director of Neev Capital, an advisory firm in London that follows the luxury industry.
"There are people who will pay up just because it is Hermes or Dior or Chanel," said Sharma. "It's a lot harder for Gucci and Vuitton" to charge more given their reliance on mass- market consumers.
Organic revenue growth at LVMH's fashion and leather-goods division, where Vuitton is the biggest brand, slowed to 3 percent in the third quarter, while Kering SA reported the weakest growth in four years at its Gucci brand in that period. Hermes International SCA, on the other hand, last month raised its full-year sales target, saying they will rise more than 11 percent.
Vuitton-owner LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA declined to comment for this story and Gucci didn't respond to requests. A representative of West declined to comment, while one for Kardashian didn't return phone calls and e-mails. LVMH shares fell 1.1 percent in Paris trading, while Kering's advanced 0.7 percent.
The average price of Vuitton leather bags without logos rose 13 percent in the first nine months of 2013 as it introduced the $3,850 W and $5,350 Capucine lines, Exane BNP Paribas estimates. That's almost double the annual rate at which Vuitton, LVMH's biggest brand, boosted prices for its logoed canvas travel bags over the past decade.
The more elite brands are also getting pricier. Chanel's Jumbo Flap bag, which was $2,650 in 2010, currently sells for $4,900, while the price of a medium Lady Dior handbag more than doubled, to almost $4,000, in the period, according to Sharma.
European luxury-goods makers from Mulberry Group Plc to Salvatore Ferragamo SpA have attributed higher prices in part to surging raw-material costs and unfavorable currency swings. Prime leather skins have gained as much as 16 percent this year alone, according to Mulberry, spurring companies such as Chanel and Kering to buy tanneries to secure supply.
Ballooning luxury prices come as the cost for all accessories, from fast-fashion purses to regular belts, grew at an average of less than 1 percent annually in Europe between 2005 and 2012, according to Eurostat, the statistical service of the European Union. Inflation was 18 percent in the period, Eurostat says.
In order to continue raising prices, brands need to ensure they are also investing in an improved product, according to Laurence-Anne Parent, senior partner at Advancy, a business consulting firm in Paris.
"Long-term, you can't fool the customer," Parent said. "At some point there is going to be a discrepancy between the product and the price."
Worldwide luxury sales this year expanded at the slowest pace since 2009 as slack Chinese consumption and the weakness of the Japanese yen have weighed on growth, Bain & Co. estimates. Sales of personal luxury items such as apparel and watches rose 2 percent to 217 billion euros ($297 billion), a fifth of last year's rate, Bain said.
And Exane BNP Paribas notes that growth in luxury in China over the next decade will be driven by the middle class rather than the truly rich. That means brands have to engage the merely well-off clients that many depend on for revenue.
"Targeting the really wealthy shopper, you're essentially blocking the masses from buying your product," said Verdict Research analyst Kate Ormrod.
Companies from Vuitton to Burberry are seeking to do both by introducing perfume and cosmetics that can cost less than $50. Still, lower-margin cosmetics may not be enough to compensate for slowing sales of fashion and leather goods, which account for a more than half of LVMH's profit.
As European luxury brands raise prices, American rivals such as Michael Kors Holdings Ltd., a maker of $120 jersey dresses, and Tory Burch, producer of $575 totes, are winning share with more affordable goods. Kors's sales are set to lead the industry with 24 percent growth in 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's more than twice LVMH's estimated growth rate and three-and-a-half times Kering's pace, data show.
The competition doesn't mean the big European luxury houses will be lowering prices anytime soon, according to Fiona Harkin, senior vice president of content at advisory firm Stylus in London. The companies have recognized that their wealthiest customers are seeking less conspicuous luxury even if it costs more, she said, and those who aspire to extreme wealth will follow their lead — if they can afford it.
"This is discreet luxury," said Harkin. The trend "may well be a lasting legacy of an era of austerity and as a result of the widening gap between rich and poor."


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Are you a horse owner or barn manager who wants the best for your horses and the environment? Are you interested in improving pasture conditions by increasing forage quality, reducing weeds and maintaining a dense vegetative cover? Are you interested in developing a manure storage facility that benefits your farm and the environment? Are you aware all farms, as of Fall 2011, regardless of size, applying or producing manure, are required to have a written manure management plan?
