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Bloody Chicago weekend: 7 dead, dozens hurt in shootings
After a year rocked by gun violence, Chicago was seeing some relief this year -- until this weekend.
Gun violence flared over the Father's Day weekend in Chicago. At least seven people died and 30 others wounded in shootings across the city, authorities said.
In a city beset by gun crimes, six died in separate shootings Saturday night or early Sunday morning, including a 16-year-old boy, authorities said.
One of the weekend's victims was a man shot by police when he raised a handgun in their direction after jumping from a moving car and fleeing on foot, the Chicago Tribune reported, quoting police.
The Tribune gave this account of six of the deaths:
• One person died and three others were wounded in a shooting inside a club in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. Todd Wood, 40, died later at a hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
• Ricardo Herrera, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene of a shooting in the Little Village neighborhood on the South Side. Five others were wounded in that shooting and a second one a short time later in the same neighborhood, police said.
• Kevin Rivera, 16, died after being struck by a bullet fired by someone on a bicycle in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side shortly before midnight, police said.
• Jamal Jones, 19, died after being found shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
• Cortez Wilberton was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said.
• A man died after a foot pursuit by police early Sunday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. Police spokesman Patrick Camden told the Tribune that a man ran into an alley after police tried to stop his car. Camden said the man fell, then raised a 9-millimeter handgun with one hand as he tried to get up, drawing police fire. He was later identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Antwon Johnson, 24.
The weekend deaths brought a pall to a city that had been seeing some relief from gun violence. Homicides in Chicago soared last year even as the numbers declined in other major cities, but killings this year are down after heavier policing focused on gangs.


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Lookout Adds "Signal Flare" Device Location Technology to iOS Product Line
Lookout Mobile Security Premium (for Android), PCMag's Editors' Choice for mobile security, solves this problem with a technology the company calls "Signal Flare." When the battery gets really low, the device automatically reports its current position. Even if the battery goes totally dead, you can still log in to the Lookout portal and view the last reported position. Today Lookout announced an update to its iOS product line that, among other things, includes Signal Flare.
Signal Flare isn't perfect. If your phone really was stolen you're not likely to find the thief sitting quietly at the last reported location. It definitely raises your chances of finding phone that's merely lost; as for a stolen phone, it couldn't hurt!
Lookout's iOS security product does include the usual features to find a lost or stolen phone, including the ability to make it "scream" even if you've switched the ringer off. If you've neglected to install important iOS updates it will warn you. It also warns if you've jailbroken your device, or if you're connecting to an unsecured WiFi hotspot. Lookout automatically backs up your contacts, allowing you to view them online or restore them to the same phone or a new phone.
In addition to Signal Flare, the updated Lookout app includes optimizations for iOS 6 and iPhone 5. You can download it free from the iTunes Store.
For more from Neil, follow him on Twitter @neiljrubenking.

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Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM mounted on Canon EOS 5DS R : Tests and Reviews
Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Review
Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Review
Introduction The new Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 lens is the second one that Canon has equipped with its new Stepping Motor Technology (STM) system that allows that allows not just fingertip editing, but also the ability to provide continuous tracking of moving objects both rapidly and quietly, making it perfectly able to answer the exigencies of video. According to Canon, this type of motor eliminates the "pump effect" that one sometimes encounters with other systems.Videographers will particularly appreciate its quietness, along with its electro-magnetic diaphragm (EMD) that allows for accurate
Further readings for the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
Along with the 35mm f/1.8 reviewed previously, third-party maker Tamron also announced an almost identical-looking 45mm f/1.8 model. Like its sibling, this new high-grade prime features image stabilization, one ED glass element, and two aspheres. Read on to find out how well this new model performs.
Launched side-by-side, the EOS 760D and EOS 750D (a.k.a. T6s and T6i in North America, respectively) share a lot in common, including the same high-resolution 24.2-Mpix APS-C CMOS sensor, complete with Canon's Hybrid CMOS AF III for fast and accurate focusing. We've put the two models through our lab tests, along with a wide range of native and third-party Canon-mount lenses. Read on to find out how these models perform.
Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f2 SL II Aspherical Review: Latest scores for alternative 3rd party standard prime for Nikon & Canon
The $499 Ultron 40mm f2 SL II Aspherical is a standard focal length prime from legendary Viennese manufacturer Voigtlander. Despite its tiny proportions it promises to deliver excellent image quality scores in our industry standard lab tests. With the lab data in, recorded and verified our in-depth review analyses the results.
The Pentax 40mm f2.8 Limited is one of two pancake type lenses from the firm and although this model is just 15mm in length it's actually the larger of the pair. Read on to find out how well this refreshed HD version performs.
Introduced in July this year, the EOS 70D at first sight seems like a regular update to the maker's mid-range EOS 60D model. It shares a number of features with the firm's existing SLR range including a 19-point cross-type phase detection AF system, a 3-inch (1.040M dot) articulated touchscreen and built-in WiFi connectivity with remote viewing and image transfer. The camera can also shoot at up to 7fps and has 1080/30p video recording with stereo sound using an optional external microphone.
After achieving an excellent reputation for its imaging characteristics, Sigma has revised this popular high-speed APS-C format standard lens, adding it to its high-performance Art line. Read on to see how well this new iteration performs in our labs.
In the lead up to Photokina 2012, Canon announced the new Canon EOS 6D full-frame entry-point model within days of Nikon publicizing their most-affordable full-frame camera to date, the 24-Mpix D600. While the EOS 6D boasted some attention grabbing features including built-in WiFi and GPS and slightly undercut the Nikon on price, it couldn't match its rival in one or two key areas, namely the less populated AF system and lower resolution sensor.
With its compact and lightweight body, the Canon EOS 100D / Rebel SL1 / Kiss X7 is the smallest DSLR in the firm's line-up. While it adopts a similar performing sensor to the EOS 700D, the body is around 25% of the size of that model by volume and presents its own set of challenges when selecting lenses for it. In this review, we've taken a look at the optical quality of 130 different lenses fitted to the camera but this time we're also making some limited recommendations about the handling and video capabilities.
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Our review of the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM lens. In the latest of our lens reviews brought to you in partnership with DxOMark, we take a look at Canon's slimline 'pancake' prime for its APS-C and full frame SLRs. It's one of the smallest and cheapest lenses currently on the market, and includes a stepper motor for silent focusing during movie recording. But does its small size and low price result in compromised optics? Read our review to find out.Read the article
Announced this past June alongside the Canon EOS Rebel T4i DSLR camera, the new Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM is an ultra-slim, entry-level pancake lens that uses Canon's Stepping Motor Technology (STM) to enable extra-quiet continuous autofocus, making it well-suited for video shooting.


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Integrating Salesforce with Azure AD: How to automate User Provisioning (2/2)
A video on how to integrate an existing Salesforce deployment with Azure Active Directory (part 1 of 2). Follow along with the video to easily configure single sign-on (SSO) with Salesforce. Contents: 0:45 – How to access your Azure Active Directory 1:10 – How to add Salesforce to your Azure Active Directory 1:49 – Configure single sign on to Salesforce 6:17 – How to test single sign on. For a written version of this tutorial go to: https://go.microsoft.com/fwLink/?LinkID=286017 Watch part one of this tutorial at: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Azure-Active-Directory-Videos-Demos/Integrating-Salesforce-with-Azure-AD-How-to-automate-User-Provisioning-22 Learn more and try Azure AD: http://microsoft.com/identity


