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Altus unveils "tree of life" mural
On Jan. 17, Altus Cancer Center unveiled a new 66-canvas mural displayed on the wall of the radiation treatment room at the facility in honor of the center's first birthday.
Cancer survivors and caregivers painted the mural during their October 2012 celebration "Leaving Your Mark on Cancer" held in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month. Members of Painting with a Twist joined the group to assist with the project. Each participant painted a portion of the mural using a canvas outlined by the Painting with a Twist staff in order to form a magnificent tree. Each canvas is unique with many artists adding elements like angels, hearts or pink breast cancer awareness ribbons to their portions of the mural. On some canvases, the artists chose to pay tribute to loved ones lost as a result of cancer.
Former Mayor Evelyn Lord, Altus' official spokesperson, welcomed those gathered at the celebration. She herself painted one of the 66 canvases making up the mural.
"That was a great deal of fun," Lord said. "We had a great painting party. I painted a part of the sky. It will be interesting to see how it turned out. It expresses the individuality of the people who contributed."
Gay-Lynne Jones, Registered Nurse and Regional Director of Cancer Services at Altus, said she believes the art will encourage patients of the treatment facility.
"For a long time I have wanted a mural on that wall," Jones commented. "Patients undergoing treatment will see this wall painted by survivors. I believe it will be inspirational to them and bring hope and healing. We want them to say, 'I too can beat this disease.'"
Cancer survivor Mary Williams addressed the crowd at the event.
"I was so proud to be a part of…painting the tree," Williams said. "We painted something that became the Altus tree of life."
An easel with photographs set up by Altus staff served as a memorial to participant Dorothy Blount, who painted one of the 66 pieces of the mural. Blount passed away about a month ago, but friends and Altus staff remember her well.
"There is always a beginning and an end to every journey," Jones said. "Dorothy was a very uplifting person. She was described the staff here as 'a ray of sunshine.' She will be missed."
Altus Cancer Center is located at 310 11th Street in Beaumont and provides treatment for cancer patients. In addition to providing care for their patients, Altus also serves the community with educational seminars for local businesses, schools, civic organizations and other groups to increase cancer awareness.


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Taliban Briefs Pakistan Over Talks
Taliban Briefs Pakistan Over Talks
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Three senior Taliban members traveled to Pakistan this week and held a series of meetings with Pakistani officials in Islamabad, mainly to brief them about the recent talks held in Qatar between the Taliban and Kabul, a senior Taliban official, an Afghan diplomat and a Pakistani official said Saturday.
The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, said he was aware of the meetings but refused to offer details. "We know about these recent meetings but we don't know what was discussed between the Taliban and Pakistani officials," he said.
According to a senior Taliban official, the Taliban who were sent to Pakistan were Mullah Salam Hanifi and Mullah Jan Mohammed, both former ministers in the Taliban government, and Maulvi Shahabuddin Dilawar, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
A senior Pakistani security official confirmed the latest meetings between the Taliban and Pakistani authorities, saying Islamabad is playing its role to ensure peace in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan has repeatedly said it will support any effort aimed at bring peace in Afghanistan.
"We will keep making efforts to facilitate talks between Kabul and the Taliban, as we did in July 2015, but the world knows who scuttled the peace process at the time and we do not want to discuss those bitter things," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to media on the record on the issue.
Pakistan arranged the first ever face-to-face talks between Kabul and the Taliban in 2015, but the peace process broke down after the Afghan government announced the death years earlier of the Taliban's one-eyed founder and leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
In the time since, a leadership struggle within the Taliban's ranks broke into the open and Omar's successor was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. The latest development came after Taliban and Afghan government officials held new secret talks in Qatar aimed at restarting peace negotiations to end the country's long war.
Pakistan was not involved in the talks and the Taliban said Pakistan was not aware of them until they were over.
Pakistan's foreign ministry said Thursday that Islamabad believes a four-country group comprising China, the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan and which was formed to help bring the Talban into dialogue with Kabul, is the best forum in which "Pakistan is ready to play its role." It said Pakistan would continue to back the "Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process."
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani, angered by a series of attacks in Kabul he blamed on Taliban living in Pakistan, said he no longer wanted Pakistan involved in negotiations.
The former head of the Taliban's Doha office, Muhammad Tayyab Agha, sent a letter sent this month to the Taliban's new leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, urging the movement leaders to leave Pakistan and break ties with Islamabad. The Afghan government and the United States have accused Pakistan of harboring the Taliban, including its fiercest faction, the Haqqani Network, blamed for some of the worst attacks, particularly in Kabul.
Agha's Pashtu language letter was given to Radio Free Europe's Pashtu-language Mashaal Radio on Thursday, after Akhundzada asked Agha to return to the Doha office.
In the letter, Aga said the Taliban leaving Pakistan would prevent Pakistan from interfering and would also benefit Pakistan, which is under increasing international pressure to help get the Taliban to the negotiating table and to force them out of Pakistan.
Agha's letter also urged the Taliban to drop reference to the Doha office as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and refer to the Taliban as a movement instead, bowing to one of the key demands of the Afghan government, which has refused to accept the Doha office as a government-in-exile.
Agha also said Akhundzada should drop the title Amir-ul-Momineen, or Leader of the Faithful, which had been adopted by Mullah Omar.
A major demand and one that would affect the Haqqani network was that the Taliban control "foreign fighters." He also wanted permission to devise a policy with consultations from not just religious leaders but also university professors and other elders. Another demand was to remove the Taliban's links to the Pakistani and Iranian intelligence agencies, a step likely to anger both countries. Agha also called for an end to attacks on mosques throughout the country.


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[Note: As a reminder, these are my notes. The opinions are generally of the presenter, unless specifically noted.]
Swami used to work at Cryptography Research and is now at a startup working on secure containers. A typical misconception is that SGX is a black box, but that's not true. Interrupting the processor can reveal information.
How to ensure that software runs on real hardware? The cloud provider can actually put it on a simulator. Two types of attacks - run simulation on general hardware or run simulator inside real hardware to man-in-the-middle. SGX protects against both of these attacks.
You need to make sure you're using real HSM hardware, which is hard as the cloud provider may not do that.
Looking at the common SGX Enclave Design
- Define a generic remote attestation scheme
- Arbitrarily compose different crypto schemes (generate keys, save to disk, generator CSR requests and create audit log)
- Define a workflow that combines first 2 steps
Example is vacuously broken. Attacker runs attestation correctly and runs rest of the protocol outside of the enclave. Allows attacker to simulate some sub-computations, commitment log of confidential data (eg sha256 of someone's birthdate), send confidential data over encrypted TLS and simulates states related to birthdate. Enclave is a single protocol sequentially composed of sub-protocols.
Imagine where the user wants to store their keys on disk. The problem here is SGX does not have an internal counter, so it needs to get it from outside source. The trusted way to do this is via the TPM, but you want to make sure nobody switches out the motherboard and reset the counter. Sounds good? But this scheme is still insecure. The enclave doesn't have a way to control how many instances of the enclave exist. Attacker runs the same enclave concurrently and feeds the same tpm_cntr and tpm_sig to both instances. Concurrent composition not limited to running the same operation. SGX has no built-in replay protections. Launch enclave cannot limit concurrency, EINITOKEN is a long-term credential and the whitelist is ineffective.
The damage is not limited to that piece of data but anything that depends on that data. You're not just effecting one node, you might be impacting multiple notes.
Another issue is state malleability and knowledge extractors. SGX enclave is nota black box, as adversary can force the enclave to exit at arbitrary execution point via AEX and then control what happens after AEX. Global enclave state is malleable! Partial rewinding effect possible, since SGX allows multiple threads within the same enclave, interrupt one-thread at appropriate point and ecall other threads. Careful wit interactive proof-of-knowledge protocols, as they require just two responses per commitment to reveal the secret.
Now onto other issues...
Group signatures allow members to anonymously sign messages on behalf of the group with a single group public-key (unique private key per member). Group manager decides who can join the group and grants credentials to each member. Security goals are full anonymity and member revocation. Can use EPID for anonymity, blind join and member revocation.
EPID signatures have two distinct components: basic signature and non-revoked signature proof. Basic signature is based on BBS+. In addition to basic signature, each signature also contains a lot of math that is hard to capture on a blog. EPID doesn't have full anonymity if you revoke a key.
Each platform given a provisioning ID (PPID), which is known by the CPU and Intel, so there can be no anonymity of join (though it also doesn't claim). The researcher believes there is an online database, maintained by Intel, online of all of these highly sensitive IDs that would be an attractive target for attackers.
Enclave creates local attestation for quoting enclave (QE) and optionally requests QE to generate local attestation for for quote for anclave. QE creates encrypted EPID signature and the enclave validates QE's lcoal attestation on encrypted quote. The enclave sends encrypted quote to Service Provider (SP), SP cannot validate the quote itself even if it has access to group public key.
Provisioning enclave and quoting enclaves are securely implemented, but lots of bike shedding crypto. It is secure against sequential, concurrent and state malleability. There is no privacy in spite of group signatures. Remote attestation quotes are encrypted and can only be validated by Intel, which destroys privacy and could be abused by MitM (Intel?)