The "Healthy Farms and Healthy Horses; Manure Management Plan Writing" is a one day workshop dedicated to help equine owners complete their own manure management plan and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to adopt sound best management practices for their farm and horses.
The short course will be held at the PPL Wallenpaupack Environmental Center in Wayne County on Friday, March 22th from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Cost for the short course is $10, which includes lunch, and course materials.
The full day workshop will include topics ranging from developing farm maps to proper manure and pasture management. Learn about the nutritional benefits and health risks associated with grazing; basics of forage growth, biology and identification; rotational grazing and stress lots. Understand the importance of, and how to take soil samples, and the benefits of liming and fertilizing. Learn the do's and don'ts of manure spreading and storing, while completing your manure management plan and complying with state regulations.
This workshop is being sponsored by Penn State Extension, NRCS, Pennsylvania DEP, Southern Wayne Trail Riders Association, Pike, Wayne and Wyoming County Conservation Districts.
To receive more information, or to register for the short course, please contact Northampton County Extension at (610)746 -1970, or e-mail Donna Foulk at
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FTA and FEMA sign MOA for major disaster emergenciesWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on March 5 that outlines the roles and responsibilities of both agencies in providing federal assistance to repair and restore public transportation systems
in areas the president has declared a major disaster or emergency.
FTA's newly-authorized Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program was established by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and the MOA is required to establish the relief program.
"After disasters hit, our federal, state and local partners must be able to move quickly and make the necessary repairs to our nation's transit systems, roads, rails and bridges," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "Today's announcement makes it easier for them to get to work and the United States Department of Transportation will continue to work closely with FEMA and our partners to ensure that emergency relief funds are available as quickly as possible to rebuild from Hurricane Sandy."
The MOA is a requirement that must be in place before the bulk of the FTA's disaster relief funds for Hurricane Sandy aid can be released, as prescribed by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
The new emergency relief authority provides FTA with primary responsibility for reimbursing emergency response and recovery costs after an emergency or disaster that affects public transportation systems and for helping to mitigate the impact of future disasters.
FTA continues to work with FEMA to conduct damage assessments and cost-validation work in the hardest-hit parts of New York and New Jersey, as well as other regions where transit was impacted.
The Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013, which President Obama signed into law on Jan. 29, required the FTA to make available no more than $2 billion in disaster funds within 60 days of enactment of the disaster relief appropriation, which the agency is currently doing. The remaining funds required a MOA between FEMA and FTA and the establishment of emergency relief program regulations by FTA.
With the MOA complete, the remaining disaster relief funds will be made available after FTA issues interim regulations, which is expected to occur in April.


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Volunteers spend Black Friday cleaning up devastated Westerly beach
Westerly — Linda Billiel scooped up a shovelful of sand Friday morning to expose a few inches of artificial turf. She had uncovered part of the Bayview Fun Park at Misquamicut Beach, buried nearly a month ago by Hurricane Sandy.
Billiel, from Colchester, had volunteered her time, opting not to get caught up in the deal-hunting and shopping madness that accompanies Black Friday.
"I don't need the craziness. Black Friday brings out the worst in people. This brings out the best in people," said Billiel, who was among dozens of volunteers who chose shovels over shopping bags to help restore a summertime destination popular among Connecticut and Rhode Island beachgoers alike.
"What a good way to work off the Thanksgiving dinner," said volunteer Donna Daigle.
Daigle, from East Hampton, boarded a school bus Friday morning at Rotary Park in Westerly in the ongoing volunteer effort coordinated by Serve Rhode Island, the Greater Westerly-Pawcatuck Chamber of Commerce and Misquamicut Business Association.
Nearly 1,000 people to date have helped in some way.
Surrounded by piles of debris, mounds of sand and the rumble of heavy equipment, Friday's group worked along Atlantic Avenue, the main beachfront route that was buried under several feet of sand after the historic storm surge.
The businesses along Atlantic were badly damaged, waterlogged, filled with sand or washed away. The same tide that moved tons of sand exposed septic systems all along the beachfront properties.