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It's been a tough January and February, but forecasts suggest March and April should be better.
That statement is true not just for the weather — which has been unusually harsh in much of the U.S. — but also for stocks.
March and April have been the S&P 500's two best months over the past two decades, says Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
He shared some Schaeffer's data showing that in the last 20 years, March and April on average have delivered returns of 1.52% and 2.19%, respectively, topping all other months. See the adjacent chart.
There's no guarantee that this historical trend will hold in 2014, but it does offer some solace for stock bulls. While the S&P 500 SP has run into resistance this week as it's neared its Jan. 15 record close, perhaps that resistance will melt away as March begins.
The SPY , the giant ETF that tracks the S&P 500, did eke out a record close this week, but like its index, it's currently showing a slight loss for the year to date.
A late February rally hasn't quite made up for a swoon in late January and early February, even though this month is on pace to provide the SPY with its biggest monthly rise since October.
–Victor Reklaitis
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20 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 20, 1989 '89 A Cumberland, Md., man faces multiple charges in the shooting death of his stepdaughter and the wounding of his wife and
stepson at the family's Black Oak Road summer home in Bethel Township July 16. Winford "Buddy" Melvin Jr., 33, apparently became engaged in some type of domestic argument at the family trailer. He apparently shot and killed his stepdaughter, Tammy Marie Whitacre, 17, and then shot and wounded his wife, Diane Melvin, and his stepson, Mark Shields, all of Cumberland.
Hailstones as big as golf balls fell in the Strawberry Ridge area in a freak storm on Friday morning, leaving a four-inch cover on the ground. The 15-minute storm damaged trees, shrubs and utility lines and interrupted power service to the area for 16 hours.
The body of a Chambersburg area man who drowned in an October 1982 fishing accident was found by fisherman last Saturday morning, July 15. The badly decomposed body was later identified as Harry Leisher, 36, of Chambersburg, who drowned on October 4, 1982, while fishing with a companion between mile markers 16 and 17 in Huntingdon County. A search at the time of the accident was unsuccessful. The body was found by two fishermen Saturday morning near mile marker 17, about eight miles southwest of Seven Points recreation area near Aitch boat launch.
The Red Sox were named the 1989 Fulton County Little League Champions for the fourth year in a row. Members of the team are Jeff Hoffner, Cory Barton, Darin Miller, Ryan Hall, Mark Smith, Josh Hall, J.R. Mellott, Cory Evans, Charlie Glenn, Jason Mellott, Nathan Sipes and Jason Hall.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dunn of Mifflintown on July 7; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hoffman of Williamsport on July 8; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stains of Three Springs on July 10; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Norris of Orbisonia on July 11; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Mellott of Harrisonville on July 12.
Connie Harris and Douglas Brown were united in marriage on May 20 at the United Presbyterian Church of McConnellsburg. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Harris of McConnellsburg and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brown of Hustontown.
Deaths: Luther R. Richards, McConnellsburg; Alice Hauze, Everett; Goldie Woodal, Mercersburg.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 19, 1979 '79 Tracey Ann Appleby, 17, Hustontown, was killed instantly last Wednesday afternoon in an accident on Route 30 at Breezewood in
Bedford County. The fatal accident occurred at the Pennsylvania Turnpike intersection as the young driver attempted to pull into the eastbound lane on Route 30 from the parking lot of the Gateway Restaurant, where she was employed, on her way home to Hustontown from her summer job. The 1965 Volkswagon she was driving was struck by a westbound Allied Van Line tractor-trailer rig, which crushed the small car, pushing it toward the ramp leading to the turnpike.
Max Donaldson Jr., 18, Martinsburg, one of the two suspects charged with criminal homicide in the death of former Fulton Countian, Janita Kay Hill, 16, also of Martinsburg, was released from the Bedford County Jail on Friday on $50,000 bail. Police and officials connected with the case said on Tuesday the 15-year-old remains in custody in Ebensburg Juvenile Detention Center following his arrest July 8. Janita Hill, the daughter of Mrs. Cynthia Kies Burleson of Martinsburg and Harry Hill of McConnellsburg, was found dead of a gunshot wound of the abdomen on a dirt road north of Saxton in Bedford County on July 7.
A farm tractor owned by Lawrence Buterbaugh, Mc- Connellsburg, was completely destroyed by fire at 6:30 a.m. Sunday at his farm on Route 522 south. The tractor was being used to round up the cows for milking when it started to burn and was destroyed before firemen could arrive at the scene. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
Patricia Lynn Hoffman and Morris Benjamin Ramsey Jr. were united in marriage at Knobsville Church of the Brethren on July 7. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoffman of McConnellsburg and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Ramsey of York.
Marriage licenses: Timothy Gunnell and Debra Fehnel, both of Suitland, Md.; Russell J. Rhoads, Creston, Ohio, and Evelyn M. MacCallum, Wooster, Ohio.
Specials at the IGA: Star Kist tuna in oil, 65 cents; Viva paper towels, 59 cents, big roll; Mueller's hearty egg noodles, 3 for $1; Pepsi Cola, 99 cents 64-oz. bottles; Filbert's margarine, 2-lb. qtrs. for $1.
Bobby Snyder, McConnellsburg's All-American track star, placed eighth in the central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts 10-miler held at State College last Sunday, July 15.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Alan Cowan of St. Thomas on July 5; a son to Mr. and Mrs. James Exline, Warfordsburg, on July 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Seville of Mercersburg on July 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Schmitt of Hustontown on July 2; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David E. McDonald of Chambersburg on July 4; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Seville of Big Cove Tannery on July 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David G. Mitchell of Hustontown on July 10; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Knox of Warfordsburg on July 10.
Deaths: Ralph G. Ritz, Hancock; Steven Tillett, U.S. Army, Germany; Helen E. Robinson, Neelyton; Mrs. Ada S. Gearhart, Greencastle; Edward O. Brown, Fort Littleton; Mrs. Ruth A. Hammond Rosenberry, Chambersburg.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 31, 1969 '69 The Duvall brothers' dairy farm at Crystal Spring, formerly owned by Ernest H. Duvall, was an interesting highlight last Tuesday
for a group of mayors and other officials from various communities in Germany. Since arriving at the Kennedy Airport in New York on July 11, the group has been taking a tour to the northeastern part of the United States. They stopped at the Duvall farm en route from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C.
Marriage licenses: Larry Snyder and Kay Swope, both of Wells Tannery; Robert Black of McConnellsburg and Pamela Diane Fraker of Fort Littleton; James Bormann of Summerdale and Marsha Ray of Mc- Connellsburg; Robert Rhines of Waynesboro and Beverly Schooley of Harrisonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeder attended a dog show at Williamsport last weekend. Their male min-pin was "winner's dog" and won two championship points.
Official game harvest figures compiled by the Pennsylvania Game Commission show that sportsmen in the commonwealth are continuing to take wildlife at the near-record pace established during the past few years. Only two species, ruffed grouse and black bear, showed a statistically significant decrease during the 1968 season. All other game species continued to be harvested at a rate comparable with the preceding year.
Specials at the IGA: sliced bacon, 69 cents lb.; Scott bathroom towels, 29 cents; ice cream, 59 cents, half gallon; Furman pork and beans, 29 cents, 2-lb., 8-oz. can.
Dr. and Mrs. James H. Shultz and children are vacationing this week in Wildwood, N.J.
Deaths: Jacob Funk, Mercersburg; William Lane Sr., Cassville.
Darlene Layton of Fort Loudon became the bride of David Thomas of McConnellsburg on July 30 in St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Hagerstown. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Edith North of Burnt Cabins. The groom is a son of Mrs. Glenn Kimmey of Camp Hill.
On June 28, the Walnut Grove Church of God was the scene of an impressive wedding ceremony when Miss Virginia Carolyn Hershey became the bride of Landis Brent Stains. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hershey of Harrisonville and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stains of Hustontown.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Appleby of Greencastle on July 21; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Seville of McConnellsburg on July 22; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Mellott of Mc- Connellsburg on July 22; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Warren White of Hancock on July 24; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hann of McConnellsburg on July 22.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 30, 1959 '59 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fix and family, who recently sold their restaurant business in Chambersburg, have moved into his mother's
home at Breezy Point. Mr. Fix is now district manager for the Valley Pride Bakeries.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Reeder are moving this week from McConnellsburg to Chambersburg.
Mrs. Dorothy Hamil Browne has accepted teaching position in the York Country Day School.
Sally Grissinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Grisinger, underwent minor surgery at the Medical Center on Friday.
Ronald Edward Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Richards of Webster Mills, has accepted a position in the Lemaster branch office of the Valley National Bank of Chambersburg. He is a 1958 MHS graduate.
Last week, 152,674 unemployment compensation checks were distributed, with a monetary value of $4,166,583.
After 42 years in the schoolroom, Miss Maudleen Stevens of McConnellsburg retired last week from the teaching profession. For the past 38 years, Miss Stevens has taught third- and fourth-grade students at Mc- Connellsburg. She started teaching as a young girl at the Woodburn School located in the Narrows.
The Chamber of Commerce reported that the free parking lot beside the Fulton Theatre is now graded and stoned and ready for use.
Clair Park, 26, of Near Fort Littleton was bitten by a large copperhead snake while working in the garden late Saturday afternoon. He killed the snake and then drove to the Medical Center where he was treated, admitted and then released on Sunday.
The wife and brother of the truck driver who was found dead during the search for missing Danny Fischer arrived in McConnellsburg last week to claim the dead man's personal belongings. The brother drove the truck back to Indiana and the case is now officially closed.
William J. Gouba has been appointed as district fish warden for Fulton and Franklin counties. He replaces Bryce Carnell of St. Thomas, who has been promoted to regional warden supervisor in the northeast region.
Marriage licenses were issued at the local courthouse to Shannon Barton Jr. and Leila Irene Vanpelt, both of Breezewood, and Ralph E. Swope of Needmore and Peggy Sheeder of Robertsdale.
Raymond C. Shoemaker and Josephine Rouzer were married on July 10.
Sylvester Cunningham of Knobsville was severely injured on the right side of his head and face on Saturday evening when the car he was driving collided with one driven by Harrison Ramsey. The accident happened on the turn south of the Hessler barn.
Mrs. J.M. Lynch, wife of rural mail carrier Jennings M. Lynch, had a narrow escape from serious injury last Tuesday morning when a spark from a match ignited her hair while he was lighting her oil stove.
Harry Morton of Clear Ridge is a patient in Chambersburg Hospital, the result of having a bone broken in his foot on a logging job below McConnellsburg.
Death: Elmer Horton of Pitcarin.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Akers of Ambridge announce the birth of a son at Chambersburg Hospital on July 29.
Miss Helen Bohn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bohn, left on Wednesday for Columbus, Ohio, where she has accepted a position as medical secretary in White Cross Hospital.
Death: Mrs. Peter C. Forner of Lemoyne.
Mrs. Emma Trout was hostess to about 30 friends last Friday night at a "hick party" at the Fulton House, the guests wearing costumes of bygone days. The party started with a grand march to music furnished by Jimmie Black and D.L. Hohman. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Harry Johnston and Miss Rose Fisher for the best costumes.
Deaths: Randy Eugene Hann; Mrs. Virginia Mae Laird of Robertsdale.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 4, 1949 '49 Old Mister Stork just wouldn't wait - so a baby was born in Dr. MacKinlay's office in McConnellsburg on Monday. Mrs. Elwood
Sampson of Cove Gap had gone to the doctor's office for an examination, which revealed that there wouldn't be time to get to a hospital, so within 15 minutes the cries of newborn baby were heard in the doctor's office. Mother and daughter were then removed to their home in the Gress ambulance - and both are now doing fine.
Other births: a son on July 27 to Mr. and Mrs. Harold McFadden of McConnellsburg; a son on July 31 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Stevens of McConnellsburg; a son on August 2 to Mr. and Mrs. D.F. Trout of Mt. Rainer, Md.
Death: Robert Baylor of Windber.
Paul Ott and Rena Munro were married on July 28.
Walter Black of McConnellsburg was admitted to Chambersburg Hospital last Saturday where he underwent his third major operation in less than a year.
A surprise party was held at the Chalmer Peck home in Needmore on July 20 in honor of the 16th birthday of Mack Peck.
John Theodore Van Horn Jr. and Rhoda Breckbill were married on Thursday evening.
A full busload of children have been registered for a trip to Altoona on August 11 to see the state police rodeo, according to Chief M.W. McCormick, the organizer of the outing.
The Stanley Co. and Letterkenny Depot closed its doors Friday due to the extreme heat.
Gilbert Cook marked has 71st birthday last Sunday.
Deaths: Alvin S. Glass of Chambersburg; Austin Lynch of Gem; Charles M. Jackson of Altoona.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 3, 1939 '39 Admitted to Everett Hospital during the past week were Pauline Wible of Mc- Connellsburg for medical treatment; Raymond
Deshong of Harrisonville for X-ray study; Rachel Deshong of Needmore for medical treatment; Frank Gallagher of McConnellsburg for a minor operation; Jessie Strait of Sipes Mill for medical treatment and observation; Linnie Deshong of Needmore, Xray and laboratory tests; Clyde Akers of Crystal Spring for incarcerated hernia; Mrs. June Schenk of Wells Tannery for a major operation.
Deaths: Mrs. Rose A. Dalbey of Wilkinsburg, widow of Alvin D. Dalbey; Abner Truax of Timber Ridge.
Ray's Bakery was entered sometime Monday night and although employees have not been able to determine the amount, pastries and bread were taken. The intruder made his entrance by punching two small holes in the screen and inserting a wire to unlock the door.
Asa Hall of Mexico, Mont., who is rollerskating and walking to the New York World's Fair, called at the News on Wednesday morning. Hall has travelled about 1,500 miles of the 1,766-mile journey and so far has worn out about 14 wheels. While at the fair, he will be a guest of Grover Whalen and Major Bowes. In his conversation, Hall stated that he has been rollerskating since 1917 and that, when he reaches Harrisburg, he will have visited 33 capital cities and 47 states.
Prothonotary Harvey I. Raker issued 10 marriage licenses in July as compared to seven in July 1938. The average age for this year was 25 for men and 21 for women. Last year, it was 25 for men and 25-1/2 for women.
Mrs. James Swope of Wells Tannery received a badly scalded foot last week when she upset a kettle of boiling water.
A party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wible of McConnellsburg last Saturday in honor of the 10th birthday of their daughter, Dorothy.
The worst drought in eight years is wreaking havoc with the farmlands.
On Monday evening, George Nagy of Mount Union was travelling north on Route 522 , ran off the road and hit a telephone pole. John Temian, a passenger, was resting his arm on the window sill when the car hit the pole. About six inches of bone was torn from his arm, three above and three below the elbow.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 1, 1929 '29 A new business, Wolf & Co. Inc., has been established in
Mercersburg. The firm will handle coal, feed, fertilizer, etc. It will be managed by George L. Wolf and associated with him will be Thomas L. Smith and M.C. Morton of Hagerstown.
Deaths: Harry Carl Karns of Northcraft; Jesse C. Bolinger of Huntingdon County.
During the past week, Grant Hann of Hiram killed three copperhead snakes and two rattlesnakes and he wasn't looking for them either.
Death: Mrs. Demaris Davis.
A student-teacher reunion was held on Tuscarora Summit last Thursday. During the afternoon, the following officers were elected: H.B. Hege, Mercersburg, president; B.N. Palmer, Portage, vice president; and B.C. Lamberson, McConnellsburg, secretary treasurer.
David Hollenshead has purchased a valuable tract of timber from Northcraft Bros. and a cutting crew has already started to work on the job.
Carpenters are now busily at work on the new dwelling house for Marshall Sigel, rural mail carrier of Buck Valley.