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Randell Johnson and Robert Jensen smiled as city staff snapped their pictures this morning, making them the first couple to receive domestic registry cards.
After 21 years together, Johnson and Jensen are guaranteed rights, including hospital and jail visitations, health care and funeral decisions and emergency notification in Sarasota.
They were one of four couples who filed into the City Hall annex in the first half-hour of the domestic registry kick off at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Seven volunteers manned registration stations and applauded those signing up.
Sarasota is the 10th city in Florida to establish a registry, former city commissioner Ken Shelin said. Shelin's name was the first one on the registry list, though his partner was not able to come to City Hall to sign until later.
He proposed the registry to commissioners in May, who lauded the idea from its origin and agreed Monday night to begin registration Tuesday.
The newly passed ordinance establishing the registry says 12 percent of Americans identified as a member of a domestic partnership in the 2010 census.
"This adds to my pride in my city," Mayor Suzanne Atwell said at a commission meeting last month. She said passing the registry supports an inclusive community.
To register, both partners must show up at City Hall and meet certain requirements, such as living together.
After showing identification, filling out an affidavit and paying and a $30 fee, the partners have their information recorded with the city and notarized with the auditor and clerks office. They receive identification cards and will get a certification in the mail.
For Johnson and Jensen, the registration is a guarantee of legal rights for longtime partners, gay or straight.
"A lot of people think this is a LGBT issue. It's not, it's a civil rights issue," Johnson said.
Bob Baker agreed. He turned out early with his partner of 45 years, John Beatty, because they wanted to show "immediate support" for the city's decision.
They were married in Vancouver, Canada, but that does not give Beatty and Baker marriage rights here. The domestic registry is a major step for Sarasota, Baker said.
"Perhaps in our lifetime we'll see the same progressive approach for all the cities in this country," he said.
Venice officials have asked for a copy of the city's registry forms and at least one Sarasota county commissioner is considering implementing a county-wide registry, Shelin said.
Some of the couples who registered this morning were county residents but got the cards to use them at hospitals inside city limits or in case one of the partners gets in a crash in Sarasota.
Domestic partners can register at City Hall on Tuesdays through Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Couples make partnerships official in city
Randell Johnson and Robert Jensen smiled as city staff snapped their pictures this morning, making them the first couple to receive domestic registry cards.


