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The Yankees are 70-60 -- 9.5 GB in the East and 5 GB in the WC. They have 32 games remaining. They could be eliminated in September during the regular season. They could make the playoffs and be eliminated sometime in October (if so, nailing that date will be tricky, with the many off-days). If they win the World Series, the clinching date would be the "elimination" day.
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#1 Tiebreaker: Number of 2008 regular season NYY wins?
#2 Tiebreaker: What will be last game the 2008 Red Sox win? (examples: G160, ALDS 4, WS7)
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BRISTOL — In the one contested selectboard race in Bristol on Tuesday, Brian Fox bested John Moyers, 509-354, for a three-year seat formerly held by Carol Wells.
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We have been reading with great interest the articles in regard to the plans put before the City Council for an animal shelter. Since the organization of the Emmet County Animal Shelter in 2010, we have participated in fund raising events and other activities promoted by the organization.
Our involvement has been behind the scenes but long before the ECAS was organized, we have been advocates for rescuing cats and dogs. Our first concern was always seeking the advice of our Veterinarian for evaluation. The next procedure is to be sure the animal is spayed/neutered and has the required vaccinations. Yes, this does involve a special line item in our personal budget but when we review the number of animals we have found homes for, it is a reward that is only appreciated by those who have that unique care, concern, and love for those animals.
The disappointing and sad part of participating in this type of rescue work is for every animal's life you are saving, there is most likely someone down the street that has no time for these strays. They just continue to let them run and multiply in births. Those persons should be willing to help their neighborhood by spay and neutering. If everyone would work together on this issue instead of ignoring it and yet complain, we would have fewer strays. It is so easy to complain but so difficult to be of help.
Think how you as an individual could become active in preventing cruelty and suffering to animals, and help create a humane world for them through promoting respect and compassion with your support.
We would not be exaggerating if we said that we have rescued over 300 cats and have driven as far as Sioux City to find a shelter that had room to take them. While we were in Sioux City we paid the shelter the adoption fee for taking them in, we ate at a restaurant near the shelter, and bought gas before we returned home.
True we have had some sad experiences and those are tough to deal with. You never forget those times but have to overcome those anxieties with the positive rescues.
When we were married fifty years ago we both immediately recognized the love we had for animals. One of our challenging purposes in life has been to rescue and find shelter for homeless and neglected animals.
The proposed animal shelter would work toward the solution of over population of animals, support the improvement of anti-cruelty and animal control laws, promote foster and adoption programs, and accommodate a proper care and placement of animals.
YOU CAN BE THE SOLUTION! Help educate the public on the humane treatment of animals by reinforcing the need to approve the rezoning of 201 South 6th St. for an animal shelter that our City and County will be proud to have on the map. We hope the City Council will reconsider the need for this facility and the quality of life to these stray animals and at the same time will improve a building that needs upgrading.
In closing we love this quote by George Eliot, "Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
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Riders are encouraged to sign up for the first Lincoln Bicycle Commuter Challenge, which began May 1 as part of the Get Up & Ride National Bike Challenge to encourage people to bike more for transportation and recreation. Participation is free and open to all ages. Riders can register and begin tallying miles at any time through August 31, at endomondo.com/campaign/national.
The Lincoln Commuter Challenge is being organized by representatives from Cleaner Greener Lincoln, the Mayor's Environmental Task Force, WorkWell, WasteCap Nebraska and BicycLincoln. Prizes will be awarded in both the local and national challenges, and plans are under way for a Lincoln Commuter Challenge celebration in September.
In the national Challenge, Lincoln is currently 6th out of 593 communities. Lincoln has 396 registered riders as of Friday, May 4, and they have accumulated just over 5,200 miles in four days. Three Lincoln riders are in the top 200 nationally, and local organizations, such as UNL, 42, Cycle Works and LiCor Industries all rate in the top 50 out of more than 1,729 teams and more than 6,000 workplaces.
Riders may participate as individuals or as part of a 10-person team. Businesses can enter as many 10-person teams as they need to have employees participate. The national goal is to get 50,000 people to accumulate 10 million miles of bicycling in four months. At the end of the Challenge's first week, 17,292 were registered and over 192,000 miles recorded. Riders from all 50 states and the District of Columbia are participating. Nebraska is 3rd overall in the state race. Omaha-Council Bluffs, Kearney, Fremont, Hastings and South Sioux City, Nebraska/Sioux City, Iowa are competing. Omaha currently is 16th in the nation.
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Unfortunately, some sort of settlement was clearly reached, as the defendant Tuan Nguyen, represented by Graham Syfert (who has battled against Prenda on numerous fronts), recently withdrew all motions against Prenda, Steele and Duffy, so the court agreed to close the case without further investigation into the potential fraud on the court. Of course, in a bit of irony, the final order of business before closing the case is to... let another set of lawyers off the case, after they claimed conflict of interest among their clients (mainly because Brett Gibbs had filed a declaration implicating Steele, and they were representing both). It's a bit unfortunate that this case is closing, as it seemed like another one where a judge might suss out some clear examples of fraud on the court by Prenda (denying they were involved at all in this case is a big one, for example...). But, this case is now off the docket entirely. Hopefully Nguyen is cashing a nice settlement check from Steele, Hansmeier and Duffy.


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"What do you want for New Year's Eve Dinner? Lobster? Beef Tenderloin?"
"Not really."
"How about Pork Tenderloin stuffed with Prunes, herbs, and chestnuts?"
This is kind of a joke, as I've made two dinners recently have involved prune stuffing of various small animals.
But, hm, Pork sounds like a good choice, maybe something like Charcuterie Garni, but not so complicated?
1/2 tsp juniper berries, 1/2 tsp caraway seed, 1/2 tsp aniseed ground and mixed with curing mixture of sugar and salt.
Smoked Salmon with Fromage Blanc mixed with meyer lemon zest, juice, and thyme.
La Tur Cheese. So good!
Brown the Pork Chops. Give the apples a slight head start in the oven with hard cider. When chops are browned, place in pan, cover with warmed kraut and cook until done.
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Aug 4: Full Volume Database Refresh - Part 1
This weekend will be the final practice run (there's been one already) for a database refresh procedure I'll be working on for a further four weekends. It's a full copy of one of our production databases that forms part of a user acceptance test environment for a significant application upgrade due in the next couple of months.
Companies should run more development and test databases than production ones, to support multiple development streams and different phases of testing, such as system or user acceptance testing. Many of those databases will contain the same schema objects as production, but a tiny subset of the data. They pose an interesting challenge that I might write about one day.
But nothing is as reassuring as testing on the same database that's running in production already. It's an expensive business, of course, because you need sufficient disk space to support it and most businesses don't have 300Gb USB drives as an option. What I mean to say is that disk space isn't quite as cheap as I keep hearing because of the surrounding infrastructure and support costs. You might also want to use an identical server to run it on if you're interested in testing absolute performance. It depends on what your testing is supposed to achieve.
In this case, the main concerns relate to the data. It's a complex system and the testers need to be able to see the same data as production, which will then go through a week long flow of changes and checks and the same overnight batch runs as production. Essentially, the testers will simulate 'a week in the life' of this system.
I said earlier that this test database will form 'part of' a UAT environment, and that's adds a little to the complexity. Is it just me or does everyone want to design applications these days to use as many different databases, all talking to each other as possible? I strongly suspect the hands of architects here Might it be for performance reasons? Probably not when all of the databases sit on the same server! I don't know why, but I'm seeing this approach used more often. In this case, the test database is going to be co-operating with at least three other databases. However, we don't want most of those other databases to be refreshed, just the main one and another SQL Server database that the new application uses!