Jelane Kennedy of Albany, N.Y., traditionally travels to the Mystic area each year and enjoys a Thanksgiving walk on the beach with her partner, Eileen. "This year we made the decision, because it's in such bad shape, to come and help," she said.
Barbara Stillman, owner of the Atlantic Beach Resort, praised the volunteer effort as she watched from the front of her office building. Last week volunteers showed up at her business to remove sand, stones and debris that filled her indoor swimming pool.
"Without the volunteers this beach would be a mess, more of a mess," she said. "Appreciative isn't the word."
As owner of one of the few year-round businesses in Misquamicut, Stillman said she's losing as much as $6,000 a week by not being able to rent her time-share properties. Like others, she said she still needs electrical and infrastructure work done but is waiting for state inspections and permits.
The uncertainty of what the state will require in the rebuilding process is a growing frustration among business owners.
Landmark institutions such as the Andrea Hotel, Maria's Seaside Café and Paddy's — family businesses that have been here for generations — continue to wonder if they have to demolish what remains, said Lisa Konicki, executive director of the Greater Westerly-Pawcatuck Chamber of Commerce.
"They're playing beat the clock with the cold weather," Konicki said. "As it stands now, unless we get help with sewers it's going to be a significant challenge over the next several months. I can't overstate how devastating this is for our town."
Misquamicut Business Association Executive Director Caswell Cooke, a Westerly Town Council member, said answers need to come from the state Coastal Resources Management Council and Department of Environmental Management. On Friday he pointed to a pile of sand that used to be the site of Sam's Snack Bar, which, until Sandy hit, had stood at the same location for three decades.
"We're not getting answers quick enough from the state," Cooke said. "It's just frustrating, because I think the rest of the world has gone back to business as usual. I don't think they understand the gravity of the situation here. We've got to be ready for May."
A meeting with state officials is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday at Westerly Town Hall.
Konicki said the chamber, in addition to enlisting volunteers, has been selling T-shirts bearing the slogan "Bring Back the Beach." The chamber has sold more than $8,000 worth of the shirts and raised more than $50,000, she said, a tribute to the "unbelievable support of the community."
Stonington pitches in to help neighbor Westerly with cleanup
Property owners to be allowed into Misquamicut Saturday afternoon
Misquamicut assessment continues; residents able to return home today
U.S. House bill cuts thousands from Connecticut's free school lunch program
Can Passero lead New London to that 'bright future' he sees coming?
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The city of Thibodaux may soon have its own dog park.
The city of Thibodaux may soon have its own dog park.
Mayor Tommy Eschete said the city is in talks with a potential donor/sponsor who is very interested in seeing a park hosted by the city.
"It would just be a place to allow people to take their dogs and run," Eschete said.
The city has identified an acre plot of land it owns behind the Warren J. Harang Municipal Auditorium between the reservoir and lumber yard off Rue Loudun.
The site is being evaluated to see what would be needed for the project, Eschete said. Once that is done, the city will have a better idea of cost.
Eschete said the city has a confidential donor who wants to sponsor the project. He wouldn't give the sponsor's name, only saying it is a Thibodaux business owner.
This sponsor would pay for the fencing and improvements to the plot if the costs are reasonable, Eschete said. The city would maintain the property.
Ryan Perque, administrative assistant to the mayor, said the park could also include a small pavilion.
"As soon as we get a handle on cost, we will have a better idea of what it will be like," Eschete said.
Many dog parks charge for use, but Eschete said he doesn't think there will be any cost.
Other dog parks have vaccination and other requirements, but none of that has been set for Thibodaux's park. Eschete said the city is looking at what other parks do.
He also said he will be seeking the help of local animal organizations such as the Thibodaux-based rescue group Hope for Animals.
The project was initially discussed as part of the failed recreation tax last year.
"I think it is a wonderful idea," said Ruth Chiasson, president of Hope for Animals. "It would benefit anyone who has a pet, especially people who have a dog but no place for it to run."
Chiasson also said it would be a good opportunity for pets and pet owners to socialize.


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Kirksville High School dominates all-district selections.
Kirksville students entertained Saturday night at Truman State's Baldwin Auditorium as part of the 2013 all-district band concert.
Kirksville had nine band members selected to the honorable mention all-district band, and 11 selected to all-district band.