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MSHA focuses spotlight on rib control in light of recent coal mining fatalities
Top risk factors are mining height and depth of cover
ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that the focus of this year's Preventive Roof/Rib Outreach Program is on improved mine rib control. In 2010, there were three rib fall fatalities and two roof falls that killed three miners. In addition, two miners have died so far this year as a result of underground rib failures.
"While recent trends have shown a decline in roof fall fatalities, the incidence of rib fall deaths has remained nearly constant," said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health. "Furthermore, approximately 100 miners are injured by rib falls every year, due in large part to the rise in mining heights underground."
Roof control in underground mines involves securing the top as well as the sides of travel ways, or walls, which are referred to as "ribs" in underground mines. A detailed study of 22 of the 24 rib fall fatalities that have occurred since 1995 indicates that the two greatest risk factors are mining height and depth of cover. Today, many mines are located in coal reserves that previously were avoided due to poor roof conditions. These mines frequently are deeper and may have abandoned mines above and/or below them, which often exert additional stress on the roof and ribs.
Other risk factors include multiple seam interactions, rock partings in the seam and retreat mining. Joints or slickenside (smooth-surfaced) geologic features that dismember the rib increase risk. Approximately three-quarters of rib fatality victims since 1995 were roof bolting and continuous mining machine operators.
"Over the past few decades, improvements in roof control technology such as new bolting systems, automated temporary roof support systems, use of cabs and canopies, and mobile roof supports have led to a significant reduction in roof/rib fall fatalities," said Main. "Through PROP, we hope to increase mine operators' awareness about the hazards and precautions necessary to prevent such accidents."
"Coal Mine Rib Control for Mine Operators," a recently developed MSHA brochure, points out key trends in recent roof and rib accidents, and provides safety advice and tips for mine operators to consider in maintaining proper roof and rib control. Inspectors will deliver this publication and other educational materials to underground mines, and mine operators will receive an alert on the hazards and actions needed to prevent accidents.
Last month, MSHA kicked off its 2011 PROP effort with a roof control seminar at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy near Beckley, W.Va. Participants received information on rib failure issues, as well as important reminders concerning the effects of hotter weather and humidity, which increase chances of roof fall accidents. In April, the agency issued a program information bulletin discussing conditions that contribute to rib fall hazards and suggested methods for protecting miners from such falls.
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It's always difficult to show good results for general terms, that's why search engines suggest refinements to precisely define what you want to find. Yahoo displays them both at the top and at the bottom of the page, while Ask has an entire sidebar for search suggestions. Clusty aggregates results from other search engines and clusters them dynamically.
Google was more conservative and placed the related searches at the bottom of the page and sometimes in the middle of the page as an "inline revision", but now it started to show the queries at the top of the page. Usually the related searches add one or two words that disambiguate the query. They're also useful as a guidance if you don't know too much about a certain domain and you want to explore it.
From all the search engines, Ask.com is the most courageous because it offers a wide variety of suggestions while typing your query, so it can drastically improve the quality of your search query. In many cases, all you need to obtain great search results is a well-chosen query and these suggestions, obtained from other users that manually refine the queries, are helpful.
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Oh, Denver, you had us at hello…
Denver Dalley, Statistics *for the sake of his post-Desaparecidos* solo project, couldn't sound more lovelorn if a soulmate he'd never met tore his heart out from behind, snapping his spine like a brittle twig whilst sighing a final despairing curse at the powers that could give pleasure, yet instead steal remorselessly from those deserving emotional fulfilment.
Every line finishes with his lungs utterly emptied, and however simplistic his rhymes sometimes become, not once do they slip from their perch of utmost sincerity. This is how the woes of the heart should manifest themselves musically; so-called soul-on-sleeve troubadours, take note: this is nourishing pop music at its most immediate best.
That hello happened when debut album Leave Your Name stretched its weary body up from the indie undergrowth and into the critical glare of a thousand expectant eyes and ears. Its pulses of static-soaked electronica and delicately strummed guitars were an instantaneous delight, but longevity was dampened by anticipation for another Desa' record that never appeared. Often Lie is the compromise: a record that is both an echo of work past and that bears the compositional strengths common in the work of multi-personality outfits. The likes of 'Final Broadcast' and 'No Promises' trump the recent work of emo heavyweights Jimmy Eat World with ease, chunky guitars battering the hatches of slight lyrical musings. When the hush drifts in like coastline clouds from the endless ocean, its effect is absolute – the listener is instantaneously relaxed, senses open and exposed to confessional tones and the obvious ache of a man lost without a loving guide.
Only the closing instrumental, '10.22', feels surplus to requirements on here, on an album that ticks all the necessary boxes in only 31 minutes, and in 'A Foreword' Dalley has that wonderful ace up his sleeve: a potential crossover that's both lyrically fragile and mightily rocking. It's The Foo Fighters that exist in your in your head – how they should sound in their maturity without resorting to dull duets with coffee table pianists.
The tracks that revisit laptop territory, such as the metal-on-metal crackle and pulse of 'By(e) Now', have uploaded a spark of humanity unheard since 'Cure Me' from Statistics' self-titled debut EP, and the aforementioned highlights are as fully-fleshed as anything a conventional band like this could offer. Often Lie is the sole pop-cum-indie-cum-emo record that's worth investment this summer; overlook Death Cab's limp return and say hello to your latest headphone buddy.
After repeated exposures goodbye has become a substantially harder word to whisper.
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In the Good Ole Days
When it comes to talking about Mopar's racing heritage, it is virtually impossible to not include the Chrysler Hemi in one form or another. The versions built in the '50s proved their worth on the speedways rather quickly as competitors built them for racing, but in 1964, the factory unleashed the engine that would make Mopars the most feared machines on either the street or track. Bred primarily as racehorses, the 426 Hemis built from 1964 to 1971 became the stuff of legend. So, to celebrate that, we will let some prime movers and shakers of the performance era tell tales about their involvement with Detroit's finest.
392 vs. 426
Due to my close relationship with Chrysler, I was well aware of the development work on the new 426 Hemi long before it was public knowledge. Prior to the release of the engine, Chrysler sent me five complete crated Hemis. Swamp Rat VIII was the first 426 car we ran, and Connie Swingle was driving for me at the time. We struggled for two years with the 426 and couldn't get out of the 8-second zone at 192 mph. Conversely, people who were running the old 392 were in the mid-7s at 214 by now. We weren't the only ones having the problem; the Ramchargers, and just about everyone else, were locked in the 8s struggling with the 426. With the 392, you ran 34 degrees of timing; 35 degrees would burn a cylinder, so we were running the 426 at 34 degrees, just like the 392.
In 1966, we were racing at National Trail Raceway near Columbus, Ohio, and could only run 190 mph. On our way to the next race at Rockford, Illinois, I made up my mind to run the engine at 40 degrees, blow it up, and put a 392 back into the car. At 40 degrees, the car went 7.55 at 214. I figured I'd go to 50 degrees and grenade it for sure;it went 7.40 at 219! We had found that the secret to the 426 was fuel volume and lots of spark advance. With the stock Chrysler aluminum heads, we went 6.77 at 222 mph; with worked heads, a Keith Black 3/8-inch stroker crank and 30 percent blower drive, we could run 6.15 at 243. We were showing 1,600-1,700 hp and turning the motor in excess of 8,000 rpm, and we were still using the stock block, exhaust valves, and rocker arms and shafts.
;Don Garlits, abridged from Mopar Muscle, Vol. 1, No. 2
The Riot of '65
We went to the Super Stock Magazine Nationals in York, Pennsylvania, that summer with the Golden Commandos altered-wheelbase car. It was a fabulous race. Everyone who was anyone was there, and if you weren't anyone, forget it. By then, the cars were really, really radical, and we were wearing a lot of safety equipment and burning nitromethane. That day, I raced in an Unlimited Class they had developed. Hour after hour it went on.
Jon Lundburg was announcing, and he knew how to work the crowd. There were thousands upon thousands of people there that night. I remember they were letting people in for free by the time it got dark and you couldn't move in the place. Nobody was manning the gates. We had won some money earlier in the night and I went to go collect it; they had put all the cash in this shed. Baskets full of it. It was literally falling out.
It was an unbelievable sight. People were on the track and the cars were rushing down between them. I thought for certain that somebody was going to get killed. There was no place to sit, and moreover, the cars were wheelstanding. In the darkness, people down the track had turned on their headlights so we could keep racing.
More than anything else, though, I just remember the feeling of winning. Round after round, we were killing them. You would have to back up to the starting line and these people were right there, almost on top of the car. You would rev the motor and they would part just a little and then, as the car launched, all you could see was darkness. That was because the car was going up and you were looking at the stars. I had never pulled wheelstands that high before, and the first time I wasn't sure what had even happened when everything disappeared. Then it would come down and the people would be opening up and the car next to you was running as hard as you were and you would pull away and win. It was great.
In the final, it seemed like 4:00 in the morning, I was up against Dick Landy. Landy was a very pleasant man. He always had this cigar but I don't recall him ever lighting it up; that was his trademark. He was from California and his Dodge was one of the toughest in the country. It had been guys like him, along with Mickey Thompson and Hayden Proffitt, who had put stock car drag racing on the map out there.
Right then, Jon Lundburg was trying to control the crowd, which was surging out onto the track. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it was something to the effect of, "If you don't get off the track, somebody ought to throw a Coke bottle at you." It wasn't meant to be incendiary, and he was just try to warn them that they were out of line being that close, but you can imagine what happened next. This hailstorm of Coke and beer bottles came roaring out of the stands, people were getting hit right and left. Luckily, I don't think anyone was badly hurt, but it made the whole thing seem even more out of control than it already was.
They got it cleaned up, and I raced Landy and won that night. We talked about it years later at a display at a Chrysler show in New Jersey, and I don't know if he ever got over me beating him at that race. It doesn't matter. We were the best two cars in the country that night, and nobody can ever take that away from either of us. It was my last big drag race win; I retired at the end of the season.
;Al "The Lawman" Eckstrand, from an unpublished interview with Geoff Stunkard
The End of the 409
We did well with the Chevrolets and didn't pay much attention to Chryslers until one day this hillbilly from Tennessee came up with a new Hemi car in 1964. My dad was standing there, and the guy fired it up. My dad heard it, came over to me and said, "Boy, you going to have sell all this 409 stuff, 'cause we ain't gonna outrun nobody."
;Super Stock racer and SS/A record holder Bob Reed
How Arlen Vanke Spoiled Grumpy's Day
It was the summer of 1969 and we were having a ball racing my original '63 Dodge 426 Max Wedge "Drag'n Wag'n." My friend Arlen Vanke had originally built the engine and was involved in every step of preparing it, and from the onset, that Dodge was an outstanding race car, capable of running under the national record whenever and wherever it needed to.
Since we raced off of the national record, it was important then to be able to run quicker than it; there was no index. Meanwhile, Arlen was running rampant over the other NHRA Super Stock cars in Division 3 in his manually-shifted SS/B Hemi Barracuda; the car could clock 10.20s-10.30s on the 10.64 record, and he and Ronnie Sox were winning many of the national events.
Unfortunately, with the NHRA World Finals only a few months away in Amarillo, Texas, things were not going so great for the guys at Chrysler's Performance Product Planning. What had happened was that Chevrolet had just succeeded in persuading NHRA to approve the new ZL1 Camaro for Super Stock C stick. These were lightweight Camaros with high-compression, mechanical-cammed 427 motors, decked out with aluminum parts. To be legal, they had to make 50 of them, but many people felt GM reached that number using mirrors. What really compounded the problem was that Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins and Dave Strickler quickly got the ZL1s dialed in to where they could run 10.90s on the soft SS/C 11.31 record. Now, you may not like the Grump because of his affiliation with the Bow Tie brand, but he was truly way ahead of everyone else when it came to Chevrolet engines, and was absolutely brilliant when it came to setting up a drag car. Strickler, with an uncanny sense on the tree, was recognized as a great driver; put him in a car with black Jenkins Competition arrows on the rear quarters, and he was awesome. Running off that soft class record, they would be a real problem to beat.
So Arlen got a call from Dick Maxwell at Chrysler Performance Product Planning. Can Arlen find a '65 A990 car to build into an SS/C machine? Sure. Oh, and by the way, can you have it done in the next couple weeks to run at the NHRA points meet at National Trail Raceway? You see, at the time, you could only set a record during NHRA-authorized record runs at events, and that new record would be the subsequent class index. If you were more than a tenth of a second under your class record during eliminations, you automatically lost. The only time this rule was waived was if you went to the final round; in that case, you ran whatever you could, and that number could count as a new record if applicable. Arlen assured Dick that, yes, he could get this done and would be at National Trail Raceway (current site of the Mopar Nationals) to set the SS/C mark low enough that the ZL1 would not be a problem. Arlen told Maxwell, "Start shipping parts, I'll find a car."
With only a couple of weeks to do it, Arlen ended up getting the Golden Commandos old back-up car, an A990-code Plymouth. But since it had never been used as a race car, it needed extra preparation time for a tach, electric fuel pumps, and wheelwell reworking, among other things, plus the manual transmission. Time was the one thing Arlen didn't have, but a lot of people, to a small extent myself included, got busy helping him make it happen, while he put together an engine, transmission, and rear end himself. As the event drew near, we knew we would get it done, but it was going to be close.
Saturday morning at the National Trail event featured tech, time trials, and record runs, with Sunday reserved for eliminations. Needless to say, Arlen got in late; that big fresh Hemi hadn't even been fired yet. The car was unloaded, he set the timing and drove it for the first time ever, taking it to get teched in. It passed without problems, and since it was new, Arlen had a couple of friends drive it around in the pits to get some time on the engine and driveline.
Now, everyone at the track figured something was going on. "Akron Arlen" Vanke had one of the strongest Hemi Barracudas in the country, and he showed up at a major event like this with a '65 car? The rumors were rampant, but, as we all eventually realized, there are no real secrets in drag racing. Somebody had let the cat out of the bag, and, lo and behold, who came through the gate as a spectator but none other than Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins himself! (Remember, I told you he was smart.)
So, with some pit time in on the engine, Arlen pulled into the staging lanes, but instead of making a time trial, he pulled into the lane for record runs. When he got to the front of the line, it seemed like everything at the track stopped. There was no water box then, so Arlen did a series of dry hops to warm the tires. The car sounded threatening; he would wing the motor, dump the clutch, and have it stopped in a couple of feet. Staged for the run, the five-count tree came down, Arlen matted the gas, and I swear you could hear that Super Stock Hemi five miles away. WHAM. At the flick of green, he let the clutch fly and the car began what would surely be one of the quickest runs ever for an A990 car. But it was not to be; moments later, the car wouldn't shift into Second gear, the rpm fell, and Arlen coasted through the traps. I figured the worst had happened, that something must have broken. I knew Arlen would not be happy, and I knew that Grump would be smiling. However, an inspection revealed that the number 7 header pipe had interfered with the clutch linkage. As quickly as possible, Arlen got the header off, flattened that tube with a hammer, and prepared for another try at the number.
Once back in line for his second attempt, the whole place knew that C record was going down, and going down hard. Man, I knew it;I was grinning from ear to ear;the Grump was history. As the Belvedere came to the line, everyone was standing, and at the last yellow, Arlen's foot came off the clutch pedal and the monster was loose. This time, a smooth shift to Second. This was it! He was on one! Then nothing; the front end dropped down, the car wouldn't shift into Third, and it was over. By now, the day was late, and the opportunity was past. Something more serious had happened, and there would not be another chance to set the record. I didn't even want to go to his pit; Arlen had to be hurting. What could I say? What could anybody say at that point? Arlen had told Maxwell that he could do this, made every human effort to make it happen, and had failed. The Grump, probably now wearing the grin I had had only moments earlier, left for Pennsylvania, knowing his record was intact. Or was it?
Sunday dawned a little overcast, but was a perfect fall race day. Overnight, Arlen had returned to his shop in Akron, pulled the transmission, and repaired the blocker ring that had caused the Third-gear problem. He worked most of the night, got very little sleep, and then returned to the track for the race. Record runs were over, but perhaps we could still salvage some round wins with the new car.
Up against a full field of Super Stock entries, I was able to see Arlen win the first round with an 11.50 on the 11.31 index. That monster Hemi growled on every run, caught up with its opponents and then inched ahead at the finish. But, as I watched, I noticed Arlen never extended the car, running just good enough to win without going under the record. By now, a lot of onlookers figured that Arlen had built a good 11.30-11.40 machine, nothing less and nothing more. Then, in the late afternoon, there were only two cars left in the Super Stock: Dewey Cook in a similar '65 A990 Hemi car, and Arlen.
At that moment, everyone suddenly realized that if Vanke indeed had a record-setting car, he could do it right then. His failures yesterday had all been mechanical; this car had never been run flat out. So when they called the final for Super Stock, you could feel the excitement in the air. The two big Hemi cars were fired and ready, carefully staging for the money run. Arlen's car had a sound all its own. At the final yellow, Arlen dumped the clutch, and, by the green, the monster jumped out of the gate. We were on our way! Bang! Second gear came quickly and the car was moving. Oh, man, let him get Third this time. Got it! Cook was dropping back;he must have been having problems. In Fourth gear, Vanke's Hemi was roaring as it hit the traps. His win light came on and pandemonium broke loose. There were no scoreboards in this era, and we waited to hear announcer Clark Rader's voice through the speakers.
"Arlen Vanke wins and resets the national record to10.64!"Seven tenths of a second! The record was hammered! Of course, at the time-card shack, NHRA officials were waiting as Arlen came down from the top end and he was escorted to the scales. No problem; the car was legal by a solid 20 pounds. Next came teardown to ensure that, indeed, no funny business was going on, and like Arlen's other cars, it passed with flying colors.
I was with Arlen when he won Indy, and I had been there for some of his other wins, but this fall points race was the proudest day he ever had. While it was good to win the race and good to set the record, I will always believe that to Arlen, the most important thing was that he had done what he had promised Maxwell and lived up to his word. As for Grump, well, Sox would win the '69 World Finals. That afternoon was one of the sport's finest hours in my mind, and I am fortunate to say, "I was there."
;Dave Duell, longtime Mopar Sportsman drag racer, in a story done for this feature.


