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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana candidates seeking to rally an election victory were spending their final days before Tuesday attending football tailgates and festivals, waving signs on street corners and making last rounds of phone calls to pitch themselves to voters.
Secretary of State Tom Schedler expected a strong turnout on Election Day, after a record number of voters cast their ballots ahead of time during the weeklong early voting period. More than 340,000 people voted early, nearly 12 percent of Louisiana's 2.9 million registered voters.
"We look at it is an indication of how many people will vote on Election Day," said Meg Casper, a spokeswoman for Schedler.
At the top of the ticket is the contest between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Louisiana's outcome has been expected to be a certain victory for Romney in the Republican-leaning state, so GOP and Democratic volunteers have been asked to travel to swing states to campaign for their candidates there.
In addition to the presidential race, also on the ballot are six congressional races, nine constitutional amendments, judgeships and local contests around the state. A seat on the state's utility regulatory agency, the Public Service Commission, is up for grabs, along with an open Louisiana Supreme Court seat representing the Baton Rouge area.
The outcome of most of the state's U.S. House races seemed to have been decided in August, when few well-financed challengers signed up to oppose Louisiana's incumbent congressmen.
Republican U.S. Reps. Steve Scalise of Metairie, John Fleming of Minden, Rodney Alexander of Quitman and Bill Cassidy of Baton Rouge have faced little opposition from their challengers and have had to spend little from their campaign war chests, sticking to town hall meetings and mailers rather than widespread TV advertising.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond of New Orleans also has had little organized opposition, even though Richmond's district has taken on a noticeably different shape, moving all the way up the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge after the latest redesign of the state's congressional districts.
The only Louisiana congressional race to involve big spending and strong competition is in the 3rd District covering southwest Louisiana and Acadiana. No matter the outcome, an incumbent congressman will lose his seat.
Republican incumbents Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry were forced into the same district when the state lost a congressional seat after the latest federal census, and the face-off has been a bitter battle laden with attack ads and accusations of lies and dirty tactics.
The two congressmen are trying to stake out much the same philosophical territory, both running as conservatives, leaving them to distinguish themselves largely by slamming each other. Landry is running as the tea party favorite, while Boustany is considered a more traditional Republican candidate.
Landry calls his opponent an example of what's broken about Washington, claiming Boustany votes with the positions of the national GOP and House Speaker John Boehner over the needs of his district.
"It's a culture of making promises and not delivering," Landry said at a recent debate with Boustany. "I don't do what our leadership in Washington tells me or what the Republican Party tells me."
Boustany charges that his opponent habitually skips votes and attacks Boustany to distract voters from his lack of accomplishments during his one term in Washington. He said Landry plays political games rather than working on legislation.
"He says he wants to do the work. He should at least show up," Boustany said.
The design of the district favors Boustany, but Landry has worked to assemble grassroots support and local GOP endorsements, making the 3rd District race a tight contest.
Three other candidates are seeking the seat, but they've done little fundraising for their campaigns and little advertising. However, Democratic trial lawyer Ron Richard is expected to siphon off Democratic votes and could push the campaign into a Dec. 8 runoff.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior Andrea Park (Irvine, Calif.) and juniors Kaitlyn Nealon (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Rachel Dias Carlson (Albany, N.Y.) were named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Division III Women's Scholar All-East Region Honorable Mention Team on Tuesday. They join Lauren Hernley '10 and Alisha Lussiez '12 as the only MIT women's soccer players to be recognized for this achievement.
In order to be eligible for this award, a student-athlete must be at least a junior, have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher and have started more than 50 percent of the team's games.
Park, a staple of the MIT defense for the past four years, was one of only five Engineers who played and started all 21 games during the 2012 season. Throughout her career, she was named to the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team, was a three-time NEWMAC All-Conference honoree, a NEWISA second team All-New England recipient and a CoSIDA Academic All-District nominee. She was also recently named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) New England Division III All-Star Team.
Nealon, also an important part of the Engineers' defense that allowed only 18 goals throughout the season, played in 18 games, starting 16 of them. She was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team and, last month, was named CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-America, marking the second time in her career that she has appeared on the national ballot, as she was a third team honoree as a sophomore. She was also selected to the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team.
Dias Carlson played a large role in the midfield this season, appearing in 16 games and starting 14 of them, earning an assist along the way. She was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team both as a sophomore and a junior and was named to the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team.
The Engineers, who made it to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in program history, ended their season with a record of 14-4-3, which is tied for first in the MIT record book for most wins.

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What is your most FUNNY/STUPID answer in your examination/quiz?
me and my lab partners did a lab on chewing gum.one of the questions said "How did you know the mass of gum would decrease after chewing?"
i wrote down "Because I'm not dumb!!!"
smiling hurts so dont smile too much D;
some of my teachers ask this to their questionaires...
what is the name of your teacher?
LOL. hehe... and some don't know the name of our professors..
haha so funny...
well for me
Love me? XD
krnsoldierofGod wrote:
this is a bit sexist but...
mmm it would have to be the time when i did the random ability test
it was something like
Q: what animal is more happy?
a. tigger in the forest
b. pelican on the beach
c. dog sleeping
d. cat eating
like WTF lol... i put down pelican hahaha
anki86 wrote:
hmm...if i remeber right i wrote:
"i don´t know since i wasn´t in class when we had this subject"
lol my mate did that in our maths exam.
here technically those wuestions like "find x" are ambigious cz the answer that they give (circle x etc) is correct cz technically they've found x.
waiting for the bleach and naruto manga chapters to come out!!!
krnsoldierofGod wrote:
this is a bit sexist but...
you're a winner
freakaga1n wrote:
ceinorey1 wrote:
freakaga1n wrote:
"write teh process of asexual reproduction of sea sponges"
answer: erm... Masturbation?...
lol! hahahahah nice one!
mm... that's wat my friend said... until I my teacher made me stand up and explain wat masturbation waz in HRE as a punishment...
That must have hurt..
Pick a BOO
I was sitting my Science GCSE last June, which took 40 minutes for each module (We had to do 3 that day..so we were basically there inside the examination hall for a good 120 minutes) and I remember being stuck on a Biology (or was it chemistry) question.
Since I couldn't think of anything (and I remember how our teacher always told us to JUST WRITE ANYTHING, because it's better than have no answer at all. Me, being the good student that I thought I was, followed her instruction) and started writing a load of crap.
I remember writing something about ET coming home. , that my teacher should ask Einstein and drawing A LOT OF alien/smiley faces on the paper.
The next day, we had another exam, and to calm my nerves, me and my friends decided to drink before the exam. I ended up drinking too much, and I remember writing all the names of different alcohol that I know...and got into quite A LOT of trouble after.
