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GS: Where are you from?
KG: I was born and raised in Blount Springs, Alabama.
GS: What degree will you receive and when?
KG: I will receive my PhD in Biology this Fall.
GS: How long have you been at UAB?
KG: I have been at UAB since Fall of 1999 where I began my undergraduate studies. I have a BS and MS in Biology, and I will have a PhD when I complete my time here at my Alma Mater.
GS: What is your research?
KG: I study nutritional physiology of sea urchins in an effort to facilitate the development of nutritionally-complete feeds for sea urchin aquaculture. I enjoy learning how nutrients can affect how our animals grow and reproduce.
GS: Why did you choose UAB for your graduate studies?
KG: As an undergraduate, I had the great fortune of working summers in a research lab. I began working with Dr. Watts at the end of my freshman year, and I loved the research and guidance in the lab. My experiences in undergraduate research and also as a McNair Scholar revealed the many excellent opportunities UAB and the Department of Biology had for graduate students. Our graduate program is one of the best in the nation and one of the few that provides opportunities to develop research and teaching skills that are important for someone interested in a career in academia.
GS: Have you received any awards or honors?
KG: 2011 Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies Doctoral Level, UAB
2011 UAB College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award, Graduate Level
2011 United States Aquaculture Society Student Spotlight Award, 1st Place
2011 United States Aquaculture Society Best Abstract/Travel Award
2011 Invited speaker for Women in Aquaculture Session, Aquaculture America 2011
2010 Evelyn M. and Harold C. Martin Endowed Support Fund in Biology
GS: What has been your most rewarding experience at UAB?
KG UAB has been my home for many years now, and each year brings its own opportunities for learning and growth. I don't know that I could pick one over another for everything my experiences have taught me. I believe that my desire to stay involved on campus and to work with various organizations at UAB have helped me develop leadership and communication skills to complement my formal instruction in the classroom and lab. All of my experiences here have taken some part in developing the person I am today, and for that I am grateful.
GS: Who was your greatest influence here at UAB and why?
KG: My greatest influence here at UAB is my mentor, Dr. Stephen Watts. He has taken the time to train me as a scientist, teacher, and mentor over the many years I have worked with him. I owe a great deal of my success to his guidance and support. Dr. Watts is an excellent mentor, and I know he will continue to provide guidance and advice throughout my career.
GS: What is your motivation in your academics/research?
KG: My greatest motivation is my desire to know "why." I am not satisfied with just knowing what something is or how things may be related. I always want to dig deeper and find out why something is as it is and why things are related as they are. Biology is a great and endless mystery that will always keep me searching for answers, and I love it!
GS: What are your plans after graduating and for the future?
KG: I have been offered a three-year post-doctoral position at Villanova University to begin this Fall. The position provides the opportunity for teaching and research to prepare me for tenure-track faculty positions. Ultimately, I would love to have my own lab to continue research and train the next generation of investigators.
GS: Is there anything else you would like to say?
KG: I would love to thank the many faculty and staff at UAB who have taught me so much through their formal instruction and also through their friendship and the positive examples they set as professionals.
Katie's advice for other graduate students:
Graduate school is a great opportunity for professional and personal growth. Don't pass up a chance to work a little outside your element. When you challenge yourself, you can really learn more about your own potential and how much farther you can go.
For more information regarding the Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, visit http://main.uab.edu/Sites/gradschool/students/current/groups/researchday/barkeraward/


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Martha Ann Skelton, of Rolla, passed away Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at the age of 77.
She was born on January 18, 1936 in Holly Springs, MS to the late Harold Crowder and Louise (Nichols) Crowder. On March 14, 1958, she married John Skelton who survives of the home.
Martha taught at the Rolla Vocational Technical School in the L.P.N. program for several years. She was them employed as an R.N. at the Phelps County Regional Medical Center for over 10 years.
She and John joined the Salem Ave. Baptist Church in the fall of 1963 where she served as a Sunday School teacher. Martha was an avid Cardinals fan and followed her boys to many of their ball games. She worked very hard to research the family history of both the Skelton and the Crowder families.
In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her son, Mark Skelton in 1996, and her brother, Nick Crowder.
Martha will be greatly missed by her surviving family which includes: her husband, John Skelton of Rolla; four sons, John S. Skelton and wife Charlotte of Rolla, Steve Skelton of Raymore, MO, Scott Skelton and wife Cathy of Rolla, and Paul Skelton and special friend Lori Wofford of Salem, MO; daughter-in-law, Norma Skelton of Booneville, MO; one brother, Russell Crowder and wife Mary Ellen of FL; one sister, Jo Jackson of FL; ten grandchildren, Justin McPherson, Jeff McPherson, Jessica Skelton, Mark Skelton, Sarah Skelton, John Robert Skelton, Blake Skelton, Taylor Skelton, Kellsey Skelton and McKenzie Skelton; several nieces and nephews; and many, many friends.
A funeral service for Martha A. Skelton will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Monday, February 11, 2013 at the Salem Ave. Baptist Church in Rolla. Interment will follow in the Rolla City Cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Sunday, February 10, 2013 at the Null and Son Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Salem Ave. Baptist Church.
Online condolences may be offered at www.nullandsonfuneralhome.com.
All arrangements are under the direction of the Null and Son Funeral Home of Rolla.

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We're keeping things simple on Wayback Wednesday this week with a short and sweet little collection of photos from October, 2002. Teacher Judy West took the children of the Red Oak class on a nature hike to Purdue's Horticulture Park to enjoy the crisp morning, collect leaves, and hug some very deserving trees.
Do you have favorite photos you would like to share on Wayback Wednesday? Please contact me at email@example.com. Have an outstanding Wednesday!
The MSGL photo archives are a bit disorganized and I usually have to sift through them to come up with a Wayback Wednesday post, but this week the work was already done. After leading the toddler families on this field trip to Lafayette's Columbian Park Zoo in the Spring of 1998, teacher Suman Harshvardhan put together this little photo album for the children.
These kiddos are college freshmen (or nearly) now. Thanks for reading and have a great Wednesday!
We're really reaching back here for Halloween gold - all the way back to 1989. Back in the day, the whole school had a costume parade in the Morton Center gymnasium. It was a big year for bunnies, clowns, and superheroes.
Winter is upon us and the staff of the Wayback Wednesday department is preparing to head south for the season. (The staff certainly wishes this was true.) Okay, we're not really going anywhere but we have discovered a treasure trove of awesome photos. We will be scanning them and organizing them over winter break. When everyone returns in January you can look forward to the beginning of "Building MSGL." It's the story of how our families built the MSGL campus that we know and love today.
To whet your appetites I am posting one photo from that winter of 2000. Look at this photo and see if you can figure out where in the school it is. The first commenter to get it correct wins a free Wayback Wednesday t-shirt. (The staff certainly wishes this was true.) Okay, no t-shirt but you can still be first. Have fun guessing!
Have a terrific Wednesday and an awesome winter break!
The weather forecast calls for all of this snow to be melting in about a week. In case you think you just can't wait that long, here are some photos of MSGL summers past to see you through.
1994 - Digging in the tiny sandbox at Morton Center.
2000 - Hula hooping at Morton Center.
2001 - Hi Cathy!
2002 - The Parent/Infant class posing by the sandbox.
2003 - Waiting for a wagon ride.
2009 - Sack racing at the family picnic at Happy Hollow Park.
2010 - Releasing a newly-emerged Monarch butterfly.
2011 - Summer camp besties.
2012 - Shoveling in the shady sandbox.
2013 - Gardening at summer camp.
It will only be a few more days until warmer, friendlier weather arrives. Until then, take heart! Spring never fails to arrive.
Have a terrific Wednesday.
It's been a long week for everyone at MSGL and it's only Wednesday. The roots of our beloved river birch tree, which shaded the sandbox for more than 10 years, finally overtook the sewage pipe coming from Building A. The tree was cut down, the sandbox was dug up, and the lovely pergola that Ron Stier designed and built to shade the children has been dismantled. This is the sight today as workers remove roots and begin to repair the pipe. As luck would have it, we received 3 inches of snow this morning so classes were cancelled.
It's not a pretty sight right now on the playground. (Photo by Tony Harvey)
Yesterday, we said goodbye to the river birch tree.
The river birch comes down, one limb at a time. (Photo by Lena Atkinson)
But this is Wayback Wednesday and we have to go way back. So let's take a look back at how we got here. This is the sandbox under construction in 2001. The river birch was planted later that year. It probably seemed like a really good idea at the time.
2001 - Sandbox under construction.
Two years later the children are enjoying the new sandbox. The birch tree is wrapped in black at top left.
Miss Sherry and friends enjoy the shade of the river birch and the pergola during summer camp in 2010.
And here is a nice photo of the whole area from Summer, 2011.
Certainly one of the most popular areas in our outdoor classroom, the sandbox is going to be sorely missed until it can be reconstructed. But even as we lament this loss, it's good to remember that things could be worse. Back in September, 2007, this was the view outside of Building A.
2007 - Old toilets being removed during demolition of Building A.
Take heart, friends. The water will soon be flowing in Building A and children will once again play in a shady sandbox. And Spring is only eight days away. Have the best possible Wednesday!
~ Heather
Let's recap our Building MSGL series on Wayback Wednesday. Montessori Parents, Inc. purchased the Calvary Baptist Church on Soldiers Home Road in 1999. Demolition of the interior began in September, 2000. Now it's December, 2000 and the stud walls are in place so that wiring, plumbing, and drywall work can begin.
Looking toward the Oak Room in Building B.
Standing in Catalpa looking through the wall into the Oak Room.
Looking out the door of the Maple Room into the office hallway.
Here's the view walking in the office door.
Here's that same view just a couple of months later.
This is the Maple Room looking toward the stairs.
This is the Willow Room looking toward the kitchen area.
And here is the Spruce Room filled with drywall supplies.
The Harvey & Son Construction crew. Steve, Don, Nolan, and Tony working over Thanksgiving Break.
That's all for this week. Have a terrific Wednesday!