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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas coach Bret Bielema has spent nine months molding his new team to fit his personality, preaching a physical brand of football where games are won by success in the trenches.
So it was almost fitting offensive coordinator Jim Chaney opened the Bielema era by calling seven straight run plays Saturday. Even better: The Razorbacks smash mouth plan worked to perfection, leading to a touchdown pass that got Arkansas off and rolling to a 34-14 win against Louisiana-Lafayette at Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
"The feeling, you can't really describe it," Arkansas center Travis Swanson said. "We've waited so long. To finally get out there and display it and to see it …
"It's just a sigh of relief almost."
Almost everything went right during a feel-good opener in front of an announced crowd of 69,801. Arkansas showed off its balance, a powerful ground game and big-play potential on offense en route to 522 yards Saturday. The defense endured some early struggles, but adjusted, put pressure on quarterback Terrance Broadway throughout the second half and forced two turnovers.
It all led to a 20-point win in a game that had been projected as an intriguing opener because of the Ragin' Cajuns' success in 2012. But Arkansas never trailed, extending ULL's winless streak against Southeastern Conference opponents to 37 games.
The success also pushed Arkansas to 1-0, matching Bielema's mantra of winning every snap, every play, every moment in every day.
"I can't say enough about not just what our guys did (Saturday), but I think their preparation," Bielema said about the past nine months. "When you've got a new staff, so many new faces, the way they handled game week, the way they've handled themselves really … It didn't shock me, but I didn't know until today got here."
Any questions Bielema had seemed to be answered with that first drive, which started with 14- and 13-yard runs by sophomore running back Jonathan Williams. Arkansas also got 21 yards on consecutive runs by freshman Alex Collins and moved to ULL's 18-yard line before quarterback Brandon Allen attempted his first pass.
The ground-and-pound approach helped set up the touchdown on Allen's third attempt, which was a play-action pass to receiver Javontee Herndon. The senior was all by himself in the end zone to haul in a 6-yard score that made it 7-0.
"When I heard the play call, I was like, 'Please throw me the ball,'" Herndon said.
"We've been practicing that play a lot. That's a good play we like to run in the red zone and it worked for us."
It went that way most of the day for the Arkansas offense, which unveiled a one-two punch in the backfield that the Razorbacks haven't seen since the days of Darren McFadden and Felix Jones. Williams shook off a second-quarter shoulder stinger to rush for 151 yards on 18 carries, including a 75-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter to cap the scoring.
Collins was nearly his equal, gaining 131 yards on 21 carries.
Williams and Collins became the first Arkansas duo to top the 100-yard mark in the same game since McFadden and Jones in 2007. Collins also was the first Arkansas true freshman to run for more than 100 yards in his debut since Jones in 2005.
"That's what Coach Bielema talks about all the time," Williams said. "Enjoy pounding the ball and enjoy being physical and we did that (Saturday)."
But the Razorbacks showed they had no plans of simply being a ground-and-pound team against Louisiana-Lafayette with Allen under center.
The sophomore, who had struggled the last time Arkansas fans saw him in a game, enjoyed a fantastic debut in the new offense. He completed 15-of-22 passes for 230 yards with three touchdowns, helping the Hogs balance out their attack.
Allen connected with Herndon for Arkansas' first two touchdowns. The second came after ULL had tied the game on Alonzo Harris' 2-yard touchdown run. Allen led Arkansas on a 75-yard drive, which was capped by Herndon's 49-yard, one-handed touchdown catch on another play-action pass.
"We hit them with a run, and then we hit them with a run again," Collins said. "So they're expecting a run again, and then we hit them over the top with a pass and it's a big gain down the field. So I like how our progression is."
It was as close as ULL — which came to Fayetteville with confidence after last year's near upset at Florida — got to the Razorbacks. Kicker Zach Hocker, who was battling a groin injury, made two field goals in the second quarter — the second coming after a well-executed two-minute drive — to give Arkansas a 20-7 halftime lead.
Bielema called it the point "where I knew I had what I thought I had."
"That was really, really big," Bielema said. "I thought we were playing beyond the game there. Setting up some things down the road."
Arkansas' defense made sure ULL never got back in the game during the second half.
The Razorbacks struggled to put pressure on Broadway, a talented dual-threat quarterback who figured to pose problems for the Hogs, in the first half. But Arkansas made halftime adjustments and the difference was evident.
ULL's total yardage Saturday (274) was well below its 2012 production (455.3). The Razorbacks also collected four sacks. Junior Trey Flowers led the way with two.
Flowers also hit Broadway to force a fumble in the third quarter, which the Razorbacks turned into their first touchdown of the second half. The turnover came two plays after Arkansas tight end Hunter Henry lost a fumble near midfield.
"We just talk to our kids all the time," Bielema said. "On defense, they just say just put the ball down. No matter what the situation is. We've got to respond."
Arkansas turned it into a touchdown six plays later, when Kiero Small caught a pass near the sideline, stayed inbounds, then bulled through two defenders to the end zone for a 10-yard score. It gave the Razorbacks a 27-7 lead.
"That was probably the breaking point right there," Louisiana-Lafayette coach Mark Hudspeth said. "If we could have capitalized on that turnover, our defense had been getting better. They had finally settled down, gotten a stop or two, then caused the turnover and gave us the ball at midfield. If we could've went down and scored, it could've been a little more interesting. Just hate that we gave it right back to them.
"Those two ends they've got are pretty good. They're hard to handle."
Arkansas turned the game over to its offensive line and running backs the rest of the way. It was a scoreless fourth quarter, but one Bielema enjoyed as his team protected a 20-point lead by wearing down the Ragin' Cajuns.
Arkansas never topped the 200-yard rushing mark in 2012, but finished with 292 in its debut under Bielema on Saturday. It was the first time the Razorbacks had more than 200 rushing yards since piling up 254 against Tennessee on Nov. 12, 2011.
Hudspeth said his team had referred to Williams and Collins as thunder and lightning as it prepared for Arkansas throughout camp. They didn't disappoint.
"You've got to give Arkansas credit," Hudspeth said. "They run it right at you. They make you tackle them. And they're strong and physical. That's what they do.
"They've got a really good football team. Coach has done a great job with them."
Arkansas believes it's just scratching the surface of what it's capable of as well.
Allen said everyone in the locker room is buying into the fact "we're not going to back down from anyone." Everyone knows there are bigger challenges ahead over the next three months, including the daunting stretch of Texas A&M, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina in consecutive weeks.
But Saturday's debut showed Arkansas that Bielema's way can lead to success.
"I think we laid a good foundation," Swanson said.