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Player Recently in the Best Shape of His Life: Carlos Marmol
Carlos Marmol dropped 515 pounds in the offseason. He dropped 15 of his own pounds and he dropped the 500-lb gorilla in his pitching arsenal: his mystifying cutter – not mystifying the way his slider can be (Where did that thing go?), but mystifying like the remake of Footloose (. . . Why?). Dale Sveum and pitching coach Chris Bosio claim to have already worked with him on ways to keep his pitching motion (and hopefully his attempts to frequent the strike zone) under control, and he alluded to the possibility that the cutter could be gone for good. Just the Superfriends being the Superfriends.
Cubs Photo I Recently Enjoyed
Wells and Beef Castle beg for your captions.
Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune / February 19, 2012
Hope Tweets Eternal
Calling it; The #Cubs are going to win 100 games this season.
— Allie (@AllieJ48) February 19, 2012
I was told this would never happen again!
The Cubs are introducing dynamic ticket pricing for bleacher tickets this season, which means someone who paid close to $100 for a premier ticket could be sitting right next to someone who paid only $10. This has to hurt bleacher elitists who have been enjoying the country club that is premium bench seating without invasion from the groundlings. Oh, but it should help the Cubs make as much money as possible. I'll let you draw your own conclusions about the merits of a business making money.
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River Basins : Consensus Reports
The division produces 60-70 reports per year. These reports are unique, authoritative expert evaluations. Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review. The experts who volunteer their time participating on study committees are vetted to make sure that the committee has the range of expertise needed to address the task, that they have a balance of perspectives, and to identify and eliminate members with conflicts of interest. All reports undergo a rigorous, independent peer review to assure that the statement of task has been addressed, that conclusions are adequately supported, and that all important issues raised by the reviewers are addressed. Thus, while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy.
Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta (2012)
Water management in the California Bay Delta is directed toward providing a more reliable water supply for California, and protecting and rehabilitating the Delta ecosystem, including five endangered and threatened populations and species of fish that live in or migrate through the Delta. However, water management in the Bay and Delta is distributed among many agencies and organizations, a structure that hinders the development and implementatio... More >>
Review of the St. Johns River Water Supply Impact Study: Final Report (2011)
The St. Johns River in Northeast Florida is under consideration as an additional water source for a large and rapidly growing segment of the state's population. In 2008, the river's Water Management District undertook a Water Supply Impact Study of the proposed water withdrawals and asked the National Research Council to review science aspects of the study as it progressed. This final report of the NRC Committee focuses on the seven ecologica... More >>
A Review of the Use of Science and Adaptive Management in California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (2011)
Report in Brief >> California's draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan—a draft plan to conserve habitat for endangered and threatened species, while continuing to divert water to agriculture and domestic water users in central and southern California—is incomplete and contains critical scientific gaps. The Bay Delta is a large, complex ecosystem that supplies water from the state's wetter northern regions to the drier southern regions, and als... More >>Report in Brief
Review of the St. Johns River Water Supply Impact Study: Report 3 (2010)
A proposed withdrawal of 262 million gallons of water per day from the St. Johns River in northeast Florida -- intended to help satisfy increasing demand on public water supplies -- may not decrease the river's average flow and water level, according to research conducted by the St. Johns River Water Management District. The unexpected finding assumes management of the upper river basin to bring water back into the system and depends on projecte... More >>
Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities (2010)
This report offers advice and priorities to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on improving water quality in the Mississippi River basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico—including how to better manage and monitor nutrients, especially nitrogen and phosphorus. Most nutrient pollution across the river basin comes from diffuse, hard-to-trace sources known as nonpoint sources—for example, the majority of nitrogen and phosphorus loadings come fro... More >>