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Red Sox - 011 002 000 - 4 10 0Sometime during the seventh inning on Thursday night, I made peace with the fact that the Red Sox 2008 season had come to an end.
Rays - 100 010 000 - 2 4 1
But then Boston came back and actually won the game. So while more than a few game threaders were highly anxious throughout Game 6 tonight, I was totally (and surprisingly) calm the entire nine innings. This might as well have been a March 20 spring training game.
After Tampa Bay had tied the game at 2-2 in the fifth, the Red Sox struck back with two outs. Jason Varitek homered to right field (!) -- it was a good thing our young dog was outside at the time, as our sudden yelling in the last two games has freaked her out. Coco Crisp singled, "Small Game" Shields was yanked, Dustin Pedroia reached on an error and David Ortiz singled in Crisp to give the Sox a 4-2 lead.
After Beckett battled through five innings (5-4-2-1-3, 78), Hideki Okajima threw two scoreless innings (allowing only a two-out walk in the sixth), Justin Masterson took care of the eighth (a leadoff HBP was marooned at first) and Jonathan Papelbon needed only eight pitches to get rid of the Rays in the ninth.
It's Lester/Garza on Sunday night -- for the American League pennant.
BR Preview: Josh Beckett / James Shields
Fact: Tampa Bay is
We tried to warn Joe Maddon that "when you have your target lined up in your sights, you fucking fire. You don't stop and check if your shoelaces are tied."
But Mr. 9=8 refused to listen. And now -- thanks to a clutch effort from nearly the entire Red Sox team -- his team has its back to the wall and assigned the task of facing Josh Beckett who must be burning to atone for his poor performance in Game 2.
Cliff Floyd:
We don't go up there and think, Now we've got to beat Beckett — no one cares about Beckett. Face him the same way you face everybody else. If anything, Beckett should be worried about us. We just beat him [in Game 2].Yeah, that's right. Piss him off. Chap his ass real good.
David Ortiz, on Beckett:
This is a big game, dog. I've got the feeling that he's going to bring it.And on the other side of the field?
The only kind of "Big Game" Shields will be is the kind Beckett and Timlin hunt in the off-season.
The Herald's Steve Buckley describes Ortiz "navigating the media throng that had assembled in front of his locker late yesterday afternoon at Tropicana Field, zigging and zagging to avoid a cameraman, bobbing and weaving to sidestep a guy with a microphone. ... 'I'll talk tomorrow with my bat.'"
According to Win Probability stats, when Justin Masterson got Carlos Pena to GIDP and end the top of the ninth, Boston's chances of winning the game increased 22% -- from 42% to 65%. It was the third most important play of the night. Ortiz's three-run bomb increased the team's chances of a win from 2% to only 9%. So even though it closed the gap from 7-1 to 7-4 -- which got everyone thinking a comeback was truly possible -- the chances of a team getting at least four more runs and winning the game was still highly unlikely.
Greg Agami of Cool Standings told the Globe that after trailing 7-0 after six inning of Game 5, the Red Sox had a 0.1 percent - 1 in 1,000 - chance to win the series. By comparison, in the middle of the ninth inning of 2004 ALCS 4, Boston had a 2.4%. That still seems high to me, but they trailed by only one run at that point -- not seven with a mere seven outs to go -- and had a 50% shot at winning each of Games 5, 6 and 7.
J.P. Howell, recalling the plane ride back to Tampa:
We started joking, "Don't be scared of Game 6." That's what we kept saying. We were bummed out. It was a terrible way to lose a game.***
JimBoSox9m, SoSH, October 17, 2008, 12:47 AM:
I just don't understand baseball. I don't get it. I've spent my lifetime devoting considerable mental resources to understanding my favorite sport, and I have no fucking clue how they just did that. ... Speechless, thoughtless, struck blind and deaf. Exhilarated, exuberant, overjoyed. What it comes down to? As long as the Sox still have baseball to play, it is still summer in my soul.Savin Hillbilly, SoSH, October 17, 2008, 1:12 AM:
Just got back from Fenway....Holy SHIT that was amazing. Like the best sex you've ever had, only a 35,000-way.
It worked in 2004. It worked in 2007. It'll work in 2008.
One. One game. One win. That's all.
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To physio or not to physioMarch 4, 2011 at 11:04 am | Posted in arthrits, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint pai, Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 3 Comments
Tags: aches, acromoclavicular joint, knee, physical therapy, physio, physiotherpay, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), rheumatology, shoulder, steroids, stiffness, ultrasound
Well … half-an-hour's drive, ten minutes or so waiting, thirty minute consultation … and the answer turned out to be, for the moment anyway, not to physio! Aaaaaaargh! I've only waited since January for this appointment. Still, there were perfectly sound reasons not to physio – and at least I had a fun time in the waiting room reading old copies of National Geographic!
There was one small thing I hadn't accounted for … I've just started a (very) short course of oral steroids for a very swollen knee, and the physio that works for me, or has always worked for me in the past, is ultrasound. Obviously the steroids are busy trying to reduce the inflammation, and equally obviously that is intention of most treatments including the ultrasound. Aye, but there's the rub … (talking or rubs I must rub some of that nice 'Nature's Kiss' ointment into my knee … I keep forgetting about that … but back to the main point), the way that ultrasound works (putting it simply, which is the only way I know!) is that it apparently INCREASES the inflammation quite rapidly in order to trigger the body to go 'ooh, that's inflamed' and kick into place a process for doing something about it.
So … if I had ultrasound, my physio basically thought that I might well be either inadvertently cancelling some of the steroid effects or, at very least, wasting my time because the steroids might counteract the ultrasound without it being able to do anything.
Now the physio wasn't at all sure about this, and neither am I, but we decided it was better not to risk it so I've got to go back again on Tuesday morning!
The more I think about it the more I'm not convinced by this whole argument … but I'm way too tired to work out why now, so I'm off to bed and I'll give it some thought tomorrow!
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Wow. I had no idea that ultrasound therapy increased inflammation in the affected joint. I've only experienced it once, when a chiropractor acquaintance tried it on my flared shoulder. Surprisingly, it relieved about 60 percent of the pain and improved my range of motion quite a lot. The flare stopped perhaps 6 hours later. I was impressed–and then I got the bill. Ouch. No more ultrasound treatment unless I could somehow get it covered by my medical insurance (which didn't cover such treatments at the time).
So, how ARE you right now? Is the short-course steroid working to ease your pain, Polly? And will you be able to resume physio sessions in the future without having to wait months? Hope so.
Sending warm hugs and comfort your way, m'dear. Take care and keep up that wonderful sense of humor. You never fail to make me smile. 😀
Comment by Wren— March 4, 2011 #
That is really disappointing when you are looking forward to an appointment and it doesn't turn out as planned. I had no idea about the ultra sound. Hmmm….I did ask a gal to do massage on my knee once when it was inflammed and she said, "No." She didn't want to create any more inflammation than was already there. I do know when I have had other types of body treatments done, I am really sore for a day or two afterwards. I hope you feel better soon.
Comment by Cathy— March 6, 2011 #
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Floyd Mayweather Says Jail Changed Him; Calls Guerrero A Hypocrite (Photos)
It's easy to get caught up in the boisterous persona of Floyd "Money" Mayweather but at his pre-fight media workout Floyd was a different man.
The media workout began with a young fighters showcase, an hour focused on Floyd's up-and-coming boxers and showed the talent that his group possesses. What jumped out automatically were the young 14 & 15 year old fighters that are part of The Money Team and are allowed to train at the gym for free. Floyd is invested in the youth and the community as a whole; he isn't just throwing $80,000 in the club every weekend.
Floyd seemed to be up to his usual antics by showing up 2 hours late to a 3 o'clock scheduled workout, but as soon as he entered the building he greeted media with praises for their patience and apologised relentlessly for his tardiness. What can we attribute to this change in Floyd?
Floyd quickly answered that question,"Freedom is very important, you can be rich and locked up and it's like being poor and locked up. Freedom is very important."
He went on to thank his fans for their support during his stint in jail,"While in jail I just read. I read books and fan mail. I had 100,000 letters from my fans and I tried to write them all back."
If that's not enough to show a change in mentality for the P4P #1 fighter in the world his answers toward Robert Guerrero questions have also changed. Two weeks ago he acted as though Guerrero was beneath him and that he never heard of him, but his tuned changed a bit during media interviews.
Several times he was complimentary of Guerrero's prior fights and admitted that he was a smart fighter that deserved this bout. Of course he wasn't gushing over his challenger but the honesty is new for Floyd. He dropped the act that he usually puts on and spoke from the heart. When asked if he felt the criticisms of his jail stint by Guerrero were fair Floyd replied in a truthful, yet Floyd-like way.
"A lot of times you see guys who are hypocrites. You have a guy who's always preaching like a preacher, like he loves god more than everyone else and I feel like we're all equal."
"You have this guy that thinks he's a pastor but he's at the 700 club, he got caught with a gun on him, and he has Marilyn Monroe on the wall in his house. Like I said before these guys are hypocrites."
Floyd ended the interview with the most marvellous quote of the afternoon. "He was joking about me doing time. They say everything that goes around comes around, so a week after the fight it's time for him to do his time."
Floyd then thanked the media once again and announced it was time to get to work. He did just that and then some in a display of super human speed, quickness, and stamina. He performed an entire 15 minute routine of hand quickness and body punch combinations. At times he was so in tuned with his routine that he looked away and carried on conversations with media members while dodging and hitting gloves.
In comparison his opponent Guerrero just shadow boxed for 10 minutes during his session. Floyd wasn't done with that display, and if you're that good why stop? He went immediately into a 15 minute heavy bag session and cooled down with a little speed bag work. No water, no rest, no slowing down for Money Mayweather during the session.
Floyd looks to be in phenomenal shape but what is more valuable is that Floyd may have finally caught up in mental maturity. Mayweather will have every opportunity to show that on May 4th against Robert Guerrero in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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I don't want to hear we have to stay the course and ride through what is developing.
Romeo has failed miserably at being HC/DC. Do what's best for the team and give one or the other up. I'd prefer he stays as DC. If Hunt/Pioli are truly concerned about winning its time to check everyone's ego at the ****ing door and shake this organization up.
I have supported these guys as long as I could and there isn't one good thing that came from today. In time and travel it costs me around $800 to go see a game and I refuse to spend another dime going to Arrowhead until they right this ship. They simply are not providing a product to meet the cost of attending any of their games.
Look at the game tape and everyone that quit on a play today needs to have their *** benched next week. Put Quinn in to start what difference is it going to make, we will be 0-6 at the bye anyway.
I have never been so disappointed in the Chiefs players as I am today, the Gannon/Grbac debockle was the last time I was truly pissed off at this team, but that wasn't the players giving up.
It's time for a change now.


