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Leavenworth overwhelmed by Olathe South attack; Immaculata, Lansing both lose
Maybe it was the exhilaration from capturing its first win Wednesday night.
Or perhaps the fatigue of playing three games in three days finally set in.
But whatever the reason, the Leavenworth boys' soccer team had a hard time focusing Thursday according to its coach, and a 10-0 defeat to Olathe South proved that.
"The biggest part of it was that we weren't there mentally tonight," LV coach Ken Lott said. "We have played a lot of good teams and tonight was no different, but for some reason we just didn't play with that same passion we did on Wednesday when we won."
Following a scoreless 10 minutes of play to start the game, the Falcons held little back.
Shots and goals began to rain in and by halftime, the score rested at 8-0.
Two second half goals delivered the mercy-rule win.
"It could be mental fatigue but at this time of the year, we have to get past that," Lott said. "We still have two more games and then regionals and that's a whole new season. So we have to let go of the past, focus on the present and just attack this last part of the schedule."
Leavenworth, 1-13, will play at 7 p.m. Tuesday against Olathe Northwest.
Piper ends Lions KVL title hopes
Though the Lansing boys' soccer team played well Thursday, its opponent played better.
Competing at Piper for a share of the Kaw Valley League title, the Lions found themselves down 2-0 before Joe Henry set up a Mason Ruff goal late in the match.
Ultimately, that was all Lansing could muster and the team fell 2-1.
"I think we were playing great to begin with, connecting passes and moving the ball, but we couldn't close out any goals," Lansing coach Randy Brown said. "Piper was playing inspired ball throughout. When we finally did get a goal, it was too little, too late. You have to give credit to Piper, but we just didn't finish tonight either."
The Lions, 8-6-1, will play at Topeka Hayden Monday at 5:30 p.m.
"We lost the league championship tonight and have a tough match at Topeka Hayden Monday, but the main thing now is to get ready for regionals," Brown said. "That's all that matters now."
Raiders strike first, lose late
Right before half Thursday, Immaculata's Nick Reckers crossed a ball to teammate Mark Hernandez who used one quick touch to bury home a goal.
The strike put the Raiders' soccer team up 1-0 over visiting Perry-Lecompton, and gave Imac the momentum heading into the break.
However, somewhere that momentum was lost.
The visitors first tied the game up in the 60th minute, and then with three minutes left in regulation poked in the game winner. Imac fell 2-1.
"I thought we were going to OT and they just tapped it right in," Imac coach Frank Mazeitis said. "There was no one there. Unmarked, uncontested. There was no one there and it was a screw up."
Immaculata, 3-10-1, will host St. Joe LeBlond at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
"The whole defense played pretty solid and I can't say enough about Nathan (Reardon), he was tremendous tonight," Mazeitis said. "But just those two mix-ups cost us."


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Netflix is the most popular "Internet subscription service for enjoying movies and TV shows" in the world. Historically, Netflix has been a forward-thinking company. It was first to the DVD-by-mail business 12 years ago, stealing a good chunk of Blockbuster Video's customers. A few years ago it took that vision to a new level by launching an instant streaming service as its competitors laughed at the idea. It secured thousands of movies and TV shows and made its service available on almost every movie player, smartphone, set-top box, and video game console available. Since 2009, its subscribers have doubled from 10 million to more than 20 million today, and growing fast.
For the last decade, Netflix has been one of the savviest companies around, but does it have a plan for the next 10 years? Netflix is facing an onslaught of problems, any one of which could ruin the streaming company if it doesn't have a counter-strategy. Does Netflix have a plan to float above, and remain the go-to service for all of your movie and TV needs, or will it drown in the sea of streaming content slowly rising around it? Here are five of the biggest challenges facing the king of streaming today.
Old, dated streaming content
People are flocking toward Netflix's Instant Streaming service. Indeed, even Netflix calls itself an "Internet subscription service" now. Currently, it offers nearly 12,000 movies and TV show seasons, which is more than double the number of titles its newest competitor, Amazon, is offering. However, a good portion of this content is old, widely available elsewhere, or crappy (not well-recieved by critics or the market) — sometimes all three. Where it relates to content quality, I am speaking broadly, but the fact remains that Netflix does not get a majority of new DVD releases on its streaming service, nor can it stream the vast majority of archived movie and television content readily available on DVD.
New content is being added. Yesterday, Netflix signed a deal with CBS to add a number of older TV series including Frasier, Family Ties, Cheers, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Medium (recently cancelled), Flashpoint, and Twin Peaks. Unfortunately, this deal doesn't appear to include old or new seasons of current CBS hit shows like How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, The Amazing Race, The Late Show, or any of the 20 CSI shows currently airing. The streaming company inked similar deals with Disney-ABC and NBC Universal. Few of these deals include new or current-season programming.
Save its major deal with Epix to stream select new DVD releases from Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM, movie deals have largely been for archived content as well. Most major distributors seem willing to offer some major films on Netflix, but their selections seem random, at best. Hollywood has been hesitant to offer much of its premium content before it knows exactly how much it is worth. Netflix's problem: Fresh content may be cost more than the streaming company can afford under its current business model.
Starz may be the first major content loss for Netflix. In Oct. 2008 Netflix signed a deal to stream Starz movies. The deal added about 2,500 titles to Netflix's library, including the majority of its best offerings. Recent Starz movies added to Netflix include The Sandlot, The Karate Kid, The Fast and the Furious, Julie & Julia, and Pixar's Up. However, the Netflix-Starz deal ends sometime in 2011 and Starz is going to want a lot more money for its content this go-round. Will Netflix be able to afford the possible billion dollar price tag (the price it paid for Epix content over five years)? If so, how many of these content deals can it truly justify? It will bankrupt the company to buy streaming rights to every title it currently offers on DVD.

