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Published: 2004/05/29
by David Steinberg
...but now they're on their way
The news came out of nowhere. The big story for the Phish fans was
the release of three tracks from the new album. People were
discussing the songs and how they would work on tour when the rumor
first popped up that Coventry would be it.
No one believed it at first of course. After all It was supposed to
be it too if you believe the rumor mill. Miami was supposed to be
it. Vegas was supposed to be it. This sounded like the same old
rumor. The one thing that was different though is that it seemed to
be coming from multiple sources all at once, and the people who I
count on to mock these rumors were playing along. In this case the
speculation was a good thing; it helped to cushion the awful shock of
the news.
I never have bought into the theory that performers owe their audience
to keep on performing. If the band (or Trey) doesn't feel it
anymore, they should move on. This essay is not an attempt to
convince the band to stay together. Rather it's one fan's attempt to
deal with the shock of the announcement.
What makes this so interesting and so frustrating is the fact that
there will still be thirteen more shows to be played. How do you
play shows knowing that these will be a last hurrah? Every great
jam or amusing banter will remind the crowd of what won't be
happening in the future. Every version of a song could be the final
one ever. Hearing the new songs will just make people wonder what
they would have sounded like after a few tours. Enjoying the music
will be difficult, but if this is really going to be the last of it,
doing so will be more crucial than ever.
This will be even more magnified at Coventry. Once a song is played
there, it's crossed off the list forever. A flubbed version will
never get another second chance. There is nothing in the world that
is more fun than a Phish festival but this one has already been
destroyed. How much joy can there be when any great moment is a
reminder of what will be gone? There will be good moments
of course, but there won't be the usual festival vibe.
At least if they have to have a final show, they'll be going out on
their own terms. There won't be a curfew to deal with or venue
politics or anything to get in the way. The band can say goodbye
however they choose.
On a day like this it's easy to focus on what will be lost. Never
again will 70,000 people make the drive up to Limestone. Never again
will a line referencing an event five years previous and thousands of
miles away get a rousing ovation from people who still think about Big
Cypress. At some point this summer we will witness the final Stash
clap, "Wilson" chant, "Hood" shout, and glowstick war. Never again
will the lights go out on a third set on New Year's Eve with a crowd
dying to know what will happen at midnight. Most importantly, never
again will I have that moment that I was reminded of in Hampton, when
I'm surrounded by people I love and the music that has meant so much
to me. The tribes will never gather again; the scene is way too
splintered to have that critical mass around another band any time
It's hard to have something you love taken away, even if it's as
trivial as a rock band. The only way that seems to help a little is
to remember why you loved the band in the first place. Phish
inspired me to travel to places that I would have otherwise never
seen and met people that I otherwise never would have known. When I
was trapped in a horrible situation for three years, they gave me an
reason to make temporary escapes and events to look forward to
when all was bleak. They have been the soundtrack to many of my
biggest life events and get involved somewhere in most of my best
stories. From the dancers in the audience in Pearl St during an 1990
Divided Sky to the sunrise over Big Cypress, Phish have given me a
gift far beyond what I can expect from four people. Thanks! I
wouldn't be half the person I am now without you. As much as I would
want more (e.g. the Seven Missing States Tour, the lock everyone in a
venue and play until the crowd gives up plan), I am quite grateful for
what I did receive.
...and hey, maybe this is the denial stage of grief speaking, but it's
not like Trey isn't known for going back on his public statements or
anything. Let's let the time pass and see what happens.
"She started dancing to that fine fine music, You know her life was saved by rock and roll. It took no computations to dance to that rock and roll station, And it was alright."
-Lou Reed (bootleg series version)
David Steinberg got his Masters Degree in mathematics from New
Mexico State University in 1994. He first discovered the power of live
music at the Capitol Centre in 1988 and never has been the same. His
Phish stats website is at www.ihoz.com/PhishStats.html
He is the stats section editor for
The Phish Companion and is on the board of directors for the Netspace Foundation. You can read more of his thoughts at


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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito forfeited pay cheques for their hit comedy movie Twins to help studio bosses get the project off the ground.
The two actors starred in the 1988 film as unlikely twin brothers who were separated at birth.
Work is about to start on a sequel, called Triplets, with Eddie Murphy playing a long-lost third sibling, and Schwarzenegger has now revealed they were initially paid nothing to appear in the original.
He tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "I said right off, 'Don't give me anything, you are taking a risk, let's make the movie for $16.5 million, let's keep it cheap, no one takes a salary. Let's just get a certain percentage, the back end, and then we'll split that.'"
The gamble paid off and Twins went on to gross $216 million at the worldwide box office, making a lot of money for the two lead actors.
Schwarzenegger adds, "In the end, we made more money than we ever made on anything else we've done."

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General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) for Dulles Toll Road (Route 267)
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (Airports Authority) is hereby authorized to discharge stormwater from the Dulles Toll Road (DTR) to surface waters of the Commonwealth of Virginia, provided that the Airports Authority files and receives acceptance of the registration statement by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). The Airports Authority was issued a MS4 General Permit Registration Number VAR040120, effective July 19, 2010, that covers stormwater discharges only from the DTR. The Airports Authority shall not be authorized by this general permit to discharge to state waters specifically named in other Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) or DCR regulations or policies that prohibit such discharges, or to allow non-stormwater discharges that are excluded by the separate individual Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit for Washington Dulles International Airport (Dulles).
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The subject property includes the combined rights-of-way for the Dulles Airport Access Highway (DAAH) and DTR in Fairfax, Loudoun, and the City of Falls Church, Virginia. The property is a highway and transportation right-of-way that is adjacent to residential and commercial properties. The right-of-way for these highways and selected on- and off-ramps extends in an east-west direction from just west of the Magarity Road overpass on the east side of the corridor (inside the Washington Beltway [I-495] but before merging with I-66) to Route 28 on the west side of the corridor. The total length of the right-of-way is approximately 14 miles. The width of the right-of-way is approximately 700 feet. Previously, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) operated the DTR under a contractual arrangement with the Airports Authority; however, a recently completed agreement transferred responsibility for operation of the DTR from VDOT to the Airports Authority. Revenue from the Dulles Toll Road is to be used for future expansion of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) rail service from the West Falls Church Metro Station to Dulles.