In August, we got our exam results back...and I got a D (which isn't that bad, I suppose)
kids spend to much time on their playstations is the answer:
i do not PLAY god. playing is for children
ceinorey1 wrote:
Write the question and your answer..
this is so funny!:-) but usually i make educated guesess
lol whahah nice! hmm i think we had a quiz....and i rote my classm8es name...since i copied from him xD
krnsoldierofGod wrote:
in one of my spanish quizzes this guy put orange chicken for his answer
and this one other guy put it is against my religion to answer this question on his math test lol
Isnt that the use of the Pythagorean theorem? A squared + B squared = C squared. OMG! Considering, that Im pretty dumb in math and I remembered this, Im joyful. XD
Har Har Har
for an essay, i wrote how great jack bauer was and how he always saves america from terrorist attacks and w/o him, america would be dead. but he is a great guy dontya think? =]
42, it's the answer to life the universe and everything (my answer for a math problem, read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and you'll understand)
lurking in your closet
mikomiko123 wrote:
krnsoldierofGod wrote:
in one of my spanish quizzes this guy put orange chicken for his answer
and this one other guy put it is against my religion to answer this question on his math test lol
Isnt that the use of the Pythagorean theorem? A squared + B squared = C squared. OMG! Considering, that Im pretty dumb in math and I remembered this, Im joyful. XD
yeah its the pythagora theory . I put that too in the beginnin x and circle the x <_<. because my stupid teacher learned me that o_O
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The British number two was repeatedly treated for a shoulder issue as she went down 7-5 6-3 in one hour 49 minutes after failing to follow-up the dramatic, late night, three-set win over eighth seed Petra Kvitova on Thursday.
Stephens proved to be made of sterner stuff as she came through to deny Robson a second successive fourth-round grand slam appearance following her memorable run at the US Open.
Stephens made a blistering start, blasting winners from all angles to make Robson look lethargic.
In her defence, the 18-year-old's uncomfortable movement may have been attributed to a problem in the shoulder area which became apparent after the fifth game when she called for a medical timeout.
At that point Stephens had not made an unforced error and was flying even though her progress, having broken twice, had just been checked as Robson claimed one back.
The delay clearly stalled the American's momentum as Robson mounted a comeback, breaking again to get it back on serve.
Stephens' attacking game had deserted her as she became content to push the ball down the middle of the court and wait for her opponent to make an error.
It almost worked as she brought up two set points with Robson serving at 4-5.
But the Briton's tenacity came to the fore as she saved the first with a big cross-court forehand and the second when Stephens could only frame a forehand out of court.
The 29th seed threatened again two games later and this time Robson could not find an escape route as she drifted a backhand wide, although she may claim to have been put off by someone in the crowd loudly declaring Stephens' previous shot out.
Robson had a third spell of treatment at the end of a set in which she coughed up 29 unforced errors to just six winners.
She remained the aggressor at the start of the second but Stephens was proving deceptively canny, mixing blazing groundstrokes with periods of passive play.
And the change in pace appeared to unsettle Robson as she failed to find any kind of rhythm.
It was to prove damaging as Stephens made her move in game four.
Having staved off three break points, Robson could not repeat the feat a fourth time as Stephens lured her towards the net and then ripped an unreturnable drive at the feet.
She advanced without alarm to 5-3 before some late nerves almost gave Robson a way back.
Serving for the match, Stephens had to stave off two break points before setting up her first chance to win the match.
She fluffed her lines, dumping a routine backhand volley into the net but made no mistake second time round when Robson thrashed a wild forehand wide – her 47th unforced error of the match.
Stephens, 19, who also beat Robson in Hobart last week, will play either 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm or Bojana Jovanovski next.


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This cruiser is bad ass.
Just thinking of the rides you could do with that – add some spiked tires and you're unstoppable on the bike path in Winter. Meccanico di Veno posts on the paint and build on his blog. Also see Go Means Go 1979 Schwinn Typhoon from last year.


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The Central Connecticut women's lacrosse team fell to Holy Cross by a score of 11-6 in a non-conference game on Wednesday night. The Blue Devils fall to 9-6 overall on the season with the loss, while the Crusaders improve to 7-9. The loss snaps CCSU's school record winning streak at eight games.
The Blue Devils will return to action and put their perfect Northeast Conference record on the line on Friday afternoon against Mount St. Mary's at Arute Field.
CCSU out-scored the Crusaders 5-4 in the second half, but it was not enough to overcome Holy Cross' 7-1 halftime advantage.
The Crusaders scored the first two goals of the second half, but the Blue Devils posted back-to-back goals at the 20:39 and 17:31 marks in the period to cut the lead to 9-3. Junior Amanda Toke scored with an assist from freshman Falynn McCartney and then freshman Elyse Malecki found the net with the help of freshman Madison Hughes.
A Holy Cross goal interrupted CCSU's run, but the Blue Devils answered with a goal by senior Betsy Vendel. McCartney recorded her second assist of the game on the Vendel goal, which cut Holy Cross' lead to 10-4.
The Crusaders followed with another goal, but CCSU continued to compete. Malecki scored her second goal of the game with 3:35 left to play and Hughes found the net for her first of the game just 70 seconds later.
Hughes' goal was the final score of the game and set the final at 11-6. The Blue Devils closed the game on a 5-2 run.
The Blue Devils were trailing 6-0 before McCartney scored CCSU's first goal of the game with 3:09 left in the first period.
Holy Cross held sizable advantages in shots, ground balls and draw controls in the first period.
The Blue Devils held a 6-4 advantage in draw controls during the second half and limited the Crusaders in transition. CCSU held Holy Cross to just six successful clears on 10 attempts in the second period.
McCartney, Hughes and Malecki had strong games for the Blue Devils. McCartney posted a team-high three points with one goal and two assists. Malecki had a pair of goals and Hughes had a goal and an assist.
Vendel led the team with three ground balls and had two draw controls. The two draw controls shared a team-high with McCartney and senior Mackenzy Ryan. Vendel also caused a turnover.
Holy Cross was led by five players who scored a pair of goals.
The Blue Devils host Mount St. Mary's on Friday and Monmouth on Sunday at Arute Field. It is the final weekend of the NEC women's lacrosse regular season and the winner of Sunday's game will claim the top-seed and the right to host the NEC Tournament.


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Wisconsin's oldest operating ferry service is about to get its newest boat. By July 9, 2011, the Cassville ferry service will have a new tug and barge to make its Mississippi River crossing. On December 3, 2010, Skipperliner was awarded a $1.7 million contract to deliver a new tugboat and ferry barge. Three manufacturers vied for the project, which was awarded to the La Crosse-based company.Skipperliner will construct a new 78-foot barge that can carry about 12 typical vehicles, as well as a 45-foot tugboat to push it. While the company has built numerous commercial and industrial vessels, this is its first ferry to transport vehicles.The new Cassville ferry will replace the existing Charlie D, which carries up to nine cars. Charlie D has been crossing the Mississippi River at Cassville since 1966. Ferry service here dates as far back as 1833.Cassville's new ferry was designed by Farrell and Norton Naval Architects. The funds for the project came from $1.8 million in federal stimulus dollars. Wisconsin was among 19 states that received some of the $60 million designated specifically for ferry replacement and refurbishment through theAmerican Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The Cassville ferry provides seasonal service between Guttenberg, Iowa and Cassville, Wisconsin. The nearest bridge crossing to the north is Prairie du Chien, and the nearest bridge crossing to the south is Dubuque, Iowa-a distance of approximately 70 miles.