OK, down to business and the point of this blog. I'm not going to give you all of the details of a client's process, but let me higlight some of the main stages, challenges and possible solutions. I think this is fairly typical of other refresh procedures I've seen at other sites.
Copying the Data
We need the production data to appear in our full-volume test database. This can be the most time-consuming process (4 hours in our case), but it depends on what approach you take.
- Export the production data and import it into test. This is the most prone to failure and probably the slowest solution, even with Data Pump (which we can't use - this is a 9i database). It does have certain benefits, that will appear later in this discussion, but isn't a sensible option for large databases in my view. The database we're working on is around 140GB. Not too large by today's standards, but a little tricky to handle with exports. However, exports have been used for this refresh in the past, and I pity the poor DBA who had to do them!
- Copy the database files from one set of filesystems to another, possibly on a different server. This is essentially the approach we're taking because we're going to restore one of the hot backups of production to the test server and then perform recovery on it.
- Have an extra set of disk mirrors that can be temporarily broken away from the main production disks and mounted elsewhere. This can be a super-fast option but it's not available to us in this particular situation.
We're going to restore files to a new location, in other words 'Cloning a Database'.
Actually, I'll leave it there for now and post more later.
#1 - Pete_S said:
2007-08-04 09:04 - (Reply)
Is it just me or does everyone want to design applications these days to use as many different databases, all talking to each other as possible? - it's just you
Some of this possibly comes from the "single truth" notion - if you haven't copied it from another database it can't be out of sync, and in part it SoX and other governance ideas segregating data, then of course it could be data architects .
Having big enough data volumes to test on is no joke for sad people like me - in data warehouses a lot of our test is about query performance; to test year-to-date 2007 vs year-to-date 2006 we actually need a lot of data. Even getting query plans to match can be a struggle, just copying statistics does not always hack it - there are quirks with export table stats that annoy me greatly
#2 - Doug Burns said:
2007-08-04 09:08 - (Reply)
Some of this possibly comes from the "single truth" notion
Good point. In fact, these are called 'SDS refreshes' where SDS stands for Single Data Store (I think).
But I wonder what all those *other* databases are for. Seriously, every new app needs a new database these days
#3 - Marco Gralike said:
2007-08-04 09:46 - (Reply)
Three years ago I introduced the phenomena virtual machines in my company. Despite the first ROI regarding consolidating servers, it afterwards exploded into more environments (VM's that is). After discovering that it was relatively easy to clone complete environments, every team wanted more environments.
VMware can be a solution to these work intensive cloning, at least the moment Oracle also is goning to certify this. As far as I know, at least RAC will not be certified.
VMware is becoming very smart and even high volume environments are easy to clone. Of course you can ask yourself if testing is still done on the exact same environment and/or if you introduced other variable which cause you to compare apples against apples.
I started off with ~ 30 fysical servers voor development with almost 1 to 1 oracle environments (databases or Oracle application servers). Nowadays we have 6 servers running with approx. 8 oracle vmware dedicated environments on it. Regarding hardware costs we are cheaper, regarding work (maintaining it all)... Pfff
#4 - Dominic Delmolino said:
2007-08-04 19:39 - (Reply)
Good luck, Doug! We did this all the time from Prod to QA. We reduced the number of databases by consolidating the schemas -- new app = new schema, not new database. Challenges we encountered were related to encryption (can't have production keys outside of production) and localization of data values (stuff like production URLs being stored in table columns which needed to be updated to point at test URLs). Fun stuff -- but very useful if you can script it and do it repetitively. Try to make the filesystems the same -- makes things a lot easier. And really, why would they need to be different?
#5 - Dominic Brooks said:
2007-08-04 22:30 - (Reply)
>Is it just me or does everyone want to design applications these days to use as many different databases, all talking to each other as possible?
Yep, they're all mad out there. I find myself fighting this concept all the time. And most of the time, these different applications end up wanting to share their data around so you have to do so much extra work...
Also, many companies are focused on reducing their costs. So they're considering SE over EE etc, but they could make a killing by just briefly stopping when a new application comes along and asking themselves whether it could fit in new schemas on an existing database rather than needing a new database on new hardware, etc, etc.
The people with common sense lack influence...
#6 - Doug Burns said:
2007-08-04 22:57 - (Reply)
Hey, you're stealing material from part 2!
Only kidding
#7 - Pete_S said:
2007-08-05 07:52 - (Reply)
... and there is the need to obscure production data yet maintain integrity - some of my customers are quite secretive. Mangling names and addresses can be a headache and sometimes pointless if we are then comparing test results against live as some volume test where the unmangled is plain to view
#8 - Doug Burns said:
2007-08-05 08:05 - (Reply)
Sheesh! You think people would let me *finish* before supplying all the material via comments!
Again, only kidding
#9 - Eric said:
2007-08-05 08:32 - (Reply)
Every application it's own database is a concept I know from the Ingres and Sybase servers I have worked with. And since the architecture of SQLServer is derived from Sybase 4.7 or thereabouts, the same probably goes for that environment. The concept of a database is somewhat different and the footprint of a new database is definitely much smaller than that of an extra Oracle database. Hence it is more logical to introduce a new database for a new application.
When I encounter architectures like this I try to convince everybody the concept of a new database in Oracle most of the time can be implemented by a separate schema. And no separate database is necessary. Especially if I include arguments about backup schedules and other maintenance tasks that can be shared when using separate schema's instead of separate databases, people seem to agree more easily with me.
#10 - Doug Burns said:
2007-08-05 08:41 - (Reply)
I think you're right because I often see applications that were originally designed for Sybase and ported to Oracle that the vendor recommends should still use multiple databases. I can think of one recent example of this that caused no end of problems.
Then again, I see enough applications that have been developed in-house, specifically for Oracle, where there is still a tendency for everyone to want their 'own' database. You can't always make multiple schemas work, but I'm surprised how rarely I see people attempt it. I've worked at a few sites recently, though, where we've started to encourage designers and developers to move in that direction.
#11 - Mathew Butler 2007-08-05 20:00 - (Reply)
I've used clones for similar reasons in the past. I'm actually surprised that I've come across more than a few DBA that are not that familiar with them - in particular their restrictions. For example, the requirement to assign a new SID if the clone is of a database that will run on the same physical system as the clone.
As an aside, I seem to remember you mentioned in your blog some time ago about reading one of The Practical Performance Analyst OR The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis. I just wondered how you got on and what you thought...
#12 - David Aldridge said:
2007-08-06 11:26 - (Reply)
There's a lot to be said for having that ability to run fast copies of databases. Here our major systems (Siebel, Portal Infranet etc) are cloned overnight using SAN-based magic to be used as reporting instances the next day, and we have separate and full-sized performance testing environments for every major system plus uaer acceptance, integration and development databases.
Filling in the db access forms to get a user id actually takes longer than making a copy of the database, it seems.
#13 - Doug Burns said:
2007-08-06 19:45 - (Reply)
Filling in the db access forms to get a user id actually takes longer than making a copy of the database, it seems.
Well it would be no fun creating all of these environments if we actually let you access them!
#14 - David Aldridge said:
2007-08-06 19:54 - (Reply)
Oh, you are _so_ hired. When can you start?
#15 - Doug Burns said:
2007-08-07 04:56 - (Reply)
As an aside, I seem to remember you mentioned in your blog some time ago about reading one of The Practical Performance Analyst OR The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis. I just wondered how you got on and what you thought...
[Slightly embarassed mumbling ...]
It was The Practical Performance Analyst. I started to read it, didn't get on too well with the writing style although I'm not sure why, skim-read some other bits but will revisit it properly. (I'm still not sure it's my cup of tea, though, even though everyone else seems to swear by it.)