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text: Oil Crop for McDonald's Fries Rising Most Since '08 March 7, 2013 05:24 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian canola farmers, the world's biggest growers, are poised to increase output to a record, adding to reserves of the oil used by McDonald's Corp. to cook 4,000 metric tons of fries globally every day. Production in the year starting Aug. 1 will surge 16 percent, the most since 2008, to an all-time high of 15.5 million tons as fields recover from drought and infestations of bugs, the government estimates. Futures will tumble 24 percent to C$480 ($466) a ton in Winnipeg by the end of the harvest in November, commodity broker Futures International LLC forecasts. From Malaysian palm plantations to Brazilian soybean fields, farmers are reaping record oilseed harvests this year, industry researcher Oil World said in a report Feb. 15. U.S. growers probably will produce the biggest soy crop ever as output rebounds after the worst drought since the 1930s, the government said a week later. Expanding stockpiles of cooking oils helped drive global food costs down 12 percent from a record in 2011, United Nations data show. "We'll see a glut of canola this year," said Santo Fata, who manages operations and purchasing at Sager Food Products Inc., a Montreal-based vegetable-oil packager founded in 1983. Prices that jumped to a four-year high in September mean "Canadian farmers are going to look at the price of canola. They're going to want that money." Trading Partners Canola gained 7.3 percent to C$632.70 this year on ICE Futures Canada, compared with a 0.2 percent decline in Malaysian palm oil and a 1.1 percent advance in U.S. soybean oil. Fata said canola will trade below C$500 in six months. The MSCI All- Country World Index of equities jumped 5.6 percent since the end of December, as the dollar strengthened 3 percent against a basket of six trading partners. Treasuries lost 0.6 percent, a Bank of America Corp. index shows. Canadian farmers start planting in May and probably will harvest 1.83 tons per hectare (2.47 acres), 18 percent more than in 2012, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada said in a Feb. 21 report. That will swell inventories before the harvest in 2014 by 71 percent, the biggest gain in eight years, to 600,000 tons, the government agency forecast. Traders are anticipating lower prices by September, when harvests begin in provinces including Alberta, Manitoba and top- grower Saskatchewan, which supplied 46 percent of last year's crop. Futures for November delivery closed yesterday at a C$64.60 discount to the May contract, up from C$43 on Dec. 31. High Winds Lower prices would benefit oilseed processors in Europe, Japan and China. The 27-nation European Union, the largest importer of rapeseed and canola, will buy 3 million tons in the year through June, Hamburg-based Oil World estimates. Japan will take 2.4 million tons and China 2.3 million, the data show. With canola still six months away from harvest, bad weather could disrupt supply. Output fell 8.9 percent to 13.3 million tons in 2012 as yields slumped 19 percent, the biggest drop in a quarter century. Fields across the Canadian Prairies were hurt by rain, drought, bug infestations and high winds. Prices rose as much as 25 percent last year to C$654.60 on Sept. 14, the highest since 2008. Rain in May delayed planting and forced growers to abandon some areas, while frost hit southern farms. That was followed by a heat wave and then strong winds in September that scattered ripe seeds. Infestations of flea beetles chewed holes in leaves in Alberta and Saskatchewan and cutworms and weevils attacked plants in June and July. Blackleg, a fungal disease, spread in central Alberta, and hailstorms destroyed some fields. British Columbia "The damage to canola just turned me off," said Harold Bell, 70, who has been farming for 40 years in Fort St. John, British Columbia. He lost half his crop last year to the dry spell and will plant no canola in 2013. "Wheat is a crop you don't have to worry too much about. The trouble with canola is that you never know what it's going to be." Farmers will plant 1.3 percent fewer acres with canola in 2013 and 6.2 percent more wheat, the government estimates. Bell can sow wheat for about C$100 an acre, or about half the expense of canola. Wheat averaged $7.575 a bushel in Chicago trading last year, the second-highest on record. Canola has become a Canadian farm staple since it was developed at the University of Manitoba in the 1970s. Food companies wanted a healthier variety of rapeseed oil with fewer saturated fats and acids that lead to high cholesterol and heart disease, according to the Canola Council of Canada. The Manitoba experiments produced a crop with 7 percent saturated fat, the lowest of all major oilseeds. It was named canola, derived from Canada and "oil, low-acid." It is now a C$15.4 billion ($15 billion) industry that generates a quarter of all farm receipts, more than any crop, government data show. French Fries McDonald's, the largest restaurant chain by sales, uses mostly canola oil in a blend to cook french fries and hash browns, said Barbara Booth, the company's director for sensory science. McDonald's shifted to canola in 2008. Booth declined to say how much the company uses. Combined global production of the seven major oilseeds will rise 5.8 percent to 455.9 million tons in the 2012-2013 marketing season, which ends before the Northern Hemisphere harvests this year, Oil World estimates. The increase includes a 12 percent jump in soybean output and a 1.5 percent gain in canola and rapeseed, with India, South America and the U.S. helping to compensate for last year's drop in Canada. Soybean- oil production will advance 2.3 percent while palm oil, the most-used cooking oil, will add 6.6 percent. Larry Bohdanovich, a third-generation farmer in Grandview, Manitoba, isn't switching. While flooding on his 2,500 acres cut yields by 25 percent last year, he still plans to match last year's planting with 40 percent canola, 40 percent wheat and the rest oats, buckwheat, rye and barley. "Farmers are eternal optimists," Bohdanovich, 57, said from the farm his family has owned since 1929. "What happened last year won't happen this year. We're going to yield back up to our traditional levels." --Editors: Steve Stroth, Thomas Galatola To contact the reporters on this story: Tony C. 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The state ethics case against former Worcester County Sheriff Guy W. Glodis opened today with testimony from five witnesses, including three current and former employees of the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction.
Commerce Bank and Trust Chairman David G. "Duddie" Massad also testified during the hearing, as did his longtime friend Joseph T. Duggan III of Shrewsbury, a former inmate at the jail whose placement in a work release program three years ago is at the heart of the case against Mr. Glodis.
The Ethics Commission's Enforcement Division filed an order in June alleging that Mr. Glodis, now a lobbyist, violated two sections of the state conflict of interest law when he was sheriff by allegedly arranging for Mr. Duggan to be placed on work release as a favor to his wealthy friend and campaign donor, Mr. Massad.
Candies Pruitt-Doncaster, a lawyer for the Enforcement Division, sought to establish through her questioning of witnesses that Mr. Duggan's placement in the work release program within a day of arriving at the jail to serve a four-month sentence for larceny was unusual and violated a written policy against releasing inmates with other court cases pending.
"Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis broke the rules for prominent, well-known businessman David Massad," Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster said in her opening statement.
"He was out of jail the next day," she said of Mr. Duggan. "This was fast. This was unusual."
During his cross examination of the witnesses, Mr. Glodis' lawyer Thomas R. Kiley focused on the role of jail overcrowding in making work release decisions. He also asked each of the current and former jail employees who testified if they were ever told how to classify any inmate by the former sheriff.
All three men said Mr. Glodis never spoke to them about such matters when he was sheriff.
Mr. Kiley called the Enforcement Division's case entirely circumstantial and based on "inferences on top of inferences."
The two-day adjudicatory hearing, the equivalent of a civil trial, is scheduled to resume Tuesday morning for more testimony.
The hearing is presided over by Ethics Commission Chairman Charles B. Swartwood, a former state judge.
The case will be decided by the full commission, although a ruling is not expected until early next year. Mr. Glodis could be fined up to $10,000, officials said.
Mr. Massad testified for about half an hour, saying that he had been friends with Mr. Duggan for decades and lately had hired him as a project manager for construction jobs for his car dealerships in Auburn and a condominium development in Ashland.
When he was a state senator, Mr. Glodis worked as a business development officer for Mr. Massad's Commerce Bank for about 18 months in 2005, before taking over as sheriff.
Mr. Massad and members of his family also have been generous campaign donors to Mr. Glodis over the years.
Mr. Massad said he called Mr. Glodis directly on his cellphone in October 2009 to see if Mr. Duggan could be let out of jail on work release.
"He said, 'I'll have somebody call you back.' And that's what happened," Mr. Massad said.
Cellphone call logs introduced into evidence by Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster showed Mr. Massad spoke to Mr. Glodis and Mr. Duggan several times throughout the day on Oct. 28, 2009, the day before the latter man was scheduled to surrender to begin his sentence.
Mr. Kiley asked if the bank chairman had asked the sheriff to do anything improper.
"Of course not," Mr. Massad said.
"I told him the situation. I said the guy didn't hurt anybody or do anything really wrong," Mr. Massad said, describing the conversation with the sheriff. "He said it wasn't his thing to do, but he'd see if he could have somebody help me. He said somebody would call me."
Mr. Duggan was placed in the work release program the next day despite a written sheriff's department policy barring inmates with "warrants or cases pending before any court" from participating in the program.
At the time, Mr. Duggan had two criminal cases pending in Westboro District Court.
The official decision to release Mr. Duggan to work for Mr. Massad was made by a three-member classification board at the jail.
All sentenced inmates get a classification hearing to determine if they should be placed in maximum security, medium security or the work release program within two weeks of beginning their sentences, according to testimony.
The chairman of the classification board at the time was Marc Keddy, who has since retired from the department.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster asked him if it was atypical for a classification hearing to be arranged within hours of an inmate's arrival at the jail.
"It was quick," Mr. Keddy said.
"Was it unusually quick?" she asked.
"Yes," Mr. Keddy responded.
Another jail employee, social worker Jeffrey Heenan, who was a member of the classification board, testified that he could not recall who instructed him to set up a classification hearing for Mr. Duggan almost immediately upon his arrival.
Mr. Keddy, Mr. Heenan and Director of Classification Michael Landgren all testified that they recommended Mr. Duggan be released to Mr. Massad for work because he was a nonviolent offender and doing so would free up a bed in the crowded medium security building.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster asked Mr. Landgren what specific exception to the classification policy allowed Mr. Duggan to be released despite his pending cases.
"There is none," Mr. Landgren said.
Mr. Keddy said the board made the call to put Mr. Duggan on work release because he did not present a threat to the community.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster asked him where in the policy it said nonviolent offenders are exempted from the requirement that work release inmates not have any pending criminal cases.
"It doesn't," Mr. Keddy said.
On cross examination, Mr. Kiley asked Mr. Keddy about other factors that play into classification decisions, such as objections to work release from victims.
"Are there other things taken into consideration that aren't in the policy?" he asked.
"Yes," Mr. Keddy said.
During Mr. Duggan's animated testimony, in which the hearing officer several times had to settle him down, he described himself as Mr. Massad's project manager on all construction work.
"I build all his buildings. If something breaks, I fix it," Mr. Duggan said.
A former home improvement contractor, Mr. Duggan was stripped of his state construction supervisor licenses by state regulators for repeated misconduct.
Mr. Duggan was the subject of a series of stories in the Telegram & Gazette three years ago detailing complaints from customers that he pocketed money intended for building supplies and then walked away from projects leaving them unfinished.
He was sentenced to four months in jail for a larceny conviction in one of those cases.
Mr. Duggan previously has served more than four years in federal prison for bank fraud and money laundering.
In the days before he was to report to the Worcester Country jail to serve his four-month sentence for larceny, Mr. Duggan said he called every influential friend he had, including Mr. Massad, the bank chairman.
"I told him, "I got to get some friends to get me out,' " Mr. Duggan said.
Mr. Kiley asked if he also reached out to correction officers he socialized with at Ralph's Tavern, a bar on Shrewsbury Street, and others as well.
Mr. Duggan said he sought help from "anyone and everyone."
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster later returned to the point again, asking, "When you needed something done with the sheriff, you called Duddie?"
"Yes," Mr. Duggan said.
Ms. Pruitt-Doncaster concluded her case Monday afternoon.


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Paul Russell '11, an electrical engineering and physics double-major, spent nine weeks last summer at the Osaka Institute of Technology in Japan working on a research project to develop an implantable biosensor that would continuously monitor glucose levels for people with diabetes. If successful, this technology would greatly improve the management and treatment of this disease.
Russell's research was part of an international program sponsored by the National Science Foundation through a Partnership for International Research and Education grant. The goal of the grant is to foster international collaboration and prepare future scientists and engineers to operate within a global scientific community.
Russell was one of only 16 American students chosen to participate in the NanoJapan program, which consisted of a three-week Japanese language and culture orientation program held in Tokyo followed by a nine-week research internship at leading nanotechnology laboratories throughout Japan.
Under the direction of Professor Shigehiko Sasa and Dr. Kenlcki Ogata, Russell's research focused on the use of microwave heating to grow ZincOxide nanorods on a silicon substrate in order to electrically detect glucose levels in blood. Still in its beginning stages, this research, if successful, could allow for the fabrication of nanoscale biosensors to be placed in a patient's body to detect glucose levels.
Russell is no stranger to assimilating to other cultures. As a native of Jamaica, coming to college in the U.S. was just his first step in getting the education and experience he needs to further his professional goals. Japan was another step in the process. He says, "In terms of nanotechnology and research in the electronics field, they're among the best. So having the opportunity to work in Japan was very exciting."
Despite being across the globe, Russell was pleased to find that he could still feel at home in the lab. "I stepped into the lab in Osaka and saw a lot of the same machines and equipment, and felt the same feeling as I do at Clarkson. It was very comforting."
"Everywhere I go, I find that the cultures are very different," he adds. "Between the language, the food and the customs, I am always fascinated. But I've also found that one thing always stays the same, and that's science."