Stormwater runoff from the DTR is controlled by adherence to six Minimum Control Measures (MCM) in the VPDES Phase II regulations, as discussed in the enclosed DTR MS4 General Permit Program Plan. For each MCM, the Airports Authority must identify Best Management Practices (BMPs) that reflect the best choices for how to satisfy the regulatory requirements. A BMP is a technique, process, activity, or structure used to reduce the pollutant content of a stormwater discharge. BMPs include simple nonstructural methods, such as good housekeeping and preventive maintenance. BMPs may also include structural modifications, such as the installation of retention measures. BMPs are most effective when used in combination and customized to meet the specific needs (drainage, materials, activities, etc.) of a given operation. The focus of DCR's general permits is on preventive BMPs, which limit the release of pollutants into stormwater discharges. The DTR General Permit includes the following BMPs:
1. Public Education and Outreach
- Develop a DTR Environmental Permits web page (which is posted here).
- Evaluate the effectiveness of educational videos and Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on this web page;
- Develop a fact sheet for public distribution or download; and
- The Airports Authority may also partner with adjacent MS4 operators to broadcast PSAs once in each permit 5-year cycle.
2. Public Participation/Involvement
- Posting for public review DTR MS4 Program Plan, General Permit and subsequent annual reports on the Airports Authority DTR Evironmental Permits web page; and
- Participate in local activities aimed at increasing public awareness of water quality and stormwater issues, as needed.
3. Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
- Review training guidance and current practices and revise as necessary for use on the DTR, and provide Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination (IDDE) training programs to appropriate audiences;
- Revise illicit discharge identification and reporting protocols, and establish a means for the public to report illicit discharges;
- Develop and maintain an updated inventory of roadway outfalls in MS4 urbanized areas of the DTR;
- Notify in writing any downstream regulated MS4 to which the DTR's MS4 is physically connected ; and
- Expand existing process for reporting illicit discharges to appropriate authorities.
4. Construction Site Runoff Control
- Develop and implement procedures for the receipt and consideration of information submitted by the public concerning the Airports Authority's stormwater program.
5. Post-Construction Runoff Control
- Incorporate controls into existing programs including updating a database of all known structural stormwater management facilities owned and operated by the Airports Authority; and
- Perform yearly inspection and required maintenance on stormwater management facilities.
6. Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping
- Review and revise as necessary the compliance procedures for maintenance activities;
- Perform maintenance activities such as animal carcass removal and disposal, road cleaning, vehicle removal, etc. to minimize/eliminate potential sources of stormwater pollution;
- Continue to implement procedures and training that will encourage employees and contractors to employ pollution prevention practices in day-to-day operations;
- Include DTR wastes in the Airports Authority's Waste Management Programs, which include annually evaluating waste management and recycling programs, and revise waste disposal procedures as necessary;
- Ensure proper disposal of wastes from construction and maintenance activities in accordance with the DCR-approved erosion and sediment control, DEQ Waste Programs, and stormwater management standards and specifications through environmental compliance reviews;
- Revise protocols and tracking procedure for performing environmental compliance assessments of DTR Facilities; and
- Implement training courses for appropriate employees that promote a general awareness of stormwater management and pollution prevention, including advance hazardous waste management, in-stream maintenance activities, hazardous materials shipping, storage, and spill prevention of petroleum products, and pesticide applicator certification in accordance with all applicable Federal and State regulations.
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- 2014-2015 MS4 Annual Report (PDF; 8 pages, 313 KB)
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Baylor Mourns Passing of Visiting Distinguished Professor Jean Bethke ElshtainAug. 13, 2013
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WACO, Texas (Aug. 13, 2013) - Baylor University is mourning the passing of Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D., one of America's foremost public intellectuals and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Public Life at Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR). The world-renowned scholar, who also served as The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the Divinity School at The University of Chicago, died Sunday at the age of 72.
"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain, who was one of the world's leading scholars in religion and public life," said Elizabeth Davis, Ph.D., executive vice president and provost at Baylor. "Baylor University was extraordinarily privileged to have this brilliant Christian scholar join our faculty nearly two years ago as a visiting professor. But 'visiting' was anything but for Professor Elshtain.
"From actively working with our faculty, mentoring graduate and undergraduate students in political science, philosophy and the Honors College and engaging overflowing audiences at her public lectures, Professor Elshtain proved a remarkable example of a public intellectual unafraid to delve deeply into issues that are of fundamental concern to Christians in society today," Davis said. "Our prayers are with her family, who truly were the inspiration for her prolific body of scholarly work that focused on themes of democracy, ethical dilemmas, religion and politics, and international relations."
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"We've lost a giant, truly a national treasure. What a privilege for Baylor to have hosted some of her last and most important lectures," said Byron R. Johnson, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and director of Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion, where Elshtain was based.
Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture and dean of the Honors College, described Elshtain's passing as "a huge loss."
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Elshtain was the author of many other influential works, including Women and War, an exploration of the traditional status of women as noncombatants; Augustine and the Limits of Politics, which applies Augustinian thought to contemporary politics and society; and Just War Against Terror, which made a vigorous and widely discussed moral argument for greater American military engagement abroad. Just War was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2003 by Publishers Weekly.
She also authored of Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought; Meditations on Modern Political Thought; Democracy on Trial; Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life; Who are We? Critical Reflections, Hopeful Possibilities; and Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.
"We have lost a true leader in the political theory community," said David D. Corey, Ph.D., associate professor of political science in Baylor's College of Arts and Sciences. "She was never derivative, always fresh and provocative. And she had a way of constantly hitting the nail on the head when it came to defending the most noble but vulnerable traditions of our political culture."
Elshtain edited numerous books, wrote frequently for journals of civic opinion and lectured widely in the United States and abroad. She was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, the holder of the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress, a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton and a member of its Board of Trustees; and a Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer.
In 2002 she received the Goodnow Award, the highest award bestowed by the American Political Science Association for distinguished service to the profession. She served on the Board of the National Humanities Center and on the President's Council of Bioethics and was a member of the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress. In 2006, she delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, joining such previous Gifford Lecturers as William James, Hannah Arendt, Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr. Those lectures were published in 2008 in her book, Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.
In 2011 the National Endowment for Democracy honored Elshtain with the Democracy Service Award, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the progress of democracy around the world. The award previously was given to the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel, among others.
"Not only was Professor Elshtain the recipient of just about every honor an academic in the humanities can receive, but she was a deeply caring mother and grandmother and a staunch defender of American ideals of freedom against foes from both inside and outside the United States," Corey said.