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The French bulldogs crave that they get connected absorption in agreement of affliction and checkups. Therefore you will charge to buy one that is already arrested of acceptable bloom to abstain affection forth the way. If they acquire not done a analysis again accede bringing a vet to the abundance to analysis the one you are absorbed in afore you absolutely accomplish up your mind.
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A agriculturalist who is accepted and trusted should be the ideal one. This is an affirmation that the dog has been taken acceptable affliction of before. These humans apperceive the appropriate affectionate of aliment to augment it as able-bodied as the able way of advancement it able-bodied groomed. The breeders will apperceive all about the dog in agreement of food, how they acquaintance and aswell act in assertive situations.
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One of the new features in Alfresco 3.3 is a new interface for managing content rules in Alfresco Share. Not only is this an improved user experience as compared to the content rules wizard in the Alfresco Explorer interface, but it also includes new functionality as well, which I'll describe here. But first, let's start with the basics. How can we create a content rule? In the document library view, for any folder, you can hover over it, click more, and select "Manage Rules" as depicted below:
This action is also available from a details view of a folder. Next, you're presented with a choice to create rules, or link to rules.
For now, let's talk about creating a new rule. Let's say that we want to make sure all documents that enter this folder can be categorized according to the established taxonomy of categories. This is not default behavior, so we'll need a rule that automates it. Here's what it will look like:
So we can give our rule a name for quick reference, and a detailed description. Next we define when the rule will fire, which can be one or more of the following: 1) when items are created or enter this folder, 2) when items are updated, and 3) when items are deleted or leave this folder. For those of you already familiar with content rules in Alfresco, notice the '+' symbol on the right side – this is a nice, new usability feature, allowing all three conditions to be defined within a single rule, rather than having to create three separate rules as in the Alfresco Explorer interface. Convenient, right?
Next, you can define one or more criteria, or rule conditions that determine if the rule will fire. In our example, we want all items to be categorizable. Other examples of criteria are modified date, created date, author, creator, description, modifier, name, title, type, subtype, etc. There is a full library of criteria that you can choose from, which include pretty much any value of any property for any type or aspect defined in the system. Pretty flexible, right? Also, another improvement to content rules is the ability to specify negative conditions ("Unless all criteria are met"). So if we wanted all items to fire the rule, unless the item was already categorizable, we can use the negative condition to specify that.
Next, we specify what action or actions to perform. In our case, we're going to simply add the "Classifiable" aspect to the items coming into this folder, so we'll choose "Add an aspect". Many additional options are available such as moving the document, sending an E-Mail, or executing a script. That last one allows you to define your own action, implemented in JavaScript, which can leverage the full JavaScript API. Also, this list is extensible as well. If you wanted to implement an action in Java and expose it here, you could do that as well.
Again, don't forget that you can specify more than one action to execute for this rule; yet another improvement over the content rule wizard in the Alfresco Explorer interface.
The last thing to check is the remaining options for the rule – whether you want the rule to apply to subfolders, whether you want it to run in the background, and the new option to specify a script to run in the event an error occurs when the rule fires. Once you create the rule, you get a view like this:
Here we see two rules that I've created for this folder: one to make documents categorizable, another to send a notification E-Mail. These rules can be dragged up or down to determine the order of execution, which is yet another new feature over the Alfresco Explorer interface.
So we've created a couple of rules on this "Budget" folder…but what if we wanted to use the very same rule set on our "Forecasts" folder as well? This is where linking rule sets comes into play. So I can go into the "Manage Rules" interface for my other folder, and I choose "Link to Rule Set". Then, I'm presented with a dialog to locate the rule set I want to link to:
I have the option to browse my Share sites or the Repository root for my rule set. In this case, the rules I want to link to are in the Operations Share site, specifically the Budget folder. When I click on that, I get to see the names and descriptions of the rules associated with that folder. Once I click "Link", I get the following screen, which describes the linked rule set:
So for my "Forecasts" folder, I've linked to the rule set defined on the "Budget" folder. So via this new linking mechanism, I could define a rule site in a Share site, and apply that same rule set to other folders within my site's document library very easily. Another way to set your rules up would be to make your own folder in the Repository root, under the Data Dictionary; maybe a folder called "Rules Library". You could create multiple folders within there, defining sets of rules that you anticipate reusing throughout the repository.
The last thing to mention regarding the new content rule capability is that once rules have been either defined or linked to, an icon is displayed next to the folder in the document library to indicate that fact:
Hopefully you've gathered that this content rule interface is both extremely powerful and easy to use. You can pretty much automate whatever you want using this capability to save your organization a lot of time and money. But don't take my word for it, try it for yourself (currently only in Community 3.3 at the moment).


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Research at Mass General
Much of the current understanding of the pathogenesis underlying inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comes from studies using animal models. To date, it appears that IBD develops due to a genetic predisposition resulting in altered immune response to the intestinal microbiome. My laboratory is interested in how the actin network regulates mucosal immune homeostasis. We initially focused our studies on the spontaneous colitis that occurs in mice deficient in Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP), an intracellular hematopoietic cell-specific protein that regulates actin polymerization, which is essential for numerous immune cell functions. This serves as one of the few animal models of IBD with a human correlate, since some patients with Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome also develop colitis. We found that lack of functioning WASP leads to deficiencies in T cell activation and chemotaxis, quantitative and qualitative defects in regulatory T cells, aberrant education of T cells by innate immune cells (partially through defective production of interleukin-10), and spontaneous CD4+ T cell-mediated intestinal inflammation that is associated with a skewed Th2-cytokine profile. This led to the overall question of whether mucosal dysregulation in these mice stems from defects in actin remodeling. My laboratory is now interested in studying other regulators of actin polymerization and bundling, such as Rac and L-plastin, in controlling intestinal immune balance.
The goal of my research is to elucidate the pathogenesis underlying the development of inflammatory bowel disease in the hopes of identifying novel therapeutic targets. In addition, as a physician at the MGH Crohn's & Colitis Center and a co-investigator in PRISM (Prospective Registry of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study at MGH), I am also interested in identifying novel serum and urine biomarkers of inflammatory bowel disease and identifying rare but highly penetrant genetic variants associated with risk for inflammatory bowel disease, specifically ulcerative colitis. Lastly, I also participate in clinical trials of novel therapies and take part in a national study on the safety of commonly used medications for inflammatory bowel disease during pregnancy.
Dr. Deanna Nguyen is currently Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her interest in mucosal immunology research began in high school under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Hodin (Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School), and continued at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. She then completed her postdoctoral training under Dr. Scott Snapper (Associate Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School) during gastroenterology fellowship and advanced fellowship in inflammatory bowel disease at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2008, she came on staff at MGH as attending physician in the Crohn's and Colitis Center and investigator in the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Deanna Nguyen, M.D.Gastrointestinal UnitJackson 815Massachusetts General Hospital55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114Office: 617-724-2047Fax: 617-726-3080
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Movie Review: The Debt
Directed by John Madden (Marv Films, 2010)
John Madden's cagey thriller about three Mossad agents sent to capture a Nazi war criminal hiding out in East Berlin raises ethical questions and goose bumps galore. Young Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain), Stephan Gould (Marton Csokas), and David Peretz (Sam Worthington) must figure out how to kidnap the monstrous "Surgeon of Birkenau" (Jesper Christensen) and sneak the murderous physician over the Berlin Wall and back to Israel for a public trial.
When their well-laid plans go awry and they find themselves hopelessly imprisoned with their villainous captive, the three young agents must figure out how to accomplish their mission without turning into beasts themselves. Suddenly Madden's physical thriller has turned into a moral nightmare, where the monster being confronted is the one beating within our own chests.
In the white heat of this moral battle the agents blink and their evil prey momentarily outmaneuvers them, which creates a fresh and unsettling moral quandary that is resolved with a fiction that will cast a shadow over the rest of their lives.
Thirty years later the middle-aged threesome, now played by Helen Mirren (Rachel), Tom Wilkinson (Stephan), and Ciaran Hinds (David), discovers that their shared fiction is about to unravel, and yet again they face a dilemma that tears at the fabric of their friendship and eats at their individual consciences. Rachel again finds herself in the most vulnerable spot, having to face the team's demons and failures and to wrestle with the ethical questions created by their earlier choices.
Madden's intergenerational thriller grabs us with the excitement of hunting down a dangerous prey and pins us to the mat by wrestling with evil in human form. But the story is at its best when it forces our heroes to face their own demons and to negotiate a moral universe that has been shaped not just by the violence of villains, but by their own secrets, sins, and lies.


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New Year, Old Deals For Asia's M&A Bankers
By Cynthia Koons and Isabella Steger
New year, clean slate? Not so for bankers in the Asia-Pacific region. They're starting 2013 with an overhang of deals that should make for a busy first few months of the year.
Just 57% of announced mergers & acquisitions, by volume, were actually completed in 2012, according to Dealogic.
For instance, no sooner had the New Year's champagne bottles been cleaned up than a deadline for one of the biggest deals in Southeast Asia cropped up. Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi's US$7.2-billion bid for Singaporean conglomerate Fraser & Neave Holdings Bhd was set to expire Wednesday, so he extended that it until Jan. 10.