The ferry operates from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week, from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, making an average of 45 trips per day. It also runs Friday through Sunday in spring and fall.
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Every third Monday In April, Tiny Hopkinton, Massachusetts, throbs with a frenetic energy that's half New England carnival, half Olympic Games pre-race tension. Twenty-five thousand runners crowd into number-coded corrals at the start of the Boston Marathon, ready to challenge their lungs and quads on the treacherously hilly course. They eye each other with a shared respect, understanding what it took to get there: talent, long years of training, and nasty 20-milers through the dead of winter. Above all, they know they are special; Boston is the only marathon (for nonelites) that requires a tough qualifying standard.
Indeed, the marathon once known for Heartbreak Hill, Clarence DeMar, its postrace beef stew, and the annual runnings since 1897 is now far better recognized for the Boston Marathon qualifying standards (BQs). Across the country, thousands of runners who couldn't pick John Adelbert Kelley out of a lineup can immediately quote the BQ for their age group. Getting into Boston has become an honor, like qualifying for the Olympics or Olympic Trials, only at the people's level. While only 10 percent of American marathoners are fast enough to qualify for Boston, the goal is more popular than ever. The race reached its field limit on January 25 this year—a month earlier than ever before. A recent runnersworld.com survey found that 85 percent of respondents believe Boston's qualifying times are good because they challenge runners to "be the best they can be."
Getting into the exclusive event hasn't always been so hard. Through much of its 113-year history, the Boston Marathon amounted to a small annual spectacle attracting few runners beyond the eastern United States and Canada. Every Patriots' Day (a holiday little recognized outside the Boston area), runners would assemble in bucolic Hopkinton to begin the rolling trek to downtown Boston. Dressed in cotton singlets, shorts, and floppy sneakers, many with handkerchiefs tied around their neck or head, the ragtag gaggle of runners looked like Depression- era hobos. Local sportswriters adored the marathon; it let them unleash their most colorful phrases. "It must be spring," they wrote nearly every year. "The saps are running again."
During the World War II years, Boston attracted as few as 67 runners; by 1965, the field had climbed to only 447. "It was still a number that a handful of race officials could deal with, even in the days of no computers and no office staff," says Boston historian Tom Derderian, author of the classic Boston Marathon: The History of the World's Premier Running Event. There was no crush to get into the marathon, no cutoff date or field limit, and no entry fee. You ponied up a dollar to join the Amateur Athletic Union, and sent your entry to de facto race director Jock Semple, athletic trainer to the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins.
Semple, a lovable if hotheaded Scotsman, veteran marathoner, and coach of the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) running club, maintained his cool for several more years. In 1967, the Boston field grew to a barely manageable 741. Then in 1969, Semple was flooded with 1,342 entries. In an early, pre-Frank Shorter running boomlet, more Americans were beginning to run and to focus on Boston, one of the country's only marathons, and certainly its best known. The mail, the logistics, and especially the phone calls proved too much. "What? You want to know if you can run the marathon in your track spikes?" Crrrash! The sound of Semple slamming down the phone.
To enter the 1970 Boston Marathon, Semple and BAA president Will Cloney decided runners would have to provide a written declaration, signed by a coach, that they could break four hours. Didn't work. The wave of entries and phone calls continued. "What? You say you can run a mile, and you want to do the marathon, only you don't know how long it is?" Crrrash!
To be fair, Semple wasn't just interested in making his own life easier. "Jock and Will Cloney wanted to preserve Boston's integrity," says Derderian. "They worried that the race was becoming a freak show for fraternity types and other crazy stunt people."
To slow the marathon's growth and preserve it for competitive runners, Semple and Cloney got more serious about limiting Boston entries. For the 1971 Boston Marathon, they instituted a prior-race test: You had to have already run 26.2 miles in less than 3:30. Because there were so few marathons in those days, the organizers also allowed entrants who had completed a 10-miler in or under 65:00, a 15-miler in 1:45, or a 20-miler in 2:30.
Since 1971, the qualifying standards have changed nine times, dropping as low as 2:50 for "open men" in the early 1980s, when organizers were interested in limiting the field to seriously competitive runners. But attitudes and economic pressures change. In recent decades, with other marathons drawing huge crowds that provide an economic stimulus to their communities, Boston has reversed course from the Semple-Cloney approach. Suddenly, more runners—staying in hotels, eating in restaurants—are better. In 1990 and again in 2003, Boston qualifying times got softer. Today, Boston has a range of standards that are still tough—starting at 3:10 for men 34 and younger and 3:40 for women 34 and younger—and easy for organizers to deal with, based on five-year age groups and a constant 30-minute gap between men and women. You might expect such an evolved and orderly system to provide a level playing field for all would-be qualifiers, regardless of their age or gender. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.
How Hard Is It, Really?
Qualifying for Boston is a hot topic among chattering marathoners, especially on long training runs and Internet discussion boards. Some argue that women have it easier than men; some think the younger age groups have the advantage. The debates intrigued Jim Fortner, a retired electrical engineer and regular visitor to the runnersworld.com forums, who has run 21 marathons (including two BQs, though he hasn't actually run Boston yet). "There were a lot of heated opinions," says Fortner, whose Jim2's Running Page Web site contains an eclectic collection of high-quality running articles. "But no one had any hard data. So I decided to start collecting it."
Over the last three years, Fortner has spent as many as 700 hours a year delving into Boston and across-the-U. S. marathon statistics with the help of results from race Web sites and marathonguide.com. He's analyzed 227 American marathons, representing 97 percent of all marathon finishers in this country. His specific aim: to determine what percentage of runners, from each age group, run fast enough to qualify for Boston. Overall, only 10.4 percent of marathon finishers achieve a BQ. But more people qualify in some age groups than in others. For example, the number of women age 45 to 49 who qualify is 14.5 percent. The number of men age 65 to 69 who qualify is 17 percent, while only 7.9 percent of men and women age 34 and younger qualify. So you can't say the BQs are biased against men or women, and they certainly aren't biased against older runners. Boston has the same 60/40 male/female split as the average of all marathons in the U. S., while its average age is older than the national average. Here's what you can say about the BQs: They're inconsistent.
Boston organizers recognize this, but contend they have many factors to consider, including how long they can keep the course open. "We talk about our standards and adjustments to them almost every week," says Boston Marathon spokesperson Jack Fleming. "We've never said that the times are scientific. We've arrived at them in a step-by-step, evolutionary manner that also has to include local logistical concerns."
But there's a simple way to level the BQ playing field: Use the age-graded tables created by the World Masters Association (WMA), which use world-record times and "age factors" to calculate "equivalent" times for all race distances for every age between 8 and 100 (the tool is at runnersworld.com/agegraded).The current Boston standards for men in their mid-30s and mid- 40s produce a WMA age-graded performance of about 65 percent (i.e., 3:20 is roughly 65 percent as fast as the world record marathon time for 44-year-old men). These are the oldest Boston standards and have changed little in recent years, so they seem a good benchmark. If you create new BQs by applying this same 65 percent equalizer to all runners, the Boston standards become a little easier for all men, quite a bit tougher for women under 45, and considerably easier for women over 49. "The WMA tables have achieved nearly universal use and are the best way to measure equivalent performances across the age and gender spectrum," says Donald Lein, chair of USATF's masters long distance running committee. Why not apply them to America's first and most historic marathon, which instituted qualifying times and heralds them far and wide? Fairness is an important ethic in road running. It is not always achieved, but it should always be the goal.