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LOWELL -- Lowell Catholic seniors gave back to their communities during the second Senior Service Week.
During the week of Jan. 21, each student was placed at a service site in the Merrimack Valley, including nursing homes, soup kitchens, shelters, schools, day cares, and food pantries. Students volunteered at a total of 42 sites.
Senior Service Week is run in conjunction with LC's Christian Living theology course, which all students take in their senior year.
The course covers the lives of theologians, and is centered on finding one's vocation in life and the theme of transition.
During the weeklong internship, seniors are encouraged to take what they've learned in the classroom and apply it to their daily lives.
In addition to completing 25 hours of service, seniors also kept journals about their work and met in small groups to reflect on their life-changing experiences.
Alex Larmand spent his service week volunteering at Kathy's Building Blocks, a local nursery school.
"Senior Service Week was a great experience," he said. "I was able to be a mentor to the children and help teach them how to read. I felt incredibly responsible working a regular job and performing my duties."


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To play soccer at William Woods University
Brittany Griffin, goal keeper for the Mexico High School Bulldogs soccer team, signs a letter of intent to play soccer at William Woods Univeristy in Fulton. Griffin, who began playing varsity as a freshman, will begin her fourth year as a starter this spring. The last two years she has been named an All-Conference player.


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A Middletown man was held at knife point in Bear outside of the TD Bank on East Songsmith Drive during an attempted robbery Jan. 31.
The 26-year-old victim was standing outside of his car at around 5:20 p.m. when the suspect approached him, Delaware State Police said.
The unknown male suspect held a knife to the victim and demanded money.
The victim then pushed the suspect to the ground, and the suspect fled on foot, police said.
The suspect is described as being between 19 and 25 years old, about 5'6" tall, with an average build, wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Robbery Unit at Troop 2 at (302) 834-2630 Ext. 6.


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The former Appoquinimink High School principal, who alleged that the district wrongly demoted her, lost her employment discrimination case in federal court Feb. 5.
The former Appoquinimink High School principal, who alleged that the district wrongly demoted her, lost her employment discrimination case in federal court Feb. 5.
Felicia R. Duggins, who served as principal at Appoquinimink High School and later as assistant principal at Middletown High School, filed suit against the school district Jan. 1, 2012, alleging that the district violated her medical and civil rights, and that she was treated unfairly because of her race.
Duggins filed a racial and disability discrimination charge Aug. 21, 2009 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She was issued a right to sue letter by the EEOC Oct. 26, 2011.
The judge ruled that Duggins failed to prove that she was victim of racial and disability discrimination and that she could not prove that the district retaliated against her for taking medical leave.
After working for 15 years in the educational field, Duggins became Principal at the newly built Appoquinimink High School in 2007. She held this role for two years.
During her first year, she received a positive evaluation, but in her second year, a series of reviews placed her performance significantly lower, according to the Judge's Memorandum Order.
Her 2009 evaluations concluded that she had behaved unprofessionally and that she missed two key meetings involving her superiors and parents of her students.
Duggins told the court that during this time she was exhausted because of her significant workload, that she was diagnosed with severe depression, and that she had at least one racially charged encounter with a parent.
Duggins took district approved medical leave from May 13, 2009 through June 22, 2009.
When she returned, Duggins was informed that she had been reassigned as the Assistant Principal for Middletown High School, where she continued for two years to receive her salary at a Principal's rate.
It wasn't until July 1, 2011 that her pay was reduced to be consistent with the level of her position as Assistant Principal.
In her suit Duggins alleged that the district had violated the Rehabilitation Act of 11973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Family Medical Leave Act, and a part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


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11 October 2012
The 'upper composite' of the launch system, made up of the launcher's fourth stage, Fregat-MT, the two Galileo satellites and the fairing.
ESA–S. Corvaja, 2012.
The lower three stages of the Soyuz launcher were rolled out to the launch complex (Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz; ELS) from the launcher assembly and test building (монтажно-испытательный корпус; montazhno-ispytatelniy korpus; MIK) at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 8 October 2012. After the launcher was erected, the 'upper composite', consisting of the launcher's fourth stage (Fregat-MT) and the two satellites was connected to the lower stages.
Update: On 12 October 2012 at 20:15 CEST, a Soyuz ST-B launcher carrying two more satellites for the European Galileo navigation system lifted off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana.
The first two satellites for the European Galileo navigation system have been orbiting Earth since 21 October 2011. Now, two more are about to follow; on 12 October 2012 at 20:15 CEST, a Soyuz rocket will launch satellites three and four into their position in space. Four satellites will then be flying in their orbits at an altitude of 23,000 kilometres. For Walter Päffgen, Director of the DLR Space Applications Company (Gesellschaft für Raumfahrtanwendungen; GfR), this is a highpoint of the programme thus far: "With signals from four Galileo satellites, we can determine a location on Earth for the first time." The satellites are controlled from the Galileo Control Centre at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Oberpfaffenhofen.
To be well prepared for the next challenging phase of implementing the satellite navigation system, during the last few weeks his staff were put to the test with simulated failures during rehearsals for satellite operations. "Everyone needs to be trained to respond quickly and safely in an emergency." Additional intensive training programmes were also part of the work of the crew in the control room. The compatibility of the two satellites – named David and Sif after two children from the Czech Republic and Denmark – has also been tested at the Control Centre while they were on the ground.
Precise placement in orbit
It will take close to four hours for David and Sif to arrive at their destination and separate from the upper stage of the launcher. Several control centres around the world will be participating in the mission during launch and commissioning of the Galileo satellites. The local control centre will carry out the launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Then, the French space agency (CNES) control centre in Toulouse will take over and make the initial contact with the new satellites. After seven days, on behalf of the European Commission and the European Space Agency, the team in Oberpfaffenhofen will be responsible for the two additional satellites and position them in the correct orbit. Then the navigation systems will be put into operation; the Galileo Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen will activate the atomic clocks on board the satellites, the signal generators and the radio equipment for transmitting and receiving signals. During the subsequent operational phase, the German control centre will monitor the status of the satellites and their on-board instruments, as well as their orbits. The Italian control centre in Fucino is responsible for the synchronisation of the atomic clocks and the production of navigation data; a Belgian antenna station in Redu will support the German Galileo Control Centre during a test phase lasting several months.
First positioning with Galileo satellites
It is expected that position determinations using a Galileo receiver will be performed for the first time in the spring of 2013. "Each time that the four satellites are within range of the receiver, it will be possible to calculate your location on the ground from the transit time of the signal and the position of the satellites in space," explains Päffgen. The European navigation system will only be complete when a total of 30 satellites are circling Earth in three orbital planes. The atomic clocks on board the satellites, which provide the transmission time of the signals to an accuracy of billionths of a second, are so precise that after a million years they will have gained or lost only one second. Other atomic clocks, including those at the Galileo control centres in Oberpfaffenhofen and Fucino, act as the reference time source. "This level of precision has never been reached before," stresses Päffgen. "This makes the Galileo navigation system more accurate than the current United Stated GPS system."
Päffgen is satisfied with the progress of the system so far; the operational phase is proceeding without serious incidents and the satellites are very reliable. Each satellite sends at least 20,000 signals concerning its status to Earth – data that is continuously analysed in the control centre in Oberpfaffenhofen. The Galileo control centre staff are looking forward to working with two additional satellites: "We have now established a routine from the flight of the two almost identical first satellites."
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Blind Item #3 - Golden Globes After Party
This barely out of her teens B-/C+ list actress on a very hit network show ran up to her friends and almost screamed with joy when she told them that this A+ list all movie actor had given her his phone number and told her to call him. They all stared at the phone number and then tried it from the party and it went to the actor's voicemail. The actor's girlfriend then walked up to the friends and told the actress that if the actress did call or try to hookup with the actor in any way, that the girlfriend personally would kick the s**t out of her. She then smiled and turned and walked away.