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Anna Comnena
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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.Thomas L. Holdcroft
Anna Comnena (December 1, 1083 – 1153) was a Byzantine princess and writer of the Alexiad, an account of the life and reign of her father, Emperor Alexius I.
The Alexiad
Book 1
- One such was that braggart Robert, notorious for his power-lust, born in Normandy, but nursed and nourished by manifold Evil.
- Of the Norman adventurer Robert Guiscard
- Constantine was Nautre's masterpiece, a triumph, as it were, of God's handiwork. One look at him would convince anyone that here was a descendant of the mythical Golden Age of the Greeks, so infinite was his charm.
- While the abominable pope with his spiritual peace and evangelic peace, this despot, marched to make war on his own kindred with might and main - the man of peace, too, and disciple of the Man of Peace!
- Of Pope Gregory VII
- Father and son you might liken to caterpillars and locusts, for what was left by Robert, his son fed on and devoured.
- Of Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund


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On thousands of frozen ponds across Canada, impromptu hockey games take place in the winter. After a long ice hockey strike/lockout, the Toronto Maple Leafs are playing again and folks are getting back in the spirit. This pond is located in the township of Wainfleet near the shore of Lake Erie. I'm pretty sure the pile of reeds near the chair is a beaver lodge.
The capital of Canada is Ottawa, in the province of Ontario. There are offically ten provinces and three territories in Canada, which is the second largest country in the world in terms of land area.While politically and legally an independant nation, the titular head of state for Canada is still Queen Elizabeth.On the east end of Canada, you have Montreal as the bastion of activity. Montreal is famous for two things, VICE magazine and the Montreal Jazz Festival. One is the bible of hipster life (disposable, of course) and the other is a world-famous event that draws more than two million people every summer. Quebec is a French speaking province that has almost seceded from Canada on several occasions, by the way..When you think of Canada, you think of . . . snow, right?But not on the West Coast. In Vancouver, it rains. And you'll find more of the population speaking Mandarin than French (but also Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Farsi, German, and much more).Like the other big cities in Canada, Vancouver is vividly multicultural and Vancouverites are very, very serious about their coffee.Your standard Vancouverite can be found attired head-to-toe in Lululemon gear, mainlining Cafe Artigiano Americanos (spot the irony for ten points).But here's a Vancouver secret only the coolest kids know: the best sandwiches in the city aren't found downtown. Actually, they're hidden in Edgemont Village at the foot of Grouse Mountain on the North Shore."It's actually worth coming to Canada for these sandwiches alone." -- Michelle Superle, VancouverText by Steve Smith.


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Quiet Electronics Moderated Newsgroup For The Electronic Professionals and Other Professionals
Vats ignition switch lumina 95 96 97 98 1999 2000 01 02
Vats ignition switch lumina 95 96 97 98 1999 2000 01 02
I have a solution that can save you $200.00+
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You must be at least a little mechanical minded because this procedure will require you to remove and replace the ignition switch.
1. Instructions to replace VATS Switch.
2. New Single sided VATS Switch.
4. Two (2) VATS keys cut to fit your new ignition.
Dealer or Locksmith price of approx
3. You will need to follow instructions and replace old VATS Switch with new VATS Switch.
4. After replacing switch, turn on ignition switch.
5. Test the resistance of the new VATS Key. (This key has two metal prongs sticking out the end of the key. Use you Ohm Meter place a lead on each prong with switch turned on to get an Ohm value. Compare number to values below to determine Vats Value needed.)
Vats stands for Vehicle Anti Theft System. Lots of people refer to this type of key, as a " computer Chip key". This key or "Chip" has nothing to do with a computer, nor is it a chip. But because of the popularity of calling it a computer chip key, so will we. The black chip on the blade of the key is actually a resister. GM first started using the Vats key in 1986 on the Corvettes, then some of the Cadillac's, ECT. GM uses 15 different resistors in their vats keys. Just looking at the keys you can't tell the difference.
How does the Vats System work?
Each vats key has it's own unique cuts on the key to operate the lock. But the cuts alone will not allow the car to crank. This is called a mechanical key. Each car has a Vats module (Brain) under the dash that communicates to the starter, fuel pump, and the ignition lock. Each vats module is randomly given a # (value) from the manufacturer. When the proper mechanical keys, with the proper vats chip (resistor value) turns the ignition lock, the vats module reads the chip on the key. If it is the correct chip, the vats module will tell the starter and the fuel pump to operate. If the wrong chip is read, the vats module will tell starter and the fuel pump to shut down.
How to determine the Value of your key?
By chance you may know what vats key you now have. Most people do not. There are basically two ways to determine what vats key you have. Remember, there are 15 different possibilities. First, your key can be " read " in a vats tester. Most locksmiths have these readers, and don't charge anything to tell you. There is a way for you to read the key value yourself. If you have a Volt Meter you can test the OHMS (The Value) of the chip yourself. Just set your Voltmeter to check to 20 K OHMS Take each lead and place it on each side of the " chip " on your key. A number will appear. Take that number on your voltmeter and apply it to the OHMS chart below. Keep in mind that it may not be exact. Just pick the closest value to your reading. I do realize that some of you don't even know what a Volt Meter is, not to mention having one. So there is a great alternative for you. Just take your key to a Radio Shack, or your local Auto Mechanic. Ask them to do as I described above.
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Death row inmate's wish raises ethical questions
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An eleventh-hour request by an Ohio death row inmate to donate his organs is raising troubling moral and medical questions among transplant experts and ethicists.
Less than a day before child killer Ronald Phillips was set to die by lethal injection, Republican Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday postponed the execution to look into Phillips' request.
Phillips, 40, wants to give relatives a kidney before he is put to death and his heart afterward.
"I realize this is a bit of uncharted territory for Ohio," Kasich said in a statement, "but if another life can be saved by his willingness to donate his organs and tissues, then we should allow for that to happen."
Some medical experts and others warn that execution chemicals could render organs unusable. They are also deeply disturbed by the prospect of death row inmates donating organs, even if can ease shortages so severe that patients die while on the waiting list.
They question whether the condemned can freely give consent, or are desperately hoping to win clemency. They worry that such practices would make judges and juries more likely to hand out death sentences. And they are troubled by the notion of using inmates for spare parts.
Medical ethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University said organ donation is incompatible with the goals of punishment.
"It's unethical because this guy who's being executed raped and killed a 3-year-old. When you donate your organs, there's a kind of redemption," Caplan said. "Punishment and organ donation don't go well together. I don't think the kinds of people we're executing we want to make in any way heroic."
Yet it's not unheard of for a death row inmate to become an organ donor.
Condemned Delaware inmate Steven Shelton was allowed to donate a kidney to his mother in 1995, though his execution wasn't imminent.
In 1996, the Alabama Supreme Court halted David Larry Nelson's execution so he could donate a kidney to his sick brother. His brother was too ill for surgery and later died.
Requests in other states, including Texas, have been rejected. All involved so-called live donations, never donation of a vital organ like a heart.
Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment, said the practice raises troubling concerns.
"Once you put the person into the death row or execution category, then their life becomes less in the equation of things," he said. "That's a slippery slope of one life being used to save another."
Anne Paschke, a spokeswoman for Richmond, Va.-based United Network for Organ Sharing, said in a statement that her organization's ethics committee in 2007 deemed the practice "morally reprehensible."
She said the committee sees extreme difficulty "in ensuring that a condemned prisoner could give proper informed consent for donation, free from any coercion or consideration of personal gain."
Caplan said keeping vital organs viable during executions would require avoiding lethal injection, electrocution and other methods that would harm them.
Utah murderer Gary Gilmore, executed by firing squad in 1977, agreed to donate his eyes, kidneys, liver and pituitary gland for medical use. His kidneys proved unusable because of bullet wounds.
"The only way I can think of to get organs out of prisoners is to shoot them in the head or guillotine them," Caplan said. "Are we really going to have witnessed executions of that type? I don't think so."
Dr. Brooks Edwards, the Rochester, Minn.-based director of the Mayo Clinic Transplant Center and a transplant cardiologist, said it would be possible to use some organs after an execution, including the liver and kidney, but not the heart.
Even so, he said he is opposed to the idea, saying it could lead a judge or jury to believe that handing down a death sentence could help save another's life.
"One would worry that the enticement of organ donation could somehow be perceived, even subconsciously, as some kind of perverse incentive. I think that's wrong," Edwards said. "There are certainly accusations of prisoners being executed in other countries for organ donation, and we have to be well above that."
States such as California, Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas have nonetheless considered policies promoting organ donation among inmates. Some proposals would shorten sentences in exchange for organ or bone marrow donations.
Some transplant recipients think such donations could be a good thing.
"I don't know who my donor is and I really don't care," said John Afek, a 57-year-old accountant and financial adviser in Columbus who underwent a heart transplant nearly two years ago. "It gave me my life back, and I'm a single dad with a couple kids who suddenly got their father back."
He said an inmate's crime shouldn't even be a part of the conversation.
"How many people die waiting on a list?" Afek said. "If they want to do it, God bless them. We need the organs."
Mater Alexander of Westerville said the liver she got in 2000 came from an 11-year-old girl who died after a car hit her while she was riding a bicycle.
The 62-year-old woman said that if a death row inmate's liver had been offered to her, she is not entirely sure she would have accepted it. But she said the practice should be permitted.
Alexander sings gospel music to inmates and speaks with serious offenders in Ohio prisons about four times a year with her church to "teach them that God loves them despite what they've done."
"Why not allow them to do something good before they leave this earth?" she said.