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Jason Doptis struggled with his weight ever since high school. He tried every diet and exercise program but the weight wouldn't come off.
Having a friend who had bariatric surgery at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Jason started researching the various weight loss surgery options.
He viewed UPMC's bariatric surgery informational webcast and made a decision.
Jason decided to have laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (lap band) surgery. He chose Magee-Womens Hospital because of the bariatric program's center of excellence status and made an appointment with Giselle Hamad, MD, a bariatric surgeon.
When Jason informed his family and closest friends of his decision, he received mixed reviews.
For those who thought he shouldn't proceed with the lap band procedure, Jason used it as an opportunity to educate them about bariatric surgery.
Before his lap band surgery, Jason went to his primary care physician for his required, six-month supervised diet, noting that his doctor was very supportive of his decision.
On July 30, 2010, Jason underwent the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band procedure.
Since his lap band surgery, Jason has:
Jason says he:
He's incorporated a healthy diet into his lifestyle, as well as a routine exercise regime.
He walks one and a half miles each day and goes to the gym — two to three times a week — for cardio, weight lifting, and aqua aerobics.
Jason attributes his continued success with "being in the right mind set about eating."
When dining out, he:
His "non-scale" victories include getting complimented on his weight loss and being able to:
Jason's parting words to anyone who has had, or is considering lap band or other weight loss surgery:
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Sunshine Fire: By the numbers
Acres burned: 62
Containment: 50 percent
Evacuations: 426 homes
Pre-evacuations: 836 homes
Number of firefighters: 250
Number of aircraft: 7
Number of fire apparatus: 50
Structures reported lost: 0
Source: Boulder Office of Emergency Management
Sunshine Fire: Evacuation area
Evacuations: The general evacuation perimeter is Poorman Road to the west; Fourth Street in the city of Boulder to the east; Boulder Canyon Drive to the south; and Sunshine Canyon Drive to the north, according to the sheriff's office.
Pre-evacuations: Within the city of Boulder, the area of Fourth Street east to Broadway, and Mapleton Avenue to Canyon Boulevard are on pre-evacuation notice.
Source: Boulder Office of Emergency Management
The Sunshine Fire that erupted early Sunday morning west of Boulder, scorching 62 acres and prompting more than 400 homes to be evacuated in the pre-dawn hours, appears to be human-caused.
"The general area where the fire was reported — Sunshine Canyon and Timber Trail — is a very social trail network," Boulder County sheriff's Cmdr. Mike Wagner said during a press briefing, adding that other causes such as downed power lines and lightning had been ruled out.
"There are a lot of people in and out of there," he said. "We know there are a lot of transient camps in that area."
Boulder County's last major wildfire, 2016's Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, was started by campers who hadn't properly extinguished their campfire.
Emergency officials announced Sunday evening that the Sunshine Fire was 50 percent contained.
About 45 firefighters and 15 trucks were expected to monitor the fire containment overnight, with additional crews due in the morning to "hit it hard," officials said.
There were some fears expressed Sunday evening that overnight firefighting efforts might be hampered by high winds expected around midnight.
Wagner said that 426 homes in the area would remain under a mandatory evacuation order, and officials would reevaluate the evacuations on Monday morning. He said the evacuations were necessary because fire crews would be limited as to what they can do overnight.
Another 836 homes in the city of Boulder, mostly around the mouth of Boulder Canyon, remain on pre-evacuation alert as well.
"Things get exponentially more complex in the dark," he said. "They're hoping they can keep control of it overnight and really start mopping up tomorrow."
The East Boulder Community Center opened up as a shelter for any residents who didn't have somewhere else to stay because of the evacuations.
Among those forced to leave their homes was Anne Spalding, who came to the Boulder County Justice Center for an update on the status of the evacuations Sunday afternoon.
Spalding said she was staying at her sister's house, but there was a possibility that her sister also would be evacuated. She said she has received offers from friends with places to stay should that happen.
"It's really close to my house," Spalding said. "We didn't even get a call. We had firefighters knocking on the door. They are doing a fabulous job. It's a little scary. We put our hearts into our homes."
Spalding said she has been evacuated before and was "a little more tempermental about it" the first time around, but she grabbed her stuff and left with no argument Sunday morning.
"It's a bummer," she said. "I'd rather be at my house in bed, but I have a lot of faith in the firefighters. I think it's going to be OK. I'm being cautiously optimistic."
Practice run by slurry Bomber over Sanitas in #Boulder pic.twitter.com/BPnw5VPsKz— Paul Aiken (@PaulAikenBDC) March 19, 2017
Flames visible from Boulder Canyon #boulder #fire pic.twitter.com/ZYUabzbroC— Paul Aiken (@PaulAikenBDC) March 19, 2017
Fire weather could continue
The fire was first reported at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday by a man who said he saw flames near Sunshine Canyon and Timber Lane.
Throughout the day Sunday, about 250 firefighters and 50 firefighting vehicles were deployed to the area, and used the Boulder County Justice Center parking lot in west Boulder as a base of operations.
Seven aircraft took to the skies above the fire, including two Black Hawk helicopters and two Chinook helicopters. Monday, Wagner said, they're expecting a reduction in air support and a smaller helicopter that can drop water in tighter spaces.
Wagner said firefighters will focus on digging lines around the fire.
"The main strategy is to keep it within the perimeter," he said.
Fire officials had been expecting a rough day because of high temperatures and windy weather. Because March is outside the typical fire season, Wagner said, there also were fewer wildfire hand crews available to help, so firefighters were being taken off trucks to form hand crews.
After a relatively calm morning, winds began to pick up around 10 a.m., with gusts in the 40 mph range reported in the afternoon.
Sunday's high in Boulder reached 78 degrees, breaking the old record of 77 from 2004, according to local meteorologist Matt Kelsch.
The National Weather Service was forecasting more warm, windy and dry weather that will keep the fire danger high today.
Changes to fire size, number of evacuations
Mappers reported the fire to be 106 acres at one point on Sunday, but Gabi Boerkircher, a spokeswoman for the Boulder Office of Emergency Management, said crews on the ground determined the fire was closer to 60 acres.
Mid-afternoon, emergency officials also revised the number of homes evacuated in the Sunshine Canyon area to 426, down from the 1,031 that sheriff's officials had announced before dawn.
Denise White, another spokeswoman with the Boulder Office of Emergency Management, said more than 1,000 people were contacted by phone in the early morning hours, but many lived in the same house.
Boulder Canyon was closed to the public most of the day Sunday but had been reopened to traffic in the evening.
'That was scary'
Some residents in the pre-evacuation zone in the Highland neighborhood were watching the fire from Eben G. Fine Park on Sunday morning and waiting to see whether the wind picked up before packing.
Ben Egner said that while he hadn't packed anything yet, he had a list in his head that included musical instruments, books, his hard drive and his dog, Petunia.
He said he found out about the fire after getting a text from a neighbor early Sunday morning.
For another neighbor, Beth Prehn, it was a phone call from a friend at 5:30 a.m. that alerted her. At about 7 a.m., she took a picture of flames lighting up Sunshine Canyon.
"That was scary," she said.
Later, looking at smoke instead of flames, "I feel a lot better," she said.
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Anyone kiting tomorrow?
Looks like a little bit of wind. I have only kited around SF twice and that was a couple of years ago. I am pretty experienced. If there's enough wind, where should I head to?
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Ocean Beach
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Kite Naked
Benicia Kite and Paddle Sports
4562 East 2nd Street, Unit J & K
Benicia, CA 94510
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Hoping for Wadell!!! Forecast has changed and looks less promising though. I NEED to kite!!! Arrrrrggggg
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well, waddell has been on for the past couple hours, so i hope you're there.
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The News & Events page will provide residents of Markham and Markham Centre with information on planned events, activities and news stories within Markham Centre.
Construction of Highway 7 Sanitary Sewer (Phase 2) Main Street Unionville to Village Parkway began on March 1, 2011 and to be completed by fall, 2011.
Markham Centre Civic Mall Enterprise VIVA Station The first VIVA Bus Rapid Transit Station, located at Warden Avenue and Enterprise Boulevard opened on March 6, 2011. The construction of the first VIVA Station began in the Fall 2010, consisting of a steel frame with reflective tinted glass panels. The station has energy efficient lighting, wheelchair accessibility, temperature and motion activated heaters, a full wind enclosure with motion activated entry, arrival/departure screens, scheduling information/ticket purchases and full time security surveillance, with intercom emergency assistance on the platform. For more information visit VIVA.


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Lidia's Italy In America "Philadelphia: It All Happens on Philadelphia's 9th Street" NULL
10:00 pm
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Fried Chicken and Biscuits" Chris and Bridget visit Princes in Nashville to try their famous Nashville Hot Chicken. They return to the kitchen determined to replicate the top-secret recipe. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of whole kosher dill pickles. D
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Simply Ming "Hoisin Sauce and Pizza Dough" Guest Chef: Susur Lee. Ever since Ming's Grandmother, made him hoisin and chicken pizza when he was a kid, he has adored the combination. And once he really got into cooking, he got loads of creative inspiration from hoisin and pizza dough. D
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Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage "African Slavery In Louisiana" While the Africans contributed to the agriculture of the state, they certainly left their mark on the cuisine of Louisiana as well. Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, an authority on the African-American experience, introduces us to these ingenious culinarians by tracing their heritage from Africa to the cane fields, cotton patches and kitchens of South Louisiana. Chef Folse joins Chef Don Mastroni and Pearlie Jefferson at the Old Coffee Pot in New Orleans to make rice, or "calla" cakes, a favorite snack of New Orleanians. D
11:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Dublin and Mystical Sidetrips" Rick explores Dublin's foreboding castle, patriotic jail and Trinity College with its illuminated Book of Kells - a bright light from the Dark Ages. At night, customers party in Temple Bar, awash with Celtic music and frothy pints of Guinness.G


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Category: General News
Category: General News
Big Astroid Not A Problem
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA says folks on Earth should not worry about a 150-foot asteroid that's expected to fly by our planet later today. Scientists say the closest the asteroid will get is 17,150 miles away, at 2:25 p.m. Eastern time over the Indian Ocean near Sumatra. Experts say sky watchers at that location will be lucky if they see a pinpoint of light as the asteroid zooms by at 17,400 mph


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Erick Buitrago arrived at Cal State Northridge in November, 2006, and was the women's basketball athletic trainer for the 2006-07 season.
Buitrago currently works with the men's soccer, baseball, and men's and women's golf teams.
Buitrago was an athletic training student at CSUN from 2000-02 and worked with the Matador football team in 2001, and the 2002 men's soccer team that qualified for their first ever trip to the NCAA Division I Tournament.
Buitrago received a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology with an option in Athletic Training from Cal State Northridge in 2002.
From 2003-05, he served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Southern Illinois University. He worked with the Saluki baseball team, and the swimming and diving teams.
He also received a Masters degree in Sport Management and Social Psychology of Sport at SIU in 2005.
In 2005-06, served as an assistant athletic trainer at Indiana State University working specifically with the Sycamore baseball, softball and women's soccer teams.
In December of 2007, Buitrago was the on-set athletic trainer for the first season of the new American Gladiators.
He played two years of college baseball at Los Angeles Valley College.
During the summer of 1997, he pitched for the Kenosha Kroakers of the prestigious Northwoods Woodbat League in Kenosha, Wi.
Buitrago graduated locally from Chatsworth High School where he lettered in both varsity baseball and basketball for the Chancellors.