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Ricco Rodriguez
Training StyleTraining 3x times a day lifting weights/kickboxing/jiu-jitsu/wrestling
UFC HistoryGrowing up in Newark, New Jersey and Staten Island, New York, Ricco Rodriguez was introduced to fighting at an early age. His aptitude, strength and determination helped him in school sports and eventually led him to the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
Upon seeing the Ultimate Fighting Championship for the first time in 1995, Rodriguez became a big fan watching Jerry Bohlander fight. While Rodriguez is still a fan of the UFC, a lot has happened since the mid 90's. Rodriguez is now the Heavyweight Champion of the premiere MMA association in the world.
In 1998, Rodriguez traveled to Abu Dhabi to compete in the World Submission Wrestling Championships. He won the title in the 99+ kg weight class, defeating Sean Alvarez and Ricardo Morais along the way. With the success he found in grappling competitions, Rodriguez decided to move on to bigger and better things.
Rodriguez began his MMA career on September 7, 1999 at SuperBrawl 13. The competition was an 8-man heavyweight tournament, featuring many of today's top stars. Inexperienced in his initial fight, Rodriguez lost to Bobby Hoffman by knockout at 3:13 of the first round.
Five months later in February 2000, Rodriguez returned to MMA competition and battled UFC veteran Travis Fulton. With the memory of the first loss still on his mind, Rodriguez dispatched Fulton in 4:49 when he tapped out due to an armbar.
Since earning his first victory, Rodriguez has won ten straight. He defeated Gary Goodridge by unanimous decision. On August 27, 2000, Rodriguez faced Giant Ochiai, smothering him and forcing a tap out at 6:03 of the match. Then, Rodriguez earned a judges' decision against John Marsh in December 2000. In February 2001, Rodriguez submitted Paul Buentello with a knee bar.
In his UFC 32: Showdown in the Meadowlands debut, on June 29, 2001, Rodriguez defeated Andrei Arlovski by TKO when the referee stopped the fight in round three due to Rodriguez's punches.
At UFC 34: High Voltage, on November 2, 2001, Rodriguez defeated the crafty veteran Pete Williams by TKO. Midway through the second round, Rodriguez took Williams' back and began to rain down punches, forcing referee "Big" John McCarthy to stop the fight.
At UFC 35: Throw Down, on January 11, 2002, Ricco took on former submission wrestling world champion Jeff Monson. Throughout the fight, Rodriguez showed his improved standup skills and finally ended the bout by TKO due to punches at 3:00 of the third round.
Rodriguez made his commentary debut at UFC 36: Worlds Collide on March 22, 2002. Ricco joined Mike Goldberg and Jeff Osborne in the booth as the guest commentator for the Pay-Per -View broadcast.
At UFC 37: High Impact, on May 10, 2002, Rodriguez defeated Japanese fighter Tsuyoshi Kosaka by TKO at 3:25 of round 2. Rodriguez dominated TK from beginning to end, slamming him to the mat and striking him continually from side control and the mount.
On September 27, 2002, at UFC 39: The Warriors Return in Connecticut, Rodriguez attained his ultimate goal by winning the UFC Heavyweight Championship. He defeated former two-time champion Randy Couture by verbal submission due to strikes in the fifth round.
After 10 straight victories, Rodriguez couldn't outreach 6'8" Tim Sylvia and dropped the title match at UFC 41: Onslaught on February 28, 2003 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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During a Dec. 7 breakfast held in the DoubleTree by Hilton Oak Ridge, the East Tennessee Economic Council named its new "Muddy Boot Award" recipients — and also presented this year's Postma Young Professional Medal.
During a Dec. 7 breakfast held in the DoubleTree by Hilton Oak Ridge, the East Tennessee Economic Council named its new "Muddy Boot Award" recipients — and also presented this year's Postma Young Professional Medal.
The 2012 Muddy Boot honorees include Bonnie Carroll, chairman of the board and chief knowledge officer of Information International Associates; Jenny Freeman, vision implementation manager of Strata-G; and Jim Campbell, president of ETEC. While 2012's Postma Young Professional Medal winner is Rebecca Crowe, small business advocate for Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
The Muddy Boot Award gets its name from the "sea of mud" that was Oak Ridge in its very early construction years from 1942 to 1945, while the award itself is "a tribute to the individuals who make East Tennessee a stronger region through their work and community activities."
Referencing the Muddy Boot's latest recipients, Barry Stephenson, chief executive officer of Materials and Chemistry Laboratory Inc. (MCLinc) and current ETEC board chair, stated: "Each of these honorees makes a strong personal commitment to building a better community. You see it in how they go about their work, their volunteer commitments in the community, and their personal values."
Parker Hardy of the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce praised Bonnie Carroll as "a pioneer in her industry and in the Oak Ridge community," and added: "She has been — and remains — in the forefront of transformation changes associated with the collection, storage, management and dissemination of data. She applied her technical and business acumen in a host of community endeavors as well. The Oak Ridge Chamber, ETEC, Rotary, the United Way and Altrusa are among the organizations that have benefited from her leadership."
An ETEC release notes Carroll has participated in research and development projects related to information and knowledge management for almost four decades. In addition to her responsibilities in managing IIa, Carroll is executive director of CENDI, the federal scientific and technical information managers' group, and has been a consultant to a number of federal science mission agencies. She serves on the National Academy of Science, National Research Council's Board of Research Data and Information and is the U.S. national representative to International CODATA.
She served as the first executive secretary for two White House Science Office Interagency Working Groups, and has served as president of the American Society for Information Science & Technology and as chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Information, Computing and Communications. Carroll has also been a consultant to foreign and international organizations including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Kingdom of Jordan, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information.
Prior to founding IIa, Carroll worked at Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information as director of Program Development and International Activities and deputy and acting assistant manager for Information Services at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
She holds a BA from Cornell University, and an MS in library and information science from Columbia University. Her award was presented by Congressman John J. "Jimmy" Duncan Jr., R-Tenn.
In Jenny Freeman's nomination letter, which an ETEC release noted "was signed by a host of public and private sector leaders," Freeman is recognized for bringing "her passionate energy and inclusive productivity to bear on the region's most important challenges — including job creation, worker safety, environmental stewardship and expanding opportunities for small businesses. … Jenny Freeman was born with a rare and unequivocal passion."
As Strata-G's vision implementation manager, Freeman creates networks and builds bridges for the company and its clients. She also works as the facilitator for the Savannah River Site's Citizens Advisory Board.
Before coming to Strata-G in 2006, Freeman was executive director of the Energy, Technology and Environmental Business Association; and she helped grow ETEBA from 80 member companies to 150, and make its annual Business Opportunities Conference one of the largest of its kind in the Southeast.
One of her most notable recent accomplishments, the ETEC release points out, is the development and organization of the Oak Ridge Business Safety Partnership — a group of DOE prime and subcontractors dedicated to performing work safely on the Oak Ridge sites. Freeman's history also includes consulting for environmental organizations on issues such as clean air, hazardous waste laws and regulations, and land-use planning; and she is a longstanding member of Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning.
Bob Van Hook and Homer Fisher, both past chairs of ETEC, praised ETEC president Jim Campbell for his almost two decades of "championing federal and state initiatives designed to create prosperity, promote regional development, and expand possibilities for growth in East Tennessee."
Prior to joining ETEC, Campbell served as editor of The Oak Ridger newspaper and a contributing editor to the Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, a publication of the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Research Center. An Oak Ridge resident for more than 30 years, Campbell also has assisted in the publication of two books on Oak Ridge history, an ETEC release stated.
"Since assuming leadership of ETEC in 1995, Jim has led the organization to become one of the most effective in the country in supporting the local federal agenda, fostering economic spinoff opportunities and developing strong regional partners," remarked Van Hook, while Fisher added: "Jim has been for many years the leader of Oak Ridge's highly successful efforts to develop a common set of federal funding priorities among the contractors and community leaders, (and) he has made ETEC one of the most dynamic organizations of its kind anywhere."
Campbell is past chair of the United Way of Anderson County and has served on numerous community boards.
A founding member of both the Young Professionals of Oak Ridge and the Knoxville Area Urban League Young Professionals Programs, Rebecca Crowe was presented with the Postma Medal by Pat Postma during ETEC's annual meeting and breakfast.
"The Postma Young Professional Medal was created to honor the accomplishments of young professionals who've made an impact and fostered a community culture in the region," a release stated. "Former ORNL director Herman Postma epitomized this spirit during his life and his wife, Pat, continues the tradition of service today through her involvement in the Oak Ridge community."
As the small business advocate and procurement section manager at ORAU, Crowe is responsible for overseeing small business outreach and mentoring efforts, and for awarding and administering subcontracts for projects that are unique in nature.
Crowe is a 2000 graduate of Oak Ridge High School; a 2005 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a concentration in actuarial science; and completed her MS in engineering management at UTC in 2011.
Crowe is an active member in the Oak Ridge Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Men of Tomorrow Foundation, the Y-12 Community Relations Council, Oak Ridge Center for Leadership and Community Development, and more.
Darrell Richardson can be contacted at (865) 220-5510.


