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Random Hearts Wednesday 3rd April 2002 22:39 What would you do if you suspected that your spouse had been unfaithful to you? How far would you be willing to go to find the truth? What would it take to make you accept the past and move on to the future? DVD Comments (1)
Ransom - Special Edition Monday 19th April 2004 20:05 Since the world can't seem to get enough of Mel Gibson recently, Buena Vista Home Video has released his 1996 film Ransom in a "Special Edition" disc. DVD Comments (3)
Rat Race Tuesday 19th February 2002 21:16 Rat Race is the new comedy by director Jerry Zucker. With an all star cast could this movie really fail? DVD Comments (1)
Ray Wednesday 30th March 2005 23:15 Jamie Foxx gives the performance of a lifetime in the film Ray, which chronicles the amazing life of musc legend Ray Charles. This two disc set is one of three releases made available by Universal, who graciously have given us a look at their Oscar winnin DVD Comments (8)
Re-Animator: Limited Edition Monday 19th March 2007 19:06 Gabe is resurrected by the glowing green goo of Herbert West's re-agent... DVD Comments (24)
Re-Animator: Millenium Edition Tuesday 7th January 2003 20:24 Re-Animator single handedly created a new era in the horror world. Does this new set do the same for horror DVDs? Find out! DVD Add a Comment
Red Dragon Director's Edition Sunday 20th April 2003 20:33 Another waste-of-space remake? Or a geniune homage which can stand tall by itself? This two disc Director's Set features many extras and two commentaries including an isolated score. DVD Add a Comment
Red Planet Monday 16th April 2001 19:12 Better than Mission to Mars? Yep...but not by much! Tom Woodward reviews the film about the first mission to Mars. DVD Add a Comment
Red Road Monday 12th November 2007 11:44 Gabe takes a trip to Glasgow, and wonders why anyone would live here. DVD Comments (8)
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Reservoir Dogs: 10th Anniversary Special Edition Tuesday 29th October 2002 15:55 It's been a long time coming, but at long last we finally have a true 'Special Edition' of one of the most acclaimed films of the 1990s – Reservoir Dogs... DVD Add a Comment
Resident Evil: Apocalypse Monday 3rd January 2005 16:43 Milla Jovovich faces off against an entire city of the undead in the sequel to the 2002 box office hit Resident Evil. Does she have what it takes to get out alive, or does the film take her out faster then a rabid zombie? Find out in my review... DVD Comments (6)
Resident Evil: Special Edition Saturday 24th August 2002 18:44 Brains! Brains! New load of zombies, up to their same old tricks - limping slowly, and chomping down on human flesh. It may take after the game, but you don't need to know anything about the game to enjoy this survival horror flick... DVD Comments (2)
Respectable: The Mary Millington Story Friday 15th April 2016 13:53 The Wilson Bros dive into this labour of love documentary of a UK porn legend... DVD Comments (4)
Rest Stop Tuesday 17th October 2006 2:50 Matt checks out the first release from Warner's new Raw Feed line of discs DVD Comments (9)
Right at Your Door Thursday 31st January 2008 22:56 Gabe hears an explosion, takes a step outside, and then breathes in deeply... DVD Comments (16)
Right Stuff, The Friday 4th May 2001 17:15 It's a complex and satisfying look at a fascinating period in recent history, with good acting and overall good production values... DVD Add a Comment
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R.E.M - Automatic for the People Friday 17th January 2003 15:37 Forever delayed and highly anticipated are two phrases I associate with this title. If it had been released as expected in December last year it would have been my DVD-Audio disc of the year. A plethora of fine tunes, and delicate mixes make this a great HK - DVD Comments (4)
R.E.M - Green Saturday 11th June 2005 13:07 James Whittington takes a look at R.E.M.'s Green album, their first release after signing a deal for a rumoured $6 Million to Warner Bros. But is it any good? Take a look inside for the full rundown. HK - DVD Add a Comment
R.E.M - Reveal Sunday 20th October 2002 18:58 Churning out album after album for nearly twenty years might collapse some bands, but R.E.M keep them coming. I never listened to this album much on CD, but the high audio resolution that DVD-Audio provides has opened my eyes to it, or should that be ears HK - DVD Add a Comment
Rabbit-Proof Fence: Collector's Edition Wednesday 23rd October 2002 14:08 While probably not the outstanding work of art many have decided to label the film, Rabbit-Proof Fence is definitely a wonderful tale. Very emotional and often confronting, the cast and the landscape make this one definitely worth a look. The visuals are AU - DVD R4 Add a Comment
Rabid Wednesday 18th February 2015 22:15 Chris takes a look at Arrow's release of David Cronenberg's softmore feature... UK - DVD R2 | BD RB Add a Comment
Racing Stripes Wednesday 20th July 2005 23:17 Momentum Pictures released the Babe-style Racing Stripes onto UK shores on 20th June 2005. Although pig-less, this is still an unabashed kid's film about a zebra that just wants to race, complete with talking barnyard animals and a smattering of lowly hum UK - DVD R2 Comments (1)
Radio Tuesday 5th October 2004 23:13 Benjamin Willcock tunes into Cuba Gooding's Radio... UK - DVD R2 Comments (2)
Raid 2, The Sunday 17th August 2014 14:31 Marcus is late with this one as he was pulling a claw hammer from his back. UK - DVD R2 Add a Comment
Rango Monday 18th July 2011 21:31 Marcus finds himself stuck in the desert with an odd Depp sounding chameleon. UK - DVD R2 Add a Comment
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Railway Man, The Friday 22nd August 2014 3:56 Jonathan takes a look at the World War II POW story starring Colin Firth... BD Add a Comment
Rambo Thursday 29th May 2008 15:46 Gabe cheers Rambo's return, and has a strange craving for chunky tomato soup. BD Comments (29)
Rambo Trilogy Collection Wednesday 21st May 2008 1:22 Gabe revisits the escalating body counts of Ronny Reagan's favourite action hero BD Comments (8)
Rambo: Extended Edition Thursday 29th July 2010 8:25 Gabe returns to the steamy jungles of Burma for more Stallone style slaughter... BD Comments (19)
Rampage Friday 20th July 2018 21:48 Gabe crams a handful of quarters into a harmlessly generic action movie... BD Add a Comment
Ran: Studio Canal Collection Tuesday 23rd February 2010 7:27 Gabe checks out Akira Kurosawa's final epic on this somewhat epic Blu-ray disc. BD Comments (6)
Rango Friday 15th July 2011 6:22 Gabe officially forgives Gore Verbinski for the Pirates sequels and The Mexican... BD Comments (3)
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Thursday 10th November 2011 10:47 Jonathan watches a delightfully odd Chritmas movie from Finland... BD Comments (1)
Raro Video Double Feature Tuesday 6th January 2015 21:36 Gabe checks out The Long Hair of Death and Slaughter Hotel in high definition... BD Add a Comment
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Re-Animator: Limited Edition Tuesday 8th August 2017 23:44 Gabe compares Arrow's new disc to the Second Sight and Capelight BDs... BD Add a Comment
Real Steel Saturday 21st January 2012 4:45 Gabe watches every underdog movie ever as acted by rock'em sock'em robots. BD Comments (8)
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Usher Tapped to Perform on 'Saturday Night Live'
Usher will perform live in New York on an upcoming episode of NBC's sketch-comedy series 'Saturday Night Live.' The 'Climax' singer will grace the stage on May 12 with 'SNL' alum Will Ferrell serving as host, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
This will mark Usher's third appearance as a musical guest on 'SNL.' His last performance on the late-night show was in May 2008 when Steve Carell was the host. Coincidentally, it will also be funnyman Ferrel's third time serving as a host since leaving the cast a decade ago.