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These days there are a veritable plethora of published financial market indexes. Some are broad-based, while others are devoted to a particular instrument, exchange or degree of market capitalization. Many of the major stock indexes, such as the S&P 500, are "capitalization weighted" by the dollar value of each stock's outstanding shares. The equity indexes generated by Value Line are, by way of contrast, un-weighted, with all companies counting equally in the averages.
Starting in March 1982, we began publishing the Value Line Convertibles Indexes. These indexes are designed to evaluate the performance of the U.S. convertible and warrant markets. These indexes measure:
1. Price appreciation/depreciation of all convertibles;
2. Total return appreciation/depreciation of all convertibles;
3. Price appreciation/depreciation of all ranked 1 convertibles;
4. Total return appreciation/depreciation of all ranked 1 convertibles; and
5. Price appreciation/depreciation of all warrants followed by the Value Line Convertibles Survey.
These indexes are based on all convertible bonds and preferred stocks and warrants listed in our Service. (As of July 13, 2010, we covered 564 convertible bonds, 63 convertible preferreds with total market values of almost $210 billion and $33 billion, respectively. The 79 warrants we follow had a market value of about $942 million.)
Like the Value Line Composite stock indexes, our convertible indexes are not capitalization weighted. Instead, they give equal weight to each issue. Often this type of equal weighting is a better indication of how a typical investor's portfolio is likely to perform, if one assumes holdings of approximately equal allocations to each security. If we were to "cap-weight" our own convertible indexes, then a relatively small sample of the issues would make up most of the index. To augment the analysis in these indexes, we also compute and publish the periodic price performance of the stocks underlying both convertibles and warrants.
So as not to represent extreme price movements in any one security, we use a method of calculation known as "geometric averaging," which tends to have a "smoothing-out" effect on extreme up and down values in individual securities. But it can also understate performance vis-à-vis some other indexes in a rising market.
Twice a month we publish the most recent numbers for the Convertible Indexes on the back page of The Value Line Convertibles Survey. This PDF document, which is available only to paid subscribers, can be accessed by logging on to the Value Line website (www.valueline.com). Place your cursor on the Convertibles tab, then click on Premium Content from the drop-down menu. On the page that appears, click on the Survey Issues tab, then click on the link to The Value Line Convertibles Survey. We also calculate a month-end index that measures the Price and Total Return performance of all convertibles and warrants in our service. These indexes are published on the front page of The Value Line Convertibles Survey once a month.
Our Convertible Market Profile provides important additional information about the convertibles market. The data can provide some insight about how the convertibles market is likely to perform given a move in the stock market. The profile charts below show the averages (and in some cases, the median values) from the convertibles data listed in our Service. Convertible bonds and convertible preferreds are differentiated with total market values for each. In addition to price and yield data, we also show the median conversion and investment premiums, as well as the average leverage numbers for a 25% up and a 25% down move in the underlying stock. The Value Line Convertible Index chart shows the average changes in price and total return indexes, as well as the average current yield, and the number of positions and advancing issues.


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Chapter Four: Building Momentum
|"Innovation in teacher preparation and licensure is essential to our
goal of filling all classrooms with highly qualified teachers so that all students
receive a top-notch education. Highly qualified teachers are the key to ensuring
that our nation's students are academically prepared for postsecondary
education and the workforce."
- Sally L. Stroup, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education
With the unprecedented cooperation and dedication of state and district officials, administrators and teachers around the country, progress is being made in many states and institutions in addressing the teacher quality challenge. This is truly heartening news. We know that high-quality teachers are critically important to closing persistent academic achievement gaps that have been experienced for too long between students of different races, ethnic backgrounds and means. We also know that successfully identifying and replicating innovative strategies to recruit, retain and support high-quality teachers will solve many of the problems currently facing our education system. In pursuing these strategies, we must hold true to two key principles: the need to continue to raise academic standards for teachers while at the same time working to lower barriers that are keeping many talented people out of the teaching profession.
Over the last year the Department has continued its focus on issues of teacher quality, from offering common-sense flexibility in implementing the teacher quality provisions of NCLB, to providing direct technical assistance to states through the Teacher Assistance Corps, to creating new teacher-friendly materials on NCLB. In addition, for FY 2005, the Bush administration has proposed more than $5.1 billion in spending to support teachers through training, recruitment, incentives, loan forgiveness and tax relief. In partnership with states, institutions and national organizations, the Department is looking forward to continuing this important work.
While we are making progress in meeting the teacher quality challenge, more--much more--remains to be done. In the coming year, the Department will continue its work in assisting states in meeting the NCLB requirement that, by the end of school year 2005-2006, all teachers of core academic subjects are highly qualified. To that end, in April 2004 the Department launched the Teacher to Teacher Initiative: Supporting Success, components of which include:
- Teacher Roundtables. This spring and summer, the Department of Education will host discussions with teachers around the country on effective teaching, professional development, teacher leadership and ways to advance the teaching profession. The emphasis will be on listening and engaging teachers about what support they need to meet the academic needs of students.
- Summer Workshops. Teachers and education experts who have improved student achievement and closed the achievement gap will share experiences with fellow teachers on how to emulate these programs. Teachers will also receive additional resources, such as online assistance, to support them as they incorporate new strategies in the classroom.
- The Research-to-Practice Summit. To be held in summer 2004 in Washington, D.C., this summit comprises a day of listening to and learning from experts in the field of scientifically based research and from teachers with success in improving their students' achievement levels.
- Teacher E-mail Updates. Electronic updates will keep teachers apprised of the latest policy, research and developments in the profession.
The initiative also includes a new Web site--www.teacherquality.us--with information about effective practices and initiatives at the state and local levels and upcoming teacher-oriented events. Educators may apply for one of the summer workshops or register for the e-mail updates on the Web site.
In addition, the reauthorization of HEA remains on the horizon. Throughout its nearly 40-year existence, the law has succeeded in ensuring that all students--young and old, part-time or full-time, traditional and nontraditional--receive the basic support needed to pursue a postsecondary education.
Throughout the HEA reauthorization process, the Department expects to highlight the need for highly qualified teachers in every classroom, as well as the need to improve the academic rigor of our K-12 schools, to ensure that:
- More students complete their secondary education.
- More students pursue, and are academically prepared for, postsecondary education and training.
- More students complete their postsecondary education and training goals.
- All students are prepared for an ever-changing workforce.
Now, more than ever before, our country and economy place a premium on higher education. With increasing concerns about the need for American workers to remain competitive in a global environment, we recognize that students must be equipped with the tools necessary to adapt to the changing economy and to emerging industries.
To further our goal of having a highly qualified teacher in every classroom, we must expand our traditional approaches for preparing teachers by recognizing the value of new and nontraditional approaches to preparation that can be made available to anyone, anytime and anywhere. Several important components of HEA are dedicated to promoting innovation in teacher preparation and licensure, ensuring our teachers are the best in the world. Notably, the Title II discretionary grant programs, which provide grants to states and partnerships for the innovation and reform of teacher certification, licensure and preservice education; the teacher loan forgiveness programs; and the teacher recruitment grants all provide resources for training, recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers.
It is the Department's belief that we can all learn from and help one another as we work toward the same goal. For its part, the Department will continue to listen to and engage with teachers about what support they need to meet the academic needs of students, continue to forge partnerships with all those who seek to produce high-quality teachers by raising standards and lowering barriers, continue to advocate for highly qualified and effective teachers for all the nation's students and continue to shed light on the progress of states and institutions in meeting this critical goal.
For their part, states and institutions should continue to improve their teacher quality accountability systems until data collection and reporting systems are reliable, valid, timely and directly tied to student academic performance. State standards for students and teachers should be revised as necessary to be clear, rigorous, relevant and tightly aligned with each other and with student assessments. The academic rigor of state certification requirements should be increased to ensure teacher mastery of core subject areas, while other bureaucratic barriers to teaching should be lessened, including barriers to alternative routes to certification. Finally, states and localities must ensure that sufficient energy and incentives are in place so that highly qualified and effective teachers are uniformly available to all students in every subject no matter their income or background. Such a collective national effort will help us to continue to support and reward the best and brightest of the nation's teachers and build national momentum toward providing all our students with the highly qualified teachers they deserve.
|The Benwood Initiative
|In 2000, the Benwood Foundation of Chattanooga, Tenn., learned that nine of
the state's 20 lowest performing schools were in Chattanooga. In response,
the Benwood Foundation, together with the Public Education Foundation and Hamilton
County Schools, formed the Benwood Initiative. The two foundations together
committed $7.5 million to improve those nine schools so that by 2007, 100 percent
of all third-graders would be reading above or at grade level. A core strategy
for achieving this goal was to recruit, train and retain high-performing teachers.
In 2001 and each subsequent year, each school in the initiative received a grant of $100,000 to be devoted solely to professional development of all teachers, the addition of full-time reading experts who coach and train all staff and a small number of reading interventionists who work with the lowest performing readers. Superintendent Jesse Register reconstituted the staff of all nine schools; 100 of 270 teachers left these schools in 2002. Register replaced six of nine principals, added an assistant principal at each school and created an office of urban education.
In 2002, the Weldon F. Osborne Foundation agreed to underwrite the cost of developing an entirely new urban elementary education master's degree at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and pay the tuition of the first 100 teachers from the nine schools. Chattanooga's Mayor, Bob Corker, 12 business leaders and representatives from the district and the foundations used city tax revenues to offer salary supplements of $5,000 to individual teachers whose students show high gains on the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System. Team bonuses were also offered to all full-time certificated staff in schools with exemplary system scores. Financial assistance was offered to teachers who wanted to purchase a home in the neighborhoods of the schools and legal fees were provided gratis by the local bar association.
The combination of extensive, high-quality professional training, additional staff, strong building and district leadership and incentives has yielded exceptional improvement in all nine schools. In the first two years of the initiative, the nine targeted schools have made gains twice the district average in all five subject areas tested by the state of Tennessee. The gains in reading are also higher than 90 percent of all elementary schools in Tennessee.