"We've had more discussions about going to an age-graded approach," Fleming says. "We could even have a different time for every single age. We've also been talking about an individual's history at Boston. If someone has qualified and run 12 years in a row, that person should maybe get special consideration. But we haven't made any decisions."
Did Everyone Here Qualify?
What many runners who sweat over their qualifying times may not realize is that some of the people milling around the corrals in Hopkinton didn't qualify at all. And it's not just the bandits.
Boston has a long-standing charity program that allows some participation by nonqualified runners. This impressive program was started in 1994, and has raised $85 million for charities since then. Even so, Boston's field size has increased by 95 percent since the late 1990s, while total marathoners nationwide have increased by just 10 percent, according to Running USA. During this period, average marathon finish times slowed by 20 minutes—and those slower times should mean fewer Boston qualifiers, not more, even with the easing standards. Consider that only 37 percent of Boston participants run a BQ at Boston. Yes, the course is tough, but if these are the fastest marathoners in the country, shouldn't they requalify for Boston at Boston? The Bay State Marathon and Mohawk-Hudson River Marathon have BQ rates nearly as high—34.1 percent and 33.4 percent—and no one has to qualify to enter. Where are the extra Boston qualifiers coming from?
In early February, I decided to take a closer look at Boston entrants. To begin, with the help of an intern, I searched out the names of the first 400 runners, sorted alphabetically, in the 2009 Boston Marathon's online database. We then checked each name against the extensive 2007 and 2008 results databases at
marathonguide.com (the first permissible day to qualify for Boston 2009 was September 29, 2007). We gave everyone the 59-second "grace period" that Boston extends, and also gave runners credit for qualifying in a new age group when they reach a five-year birthday before Boston, which the marathon also allows.
Both human and computer error could produce mistakes, but we couldn't find qualifying times for 22 percent of the 400 runners. If that percentage were extended to the full Boston field, it would mean that 5,000 or more of this year's Boston runners got accepted with official numbers but without a qualifying time.
Jack Fleming acknowledges that our calculations sound right. "We haven't been dishonest about these runners," says Fleming. "It's simply that we don't get asked about any but the charity runners. We have 1,350 of them who don't have to qualify. But we also have the invited elites, entries for our sponsors, entries for the cities and towns along the course, media-promotional entries, and other special invitations." [Author's note: As the 1968 winner, I receive a handful of Boston entries that I can give to friends each year. They need not qualify, but must pay all entry fees.]
"We work very hard to make sure the total of all nonqualified runners doesn't exceed 20 percent of the field," Fleming continues. "We hope and believe that all runners understand how important sponsors and local communities are to an event of this magnitude. Most important, we continue to emphasize the qualified runners. They get a lower entry fee, a lower bib number, and a better starting position. First and foremost, we want to maintain Boston as a quality event for them."
The Boston Marathon, a private entity owned by the BAA, is free to establish whatever rules it chooses. But among the runners who work so hard to get to Hopkinton and celebrate so joyously in Copley Square hours later, it's also a sort of public trust. If Boston enacted fair-across-the-board qualifying times and fully disclosed the makeup of its starting field, it would live by standards as high as the ones it sets for us.
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Slashdot points us to the news that an Australian court has ruled in favor of Nintendo, against the distributor of mod chips that can be used in Nintendo DS devices. Nintendo has been busy suing such distributors around the globe, though so far without much success. In places like Spain and France, courts were smart enough to realize that just distributing these chips -- which can be used for legal purposes as well as infringing purposes -- should not be considered infringement itself. It's the basic question of secondary liability, and figuring out if a third party should take the blame for actions of end users. In the iiNet case, the court realized that doing so would result in misplaced blame. In this case, the court didn't seem to care.
It's really too bad, because the court is basically saying that users don't have the right to modify a product they legally purchased and own. And, on top of that, a company selling a product that has perfectly legal uses can be held liable for the fact that some users also do unauthorized things with it. That's a troubling precedent by any measure.


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By that time the Navy had already ordered 20 production model PBM-1s plus a single XPBM-2 intended for catapult launching. That aircraft had a strengthened hull and additional fuel tanks. The Navy built a large catapult barge—designated AVC-1—to launch heavy flying boats. While XPBM-2 tests were successful, the concept was soon dropped in favor of rocket-assisted takeoffs using JATO canisters. 1
The production PBM-1s entered service with patrol squadron VP-55 during September 1940—some 19 months after the first flight. The aircraft immediately began flying neutrality patrols over the western Atlantic, employed to observe and report the movement of foreign warships—including U-boats; the reporting areas were soon expanded to the east coast of Canada and down to the West Indies. Although the United States was not yet in the war, U.S. surface ships and aircraft on neutrality patrol were of significant assistance to Great Britain.
In July 1941 the capabilities of the neutrality patrol were enhanced when two PBM-1s of VP-74 as well as one PBY-5 in each of three other VP squadrons were fitted with British ASV (air-to-surface vessel) radar. These were the first operational units of the U.S. Navy to fly radar-equipped aircraft.
Although relatively complex, the Mariner's superior performance marked it as an outstanding aircraft. Hundreds more were ordered for long-range patrol, antisubmarine warfare, transport, and search-and-rescue operations.
The original PBM-1 was followed by improved combat variants. The aircraft had bomb bays within the engine nacelles, which could hold four 1,600-, 1,000-, or 500-pound bombs, or mines, or two MK 13 aerial torpedoes for a maximum weapons load of 8,000 pounds. The defensive armament consisted of up to eight .50-caliber machine guns—two each in nose, dorsal, and tail power turrets, and single guns in the waist positions. The aircraft had a crew of seven to nine.
The PBM-3D introduced a large surface-search radome immediately aft of the flight deck. The PBM-3S was an antisubmarine warfare version with increased range, the weight of additional fuel being offset by deletion of power turrets and less armor protection for the crew. The follow-on PBM-5S had electronic countermeasures equipment to detect submarine radio transmissions, magnetic anomaly detection gear, and a large searchlight, and could launch and monitor sonobuoys. A single PBM-5N was modified for all-weather operations, an oxymoron considering how Mariners operated during the war.
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US Spec Nissan GT-R runs 11.8 @ 118 MPH at Sacramento RacewayMarch 31st, 2008
Edmunds took their US spec 2009 Nissan GT-R to Sacrament Raceway this weekend and ran it down the 1/4 mile. We don't have all of the timeslip details, but the video shows it running a 11.807 @ 118.62 MPH. Without the 60′ time we can't really tell how well it launched, but the video shows a bit of spinning and hopping before it really took off. The 118 MPH trap speed is quite a bit less than the 124 MPH the "Magazines" are reporting for the GT-R (about 60HP worth). Since Sacramento is around sea level we would guess the DA was decent for this uncorrected real world GT-R run. Given the GT-R's weight, power (dyno results) and AWD, 118 MPH does seem to be inline with what we would expect. Of course 124 MPH traps would be fantastic, but in the end everyone knows these GT-R's will have a huge aftermarket scene around them and they'll be boosted and modded to scream down any track. How long will it be before we see the first GT-R in the 10's? Hopefully not long!