As we previously reported, Rihanna will perform at 'SNL' on May 5 with New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl champ Eli Manning handling the hosting duties.
Usher has been on a promotional roll lately. Following his No. 1 hit 'Climax,' the crooner just recently dropped the dance floor burner 'Scream.'
The R&B star is set to release his new album 'Looking for Myself' on June 12. The collection will feature production assists from Diplo, Rico Love and Jim Jonsin. Usher collaborated with 'Without You' producer David Guetta on the album, as well. While Guetta wouldn't reveal the details of the tracks, he insists the that music is "something really, really, really, crazy."

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Microsoft's mobile platform has been fragmented by the decision to offer both Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile 7 at the same time (when it's released). Windows Mobile 6.5 will support limited touch capabilities, but it won't be until the end of 2010 that Windows Mobile 7 will provide full touch capabilities to compete with the iPhone. To distance the product from its past Microsoft are even renaming it "Windows Phone", a shallow effort to try bury a bad reputation for a bad UI model.
The lack of unification and clarity extends even as far as Microsoft's rebuilt efforts to compete in the PMP space with the Zune HD. Whilst the Zune HD is a lovely, well built product, the lack of a single focus at Microsoft and a lack of tight integration and cooperation between departments has even clouded the Zune strategy
In an interview the Zune Marketing Manager Brien Seitz's response was as vague as it was non-committal. In what way is keeping Zune app development close to the chest and hoping that "if there's a way we can work with Windows Mobile or another group inside the company that's building an app store and take advantage of that, that's something we'll look into" competing with the iPhone AppStore? Or even acknowledging it, for that matter. Hoping that the Windows Mobile team will get their act together so you can leverage their store for Zune is not exactly enthusing budding developers with the desire to develop for the Zune.
The problem is that there simply isn't any—brace yourself—synergy.. happening at Microsoft. Each department is doing its own thing and not working together on a cohesive, integrated system. Why does the Zune require its own music player and not just leverage Windows Media Player? Why isn't Windows Media Player being upgraded to support even basic features, like podcasting, that iTunes has had for years? Why is it that you have to use the Zune player to get these features? Are Microsoft really expecting people to install the Zune player and go buy a Zune just to get podcasting capabilities? Where on earth is the thinking in Microsoft coming from? Their strategies seem detached from reality.
The web-browser in the Zune is an afterthought, a port of IE6 for Windows Mobile that puts you through a tortured experience. The codebase is incapable of competing with Safari on the iPhone that supports the latest CSS and HTML5 features and lead the way in giving users a browser on a mobile phone that they would actually want to use.
I'm left imagining that Microsoft has a hundred separate departments all rushing to compete with Apple on their own.
How Microsoft Got Here
The boat that I alluded to in the title of this article is Firefox and the modern web-standards movement. Microsoft's complete lack of movement with IE6 saw them totally blind-sided by a competitor that sprang out of the corpse of the enemy that thought they had fallen for good.
Before 2004 Microsoft were in the very comfortable position of having 95-odd-percent marketshare and no need to change anything with IE. Even if the concept of web apps and the cloud took off, Microsoft were safe in the knowledge that those web apps would be written only for IE, using such wonderful technologies like Active X.
Firefox changed absolutely everything. Microsoft simply didn't feel threatened by a grass-roots movement to adopt an open-source browser based on the failed Netscape that Microsoft vanquished five years earlier.
And Firefox wasn't a threat—really. IE still came as default on Windows, businesses would still be using IE and that wouldn't change anytime. Firefox hasn't damaged Microsoft, their own inaction has.
The ability to sway the market has been pulled from underneath Microsoft. Web developers are coming up with exciting new apps using web technologies not available in IE. And the market is responding, they're happy to switch browser if it gets them extra features and gives them access to the websites they want to use.
We've seen a complete crumbling to dust of that notion that you need IE. Nobody needs IE, except for businesses stuck with badly-coded Intranets.
And Microsoft have not been able to inject any compelling reason to use IE either. Both IE7 and 8 were lackluster upgrades that caused more headaches then providing people with things they'd actually want.
You just have to run Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Chrome 3 or Opera 10 next to IE to realise that there simply is no comparison. IE is beat in every single aspect.
HTML5 adoption is progressing quite happily even without offical IE-support. Microsoft can no longer dictate what features the web will have and when, if Microsoft doesn't provide it, then someone else will and that wasn't the case in the IE6 days.
Y'see Microsoft's lack of progress with IE has left them unable to adapt to new emerging markets and technologies. The iPhone completely reinvigorated the stagnant SmartPhone market where companies were practicing such bumbling incompetence with their software / handsets that Palm almost killed itself even without Apple to speak of. The competition that Apple injected into the market sharpened everybody's minds, and the products accordingly.
That is, except for Microsoft which simply has nothing to show for itself. Microsoft has no single platform strategy. Windows 7 only fixes the problems Vista introduced, it doesn't bring anything truly new to the table other than a big sigh of relief from users worldwide. It's still a hulking great disaster (hello, registry, didn't know you were still there) of a user-space that can't adapt quickly enough.