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A new state law allows schools to sell old computers to students, but local school administrators said tough budget realities mean students should probably look elsewhere.
A new state law allows schools to sell old computers to students, but local school administrators said tough budget realities mean students should probably look elsewhere.
Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes each have about 7,500 desktop computers circulating in their school systems. When those computers are pulled out of service, school districts are required to either send them to other state agencies or to a state recycling program.
The new law gives schools a third option — sell the computers to students seeking cheap, old computers.
But local school technology supervisors said tight fiscal times mean opportunities to set up such a sale will be rare.
"We basically use a computer until it's broken," said Ben Gautreaux, IT manager for Lafourche schools. "By the time we're getting rid of it, it's not just obsolete. It's usually not even functional."
Chris Babin, network administrator for Terrebonne schools, said his system seldom has usable spare computers either.
"We almost never end up with used machines because we cannibalize parts for other computers," Babin said. "Usually what you see is a pile of rummaged parts."
Babin said almost all his parish's school computer equipment ends up going to the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council, where it is recycled for minerals.
Even if school districts found themselves with spare computers on hand, some officials said selling them to students could present logistical problems.
"I know this is something the state has sent down to us, but I have a problem with this," said Terrebonne School Board member L.P. Bordelon, as he voted against allowing such sales at a board meeting Tuesday. "I think it's going to be cumbersome for us to try to figure out who gets these computers and who doesn't."
Babin said there are other ways for people to get their hands on equipment elsewhere in state government.
While most local agencies run their computers until they are no longer functional, Babin said that's not always the case with larger state agencies, which sometimes send lightly-used equipment — or, in some cases, equipment that hasn't been used at all — to the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council.
The organization also takes computers from corporate donors, who often replace them more frequently than the state.
"If you're looking to get computer equipment cheap from a state surplus, they're the place to go," he said. "I've seen basically new monitors there that you can get for $20."
CACRC offers special programs for low-income families who can't otherwise afford computer equipment. They also offer special deals for college students and K-12 students who don't have computers at home.
You can download an application for equipment at cacrc.com.
CACRC also offers discount computer equipment for sale online at store.cacrc.com.
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Mets banged out 13 hits including three home runs to beat the Miami Marlins by a score of 10-2 on Saturday at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter.
There were a lot of great story lines in this game for the Mets, but let's begin with Travis d'Arnaud, who blasted a two-run homer against Miami Marlins lefthander Brad Hand. The home run snapped a hitless streak that had lasted 21 at-bats for the Mets Opening Day catcher.
Apparently, d'Arnaud and hitting coach Dave Hudgens spent some considerable time together on Friday and hopefully this was a sign that things will now improve for 25-year old backstop.
"I'm seeing the ball well," d'Arnaud said. "I'm just over-swinging. Yesterday me and 'Hudgy' just worked on keeping my eye on the ball. If you keep your eye on the ball, you have a higher chance of succeeding than when you don't see the ball hit the bat."
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Perhaps the biggest star on the day was Bartolo Colon who pitched all the way into the seventh inning and got the win. Colon tossed 6.2 innings and allowed two earned runs on five hits while walking none and striking out three. He threw over 80% of his pitches for strikes including 18 of them in a row at one point in the game. Collins was right – this guy is a strike-throwing machine. Additionally, Colon singled, drove in a run, and nearly beat out a grounder for an infield hit, much to the delight of the crowd who gave him a big ovation. This guy is going to be a lot of fun!
Wilmer Flores with a three hit, four RBI day that include a three-run shot – his second homer of the year. Flores leads the Mets in RBIs this Spring, but will likely begin the season in Triple-A Las Vegas. That's unfortunate.
Ike Davis had his second big day in a row. After going 3-for-3 on Friday, Davis celebrated his 27th birthday by ripping a two-run homer off Marlins closer Steve Cishek. It was his second home run of the spring and he's now 5-for-15 with four extra-base hits. Lucas Duda had the day off.
How about Chris Young? He reached base 5 times today and is having himself a fantastic spring. Young finished his day going 3-for-3 with a walk and two steals.
Eric Young Jr. batted leadoff and collected a single and a walk in four plate appearances while stealing a pair of bases including third.
Up Next:
The Mets play a pair of split squad games on Sunday. Jenrry Mejia opposes Washington Nationals right-hander Tanner Roark at 1:10 PM at Port St. Lucie, while John Lannan opposes Atlanta Braves right-hander Freddy Garcia at 1:05 PM at Disney.


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The Toll Gate basketball team has stood up to nearly every challenge in the early going this season, and they faced another one on Monday night at Moses Brown.
And again, the Titans rose to the occasion.
Using a solid first half and some timely second-half stops, Toll Gate took care of the Quakers 54-41 to improve to 5-1 in Division III-Central. Moses Brown fell to 3-3.
It was the third straight victory for the Titans, who remained in first place in the division. Their only league loss on the season is to Juanita Sanchez back on Dec. 18.
"They're a solid team, we're a solid team," Toll Gate head coach Tom Rayko said. "The division is pretty open. Anybody can beat anybody on any given night. I don't think we can take anybody lightly."
Senior captain John Murphy led the Titans charge on Monday, tallying 21 points to go along with numerous big plays defensively. He scored 13 points in the first half as the Titans built a 28-14 lead at the break.
"Huge on the boards, shooting, ball-handling," Rayko said of Murphy. "He did it all tonight. He had a phenomenal game."
Toll Gate never trailed, as it took a 12-0 lead in the game's first five minutes, and didn't allow a Moses Brown point until Sebastian Ferrell hit one free throw with 10:36 to play.
Murphy scored the first eight points of the game, while Tyler Inkley and John Coleman added buckets as well.
"Tonight, we started out really well," Rayko said. "We were able to put the ball in the basket early."
Moses Brown closed the gap quickly with a 9-0 run of its own, and continued to keep the game close when Nicholas Snow hit a three-pointer to make it 18-14.
But the Titans closed the half with a bang.
Inkley got it started with a layup, and Murphy scored and was fouled on the next possession. Ben Mann hit a short jumper after that, and Kyle Toolin buried a three with just over a minute remaining to polish off a 10-0 run heading into the half.
"I'd like to keep that going, to be perfectly honest with you," Rayko said. "I hate when we do that and then relax. I'd like to keep that momentum going as much as possible. It's a game of waves anyway."
Toll Gate kept the momentum early in the second half, scoring the first six points on a layup by Mann and two putbacks by Murphy to take a 34-14 lead.
"I just had to attack the basket," Murphy said. "Just pick spots and attack the basket, take contact."
Yet, Moses Brown – which made three three-pointers – wasn't quite ready to throw in the towel, even down 20.
The Quakers started full court pressing and firing away from long range. They often connected. Thomas Chase made it 38-22 with 11:45 left on a long-range shot, and Ferrell hit another one with 8:48 to cut the lead to 40-28.
On Moses Brown's next possession, Chase hit another three to cut the lead down to 10 at 41-31.
"You just can't give up," Murphy said of his team's attitude during Moses Brown's comeback. "You just have to keep fighting, play your game. You don't want to give them any chance to get back in it.
The Titans got a layup from Coleman and two free throws from Murphy to re-up the lead to 14, but Chase hit another three to make it an 11-point game.
After Murphy was fouled, he missed the front end of a one-and-one, and Snow buried a three on the other side for Moses Brown to cut Toll Gate's lead down to single digits at 45-37.
"They made some really big threes," Rayko said. "I think we were even in position and they made some big threes."
Coleman scored on the Titans' next possession to make it a 10-point game with 5:42 left, and then both teams went cold. Toll Gate turned the ball over on two of its next five possessions and missed a free throw and two shots on the other three, while Moses Brown committed a turnover and missed four shots.
Toll Gate got a spark off the bench from Evan Stamps, who stepped in front of Chase on a fast-break and took a charge at a time when every possession was crucial.
"Another standout for us was Evan Stamps," Rayko said. "I thought he grew a lot. He made some really nice plays."
Moses Brown got one free throw from Chase with 2:40 left to get within nine again, but a layup by Inkley put the Titans back up by 11. The Quakers made one more run when Snow knocked down his fourth three of the game with 1:35 to play, making the score 49-41, but Toll Gate scored the last five points of the game to finish the job.
Murphy's 21 points were a game high, and Inkley added 12. Coleman scored eight, while Mann scored seven. For Moses Brown, Chase led the way with 16, while Ferrell had 13 and Snow had 12. Those three were the only Quakers to score, and they combined to make 10 three-pointers.
The victory was a good start to what is shaping up as a tough week for the Titans. Their next game is today at home against unbeaten Middletown at 7 p.m., and they host East Greenwich on Friday at 7 p.m. East Greenwich is 5-1.
"We're definitely capable of doing better and I think this is the start of it right here," Murphy said. "Big week. Thursday and Friday we have home games. It's a good start so far."