The problem is that I have the following in a reading pile.
Jonathan's CBO book (a proper read, performing the examples).
Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals.
Relational Database Index Design and the Optimisers.
And I haven't even bought Tom Kyte's most recent book.
Etc, etc, etc.
I'm struggling to find the time to concentrate properly on these and the list just keeps growing, but I suspect I won't get back to Gunther until I've read those.
I suppose a bit less time blogging might help!
#16 - Mathew Butler 2007-08-07 13:20 - (Reply)
Funnily, these are on my todo list as well, along with a bundle of J2EE stuff that I keep trying to get my head into.
Unfortunately, there is never any time at work, and doing too much of this stuff at home is a no-no.
I really don't know how you manage to find the time to maintain a blog ( and now two!)
#17 - Doug Burns said:
2007-08-07 17:28 - (Reply)
I really don't know how you manage to find the time to maintain a blog ( and now two!)
Oh, it's easy! I just don't read any useful and interesting books any more.
If things go according to schedule, I should have regressed to a state of total ignorance by Christmas
Really, it's not that much of a commitment. I spend much more time on other things.


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Faaantastic looking Norma....I'd hit it!
Bob,Thanks! Do you mean the plaster one or the real Detroit style pizzas? Norma
As long as it comes from your loving hands Norma.....
We need a Nobel Prize for papier mache pizzas.
In case anyone's interested, I just posted, on the Pizza Equipment thread, my recent discovery, that the Container Store's private label Clear Storage Boxes make terrific (and cheap) dough proofing boxes:http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,23305.msg236360.html#msg236360Gene
Gene,Are the clear storage boxes from the Container Store made with food safe plastic? That would be a concern I would have working in a commercial environment. I know the plastic bags I use to store my dough balls at market have to be food safe plastic bags.Norma
Actually, the Dough Doctor raised the issue on my original thread - and gave me info that I did not know. The boxes are "soft plastic," which the Doc says is required, but one would need to ask the Container Store if the plastic is food grade. I'll try emailing them and see what response I get and post the response here if I get it. But for now, I would assume that if some kind of official grading is required, that the Container Store would not even apply for one for boxes intended for shoes.So I guess that leaves the commercial sector out, but I still think they're great for home use. I would also guess, since you've already got an operating business, that you've already got your proofing boxes, aluminum bowls or whatever you use.Gene
Norma,Good luck on Monday with the market manager. I hope you get the new location, if anyone deserves it I think it should go to you.Gus looks extra happy now it seems since he has your homemade pizza sitting on his tray. I think the scale/size of the pizza in a pan is perfect for Gus...you did a faaantastic job on that beauty!
Definitely Nobel Papier Mache Peace Price potential.Gene
Thanks Gene!Norma


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (October 13, 2006) - ETSU newcomer Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) advanced to the round of 32 in the main draw of the ITA Southeast Regional Championships hosted by the University of North Carolina.
Stupak defeated No. 70 Sara Anundsen of
"This was just a great win for Yevgeniya today, she played really tough and this was the highlight of the day," said head coach Steve Brooks
Senior Masha Ilina (
"Olya has been struggling with a leg injury for the last few weeks and she re-injured it yesterday in doubles. She tried as hard as she could and gave it everything she had," added Brooks. "Masha had a really good tournament. She has been struggling this fall but came out here and had a couple of good wins and she really played well in this tournament.
In doubles action, Ilina and Stupak fell to the No. 1 Sara Anundsen and Jenna Long of
"We were up 2-1 early in this match and I was really beginning to think we could do it, but before I knew it we weren't up anymore. I think this is the first time ETSU has ever played a team that has been ranked No. 1," said Brooks.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — At his monthly news conference following the European Central Bank's policy-setting meeting, President Mario Draghi on Thursday answered questions from reporters.
Here are some highlights of the things he said:
The ECB kept its key refinancing rate at the record low of 0.5 percent on Thursday. For the first time, it also gave some forward-looking guidance on where it expects interest rates to be in coming months.
"The Governing Council expects the key ECB interest rates to remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time."
Reporters pressed Draghi to be more specific on how long rates would remain low. Draghi would not be drawn.
"An extended period of time is an extended period of time."
Some experts said the decision to provide guidance was meant to bring down borrowing rates in the open market. They had been rising in recent weeks since the U.S. Federal Reserve said it could soon pull back on its monetary stimulus.
Draghi denied the ECB was responding to decisions made by the Fed.
"We are not reacting to other central banks' monetary policy decisions."
Portugal has plunged into a political crisis amid fears that the junior party in the ruling coalition might pull its support from the government. It disagrees with the scale of the austerity policies the government is implementing as a condition of its bailout program. That threw European financial markets into a tailspin this week, reigniting fears of another flare-up in the eurozone debt crisis.
"Portugal has achieved very remarkable results. It's been a painful route and the results that have been achieved have been quite significant and remarkable, if not outstanding."
The ECB is tasked with keeping the consumer price inflation rate at or near 2 percent. It was 1.6 percent in June, up from 1.4 percent in May. Draghi said inflation was unlikely to keep rising and pass the target.
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Two staff members from the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of the National Economy have completed an UNCTAD training programme designed to familiarize them with the activities of UNCTAD and the work of other United Nations agencies in Geneva. Mr. Khader Daraghma and Ms. Suha Awadallah, were the 4th group of Palestinian Authority staff members to receive the training. The programme is designed to supplement the annual training offered to Palestinian government staff at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Geneva component is organized by UNCTAD's Assistance to the Palestinian People Unit (APPU), in collaboration with the United Nations' Division for Palestinian Rights, based in New York.
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I'm 18 years old and I'm so excited to start using a bento box. For me it's not just eating in a different container- It's... actually eating a lunch! Lunch for me has always been a thing to dread. I survived just these past two years eating only apple slices, grapes and diet Coke for lunch. I was not a happy camper and would stuff my face as soon as I got home. It was awful!
I have about 10 extra pounds I want to lose- but in a healthy way, one that I will be able to stick with the rest of my life. I already made some big changes like switching my usual bowl of sugary cereal for reduced sugar oatmeal, switching my beloved but unhealthy Diet Cokes for tea or water, and switching my usual snacky foods for apples and bananas. I exercise and I eat pretty well- I just need to work on not snacking too much! Planning and eating a lunch will definetely help me, and the fact that my Bento box is so adorable will keep me from feeling self conscious (though I'm 18 now, and getting to the point where I really don't care what others think!)
I'm glad I found this site and I hope to make some new friends from all over the world on here.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - MIT's Sharon Prange led all scorers with a career-high 12 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the free-throw line in the Engineers' 72-41 loss to Emmanuel College on Thursday night. As a team, Tech (2-3) had an impressive performance at the charity stripe, making 22 of 34 attempts. Karen Kinnaman tallied 11 points and three steals while Christa Margossian had two blocks. Michal Ruchelsman's seven points all came from the free-throw line as Jasmin Moghbeli collected a team-high five rebounds.


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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A pizza restaurant in Spokane, Wash., is offering 200 free pies for help in tracking down a robber who hit a store last night. KXLY-TV says a Pizza Rita owner made that offer after a robber made off with an unknown amount of cash and tips from an outlet on North Wall Street. Spokane police are also looking for the suspect.


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Raymond B. Oberholzer, age 86, a resident of the Penn Hall Nursing Center of Chambersburg and formerly of Shady Grove, Pa., died at 5 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in the nursing center.