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Falcons score HOIC victory
Matt Harrison led three Falcons in double figures as Flanagan-Cornell defeated Tremont 66-58 in a Heart of Illinois Conference boys' basketball contest Friday night.
The win moves the Falcons to 10-8 as they head into HOIC/McLean County tournament play today against LeRoy at Ridgeview. Tremont will take on Heyworth.
Harrison scored 27 points as Flanagan-Cornell found success inside. Tanner Bertsche added 15 points and Keegan Bertsche tallied 12 to aid the Falcons' cause. Chad Gundy and Brandon Barton threw in 3 points apiece.
Flanagan-Cornell jumped out to a 16-5 lead in the first period. Tremont fought back to close the margin after a 17-11 second period run to make it a 27-22 game at the break.
The Falcons moved the margin to 42-34 by the start of the fourth quarter.


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Huskers to Host Historic Hoops Day in Haymarket
Lincoln - The Nebraska Athletic Department announced plans Wednesday, June 19, for a historic day-night doubleheader for Husker women's and men's basketball to celebrate their regular-season openers at Pinnacle Bank Arena on Friday, Nov. 8.
The first regular-season basketball game inside the arena tips off at noon between a pair of 2013 top-20 teams when Coach Connie Yori's Husker women face UCLA. The game between the Huskers, who advanced to the 2013 NCAA Sweet 16 and finished No. 18 in the final USA Today Coaches Top 25, and the Bruins, who finished No. 15 in the USA Today rankings after advancing to the NCAA second round, will follow a special morning Husker Life Skills event inside Pinnacle Bank Arena. The "Invest 2 Be The Best" pep rally is expected to include approximately 5,000 middle school students from Lincoln and surrounding communities.
The Huskers' historic day at Pinnacle Bank Arena will conclude with another marquee matchup between the Nebraska men's basketball team and 2013 NCAA Sweet 16 participant Florida Gulf Coast. The tip time for the season-opening sellout with "Dunk City" in the "Star City" has not been set, but the game will be televised nationally in primetime by BTN.
Season tickets for Nebraska men's basketball have sold out for the first time in school history, and the sellout promises to give the men the largest season-opening home crowd in Husker history in their first regular-season game inside Pinnacle Bank Arena. The $179 million arena will seat more than 15,000 fans. Coach Tim Miles' second Husker team will face a Florida Gulf Coast squad that returns four starters from a team that became the first No. 15 seed in NCAA history to reach the Sweet 16. The Eagles will be under the direction of new head coach Joe Dooley.
"We're thrilled with the caliber of competition our teams will face on opening day and night at Pinnacle Bank Arena," Nebraska Executive Associate Athletic Director Marc Boehm said. "We also wanted to reach out to people of all ages from Lincoln and the surrounding communities, so they could join us in the celebration of a truly historic day in the Haymarket. Partnering with Lincoln Public Schools and other schools in the area gives local youth a chance to see the first regular-season game inside the arena and be a part of history.
"With school-record record season-opening crowds for both the men and women for NCAA Tournament-caliber teams, we think it will be a momentous day for the city of Lincoln and the state of Nebraska, and the start of a memorable first season at the new arena."
Nebraska Associate Athletic Director for Life Skills Keith Zimmer and his staff will be coordinating a pep rally, which will give students a chance to hear inspirational life skills and academic messages from Husker student-athletes and staff, before helping to tip off the opening of the arena.
"The interest level and enthusiasm from school administrators in Lincoln and nearby communities for the 'Invest 2 Be the Best' pep rally has been very strong," Zimmer said. "Through music and other entertainment, students and staff will be encouraged to discover unique talents, get involved in their communities and strive to be multi-dimensional. It promises to be a memorable morning and afternoon, not only to be inspired at the pep rally but to enjoy a marquee women's basketball game at the new arena."
Nebraska has sold a school record of more than 2,600 women's basketball season tickets for 2013-14, an increase of nearly 500 tickets over the start of last season. Season tickets went on sale May 8, and NU's total has been growing on a daily basis. The increase in season ticket sales and the "Invest 2 Be The Best" pep rally will not only guarantee the Husker women the largest season-opening crowd in school history, but also the largest crowd for a non-conference game in the history of the program.
The women's game between Nebraska and UCLA will be televised live statewide by NET-HD.


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Since I have admitted that I have been placing Christmas books on our sale carts outside the A.C. (Approaching Christmas) McClurg Bookstore in the Newberry lobby, it will probably not surprise you that I am reviewing CDs of Christmas music as well.
Now, it is not really the purpose of this column to review music. I just thought you might be interested in knowing some of the things we get in around here…and never quite get around to selling.
I've mentioned this before. Some people LIKE Christmas music and some people hate it. But hardly anybody ever seems to buy it. The Christmas section of the Record Department has a procession every year of people saying useful things like, "Oh, my mother had that and played it every Christmas" or "Oh, I collect those records!" Then they walk on and go pick up something like Gayla Peevey's Greatest Hits instead.
But I like to look at the Christmas albums as they come in, marveling at their apparently infinite variety and their frequent exhibition of an utter lack of judgement. (Garrison Keillor has pointed out that good taste is superfluous at Christmas, and I agree with him, but an hour of music box renditions of Christmas carols?) I am tolerant of what I see arriving because, as several people have pointed out to me, "If someone bought it once, somebody will buy it again."
And I accept the fact that a bunch of companies over the years have mailed out free records or CDs of Christmas music to all and sundry, and that these will come eventually to me, from Catholic Digest's annual record of Christmas hymns with brief lectures on their composers and history to Victoria's Secrets CD for those who are naughty and nice.
Nonetheless, I have had a few Christmas CDs lately which make me a bit uneasy. Pretty things, each in its own way, and yet….
A Christmas tradition I have never heard of (I'm not from around these parts) was WGN's annual presentation of Father Finn's Sisters Choir, a broadcast of a choir of 100 nuns conducted by Father Finn. Somebody recorded these off the radio in 1943 and 1944 (their second and third annual appearances) and then, two generations later, had these home recording discs transferred to CD. And then passed them along to me.
Sound quality suffers a bit, and the 1943 concert is afflicted by a common complaint of home recorsing: somebody didn't want to miss the program, so they started the recording too early, and got a few minutes of a preceding program. The programs themselves are an interesting mix: somehow they manage to take in instrumental numbers and a boy's choir between performances by the sisters themselves. In all (if you can ignore a little warping of the original recording, rather suggestive of sitting in a small, warm living room in Chicago while winds blew snow through the dark, soggy streets outside.
A CD entitled "Merry Christmas, Grandma", however, suffers a little from its lack of such primitive recording. I was really expecting some small child's Christmas concert, but instead found a Christmas song mix. I will say that the lady who made the CD did show an interesting taste in making her choices: there are the expected numbers by Burl Ives, Thurl Ravenscroft, and Eartha Kitt, and Bing Crosby appears twice (but someone else's White Christmas is chosen). But I wasn't expecting so much Dolly Parton or Mickey Mouse, and I would like to know whose rendition of Joy to the World that is. Sounds a bit like Julie Andrews played at a slightly higher speed than required. I also wonder what was done to the CD so that when it reaches the last track it automatically starts over again at the first track. For this reason alone, I'm glad it WASN'T a small child's concert.
Then there's this disc which is nothing but church bells from around the world. Over an hour of clanging, most of it melodious, some merely mathematical. But I think I will say little about this. I have been asked, somewhat against my better judgement, to provide background music for a party this year and I THINK I have figured out how not to be asked to do it again next year.
Yes, it means sticks and coal in the stocking again this year, but maybe Father Finn and his Sisters will speak up for me.