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SAN ANTONIO, TX – JUNE 13: LeBron James #6 of the Miami Heat posts up Danny Green #4 of the San Antonio Spurs in the first quarter during Game Four of the 2013 NBA Finals at the AT&T Center on June 13, 2013 in San Antonio, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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When Donna K. Arnett, Ph.D., became the volunteer president of the American Heart Association in 2012, she was hailed as the first epidemiologist to serve in the role. What many people didn't know is, she is also the first stroke survivor to lead the organization in its nearly 90-year history.
This week, Dr. Arnett, a noted researcher and chairperson of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, shared her story publicly for the first time in an effort to raise awareness during American Stroke Month.
Dr. Arnett has never hid the fact she had a stroke at age 27. She simply never made it an issue, either – a testament to the fact that stroke is largely treatable and beatable.
Donna K. Arnett, Ph.D.
The day began like most others. I got out of bed at about 5:30 a.m. and went to let out my dog, Nikki.
Walking toward the door, I felt really odd. I then made some coffee and went to call Nikki back in. But the words that came out weren't what I was trying to say.
"That was weird," I thought. "Did I hear that right?"
Chalking it up to the early hour, I went on with my morning routine. Yet the odd feeling went on, as well.
I can't quite explain it. Things were just fuzzy.
I knew something was wrong medically. I even wondered, "Is this what a stroke feels like?" It's a strange situation for a healthcare professional. You know the warning signs, you have seen evolving stroke symptoms in patients, but when it is you, there's an eerie disbelief – especially considering my age and overall good health.
With all of those thoughts going through my head, I drove in to my office. I was a clinical nurse at the time, and as I started my day the fuzzy feeling continued. Eventually, I turned to my boss and said, "I think I am having a stroke."
He thought I was kidding. As the morning went on, he realized I wasn't.
My symptoms piled up: Drooling; weakness in my left arm, then in my left leg; finally, my speech slurred so much that you couldn't understand anything I said.
By the time I reached the emergency room, I could no longer speak.
I knew exactly, precisely, in great detail, everything that was going on around me.
Everything I'd studied and heard from stroke patients was playing out.
I felt no pain – only anguish. I was painfully alert, trapped inside a body that would not work and could not communicate. I formed thoughts and sentences but could do nothing with them.
My mind raced. I wondered what my life would be like in this new, isolated state. How would I care for patients? Could I even do the work that brought me such joy?
It was intensely lonely. I felt like no one could understand what was happening to me, and that no one ever would be able to really understand me again.
Three days before, I underwent a small, routine procedure. It went fine, but what I didn't know was that I had a condition that left me prone to clotting after surgery.
Sure enough, clots had formed around the mitral valve in my heart. Over the course of my fateful morning, some of those clots broke off and traveled to the temporal lobe of my brain, creating many small lesions. I saw them on the MRI – white speckles that lit up my brain like brilliant stars lighting up the sky.
I was fortunate in so many ways – especially considering much of our current scientific knowledge about stroke was not available back then.
For example, I was not treated with tPA (Tissue Plasminogen Activator), the breakthrough drug that can limit long-term damage from stroke, because it wasn't on the market yet.
Also, people weren't as aware of the importance of calling 9-1-1 right away if you see someone showing signs of a stroke. Now we know that it's critical to act if you see someone you know – or even a stranger – showing signs of a stroke.
I found an expert who identified the cause for my clotting problem, and I have been safely taking the anti-clotting drug warfarin for more than 20 years.
I had no long-term paralysis. My speech returned. And, eventually, I relearned the things that were stored in the parts of my brain that were lost.
Losing a part of your brain is not like losing your memory. You retain the knowledge that you know how to do simple tasks – such as read a calendar, walk on a treadmill or weigh a patient on a balance beam scale – but the processes for doing those things have been wiped clean from your brain.
It was startling to discover these black holes. Relearning these things took time, patience, and the love and kindness of my family and patients.
The point is, I did.
I relearned all the little things and continued with the big things I had planned, personally and professionally.
And I'm here to tell everyone who is recovering from stroke or helping a loved one recover that there is hope.
You may be dealing with those same feelings of isolation, doubt and despair I was feeling. You may be fighting through the pain and fear of rehabilitation, or coming to grips with the understanding that some of your abilities may be different now.
But don't give up.
You can get your life back after stroke. Not only that, you can go on to accomplish a great deal.
Donate today to help people with cardiovascular disease or stroke or become an advocate with You're The Cure. You can also get involved with one of our many causes, like Go Red For Women, Heart Walk or Power To End Stroke, take a CPR class or volunteer in your local community!


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Hey guys I made a new plugin—it makes it so the view scrolls before the cursor gets to the edge. Check it out:github.com/adzenith/Sublime-plu ... _offset.py(theoretically this link should always point to the most recent version)
The only known bug is that it's hard to use to the mouse to select things near the edge of the screen. I was kind of thinking of ways to fix this but I haven't come up with anything simple.
Let me know if you've got any questions or have any problems.
Hmm.. I've done a different approach to this some days ago:bitbucket.org/theblacklion/subl ... _offset.py
But I haven't made any attempt for centering the view horizontally. Do you use/need that?
It comes in handy to have it scroll horizontally too. I edit files that have long lines, and it's helpful to have a horizontal scroll offset.
Hi folks!
Is there a reason I do not see any effects using it with ST2?
I've heard tell it doesn't work if you have word wrap enabled.
Updated link to package: github.com/SublimeText/ScrollOffset
Even after disabling word wrap, installing Scroll Offset and Mouse Event Listener and restarting ST2, I can't see difference when scrolling. The cursor always hits the last line (top / bottom) before it scrolls...
Huh. Does your console say anything?
There aren't any entries in the console (from either of these two plugins) when I actually scroll and apart from that, after starting up ST2, only the usual entries that they have been loaded.
E.g.:Reloading plugin D:\Tools\Sublime Text\Data\Packages\MouseEventListener\mouse_event_listener.pyReloading plugin D:\Tools\Sublime Text\Data\Packages\ScrollOffset\scroll_offset.py
Huh... not sure what else to check. It definitely works over here.Try adding "show_debug_guides": True to your Scroll Offset.sublime-settings?
Changed it from false to true and restarted ST2 (just in case). No debug entries in the console ;/
this is wierd, the plugin works, but only with ONE of my python files.


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As Texas natives, David Larraga and Sam Sanchez are bringing the flavors of the Southwest to Destin as the owners and operators of the In The Bag food truck.
"We wanted to be able to share what we love," Sanchez told The Log. "Just being able to bring these flavors to this area is really cool."
Slinging made-from-scratch tacos at the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 98 and Airport Road in the old Destin Diner parking lot, In The Bag offers a carefully planned out menu with simple, but delicious tacos.
The four "signature" items all draw inspiration from what Larraga, Sanchez and their wives, Tristen and Bobbie like to eat themselves, whether it's the "956," the "Novia," the "Cuatro," or the "Sissy bowl."
The 956 features diced steak with cilantro, diced onions, sliced avocado, caramelized onions and queso fresco on a corn tortilla. Larraga said that 956 is the area code from where he grew up in Texas. The Novia, which means girlfriend, was created by Sanchez's wife and packs marinated chicken, shredded cheese and guacamole into a flour tortilla.
The Cuatro is Sanchez's signature creation and combines steak, guacamole, sour cream, queso fresco, and pico de gallo. The Sissy Bowl is served sans tortilla and offers up shredded lettuce, steak, refried beans, guacamole, diced onions, salsa, queso, and pico de gallo.
"There are only three meats on the menu, but they are so flavorful," Larraga told The Log. "They are all marinated for at least 3-4 hours."
Both the salsa and the guacamole at In The Bag are old family recipes, which Larraga and Sanchez say means a lot to them to be able to share with the public. All of the food in the truck is made from scratch, and made fresh each day.
Whatever items are not used get taken home at the end of each day, and the team starts new.
In The Bag has taken its operation from Scenic Hwy. 98 in Walton County to the inaugural Blazefest concert in Niceville, as well as the parking lots of both Nightown and The Swamp.
They purchased their food truck, which was an old Snap-On tools truck, in January and completely retrofitted the inside into a mobile restaurant. It's complete with sinks, plenty of storage, a refrigerator, charbroiler and a flat-top griddle.
"We completely tore it apart," Larraga said, adding that they spent almost 18-hours-a-day for a month straight perfecting the truck.
"It has everything we need," Sanchez said.
In The Bag is open daily from 12-6 p.m., or later depending on business, Monday through Saturday. Find them on Facebook and Twitter, or on the web at www.inthebagtacos.com.
Any service personnel, whether it's military, police, or firefighters, receive a 50 percent discount. Also, if you mention you saw this story in The Log, the team will give you a free drink with your meal.
With the summer season ahead of them, Larraga and Sanchez say they are looking forward to offering hungry Destinites and visitors a taste of home with every taco they sell.
"Our philosophy is to do one thing and do it well, if not better than everyone else," Sanchez said. "We want to make the food that we would like to eat."