Raymond B. Oberholzer, age 86, a resident of the Penn Hall Nursing Center of Chambersburg and formerly of Shady Grove, Pa., died at 5 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in the nursing center. Born Oct. 9, 1926, in Greene Township, Franklin County, Pa., he was the son of the late Aaron and Vallie (Barkdoll) Oberholzer. He and his wife, Ruby C. (Zeger) Oberholzer, a resident of the Penn Hall Retirement Community, were married Aug. 15, 1948, in Shady Grove. Raymond was an electrician and home contractor having owned Oberholzer's Electric. In June 1997, he retired after 17 years as the assistant director of maintenance at Menno Haven of Chambersburg. He was a member of the Trinity Fellowship Church of The Brethren (formerly Prices) of Waynesboro where he served on various church committees. Raymond was a member of The Gideon's International, served on the Greencastle-Antrim School Board and did volunteer work for several years at Menno Haven. He enjoyed woodworking, making furniture and chair caning. Surviving family in addition to his wife of 64 years are one son Raymond B. (wife Cindy) Oberholzer Jr., Boonsboro, Md., five daughters Ramonna S. (husband Scott) Dayley, Greencastle, Rebecca D. (husband Ray) Shultz, Waynesboro, Rosanne K. (husband Arlen) Lindsay, Greencastle, Rayetta J. (husband Gene) Spangler, Mercersburg, Rhonda J. (husband Mac) McClelland, Nashville Tenn., three sisters Vada Henesey, Hagerstown, Md., Inez (husband Lester) Culp, Goshen, Ind., Rachel Horst, Chambersburg, 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one brother Wilmer Oberholzer and one sister Josephine Grove. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 10:30 a.m. from the Trinity Fellowship Church Of The Brethren, 10610 Wayne Highway, Waynesboro, with the ministry of the church officiating. Burial will be in the adjoining Antietam Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Harold M. Zimmerman And Son Funeral Home, 45 S. Carlisle St., Greencastle, and at the church one hour before the service on Saturday. Memorial contributions may be given in his memory to the Penn Hall Benevolent Care Fund, 1425 Philadelphia Ave., Chambersburg, Pa. 17201. Online condolences may be expressed at: www.zimmermanfh.com


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A new coastal current: the Southwest MAdagascar Coastal Current (SMACC) has been uncovered by researchers at the University of the Cape Town, South Africa.The lead author of the paper (in the Geophysical Research Letters) announcing the discovery is Mr.Heriniaina Juliano Dani Ramanantsoa, who coincidentally hails from Madagascar and is a PhD student at the Department of Oceanography, University of the Cape Town.
SMACC flows along the southwestern coast of Madagascar toward the south. The SMACC is a relatively shallow (<300 m) and narrow (<100 km wide) warm and salty surface current, which is more intense in summer and reduced in winter. The Southwest MAdagascar Coastal Current has a downstream impact on the upwelling system at the south of Madagascar which is a physical process inducing local fertilization. As such, the Southwest MAdagascar Coastal Current has key implications for studies about the greater Agulhas Current system, remote connections between oceanographic systems, biophysical coupling in upwelling systems, fisheries management, local livelihoods, and so forth. The uncovering of the SMACC has significant implications for the improved broader understanding of ocean systems around the world.
More details @ Ramanantsoa, J. D., Penven, P., Krug, M., Gula, J., & Rouault, M. (2018). Uncovering a New Current: The Southwest MAdagascar Coastal Current. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(4), 1930-1938.


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In general, issues we deem to be illiquid (having a liquidity grade below 3) are usually convertibles with an outstanding dollar amount of less than $50 million. These issues normally command wide bid/ask spreads that make it difficult for investors to trade and realize the total returns that can be achieved on liquid convertibles. As a result, we recommend investors only focus on our Especially Recommended liquid issues, found on the third page of this section each week, and note that the illiquid issues that can be found on this list are at the request of subscribers and we do not include them in our performance calculations.
Still, even with liquid issues, from time to time anomalies will occur in convertible trading that appear to be too good to be true, for buyers, and a potential nightmare, for sellers. This situation can occur when the underlying stock, of a once liquid and call protected issue, has moved substantially to the point where it is trading on its conversion value (well above par) and institutional and individual hedgers have a difficult time borrowing the underlying stock to set up a short-sale hedge. In this scenario, the issue may trade at parity (conversion value) or even for parity less accrued. Technically, this should not happen. The remaining time value of the call protected warrant should justify some premium over parity being paid to sellers, otherwise they are giving away the warrant for nothing, plus, in some cases, the accrued interest due the sellers.
Institutional hedgers usually trade convertibles in large lots of $500,000 or more. If the underlying stock is, or becomes, thinly traded, it may take days for the institution to borrow (shortsell) the stock to set up a hedge. When the convertible is deep-in-the-money (trading on its conversion value and well above par) the institution will be vulnerable to a decline in the stock until the hedge is fully set up. To decrease its risk, the hedger will often bid below par to gain a cushion against a correction in the stock. Usually, sellers, of an issue in this scenario, will be reluctant to accept anything less than par plus accrued, and as a result, liquidity in the issue will usually dry up and the issue will be hard to trade. Still, if holders are looking to get out, sometimes they will accept a price below par, because converting will result in the loss of any accrued interest, plus the stock price may drop before conversion takes place and the stock can be sold.
First of all, this type of situation for once liquid issues is rare because the dollar value trading volume on the underlying stocks usually are well in excess of $1 million per day, making them fairly easy to borrow. However, conditions can change, (i.e., the stock falls out of favor due to bad earnings, news, etc.), to the point where buyers will not meet sellers' prices and the liquidity in the common diminishes, thereby restricting convertible hedgers.
Hold: If you like the prospects of the underlying common stock and are willing to accept the current yield of the issue and ride out minor ups and downs in the common's price, hold the convertible until the call protection expires in expectation that the company will soon after call the issue (especially in the case of convertible bonds where forced conversion will improve the companies balance sheet.)
Wait For Your Price: Another choice for individual investors is that most institutions trade in large lots that are too big for the average individual investors. As a result, even though the issue appears to have become illiquid, by being patient and offering small lots at a price that is at parity, plus accrued and possibly a small premium, you may be able to pickup orders from individual investors who like the prospects of the underlying common stock.
Try To Short The Underlying Stock Yourself: Even though institutions are having a hard time borrowing the stock to set up a short-sale hedge, usually they are trying to accomplish the hedge on a large scale. Most individual investors, though, will have much smaller positions to hedge and may have an easier time borrowing the shares to sell short, locking in the current conversion value of the position. Recapping a short-sale transaction (see our lead article in the April 23, 2007 edition); brokerage houses usually have 3 types of accounts; cash, margin, and short. The convertible bonds or preferreds purchased will be held in a margin account. Even though these issues can be converted into common stock, to set up a short position you must borrow existing outstanding shares to short sell. This debit will be placed in a short account. Short sales are marked-to-market every night, whereas convertible bonds held may or may not be priced every night. If the stock underlying the short sale increases, your cash or margin account will be charged interest on the difference, the loss incurred (however, since the bond trades on conversion value, the bond or preferred should go up the same amount creating a wash). The reverse will also be true; if the stock goes down you will receive interest on your profit (the profit, though, should be offset by the loss in the convertible) until you buy back the short sale shares.
The purpose of this type of hedge is to lock in the current conversion value of the convertible and capture the yield advantage between the convertible and the common. The hedge can be maintained for as long as the hedger desires and be terminated by either buying the shares back, or in the case of getting out of a convertible, converting after a payment date, once the issue becomes callable or waiting until conversion is forced and then paying back the borrowed shares with the conversion shares. (Note, however, the lender of the shares can request the shares back, terminating the hedge prematurely and requiring the reestablishment of the hedge. But this is a rare occurrence.)