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Man and woman arrested on drug, conspiracy charges when deputies go to home looking for parolee at large
Two people were arrested on drug and conspiracy charges after Kern County Sheriff's deputies contacted them while looking for a fugitive in Ford City.
Deputies went to a home on the 500 block of Jackson Street on Tuesday looking for Nikolas Hodges, who is wanted on several warrants, including one for failing to appear at his sentencing for a burglary conviction. Deputies tried to arrest Hodges the night before, but he escaped and is now wanted on an additional charge of obstructing or resisting arrest, Sgt. Martin Downs said.
Hodges wasn't at the Jackson street home when deputies got there, Downs said, a woman at the residence, MacLane Cramer, 23, was. When deputies contacted her, they determined she was under the influence of methamphetamine and placed her under arrest.
A female Taft Police officer was called to search her and the officer found 7.2 grams of suspected methamphetamine that Cramer had hidden on her person, Downs said.
Another man at the residence, Robert Smith, 29, was also arrested. Both Cramer and Smith were charged with possession of a controlled substance and conspiracy, Downs said.
Hodges was arrested on Friday and booked into the Kern County Sheriff's central receiving facility. he is being held on several warrants, a no-bail parole hold and new charges of felony resisting arrest, according to the KCSO website.. Hodges failed to appear at a sentencing hearing for burglary in late January.
He was arrested by Taft Police last year after receiving reports that a man was kicking a door in at an apartment complex.


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School associated violent deaths are rare — 17 homicides of school-age youth ages 5 to 18 years occurred at school during the 2009-2010 school year and of all youth homicides, less than 2 percent occur at school, and this percentage has been stable for the past decade.
In 2010, there were about 828,000 nonfatal victimizations at school among students 12 to 18 years of age.
Approximately 7 percent of teachers report that they have been threatened with injury or physically attacked by a student from their school.
In 2009, about 20 percent of students ages 12–18 reported that gangs were present at their school during the school year.
In a 2011 nationally representative sample of youth in grades 9-12:
12 percent reported being in a physical fight on school property in the 12 months before the survey.
5.9 percent reported that they did not go to school on one or more days in the 30 days before the survey because they felt unsafe at school or on their way to or from school.
5.4 percent reported carrying a weapon (gun, knife or club) on school property on one or more days in the 30 days before the survey.
7.4 percent reported being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property one or more times in the 12 months before the survey.
20 percent reported being bullied on school property and 16 percent reported being bullied electronically during the 12 months before the survey.
— Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control


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for the quantity were talking about these will cost about the same as a new x valve when its all said and done.
Haha haha. All the work involved. How would anyone expect this to be under a 200 dollar price tag?
Like I said earlier in the thread.... id pay $50 for some weight than $200+ on the same classic valve.... you may get 1-2 sold here and there, but your gonna get put 6 feet under with 48 of these in your casket
Pipe dreams.......
The only thing I see with this. Wanting this for competitive play, if you make a classic valve out of aluminum. Everyone is going to have it ano to match, so how are judges/refs going to know its a classic valve not X valve. I am sure some if not.most are not even familiar with a mag so for them to tell the difference by looks is going to be a mess.
People in general think stuff can be made and sold for nothing. Then throw a fit when they find out the fabricator wants to make a little profit.
Id really rather see the mods that used to make a classic rip, get people excited again... instead of of weight savings make up for it with the fact you can make it rip off 15-18-20 bps... someone needs to bring the electronic frame back, with basic boards available for.decent prices, frames to choose from, I don't see it being a problem bringing one back sub $200.
Not a ten year old one going for $300 on eBay because nobody lets them go... or there aren't many left?
I'm not complaining, just to be clear, I honestly didn't think just this one peice would be THAT much to produce. Oh well
Thank you XMT for looking into this.
I dont have an exact price in my head. i would think the front half of the valve could be made and sold at $100 even if atleast 12 people would take one. TK said i could make up to 50 of them.
I think someone should get a weight of a loaded classic reg back (ready to drop in, seals, spring pack etc all in place) and the front half with no bolt. IMO, just based on feel, without the bolt the back still weighs more than the front. Yes, for the guy with the cap (not everybody can have one or run that setup because those are not available) this mod makes the valve weigh next to nothing... but the guy that wants this that has to use the old reg back and all other parts, this is still $100 or a little more for a couple ounces of weight savings... or, the valve comes complete, now its x valve priced... Id rather not use my mag for a tournament and buy the x valve.
We already spent $250 to get the classic valve a decade ago, why pay that same price for less product... at least Id get a rail body and grip frame back in the day
And I was thinking the 7000 series aluminum was more expensive than that black
VER: http://www.automags.org/forums/showt...-Red-VER-Frame
One other thing Id like to prepare people for is, if it does come with the cap, now you have to get a GOOD regulator to use, catch 22 here.
Is it worth getting a full aluminum valve for (lets assume) $225, still need power tube, still need springs, reg nut, spring pack etc etc...
Is it worth it to only get a half a valve for $100? If it comes with a cap say? $120?? plus a good regulator, $65-$90, then you still need to buy parts to make the valve half work.
Its the same price either way you look at it.
How did you come up with this #? He made no implications of even making the cap, he said "I will make the valve section and let people finish them off themselves"
That means until it gets clarified, you have to use your reg back... so take 5.8 oz of stainless, and minus 3.7 oz that an xvalve weighs (assuming it weighs the same) thats 2 oz.
I reffered to opbn as being about the only one to see real savings if he used his cap on this... my math is based on the fact XMT has not said he is making caps, at all


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So I had my physical appt with my new Internal Medicine specialist today. It was a real hands-on approach and thorough. This part I liked.
His personality needs work. He seemed pleasant enough and wasn't overtly sarcastic, but his comments, manners, and choice of words leave much to be desired.
Do understand that I was on my most excellent behavior today. I wasn't a Wilhemina Milqetoast, but I was very polite and self-assured. I was actually calm, which is unusual for a doctor visit for me.
In no particular order: This one is first and last, he didn't have an A1C done on my blood taken 2 weeks back. This is an average of blood sugar levels over a period of a few months. More on this later.
He just had to point out the large cuff is called a thigh cuff. I decided that I was going to get along.
I think it started with my father's death. At the time it was called sarcoma. It was the 70s, and they didn't know what they now know. He kept calling it sarcoidosis. I finally responded that at the time it was called sarcoma and that's all I could tell him.
So when he asked about mom's heart problems, I phrased it very carefully. He was not interested in the fact that she died from Lupus.
He asked about my heart problems, my supposed coronary artery disease, and whether my arteries were clean. I told him the doc said the arteries looked good and didn't have any accumulations to worry over. His reply was that clean was different than good blood flow.
He had obviously read the reports, because he knew about the EP study that was done. However, he acted like I have CAD, which led to a discussion to the of various coronary specialists I saw and their diagnoses. We talked about the EP study trying to trigger sudden death, aka ventricular tachycardia, and his response was there is no such thing as sudden death, etc. I conceded the point after a while. He did not care that I was only repeating what I heard.
To shorten this (lots more arguments in the middle over silly stuff), he kept saying I was morbidly obese and asked if my brothers were. But it sounded like "beast." I called him on this and let it ride after he questioned me on my understanding of the term, but I realize now exactly what he was saying.
So at the end of the appt and we are reviewing bloodwork, which for the most part was good, I noticed the A1C wasn't in the results. He said he didn't know one needed to be done. I so completely missed that. He had read my file and knew about the A-Fib, but not the diabetes? Really?
He wanted me to try certain weight loss medications or surgeries. No more invasive stuff for me. At this point he kept interrupting me to ask why I hadn't lost any weight. He really wasn't interested in any thing that might interfere such as chemo, arthritis, etc. I told him that I need to exercise more, but I didn't know why I wasn't losing. He wasn't buying that and continued to interrupt me with the same question: "Why haven't you lost any weight?"
Finally,I had had enough. "That's it. We're done. I have never found negativity and rudeness to be productive." I gathered my stuff. WE finished up, and I got my prescription refills. Before leaving I talked to his nurse. I told her I was mad and didn't he know any better than to be negative to someone.
At least I know I am good to go. I see the rheumatologist next month and hopefully I'll get a report on my immune system.
Thanks for listening. I think I need to write more of this down. If he sends an email asking for an evaluation, I think I'll give him one.