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SSI: Oct. Coach Sales Rise 42%; C's Gain 62.5%
December 12, 2013 by RVBusiness Comments Off on SSI: Oct. Coach Sales Rise 42%; C's Gain 62.5%
Year-over-year motorhome registrations soared 41.6% in October while sales for the 10 months increased 34.6%, according to the latest report from Statistical Surveys Inc. (SSI).
Thor Industries Inc. held the No. 1 spot in year-to-date motorhome registrations with a 23.7% market share followed by Winnebago Industries Inc. (19%), Forest River Inc. (13.7%) and Forest River's Coachmen RV division (11.4%). The Forest River Group, which includes Coachmen in a "consolidated" report by Statistical Surveys, was the leader through October with a 25.3% share.
In the Class A category, October sales climbed 29.4% compared with 2012 and were up 31.4% for the 10 months. Thor led the sector through October, posting a 21.7% market share and edging Winnebago (20.7%). Tiffin Motorhomes Inc. was No. 3, capturing a 17.1% share, while Fleetwood RV Inc. garnered a 12.5% share.
Class C sales surged 62.5% for the month and 38.5% year-to-date. Thor led the category for the 10 months with a 26.1% market share, followed by Forest River (18.9%), Coachmen (17.8%) and Winnebago (16.9%).
To subscribe to this or other SSI reports, contact Scott Stropkai, national RV sales manager, at (616) 281-9898 ext. 128, or (616) 446-8179 (cell).


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By Tom Huizenga
If they had an Olympic medal for "Long-Distance Chamber Music," the gold would surely go to the Beaux Arts Trio. After a 53-year run, the ensemble – made up of one piano, one violin and one cello – takes the stage Thursday night at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, to give its final U.S. performance before calling it quits.
There is something Olympian about the Beaux Arts Trio. The group performed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, just one of thousands of venues the ensemble has played during the last five decades.
It's fitting that the Beaux Arts Trio is returning to Tanglewood, because that's where it all began. The group gave its first public concert there on July 13, 1955. And for 53 years, one member of the Trio has remained constant: pianist Menahem Pressler. He's 84 now, but he still vividly recalls how that first concert launched a career for three separate musicians who quickly grew into a single musical unit.
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Interview by Kore Flatmo
Kore Flatmo: Growing up, you must have seen a lot of Jack and Freddy's work too.
Chente Rios: Yeah, my dad gets tattooed by Freddy, well, when they were young.
And Mike Brown from the 80s?
Yeah, all them. My dad has work from the Pike, Good Time Charlie's. I've been around this since I was a kid; watching all of this unfold. I grew up in East L.A. right around the corner from Good Time Charlie's…
What do you think about that lineup in the late 80s? You've got Jack, Mike Brown, Mark Mahoney comes through. I think Gill was there for a while. Then you got Charlie keepin' 'em all in line and running the show. What an amazing shop! That gathering of people… Maybe in 20 years, we'll all look back at your shop and say, "Look at all those guys that worked together."
That's the way I kind of already feel when I was at Ink Slingers. We had a good little family going and we were tight. Every day it was unspoken competition. We'd look at each other and we'd be tattooing like, "Oh yeah, well look at this one!" We wouldn't say it but we'd be thinking it.
That's healthy competition.
That's what made everybody really good, really fast.
Tommy is ridiculously good. I saw that guy and I couldn't believe it.
Yeah, Tommy, that's another one of my guys that I look up to.
And he's fast too, right?
Yeah, he's super-fast. That made us all fast. He got that directly from Tim, 'cause Tim's fast. He learned that directly off him and it kind of trickled down and somehow it got to me. But he's another big inspiration. I got a lot of love for Tommy.
There are exciting days ahead for him too, huh?
I think he's going to become a household name here in about six months.
He is. He's that guy though. I think they oughta put a camera in front of him 'cause he's a riot.
Yeah, he's a natural for TV?
A natural.
I'm just happy to know there are gonna be good tattooers on there. That's all I wanted. If you're gonna do the shows, make sure we have the high quality stuff. I looked atMiami Ink and I saw Garver and I was like, "Cool."
That's another one of my big, big inspirations, Chris Garver.
He's such a generous guy; generous in his support and not afraid to acknowledge other people. Again, I think that's a common trait among the good ones. They're not so afraid that they can't let you do your thing. In fact, they can even acknowledge when it's good, right? A lot of guys, they'll see your work and if it's really good, they'll just get angry where as Chris would go, "Great for you."
He's phenomenal though.
Oh, he's one of my all time favorites. I always put him up there. But Jack influenced everyone, so I'm sure he's up there?
Jack Rudy, Freddy Negrete… Both of them are definitely up there. I look at my dad's work 30 years later and it's still crisp and clean to this day. Even Freddy looks at it sometimes and it trips him out.
Chente Rios can be found at Under The Gun Ink in Los Angeles, CA.
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So many of our daily activities now take place "in the cloud," where we use our devices to tap into massive networks that span the globe. Virtually every time that we plug into a new service, the service requires us to click the seemingly ubiquitous box indicating that we have read and agreed to the provider's terms of service (TOS) and privacy policy. If a user does not click on this box, he is denied access to the service, but agreeing to the terms without reading them can negatively impact the user's legal rights.
As part of this work, we analyzed and categorized the terms of TOS agreements and privacy policies of several major cloud services to aid in our assessment of the state of user privacy in the cloud. Our empirical analysis showed that providers take similar approaches to user privacy and were consistently more detailed when describing the user's obligations to the provider than when describing the provider's obligations to the user. This asymmetry, combined with these terms' nonnegotiable nature, led us to conclude that the current approach to user privacy in the cloud is in need of serious revision.
In this work, we suggest adopting a legal regime that requires companies to provide baseline protections for personal information and also to take steps to enhance the parties' control over their own data. We emphasize the need for a regime that allows for "data control" in the cloud, which we define as consisting of two parts: (1) the ability to withdraw data and require a service provider to stop using or storing the user's information (data withdrawal); and (2) the ability to move data to a new location without being locked into a particular provider (data mobility). Ultimately, our goal with this work is to apply established law and privacy theories to services in the cloud and set forth a model for the protection of information privacy that recognizes the importance of informed and empowered users.
Jay P. Kesan is a Professor in the College of Law at the University of Illinois. He is the H. Ross & Helen Workman Research Scholar and Director, Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law. Professor Kesan's academic interests are in the areas of technology, law, and business. Specifically, his work focuses on patent law, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, cyberlaw, digital government (e-gov), agricultural biotechnology law, and biofuels regulation. He has served as a technical and legal expert and/or counsel in patent matters, and also serves on the boards of directors/advisors of start-up technology companies.
Professor Kesan has written many books, most recently Adopting Open Source Software, A Practical Guide (with Fitzgerald, Russo, Shaikh, and Succi), MIT Press (2011) and Intellectual Property in Business Organizations (with Ghosh and Gruner), Lexis-Nexis Publishing Co. (2nd ed., 2012) (a unique and first-of-its-kind casebook on transactional IP). He is a regular commentator on the radio program "Legal Issues in the News" on WILL Illinois Public Radio. He also serves as faculty editor-in-chief of the University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy. He has developed an online course on "Legal Issues in Technology Entrepreneurship," supported by a grant from the Coleman Foundation.
Professor Kesan received his J.D. summa cum laude from Georgetown University, where he received several awards, including Order of the Coif, and served as associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Prior to attending law school, Dr. Kesan, who also holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, worked as a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. He is a registered patent attorney and practiced at the former firm of Pennie & Edmonds LLP in the areas of patent litigation and patent prosecution. In addition, he has published numerous scientific papers and obtained several patents in the U.S. and abroad.
ITI is a campus-wide interdisciplinary unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by the College of Engineering, that is fostering excellence in information trust and security. Participating units include, among others, the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Business; the College of Engineering; the College of Law; the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Department of Aerospace Engineering; the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; the Department of Computer Science; the Coordinated Science Laboratory; the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering; and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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Lewis Gates was born in 1807 in Virginia. He died on 7 Apr 1865 in Illinois.
Lewis married Mildred about 1832 in Virginia. Mildred was born about 1807 in Virginia. She died about 1867 in Illinois.
They had the following children:
Lewis C. Gates was born on 5 Dec 1833 in Russell County, Virginia.
Joseph D. Gates was born in 1836 in Russell County, Virginia. He died on 28 Aug 1918 in Russell County, Virginia.
Elizabeth S. Gates was born circa 1838 in Russell County, Virginia. She died on 17 Apr 1900 in Russell County, Virginia.
James J. Gates was born in 1841 in Virginia. He died in 1875 in Ohio.
Alice Gates was born in 1844 in Moultrie County, Illinois.
Mildred Virginia Gates was born about 1847 in Illinois. She died about 1910 in Virginia.
Richard Gates was born in 1850 in Illinois. He died on 25 Oct 1904 in Virginia.
Martha Gates was born on 15 Apr 1852 in Illinois. She died in 1929 in Virginia.
Reuben R. Gates was born in 1852 in Illinois. He died during 1852 in Illinois.