Write A Deep In-The-Money Call: If the underlying common in optionable, writing a long-term deep-in-the-money call that expires after the next payment date is an alternative to short selling. Since the option is deep-in-the-money it should offer downside protection against a pullback in the stock. The time premium buyers will likely pay may also allow you to get out of the convertible at a premium, depending on commission costs and the size of the position.
Accept What The Market Is Offering: Usually, this option should only be taken if holders absolutely want to get out of the position as soon as possible no matter the cost. Hopefully, holders will have realized a capital gain on the convertible that will ease the frustration of selling below parity.
Convertible buyers looking through our publication may from time to time see a call protected issue that appears to be trading below conversion value and view the issue as a screaming buy. In reality, most of these trades are between institution buyers involving large lots, but at times they can also be based on small lot trades. Still, for buyers, getting into the position may be a bargain, but, at the same time, you may have to pay the same penalty if you want to get out of the position quickly.
For sellers of these convertibles patience and persistence is often the key. While you may not be offered parity plus accrued today, tomorrow may be a different story. In addition, selling a large position by small lots at a time may attract individual investors, or setting up a short-sale hedge a little at a time may give individual investors an edge over institutional players who deal in large positions.


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In their defense I did manage to download a huge (197MB) update (V22.214.171.124) and fix most of the problems I had. Those of you with major problems should consider doing the same, but my point is I should not have had to completely download a whole new version.
Nero AG you need to listen to your customers and fix your software problems, more importantly don't mass produce garbage software and 'stick it' to your customers. Try reading your users comments.
I still like and prefer using Nero for burning discs, but I'm now using the Micro version - only 12.6 MB.
These problems have not been going on for days, weeks, months, but over a year now!!!!! If you are new to Nero or thinking about buying Nero, "WOE UNTO YOU". You had better be a technical guru. But, there in lays the problem, Nero is designed for the None-Technical person.
I have been trying to get Nero vision to work for several weeks now, on various types of PC's....and havent managed to burn 1 DVD project...and I wasnt even trying to burn to DVD disk...only to save the project to the HardDrive in a format that could be burned later...always various types of errors, re-code problems, freezing, crashing and corruption of source media...the errors arent even consistant
I have been trying to get Nero vision to work for several weeks now, on various types of PC's....and havent managed to burn 1 DVD project...and I wasnt even trying to burn to DVD disk...only to save the project to the HardDrive in a format that could be burned later...always various types of errors, re-code problems, freezing, crashing and corruption of source media...the errors arent even consistant
Need Proof - Nero Scout, Nero Mobile(for Smartphones, which pops up everytime I connect my Smartpohne to my computert even though I tell it to ignore it), and Nero Home
They need to refocus what people buy Nero for - to burn Cds and DVD, and quit trying to be all things to all people.
I say this as I uninstall the latest install of Ver 7 which keeps crashing on install and read elsewhere that the new version has issues(which is something you think they could have working correctly).
I have trialed and reviewed a lot of burning software over the years , rangeing in price from £15.00 to over
£1000.00 , and i stand by what i said.
A lot of people only use nero because it comes bundled
with the majority of cd/dvd writers.
You only have to look on all the nero forums , official
and unofficial , to see the large number of people who
have problems with nero.
The advice given , by some outlets , to purchasers of PCs with nero pre-installed is to un-install.
The main trouble with nero is that it try's to do everything and ends up a mish-mash of programs.
Out of curiosity i tried 126.96.36.199A and i see that nothing has changed-still rubbish.
Why people use nero , when there is a wealth of good software out there , is beyond me.
I have encountered just a few Nero ShowTime problems which I have described on the Nero Unofficial Forum on this site.
However this URL/page says:
"Operating Systems: Win2k/ Win95/ Win98/ WinME/ WinNT/ WinXP"
However Nero Burning ROM v18.104.22.168 through to Nero Burning ROM v220.127.116.11A do NOT run on Win95/Win98/WinME, as far as I'm aware?
Anyhow I just tried Nero Burning ROM v22.214.171.124 on Windows ME and the install hung.
I just tried Nero Burning ROM v22.214.171.124A on Windows ME and the Nero installer said
"Nero Product Setup: This version doesn't support Windows 95/98/ME"
Admins please fix this URL/page to detail correctly what versions of Nero run on what operating systems.
Thank you in advance.
As far as the software goes, I've always used it and it works great. No problems here.
with out a doubt the best.
Also it should be noted that this release should be compatible with Windows Vista.
I have Vista installed and have not encountered any problems with it as it seems to be compatble. I am using Windows Vista RC2 Build 5744 Beta 2, on a AMD Athlon 2400, MSI mobo, 1 gb ramm and 2 western digital drives.
That's all for now folks!
Anyway, tried burning 2 other dvds this morning and Recode works fine! It's just the one dvd. Computing drives me nuts. Anyone know how to network and secure connections?
The backbone of it is where it has the experience for being the best media burner/reader/ripper for over a decade. Nero Burning Rom and Nero Express are and have been that standard of excellence fo compare all other products of their kind.
They also have improved and tightened Nero recode II and Nero Vision that they are now the top for equivelent video products. All of these keep being upgraded, debugged and passed on free to all Nero 7 Ultra Edition users. Even the latest upgrade to Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced is a free upgrade to verson 7 users.
No one come close to packing all of their useful software, which continually improves and adds functionality.
With Nero, it is always true that they are commited to continuous improvement. The never products of their incredibly large suite keep being enhanced and becoming more and more stable and useful.
Working with Multimedia keeps requiring more expertise. Especially with the poison that Sony/BMG, Apple and Microsoft has added to increase complexity and lower quality.
Unfortunately there are many that don't understand the fact that "they don't understand" and fly off the handle with posting complaints before they don't have the expertise, experience and patience to properly diagose problems.
It is amnazing that someone complains that Nero has grown with the industry and offers so much functionality in their suite that it bothers them. If you don't want to learn or use some part of the suite, THEN DON'T. To complain publically really makes one look so foolish.
It is NOT too complex for anyone. Just don't use what you don't want to use. For example, most of the time when ripping/burning, I choose the incredibly simple Nero Express interface. When I need some come complexity, I then will go to Nero Rom, which can do everything that anyone can dream of.
Nero Recod II, someone can bring in a file, make a couple of clicks and off it goes. No complexity unless one needs it or wants it.
Backitup, use the Wizards if you want.
It is the user's choice on complexity. everyone doesn't need to be a high end user.
The most amazing comment is bluemoon. I would bet my house that bluemoon's problem is NOT because of Nero, but ignorance, media, PC issues, hardware issues. Probably is he reboots he will be fine. OR, don't use that cheap media that has a retail stores name on it. Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim (not the chinese made Verbatim), and media issues will go away. Memorex, HP, "Store labeled", are all made in mainland China in the cheapest possible way, by CMC.
Now, my computer is 1/3 faster than it was and my crashing in Oblivion has totally stopped. Guess I found out what was causing all my gaming problems.
Only thing now is I need a new cd/dvd burning program that ISNT like this one.
Nero v220.127.116.11b is a program one loads onto your computer if you wish to stuff up your computer. It takes over EVERYTHING and then you find you have crashes repeatedly.
It took me 10 hours to delete almost everything (I say almost, because I am still finding bits here and there all over the computer and in regedit.} of Nero off this computer. To do this I had to start the computer in safe mode, It was the only way XP would load.
This is not the first time I have had trouble with Nero but it is definitely the LAST time I will try Nero.
I know I will never remove all of Nero 7 until I format the drive, which I intend to do once again shortly.