Gone On Without You
I strongly believe that Microsoft are three years behind everybody else when it comes to technology and the ability to compete. Microsoft cannot just throw more money and programmers at the problem. This is an organisational / managerial problem that requires them to get the talent they already have working together toward a single platform strategy that can rapidly adapt and apply to new devices and markets.
Trying to catch up simply isn't good enough. Telling your clients that proper touch-controls won't be coming to Windows
Mobile Phone until the end of 2010 is no good. Why not just use Android or WebOS now. Or buy a freakin' iPhone.
Nothing short of replacing the rendering engine of IE with Webkit is going to stop the massive hemorrhaging of market-share that IE is experiencing. IE is pasé now and once you're out of the loop it's going to take more than the odd feature and improvement to bring users back. The exodus is well underway and the IE brand has fallen foul of consumers.
To win me back IE would have to be faster than Chrome, have the extensibility of Firefox and support bleeding edge CSS3 and HTML5 features like Webkit. Oh, and not suck UI and security wise. Does anybody seriously believe that that's going to happen?
By sitting around idly with IE6, Microsoft have let the web overtake them. Innovation is happening faster than Microsoft can keep up. Microsoft are trying to catch up with competitors and social movements that are traveling faster than they are.
I'm not saying that Microsoft are going to collapse and die and all that rubbish, instead I can see from the past that the future is going to be a place where Microsoft are no longer the ones leading the way. Their desktop market-share won't drastically change, but innovation will move to the web. A place larger, more diverse and faster than Microsoft and a place where Apple have positioned themselves riding right on top of the crest.


text: We recently received Doug Fogelson's book "The Time After" in the mail today. One of the catch phrases on the press release is: "Temporal speculation for the post climate change era." Heavy! Although it's not as apocalyptic as the Popul Vuh's 2012 world-termination prognosis, and not as, ahem, temporally speculative (in my opinion) to warrant vast assumptions about the post climate change era, there are some prismatic, multi-exposed layered photographs that time-lapsed-surfaced-ly explore the age old question of nature, man, and their relation to time. Shots of clouds and forests lay side by side by sprawling city streets. It's certainly an interesting attempt to turn such a tired trope of amateur photography (the double-expose) into the basis for a complicated conceptual framework, though how many "heady" points on the nature of humanity the book makes, I'm not so sure. Regardless, the book features stunning and creative print lay out and design by Tim Hartford.


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42 U.S. Code § 287a–2 - Rare disease regional centers of excellence
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(a) Cooperative agreements and grants
(1) In general
The Director of the Office of Rare Diseases (in this section referred to as the "Director"), in collaboration with the directors of the other relevant institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, may enter into cooperative agreements with and make grants to public or private nonprofit entities to pay all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for regional centers of excellence for clinical research into, training in, and demonstration of diagnostic, prevention, control, and treatment methods for rare diseases.
(b) Coordination with other institutes
The Director shall coordinate the activities under this section with similar activities conducted by other national research institutes, centers and agencies of the National Institutes of Health and by the Food and Drug Administration to the extent that such institutes, centers and agencies have responsibilities that are related to rare diseases.
(c) Uses for Federal payments under cooperative agreements or grants
Federal payments made under a cooperative agreement or grant under subsection (a) of this section may be used for—
(1) staffing, administrative, and other basic operating costs, including such patient care costs as are required for research;
(2) clinical training, including training for allied health professionals, continuing education for health professionals and allied health professions personnel, and information programs for the public with respect to rare diseases; and
(d) Period of support; additional periods
Support of a center under subsection (a) of this section may be for a period of not to exceed 5 years. Such period may be extended by the Director for additional periods of not more than 5 years if the operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director and if such group has recommended to the Director that such period should be extended.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 481A, formerly § 404G, as added Pub. L. 107–280, § 4,Nov. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 1990; amended Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 103(b)(6),Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3687; renumbered § 481A,Pub. L. 112–74, div. F, title II, § 221(c)(3),Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 1089.)
Section was formerly classified to section 283i of this title.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 481A of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 404I, and is classified to section 283k of this title.
2007—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 109–482struck out heading and text of subsec. (e). Text read as follows: "For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as already have been appropriated for fiscal year 2002, and $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2003 through 2006."
Effective Date of 2007 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–482applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 ofPub. L. 109–482, set out as a note under section 281 of this title.
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I just used a piece of cardboard about a foot long and 4 inches wide, wrapped masking tape to thicken it up, left the center flexible. I taped the bladder to it fed it through and when I I got to the wing tip I folded the cardboard in half and pulled it out. Bladder was in and I did not have any twist. Oh, and I did not use any string. Works pretty well.
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Hmm...very good question. I've been thinking about this for a while. Your right on the money about the two paths. I think I'm headed down the median. I think a compromise between the two is the most beneficial.
By taking the "Small Collection of Gems" route you limit yourself to the massive amounts of interesting, beautiful, and amazing fragrances that are out there. To take this route you would have to limit your exposure to fragances and essentially become blind to the worls of fragrance. You see if you don't then you end up finding other GEMS and eventually you end up with a large collection in the end. There is a plus side though. You actually get to wear ALL of them and nothing goes to waste. Some people have 50,100, 300+ bottles of frag and I say to myself, "How the hell do you ever get to wear ALL of those frags. Not to mention the amount of money put into that< not a major concern if its somewhat of a "Passionate Interest." To me a small collection is of 1-10 fragrances. I could never do this because I LOVE fragrances. Theres just too much out there for that low of a number. I do limit myself though nonetheless. I find that 20 fragrances is where it stops for me. If I run out of a fragrance I reallt, I mean REALLY think of whether or not I can't live without it. If I can''t I buy it again. If I can however then tahts when the lovely "scent hunt begins" which I enjoy a great deal.
Anyway thats my whole schpeil. Any questions? Any comments?


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A couple years ago, the Nanco company produced a plush doll of Beaky Buzzard in their assortment of LT dolls that they only make available to arcades, carnivals, claw machines, etc. Well, somebody on Amazon made up a listing for the Beaky doll I found rather amusing. Here's a picture of the real Beaky doll:
Here's a picture of what some Amazon seller seems to be trying to pass off as the very same Looney Tunes : Beaky Buzzard 10" Plush Figure Doll Toy:
Yikes. I don't think I will be gambling $11.99 + $6.65 shipping anytime soon when I have no idea if I'd end up with Beaky or the phoney.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
5 comments:
LOL The phoney Beaky looks like he's wearing a blue mask as if he were going to one of those fancy costume parties.