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An 82-year-old Newton man who was reported missing Wednesday morning was found later at a gas station along Interstate Highway 94 between Madison and Milwaukee, Wis., unharmed.
The Newton Police Department issued a missing person report for Junior Fowble through the Iowa Missing Person Information Clearinghouse website maintained by the Department of Public Safety after he failed to arrive at a Skiffs Medical Center, where his wife had been transported by ambulance. According to the Newton Police Department the wife's condition at press time was not serious.
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Media reports out of Wisconsin indicated Fowble had been spotted in the Janesville and Madison areas earlier in the day. Television station WMTV reported he was spotted in Madison at 8:11 a.m. Wednesday after he had run out of gas.
The Janesville Gazette also reported he was seen at a Janesville convenience store, approximately 40 miles south of Madison. The newspaper reported Fowble was captured on surveillance camera pulling into the gas station parking lot and stopping near the fuel pumps for a few moments before walking into the store and leaving a few minutes later.
At approximately 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, the missing person alert was canceled when Fowble was found at another gas station in Johnson Creek, a town approximately 35 miles east of Madison along Interstate 94. At press time, his family in Newton were making arrangements to bring him back here.
Lt. Bill Henninger of the Newton Police Department made this official statement:
"We're just glad that he was found," Henninger said. "With it being so cold up there, like it is here and the situation with running out of gas and being somewhere he is unfamiliar with we are glad that this had a good ending for him and his family."
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So much hype about Jack McClellan... it's hard to keep up with it all, but thankfully- I have a short cut- I just run by girlchat and see what all the pedophiles are complaining about and whining over. Today, there was a new (okay, ALMOST new) player in the game... although he's been a figure in the last few months of the "Jack Saga".
It's like a bad soap opera that the network just won't cancel.
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To: GC - From: Anthony Zinnanti
Posted by BB on Friday, August 31 2007 at 01:04:33pm
Tony Zinnanti sent the follow to the moderators address. While we are normally not a messenger service, I feel that he brings up points that deserve to be posted and refuted here.
Also, this will be the last such posting on his behalf. I have suggested that he register a nick and post here directly since he seems to have so much to say to our community. He's responded that he will register later today.
This e-mail is posted with his consent.Hiya -
How come no one over there ever asked to see the pleadings and orders in the Jack McClellan case? There's a lot of talk and zero questioning as to what really went on. Do you folks believe everything you see in the media? Did you know that I was just fucking with you when I said on CNN that we "thoroughly infiltrated" your blogs and chat rooms. I looked at GC once before saying that.
Let that be a lesson. I was seeing if you would react.
The other irony is that I never even requested that Jack be kept away from kids. It was mentioned in passing, but my proposed order stated that he should be restrained from going to events where the purpose of attendance was surreptitiously taking photos of minors and publishing such photos under the guise of pedophilia. Basically, it was a false light (defamation) and public disclosure of private facts (invasion of privacy) argument.
Also, I have to tell you that I'm disappointed. I corresponded with Lindsay Ashford. Further, I read a thread now and then (just to see if anyone's out to rape the kid - which was stated on another board). She understands the media game. So, she's not bugged by the personal slights, etc. It's the bug on the windshield.
Where the serious dialogue about pedophilia and trans-generational sexual contact? Here, for example, is an interesting and benchmark paper on the issue: http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/nelson.htm . There is a swath of social and cultural practices well outside of the very artifically imposed age of consent laws that are practiced throughout the world. Why does the board devolve into bitchy snipes rather than some serious conversation? And, this is the so called open minded crowd.
All I get are "statistically" this or "statistically" that.
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What a fucken hoot. I caught so much shit from the soccer moms when I went to bat for Jack after the Steve Wilkos taping. They lynch a mentally ill guy on stage. What a horrible fucken thing to do with a human being. But, Jack doesn't help himself. He keeps blabbing to the media and finally implicates himself in this murder case. While a lot of his behavior can be explained by virtue of his mental illness, he is an enigma. He has moments of brilliance. He is tenacious. He is engaging and brutally honest and I think he found some form of society in this crowd. On the other hand, it appears that a lot of people here could give a fuck about Jack McClellan as he is the dance boy for the crowd.
Most people - here and in the general public - have no idea of what happened over the last month. It's very ironic that the very crowd that is so critical of mainstream media is so readily accepting of it as the gospel truth.
Start asking questions and stop giving speeches. Those with little more than bitchy snipes are . . . the bug on the windshield. You're a snotty mess, but you'll never impact the landscape.
The GL crowd had a golden opportunity to present its point of view. People were listening. What happens? You attack a kid. What a cluster fuck.
Many of our laws are ridiculous. For example, in terms of art - what gets put into a photograph is illegal; but if it a rendition in paint, charcoal, pen, etc. it's okay. So, the media of expression protects the child? What kind of crap is that? Further, who is to judge what is art and whose art is worthwhile? No one. Accordingly, the benchmark for legality should be set at the place of harm to the child.
Further, many age of consent laws are a disaster waiting to happen (many of which have unfortunately occurred). While the age of consent is probably low for most to tolerate, the Canadian scheme of age of consent is more realistic than California's draconian age of 18 years. Ironically, in California, in a divorce case, a child can express their preference for which parent to live with if they are "of such age and maturity" to do so. "Such age and maturity" can be four, six, nine or 17. It depends on the kid. Conversely, an 18 year old having sex with a 17 year old subjects that 18 year old to potential serious criminal consequences.
By not engaging in the dialogue, you are solidifying the very antiquated, stodgy, unrealistic and cold Victorian ethic you seek to combat. There are tremendous cultural and legal questions that need to be addressed in this arena. Pedophilia has been a theme in civilization since there was civilization. Don't you think it warrants lucid dialogue?
Well, carry on. If there was some serious discussion going on, I would join the party. But, we'll have to see.
The mainstay of my practice is criminal defense. Try and imagine the issues and personalities I deal with on a daily basis. Bianca has been there for much of it. So, a little taste of the real world hardly hurts.
Okay - bitchy snipes or something of substance? Ball is in your court . . .
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There you have it. Hopefully he will be on later today to respond to your criticisms (as I'm sure there are many). Note that I have removed only one paragraph from this e-mail and that's because it dove into personal aspects of Jack's life that he has not chosen to share publicly with this community.
I can't even start to respond to that.
So, moving on. Yesterday I was sicken to read a article by Judy McGuire of the Seattle Weekly. To be perfectly honest- someone should have found this woman MONTHS ago. She keeps a DateGirl column in the paper... although to be frank, I've only read two of her pieces, one yesterday and then another today.
from yesterday:
But about three years ago, I received a letter from a pedophile. This guy had written me many times before, mostly droning on about his hooker habit (he even had a Web site devoted to his hobby). His letters were super-creepy, and the intense, psychotic loathing he professed for the sex workers he regularly hired was so palpable, I wondered if he was a serial killer. But this particular letter was different. This time he told me he'd given up on banging pros and, instead, found himself increasingly drawn to little girls. Gulp.