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With its season opener against Florida International 11 days away, the Maryland football team held its final open practice on Tuesday afternoon at the on-campus practice facility.
Preseason camp is set to break Thursday after morning meetings with the players moving into their permanent residences that afternoon. The Terps will hold a walk-thru Wednesday morning with a full practice later in the day.
Head coach Randy Edsall addressed the media following practice on Tuesday and touched on several topics including the status of the offensive line heading into the season opener.
"Once we get into game week and we have to put out a two-deep we will," said Edsall about the starting five. "But we looked like we've got some guys who can settle in there. We had Mike Madaras at left [tackle], De'Onte Arnett at left guard, Sal [Conaboy] at center, Mike Dunn at right guard and Ryan Doyle at right tackle. That's pretty much how I think that will be; we just hope not to get any injuries."
A popular topic amongst the media for the past two weeks has been the competition for the No. 2 quarterback spot. Edsall hinted this competition could extend into the start of the season.
"Right now, we're in a situation where it's still an "or" situation," Edsall said. "Nobody really separated themselves. It's really Caleb [Rowe] and Ricardo [Young]. Perry's [Hills] probably down. I think Perry's still coming back a little bit from that knee injury. That's where we are, but anything can change. I'm waiting for somebody to step up. If not, we'll just make a week-to-week decision or situation-to-situation decision."
Edsall touched on the development of wide receiver Stefon Diggs as a leader at media day to begin camp and believes the wideout is embracing the role so far in camp.
"I think he's really stepping up more as a leader," said Edsall. "That's the one thing I challenged him with is that he needs to be more of a leader, not only by example, but also being vocal. I think he understand what his role is and what he needs to do. He is stepping up and doing it, and he's getting better at it each and every day. It's good to see that development take place."
Davis Earns the Nod at Safety: Edsall said sophomore Sean Davis has earned the starting job at one of the safety positions. But junior A.J. Hendy remains very much in the mix particularly on special teams and in the Terps' dime package.
"Right now, we have Sean with the No. 1's, but that one was as close as you can probably get. That's what we told the kids. It was close. Sean knows that he's got to perform each day. A.J. has practiced very hard, he has before too.
"As I told A.J., you're a starter on this football team. He's starting for us on dime and special teams. We had to get these guys to understand how important special teams are because I think we've got enough talent to be pretty special on special teams."


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NEW YORK – Columbia field hockey's spring season culminates this weekend when they host their annual "Play Day" this Sunday, April 21 at the Baker Athletics Complex.
The Lions will welcome Rutgers, Fairfield, Yale, Quinnipiac and Albany to the Columbia Field Hockey Venue for abbreviated 25-minute games.
"After a productive season, we are looking to close our spring on a positive note against quality competition," head coach Marybeth Freeman said. "Finishing the season at home along side our family and fans will make for an exciting day, but most importantly, we will be able to see the amount we have grown since the beginning of spring. I'm proud of what the women have learned this season and how they have extended themselves outside their comfort zones to see what they are capable of doing. I know everyone is looking forward to Sunday!"
Columbia's Sunday Schedule:
9 a.m. - vs. Rutgers
9:30 a.m. - vs. Fairfield
Noon - vs. Yale
1 p.m. - vs. Quinnipiac
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Okfuskee County in Oklahoma is the birthplace of Woody Guthrie, who would have turned 100 this year. Much of the economic problems Guthrie sang about were from what he saw in the county, which was once the largest all-black community in the country. Guthrie's music still resonates there, especially in the town of Boley, where hope is hard to come by. Logan Layden of State Impact Oklahoma reports.
And staying in Oklahoma, Okfuskee County is home to what was once the largest all-black community in the country. It's also the birthplace of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie. But today, the county has the highest poverty rate in Oklahoma. If he were alive, Guthrie would turn 100 this year. And as State Impact's Logan Layden reports, his songs still resonate there today.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: This is March 22, 1940, and we're continuing with Mr. Woody Guthrie's records of Dust Bowl songs from Texas, Oklahoma and California. Mr. Guthrie is now going to sing us the "Hard Times."
LOGAN LAYDEN, BYLINE: If there was anyone who spoke for the downtrodden in Oklahoma, it was Woody Guthrie.
WOODY GUTHRIE: (Singing) I'm gonna have me a hard time, a hard time...
LAYDEN: Decades after this recording, hard times continue in Okfuskee County. That's especially true for tiny Boley, a historic, mostly black town that's among the poorest in the area.
JERRY MITCHELL: Okfuskee County. I feel it. Don't you feel it?
LAYDEN: Like a growing number of other townspeople, Jerry Mitchell moved to Boley after retiring, but his pension just isn't enough.
MITCHELL: Yeah. I'm retired and got to go back to work.
RAZ: His wife, Leonice Banks-Mitchell, known in these parts as Pookie, runs the only restaurant in town.
POOKIE: Yes. I mean, people are struggling, you know? The only reason - because everything that I own is already paid for - I'd be struggling, too, which I am kind of a little bit, you know, because business is so slow and business is not like it used to be.
LAYDEN: Boley didn't always have a depressing storyline. A century ago, the town of 25,000 people was seen as a refuge from discrimination where blacks were in charge. It was the site of the first African-American-owned banks and electric company in the nation. A century later, Boley's population stands at around 1,200, and that includes the roughly 800 inmates at a nearby prison which also serves as the town's biggest employer.
LAYDEN: At the Boley Community Center, town elders, including Theola Cudjo-Jones, have lunch and share their thoughts on the problems facing the area they love.
THEOLA CUDJO-JONES: When our children go to school here and finish school, what do they have? They have to leave to get a job. When Nate moved out and went to California, and when she moved to Wichita and I moved to Oklahoma City, we had no other way. We - there was nothing for us here.
LAYDEN: The people in Boley wonder if anything can be done to help their small rural town and others like it across the country. Beth Mattingly is the director of research on vulnerable families for the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
BETH MATTINGLY: People are recognizing that there are some key differences between rural poverty and urban poverty in terms of both somewhat how it's experienced but also some of the obstacles the families are facing, some well-known things like transportation and access to services, also things like stigma, you know, everyone kind of knows your business. If you go on food stamps, everyone's going to know.
So for generations, people have been confronting high poverty, and it's, you know, in such places, I'd like to say that, oh, yeah, all we need is X, Y, or Z, but it is hard to imagine a quick turnaround.
LAYDEN: That leaves Boley Mayor Joan Matthews a bit frustrated.
JOAN MATTHEWS: Yes, but there's not a whole lot that I can do about it other than worry and pray. And I do a lot of that.
LAYDEN: Yeah.
LAYDEN: Still, Matthews says with its simple, quiet way of life and close-knit community, Boley is a great place to live and retire to. But ongoing hard times mean it's not the best place to find a job. For State Impact, I'm Logan Layden.
GUTHRIE: (Singing) And my father...
RAZ: And that report was part of State Impact. It's a public media collaboration between NPR and member stations examining how state policy affects people and communities. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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My wife and I were driving through Butler when the light at Main and Jefferson streets turned red.
We stopped at the intersection of Main and New Castle Street. About 30 seconds passed before I looked at my wife and raised the question of why we had stopped there, since there's no longer a light there.
We started to laugh and moved forward. In the meantime, a man was behind us and just sat there too without sounding his horn.
Put the light back at Main and New Castle streets before accidents happen.