"It was her love of country and her serious commitments as a Christian that motivated her. She was a fighter - this is something one senses when one reads her books. But she was a fighter animated in her every step by love - love of family, country and God. And the love shone through in all she did."
In addition to her Ph.D. from Brandeis University, Elshtain received nine honorary degrees.
Elshtain is survived by her husband Errol; her four children, Sheri, Heidi, Jenny and Eric; and her grandchildren, JoAnn Paulette Welch; Robert Paul Bethke, Christopher Matthew Welch and Christiane Lind Elshtain.
Baylor University is a private Christian University and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating University in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
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We easily associate typefaces with a particular moment in history, or an entire era, and there's typography that forever refers to a specific place. Gill Sans + London comes to mind, and other examples abound. Although in the case of Gill Sans, we associate it with the place because of the way it's been applied to London, not because of where or how it was created.
And so I'm wondering about typography that comes out of a place, somehow derived from highly specific geospatial coordinates. Can a typeface be created from a corner of a room, or from a particular building? (Is geotypography a thing? It should be a thing.)
Back in 2010 I created Ding Dong, an amusing sketch for an alphabet in Venice, and I drew Divieto in Rome in 2011. In each case, something vernacular and of the place (local, casual, conversational) inspired me to create letterforms. In Venice it was the doorbells, and in Rome a particular street sign. I treat these chance finds like evidence — inspirational cues to the language and history of the place, embedded in the culture of the street. I've discovered that creating these alphabets is an essential part of my work in a place. The find is like a scrap, or a cell, and I grow something from it.
These alphabets tie the work to the place, and refer to my presence in the place.
So I knew I had caught something again when I photographed this photograph of a sign in a shed behind the Weymouth Historical Society in Massachusetts. I drew it out and sketched the Stetson alphabet and decided it had to be a part of the Weymouths book project (the Stetson Shoe factory was at the heart of Weymouth, MA from 1885 until 1973). Creating a working font is not my expertise, so I've teamed up with the awesome Thomas Jockin and we are now collaborating on Stetson (one of his sketches, above).
I'll use it for Weymouths and then make the OpenType font available for free download.
I love this idea of geotypography, and in this case I want to go further and call it geohistorical typography. Perhaps this opposes the Modernist idea of "timeless" design (think of Helvetica and the ability to associate it with anything, anywhere). Stetson is of a highly specific dual-spatiotemporal moment — it locates itself within the original photograph (late-nineteenth century New England), and more importantly, in the shed — with me, on January 11, 2012. From this grows something new.
Stay tuned.
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This is beautiful; I'm really rooting for the square-er derivations in the Alternate sets. Hope that "Almost-not-there" nub of a cross stroke in the 'E' shows up in the 'F'. I also REALLY love how these characters appear 'rotated' in space (isometrically) rather than simply oblique or italic. I guess you could also term it skewing? I'm looking forward to meeting the whole family!


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Banshee just crashed on me with the following error message:
[Info 20:44:59.949] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-06-18 18:47:49 UTC]
[Info 20:45:01.043] All services are started 0.949921
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: The database disk image is malformed
database disk image is malformed
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Reset (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000]
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Step (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000]
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000]
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand:ExecuteNonQuery ()
at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection hconnection, Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection connection) [0x00000]
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I think this is how it happened. My computer hanged while Banshee was running, and I had to force reboot it. Hence, the Banshee database file was corrupted. Thanks to boombox1387 from Ubuntu forum, this problem can be fixed as the following:
Install sqlite3:
sudo apt-get install sqlite3
Then run:
cd ~/.config/banshee-1
Dump the database in an SQL text format:
sqlite3 banshee.db ".dump" > dump
Backup the (corrupted) database:
mv banshee.db banshee.db.backup
Create and restore a database from dump file:
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Mexico said Wednesday that it had records of more than 27,000 cases of "disappeared people" that it would make public soon in an effort to clarify the circumstances under which they vanished.
Lia Limon, the country's deputy interior secretary for human rights, acknowledged the cases hours after Human Rights Watch issued a scathing report that called Mexico the Western Hemisphere's hot spot for "enforced disappearances," in which police or the military arrest citizens who are never seen again.
The advocacy group said it had documented 149 cases throughout the country in which witnesses saw police or soldiers take someone into custody only to have the person vanish without a trace. But the group said the number of people who'd disappeared since 2006 was enormous, noting that a provisional list compiled by the attorney general's office indicated that more than 25,000 people had gone missing during the administration of former President Felipe Calderon, who left office Dec. 1 and is now a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Limon's comments, which were made shortly after she met with Human Rights Watch representatives, seemed to confirm that assertion, though it was unclear whether the number she cited comprised only people who'd vanished during the Calderon administration's frontal assault on drug trafficking or whether it might include some of the 3,000 people who vanished during the country's so-called dirty war against Marxist guerrillas in the 1960s and '70s.
Limon described the 27,000 records as a database that contained information about each case. She said it was in the custody of the country's Center for Analysis, Planning and Information and that that department had promised to pass the information on, according to an account by the newspaper Milenio.
Like many countries in Latin America, Mexico has long faced allegations that its security services often detained people who were never brought to trial and whose detention was never officially acknowledged. When Calderon's predecessor, Vicente Fox, took office in 2000, he promised to launch a "truth commission" to detail what had happened during the country's "dirty war," but such a commission was never formed.
The Human Rights Watch allegations renewed attention on the role of security agents in a significant number of disappearances. The advocacy group called it "the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades" and urged President Enrique Pena Nieto's 11-week-old administration to create a database of missing people to address it.
The group said it had probed 249 cases in depth, and found that 149 of them implicated security and law enforcement agents in the disappearances.
"These crimes were committed by members of every security force involved in public security operations, sometimes acting in conjunction with organized crime," the report says.
The Calderon administration "ignored this mounting 'disappearance' problem" and Mexican authorities "failed to take serious steps to address it," it says.
Neither Pena Nieto, who was traveling in Costa Rica, nor his top security aides offered an immediate response to the 176-page report, titled "Mexico's Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Crisis Ignored." Calderon has argued that his attack on drug gangs helped restore order to the country.
Human Rights Watch said the disappearances it had investigated usually followed the same pattern:
"In many cases, these detentions occur in victims' homes, in front of family members; in others, they take place at security checkpoints, at workplaces or in public venues, such as bars," the report says. "When victims' relatives inquire about detainees' whereabouts at the headquarters of security forces and public prosecutors' offices, they are told that the detentions never took place."