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Yale's All-Time Winningest Men's Basketball Coach
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Joe Vancisin, Yale's all-time winningest men's basketball coach, has been elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Vancisin guided the Bulldogs for 19 seasons and won three Ivy League titles.
Vancisin, who will enter as a contributor, joins players Ralph Sampson, James Worthy, Cazzie Russell and Chris Mullin, coaches Bob Knight and Eddie Sutton and fellow contributor Eddie Einhorn in the induction class of 2011. The eight will be inducted on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City as part of a three-day celebration of college basketball.
"It is always a goal of the selection committee to honor the game's great innovators and players, and every year as we look at the potential candidates, we are humbled by the way they played, coached and contributed to the great game of college basketball," said Reggie Minton, Deputy Executive Director of the NABC and chair of the Hall of Fame selection panel.
Vancisin took over at Yale in 1956-57 and promptly led the Bulldogs to the first official Ivy League title. Yale then lost to North Carolina 90-74 in the NCAA Tournament at Madison Square Garden. The Bulldogs returned to the NCAA Tournament in 1961-62, dropping a heartbreaking 92-82 decision to a Wake Forest team that went on to advance to the Final Four. Yale shared the Ivy title in 1962-63 but fell to Princeton in a playoff game.
Another notable highlight of his coaching career came when the Bulldogs captured the 1969 Rainbow Classic in Hawaii, knocking off Pete Maravich's LSU team in the championship game. Renowned as a brilliant court tactician, Vancisin helped develop Yale stars John Lee, Rick Kaminsky (both All-Americans), Larry Downs, Bill Madden, Ed Goldstone, Rick Stoner and Jim Morgan.
Vancisin, who had a 206-242 record as the Bulldogs' head coach, left Yale in 1975 to become the NABC's executive director for 17 years before his retirement in 1992. Under his leadership, the NABC debuted its college all-star game at the NCAA Final Four, elected its first African American president in Georgetown's John Thompson and adopted a code of ethics.
Vancisin's career in basketball covered more than 54 years as a player, coach and administrator. The Bridgeport, Conn., native was the captain of the state and New England championship team as a senior at Bassick High, was selected to the All State and All New England teams and was recognized as Connecticut's most outstanding scholastic player.
At Dartmouth College, where he played basketball and baseball, he was a starting guard when Dartmouth was edged in overtime in the NCAA championship game by Utah in 1944. Coach Ozzie Cowles persuaded Vancisin to remain to coach the freshman team and, after one season, he enlisted in the Air Force. After being discharged, Vancisin followed Cowles once again, serving as an assistant coach at Michigan, helping the Wolverines win the Big Ten title in 1948. He then moved on to Minnesota for seven seasons (1949 to 1956) as a basketball and baseball assistant coach as the Golden Gophers captured both the Big Ten and NCAA baseball championships in 1955.
Vancisin traveled extensively giving clinics around the world and was a member of two U.S. Olympic basketball staffs – on the gold medal winning team headed by Dean Smith in 1976 and with the 1980 team, coached by Dave Gavitt.
Vancisin was an active member of the NABC, served on the board of directors and was the NABC president in 1974. He succeeded Bill Wall as NABC executive director in 1975 and was the recipient of the John Bunn Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993.
In 2006 the first class was inducted into the newly formed National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. That class included the game's inventor, James Naismith and legendary coach John Wooden. Since that time, four more classes have travelled to Kansas City for a weekend of festivities. Those classes have included the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Danny Manning, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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A switchboard failure can cause immense destruction, loss of life, and extended loss of facility usage. As you conduct your predictive and preventive maintenance, this is one of the problems you should be most eager to prevent. Yet are you sure you're doing all the right things as often as you should? Let's look at a case history of such a failure, and see what lessons we can learn from it.
This switchboard failure occurred in a community infrastructure-related facility — one required for safe human habitation of a metropolitan area. When the Electro-Test team arrived on the scene, it found a badly damaged switchboard with a supply bus rating of 2,000A, a section bus rating of 2,000A, and a neutral bus rating of 1,000A. Its short-circuit rating was 50,000A. The system was 3-phase, 4-wire, 480/277V.
The first step in the investigation involved a physical inspection to determine where the short circuit originated. This inspection covered the switchboard, the MB1 main breaker, the bus, the metering compartment, and another bus nearby. The inspection further revealed corrosion within the failed breakers and their connections, as well as corrosion on nearby breakers.
The team then developed the fault tree to identify the possible causes of this type of failure. It constructed this table by developing scenarios that may have caused each kind of damage, and then testing each scenario to determine which was the most likely cause of failure.
Examination summary
The arcing damage occurred primarily in the MB1 breaker cubicle, vertical bus, and the metering compartment above the breaker. The examination revealed evidence of arcing (vaporized and missing metal) on the control wiring, on the load side vertical bus, on the line side vertical bus and cabinet metal, and on the MB1 finger clusters and stabs.
The feeder cables and horizontal bus pieces showed no evidence of arcing. Both the damaged and undamaged bus bar showed considerable corrosion and flaking—this was true of all the bus bar near this switchboard. Bolted-together bus bar surfaces showed no corrosion where they had no exposure to the air.
Chain of events
Based on information from the facility's personnel, examination results, and conclusions derived from the fault tree table process, the team was able to develop the following likely scenario that set this facility up for switchboard failure.
The failed MB1 main breaker was normally in a "racked out" configuration. This meant it was in a de-energized state, with its line-side and load-side bus connection contacts (finger clusters) not connected to the bus.
Hydrogen sulfide was present in the air of the breaker's electrical room. Over time, the hydrogen sulfide caused corrosion and flaking of the finger cluster surfaces. This gas also attacked the mating surfaces of the breaker cubicle bus connections (stabs) — so they too corroded and flaked.
About twenty days prior to the failure, electricians racked in the MB1 breaker. Because the contact surfaces of its finger clusters and stabs were irregular and corroded, they produced an electrical connection with higher-than-normal electrical resistance. Load current passing through these connections produced heating, which produced further oxidation and deterioration of the connection surfaces. That, in turn, exacerbated the heating problem. The heating may have been less intense on the outer phases (A Phase and C Phase) since they have more cooling due to the physical geometry. The heating would likely be most intense on the center phase (B phase).
The heat was enough to melt the B phase connection surfaces. The normal load current produced an arc that bridged across the small gap where the copper surfaces had melted. Since the load current continued to flow through the arc, it melted and vaporized more of the contact surface material, producing extreme heat and ionized (conductive) gases. Intense heat and ionized gases entered the upper compartment and produced a short circuit of the 480V (potential transformer) control wiring.
Melted wiring insulation may have allowed separate phases to make contact, or the melted fuse block may have similarly allowed separate phases to make contact. The control wiring short circuit was on the line side of the breaker and the line side of the control wiring fuses, and consequently didn't cause the main breaker to open or the fuses to blow.
The tremendous heat of the control wiring short circuit arc and the load current arc caused flammable material in the immediate vicinity, such as wire insulation and plastic materials in the meters, to ignite and produce smoke. To make matters worse, the control wiring short circuit arc caused loss of correct sensing functions and caused the tie breaker to trip by ground fault.
The cloud of ionized (conductive) gas produced by the load current arc and the control wiring arc caused a short circuit on the load side bus at the MB1 main breaker. This short circuit current caused the MB1 main breaker to trip and extinguish the load current arc. This gas cloud also caused a short circuit on the line side bus at the main breaker. Magnetic forces caused the arc to move to the upper end of the vertical bus where the short circuit arc continued, vaporizing the bus and cabinet metal.
The 12kV/480V 65T transformer failed due to the continued short-circuit current. The magnetic forces produced by this current probably caused winding movement, which would have resulted in a turn-to-turn short circuit. The 480V arcing and failure of the transformer caused upstream fusing to blow, interrupting the fault current and de-energizing the circuit. The flammable material continued to burn until no more oxygen or fuel remained.
Prevention steps
Following this diagnosis of the failure, the team recommended that the facility take the following steps to prevent such devastation from occurring again:
Annually remove breakers, operate them, and clean their contacts.
If leaving breakers and other equipment in the "racked out" or open position, don't energize them as though they are ready for service. Instead, remove them to clean and inspect their contacts—then put them in service.
Perform regular infrared inspection of the electrical equipment.
Confirm that protective device settings and sizes are appropriate for the existing equipment and plant configuration. This may require new studies of short circuit protection and breaker coordination
Establish a program that involves measuring the resistance of bolted connections. This would augment infrared scanning and help overcome some limitations of applying that technology. Those limitations include accessibility and the lag between a resistance increase and a thermal increase.
Failures such as this are all too common. Yet, nearly any firm that supplies third-party testing can name facilities where such failures are just waiting to happen. Saving money by deferring or eliminating testing/maintenance is usually very costly, and occasionally results in lost lives.
Ross is area manager for Electro-Test, Inc., in Lee's Summit, Mo.