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Welcome to the FCEA
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The FCEA was founded and registered in 1982 in anticipation of:
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CC restores order as Yanks blank Tigers
Lefty's seven scoreless boost scuffling staff; Nix, Cervelli lead support
DETROIT -- They never schedule elimination games in the first week of April, as CC Sabathia dutifully reminded a questioning voice in the visiting clubhouse at Comerica Park, but there are always important ones that teams need to win.
In a contest that didn't feel as lopsided as the score indicated, Sabathia permitted just four hits and did not allow a runner to touch third base over seven scoreless innings, leading the Yankees to a 7-0 victory over the Tigers on Sunday.
"I think you always want to try to avoid a sweep, finish a series well and play well," Sabathia said. "It was good to get a win today. That's an unbelievable lineup. We definitely worked harder than the final number indicates."
Jayson Nix slugged a two-run homer and Francisco Cervelli drove in two runs as the Yankees touched up Justin Verlander, picking up their second victory of the young campaign and completing their only regular-season trip to the Motor City this season.
"The only must-win you need is when you can be eliminated," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "But wins are important, there's no doubt about it. Wins in April are extremely important, just like May, June and the rest of the year. It feels good to win a game, and hopefully we can carry it over into tomorrow."
Sabathia is known for a history of slow starts in April, and he did not appear dominant on Opening Day, sparking some concerns about his velocity. He may still be building to midseason form, sitting mostly 88-91 mph on Sunday, but showed good command of his fastball and changeup in a 114-pitch performance.
"Today almost seemed like a little bit of a blah," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I don't know exactly why. I think the biggest key was Sabathia. He pitched really good. He threw other stuff in fastball counts, made good pitches, 3-2 changeups, backdoor breaking balls. He pitched really good."
Sabathia walked three and struck out four in the start. He pumped his fist and let out a roar after striking out Austin Jackson to end the seventh, a sequence that ended his afternoon, but said that his outburst was not one of celebration.
"I was really upset with myself," Sabathia said. "It's the seventh inning, we have a 3-0 lead and I went 3-2 with every hitter. I was just upset with myself for not making better pitches and maybe being able to go back out for the eighth."
Verlander entered the eighth inning but never appeared razor-sharp in his second start of the season. The Yankees touched him only in the second inning, when they scored three runs.
Cervelli doubled home Ichiro Suzuki with a well-struck blast to left-center field to put the Yankees on the board, and Nix barreled a changeup for a two-out blast -- his first home run of the season -- clearing the wall in left field.
"It's great. It feels really good," Nix said. "I haven't had a whole lot of success off him. He is who he is, you know? But every time you play, you always have a plan and a way you think you can have some success, and we were able to do that today."
Girardi said that he was pleased with the at-bats he saw all day from Nix, who finished 3-for-4.
"We've talked about, everyone needs to pitch in around here," Girardi said. "And that's what he's doing."
Verlander completed 7 1/3 innings, scattering seven hits, walking two and striking out four in a 111-pitch outing, before yielding to left-hander Phil Coke. Verlander said that even with a depleted lineup, the Yanks provided a tough challenge.
"I don't care who they got missing, that's the Yankees," Verlander said. "They have a winning mentality about them and they're going to find a way to win this year. You don't ever take anything for granted. As you saw, it was the bottom of the lineup that did the damage."
New York extended the lead in the eighth off Coke as Ichiro lifted a deep sacrifice fly to right field and Cervelli banged a run-scoring single to center field.
Kevin Youkilis ripped a two-run single off Octavio Dotel in the ninth to increase the lead to seven runs, and Mariano Rivera pitched the ninth inning in a non-save situation.
"CC came back and gave us seven strong innings," Rivera said. "It was real good, and we did the rest. At the same time, we needed to win today."
As the Yankees dressed for their flight to Cleveland, Cervelli said that he sees reasons to believe that the Yankees' fortunes are about to improve.
"We need days like that," Cervelli said. "When they can pitch like that, I know everybody can support the guys -- like Andy [Pettitte] the other day, CC right now. I believe this next week, everything is going to change."