He wrote, "I don't watch much adult TV anymore because I'm checking out the girls on Nick, Disney, etc. I don't consider myself a pedophile and believe that forcing my man-size penis into a girl-size vagina is an abusive and violent act. However, I see nothing wrong with loving, nurturing touch, like cuddling, kissing, massages, and stroking hair."
At the time, poor Judy didn't know who it was behind the signature "Uncircumcised"... other than someone who seemed to be annoyed that she failed to print previous letters he'd written her, and that he was clearly- sick. Now, years later- she is keenly aware of the fact that her letter writer was our "Pedophile Blogger" that's been in the news so very much.
Her piece yesterday mentioned that she finally did publish a letter from the anonymous writer... and I just couldn't help but try to find it.
Today, I did- I'll Be Taking a Bleach Shower Now, Thanks!.
Read the entire thing if you can take it, but here's a little preview of what he wrote:
I think I've always had this predilection but believe that my psychedelic drug use over the years has helped to liberate it from my subconscious.
Let's blame the drugs... it's always better to blame the drugs.
I'm afraid it might eventually progress beyond that—into Jacko-style sleepovers, showers, full-nude body contact, cunnilingus, etc.
So, even Jack has the same fears that the rest of us do- or at least at one time he did. Whether those fears have slipped away (I'm sure he'd blame drugs for that too) or they've become less of a fear, and more of a hope- we can't really tell. But, it does give us even more insight into the fact that Jack has long been sliding down a dangerous path... and at the end of it is an innocent child who will become his victim.
On a "wow what a odd turn of events" update, I thought I would tell ya'll that Anthony Zinnanti has started posting at GirlChat. At this point, it seems his posts (not emails posted on there, but actual log in a post type stuff) is mostly focused on kissing ass. Here' a few of the finer comments he has made:
I completely agree that there is no harm from a pedophile admiring a child in a public venue. But, that's hardly what the case was/is about. The primary requested order of restraint was to restrain Jack from attending venues where the primary activity is children's services or entertainment where the attendance was for the purpose of surreptitiously taking photos of minors and publishing them under the guise of pedophilia. ENTIRE POST
Here's the unseen point - a lot of people were seriously angry with the authorities. This presented a dangerous situation. People here were talking about killing Jack. The issue with the authorities arises from an "us versus them" approach. The people here in Santa Clarita were very frustrated and the place - being the breeding factory that it is - has a jillion kids running around. So, when Jack stated that he would come back here, it created a real mob mentality.
I didn't harbor any ill feelings toward Jack until the UCLA incident. Even then, it was more of a nuisance than any kind of anger. However, when the possible - and I stress "possible" - connection to Adre'anna Jackson's murder was made, I went through the roof. It didn't look good for Jack because of all the things that were being said - by him. Post Here.
I think this subject is tremendously important. To bury it would be wrong. I know that a lot of people that supported me through the Jack case will now reverse their position. Frankly, I really don't care. I'm not running for office, nor do I ever intend to.
This issue exists on a great spectrum of beliefs and cultural practices. It's unfortunate that even the prospect of dialogue give rise to a witch hunt. Here
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If I use the plug/cord from an older 10W power adapter with this 12W adapter, will it still charge at 12W? They do fit (same connection).
I want to use the cord from the 10W adapter I had with my iPad 3 with the new 12W adapter I got with my iPad 4. I assume all the electronics that make it 12W are in the main body of the power adapter, not in the small section that slides onto it. The main parts of the adapters are the only parts that say anything about 10W or 12W. I noticed the little slide-on plug sections all say "2.5A 125V" regardless of when they were made, the one from my iPad 1 says the same thing as the one from my iPad 4. So I'm 99% sure I can connect the 12W adapter to an older cable or older plug and it won't make a difference and will still charge at 12W. I just want to have this confirmed.
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In short, yes. This is still a 110v/220v 50/60 Hz AC to 5.1v DC through a USB port. Old apple USB cables can be used on the USB end and old AC connectors and cables can be used on the AC end. It functions the same as the 10W adapter, just has slightly more powerful (and possibly more efficient) electronic components than the 10w adapter. BTW, most devices have charge limiting circuitry built-in to stop overcharging and only use the maximum safe amperage to charge no matter how much amperage is available. One could build a 40W USB charger that may not use more than 12W of power when connected to the new iPad. I have yet to determine the maximum amperage allowed in the charging circuit of apples devices. (They do send different voltages to the devices using the data pins in the USB port to determine the type of charger that is powering the device.)
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The whole Internet has been alive with news about this wonderful family. The accident happened while we were in Utah and I have not been up to date on this blog about the developments. If you haven't heard of any of this yet (or if you just want to cry big, fat, sloppy tears of happiness and gratitude) visit the blog of her sister at http://www.cjanerun.blogspot.com/ . This is where you will find everything there is to know about the amazing Neilson family. I first met Stephanie when she was only 10 or 11 years old. My best friend married her brother and for the last decade I have had the privilege of watching the Clark family in action. They were remarkable people before, but they are even more remarkable now. I am so proud of all of them as I watch them come together and embrace the needs and changes that are happening. I wish I could do more.
My auction is for this print. It is titled "Waiting". If you have followed Nie Nie's blog (or checked CJane's) you will know that it was a tradition in the Neilson family to let off balloons on special occasions with wishes written on them. Last Saturday, friends and family across the world did this in honor of them. When I saw this print at Sara Jane Studios Etsy shop, I knew that I wanted to get it. Not only does this young girl look like she could BE Stephanie (retro dress and all) but she has the balloon and is looking into the future. It seems very fitting for this auction. I have been a HUGE fan of Sara Jane for a long time and own several of her prints. She is also having a sale at her Etsy shop, so check her out at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5317715 . The following is the description of the item:
--This illustration was drawn with pencil on paper, then digitally colored.
--My undying gratitude, manifested by my never asking you to babysit my kids.
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"Oops!" followed by a thud
Saturday afternoon, I came home from work - ten hours of overtime - and I was very tired. Mary had been cooped up in the house for a couple of days and she wanted to get out. I can't hold that against her. So I took her shopping.
We left the house and I put my Canon Canonet in her lap. When we pulled up in front of that famous French store, Target, she'd forgotten about the camera and simply got out of the car. That was the "Oops!" on my part. She just said, "What was that?"
Nothing was obviously broken. Not even a dent or a scratch. But when I looked through the view finder, the f-stop scale was missing.
The meter movement is in the center of the above photo with the f-stop scale re-glued in place. I was lucky. The scale was rattling about in the top cover. It didn't slip down inside the camera body.
Internally, the Canon is more densely packed than the Yashica Electro. Maybe that's why I like the Electro more for now. It's just easier to find things.