All-district selections were: Naseem Hamidi, flute; Nell Davis, clarinet; Brianna Broach, clarinet; Gloria Mitchell, clarinet; Tim Middlemas, alto saxophone; Catie Shuey, alto saxophone; Jessica Bartholomew, trumpet; Austin Motley, trombone; Jon Self, trombone; Ethan Murphy, tuba; and Matt Sullivan, percussion.
Students selected to the honorable mention band were: Geordan Beck, flute; Violet Odzinski, clarinet; Linnea Moody, clarinet; Aaron Krusniak, alto saxophone; Eric Valkenaar, baritone saxophone; Kristen Pagliai, trumpet; Shannon Shaffer, French horn; Rachel Jones, French horn; and Landon Motley, euphonium.
The selections were made Nov. 11 in Moberly.
On Dec. 1 in Columbia, Davis was selected to all-state honorable mention band and Motley was selected first chair all-state trombone.
Additionally, all-district jazz band selections included Motley, Middlemas as an alternate, and Valkenaar as honorable mention.
The Northeast Missouri Jazz Band will perform Feb. 14 at Macon Middle School.


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Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock admitted he only briefly wondered if he had made the right decision to return to football after seeing the Eagles snatch a dramatic draw at Newcastle.
Substitute Wilfried Zaha denied the Magpies a first Barclays Premier League victory with a 95th-minute equaliser to clinch a 3-3 result at St James' Park.
Warnock, who had seen his side twice take the lead only to find themselves 3-2 down with just seconds of normal time remaining, was delighted with how his first game back panned out.
Asked if he had at any point regretted his decision to accept the job, he said: "I did half an hour before the game, that's about all really - and at 5am this morning when I actually woke up.
"At my age, you have to do things at 5am in the morning, don't you? But that's about all.
"The one thing about football that I have really loved over the years, I have loved it when I have got a group of players that want to come to training, that want to play, that want to tackle, want to put their heads in.
"We are going to have poor games at times, but I love that type. The camaraderie with this lot - Tony (Pulis) did a fantastic job last year and there's not one bad apple in the squad. It's great to have the chance to manage a group like this.
"What I am determined to do is enjoy it. For however long it lasts, I am going to enjoy every moment.
"My wife is very supportive. I have turned down a few clubs over the last 12 months, but it just seems right, this one. Even if I'm seventh choice, it doesn't bother me."
Newcastle looked to have snatched victory when central defender Mike Williamson put them ahead for the first time in the game with his first goal for five years, which came with a minute of normal time remaining.
But Zaha, who only completed his loan move from Manchester United back to his former club on Friday, rescued a point five minutes into seven of stoppage time at the end of the game.
Dwight Gayle had given the visitors a first-minute lead which was cancelled out by Daryl Janmaat, and Magpies substitute Rolando Aarons' first senior goal for the club drew his side level for a second time after Jason Puncheon had struck three minutes into the second half.
For Warnock, it was a happy afternoon on Tyneside, where he arrived on his last visit to discover that Palace had been docked 10 points for going into administration.
He said: "It's not a lucky airport for me, really. Last night as we landed, I found out that one of my dogs had to be put down, so it's been difficult
"Two days in the job as well - last time, it was 10 points - but I love coming here. It's a proper football stadium, isn't it? Proper fans.
"I like ruffling a few. I thought me and Alan (Pardew) were exemplary today."
Pardew was understandably disappointed at his side's start to both halves, and their capitulation when they thought they had won, but also peeved by referee Mike Jones' decision to play seven minutes of added time.
He said: "When a team comes here and wastes time from the moment the game kicks off on goal kicks.time and time again they took ages on everything, and then they are 3-2 down and he gives them seven minutes.
"I don't know, it just didn't sit right with me. I suppose he could just go, 'Oh, the letter of the law' and all that, but I don't know. Just in the spirit of the game I thought that was wrong.
"But anyway, I'm not going to bleat on about that too much. We should have won and we didn't."