- April 13, 2008 at 9:22 PM
In the second picture there should be an old doll of Beaky Buzzard, maybe produced by the old Comapny Mighty Star in the 70's, which made also other Looney Tunes Charachters!
- April 14, 2008 at 4:16 AM
- Harley Green said...
I took insipartion from anonymous'
comment for this phrase!
-Hey! I'm Beacky Buzzard and I'm going to a party with my pimpin' car and this cool blue mask.
Do you want to jump in?
- April 14, 2008 at 11:32 AM
- PCUnfunny said...
That 2nd photo must be the bootleg mardi gras version.
- April 16, 2008 at 7:58 AM
The second picture is the old 1970's beaky buzzard I have one in my family that my father bought and passed down to me and now my child has it
- November 5, 2010 at 9:40 PM
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A pipeline to deliver Mississippi River sediment to the wetlands of Jefferson and Plaquemines parish is getting closer to becoming a reality.
A pipeline to deliver Mississippi River sediment to the wetlands of Jefferson and Plaquemines parish is getting closer to becoming a reality.
The official hope is that the project will one day form the basis of a system that will bring sediment to Lafourche Parish.
The pipeline has gotten $1 million of the estimated $60 million cost from Lafourche although Lafourche will not directly benefit from the project in the near term.
Although the pipeline will be dismantled after the project in Plaquemines and Jefferson, the alignment of the pipeline will remain and will eventually facilitate a future project that comes all the way to Lafourche.
In the meantime, though, Lafourche will benefit from any project that increases the wetlands protecting the Louisiana coast from the encroaching Gulf of Mexico.
Another pipeline project that has been discussed and is in preliminary stages of study would take sediment from the Atchafalaya River and deliver it to wetlands in Terrebonne Parish.
That project is not as close to being built as the first, but it does hold promise for local wetlands.
The beauty of these projects is that they use sediment that is a liability in one place and turn it into a benefit in another place. In these cases, the pipelines take sediment that has to be dredged to maintain navigable waterways and use it in the fragile and disappearing wetlands that need the land.
The projects aren't cheap, and they aren't easy.
Piping sediment over many miles is a difficult process that will require pumps and pipes, not to mention all the requisite rights-of-way from landowners over which the pipes will pass.
Even so, they represent some of the best hopes for our coastal wetlands.
The challenge now is continuing to press forward with the pipelines, particularly the Mississippi River one that is so much closer to being built. With any luck, the planners and engineers working on the Atchafalaya pipeline will be able to learn valuable lessons and put them to use in their project.
The natural balance between river sediment and coastal erosion has been disturbed. River levees keep the rivers from spilling over their banks and delivering sediment and fresh water each year like they did for millennia.
Now, when land is washed away, it is not so easily replaced.
With these pipeline projects and many others like them, perhaps we can undo some of the damage man has done. In the end, the entire coast will benefit if we can fight back the forces of erosion to replenish and rebuild our natural protections.
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The following is a rundown of action taken by the Terrebonne Parish Council Tuesday night. All members except Arlanda Williams were in attendance and all votes were unanimous. Williams was attending the presidential inauguration.
The following is a rundown of action taken by the Terrebonne Parish Council Tuesday night. All members except Arlanda Williams were in attendance and all votes were unanimous. Williams was attending the presidential inauguration.
Action: Authorized agreement with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development to install several traffic lights along La. 24. The project is to improve traffic and is expected to cost around $88,000.
Action: Certified that money is available to build a new sewage lift station north of La. 90 in Gray along with a force main system. The money is expected to come from Community Development Block Grants, but the amount is unknown.
Action: Ratified agreement with All South Consulting Engineers to continue Wauban drainage improvements.
Action: Changed the contract for the Grand Bois Pavilion project to replace the existing concrete slab. The project is expected to have an increase of around $10,000.
Action: Changed the construction agreement for the H.L. Bourgeois High School sidewalks and pedestrian bridge project. The project cost is expected to decrease by about $9,000.
Action: Approved the engineering agreement for the North Wastewater Treatment Plant Rehabilitation project. The project cost is expected to increase by $32,000.
Action: Approved changes to the Ashland Drainage Pump Station rehabilitation project, which involves a four-bay precast pump station substructure and access bridge together with excavation and embankment, and a steel bulkhead. The project increase is expected to cost $25,000.
Action: Accepted work performed by Sealevel Construction for resizing culverts to improve drainage conditions for residences along Bouquet Street, Mike Street and Daigle Street.
Action: Approved annual contract with Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships to provide energy assistance to low-income residents of Terrebonne Parish. The contract is expected to cost about $$734,000 and last through September.
Action: Accepted the report on the parishwide Vision 2030 Comprehensive Plan update and called for a public hearing on the matter Feb. 6 and Feb. 27.
Action: Proposed an ordinance to increase the deposits for all cultural facilities owned by Terrebonne Parish, excluding the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, and to enforce penalties for failure to pay rental fees accordingly. A public hearing will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27.
Action: Awarded Terrebonne Parish lawn-maintenance contract to Superior Lawn Service. The contract expires in 2015 and is expected to cost $140,000.
Action: Allowed purchase of 20 portable radios, 20 cases and 20 wave antennas for the Houma-Thibodaux transit system. The $35,782 for the items comes from a state grant.
Action: Allowed purchase of one grapple crane hoist system to be mounted on the chassis of a 2013 Kenworth truck. The crane will be used to collect roadside debris to eliminate the need for an outside contractor. The project is expected to cost about $118,000.
Action: Allowed the purchase of two John Deere tractors and two mowers for the Public Works Department to maintain ditches and other grassy areas throughout the parish. The equipment is expected to cost about $130,000.
Action: Approved an ordinance to go ahead with an Island Road project and called a public hearing on the matter for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 6. The purpose of the project is to repair the road, which suffered from hurricane damage. The project is expected to cost around $516,000, $175,000 of which comes from the tax dollars. The bulk of the cost comes from Federal Emergency Management Agency money.
Action: Made a cost-share agreement with Terrebonne's communication district and the Houma Fire Department for its fire-dispatching services.
Action: Authorized an agreement with the Recreation District 2,3 for the right to use parish property for maintaining a sports complex.