Adding to the agony of family members, the prosecutors who are asked to investigate routinely blame the victims, suggesting that they had connections to organized crime or simply ran off for romantic liaisons, the report says. Then they tell the families to conduct searches on their own, sloughing off investigative responsibilities.
When prosecutors do pursue cases, their work is often sloppy. They fail to interview witnesses and suspects, the report says, and don't bother to visit crime scenes.
Investigators routinely "do not trace victims' cellphones, track their bank transactions, obtain security camera footage (which is often automatically deleted at regular intervals) or take other time-sensitive actions," the report says.
Such inaction causes "irreparable loss of information" that could save lives and bring culprits to justice, it added.
"A mother whose son was abducted outside of her home in March 2011 told Human Rights Watch that whenever she met with the investigator in charge of the case, he began their conversation the same way. "He asks me, 'What new info do you have for me?' " the report says.
For relatives of the missing, the searches for their loved ones become "perpetual anguish" that doesn't end for months or years, or simply remains a wound that doesn't heal.
The report notes that in at least 20 disappearances of Mexicans in June and July 2011, naval personnel were implicated. The United States works closely with the Mexican navy on drug cases.
In another 13 cases, the Federal Police made the initial arrests. State, local and army units were fingered in the remainder.
In more than 60 cases, security forces appeared to be working in tandem with organized crime groups, it said.
The group cited an incident in late 2011 outside Juarez, in Nuevo Leon state, in which two brothers in the used car business were detained at a police checkpoint. Less than a week later, prosecutors arrested three police officers who "said they had carried out the detention 'under orders' of a local crime boss," the report says.
Human Rights Watch called on Mexico to create "unified, accurate databases of the disappeared," catalog "unidentified human remains" and try to match the DNA of the remains to those who are missing.
The advocacy group also asked Congress to enact a law that any military or law enforcement agent involved in a disappearance be tried in civilian courts and that suspects not be remanded to military or police holding cells.


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It was a beautiful and sunny afternoon as the Punxsutawney Garden Club's August Garden of the Month recipient Lynda Brown posed with her dog, Chance, in one of her beautiful flower gardens.
Brown's garden consists of a variety of flowers, including the unique Chinese lanterns.
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Canadian Bacon (1995)
Boomer: There's a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think.
Roy Boy: Are you sure we're in Canada?
Honey: You smell anything?
Roy Boy: No.
Honey: Exactly. Canada!
Edwin S. Simon, NBS News Anchor: The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here.
Highway Patrolman: I do have to fine you. That will be a thousand dollars Canadian, or 10 American dollars if you prefer.
Edwin S. Simon, NBS News Anchor: Think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf. Mayonnaise on everything. Winter 11 months of the year. Anne Murray - all day, every day.
Edwin S. Simon, NBS News Anchor: Like maple syrup, Canada's evil oozes over the United States.
[Highway patrolman tells Boomer why his graffiti must be in both English and French]
Highway Patrolman: Le Quebecois.
Boomer: Huh?
Highway Patrolman: You know. Wine drinkers. Pea soup eaters. French Canadians!
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: I don't know what you're talking aboot, eh?
Kabral: Aboot! It's ABOUT! And what's with this 'eh' business?
Roy Boy: [pointing a gun] We have ways of making you pronounce the letter O, pal.
Boomer: If life hands you a lemon, you gotta crush it into lemonade.
R.J. Hacker, President of Hacker Dynamics: Here he is now. The man that a thin majority of you chose to be the president of the United States.
U.S. President: It's time to turn off that war machine, and turn on our children.
General Panzer: What do you want to do, sir? About Russia, sir?
U.S. President: Yeah, why don't we call up and find out who's in charge over there this week.
Russian President: You're in charge of the world, now. Don't be such a sore winner!
Roy Boy: How come you never see any black guys playing hockey?
Kabral: Now do you think it's easy to just gradually take over every professional sport? Let me tell you something, man. Brothers have started figuring out this ice thing. Hope you enjoyed it!
Boomer: I'll tell ya another thing: their beer sucks!
Roy Boy: I want to call the American embassy!
Boomer: All I said was "Canadian beer sucks!"
[riot intensifies]
Kabral: People! People! Can't we all just get along?
U.S. President: The American people, Mr. Smiley, would never ever buy this.
Smiley: Mr. President, the American people will buy whatever we tell them to.
[TV Announcer describes the Canadian National Tower in Toronto]
Edwin S. Simon, NBS News Anchor: It is the height of six American football fields, or five Canadian football fields. As if Canadian football really counts.
R.J. Hacker, President of Hacker Dynamics: The American public's attention span is about as long as your dick.
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: Welcome to Canada.
Boomer: Hold it right there, Canuck!
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: Who are you?
Boomer: I'm your worst nightmare. I'm a citizen with a constitutional right to bear arms!
[the Mountie explains that Honey has been taken to the capital]
Boomer: The capital Toronto.
RCMP Officer at Headquarters: No, the capital of Canada is Ottawa.
Boomer: Yeah, right. Do we look that stupid? Ottawa!
Roy Boy: Nice try, Dudley.
President's aide: Sir, the Helms amendment and NSC order 725 both specifically prohibit the use of Omega Force against Caucasians.
Candy Striper at Canadan Hospital: Oh we're not doctors. We're candy stripers! Our universal health care system has determined that you don't actually need a doctor until...
Candy Striper at Canadan Hospital: ...2006!
Boomer: There it is, men. Toronto.
Roy Boy: It's beautiful. Like no other city I've ever seen. It's like Albany. Only cleaner.
Boomer: All right. Enough of this Dirty Dozen stuff.
Boomer: Hey, did anyone see "Dirty Dancing"? Now that was a good movie.
Redneck Protester #1: Everything I see and hear about these Canadians makes me wanna puke!
Redneck Protester #2: It's time we put the "America" back in North America! GOD BLESS BUD BOOMER!
Crowd of Protestors: USA! USA! USA! USA!
Roy Boy: You ever see The Dirty Dozen?
Boomer: That was a cool movie.
Roy Boy: Man, that was real cool.
Boomer: Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine...
Kabral: Jim Brown.
Roy Boy: Uh, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker...
Kabral: Jim Brown.
Boomer: Trini Lopez!
Roy Boy: Cool.