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London: Britain was treating Chinese citizens "like criminals" under its complex visa entry system which was preventing thousands of tourists from visiting the country, industry experts have said.
British Airways boss Willie Walsh, chief executive of Madame Tussauds owner Merlin Entertainments` Nick Varney, and Travelodge chief Grant Hearn have warned that Britain was missing out on China`s high consumer spending power, the Telegraph reported.
China has a total population of 1.3 billion, but in 2011, just 149,000 citizens visited Britain, spending 240 million pounds. In contrast, the US attracted 1.1 million visits in the same year, according to tourism group VisitBritain.
Hearn said: "Every wealthy Indian or Chinese tourist lost to America, France and Germany is a lost opportunity to boost our economy and create much needed jobs in Britain."
At present, a Chinese citizen wishing to visit Britain has to fill in a nine-page form in English, visit an immigration authority and have fingerprints taken or eyes scanned.
For every one Chinese who visits Britain, eight go to Paris and 10 visit America, figures show.
Chinese tourists are also asked to pay almost double the visa costs - 80 pounds - than when entering other countries in Europe like France, Italy and Spain.
The business leaders called on the government to relax visa rules.
"We`ve spoken to a lot of Chinese people who revere and respect Britain but feel they are being treated like criminals by the authorities," said Ben Elliot, co-founder of private club Quintessentially Lifestyle which employs Mandarin speakers in London.


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5 Lessons Classroom Teachers Can Learn From Coaches
Classroom learning is often criticized for being too removed from authentic experience. Coaches rarely face the same criticism and here are a few reasons why. Coaches generally use most of the following approaches to teaching that can be overlooked in the traditional classroom setting: 1. Get to the hands-on practice as soon as possible Athletes, … Continued


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The Spanish "mesa verde" translates to "green table." Turns out the name is apropos, in more ways than one.
Walking through the new Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center, a visitor gets the feeling the place is a living creature with a mind of its own.
The ambient lights turn off and on by themselves. So do the air ventilators. Sensors detect human movement. They also pick up slight variations in sunlight brightness and exhaled carbon dioxide. Systems adjust accordingly to keep the building comfortable.
And efficient. In fact, the entire facility and grounds, which opened to the public in December, were built with energy and water conservation in mind.
Technology, for all its perks, always comes with a headache or two. Frank Cope, facility manager for Mesa Verde National Park since 1999, says his job has temporarily grown more complicated as the new systems go live. But long term, he thinks it will get simpler, because the central computer – smaller than a shoebox – monitors and regulates so much information automatically.
A visit to the control room shows it. On a laptop screen, Cope can pull up room-by-room temperature readings, and each light fixture and mechanical device is accounted for. If a utility problem arises, it can usually be fixed remotely through the Internet unless hardware itself is damaged.
Downhill from the parking lot, faces tilted skyward to absorb sunlight, is an array of 325 gleaming photovoltaic solar panels.
Cope said the panels, almost counterintuitively, perform best in winter. While there are fewer hours of daylight, cold, clear weather is optimal for conducting electricity.
The panels are fixed at a 37-degree slant, the same number as Montezuma County's latitude. This orientation means sun rays hit the panels directly perpendicular, the ideal angle.
A smaller rooftop array just off the main building heats water for restrooms below and also powers the in-ground snow-melting system on the front terrace.
"The old style flat-plate heat collector systems were nothing more than a copper coil painted black," Cope said. "Now we use glass tubes with a tiny vial of ammonia inside. The sunlight boils the ammonia, water circulates around the vial's top and gets hot."
Mesa Verde's potable water is well-traveled. It comes from the Mancos River, at the base of the La Plata Mountains, about 17 miles away. For the last 19 years, that water has funneled into an underground 50,000-gallon tank, as a pressure break, before getting treated and piped to buildings.
When the new visitor center was built, designers observed that the flow could be tapped for energy. Their answer was technology used since ancient Greece – a water wheel – but with a modern twist.
They installed a 25-kilowatt micro-hydroturbine.
Now, water is drawn up a large green pipe and into a blue chamber containing an 18-inch water wheel. When the water sprays against the wheel paddles at high velocity, the rapid spinning engages a generator, producing more electricity.
Cope said Mesa Verde does not store the energy it creates. Rather it works with Empire Electric Association to "synchronize" with the power grid. As the solar panels and turbine work, the electric meter turns backward and dollars are saved.
Many homeowners take advantage of utility company rebates and U.S. Department of Energy tax credits to help "weatherize" their houses.
Standard methods include adding insulation to attics, sealing loose ducts and cracks, and replacing old energy-guzzling appliances with efficient ones. Proponents of weatherization argue that heated or cooled air escaping through poorly sealed walls and windows is, well, money out the window. The DOE estimates that every dollar spent on weatherization reaps $1.83 in direct savings.
With the visitor center, instead of retrofitting later, designers wanted to get off on the right foot. The tan-colored vinyl roofing deflects heat. Toilets and sinks are low-flow. Windows are doubled-paned, filled with inert gases and a piece of crystal film. The gases lower the thermal conductivity of the glass and, depending on time of year, keep hot and cold from getting in. Mechanized shades are pulled down over the windows at night to seal in warmth.
"There's insulation like you wouldn't believe," Cope said.
Speaking of windows, they're everywhere. Three-quarters of the building's interior is illuminated by natural light; the only exceptions are utility rooms and the artifact repositories.
In the not-too-distant future, the Mesa Verde Visitor Center is aiming to generate as much power as it uses, a status called net zero. Right now, it is about two-thirds self-sustaining.
"The building is new enough, we haven't been able to tune it perfectly. We're on the brink," Cope said. "In a couple weeks, we should be able to monitor usage accurately."
Once the systems are calibrated, the building begins a one-year monitoring period to prove the conservation technology is working. If it meets all benchmarks after 365 days, it can remain certified as "LEED Platinum" by the U.S. Green Building Council, the strictest category of energy-efficiency.
The distinction doesn't come cheap. Cope estimates the sustainable energy upgrades comprised 25 percent of the building's total cost up-front.
"If you take a long view of things, it'll pay off," Cope said. "It's a capital investment for the public. Of all the things government spends money on, this is a good one. This building and its energy systems will serve the public and local economy a long, long time."


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Hartsville, S.C. -- Riding a four game skid, the Coker Lady Cobras took to the court against the Anderson Trojans Monday night. A close game to the very end, Anderson walked away with a 59-56 win over the Lady Cobras. Stretching their lead to ten points in the second half, Coker played with confidence, but the Lady Cobras were no match for the Trojans in the final moments.
Led by Alexa Neal (Greensboro, N.C.) the Lady Trojans put up a 38 point second half. Neal had 17 points on the day, along with four rebounds. Maci Siniard (Rome, G.A.) also played a major role for Anderson, scoring 12 points and grabbing four rebounds.
The Cobras were led by Jasmine Alston (Sumter, S.C.) and Lotta Aaltonen (Rauma, Finland) who had 12 points each. Henna Koponen (Vantaa, Finland) led both teams in rebounds with nine.
Both teams were slow to start, with only five points being scored in the first five minutes of play. The level of intensity picked up towards the end of the first, as Coker grabbed a 24-21 lead to end the first half. At the start of the second, Coker came out of the locker room with a renewed intensity, and would eventually push the lead to ten points. Anderson did not back down, and continued to chip away at Coker's lead. The Lady Cobras' finally lost the lead in the final three minutes of play and could not regain and sustain it. Coker managed to grab a one point lead twice, but it was quickly taken by Anderson.
Coker falls to 2-11 on the season, and 1-7 in Conference Carolinas play. Anderson improves to 8-5, with a 7-1 record in the conference.
The Lady Cobras' next time out will be on Monday, January 21, versus Converse College. Tip-off is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.