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Facebook Date Used as Getaway Driver in Robbery
We've all been on bad dates, am I right? Like, when you're out with a guy and he says he needs to go to the betting parlor before dinner? Talk about a bad date! And then he runs out of the shop holding a knife in a sack of cash screaming "DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE!"?
That's the kind of bad date poor Leah Gibbs, 23, of South Wales, apparently went on:
At the start of the date, Adam Minton, 21, asked Ms Gibbs to drive him to a nearby betting shop (always a good sign) and she agreed to wait in the car outside.
Minutes later he ran out of the Ladbrokes, in Rhondda, South Wales, with a knife in one hand and a bag full of money in the other. Once in the car, he screamed: "Drive, drive, drive."
And she did! Back to his house, apparently, where both were arrested by the police. Minton eventually confessed that he'd acted alone, saying that he was in debt from a cocaine addiction, and was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Gibbs should have known better, though—Minton originally asked her out on Facebook, which is, all things considered, worse than armed robbery.


text: First off, JaVale looks about 13 here. But he was 18, according to J-Mac himself when he posted the photo to his Instagram yesterday (throwback Thursday!). He was either about to start college, or was already Nevada's starting center. A little too old (and recent—just seven years ago) to be living the thug life by crumpling up some tin foil and wearing it in his grill. It's also the only bling that physically hurts to bite down on. But that's just JaVale.


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Appendix A: District Profiles
Cambridge Public School District
|District Demographics
|Enrollment Trend
|Number of Schools
|Population Type
|Mid-size central city
|Subsidized Meals
|English Learners
|Special Needs
In Massachusetts, certainly, and in much of the country,if you say "Cambridge," the automatic association is "Harvard." For some, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Radcliffe will also come to mind. This image of ivy walls, privilege, and academic achievement does not carry over to the city's one high school and 12 K-8 schools, however. Instead, the Cambridge Public School District serves a bifurcated student population, half affluent and half impoverished. While many students have family ties to the academic core of the community or live in private homes with an average value of over a million dollars, many others qualify for subsidized meals, live in public housing projects, or are homeless.
Although district administrators concede that the local housing pattern has largely eliminated the middle class, diversity has been actively sought in Cambridge schools since 1980, when the district voluntarily instituted school choice. Currently, the district's struggle is to maximize options that encourage students to stay in the district and to excel. Cambridge faces fierce competition for its students from private schools, a growing number of independent charter schools, and Catholic high schools.
A controlled choice plan was implemented in 1980 to create racial diversity in all of the district's schools. The plan worked to an extent, but all children were not receiving the same educational experience. Therefore, the district reviewed the plan in 2000 by asking a cross-functional team that included the superintendent to examine education research, relevant case law, and data from the district. The purpose of the study was to determine:
- the effectiveness of the strategies used to recruit students to various schools,
- which schools were overchosen and which were underchosen, and
- why a school was consistently underchosen.
The team recommended that the district try to eliminate the high concentrations of poverty in specific schools through changes in the controlled choice plan. Beginning with the 2002-03 school year, Cambridge enhanced its strategies to recruit students to schools, implemented improvement processes for the schools that were not meeting student achievement goals or drawing diverse student populations, and instituted socioeconomic status as a factor in assigning students to schools.
The district is working to improve its communication with parents about optimal school placements. For example, the district is increasing the role of its Family Resource Center, which, in addition to referring families to a wide range of social services, helps with school registration, logistics, counseling, after-school placements, and transition programs for students needing extra academic support.
The district also sponsors an annual kindergarten tour, encouraging parents or prospective kindergartners to visit any number of schools, observe, ask questions, and consider the benefits of different placements for their children. To increase the number of low-income parents who take advantage of the tour, the district now sends the director of the Family Resource Center to local Head Start facilities to inform parents about their school choice options and to recruit them for the kindergarten tour.
The district's "junior kindergarten" pilot program at two schools, designed in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is another initiative to increase the number of low-income students attending high-achieving and predominantly high-income schools. The purpose of the program is to give an academic boost to children who might otherwise enter kindergarten unprepared for elementary school work; low-income parents may enroll their four- and five-year-olds no matter where in the district they reside. The only stipulation is that parents keep their children at the school for their subsequent year of regular kindergarten. The hope, of course, is that these children will feel comfortable, competent, and welcome at the school and will stay on through the elementary grades.
In parallel with efforts to motivate the enrollment of low-income students more evenly across the district, Cambridge is working to improve the appeal of its underselected, low-income schools, hoping to attract high-income students to choose them and further contribute to income diversification across the district.
One of the district schools avoided by upper-income parents is the Tobin School, which, with a population three times the district average has also failed to meet AYP standards. Tobin has established a volunteer relationship with MIT and Harvard, has a strong parent-mentor group in technology and science fields, and has won a grant to create a science and technology magnet program at the school. The principal reports that although affluent parents are not yet choosing Tobin, the emphasis on science has made Tobin a better school, and students' achievement scores have improved.
Cambridge has identified its particular challenges and is now moving forward with increased focus, new programs,and districtwide goals to leave no child behind.