Kabral: Trini Lopez? I never could figure that one out, man. What in the hell was he doing in The Dirty Dozen, man? If I was putting together a group of murderers and cutthroats, Trini Lopez would not be in the starting lineup.
Boomer: That's why he dies first.
Roy Boy: Yeah, don't they all die?
Boomer: They all don't die.
Kabral: Jim Brown dies.
Roy Boy: Hey man, what do you expect? Of all The Dirty Dozen, this black guy's supposed to sneak in behind enemy lines and pretend he was a Kraut? Ugh?
Boomer: Uh-huh?
Kabral: That's not it, man. It's just the black guy always dies. Think about it, man. Unforgiven, Alien, Rocky 4, The Shining...
Roy Boy: Star Trek 2, Forrest Gump, Witness...
Boomer: Annie Hall! Not Annie Hall...
Roy Boy: No, Night Of The Living Dead.
Boomer: That's the one!
Kabral: And what about that brother in Jurassic Park, man?
Roy Boy: Oh, that was cool.
Boomer: There was two black guys who died in that one! That was a twofer! You must be really pissed off at that one!
Kabral: I'm telling you, man. The black guy always dies first.
Honey: [reading card] "Best wishes, Gordon Lightfoot." Eeew!
Boomer: Y'know, it's a free country. If he doesn't like it here, he can swim across the river to Canada. Lotta work there.
Russian President: Mr. President, please. Is this why you called us here? We already gave up! You won! We are too busy trying to perfect universal indoor plumbing!
Smiley: How do you know that was a nuclear facility?
General Panzer: Well, they tricked us on that one. That's a hospital. But it's a hell of a strike!
Gus: These Canadians suffer from a serious inferiority complex. That's why they built this: The Canadian National Tower! World's largest free-standing structure!
Gus: Canadians are always dreaming up a lotta ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!
Smiley: When have you ever heard anyone say, "Honey, lets stay in and order Canadian food"?
U.S. President: I want to say to Prime Minister MacDonald: Surrender her pronto, or we'll level Toronto.
Boomer: There's not a locked door in the whole country.
RCMP Helecopter: Attention, please. Attention, please. This is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Would you come down from the tower, please.
Honey: If you say "please" one more time, I'm gonna let you have it!
U.S. President: You sold control of American missiles to a foreign country?
R.J. Hacker, President of Hacker Dynamics: If you can call Canada foreign.
Smiley: Or a country.
General Panzer: Let me level with you, sir. I would destroy any nation - even my own - if my president gave the order.
Secretary of State: We were thinking, what could be a bigger threat than aliens invading from space?
General Panzer: Ooh boy! Scare the shit out of everyone. Even me, sir!
U.S. President: Jesus, is this the best you could come up with? What about, ya know, international terrorism?
General Panzer: Well, sir, we're not going to re-open missile factories just to fight some creeps running around in exploding rental cars, are we, sir?
Omega Force Leader: [a member of the omega force collapses. The leader goes up to him] You ok?
Omega Force member: Yeah, it's just my toe.
[the team leader shoots him]
Highway Patrolman: Ah, Americans. Welcome to Ontario, sportsman's paradise!
Boomer: Isn't it though.
Mountie Sergeant: Have some fudge. Just leave me alone.
Hacker Hellstorm: This is the Hacker Hellstorm. One minute until total annihilation. Have a nice day.
[while in a tank, driving through a "Welcome to Mexico" sign]
Gus: Ha ha ha, there it is! Like I care!
[attempting to speak French on the phone]
U.S. President: Écoutez!
U.S. President: Vous avez gagné.
U.S. President: [uncertain] Fermez les rockettes, okay!
U.S. President: [embarrassed] About two years in high school and four years in college.
Boomer: What about Jurassic Park? Two black guys died in that movie. That's a twofer!
General Panzer: Why don't we just go up there with a strike force and knock out their infrastructure quicker than you can say collateral damage?
Smiley: No!
U.S. President: Oh no, no.
General Panzer: Why not?
U.S. President: Yeah, yeah, why not?
Smiley: Because a war with Canada would be over in a matter of days. Do you remember Grenada? They didn't even wake Reagan up.
General Panzer: Didn't have to.
Smiley: And all we found there were a bunch of rich American med school rejects and a couple Cuban construction workers
General Panzer: That's liberal bullshit! Cuba had a division in there.
Smiley: What about Panama? A couple of days of blasting Def Leppard over loud speakers and Noriega ran out weeping. And Iraq, ha! They were supposed to have this big bad army.
General Panzer: They had the biggest cannon, invented by a Canadian.
Smiley: In 72 hours after we invade they're begging for a Big Mack.
General Panzer: They stopped us a hundred miles short of Baghdad and we just sat there waving our dicks in the desert.
Smiley: Mr. President do you want more of that, or 50 years of Cold War prosperity because Joe Schmo American is scared shitless the world's gonna end before the next commercial.
U.S. President: Well, I think I like Mr. Smiley's approach.


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Glee star Amber Riley was forced to miss an awards show in Los Angeles on Friday (01Feb13) after hurting herself in a fall.
The actress/singer was due to make an appearance at the 2013 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards, where she was nominated for the Actress in a Comedy Series prize.
However, she fell down a flight of stairs on Wednesday (30Jan13) and didn't recover in time to attend the show.
She wrote in post on Twitter.com, "I am so clumsy, took an unexpected trip down my stairs smh (shaking my head) very sore little banged up but I'm okay..." before later adding, "My little fall was a little worse than I thought, was sad to miss the NAACP Awards... but I am so honored to have been nominated!"
Riley went on to congratulate the eventual winner, Cassi Davis, who took the trophy for her role in Tyler Perry's House of Payne. She added, "Congrats (sic) Cassi Davis!... She's amazing."


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Oil Spill Update
Facts, Figures -- and Perspective on the Gulf oil spill
An update, one year later
A year after the Deepwater Horizon well gushed 5 million barrels — more than 200 million gallons — of oil into the Gulf, the beaches of northwest Florida are again pristine, tourism business has returned, and BP has paid out more than $2 billion in
Florida damage claims. But the spill's aftermath still includes plenty of loose ends, starting with unsettled claims and extending to the lack of a full understanding of the spill's environmental impact, which may take years to assess. A year later, here's what you need to know.
A Year Ago
"I came out here on June 23rd. It was a Wednesday, and I couldn't find a speck of white sand for 60 feet inshore. We had daily cleanup for the next three months."