I wish Nero well as they try to work out a better way on how they can control your computer totally, as Windows does, but at least Windows allows you some choices of your own.
Burning Rom works really great. I bet that at least 99% of the problems blamed on Nero are hardware, media and software problems that are NOT Nero's fault. One of the main burning problems is Media that the burner does not "like." After LG recommended some media I chose Verbatim and have had 400 out of 400 successful burns at 16x. You don't realize how great a simple burning app like this is until you try to use other burning apps.
Nero Vision works great and the latest versions utilize all of the space allocated. The only problem I've had with Nero Vision is getting Automatic bookmarks to work. I just don't use it. Perhaps there could be more options for the Menu Interface, but considering that Nero Vision is only one program in a suite of apps it is well worth the money. Note that Dolby Digital should be chosen over LPCM to increase the amount of Video space unless your DVD player is very, very old and can't play Dolby Digital.
Nero Recode works very well. I believe Nero Digital AVC is currently number one (by a small margin) compared to the other available codecs for encoding H. 264 files. You can even convert to Divx compatible format using MP4CAM2AVI most files. The "Main Movie" DVD-9 to DVD-5 option is the easiest I have seen. If your movie will fit the DVD-5 or encodes at 90% I recommend Nero Recode. If you have a HDTV or the compression needs to be fairly high, I tend towards DVD Rebuilder Pro. On a Standard Definition TV, Nero Recode does such a great job it would be almost impossible to tell the difference between programs such as DVD Shrink, Nero Recode and DVD Rebuilder Pro unless the compression (long movie) was really high (ie 60%).
Nero Showtime works well, but on my HDTV seems to have a constant black bar at the top. I use WMP11, Zoomplayr Pro WMV and VLC with the latest K-Lite codec pack and NVidia's PureVideo for DVD's.
Nero Home is difficult to use and needs to be redesigned. I don't see anyone really using this until it is.
As a Suite, if you use two or three of the main apps Nero is well worth the money and the interface while initially daunting to some just makes sense once you've used it a few times and the product is amazingly stable despite all the blaming to the contrary. I believe that Nero Burning ROM should be a standalone product that costs $25-$30 for people that only need to burn.
I bought Nero 7 Premium. after installing I faced some technical issues - some of the features didn't work. I asked for a technical support - they reply me after a week with no help. I asked again but with no reply. I appealed to the consumer support but instead of helping me they wrote: "Please be advised that we are unable to offer a refund, as defined by our terms of trade. These terms were accepted with the purchase of Nero from our website ..." they didn't even helped me!!!!!!!
The current situation is that I payed money for a software that doesn't work and they won't help me!!!!
I'm still having to use other software that I had to buy to do that single task.
I have not seen anything in this latest release to convince me to buy any later version..
than 90% peoples using nero burning software inthe world.
I though I would give Roxio another try and installed v7.5 which seemed OK but was awkward and advanced features where hidden or didn't exist. I upgraded to v8.0 and things got even worst I liked v7.5 much better. I then found that Roxio was tagging all of my files with this string, ":Roxio EMC Stream:$DATA", which I have yet to purge and when I uninstalled Roxio I found that I still had 1500 registry entries causing havoc to my system. Not only that but it seems to still have some hidden threads running which CONTINUE to tag my new files. I would suggest to all, NEVER install or buy Easy Media Creator unless you don't care about your system being corrupted by this poorly written program, which is intentional on their part.
With that said I pretty much disagree with Jon L. Jacobi from PC World he did make some good points but misses the mark over all, you can tell which side of the bread his butters on and this is often the case with PC magazines unfortunately.
Nero is by far the best all-in-one package out there. It's not perfect but it does a pretty good job at most things it does. I've been using it for a decade now and have had very little problems with it. There really isn't much difference between v6 to v7 but one note about v7 DO NOT install the Scout crap'Ola as it runs several processes in the back ground all the time, this is were the bloat comes in not because the program is a 100MB plus. The old programs all together add up close to the size of the new package so the program has not bloated in that sense. As to Nero not being simple, to some degree that is true but how do you make something powerful and provide options without adding complexity to the program. I didn't find Roxio easy unless I was just doing a simple burn and in fact it was somewhat frustrating when I found it wouldn't do certain stuff I could do in Nero.
Matt Mattero Ministries
I upgraded from 6.6 to 184.108.40.206b and had nothing but problems. not only did nero fail to work properly, but it also causedsome other burning programs to mess up.
I uninstalled it and reinstalled 6.6 and its smoothing sailing again.
Yes, Nero 6 will work, then so would Nero 5. Things change and products move on. I'm using Nero 7 and don't find any problems with it. There was a few minor bugs at the outset, but there is a new update and the problems appear to be ironed out. That was the standard procedure with Nero 6; update, bugs, fix, update...
People speak of Nero 6 being bloated, so that is a lame argument against Nero 7. The suite is intended to be comprehensive. How much space would it take to load separate apps for all the things the apps in Nero 7 can do? If the difference in space is a problem from Nero 6 to 7, then the user shouldn't be working with Video files, which are notoriously large.
Nero has guides to assist those who haven't learned to utilize the different functions in the suite. If the user has problems with the number of functions, the possibly they should try Sonic's Creator suite (Roxio), which is intended to be more user friendly. Nero was intended to be more for the power user and didn't "dumb down" the interface.
My impression of Nero 7: It's a comprehensive burning suite intended for the power user. Most of the needs a user will encounter are served by this suite. "Big", but I like one stop shopping. It's a good suite of apps and I like it.
I installed Nero 7 (without reading: shareware, trial) and guess what? it overwrote my good version with some nonsense, trial 30-day offer, a mess!
Nero 7.xx is bloated, OK!
There are two trends in the software business today:
- Work hard at it to come up with newer versions, more bloat and confusion, because of the greed, and,
- Sell some junk, then make money on "subscriptions", which is more greed...
Never subscribe if you don't have to, and "if ain't broke, don't fix it" !
If you wish to just make copies of existing DVD's and CD's then just use Alchohol 120%- as that program makes an exact dupe of the oroginal and does not remove the pooprotection, thereby the program has not been made illegal yet. I have seen a few errors in the copy process with Alchohol, but if you run DVD Region + CSS Free, which is the primary piece of crap that keeps a direct copy from happening, it will allow the copy to go through.
DVD Region + CSS Free is legal, cos it does not remove the protection... It simply turns it off. No DVD products are affected by it. It is a great tool, you can find it by searching for it, it is available all over the place.
NVE4 produced excellent slideshow - animated icons, equalise feature works (at last!) and fixes the poor image better than I could manually
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,123119,00.asp
There are new features on the Roxio product that look good if you think you'll use them.
22.214.171.124 has.
best wishes
Been using it for years. Easy detailed settings to get the exact performance I need (from error correction, or not...).
Never had problems... except when original is messed up (but can't blame nero for that).
I guess there is always room for improvement.
Works w/ Shrink, works w/ my serial from previous versions.
If it too complicated to operate, try switching from advanced mode to standard? I prefer std mode myself.
I have been using Nero for over a year now. It has excellent DVD burning functions (if you follow the instructions).
I am also familiar with other programs such as CloneDVD2, DVD2one etc. They are all great, especially for getting the DVD files to the point where I choose to use "Nero" for the actual burning.
Also, in Nero, the "create data DVD/CD feature is expecially handy for fast backing up/copying files to DVD/CD that are then completely portable and compatible with any other computer.
In addition, the Nero "Backitup" is great for backing up your entire computer or any part of the data base with several choices in method.
Nero is the program I trust the most for consistant reliability.
robert, trying to use my OEM nero 22.214.171.124.