The viewfinder is loose too, but it's been loose since I bought it. I have to tack the cover back down atop the rangefinder mechanism - those diagonal mirrors over on the left side - so I need a suitable adhesive for that. I used a super glue gel on the f-stop scale, but I want something with less bond strength for the rangefinder cover in case I have to remove it again.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. –The Lipscomb women's tennis team dropped its fourth Atlantic Sun Conference match on Saturday when it fell 6-1 to USC Upstate at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center.
"The doubles point continues to be a pivotal point in all of our matches," head coach Andrew Harris said. "Coming through and executing in those critical moments must continue to be a focus for us moving forward. If we can keep working at that and establishing ourselves and our identity, it will take tremendous pressure off ourselves in the singles. We will continue to get ready and focus on the doubles moving forward."
The Lady Bison recorded a win in only one of its three doubles matches, giving the Spartans an early 1-0 lead.
Freshmen Deahna Welcher and Jenny Borck came out on top at No. 1, when they defeated Talia Rojas and Isabel von Stryk 8-6.
Unfortunately, the Lady Bison were unable pull out the remaining two doubles matches.
Seniors Danielle Hansen and Elizabeth Keevil fell at No. 2 to Julie Bell and Hannah Al-Sakati 9-7, while senior Samantha Bowman and sophomore Alyssa Bellini were defeated 9-8 (3) at No. 3 by Maria Tonani and Ana-Sofia Camberos.
With a 1-0 deficit, the Lady Bison entered singles play, but were only able to pick up one win.
The lone win came at No. 2, where Welcher was able to defeat Bell after losing the first set 2-6. Welcher came back to win it 2-6, 6-2, (10-8).
At No. 1, Bellini fell to von Storyk 6-3, 6-2, while Bork was defeated 6-3, 6-3 by Rojas at No. 3.
Keevil lost 6-3, 6-1 at No. 4 to Al-Sakati, and Hansen fell to Chamberos by the same score at No. 5. Bowman also fell 6-3, 6-1 to Tonani at No. 6.
The loss drops the Lady Bison's A-Sun record to 1-3.
The women will return to action on Wednesday when they head to Murfreesboroto face Middle Tennessee at 2 p.m.
1) Welcher/Borck vs. Rojas/Von Stryk LU Won 8-6
2) Hansen/Keevil vs. J. Bell/H Al-Sakati USC Won 9-7
3) Bowman/Bellini vs. M. Tonani/S. Cambers USC Won 9-8 (3)
1) Alyssa Bellini vs. Von Stryk Upstate Won 6-3, 6-2
2) Deahna Welcher vs. Bell LU Won 2-6, 6-2, (8)
3) Jenny Borck vs. Rojas Upstate Won 6-3, 6-3
4) Elizabeth Keevil vs. Al-Sakati Upstate Won 6-3, 6-1
5) Danielle Hansen vs. Camberos Upstate Won 6-3, 6-1
6) Sam Bowman vs. Maria Tonani Upstate Won 6-3, 6-1


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Lecture on anxiety offered at library
Jordan Wildman and Nicola St. Mary will offer a free lecture on the mental-health aspects of anxiety, coping mechanisms, nutritional support and alternatives to medication from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.
St. Mary is a naturopathic practitioner in Durango who focuses on mental-health issues. Wildman has a private practice in Durango and focuses on all aspects of mental health.
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Work-site wellness program available
San Juan Basin Health Department is offering a work-site wellness program in La Plata and Archuleta counties.
The goal of the program is to reduce obesity and other cardiovascular disease risk factors among working adults. The program will provide employees with baseline health assessments, a wellness survey, and educational resources and support in adopting healthier lifestyle behaviors. Participating employers will pay a flat fee of $25 per employee.
For more information, call (970) 335-2044.
Free acupuncture to be held for veterans
The Durango Acupuncture Alliance, a group of independent, professionally licensed and nationally certified acupuncturists, will offer a donation-based veterans clinic from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Durango Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1550 Main Ave.
This free clinic will be open to veterans, active-duty military and their families.
For more information, visit www.durangoacupuncturealliance.org.
Chronic sinusitis topic of Thursday talk
Advanced Allergy Relief Center of the Southwest will present Resolving Chronic Sinusitis and Skin Conditions at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Program Room 2 of Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.
Caleb Gates, licensed acupuncturist, will discuss how symptoms from chronic sinusitis and skin conditions can be resolved with Advanced Allergy Therapeutics.
For more information, call 259-9488 or visit www.allergyreliefbeyondbelief.com.
Health department to offer last flu clinic
San Juan Basin Health Department will offer its final Wednesday Walk-in flu clinic from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at 281 Sawyer Drive in Bodo Industrial Park.
Flu shots or flu mist for children up to age 18 are $14.70. For adults, the cost is $25 for a flu shot or $40 for flu mist.
For more information, visit www.sjbhd.org.
Board of Health to meet Nov. 29, Dec. 20
The next two monthly Board of Health meetings will take place at 2 p.m. Nov. 29 and Dec. 20 in San Juan Basin Health Departments Columbine Conference Room, 281 Sawyer Drive.
The public is welcome.
Herald Staff


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UKA UKA Racing Stamp Their Authority On Europeans Fleet In Hyeres
26 August 2009
Hyeres, France – Lorenzo Santini's Italian crew aboard UKA UKA Racing showed their true mettle on day three of the 2009 Melges 24 European Championship in Hyeres; posting a near perfect 2,1 score to leapfrog into a commanding ten point lead at the top of the leaderboard. Rounding the first mark in the top five in the first race, they gained places on each of the five legs and by the final beat were snapping at the heels of leader Pilot Italia Hurricane steered by Alberto Bolzan. Race two saw UKA UKA Racing and Renato Valivero's Allin round the first mark simultaneously before engaging in a race long battle for the lead with helmsmen Lorenzo Bresanni and Pietro Sibello both pulling out all the stops in their effort to get the upper hand. Sibello looked to have seen off the challenge from Bressani when he rounded the top mark for the final time several boat lengths ahead, but Bressani came up with some special magic on the last run to squeeze into a fifty metre lead at the finish.
Overnight leaders Maurizio Abba's Alina had a nightmare start to their day when they were Z-flagged on the first attempt at starting the first race and then found themselves totally boxed in on the subsequent start. They bounced back well in race seven of the Championship, coming home in fifth place and maintaining their fervent hopes of challenging for the title by the end of the regatta. Nico Celon at the helm of Lanfranco Cirillo's Fantastica remains in third overall this evening courtesy of the discard system, which allows him to exclude his disappointing eleventh place in race six. A hard fought third in the final race of the day keeps him firmly in the overall hunt, just three points adrift of second. Flavio Favini, the reigning European Champion aboard Franco Rossini's Blu Moon, had a somewhat lacklustre day by his own high standards and whilst the team's 9,8 score sees them into fourth place they have a real points mountain to climb over the last two days. Local French hopes are now pinned on Maxime Paul aboard Big Ship, whose steady improvement over the regatta so far continued today with fifth and seventh moving him up to fifth overall.