— Buck Lee, executive director of the
Santa Rosa Island Authority,
"Everything's gorgeous. Our business since February has been back to better than it's ever been. They come every morning to see if any tar balls came ashore; on the eight miles, they might occasionally get 5 pounds a mile.''
— Buck Lee
Gulf Coast Claims Facility Payments
The largest category of BP payments in Florida, at $2 billion, has been to individuals and businesses negatively impacted economically by the oil spill. The distribution of the payments reflects the fact that while 98% of the oil and residue that flowed onto Florida beaches from the Deepwater Horizon accident landed on the shores of Escambia County, the economic impact spilled all along the Gulf — most heavily on the counties of northwest Florida but extending all the way to Collier and Lee counties, where tourism-related businesses suffered from travelers' fears about possible contamination.
"Perception is the biggest challenge,'' says Craig Savage, director of media relations and communications for the Florida BP Gulf Coast Restoration Organization. BP has made payments through the Gulf Coast Claims Facility.
Pensacola Beach in March [Photo: Cheryl Casey/Shutterstock]
Payments to the State
BP payments to Florida
totaled $2.2 billion as of
July 21. Here's the breakdown:
» Government payments — $82 million
» Cleanup vessels — $73 million
» Tourism payments — $42 million
» Research payments — $10 million
» Natural resource damage assessment payments — $8 million
» Seafood testing/marketing — $5 million
» Behavioral health — $3 million
» Contributions — $300,000
Local Government Payments
Local governments received $31.9 million as of July 21 to cover spill-related response, removal or increased public service costs. Nearly the entire amount went to five counties in northwest Florida. No county in other parts of Florida collected more than $172,000, paid to Pinellas. Top amounts:
» Bay County — $9.0 million
» Walton County — $5.3 million
» Okaloosa County — $3.9 million
» Franklin County — $2.0 million


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Coquilles plan Medford video gambling operation
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) Gov. John Kitzhaber's attempts to limit Oregon casinos to one per tribe are getting a test from a video gambling establishment the Coquille Indian Tribe proposes in Medford.
Although Kitzhaber has opposed an expansion beyond the nine tribal casinos currently in operation, the Coquille tribe said it never agreed to a permanent provision limiting it to the one it has in North Bend along the Oregon coast.
And, the Medford Mail Tribune reported, the compact the Coquille tribe signed with the state in 2000 doesn't prohibit the sort of video-only operation planned for a bowling alley in Medford.
Federal regulations categorize casinos with table games such as craps, roulette and blackjack as Class III. More modest operations with video games fall into a Class II category.
The Coquille compact explicitly said it did not cover Class II operations, the Mail Tribune reported, and the limit to one Class III casino lasted five years. The federal government requires the gambling compacts between tribes and states.
In a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs on May 6 that reiterated his policy of one casino per tribe, Kitzhaber said he understood the distinction between the two classes of casinos but argued that opening a video-only operation would open the door to an operation with table games.
He said he continued his policy, dating to the 1990s and his first two terms in office, that there should be one casino per tribe in Oregon.
The requirements for Class II gambling operations are less difficult to meet and don't include a compact with the state, said Coquille tribal spokesman Ray Doering.
"We just felt it worked better as Class II," he said. "It is less of an investment."
Another opponent of the Medford proposal is the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians, which has a casino about 70 miles north of Medford along Interstate 5.
Spokeswoman Susan Ferris said her tribe signed the first compact with the state to operate a Class III casino, on Nov. 20, 1992. She said the Cow Creek was one of three tribes that signed compacts restricting them to one Class III facility with no time limit the two other being the Warm Springs and Grand Ronde tribes.
Ferris argues that the technology of video gambling has improved markedly, blurring the distinction between the two different categories of gambling establishments.
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As residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, it is our pleasure to bring our escape room experience to citizens of this giant metro area. Given the vast size of North Texas and the DFW metro area, surprisingly there aren't that many escape rooms to serve all of Dallas Fort Worth and all the cities of DFW. If you search for escape room Dallas or escape room Fort Worth or escape room Plano or escape room Southlake or escape room DFW or escape room anywhere in DFW then we are your escape room. Now the other aspect of Dallas-Fort Worth metro is that unlike most another metropolis all the cities and suburbs and exurbs are spread out over a vast area. So you have massive cities and towns that are part of the metro area but that are not in Dallas or Fort Worth. We didn't overlook the opportunity to serve the inhabitants all throughout the metropolis not just in the main big cities. So if you are an inhabitant of Arlington Euless Mansfield Farmers Branch Grapevine Rockwall Roanoke Addison Lewisville Burleson McKinney Denton Mesquite Frisco Keller Las Colinas or any other city or town in DFW we just want you to know that we are here to serve you when you want to go to the best possible escape room experience. If you want to have a memorable time, full of fun and mirth, an engaging experience unlike any other, If you want to enjoy and have a great time with the most important people in your life, with your friends and family, being entertained and having the time of your life…. If all the above is true then we are your destination. We believe that once you see us once you will see us again, the next time even with more of your friends and family. One thing is for certain you will for sure have a great time, your friends and family will have a memorable time with you, having fun and being entertained, sharing in the happiness and enjoyment while creating memories that everyone can share in.
So to start let's ask us what is an escape room? There are many different answers, but what escape rooms, in general, have in common is what we will go over right now. What most escape rooms have in common more or less is an experience where players and active participants will experience, take part in and actively participate in a whole series of activity with the aim of solving obstacles and overcoming challenges to ultimately achieve a specific goal which in most cases includes escaping from a room or a set of rooms in a limited given period of time generally speaking about an hour in most cases. Participants in an escape room experience are actively trying to discover clues and their solutions in order to solve a number of challenges. Thus our experiences are totally in live-action and totally immersive and are most enjoyable and best experienced with a group of friends or family which makes this form of entertainment possibly the best team-based game and team-based entertainment that can be had. We will have the players and patrons be well situated and be briefed on the going on of their day with us, we will start by having everyone grouped together and then being met by the game master whose job would be to have the players briefed over the proceedings of the next hour and will be given the rules for the game experience. Depending on the experience there might be a backstory in which case players would be given that information by watching a video or they may be given material to read up on. Generally after that, once the players are briefed and everything is set in motion the door will be closed behind them and the countdown will begin.