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2012 Outdoor: Broke the UMBC school record in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:01.97 while placing fourth at the America East Outdoor Championships... Led off for the sprint medley relay team which broke the school record with a time of 4:04.37 at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2011-12 Indoor: Helped the 4x400 relay team set a school record time of 3:48.54 while winning a bronze medal at the America East Indoor Championships... Also finished eighth in the 500m dash (1:16.09) at the conference meet in Boston.
Background: Was named an All-American in the shuttle hurdle relay… Named MVP for her high school team by her coach in 2009… Named to 2nd and 3rd team honors for the WCAC.
Personal: Daughter of Willie Fogle Jr. and Sharon Dailey… Has two siblings Adriel and Kiah… Major is undecided but wishes to be either a Pediatrician or Lawyer… Born August 5, 1993.


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Unemployment insurance tax to drop in Maryland
Many Maryland businesses will see their unemployment insurance rates drop by more than half next year, because the state's trust fund for the payments has a much stronger balance compared to last year, state officials announced Monday.
Gov. Martin O'Malley said the tax rate -- currently about $187 for each employee -- will drop by at least $100 this year.
"Part of consumer confidence is also business confidence, and business owners, I hope, will draw a little more confidence from the fact that they actually see in a very tangible way that our economy is healing," the governor said at a news conference.
The trust fund now has a balance of about $795 million, compared with $460.2 million on Sept. 30 of last year. Weekly benefit payments have dropped steadily since peaking in 2009.
The rate will move from the most unfavorable tax rate, known as Table F, to Table C. Table F's tax rates ranged from 2.2 percent to 13.5 percent on the first $8,500 in annual wages. For Table C, the range of rates is 1 percent to 10.5 percent.
"We're not yet back to Schedule A, but we're moving in the right direction," said the Democratic governor.
About half of the state's employers are in the lowest level of the tax table, and they will receive a 55 percent reduction, O'Malley said. All businesses will benefit from the changes, officials said.
O'Malley credited business owners for keeping people employed when it was hard to know when better days would come. House Speaker Michael Busch said the state also has focused on policies to keep as many people employed as possible during tough times.
"I think Maryland's direction has proven to be the right direction to go in, and I think this has played out in the fact that our employment rate and our rate of recovery are growing at more a rapid rate than the surrounding states," the speaker, a Democrat, said.
State officials also are crediting reforms to the trust fund in 2012 for helping to spark its resurgence. Julie Squire, assistant secretary for the Division of Unemployment Insurance, said Maryland officials decided not to artificially lower the tax rates when the recession increased demands on it. Maryland also did not take out unemployment insurance loans.
"Instead, we were able to make some key changes to the unemployment insurance law in order to qualify for federal incentive funding," Squire said. "It's important to note, however, that the main components of unemployment insurance -- including the amount of benefits and the duration of those benefits -- have not been changed. Other states have started to lower benefits or reduce duration, and that was not done here in Maryland."
Maryland was able to get $126 million in federal funds for the trust fund because of changes made to legislation in 2010.


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Yesterday, the 66th episode of the Transformers: Robots in Disguise Combiner Force cartoon aired on Cartoon Network in the U.S. Titled "Collateral Damage", the Decepticon Soundwave has at last freed himself from the Shadowzone and aims to summon Megatron to Earth with a beacon generator whose energy ouput will in turn end up wiping out all life on Earth. Optimus Prime returns to Earth to aid the Bee Team during the crisis and takes on the overpowered Laserbeak himself as the rest of the Autobots engage Soundwave directly. Will Soundwave succeed in bringing forth the once and former leader of the Decepticons? Can the Autobots stop this latest bout of doomsday? To find, let's rev up and roll out!
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Why is Emily Rose, voice actor for Uncharted and Uncharted 2's Elena Fisher in Los Angeles today? She Tweets that she is "filming my first Night show today 4 #HAVEN then work on #UNCHARTED!"
She's not saying what Uncharted work she's doing. Voice-acting for an Uncharted 3? Could be. Then again, she could be voice-acting for an Uncharted kart racer, an Uncharted PSP game, an Uncharted edition of the PlayStation 3 that belches Uncharted sound samples when you press its buttons or who knows what else.
The tweet was posted on what appears to be Emily Rose's real Twitter account.
We've asked Sony to shed light on this mystery Uncharted project and will let you know if they feel like sharing.
UPDATE: A Sony spokesperson says: "Now that Emily is just back from filming Haven she will be working with [Uncharted development studio] Naughty Dog on some DLC content." So much for the Uncharted 3 theory.
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|The Sandercott Family 1916
One of my ancestors was Sam Sandercock aka Sandercott. Sam was born in Cornwall England in 1870 and came to Ontario Canada in 1887 on board the ship Parisian. Eventually he married Ann Jackson and they had 7 children - 6 sons and 1 daughter (my great grandmother).
Sam was a proud patriotic Englishman and when WW 1 started in 1914 he was all for it. He could not join the military in 1914 as men his age were not really wanted. The Military only wanted young fit men in 1914 but as the war dragged on and casualties mounted they were forced to start taking older and far less fit men. So Sam enlisted in 1916 even though he was 46 years old and not in the best of health. His two eldest sons, Cecil and Bill, were now of military service age, also enlisted and the 3 went off to war.
Sadly Bill was killed in August 1917 in France. He was just 19 years old. His brother Cecil was right beside Bill when he was killed, and Cecil's postcard to his parents is chilling in its brevity:
Just a few lines, hoping you are well. I guess you will have heard the news of my brother's death before this letter reaches you. Bill and I went out on a working party on the night of August 23rd. We were both together working when a shell lit in the trench. Bill was killed. I got a slight wound in the knee. I was lucky i was not killed too.
Almost exactly one year later in August 1918 Cecil Sandercock was also killed during some heavy fighting near Boiry France. He was just 20 years old.
Sam himself never made it into the trenches. The damp cold conditions in England got the best of his health. He was invalided with asthma in 1916 and sent home to Canada in April 1917 as medically unfit. Such a sad tale for 3 family members to go off to war and only one returned.