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Why One Fake Tweet Dropped the Market
The market dropped, but just as quickly rebounded, following a hoax tweet from the Associated Press twitter account, Jonathan Cheng reports.
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Now You're Talking!
Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works.
If you've got an Android phone, try this: Hit the microphone icon on the home screen, then ask, "How many angstroms in a mile?" Use your normal speaking voice—don't speak slowly or strain to over-pronounce "angstrom." So long as you have a good Internet connection, the phone shouldn't take more than a second to recognize your question and shoot back a reply: 1.609344 × 1013.
This works with all kinds of queries. Say "what's 10 times 10 divided by 5 billion" and the phone will do math for you. Say "directions to McDonald's" or read out an address—even a vague one like "33rd and Sixth, NYC"—and Android will pull up a map showing where you want to go. It works for other languages, too: Android's Translate app (also available for the iPhone) will not only convert your English into spoken French (among several other languages) but also has a "conversation mode" that will translate the French waiter's response back into English. And if that's not enough, Android lets you dictate your e-mail and text messages, too.
If you've tried speech-recognition software in the past, you may be skeptical of Android's capabilities. Older speech software required you to talk in a stilted manner, and it was so prone to error that it was usually easier just to give up and type. Today's top-of-the-line systems—like software made by Dragon—don't ask you to talk funny, but they tend to be slow and use up a lot of your computer's power when deciphering your words. Google's system, on the other hand, offloads its processing to the Internet cloud. Everything you say to Android goes back to Google's data centers, where powerful servers apply statistical modeling to determine what you're saying. The process is fast, can be done from anywhere, and is uncannily accurate. You can speak normally (though if you want punctuation in your email, you've got to say "period" and "comma"), you can speak for as long as you'd like, and you can use the biggest words you can think of. It even works if you've got an accent.
How does Android's speech system work so well? The magic of data. Speech recognition is one of a handful of Google's artificial intelligence programs—the others are language translation and image search—that get their power by analyzing impossibly huge troves of information. For the speech system, the data are a large number of voice recordings. If you've used Android's speech recognition system, Google Voice's e-mail transcription service, Goog411 (a now-defunct information service), or some other Google speech-related service, there's a good chance that the company has your voice somewhere on its servers. And it's only because Google has your voice—and millions of others—that it can recognize mine.
Unless you've turned on Android's "personalized voice recognition" system, your recordings are stored anonymously—that is, Google can't tie your voice to your name. Still, the privacy implications in building a huge database of millions of peoples' utterances are fascinating—so fascinating that I'll devote my next column to discussing them. Leaving aside privacy concerns for a moment, it's undeniable that speech recognition is one of a number of programs that could only have come about because of our newfound capacity to store and analyze lots and lots of information. In some ways the future of software—and, thus, of the computer industry—depends on such databases. If The Graduate were filmed today, the job advice to Benjamin Braddock would go like this: "One word: data."
To understand why Google's stash of recorded voice snippets is necessary for speech recognition, it helps to understand the history of creating machines that can decipher speech. Late last year, I met Mike Cohen, the head of Google's speech system, in a nondescript conference room at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. Cohen is one of the world's experts in voice-recognition systems; he's been in the business for decades, and he's seen it evolve from a field dominated by linguists who were interested in computers to one dominated by engineers who are interested in linguistics.
"In the 1970s, there were two camps that didn't really talk to one another," Cohen says. The linguists believed, more or less, that the number of distinct sounds in human speech could ultimately be analyzed and turned into a set of computational rules. All you needed to do, they thought, was listen to enough human speech and then map, in painstaking detail, the frequencies of the sounds you heard. Once all the different sounds were analyzed and stored in a reference library, a computer would be able to recognize a given sound just by looking it up.
While this seemed to make intuitive sense, the engineers saw one glaring problem: It would never scale. The engineers believed they could get much further with computational analysis—if you gave a powerful computer enough audio samples, it would eventually be able to find all sorts of nuances that human linguists would never be able to identify. This was best expressed in a famous quote by Frederick Jelinek, one of the field's pioneering computer scientists: "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up."
Over the years both sides bridged their differences, Cohen says, and today's speech-recognition systems use deep insights from linguistics and engineering. Still, it turned out that the engineers were right on the fundamental problem: There are too many different possible sounds in human speech to be described by explicit linguistic rules. Cohen points out one small example. To most people the a sound in the words map, tap, and cat seems identical. In fact, there are very subtle differences. To create the M sound in map, you bring your lips together, forming a long closed tube in your vocal tract. This affects the a sound that follows—since your throat is transitioning from the low-frequency m sound, the first 10 to 30 milliseconds of the a in map includes many low-frequency notes that aren't found in the early part of the a in tap. Now imagine how many such nuances there are for all the different words and combinations of words in every different language. "There's no way we could do it by writing explicit rules," Cohen says. The only way to find all these differences is through large-scale data analysis—by having lots of computers scrutinize lots and lots of examples of human speech.
But where to get all that speech? "A big bottleneck in the field has been data," Cohen says. For many years researchers knew the theoretical process for building speech-recognition systems, but they had no idea how to get enough human chatter, or enough computing power, to actually do it. Then came Google. It turns out that the very same infrastructure that Google needed to build a fantastic search engine—acres and acres of data centers to store and analyze Web sites, and a range of internal processes that are specifically tuned to managing large amounts of information—would also be effective for solving speech recognition and other artificial intelligence problems, Cohen says.
There's a lot of overlap between search and speech. To decipher your speech, Google's system doesn't just use recorded voices. It also relies on a host of other data, including billions of written search queries that it uses to predict the words you're most probably saying. If you say 33rd and Sixth, NYC," your NYC might sound like and I see, but Google knows that you're probably saying NYC, because that's what a lot of other people mean when they say that phrase. Altogether, Google's speech recognition program comprises many billions of pieces of text and audio; Cohen says that building just one part of the speech-recognition system required "roughly 70 CPU-years" of computer time. Google's cloud of processors can do that amount of crunching in a single day. "This is one of the things that brought me to Google," Cohen says. "We can now iterate much more quickly, experiment much more quickly, to train these enormous models and see what works."
Speech recognition is still a very young field. "We don't do well enough at anything right now," Cohen says. He notes that the system keeps getting better—and more and more people keep using Android's voice search—but we're still many years (and maybe even decades) away from what Cohen says is Google's long-term vision for speech-recognition. "We want it to be totally ubiquitous," he says. "No matter what the application is, no matter what you're trying to do with your phone, we want you to be able to talk to your phone."