And then the real escape room experience starts. Initially, everyone starts exploring every nook and cranny to get more familiar with their surroundings, at first everyone generally is very tentative and as time keeps on rolling forward everyone starts to get a little more frantic, searching everywhere around them for anything that might help them to get out of the room. However not everything they find is useful, usually there would be a lot of clues everywhere at first they are not-so-subtle. Going through drawers, searching through boxes, picking into pockets, going through articles of clothing, running hands and eyes over, behind and underneath everything to find the answer. This is where communication is vital, a team that can communicate well can quickly overcome multiple challenges and obstacles by calling out what they have found out and then allocating the right person in order to solve and overcome the different challenges. Depending on the flow of the experience both challenges and solutions can be spread all over and nonlinear and some not sequential, thus everyone gets involved and that's why its so much fun, playing the game makes you have fun and makes everyone come together and share in the enjoyment.
When one of these puzzles are solved they generally lead to something else, for example, it may be going into a new room through a door that was opened, or a bigger puzzle for which you have found a piece, or there might be padlocked case somewhere, or it may be a complete misdirection. In other words, when players are solving the puzzles they are generally led to the next step and each new step is more likely to be harder. As our enterprising team keeps on unlocking more puzzles and finding more obstacles, working together, communicating with each other in order to be more effective. Sometimes they might get stuck and for those times our escape room gives them a lifeline where they might be given a hint or two to help them continue and give them a boost to help them escape the room. So while they are doing all that time is ticking on and as time goes on the obstacles gets harder and becomes more complex, many times all these obstacles and puzzles finally lead up to a final obstacle, a final challenge which needs to be overcome for the door to be opened and for them to escape. And then the game master enters the picture again, the teams are generally led through debriefing and are helped with answers to questions and explanations of the experience if the team has any further questions. The neat thing about escape rooms is that anyone escape room can have multiple experiences and all of them can have different types of scenarios and thus for players and patrons they can experience many different types of games, all novel all live all immersive all totally fun, entertainment that is felt and experienced in the first person as if they are actors who are playing the central role in a movie. Thus our escape room experience provides something that is unique that is a new form of entertainment where you are active, feeling every moment with everyone around you, you are playing the part of the hero in your own movie you and your little group of friends and family, enjoying your time together, immersing yourself and engaging in part of a live storyline where you are at the center.


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Gift Shop and "Books on Tape" services - The Gift Shop is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, and Sunday from 11:30 am to 4 pm. Located in the Medical Plaza Building near the east entrance to the cafeteria, the Gift Shop is operated by the CCH Auxiliary. The Gift Shop also has a "Books on Tape" lending library available to patients upon request at Ext. 27388.
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Harvey Leonard Davis, Jr., 69, passedaway Sunday, January 5, 2014.Funeral service will be 2 pm Thursday, January 9, 2014 inthe Minton Memorial Chapel with burial to follow at HighlandPark Cemetery under the direction of Minton ChatwellFuneral Directors of Borger. The family will receive friendsWednesday, January 8, 2014 from 6-8 pm at the funeralhome.Harvey was born September 24, 1944 in Pampa to Harveyand Arna Davis. He proudly served in the United States Navy.Harvey was a member of the Elks Lodge and the InternationalUnion of Operating Engineers Union #351. He worked forPhillips for over 30 years.He is preceded in death by his parents.Survivors include his children, Donnie Lynn Davis and his wife, Sondra, Danny Davis allof Caddo Mills, Texas, Deana Davis of Borger, John Wesley Davis and his wife, Veronica ofBorger; sisters, Vicki Whistler of Chaffee, Missouri, Glenna Butterfield of Fort Worth; ninegrandchildren; four great grandchildren and two great grandchildren expected to arrive inApril and August.


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PetroTech Oil and Gas Inc. (OTC: PTOG) (the "Company" or Petrotech") today announced That PTOG is in negotiations with a major Service Company in the Oil Field Service Industry to establish an exclusive area in this multi-billion dollar industry, to utilize and market new completion technologies that will work with our current technologies. These technologies replace toxic and harsh chemicals; they are green and environmentally, friendly. They also will eliminate some of the dangers in the industry. Recently workers were killed applying chemicals to a well; the products we will be providing are more effective and food grade approved by the FDA.
Eddie Schilb says, "We believe we will have an agreement in place by the middle to end of January, with the holidays and recent ice storms along with harsh weather in our areas past; we believe we can start back to work on Navarro County."
PTOG has recently executed an LOI to acquire some producing wells approximately 15 miles from our current wells in Navarro County. The lease has two profitable producing wells; that we researched and viewed the last three years production history. This could put a net of $12,000.00 a month into the company. The lease also has multiple drilling locations in multiple formations. The transaction would be approximately 40% stock and require the balance in cash.
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Compression of a multi-walled carbon nanotube
|Carbon nanotube based are expected to provide extraordinarily strong but light-weight composites for future structural applications. To realize these applications, we first need to know a lot more about these materials: especially, how strong is this nanotube? How stiff? What happens if you bend it? Twist it? Stretch it? Compress it? This clip shows the simulation of a multiwall nanotube undergoing bending.
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Another derogatory term for ketamine. specifically denotes a k sesh that results in embarrassment or regret.
by mandingo89 July 25, 2009
Doing lots of ketermine and popping in and out of the hole aggresivelly.
Phil " I managed to turf through a whole gram of the mine last night on my own, dude am i regretamine'ing this
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Ketamin, your super cool friends who do Ketamin most weekends but ALWAYS complain about the comedowns etc afterwards but are complete and utter fucking idiots and do it again with the next day saying the same thing, doing the same thing, you guys get old and boring real fucking fast.
Stupid fucked up space cadet that will work a shit job for the rest of their lives: Im going to do Ketamin again tommorow.
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We have a fault line?!
DAY 3 OF THE FEMA-SPONSORED INTEGRATED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COURSE, Part 2
(Nicole Montesano/N-R Reporter) The magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Yamhill County at 9:45 in the morning, collapsing most of the buildings in downtown McMinnville.
By late afternoon one lane had been cleared, but the road remained closed to traffic, as search and rescue teams combed the rubble for survivors.
Public information officers repeatedly assured insistent media and frantic residents that shelter locations would be released as soon as possible, but said they could not do so until the buildings had been inspected for safety. Bridges were down on many highways.
Gas had been shut off in eastern Yamhill County, and residents were urged to shut off their gas mains. All communities were without potable water, pending inspections of the lines. McMinnville and Yamhill promised to truck water in from their reservoirs; other cities were seeking deliveries of bottled water.