UKA UKA Racing's Federico Michetti agreed that his crew had performed exceptionally today but denied that their fourteenth place yesterday had put on any undue pressure. 'We are very happy with the fourteenth because in fact we rounded the first mark in the thirties after a poor start so the recovery was a good one.' He gave testimony to just how good the competition and the racing had been today. 'We had to fight very hard to earn our results today and particularly in the last race the battle with Pietro Sibello was fantastic. Sailors like him make the standard very high at this regatta.' Whilst understandably delighted to be back on top at this point, with two days racing to go Federico says that UKA UKA Racing are far from complacent about their ten point lead. 'We know that we have good people chasing us and in particular Nicolo Bianchi on Alina is having a very good Championship. We are enjoying ourselves in Hyeres and will try to keep on doing so.'
In the Corinthian Division the overnight leaders Storm Capital Racing dealt themselves a double blow to their title hopes by picking up a Black Flag in race six and a twenty percent Z-Flag penalty in race seven. This disastrous day sees them fall to second place in the Corinthian standings. Corinthian boat of the day was Estonian Tonu Toniste's Lenny, who clocked up a pair of Corinthian bullets to move up the table to seventh overall. John Christian Eriksson's Aqua Racing had a solid day, turning in a second and a third which leaves them as top Corinthian tonight. By way of their pair of sixes today, Rudolf Houdek's Secret Men's Business take the final Corinthian podium position.
With three races left to sail in the 2009 Melges 24 European Championship and given that conditions in Hyeres are predicted to lighten tomorrow and Friday, there are no certainties for any of the teams currently topping the results. The nature of big fleet one design racing and Melges 24 competitions in particular, means that this regatta is still very much open and it looks to be building nicely to an exciting climax by the end of the week. There are three further races to sail in the ten race series which concludes on Friday.


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Funny thinking back to this time a year ago when I claimed red was the worst colour ever and I hated it and it was all things bad - but now look as I sob and weep for a cherry red lippie and a matching nail varnish.
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And if any of you have read The Unbearable Lightness of Being I would love to know your thoughts - It seems like a great read this summer!
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LSU women's basketball player Theresa Plaisance turned it up in a big win during Sunday's Southeastern Conference game against Vanderbilt.
LSU women's basketball player Theresa Plaisance turned it up in a big win during Sunday's Southeastern Conference game against Vanderbilt.
Plaisance, a former Vandebilt Catholic standout and junior forward with the Lady Tigers, scored 26 points and hit the go-ahead jumper in LSU's 54-51 win over the Lady Commodores. LSU rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit to win.
For her efforts, Plaisance was named the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Player of the Week.
Plaisance, who leads the Southeastern Conference in scoring (18.3 per game) and blocks (2.9 per game), scored 21 of her 26 points in the second half against Vanderbilt, adding seven rebounds, two blocks and a career high with 11 field goals. Against No. 18 South Carolina on Jan. 17, Plaisance scored a team-high 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds in a 66-59 loss.
LSU (12-7 overall, 3-3 in SEC) plays at Kentucky at 2 p.m. Sunday.
LSU men's basketball player Shavon Coleman, a former Thibodaux High product, helped the Tigers win their first SEC game of the season against Texas A&M on Wednesday in Baton Rouge.
Coleman, a junior forward, scored 17 points on 8-of-16 shooting to help lead LSU to a 58-54 win over Texas A&M.
Coleman entered Wednesday's game as LSU's leading scorer with 12.1 points per game. He also leads the team in rebounds (8.0) and second in blocks (1.2).
LSU (10-6, 1-4 in SEC) will play Kentucky at 3 p.m. Saturday in Lexington, Ky. The game will be televised on the SEC Network.
Arkansas-Monticello men's basketball player and junior guard Jamal Nixon, a former Ellender product, had 11 points, six steals and four assists in a 56-49 win over Arkansas Tech on Jan. 17.
The Boll Weevils (9-6 overall) will play Southern Arkansas University today.
Turtle Mountain Community College sophomore guard Joseph Thompson, a former South Terrebonne product, scored 23 points with five assists and rebounds each and three steals in a 83-75 loss to Jamestown College last week.
Thompson scored 18 points with three steals and five rebounds and assists each in a 83-63 win over United Tribes Technical College on Wednesday.
Turtle Mountain (5-5) will play its next game against Oak Hills Christian College on Friday.
McNeese State sophomore Alaina Verdin, a former Terrebonne High girls player, is continuing her comeback trail from two knee surgeries. Verdin is averaging nine points per game with 2.1 rebounds per game and 1.2 steals per game.
McNeese (8-9 overall, 3-3 in Southland Conference) plays at Central Arkansas at 5:30 tonight.
Louisiana-Lafayette freshman Jasmin Mills, a former Assumption standout, had six points and seven rebounds in a 72-36 loss to Middle Tennessee University on Jan. 19.
Mills scored four points in a 64-63 overtime loss to Florida International on Wednesday. The Lady Cajuns (7-12, 1-9 in Sun Belt) host North Texas at the Earl K. Long Gym on Jan. 30. The game will start at 7 p.m.
Spring Hill College freshman center/forward Leah Washington, a former Vandebilt standout, had two points and 10 rebounds in a 60-57 loss to Loyola University of New Orleans on Jan. 19. Two days later, Washington recorded eight points and rebounds each with three steals in a 76-54 win over Voorhees College. Spring Hill (9-11, 5-5 in Southern States Athletic Conference) plays Faulkner University at 2 p.m. Saturday.


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IT Getting Tough on March Madness Activity
While it's fun, the upcoming March Madness college hoops tournament clearly can disrupt your IT operations. In fact, four of ten IT pros say the resulting streaming downloads and other content demand will impact network traffic, according to previously reported research from Modis. Of those affected, 37 percent report their networks have slowed down, while 34 percent report the activity has essentially shut down their networks for a period of time. So as the tourney approaches this year, Modis has come up with new findings to reveal that CIOs and their IT staffers are, ahem, stepping up their game. In fact, a significant share plans to block March Madness-related videos and other content. And a great number of departments intend to monitor user activity. But taking the network concerns out of the equation, an entirely separate survey from OfficeTeam suggests that office enthusiasm for the games has no negative impact on overall employee productivity. So how's this sound, CIOs? Recognize that March Madness can serve as a manageable distraction–perhaps even a team-building opportunity– while calling for policies that won't burden your network and IT personnel. (For starters, encourage the use of office and lobby televisions for game breaks and scoring updates, as opposed to company-owned computers.) The following is a combination of the survey research from Modis, for which an estimated 500 IT pros took part, and the survey research from OfficeTeam, for which more than 1,000 senior managers participated.
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Charlottesville, VA 229020 MI
683 Thomas Jefferson Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 229020 MI
683 Thomas Jefferson Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 229020 MI
683 Thomas Jefferson Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 229020 MI
931 Jefferson Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 229020.52 MI


text: These travel and landscape photographs cover a wide range of time and space. California and Colorado steal most of the spotlight.I've always loved photography and presumably always will. The images on this page display the evolution of many things -- my surroundings, my skill set, the technology I have to work with, and my preferences regarding visual art. Any purchases are hugely appreciated, because the money helps support my family (my wife and two kids). Also, I'm long overdue for a camera upgrade, and if I can save up enough, I promise bigger and better photos!Thank you.