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Davis describes how process standardization can help your garment-printing operation survive dramatic shifts in the marketplace.
The garment-printing industry has seen some rather radical changes over the years. This industry was once the land of plenty, and the US was riddled with massive textile facilities. But now it's a shadow of its former self. Ninety percent of the licensed apparel once produced in the US in the thousands of dozens is outsourced to countries in South America and Asia.
Although many companies have attempted to either downsize or begin anew in a foreign country, a great number have died off due to the inability to compete with the foreign printing facilities. Nowadays, it's unusual to find garment-printing facilities that have more than three automatic presses on the production floor. What remains is what was previously considered the mid-sized facility, with one to three automatic or manual presses.
The large garment-printing facilities that remain in operation in the United States keep the pressure on small and midsize shops to produce the best quality in a timely fashion and at a low cost in order to remain competitive. Among the most effective ways for these companies to keep seeing success is to standardize processes and streamline production in order to enhance consistency and efficiency.
Standardizing garment-printing processes
System standardization is a fairly straightforward process. In relation to garment screen printing, standardization is required to the greatest degree in prepress operations, where variables must be strictly controlled. Processes in the screen room that demand standardization are screen tensioning, degreasing and rinsing, coating, exposure, and washout. Each step requires training, documentation, instructional signage, and enforcement. These steps smooth out the production flow and maximize quality and productivity.
In the screen-tensioning process, optimum tension must be established for each screen mesh being utilized. This, of course, is based on the frame type and mesh count. Once you establish these parameters, you should document your tensioning procedures and keep the records in a master file and mounted in the work area in a step-by-step format. They should be simply and clearly worded so that anyone introduced into that department would be able to follow the instructions and produce a screen that meets the set standards. This procedure not only ensures a consistent screen, but it also minimizes the need for excessive supervision over new hires. The employees should be able to walk themselves through the process with minimal demonstration and intervention from managers.
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LEED BD+C: New Construction v2 - LEED 2.1
Moseley Architects New Office
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This combination of historic preservation requirements and LEED objectives produced several synergies but also challenges, especially in terms of energy efficiency and daylight harvesting.
Moseley Architects' new headquarters in Richmond, Virginia is a two-story office space of 47,300 square feet housing up to 160 architects, engineers and support staff. Centered on a 2.37 acre city block in Richmond's downtown industrial district, the facility is a renovation of a historic structure originally built in 1930. Having served its useful life as a construction yard and warehouse for Baker Equipment (manufacturers of crane attachments for bucket trucks and "cherry pickers"), the building has been carefully transformed through a design process that embraced its historic nature – while incorporating new technologies and materials that allow it to become an example of environmental responsibility for staff and visitors alike.
In June of 2000, Moseley Architects' Board of Directors developed and adopted an Environmental Mission Statement designed to guide all future work: "In our efforts to be responsible stewards of our Earth, Moseley Architects is committed to helping our clients make responsible decisions about the potential environmental impacts of design choices."
Attention to sustainable design features has been a paramount goal for projects ever since. As of 2013, the firm had built a portfolio of over 100 projects that are LEED certified or are pursuing LEED.
In early 2002 the decision was made to relocate to a new office space that would provide much needed room for continued growth – and one whose design and very location would befit an architecture and engineering firm committed to sustainability. Such a space was found in the "Scott's Addition" neighborhood.
Designated as a Special Enterprise Zone by the City of Richmond, it was the hope of Moseley Architects' Board of Directors that relocating to this neighborhood would both place the office in a more central location for its workers, as well as spur future investment in the area.
Additionally, given that the building itself was constructed in a "period of significance" as defined by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the Board decided to pursue Historic Preservation tax credits through the thoughtful preservation of its industrial character.
At the same time, however, it was clear from the outset of the project that this building should become a centerpiece for Moseley's portfolio of LEED projects – especially given the fact that this facility would be occupied by the very designers who have created such buildings for our many clients. This combination of historic preservation requirements and LEED objectives produced several synergies but also challenges, especially in terms of energy efficiency and daylight harvesting. The resulting building is therefore a reflection of the strategies its designers have developed for pursuing both sets of goals – providing a unique and productive place to work for its occupants, and an educational experience for its visitors.
Project details
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- Commercial Office
- Setting
- Urban
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- Sep 01, 2009
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1943's 20th Century Fox musical Coney Island receives its first legitimate home video release through Fox's Cinema Archives DVD-R series. The movie is set in the "Gay 90s" amongst the seaside attractions of the title area (though shot in Hollywood). Box-office and pin-up sensation Betty Grable stars as singer/dancer Kate Farley, who performs at the "Ocean Gardens" nightclub owned by Joe Rocco (Cesar Romero). Joe's former partner Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery), after running a number of failed sideshow attractions with new partner Frankie (Phil Silvers), tries to persuade Joe to let him have a part in running Ocean Gardens but Joe refuses. After a humorous series of back-and-forth sabotaging of each other's operations (including Eddie starting a rumor of disease spreading through the drinks at Ocean Gardens, and Joe inciting a riot at Eddie's sideshow after having a patron claim he'd been pickpocketed there, and culminating in Eddie having a fight start at the Gardens' bar and leading Joe to believe a man was killed there), Joe finally agrees to let Eddie in. Eddie suggests catering to a more upscale audience, with Frankie saying "After all, what are right people? Poor people with money!"
Eddie sees potential in Kate's performing, but feels that it's been "cheap and gaudy" so far with her songs too loud and fast and her costumes rather tacky. The first night he takes over the show, he orders her to sing at a slower pace and not dance around so much, and handcuffs her arms and legs together before the curtain opens to ensure that she does. Despite threatening not to sing at all, Kate relents when the curtain opens and the audience loves it. Soon business triples, the club gets a nice remodel and Kate becomes a big star. After this there's a few conflicts as Kate finds other venues interested in her and both Eddie and Joe vie for her affection.
Most of the musical numbers are in the context of their being performed onstage, with the exception of a rather rousing number with the title song done by everyone present in the first scene at the Ocean Gardens club, and a reprise of the same song later during a night gathering on the beach. (Being a closet fan of musicals, I certainly prefer when the songs are done as part of the story rather than being done as part of a stage act within the plot, but that's just me.) The original songs were composed by the team of Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin.
Coney Island is certainly entertaining enough, though at times there's just a bit more time between songs to my liking, and a few of these dialogue scenes also drag some. Phil Silvers' character Frankie also mysteriously disappears around the halfway point and doesn't return til the end, which is unfortunate as he provides the biggest laughs. Betty Grable of course is the star of the show however and she certainly delivers. The movie ends on a very high note with the lavish "Danger in a Dance" number.
An interesting historical bit, being that this movie was released during World War II, is that the "The End" card includes a notice about U.S. War Bonds and Stamps, with the words "Buy Yours in This Theatre." I love seeing stuff like this and was glad it was retained here as it was irrelevant during any later reissues the movie may have had (I've noticed this on a few other movies of that era.) Another nice touch is that the movie's intro is sung by a chorus, with "20th Century Fox Presents" and the cast.
Despite the less-than-favorable reviews of other Fox Cinema Archives titles, Coney Island looks very good here and appears to be a recent transfer. The picture is very sharp, with no significant dirt or scratches and the encoding has only minimal compression artifacts, looking very good for a standard DVD.
Audio is in 2-channel Dolby Digital "big fat mono", with the sound staying properly in the center channel with Pro-Logic decoding. While the quality isn't comparable to any modern production, it sounds very clean.
The disc is on a DVD-R, using the special format studios have been using for their burned-on-demand releases which allows for CSS copy protection to still be included. The disc played as well as a normal disc, but I have to criticize the placement of chapters automatically at every ten minutes, rather than being chaptered in any logical manner. When DVD recorders first hit the market I noticed most of them defaulted to this, and always felt it was rather silly. Burned DVDs I have produced myself for my own use have always been chaptered as I saw fit, and it's puzzling that the studios producing these discs being sold to the public couldn't find one person willing to do the same.
Coney Island was a significant musical of the 1940s but strangely has never been released on any home video format until now. Despite being a DVD-R with "auto-chapters" and having no extras, the presentation is still very good and in the end that and making this movie available is what matters.
Jesse Skeen is a life-long obsessive media collector (with an unhealthy preoccupation with obsolete and failed formats) and former theater film projectionist. He enjoys watching movies and strives for presenting them perfectly, but lacks the talent to make his own.


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Three Victories for Wildlife Against Big Oil!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
By: Robyn Carmichael
The U.S. Senate passes a bipartisan transportation package that has tremendous impacts for America's wildlife.
Thanks to advocates like you
who have been keeping the pressure on Congress to fight for their constituents'
interests instead of Big Oil's, we are happy to be able to report some big wins
for wildlife in the passage of the Senate tranportation bill.
In addition to helping rebuild America and creating thousands of new jobs in the process, including in transit, bike paths and programs to help get kids to and from school safely, three major conservation victories in the bill are:
* Keystone XL
Pipeline: REJECTED!
This amendment would have overturned President Obama's decision to reject the
Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline--bypassing the environmental review process
and giving Congress unprecedented authority to hand out a permit for this
dangerous project. The pipeline would put endangered whooping cranes and
critical resources at risk of toxic oil spills and drive a rapid expansion of
habitat-destroying tar sands operations that could put the
lives of thousands of wolves and other wildlife at risk.
* RESTORE Act:
The RESTORE Act ensures that Clean Water Act penalties collected from those
responsible for the BP oil disaster be dedicated to Gulf Coast restoration--a big win for brown pelicans and other
wildlife impacted by the spill. This historic amendment also
includes significant authorization and funding for the Land and Water
Conservation Fund and the National Endowment for the Oceans, both essential
programs to protect key wildlife habitat and natural resources.
* Arctic Drilling:
This amendment would have opened new leases for oil and gas drilling in
pristine Arctic wilderness--putting
ringed seals at needless risk of potential oil disasters, while
boosting Big Oil's billions of dollars in profits. It would have also
drastically expanded offshore drilling into vast new areas of our coastline,
including the Atlantic Ocean, the California Coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico and
Bristol Bay in Alaska.
Thanks to all of you who have sent messages, made calls, and spread the word to your friends over the last
month--your voices for wildlife were heard loud and clear!
As the bill now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives, Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of National Wildlife Federation, says:
"We urge the House to take action and pass a similar broad
bipartisan package that will boost our economy and protect and restore our
environment for this and future generations. This is
no time for political games, ploys, posturing and showdowns. This is a chance
to get something done for the good of this and future generations and in the
process restore a semblance of faith that Washington can work."