SCSI Exec, HA 2, TA 0, LUN 0, buffer 0x033C0000
Status: 0x02 (0x03, SCSI_ABORTED)
HA-Status 0x10 (0x0A, SCSI_HASTAT_REQUEST_SENSE_FAILED)
TA-Status 0x00 (0x00, OK)
Sense Key: 0x05 (KEY_ILLEGAL_REQUEST)
Sense Code: 0x26
Sense Qual: 0x02
CDB Data: 0x2A 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
Sense Data: 0xF0 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x26 0x02
For some reason, NERO stopped working correctly when writing "no-multisession" data DVD+Rs; the problem is in 188.8.131.52 and 188.8.131.52 and perhaps also in 18.104.22.168; uninstalling, using the clean tools, and re-installing 126.96.36.199 solves the problem so it isn't the media nor a bad firmware.
The problem is that somehow the track doesn't get closed; diagnostic tools indicate a closing problem (the track isn't closed hence the session can't be closed hence the disc can't be finalized).
188.8.131.52 and 22.214.171.124 both write DVD+RW correctly, even writing a DVD+RW and then using the same compilation on a DVD+R causes the problem.
22.214.171.124 works absolutely brilliantly on a LG burner, it's just an issue with regression testing on the Pioneer.
I therefore voted "Poor".
***** For me
I give it 2 thumbs up in a BIG BIG way
IT DOES NOT DECRYPT COPY-PROTECTED DVDs. So all the fancy-smancy DVD Video features are pretty useless unless you use a companion 3rd party program like DVD Decrypter. But then, you might as well just use the free DVDShrink program.
But for all other stuff, Nero is the best of the best. Don't even THINK about Adaptec/Roxio or that "Easy CD Creator" crap.
Other than that Nero is great. I have not encountered any problems with it.
this the best...
All I can say is EXCELLENT.
We have been fortunate to have Craig from Nero here at AD giving folk a hand.
Best to All!
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Chief: Port Arthur crime rates down
FBI Part I offenses in 2012 were down by 16 percent in Port Arthur from 2011, according to a report given by Chief Mark Blanton of the Port Arthur Police Department to the Port Arthur City Council on Feb. 5. The FBI designates certain crimes as Part I or index offenses because it considers them to be the major crimes plaguing society in the United States. According to FBI.gov, Part I offenses include criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary (breaking and entering), larceny-theft (except motor vehicle) and motor vehicle theft.
"I'm pleased to report that the crime rate in all categories has come down." "There were 500 fewer Part I crimes in Port Arthur, which is excellent," Blanton told the council.
"Murder is a crime that police departments actually have the least control over," Blanton said in an interview with The Examiner. "Most of them occur in private homes or places where the police are not at." Blanton said, however, that the murder rate is down in part because of a lack of drive-by shootings. And like murder, sexual assault fluctuates year to year, according to Blanton. "Other than patrolling in areas where date rate may occur, we don't have a lot of opportunities to reduce (these crimes)," he said.
Blanton credits a reduction in robberies to measures taken by PAPD. "We put street crimes out there and task forces to apprehend and prosecute robberies," he said. "Some we caught faced federal charges of possession of a firearm and got lengthy sentences." PAPD can prevent robberies from occurring by patrolling, monitoring locations and through police intelligence, Blanton said.
The aggravated assault numbers are linked to gang related activity and took a drop because PAPD has taken measures to ensure that more gang members are now in jail, according to Blanton.
While the number in these categories of burglaries, auto thefts and larcenies was down, Blanton expressed concern that stores are not reporting all cases of shoplifting due to store policy changes. "If shoplifting is not reported to us, it's not going to appear on the statistics," he said. "Some of these stores may have changed policies where they aren't going to stop (shoplifters) at the door unless they are absolutely positive theft is occurring." Blanton said that he would continue to investigate this possibility and how it may affect the theft numbers reported in the future.
In addition to a reduction in Part 1 offenses, calls for service were down in 2012. Blanton reported 2,757 fewer calls for service than in 2011. There were also fewer traffic offenses, which include reports of erratic driving.
Traffic offenses and accidents
Although there are fewer traffic offenses, the number of traffic accidents rose in 2012, the chief said. "In 2011, Port Arthur set a record," he said. "Only four people were killed in traffic accidents in Port Arthur — the lowest level since 1972. Unfortunately, that level rose in 2012 back to nine." Four of the nine killed were visiting workers and one died of a heart attack prior to wrecking his vehicle, Blanton said. The number of accidents also increased from 1,553 in 2011 to 1,679 in 2012. Blanton credited the increase to an issue PAPD is having with drugged drivers.
"We make more arrests for DUI — driving under the influence of drugs — than we do for alcohol," Blanton told the council. PAPD assigned a Drug Recognition Expert officer for DUI enforcement in January 2012. He was sent to special schools for drug recognition and special training, Blanton said. "There are only two DREs in the county; Beaumont has one and we have one," Blanton said. The DRE can obtain a search warrant and order a blood test.
"Breath tests do not detect drugs," Blanton said. "Only a blood test will detect drugs." According to Blanton, the Port Arthur DRE has been successful. "This single officer made 152 DUI arrests by himself in 2012," he said. "We have a serious problem with people driving under the influence of pills, including Xanax, Ecstasy and other street-level drugs."
Racial profiling
Blanton also read the results of a racial profiling report to City Council. The report is automated and is based on data reported from check-off boxes on citations. "We conducted 19 searches out of 10,929 stops," Blanton said. "Fourteen of those searches were consented and five were not." There have been two complaints of racial profiling in the last 17 years — one was disproven and the other was withdrawn by the complainant, according to Blanton.
"We do tend to stop a higher percentage of Caucasians than is based on the population here," he said. "A lot of that is because visiting workers are being stopped."
In addition to crediting the efforts of his officers for the reduction in crime, Blanton praised the Port Arthur City Council for their support.
"A couple of years ago, they gave me forensic technicians," he said. "Used to, we had an officer carry a fingerprint kit and try to get fingerprints. Now we train people to do that, and we're making arrests for burglary and have reduced it."
Blanton said he hopes PAPD can continue to aid in lowering Port Arthur's crime rate and will remain vigilant.
"We're going to continue our efforts to bring crime down further," Blanton said.
"The police department is doing a good job," said Willie "Bae" Lewis Jr., Port Arthur District 5 City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem. "They've been able to do it by enforcing the law, through good investigation and by working together with the city council, the sheriff's department and the constables."


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|Springfield, Mass.
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|Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
|Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2013-14: Competed in four races … rowed as the cox in each race, beginning at the Dartmouth Green Monster (11/2) in the Freshman 8 boat … rowed in the Varsity 8 boat during the Foot of the Charles (11/23) … sat in 3V4 boat against Bates College and Boston College (3/29) and Donahue cup (4/12).
2012-13: Saw action in four races in the cox position during his first collegiate season … led the Varsity 4 boat against Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Columbia (4/06), Williams, WPI, Franklin & Marshall and Connecticut College (4/13), Trinity, Colgate and the University of Rhode Island (4/29) and Boston University and the University of Wisconsin (5/04).
Off the Water at MIT: Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science.
High School: A 2012 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology … TJ IOI Chief Executive Officer … Varsity Math Team Officer … Intermediate Computer Team Captain.


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Sturdivant collects A-Sun Player of the Week honors
MACON, Ga. - Lipscomb's Kristen Sturdivant was named Atlantic Sun Softball Player of the Week. The conference office announced the award Monday.