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Utility crews worked to restore power to an additional 200,000 customers in the New York area after a nor'easter blasted the region that's still trying to recover from Super Storm Sandy.
Wednesday's storm left a blanket of snow that snapped storm-weakened trees and downed power lines.
More than 200,000 new outages hit Sandy-battered parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. New outages in New York City were being dealt with quickly, power officials said. About half the current outages in New Jersey were from the latest storm.
The nor'easter, as promised, brought gusting winds, rain and snow, but not the flooding that was anticipated.
"The good news, thank goodness, is except for maybe 2 inches of snow, there were no other problems," said Randi Savron, 51, a schoolteacher who lives in the Rockaways section of Queens, one of the areas that flooded badly last week. The idyllic beachfront boardwalk was loosed from pilings and ended up outside her apartment building door.
In Lindenhurst, in a hard-hit area of Long Island, Anthony Gragnano's basement was flooded, and the family has been living off a generator. He has no idea when to expect power.
"It's just colder now," he said. "We still don't have heat or power, but aside from a little snow, we're good."
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Roads in New Jersey and New York City were clear for the morning commute, and rail lines into New York were running smoothly, despite snow still coming down heavily in some areas.
Under ordinary circumstances, a storm of this sort wouldn't be a big deal. But large swaths of the landscape were still an open wound, with the electrical system highly fragile and many of Sandy's victims still mucking out their homes and cars and shivering in the deepening cold. As the storm picked up in intensity Wednesday evening, lights started flickering off again.
Residents from Connecticut to Rhode Island saw 3 to 6 inches of snow on Wednesday. Worcester, Mass., had 8 inches of snow, and Freehold, N.J., had just over a foot overnight.
There was good weather news: temperatures over the next few days will be in the 50s in southern New England, said meteorologist Frank Nocera, and on Sunday it could edge into the 60s.
In New York and New Jersey, rain and 60 mph wind gusts swept through Wednesday evening.
"I am waiting for the locusts and pestilence next," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
Ahead of the storm, public works crews in New Jersey built up dunes to protect the stripped and battered coast, and new evacuations were ordered in a number of communities already emptied by Sandy. New shelters opened.
All construction in New York City was halted — a precaution that needed no explanation after a crane collapsed last week in Sandy's high winds and dangled menacingly over the streets of Manhattan. Parks were closed because of the danger of falling trees.
Airlines canceled at least 1,300 U.S. flights in and out of the New York metropolitan area, causing a new round of disruptions that rippled across the country.
Sandy killed more than 100 people in 10 states, with most of the victims in New York and New Jersey. Long lines persisted at gas stations but were shorter than they were days ago. By early Thursday, more than 292,700 homes and business in New York state were without power, and another 403,000 in New Jersey lacked electricity.
Elena McDonnell lived through Sandy last week and remained without power in her Staten Island home, she didn't fear the storm and said it was just a blip in the cleanup efforts.
"We're going to go back in a little while and start packing more stuff," she said. "There's so much more to do."


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This past Saturday, the nondairy cheese industry rejoiced as thousands of vegans gripped their stomachs in post-vegan-pizza-overload. I celebrated (or supported said vegan-friendly industries) by enjoying the greasy heck out of a slice of breakfast pizza at Sizzle Pie, which I can't get enough, and by assembling some English Muffin pizzas for hungry friends later on in the day.
First up, the awesomely named Drugs Benedict slice from Sizzle Pie. It's one hell of a unique slice with super thin, whole wheat crust, creamy white bean and shallot spread, fried chunks of hash browns, "cheesy" tofu scramble, bacun bits, and sliced green onions. Somehow, I resisted the call of the Weekend Brunch slice + breakfast drink special, and went for the slice + salad combo ($6).
And we've quickly hit later on in the day! – I had friends over and they simply had no choice but to celebrate this Vegan Pizza Day. Seriously, I have no idea if they even knew it was happening. In general, there's something about English Muffins pizzas that I can't stand, but the novelty helps win me over. These mini pizzas are on whole wheat muffins with homemade basil tomato sauce and black olives. On the left is one of the fools with a mixture of cheddar and mozzarella Teese and spinach, and on the right there's mozzarella Daiya (shocking, but true – using it up from a project!) and as inspired by Sizzle Pie, a cashew pesto cream.


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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which detained two undocumented Irishmen earlier this week in Boston on charges of fraudulently obtaining driver's licenses, stated that is not specifically targeting the Boston Irish community.
Irish Central has also learned that the men first came to the attention of ICE investigators based on prior convictions for driving offenses.
"First and foremost, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not conduct 'sweeps or raids' to target illegal aliens indiscriminately. Our efforts in Massachusetts and nationwide are all targeted — targeting individuals that meet our civil immigration enforcement priorities," ICE spokesperson Russ Feinstein said on Friday.
"Our first priority is targeting convicted criminal aliens that pose a threat to public safety."
Feinstein said that last week's arrests in Boston "are part of an on-going enforcement action targeting at-large, criminal aliens and others who pose threats to the community.
"ICE has adopted common sense policies nationwide that ensure our immigration laws are enforced in a way that best enhances public safety, border security and the integrity of the immigration system.''
Sources told IrishCentral that the two Irishmen, who are currently being held at a detention center in Boston on charges of allegedly obtaining driver's licenses with a fraudulent document , first came to the attention of authorities due to driving convictions.
On Thursday the Irish Pastoral Center made a statement that the ICE "conducted what appears to have been an orchestrated raid in Massachusetts taking into ICE custody a number of Irish immigrants."
The center said, "A number of Irish immigrants have been altering their passports using fake visa stamps to obtain driver's licenses. This may have been a factor in some detentions."
No further information on the undocumented men's status has been revealed, but their situation has caused great concern in the Irish community in Boston, especially among those who are undocumented.
Kieran C. O'Sullivan, counselor at the Irish Pastoral Center in Dorchester, told IrishCentral that there has been an outflow of a support for the men in the Irish community.
O'Sullivan especially thanked "Congressman Richard Neal's staff who have reached out and offered their support."
"Immigration attorneys have also responded to the IrishCentral article, and called us to offer legal representation to Irish immigrants in need."
"Our offices have been inundated with calls from nervous undocumented immigrants worried about further detentions. The detention of Irish immigrants remains a major concern of ours," he added.