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1:00 pm-1:30 pm Eat Your Words
2:00 pm-2:30 pm Arts & Seizures
3:00 pm-3:30 pm Meant To Be Eaten
4:30 pm-5:30 pm Snacky Tunes
6:00 pm-6:45 pm Eating Matters
7:00 pm-7:45 pm Buenlimón Radio
12:00 pm-12:45 pm What Doesn't Kill You
2:00 pm-2:45 pm Feast Yr Ears
3:00 pm-3:45 pm Japan Eats!
4:00 pm-4:45 pm In the Sauce
5:00 pm-5:45 pm Cutting the Curd
11:00 am-11:45 am The Line
12:00 pm-12:50 pm Cooking Issues
2:00 pm-2:45 pm Recommended Reading with Food Book Fair
3:00 pm-3:30 pm The Food Seen
5:00 pm-5:45 pm Beer Sessions Radio (TM)
11:00 am-11:45 am In the Drink
12:00 pm-12:45 pm Speaking Broadly
1:00 pm-1:45 pm The Farm Report
2:00 pm-2:45 pm The Speakeasy
3:00 pm-4:00 pm Andrew Talks to Chefs
4:00 pm-4:45 pm All in the Industry ®
5:00 pm-5:45 pm The Grape Nation
6:00 pm-6:45 pm Food Without Borders
7:00 pm-7:45 pm Feast Meets West
10:00 am-10:45 am The Main Course O.G.
11:00 am-11:45 am Tech Bites
12:00 pm-12:45 pm A Taste of the Past
1:00 pm-1:45 pm Radio Cherry Bombe
2:00 pm-2:45 pm Why Food?
3:00 pm-3:45 pm A Hungry Society
4:00 pm-4:45 pm Inside Julia's Kitchen
5:00 pm-5:45 pm HRN Happy Hour
6:00 pm-6:45 pm Fuhmentaboudit!
5:00 pm-5:15 pm Meat + Three
Chef's Story
Fresh Pickings
Heritage Radio Network On Tour
Inside School Food
Like Farmer, Like Dog
Love Bites
Modernist BreadCrumbs
My Welcome Table by Jessica B. Harris
On the Road with Beer Sessions Radio
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Recruit. Retain. Relax.
Saxelby Radio Scholars
Special Features
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"Cider is shockingly easy to make. You can make it in the most primitive of ways." [17:00] — Ben Watson


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Outdoor Composting Bins
When it comes to composting, having some space to accommodate an outdoor bin feels like a luxury. So to make sure you get the best outdoor composter to fit your needs, we've put together a little roundup of choices—some we're familiar with, and some we think would be great to try. Take a look, and then let us know what your suggestions are.
Generally speaking, there are two types of commercially available composters: tumblers and bins. We've tried both. Tumblers are nice because their design allows for easy turning and aeration, meaning your trimmings, clippings, and food waste will decompose more quickly. Bins allow for good air circulation, but are a little more difficult to turn and because of that might require a little more space. That said, both types will do the trick. And if you're short on change or don't want anything fancy, you can always make your own with just a few materials!
1 The Valentina Composter by Priscilla Woodworth: This one made the top of the list for two reasons: obviously, it's adorable. And it's compact enough for a balcony or small yard, making it a good option (albeit the price tag looms around $300). The concept looks very simple, too; put your scraps in, and compost winds up at the bottom, available through the little door.
2 Urban Compost Tumbler - UCT7: Read how one writer uses it to compost food clippings and biodegradable diapers.
3 Suncast Tumbling Compost Bin: We have this model in our yard and think it's pretty easy to use. Stuff decomposes really quickly, but we haven't yet tested the end product (according to the how-to booklet, compost can be ready in as few as two weeks). In any case, it has a small footprint and we're very happy with it thus far.
4 Lifetime 80 Gallon Compost Tumbler: A snazzy-looking compost tumbler; it's lightweight with a locking pin.
5 Exaco Trading ECO-88 90-Gallon Wooden Composter: Here's another compost bin that's easy on the eyes and on the planet. Made out of cedar, which is naturally bug and rot resistant, this is a pretty bin that has plenty of space for aeration.
For more information about composting, check out this all-inclusive post!
(Images: Valentina, 2 Lifetime 80 Gallon Compost Tumbler: A snazzy-looking compost tumbler; it's lightweight with a locking pin.">Priscilla Woodworth; Urban Composter, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan; Lifetime Composter, Home Depot; Suncast Composter, Lowe's; Exaco.)


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posted by David Adams on Thu 8th Jul 2010 15:29 UTC, submitted by mgpeter
Kernel News reviews SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, SP1. In addition to fixing a lot of problems that plagued the initial SLED 11 release, SP1 includes major software updates. For instance, SLED11 SP1 includes GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.5.


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This shaders pack is created for use in MAXON Cinema 4D.
It's compatible with version 10 and/or newer.
It contains 22 different shaders, and roughness 5 modifiers.
This pack contains:
-1 clear glass shader
-15 colored/tint glass (red, green, blue, orange and purple), with three levels of amount for each color (light, medium, dark).
-6 smoked glass (3 plain and 3 colored)
-5 modifiers (bits and bubbles, hexagonal bump, square bump, random roughness 1 and random roughness 2)
The shaders can be used with or without Global Illumination.
Also you can use Caustics with each material in pack.
I suggest using Anti-Aliasing (at least 2×2).
Here are some of the preview images:
"Wine glass scene, without GI and caustics "
"Scene rendered with using Global Illumination"
If you have any question related to this project please contact me :
Also check my other stuff
This item is part of my Shader Packs Collection


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The recently introduced Baltimore Orioles website provides fans with the ability to buy Orioles tickets sold out at the box office.
Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) June 30, 2014
Baltimore Orioles Tickets, scores and MLB news are featured on a new independent site to keep fans up on developments with their favorite team plus special tools to discover the cheapest Orioles game tickets. Results of the new system provide Baltimore Orioles fans with over 15 games currently offering tickets for $10 or less. Some games start at as little as four dollars per ticket. Even superior tickets like box seats behind the dugout can be found at prices better than other resale sites including many prices cheaper than Stubhub.
The recently introduced Baltimore Orioles website provides fans with the ability to buy Orioles tickets sold out at the box office. The ticket inventory includes every game and all areas from cheap seats through premium tickets. But Baltimore.CheapTicketsBaseball.com sets itself apart from other such sites in a few ways. Of primary importance to many MLB fans, very often, Baltimore.CheapTicketsBaseball.com, in association with Tickets-Cheapest.com, offers prices lower than StubHub. In instances where the same exact seats are offered by both sites, the new Orioles Game Tickets site should win the best price contest almost every time. The site operates by bringing together a very large number of ticket sellers and then using advanced software to aid fans in discovering cheap Orioles tickets. The page operates independently of any particular ticket seller, the Baltimore Orioles, MLB or Oriole Park At Camden Yards, with its loyalty to fans buying tickets. Baltimore area armed forces personnel can find Orioles seats with a military tickets discount.
Custom sorting and the ability to discover the cheapest Baltimore Orioles tickets provides the next way in which Baltimore.CheapTicketsBaseball.com stands above other resale sites online. Imagine a goal of attending a baseball game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards and sitting in pretty good seats, but not being especially concerned about the opponent. The new Orioles game tickets site will display all the home baseball games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, MD. Fans can than re-sort the games in order of the cheapest recent seat.
Tickets-Cheapest.com can provide tickets for all the other major Baltimore, MD events besides the Orioles. Music fans can find tickets for the Baltimore Arena featuring a Justin Timberlake concert and a Demi Lovato concert.
Nearby, the M & T Bank Stadium hosts a major show featuring a Jay-Z and Beyonce Concert in July.
NFL football fans can find tickets to Baltimore Ravens games held at the M & T Bank Stadium by visiting Baltimore.CheapTicketsForFootballGames.com
Those in Baltimore who prefer theater should look at Financial Firebird's BroadwayTouringShows.com site for all Broadway musicals and plays on the road like Once the Musical, Chicago the Musical and others at the Hippodrome Theater at the France-Merrick PAC.
Disney fans will find Disney On Ice: Frozen at the Baltimore Arena in late October.
Buy seats now and pay less at Baltimore.CheapTicketsBaseball.com from TicketsCheapest.com where price surveys prove fans will find seats cost less than other resale sites including ticket prices that beat Stubhub. Find the right Baltimore Orioles tickets online or by phone at 855 805 5266 for professional personal assistance.
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The site with special software to find cheap concert tickets online and its sister sites, including the site to purchase a Baltimore Broadway theater ticket or tickets for Broadway tour shows, are affiliated with the Financial Firebird Corporation Travel Group. Financial Firebird Corporation, established in 2000 and a proud BBB member, provides unbiased consumer information. These sites for consumers to buy tickets online operate in the resale market. The resale ticket market allows consumers access to popular events once the box office has sold out or to buy premium seats when the venue no longer offers any inventory. Within the group of these secondary market ticket services the Financial Firebird owned ticket sites offer lower prices than competitors. Find the sites at Baltimore.CheapTicketsBaseball.com and Tickets-Cheapest.com. Not affiliated with Baltimore Orioles the MLB, or Oriole Park At Camden Yards.


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Not always about US: Turns out that this Nike Slam Shock tank, being worn by the likes of Gael Monfils (above) and Juan Martin Del Potro (in lime) at the 2010 Australian Open, isn't available for sale in the U.S. Too bad, since we prefer it to the Slam Shock Crew. Perhaps grass is always greener…?
Still, if you feel the need to channel your inner gargantuan Argentine, pick up Delpo's Zoom Breath 2K10 shoes, $100; and his Slam Shock Woven Shorts, $50; both at nike.com.


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I just reread P&P myself, for the God-knows-how-many-timeth.
Interesting, yes? It's like having a conversation with another reader.1. Since Mr. Bennet was unwilling to go to Brighton, which would be at most 75 miles away, it is hardly surprising that he does not wish to voyage to Newcastle, which would be at least 200 miles away--and this is not even counting his disinclination to see Wickham and Lydia.


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SWAGVILLE is back, with a 5-star, 5-event weekend on April 13th-15th! There will be loads of caching activities to choose from, so don't miss out! Come join your fellow Geocachers for a premier GC weekend in SW Arkansas! Hope to see everyone there!
GC3CH9D - The Unfortunate Mysterious Origins of Swagville
GC3CHA1 - The Unfortunate Main Event @ Swagville
GC3CHAT - The Unfortunate Fiery Feast @ Swagville
GC3CHAW -The Unfortunate Night of Caching @ Swagville
GC3CHBB - 2012 Cacheball World Series @ Swagville