Sturdivant led the Lady Bisons high-powered offense to a 4-0 week with three home runs and nine RBI. Sturdivant grabbed a .438 batting average in Lipscomb's perfect week of play.
She also had a 1.000 slugging percentage. Sturdivant, a senior from Bartlett, Tenn., has a four-game hitting streak.
This is Sturdivant's first career A-Sun Player of the Week award.
The Lady Bisons are on the road for a single game March 20 at Chattanooga. They continue south to Georgia to face Kennesaw State in A-Sun play Saturday and Sunday.


text: Northwestern QB Mason Rudolph was offered Friday by Oklahoma State according to his coach Kyle Richardson. Rudolph also has offers from LSU and Virginia Tech. Richardson and Rudolph have been in touch with new LSU quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and they were assured by him that Rudolph is a high priority quarterback target. He will take an unofficial visit to LSU March 22nd. He plans to visit Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee over spring break. Rudolph is getting no interest from USC or Clemson.


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Volume 17 Issue 32 Dec. 31, 2004 - Jan. 6, 2005
Youth Activities
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy
2 South End Avenue, 212-267-9700
Coming Soon:
stories and songs
A 16-week program of participatory music and stories for young children and accompanying adults intended to develop kids enjoyment of active listening, socializing and cultural literacy. Professional musicians and storytellers will entertain and teach each week. Rhythm instruments will be provided. To register, visit BPCPC's offices Mon. - Fri. from 9:30am to Noon. Advance payment of $192 must be made in person by check or money order made payable to BPCPC. Wednesdays, Jan. 12 - April 27. Sessions are filling up quickly. Still available: 9:30-10:10am (6-12mo.) & noon-12:40pm (2 years +). Community Room at The Regatta, 21 South End Ave. 20% discount to siblings.
annual art exhibition
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy offers weekly art classes for adults, teens, children and preschoolers from May 1 thru October 31. Their work, inspired by the gardens and parks of Battery Park City, the majestic views of the Hudson River and the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan, can be viewed at the Annual Art Exhibition. Opening Reception will be Sun, Jan. 23 from 1-3pm. Works can then be viewed Weekdays from 2-4pm thru Fri, March 4. Access at W. Thames St. Free.
babysitter training
The American Red Cross will be offering a 2-day course for babysitters ages 11-15. The course will cover safety issues, first aid, and basic care skills designed to increase leadership and professionalism. Jan. 22 & 29 from 10am - 2:30pm. 2 South End Ave, access at W. Thames St. $30, pre-registration required. Mail checks or money orders to BPCPC, 2 S. End Ave, NY, NY 10280, Attn: Parks Programming. Include name, age, address, and phone number. 212-267-9700 ext 366.
182 Lafayette Street, 212-274-0986
$6 per person, kids and adults. All events are free with admission.
young artists display
This exhibition highlights art work by CMA members and participants in the various summer art programs the museum offered. Thru Jan. 2. Beginning Jan. 13, work from the fall season will be on display. Thru Feb.
Wee drop in
Children 10-42 months can experience and explore a variety of age appropriate projects and materials including play-dough, paint, glue, chalk, and stickers. Sessions include music, stories, and time in the ball pond. Fri. Dec. 31 from 10:45-12pm. After Jan. 5, Wed, Thurs, and Fri. from 10:45am-12pm. $17 per family (group of 3.) Call for more info.
fraunces tavern
54 Pearl Street, 212-425-1778
Ongoing Exhibits:
Looks at just a few of the many people from diverse backgrounds who joined together to win Americas independence.
history of the streets of nyc
Images, documents, and objects illustrate the stories behind street names as well as the people, places, and events that have called those streets home. Thru Jan. 8.
Coming Soon:
Checkers, or Draughts, is a game with ancient roots and was commonly enjoyed by 18th century patrons of Fraunces Tavern. Drop in to paint your own canvas checkerboard and learn more about the history of this popular game. Sat, Jan. 8 from 11am - 4pm. Free with museum admission.
51 Hudson Street, 212-406-7440
klatch coffee bar
9 Maiden Lane, 212-227-7276 (Ask for Pam)
lucille lortel theatre
121 Christopher St., 212-279-4200
Manhattan childrens theatre
380 Broadway (4th Floor) in Tribeca
212-226-4085, www.mctny.org
harry the dirty dog
A play adapted from the book by Gene Zion. Harry is a white dog with black spots who likes everything - except getting a bath! Kids will relate to Harrys urge to rebel, his desire to get really dirty, and finally the comfort of being reunited with his family. Jan. 2 - Feb. 13. Saturdays & Sundays at 12 & 2pm. $15 adults, $10 kids. Call 212-352-3101 for reservations. Suitable for all ages.
the museum of jewish heritage
36 Battery Place, 646-437-4200
One Bowling Green, 212-514-3700
animation celebration
View several short films on various topics. Films include, How the Redbird got his Color, a claymation of a kind deed rewarded; Box of Daylight, the Tlingit story of how Raven brought daylight to the world and others. Thru Jan. 2. Daily at 10:30am and 1pm.
films for kids
Kids can view films including Eagle Song, celebrating the spirit of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma, Retrace, about an elder who retraces his past creating a landscape of questions, and First Steps, about a Cree community in northern Ontario that celebrates the first steps of its very young children. Daily at 10:30 and 11:30 am. Thru Jan. 30.
Coming Soon:
storybook reading workshop
Native basket weaving is featured in Little Firefly: An Algonquian Legend by Terri Cohlene and the story Gluskabe and the Snow Bird from the book Four Ancestors by Joseph Bruchac. Following the readings, children 7 and up can make a woven bookmark with basket weaver Theresa Secord. Sat, Jan. 8 at noon. Free, but space is limited. Pre-registration is required. Call 212-514-3714. Resource Center, second floor.
loom beadwork
Loom beadwork is the focus of this hands-on workshop led by bead worker Amy Tall Chief (Osage). Pre-registration is required. Call 212-514-3714. Ages 16 years and up. Materials fee is $25, $22 members. Thurs, Jan. 27 from 4:30-7:30pm. Education Classroom, second floor.
police museum
100 Old Slip
exhibits on view
Visitors can view vehicles and uniforms used by police officers throughout the years, photos of some of New Yorks most notorious criminals, an exhibition of photos that capture the rare moments that define being a New York City police officer, and a permanent exhibition in memory of 9/11.
557 Broadway, between Prince
and Spring in SoHo
Stroller entrance: 130 Mercer St.
Event hotline: 212-343-6166
Enjoy stories read by the Scholastic Story Teller every Sunday and Tuesday at 2pm. Free.
New years with clifford
Start your new year off on the right paw when you get to meet everyones favorite big, red dog, Clifford. Parents be sure to bring your camera to take your childs photo with their new pal! Sat, Jan. 1 at 3pm. All ages.
south street seaport museum
Stuyvesant high school
345 Chambers St.
212-267-9700 ext. 342
Pre-school family play
Sundays from 3-4:30pm. $5 per family.
swimming, tai chi & yoga
Weekly classes begin Jan. 15 and run for 10 sessions. Tai Chi and Yoga classes cost $75 for Community Center Individual/Youth members, $100 for Pool/Gym/Student/Senior members, and $150 for non-members.
The fee for Swimming Lessons (10 weeks) is $135 for both members and non-members. Private Swim Lessons (30 minutes) are given by appointment on Sat. and Mon. evenings, available only in packages of 3 ($90) or 5 ($150). Space is limited. Registration, is required and is now open. Visit www.ccshs.org for more info.
tribeca performing arts center
199 Chambers Street at West Street, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 212-220-1459, www.tribecapac.org
wall street rising
25 Broad St, 212-425-INFO
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