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When it comes to full-text indexing, we usually think of methods such as inverted indices that break text on word boundaries, consequently requiring search terms to be whole words only. Yet all of us probably have had the experience of searching for not-quite-words C++, VM/CMS, SQL*Plus, 127.0.0.1, <blink>, and the like that were skipped by an inverted index, or broken into less-distinctive pieces. The same goes when you are working with data such as DNA sequences, where you need to quickly find any sequence of symbols.
In this article, I examine an indexing method that lets you find any character sequence in the source text in time only proportional to the sequence length using a structure that can compress the entire source text and index into less space than the text alone. This technique is exceptionally fast at detecting and counting occurrences of any string in the source text. The fact that you can build a string match incrementallyadding one character at a time and seeing the result at each stepgives you the flexibility to explore variable patterns such as regular expressions with maximum effectiveness.
Finding any character sequence in source textand fast!
In Fast String Searching with Suffix Trees (DDJ, August 1996), Mark Nelson addressed full-text indexing using suffix trees; while in Data Compression with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (DDJ, September 1996), he focused on the use of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) for compression. While the BWT is commonly known as a data-compression technique, researchers have found that block-sorted data has a structure that lends itself naturally to search, while using space close to its minimal compressed size. This was first demonstrated in the FM index (see Opportunistic Data Structures with Applications, by Paolo Ferragina and Giovanni Manzini, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2000). In short, the same transformation that yields high-compression ratios, by grouping similar substrings together, also lets you find arbitrary substrings with little overhead.
Block Sorting Reviewed
When block sorting, you construct a list of n blocks consisting of the source text S (usually followed by a special End-of-String character $) of length n, cyclically shifted from zero to n-1 positions. When you sort the blocks, you get a matrix M; see Figure 1(a). The first column of M is called F, and the last, L. F has a simple structure, containing all the characters of S in sorted order, with duplicates. Column L has a more complex structure that contains enough information to reconstruct the original string, and usually forms the basis for BWT compression.
Figure 1(a): Block-sorted text. Start with the source string "abracadabra." Append an end-of-file metacharacter $, with the property that $<a-z. Cyclically shift the string from 0 to n-1 places, and sort the resulting list. Each row is called a "block," containing original text left-shifted 0 to n-1 places. M is the 12×12 block-sorted matrix for string "abracadabra$," F is the first column of the matrix, L is the last column.
In its naive form, M contains n2 characters, but a simple trick represents each block by its first character and a link to the block starting one character to the right; Figures 1(b) and 1(c). To decode a block, you read its first character, follow its link to the next block, read its character and link, and repeat the process until the desired number of characters have been read. This character-and-link representation slashes spatial complexity from O(n2) to O(n).
Figure 1(b): Replacing abracadra$ with "a" and a pointer to bracadabra$a.
Figure 1(c): Twelve blocks replaced with F column and 12 pointers to suffixes.
The links act as a permutation on M, which I call FL because it permutes the orderly F column to the higher entropy L column. FL is the permutation caused by shifting M one column to the left and resorting it; each row i moves to a new position FL[i].
Since the F column is a sorted list of characters, the next space saver is to change from explicitly storing the F column, to simply recording the starting position for each character's range in F, using an array that I call "C"; Figure 1(c). At a given position i in M, you look through C to find the section c of F that contains i. The F() method in bwtindex.cc applies this idea. Also see Figure 1(d).
Figure 1(d): Discard F column and use C to identify characters.
By storing only FL and C, you have a reasonablebut not minimalrepresentation of M, and you can decode successive characters of the source from left to right. The decode method in bwtindex.cc shows how to carry out this iteration. See Figure 1(e).
Figure 1(e): Decoding from any position. Chase pointers and translate each position to char using C. The decode method shows this technique in bwtindex.cc.
Useful Properties of the Permutation
Figure 2 shows how FL is order preserving on blocks that start with the same character. That is, given two blocks i and j that both start with c, lexical comparison implies that if i<j, then FL[i]<FL[j]. This is one of the core elements of the BWT.
Figure 2: This map is called FL because it rearranges the F column into the L column. FL is order-preserving for strings that start with the same character, so each character's section in FL contains an ascending list of integers. Here, you see the "fan-out" for blocks prefixed by "a."
This order-preserving property means that FL consists of sections of integers in ascending order, one section for each character. You can search one of these sections for a target value quickly, using binary search.