O'Sullivan and the center team, including chaplain Father John McCarthy, provide support for those who have been detained, and their families.
"These detentions and subsequent incarceration of hard working Irish immigrants underscores the immediate need for comprehensive immigration reform so our immigrants can regularize their status in the U.S.," O'Sullivan added.
The IPC will be holding free immigration counseling on May 7 at The Banshee, 934 Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester at 6:30 pm.


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Dearest friends, followers, and passersby:
It has been a few weeks since launching my Indiegogo campaign: "The Poet and the Flea: Send G.E. to the U.K.". Since then, I have received a number of contributions from generous funders. I truly appreciate these contributions and am eternally grateful to these funders for helping me inch one step further to achieving my dream.
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Time is running out, and I need your help!
I am trying to raise funds to go to Northern England for the filming of my short screenplay The Man Who Never Smiled, a contemporary film noir about the tragic fate of a father and his daughter. As the screenwriter, it is important for me to be on set for any last-minute changes. But the production company is working on a shoe-string budget and has no funds to get me there or even pay me. Please help me make my dream of becoming a professional screenwriter come true!
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My name is G. E. Gallas, and I am a screenwriter and graphic novelist (writer/illustrator). I will be making a trip to the U.K. early next year, and need your help to make my dreams come true!
1. My short screenplay, The Man Who Never Smiled (a contemporary film noir), is being produced by Dream Catcher Films in the North West of England. This film is being made on a tight budget, and there are no funds for me to get there. It's important for me to be there during filming so that I can make on-the-spot changes to the script and get hands-on experience in film production.
2. In between filming will be the perfect opportunity to visit London to research the 18th-Century poet-painter William Blake, the hero of my graphic novel The Poet and the Flea. I plan to visit Blake's grave as well as various museums that house his works. Seeing his works in person would be life changing. This would be my first time in England, and I hope to make this an unforgettable learning experience.
Your contributions will help cover expenses for transportation (airplane, train) and lodging. I truly appreciate any and all support, whether through contributions and/or spreading the word through social media (Twitter, etc.)!!
While in Europe, I plan to document my travels. When I return, I will share my photos and experiences with all of you through my blog gegallas.wordpress.com.
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John B. Stranges is University Professor at Niagara University. He began his career at Niagara in 1968, and served consecutively as a faculty member, department chair, Academic Vice President, and as the instituion's first University Professor. During his long tenure as chief academic officer, the university underwent a major expansion of its academic programs and professional accreditations and a substantial improvement of its faculty qualifications. In recognition of his service to the University and its students, Dr. Stranges has received the Father John J.Lynch Award, the Caritas Medal, the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, the national Delta Epsilon Sigma Distinguished Service Award, and the Niagara University Medal of Honor.
Focus of Teaching
Dr. Stranges currently teaches courses in both departments of Political Science and History. In the former, he teaches courses in American political thought and American foreign policy. In the latter, he teaches a course in United States history since World War II. His basic teaching strategy is to open a class with a brief commentary on assigned readings and generate discussion by posing questions to individual students or a pre-selected panel of students. Often, individual students will begin a session with their own analysis of assigned readings. The focus of discussion is frequently decision-making, informed by a definition leadership and an assessment of the character of the decision-maker. THe White House is often used as have appeared in the laboratory.
Current Research
Dr. Stranges is undertaking a study of the progress of American health care reform, comparing the American "system" with Canadian and European counterparts in areas ranging from origins and evolution to cost and outcomes. He also continues his research into the ways in which Western New York managed to deal with the historical problems of chemical contamination. His most recent publications have dealt with both aspects of his research.
Dr. Stranges' book, The Rainbow Never Fades: Niagara University 1856-2006, was published in 2007. His articles have appeared in the Columbia Journal of American Studies, ICON, National Issues in Higher Education, the Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, and the Columbia Library Journal.
Educational Background
Ph.D Columbia University. First Column Honors. Canada Council Fellow. B.A. Niagara University. Summa Cum Laude. Gold Medallist in Philosophy. Member. Columbia University Seminars on China and War and Peace. 1994-1995.
Current Involvement
Dr. Stranges is a member of the International Committee on the History of Technology. He is also the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative at Niagara.


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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - Instead of watching his son have to say no to the fun and sweet drinks his peers enjoyed, a Bloomfield Hills father decided to create one his son could enjoy.
Peter Andoni's son Alex was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when he was 7 years old. It was a diagnosis that greatly changed the family's lifestyle because Alex had to begin using an insulin pump and needles to tests his blood sugar as many as eight times a day
It also meant Alex had to say no to sugary drinks that so many kids love.
"My son is very athletic. We realized every time he came off the field or off the ice, the moms would be there handing out bug juice, Capri S, Hi C, Hawaiian Punch and every time he would look up asking if it was OK for him to consume these products and every time we had to give him the same answer," said Andoni, founder and CEO of Wow Water and Twisted Water.
Andoni, who owns and operates Shield's Pizza in metro Detroit, was stumped by the fact that he could not find a healthy hydration drink his son Alex could enjoy.
"Its tough enough being that age, having diabetes or any other issues and not to feel like you're a normal kid," said Andoni.
Andoni decided to create a drink for his son and developed Twisted Water and Wow Water. The drinks are like Gatorade, taste good and are diabetic-friendly.
"We have vitamins and electrolytes, but what we've really done is taken out the harmful products," said Andoni.
The drinks do not have high fructose corn syrup, no artificial flavors or colors and no caffeine.
He also covered the entire bottle in shrink wrap to protect the contents inside.
"Exposure to UV rays and sunlight can greatly diminish the quality of the vitamins," said Andoni.
Twisted Water and Wow Water are not just for children or diabetics, Andoni said anyone who worries about weight or good health can drink them.
The drinks are sold at several metro Detroit area stores including Hillers Market and Westborn Market. For a complete list, click here.
The Andoni family is donating a percentage of the profits from the drinks to research to find a cure for diabetes.
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Welcome to my inaugural column! I am Leslie Schermerhorn. I was appointed to the post of regional superintendent of McHenry County schools on May 1, 2012, and elected on Tuesday.
"Teachable Moments" is a monthly column to highlight the great things going on in our schools and to help strengthen the bond between our community, schools and families. We are all in this to transform the children of McHenry County from toddlers to educated, happy and productive members of our community. Only with everyone working together will we realize the optimum potential of our children.