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Double-Edged Sword - Dr. Vern
Clichés aside, technology really is a double-edged sword.
It's time to fire up the cliché dispenser for this month's subject: technology. Is it a double-edged sword or a love/hate relationship? Whatever I call it, you've probably already heard it before, so please don't yell "Bingo!"
Clichés aside, technology really is a double-edged sword. This struck me on a recent winter's day in my chilly garage while dealing with a flaw in one of my latest feats of engineering. When my little gray cells shrugged and gave up over this temperature-related problem, I started missing warm Jeep weather. Momentarily forgetting problem A, the only cure for problem B was to hop in my Jeep, grab the steering wheel, and pretend I was on a trail. That's all I'm admitting, even though it did sound like somebody in the vicinity was making engine noises.
While navigating one of the gnarliest trails ever found within the confines of a garage, I noticed something sticking out from under the passenger seat. Lo and behold, it was the case holding my maps, but I couldn't remember when I'd last used them. It had been a while, because technology had relegated my paper maps to an inglorious backup role.
This isn't about to turn into some maudlin rant about how old-school is better. Au contraire, modern technology wins hands down. Over the years, I had added many tiny symbols and notes on my paper maps in some long-forgotten shorthand. Did those smudged chicken scratches offer a clue about how to find a hidden trail? Or was I reminding myself it was closed?
In contrast, I have virtually unlimited capability to add notes to the topo maps stored on my trusty GPS-equipped smartphone. I can add all the extra details I want, such as "Turn off 50 feet west of bridge" or "Trail leads to scenic overlook above nudist camp." This reminds me, you can't take pictures with a paper map, either. That's one more point for technology.
Yeah, I know, I've wandered off track again. Back to that first problem and why I was in the garage that day. It all dates back to a brainstorm I had a couple of years ago. You see, my Jeep resides in a detached garage that is rarely a comfortable temperature. Come winter, the place can be bone-chillingly cold. In the summer, because the garage could easily double as a sauna, a concerned group of neighbors has asked if I would please not dress as if it was, or failing that, to at least build my privacy fence a few feet higher. In addition, there isn't much elbow room out there, so I've set up my main shop area in the basement of the house. With a carb rebuild, for example, I might spend a little time out in the garage for removal or installation, but I can do the bulk of work in my comfy basement workshop.
Here's where technology enters the picture, as I have a big air compressor in the garage with lines plumbed all the way to the basement. If allowed to know only one thing about me, please understand that I'm lazy. I can make a sloth seem like a go-getter. On a cold winter's night, the last thing I'd want to do was go out to the garage to turn on the air compressor. And then I'd usually forget to turn it off, only to awake when it kicked back on during the middle of an otherwise silent night. Without doing an expensive rewiring job between the house and garage (OK, two things -- I'm lazy and cheap), I needed a way to control the compressor from inside the house and have it turn off automatically at night.
Enter the Wi-Fi remote control switch, an amazing invention. Combined with my existing household Wi-Fi and an app on my smartphone, I no longer have to leave the house. I mean to control the compressor, that is. I still leave the house for everyday things like work, shopping, yelling at neighborhood kids, etc. Also, at night the compressor is now set to automatically turn off, so my forgetfulness is never, um, what were we talking about?
Not content with having just a space-age control system, I wanted to keep the air dry, too. The trick is to cool the compressor output for maximum condensation before reaching the water separator. Had I ended my column here, I'd have looked like a hero. Leave on a high note, right?
Let's just say that if laying out a compressed air system, there's a slight issue with the various guides showing how to plumb for maximum cooling before reaching the water separator. Those charts are based on a standard ambient temperature. Not the booger-freezing temps found inside my unheated garage during a recent cold snap. The system did its job all too well, and the wet air froze and plugged the line before reaching the water separator.
So there I was with some perplexing plumbing issues (still talking about the pipes in the garage, not me personally), but at least the ongoing debate about technology was finally settled. I shut off the compressor and went back in the warm house. Armed with my smartphone from the future, for the next few days I spent all my free time in an easy chair by the wood stove, surfing Jeep porn until the weather warmed up again and the pipes thawed. Problem solved, all thanks to the wonders of modern technology. Well, that and my laziness….


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NEW ORLEANS, LA - This past Monday, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced that the City will sponsor a Household Hazardous Waste Day on Saturday, June 11, 2011, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at 2829 Elysian Fields Avenue.
On Household Hazardous Waste Day, the Department of Sanitation will collect a number of every day household items which are no longer in use by residents and should not be thrown away with regular garbage or in curbside recycling containers. Some of the items accepted include batteries, televisions, paint, light bulbs, oil, mercury devices, aerosols, pesticides and household cleaners.
"This is a safe way of disposing with materials that could be hazardous to residents, and we encourage people to start saving these items now and drop them off to us on June 11," said Mayor Landrieu.
Additionally, the City's free curbside recycling services began on May 2, 2011. Residents who are not yet participating in the recycling program but who would like to register may sign up at http://recycle.nola.gov. Carts will be provided by the City only on request. Residents may also fill out the Recycling Service Notice manually and mail it or drop it off to City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1W03, New Orleans, LA 70112 or fax it to (504) 658-3801.
Residents may also use their blue or black recycling bins that were used before Hurricane Katrina. The plastic bins must be marked for recyclables and residents must register for services.
Collection maps and schedules for Richards and Metro Disposal service areas may also be found on the City's website.
As a result of adding regular curbside recycling services for most of New Orleans, the City will reduce its ongoing recycling and e-waste drop-off to once a month, the second Saturday of each month, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at 2829 Elysian Fields Avenue. Residents are encouraged to drop off their unused or unwanted electronic items (computers, monitors, keyboards, speakers, cell phones, digital cameras, etc.) or recycling items on these days.
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A Lancashire mother has appeared before a court charged with the murder of her newborn daughter, who was found in a kitchen bin with multiple stab wounds.
Just before 3pm on January 16th police were called to a flat in Wellington Court in Burnley where Rachel Tunstill (26) was arrested after reports of a sudden death, leading authorities to find the infant in the kitchen bin.
With the cause of death established during the post-mortem as multiple stab wounds, Tunstill did not enter a plea to the charge of murder, at Preston Crown Court.
Honorary Recorder of Preston, Judge Mark Brown, remanded Tunstill in custody until Friday, May 12th, when she will return to court to enter her plea, with her trial date set for Wednesday, June 7th.


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Beyond the pizza and pasta
About two weeks ago, Gino's Pizza and Pasta owner Ilir Nikqy started working out.
Coincidentally, at around that same time a few new items appeared on his menu — delicious, as would be expected from Nikqy, but also filling and healthy items.
"I'm always trying to make something new and fresh," said Nikqy, affectionately known to his customers as "Nicky." "I like to choose a few ingredients and create a dish out of them."
A few ingredients he's been playing with in the kitchen include fresh spinach, chicken breast, tilapia, broccoli, mixed peppers and portabella mushrooms."I have people say 'I never eat mushrooms, but I eat these mushrooms,'" said Nikqy.
These sautéed portabella mushrooms are served as an appetizer, drizzled in balsamic vinaigrette and accompanied with sautéed spinach. And it looks pretty, too.
The spring salad is also a delicious new option — a bright heap of fresh mixed greens topped with grilled chicken breast and glazed with sweet balsamic vinaigrette — quite a vision in all of its green, towering glory.
Nikqy added that Tilapia Torino has been selling like crazy since he began offering the mild white fish prepared with broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and a touch of cream. And if you've ever been to Gino's, you know by now that he prepares every dish to order, adding the luxury of tailoring a dish to your personal tastes.
"I enjoy preparing food," said Nikqy. "I do it every day," except for his day off, which is always on Monday.
The soft-spoken gentleman from Albania started cooking 10 years ago, he said, when he began cooking for his uncle's restaurant in New York City. He opened Gino's in February 2010, and in his first year Nikqy has earned scores of repeat customers.
"I've been told I have the best lasagna in Beaumont," Nikqy gushed, adding that all of his dishes are recipes to which he has added his personal touch.
And it's not uncommon for Nikqy's customers to allow him to experiment with dishes — as he takes great pride in surprising the regulars who often request "the usual, please."
So for anyone else like Nikqy who has recently taken up a fitness regimen, rest assured that you don't have to cross Gino's off your restaurant circuit. Nikqy's got lean options that fill you right up with good food, and you can always swap meat for mushrooms, pasta for peppers or create and assemble your own healthy with Nikqy's help.Of course, if you splurge and get the lasagna, we won't hold it against you.
Gino's Pizza and Pasta is at 4318 Dowlen Road in Beaumont and is open six days a week, closed on Monday. For more information, call the restaurant at (409) 899-1640.