The death toll was nearing 40 for the county; the numbers of injured were higher, and the number of missing still unknown.
County commissioners were considering a curfew, to stem looting.
"This is going to be awesome for Yamhill County," County Emergency Manager Doug McGillivray said with satisfaction, viewing the bustling emergency operations center.
There had been mistakes; someone forgot to call someone else, and the problem snowballed; the Red Cross wasn't getting notification of where the shelter locations would be, and so on. That's exactly the kind of thing the exercise was supposed to reveal, to help participants experience the frantic pace of coping with a massive emergency, in a controlled manner.
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Weight loss is a game, similar to solitaire. It's a game that you play by yourself. The sooner you realize that it's you and only you that's going to make the weight loss happen, the closer you've just gotten to your own weight loss success.
This doesn't exclude personal trainers and perhaps your very own diet guru. You can, and should, acquire all the positive support you need, but in the end one truth will hold: only you can lose the weight. No diet pills. No magic weight loss spells. No Hollywood 48-hour pineapple juice voodoo.
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Now once you've come to terms with this, you can get onto the activities you will need to begin--and stick with--to accomplish your weight loss goals.
Below I've included 3 absolute beginner must-dos, if you "really" want to lose weight.
WL Must #1: Exercise. It doesn't matter how much at first, just do it. Do it, and do it often. Begin and be consistent. Do something today. The faster you begin something, the better your chance of keeping with it. Don't delay.
WL Must #2: Adjust your eating "slightly." Do not... I repeat, do not attempt to completely alter your dieting habits. Too much of a change almost guarantees you will not stick with it.
You see this all the time with New Year's resolutions. People start out hardcore motivated for weight loss success, and then two weeks later (maybe sooner than that) they succumb to the gravity of their old weight "gaining" lifestyle.
They fall flat because they tried to do too much too soon.
WL Must #3: Treat weight loss as a priority. This is the opposite of "Must" number too. Don't pity-pat or half step your beginnings. There is a fine line you must walk at the very beginning of every weight loss program.
You've been out of the game for a while (maybe forever). You must step out of the weight loss gate with purpose, but also control. You must be able to measure your limitations and gradually increase your diet and exercise abilities over time.
Patience and balance will guarantee your weight loss success. Begin where you are, feel good about that, and then progress slowly over time. Do this and your weight loss success is only a few miles down the road.


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Freshman Erica Brierley has established rewarding connections with people on and off campus through her involvement with service through the S.O.U.L.S. Center for Community Engagement.
Brierley is the project leader for the weekly Oasis Monday Night Supper Club; where volunteers serve meals to those in need at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.
She not only enjoy helping to serve clients, but also finds even greater peace in getting to know each one personally.
"Some weeks it is an accomplishment to learn someone's name, and other weeks you hear an entire life story," says Brierley, who is majoring French and International Affairs. "I am definitely putting my comfort zone at risk by exposing myself to a group of people who are often looked down upon or feared by society."
She makes it a point to acknowledge each client as "sir" or "ma'am" and give each person the respect he or she deserves.
Brierley's service-related concerns are focused on the issues of poverty relief and human needs. When she's having a blue Monday, she finds that the best treatment is the Monday Night Supper Club.
"I look forward to seeing certain people's humor and personalities every week, and, walking home, I have a new appreciation for life and the human soul."
Erica, who was named a S.O.U.L.S. volunteer of the month earlier this semester, also volunteers in the weekly Prison Book Program and Project No One Leaves, a local coalition of advocates for families facing foreclosure. She traveled to Denver, Colorado, to work on a Habitat for Humanity home-building project through the University's Alternative Spring Break program.


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BMW's 4 Series coupe is inching closer to production, which means it was about time to see more prototypes of the hopped-up 2015 M4 coupe testing. Sure enough, we found the super-coupe testing on the Nurburgring.
The biggest clues to this BMW coupe being an M4 are as you'd expect: up front, the car shows off an aggressive front aero kit that goes beyond the modifications you'd expect from a car equipped with the M Sport package. The black wheels hide gold brake calipers, which signal BMW's carbon ceramic brakes, and the rear diffuser sits next to quad-exit exhaust pipes, long a hallmark of the BMW M3. There's no aggressive rear spoiler, but the camouflage on this car hides a lip spoiler neatly integrated into the trunklid.
Those gold-painted ceramic brakes are there for a good reason–the next M3 and M4 are going to be even faster than the current model. The next-gen model will ditch the natural aspiration and V-8 engine for a twin-turbo six-cylinder model (an I-6, not the rumored V-6) that will make about 450 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque — an increase of 36 horsepower and 106 pound-feet over the current engine.
BMW engineers will continue to make the M3/M4's roof panel out of carbon fiber, but we'll also see the stuff used on the hood and trunklid to keep weight low and the center of gravity as low as possible. Total weight loss for this new model is estimated to be 220 pounds; with the increase in power and decrease in weight, the M4 you see here should be able to sprint to 62 mph in 4.3 seconds, down from 4.6. Top speed will be limited to 155 mph as usual, but unrestricted cars could hit 180 mph before running out of puff.
We should see the final car this fall at the Los Angeles Auto Show, months before a summer 2014 release.
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Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® 11.5 Premium provides a whole new way to interact with your PC — using speech instead of a keyboard and mouse — to help you work faster and more efficiently. Dragon Premium turns ideas into text at the speed of thought so you can communicate more freely and naturally. Just say words and watch them appear on the computer screen — 3x faster than typing — with no typos! Tell your PC what to do and it obeys your commands.
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M.33 is one of only three British First World War warships to survive.
She saw action in the Mediterranean between 1915 and 1918, supporting troop landings and evacuations at Gallipoli in 1915. In 1919, she played a part in the Russian Civil War covering the withdrawal of Allied and White Russian troops. Following her return from Russia, she spent the rest of her active life in Portsmouth Harbour.
Today she is berthed near the new Mary Rose Museum and Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard. Her national and historical significance has been recognised and she features in the National Register of Historic Ships.
Hampshire County Council's Museums Service acquired her in 1990 to preserve her for the county and the nation and is currently working in partnership with the National Museum of the Royal Navy to complete her conservation and enable full public access.
A grant of £1.8 million was been awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to support this work with additional financial support coming from Hampshire County Council and fundraising by the National Museum of the Royal Navy. The vessel is well on the way to becoming another highly popular public attraction at Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard.
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