My background is: 1. A wife and mother of two, Hank, 27, and Claire, 25; 2. An educator for 14 years, nine years as a middle school teacher, five years as an assistant principal in Chicago Public Schools; 3. A degree in law; and 4. A resident of McHenry County during my high school tenure and for the past 11 years.
I am excited for this opportunity to serve a broader base of students and to combine both my education and law backgrounds. Although, truth be told, I miss being with children on a daily basis.
What is a teachable moment? This is the nano-second when a child's eyes and ears perk up with curiosity. This is the time when a child is most receptive to thinking about and exploring a topic. Notice, I am not saying "absorbing." A child learns best when he or she is able to think critically. Giving a child/teen all the answers just shows how smart the adult is, not what the child has actually learned.
This sounds like a lot of educator gobbledygook? Please allow me to explain. Here is an example: You have your 10-year-old in the back seat driving to soccer practice. You ask, "What did you do in school today?" He/she responds, "Nothing." You say, "What do you mean 'nothing'? Certainly you did something." He/she says annoyed, "I don't know, just stuff." What might you do instead? Ask a specific question such as, "I saw red ribbons up all around your school today. What was that all about?" Or, "Is there anything going on at school about the elections?" This gives your child something specific to talk about.
The teachable moment for this month is a civics lesson. Have you ever asked your son/daughter why Veterans Day is celebrated? Many schools in the county are having Veterans Day activities.
Northwood Middle School paid tribute to our veterans on Thursday with keynote speaker Lt. Michael Keppen. On Monday, Marengo Community High School will host 2,000 students, staff and community members to honor local veterans. They expect at least 150 veterans at the program and veterans' reception. WGN-TV Anchor Robert Jordan will be the main speaker. The public is invited to attend.
Ask your son/daughter: Why do we honor our veterans? Why is freedom so important that people will risk their lives and go to war to defend it? How do Americans choose their leaders? Is that better than having kings and queens? Why or why not? Now, you have set the stage for your next teachable moment – discussion on the recent presidential election. This doesn't have to happen right away. It might be the next night at dinner or on the way to the bus stop.
Many schools in the county held mock presidential elections. If they haven't already asked you whom you voted for, I guarantee they're curious. So, do you tell them? How about asking your son/daughter: "If you could vote, who would you have voted for?" After they answer, ask them why. Then pose a challenge, "I think you need to do some more research on the candidates. Once you've gotten more information, come back so we can debate who would be the best president. Let's see if we agree or disagree on who was the best choice for president." Once the debate has concluded, go in for the kill: "Would you like to be president some day? Why or why not?" (This is a double bonus question because it gets your child envisioning themselves as a leader.)
Marengo High School has taken this civics lesson to a higher level with their legislative semester. Students align themselves with a political party, choose issues relevant to current events and have mock committee hearings. On Nov. 1, I had the privilege of watching students as they presented a bill to committee. The students dressed professionally, had done their research on the issue, and presented it to the committee members. The class was excited, engaged and well-spoken.
The students will be presenting their final bills from 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 in the Marengo High School Auditorium. The public is welcome to come and see these students shine.
• Leslie Schermerhorn is regional superintendent of McHenry County Schools.


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Family Auto Service opened its doors with a host of guests July 10 during a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at the old Heinz Gietz building, at 1027 Virginia Way.
"Our employees and our clients are part of the family," said district manager Rob Rowsell, explaining the origin of the new name of the company, which has two other branches, in East County. The facilities in La Mesa and rural Alpine have existed for 3 ½ and 11 years respectively.
Not to fear, said Rowsell to Gietz clients, promising: "We'll still be doing Mercedes repairs."
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Rowsell said he shares his story about his past because "everybody knows somebody who's in a similar situation and appears to be hopeless. I was that guy. If I can change, anybody can.
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Eglin AFB covers 464,000 acres in Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton counties. An Eglin permit is required to access the 250,000 acres of the Eglin reservation conditionally open to public recreation. Outdoor recreation permits and a comprehensive map and regulation summary are available from the Natural Resources Branch office (commonly known as Jackson Guard) located at 107 Hwy 85 North, in Niceville. All or portions of the Eglin reservation are subject to closure during military testing/training operations. If you want to bring a dog onto the area, check with the Natural Resources Branch office.
In addition to meeting permit requirements, all individuals are required to review the Public Access Map (PAM) located on the Eglin Force Support Squadron website prior to entering the Eglin AFB reservation for recreational purposes. The PAM is a graphical representation of daily or short term public access restrictions in support of military operations. Compliance with this instruction is mandatory. Increased scope and complexity of military operations is requiring more frequent short term, or daily closures. Jackson Guard has developed the PAM to inform the public via the internet of short term closure of otherwise open recreational areas. The PAM is based on the newly created alpha numeric Tactical Training Area (TTA) grid and graphically displays the current day's closure information and provides a 3-day forecast. The PAM is automatically updated daily at 5 p.m. The PAM is intended for recreational access planning purposes and is subject to change. Gates, barricades and/or range personnel will prohibit access in the event unscheduled missions require immediate closure of public accessible areas. Individuals found to be in violation of this guidance are subject to Eglin outdoor recreation privilege suspension.
Eglin has many outstanding natural features and bountiful outdoor recreational opportunities. Popular activities include: excellent deer, turkey and feral hog hunting; mobility impaired and youth Special Opportunity Hunts; fishing Eglin's 21 ponds; primitive camping; canoeing scenic waters; mountain biking in the Timberlake Recreation Area; and hiking the Florida National Scenic Trail. Eglin AFB is also home to more than 106 rare or listed plant species and animal species, 63 of which are considered globally rare. Included in this list is the threatened Okaloosa darter, which is found in only six creek systems in the central portion of the air force base.
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Before the weather gets unbearably hot (as we know it will in the TX summer) get outside with your toddler or preschooler and go on a fun family picnic! While the idea of having small children in wide open spaces may sound too exhausting, you can eliminate some of the stress with good planning. Anytime you leave the house with your kiddos, a great rule of thumb is to keep the outing as simple as possible. Cramming too many activities into one afternoon can lead to grumpy children and an exhausted mom.
1. Location, Location, Location – When deciding where to picnic start by doing it at a familiar place. You could even start in your own backyard or at a friend's house. Being familiar with your surroundings will give you peace of mind to be able to enjoy yourself. Once your kids are older or whenever you are more comfortable, venture out to a local park or zoo for your picnic festivities.
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