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Cheering for the Vandals
The coed cheer squad features high energy crowd cheering, partner stunts, pyramids, tumbling and dance performances. The Vandals are looking for talented, energetic and articulate young men and women who are enthusiastic about cheering for some of the most dynamic athletic teams in the Big Sky and Sun Belt conferences!
The Vandals Cheer Squad is an important aspect of game production and public relations for the University of Idaho. The Cheerleaders serve as ambassadors for the University in a variety of ways including cheering at all home games, participating in University events and community appearances.
Click HERE to watch a recent performance!
LINK: Spirit Squad Rules and Expectations
LINK: Spirit Squad Tryout Application
- Scholarship Opportunities
- Uniforms and Apparel
- Season Tickets
- Tumbling Classes
- Strength Training
TRYOUT WORKSHOP/INTERVIEWS: See Tryout Application
All candidates will learn the U of I Fight Song, practice required stunts, learn a group dance (girls only) and participate in a personal interview.
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Tryout categories include a group dance (girls only), tumbling/crowd cheer, the U of I Fight Song and partner stunts (coed or all-girl). *INDIVIDUAL TRYOUTS MAY BE SCHEDULED BY CONTACTING THE COACH.
*Dancers fill out the same paperwork as Cheerleaders, Dance Tryouts at the same time as Cheer Tryouts
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Standing Back Handspring or Back Tuck
Toss Extension, Press Liberty
Standing Tumbling Highly Recommended
Toss Extension, Press Liberty
Group Dance: Girls perform the dance in groups of four.
Crowd Cheer: Cheer on the audience using a short sideline chant of your choice (i.e. "Let's Go Vandals!"). Include jumps, kicks and tumbling (1 min max).
Fight Song: Perform the U of I Fight Song.
Partner Stunts: Perform the following partner stunts.
1. Toss Hands
2. Toss Extension
3. Toss Hands Press Liberty
4. Optional Stunt if Choice
For more information contact:
Bobby Meador
Sharon Meador
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This downtown Vancouver hotel is a block from vibrant Robson Street, Vancouver's main shopping district. Yaletown and the Granville Island artisan community are both within 2 km (1 mi).
Restaurant, day spa
La Grande Residence at The Sutton Place Hotel is an elegant extended-stay hotel with a health club, day spa, fine-dining restaurant, and on-site bakery. 24-hour amenities include a business center and room service.
Kitchens, Flat Screen TVs
Guestrooms feature fully equipped kitchens, and TVs. Separate living areas, with both wired and wireless Internet access are available (surcharge).
Languages Spoken
- English
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La Grande Residence is connected to The Sutton Place Hotel in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Robson Street, Vancouver's main shopping district, is within a block.
Dining options include an elegant restaurant styled like a European manor, a lounge decorated like an English country club, a bakery, and 24-hour room service. The hotel has a health club with an indoor pool and spa tub, exercise equipment, a men's locker room with steam room, and a women's locker room with sauna. Vida Spa offers skin treatments, manicures and pedicures, hammam, and massage (surcharge).
A business center with 5 computer stations is open 24 hours a day (surcharge), as is the hotel's concierge desk. Free WiFi is available in public areas.
This hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Express check-in
- Bar/lounge
- Newspapers in lobby (surcharge)
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Business center
- Conference space
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Meeting rooms 10
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Health club
- Smoke-free property
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Spa services on site
- Luggage storage
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 164
- Number of floors - 18
- Arcade/game room
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Languages Spoken
- English
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Japanese
- Malay
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Private bathroom
- DVD player
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
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- Free newspaper
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Boulevard Oyster Bar & Kitchen - Elegant restaurant styled like a European manor, with original artworks and damask wall coverings. Daily specials and weekly 5-course tasting menus. Continental cuisine made with Pacific Northwest produce, game, seafood, and wines. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Gerald Lounge - English country club décor with dark paneled wood walls, tapestries, oil paintings, leather and wingback chairs, and fireplace. Curved, marble-topped bar. Cocktails and light bistro fare.
La Boulangerie Bakery - Coffees, sandwiches, and cakes. Most baked goods made fresh daily.
Room service - Available 24 hours a day.
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La Grande Residence's health club includes a fitness center with a range of equipment, a heated pool and spa tub, a men's locker room with steam room, and a women's locker room with sauna. Use of the facilities is complimentary for guests.
Vida Spa adjoins the health club, offering Turkish bath/Hammam, manicures, pedicures, skin treatments, and massage (surcharge).
Room service is available poolside.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time ends at 11:30 PM
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 19
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Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
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- Breakfast fee: between CAD 19 and CAD 35 per person (approximately)
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- Self parking fee: CAD 45.00 per night
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To have 1,400 Rockford residents gather under one roof on a Thursday night to listen to a presentation on how to improve the city is a truly amazing sign of civic engagement.
That kind of interest from the general public is encouraging. People were willing to give up their free time and expressed a willingness to work for change. They know it won't be easy and they heard how difficult it will be.
Those who showed up at the Transform Rockford summit at the Coronado Performing Arts Center heard the brutal facts about poverty, violent crime, joblessness and more. The statistics are scary.
But instead of gloom, there was an excitement among those who attended, unlike anything we've seen in recent years. Yes, some complained about the lack of specific action steps, but they need to realize that Thursday night was a start. Specific duties and challenges will be addressed as the process moves forward.
The downhill spiral has been going on for years and won't be solved for years. We do expect short-term progress, like dropping a few notches when Forbes releases its 2014 miserable-cities list, but long-term results will be more challenging.
The support of Rockford residents is crucial. They must be as committed to changing the community as the leaders of Transform Rockford are. Thursday night showed that they are.
Garbage deal: Rockford aldermen overwhelmingly approved keeping Rock River Environmental Services as the city's garbage hauler. Rock River has done a good job since it started collecting Rockford's trash in 1999, and we saw no reason to go with a different company.
However, we were pleased with the bid process, which saved Rockford residents $11.4 million over the length of the contract. Rock River had to adjust its prices because of the competition from Advanced Disposal. Competition is a good thing. Advanced's bid was slightly lower than Rock River's, but Rock River's record and its strong local presence made it the more attractive company.
Full house: The Citizen Watchdog Training presented Wednesday night by the Better Government Association was a success in terms of turnout. There was room for 60 participants, and the room was full. We hope everyone who came to the session learned how to better access information they have a right to know. If you couldn't make it to the presentation, you still can get materials from the BGA by going to its website or calling 312-821-9042.
Chat schedule: Mike Holan, executive director of the Winnebago County Forest Preserve District, will be our guest for an online question-and-answer session at noon Wednesday. There will be no chat Nov. 27 because we'll be getting ready for Thanksgiving. We'll resume in December.
Food drive: Thank you to those who contributed to the Rockford Register Star food drive. Items were still coming in as this was written, but readers filled at least 10 30-gallon barrels with food that will be distributed to the needy through a network of local food pantries and feeding programs served by the Northern Illinois Food Bank.
The need is great: 1 in 4 children in Winnebago County is at risk of going hungry, as is 1 in 5 in Boone County.
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For some, it may not seem like the Fourth of July without shooting off fireworks. But guidelines concerning fireworks vary depending on the location in the county.
For some, it may not seem like the Fourth of July without shooting off fireworks. But guidelines concerning fireworks vary depending on the location in the county.
Most fireworks are illegal within the city of Leavenworth including what are known as class C fireworks.
"There is a city ordinance against it," said Maj. Dan Nicodemus, deputy chief of the Leavenworth Police Department.
Some small items such as smoke balls or toy paper caps are allowed in the city.
Nicodemus said the penalty for violating the city's fireworks ordinance can range from a warning and confiscation of fireworks to a citation and confiscation.
He said a citation for violating the ordinance will require an appearance in municipal court.
"In extreme cases, we could make an arrest and confiscate," he said.
Nicodemus said Leavenworth police receive many calls about fireworks this time of year, and officers confiscate a lot of fireworks. Confiscated fireworks eventually are turned over to the local bomb squad for disposal.
Nicodemus acknowledged that not everyone who violates the fireworks ordinance receives a citation. He said the decision to write a citation is based on various factors including the number of complaints made to police and whether or not a warning has worked in the past.
"There's a lot of variables there," he said.
Fireworks are permitted in Lansing, but the city has restrictions regarding when they can be set off.
Fireworks can be discharged within the city of Lansing through Thursday. People can set off the fireworks between noon and 10 p.m. today and between noon and 11 p.m. Thursday.
Even though fireworks are permitted in Lansing, the use of what are known as sky lanterns are prohibited. And bottle rockets, which are banned statewide, also are not allowed.
In unincorporated areas of the county, law enforcement officers adhere to state law regarding fireworks, according to Undersheriff Jim Sherley.
For people who plan to use fireworks this Independence Day, Capt. Jeff Simpson with Leavenworth County Fire District No. 1 offered some suggestions.
He said people shouldn't hold fireworks in their hands while using them. And people should not stand over lit fireworks.
"When you light them, get away from them," he said.
After fireworks have been discharged, the empty tubes or other materials that remain should be allowed to cool down for a while before they're placed in the garbage. Simpson said people also can place the materials from discharged fireworks into a bucket of water.
"Make sure you shoot them off in an open area," he said.
He also cautioned against modifying fireworks. And he recommended purchasing fireworks from a reputable supplier.


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"Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin may kill you off for $20,000.
I wouldn't laugh. This guy has shown he's not afraid of killing everyone.
Of course, the "killing" only occurs in his stories. Martin is offering one male and one female fan a chance to enter to have a "Game of Thrones" character named after them for $20,000, which would then go to a wolf sanctuary and food organization in Santa Fe, N.M.
If I had the money, I'd pay ... then say my name was the same as someone I don't like.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the winning donors can choose their character's station in Martin's imaginary world -- lording, knight, peasant, whore, lady, maester, septon, anything -- with that character meeting a "grisly death." More info is available at the Prizeo website.
If I paid enough money, could I be a chicken?
Martin recently announced details of the charity campaign, also revealing less glorious prizes, such as having breakfast with Martin ($15,000), attending the TV series' Season 5 premiere ($7,500), and owning one of Martin's stylish hats ($7,500). Fans who don't live in gated communities can buy lesser prizes, such as a $50 T-shirt.
Earlier this week, Martin's editor, Anne Groell, hinted that the author's epic series might extend to eight books, instead of the originally planned seven. The HBO series based on the books will wrap up Season 4 on June 15.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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The public is invited to meet the 2012 Siemens competition semifinalists and regional finalists at a meeting set for 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the Oak Ridge High School amphitheater.
The public is invited to meet the 2012 Siemens competition semifinalists and regional finalists at a meeting set for 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Oak Ridge High School amphitheater.
The finalists will present a talk and poster on their research.
According to information from ORHS, "This event is an opportunity for our students to interact with the rich scientific expertise in our community, as well as allow a public preview of the amazing research ORHS students are doing."
The regional finalists are AJ Toth and Jim Andress, who won a $6,000 scholarship at last weekend's Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology at Georgia Tech. They'll compete in the national contest Dec. 1-4 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and if they win they'll get a $100,000 scholarship to share.
Their project is called "Creating a Higher-Efficiency Machine Learning Algorithm to Facilitate the Development of Cancer Treatment Drugs."
Also competing at Georgia Tech last weekend were fellow semifinalists and ORHS students Kyuong-A Cho and Samantha Wang. Their project is "Rapid Prognostic Tool for Rechargeable Lithium-ion Batteries: Advancing Green Energy Storage."
The amphitheater is located inside the ORHS main entrance and up the grand staircase. A reception will follow the presentations.