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Steven Iona Takes the Role of AAPT President
College Park, Maryland, United States, January 7, 2014—The American Association of Physics Teachers announced today that Steven Iona has assumed the role of AAPT President. Dr. Iona, Lecturer at the University of Denver, Department of Physics and Astronomy, will serve as President in 2014, and Past President in 2015.
Iona's extensive service to the association includes Chair of a Meetings Committee, Membership and Benefits Committee, and service on the High School Committee, Pre-High School Committee, Awards Committee and Nominating Committee. He has also served as a member of The Physics Teacher Advisory Board and as one of the first Physics Teacher Resource Agents (PTRA). His service on the AAPT Executive Board includes Chair of Section Representatives, Secretary, and Treasurer.
Over a thirty-year career as a K-12 teacher, Iona taught Physics, AP Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, mathematics, a G/T Research Class, and he served as the department chair. His professional experience after "retirement" includes Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Denver and Instructor for the Learning Assistant Seminar on Mathematics and Science Teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His previous higher education experience included adjunct work at Front Range Community College (Physics), Metropolitan State College of Denver (Science Methods), and service as a Teacher in Residence at Metropolitan State College of Denver and the University of Colorado (PhysTEC).
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A 90-year-old pilot has completed his birthday quest to fly 90 passes across the U.S.-Canadian border.
John Lawton of Seville, Ohio, went up in his Cessna 172 north of Buffalo on Tuesday and flew a series of figure eights over the Niagara River border, detouring for a few trips around nearby Niagara Falls, which straddles the U.S. and Canada.
Lawton had planned on making the crossings on his 90th birthday on Monday but got about 28 in before the attempt was curtailed by wind. Fellow pilot Claudia Childs, who helped in the planning, says Lawton finished the remaining crossings Tuesday in about 90 minutes.
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Unmarked State Police cruiser was damaged and a state trooper injured when hit by a Ford Expedition that lost control on a ramp from I-93 while supervising clean-up of an earlier accident.
- A state trooper was injured when his cruiser was struck by another vehicle while he was protecting an accident scene off Interstate 93 Saturday.
Sgt. Michael McQuade was taken by ambulance to Franklin Regional Hospital for treatment of what police termed non-life-threatening injuries, and was later released.
According to a press release, around noon on Saturday, McQuade was inside his Dodge Charger with its side and rear emergency lights activated, as a tow truck was removing a vehicle that had gone off the road on the Exit 20 off-ramp.
State police said Kim Gullage, 47, of Derry, was driving northbound on I-93 and was taking the off-ramp when she saw the police cruiser and applied her brakes.
Police said Gullage was "traveling too fast for the conditions," and lost control of her 2001 Ford Expedition on the snow-covered road.
Her vehicle struck the cruiser from behind, pushing it forward about 20 feet and causing "significant" damage, police said.
Gullage, who was not injured, was ticketed for negligent operation.
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Over the years, the residents of Fall River and the SouthCoast have strongly supported several ballot initiatives favoring the establishment of casino gaming within their city limits, and since the early 1980s we have been told that an Indian casino was the right choice and right around the corner.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is state Rep. Alan Silvia's prepared testimony delivered at a meeting of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission in Fall River on Thursday.
Over the years, the residents of Fall River and the SouthCoast have strongly supported several ballot initiatives favoring the establishment of casino gaming within their city limits, and since the early 1980s we have been told that an Indian casino was the right choice and right around the corner.
Therefore, it is incredibly disheartening and so incredibly unfair that while other regions of the commonwealth finally get to benefit from casino gaming, the one region pursuing it for 30 years has been pushed to the side and relegated to second-class status.
The people I represent in the city of Fall River or Region C, should not be disenfranchised and provided less opportunity than anyone else or any other region. When statewide legislation passes whereby citizens of the commonwealth are treated differently simply because of where they reside, it doesn't require a lot of basic reasoning skills to know it is bad policy.
The problem for everyone in our region, Region C, is that by the time the courts finally arrive at what is an obvious conclusion based on precedent, many years will pass, gaming facilities in other areas of the commonwealth will be well established and entrenched generating millions in tax revenue and creating thousands of jobs, Region C will still be told, "It's just around the corner."
As a new member of the Legislature, the people who elected me are good, hardworking people. The problem they have is no work. We need jobs. My district has the highest unemployment rate in the commonwealth. I know casino gaming is not going to be the answer to all our problems, but if you have a family, and you're on the unemployment line, with a limited skill set, where English may not be your primary language, a job, any job, anywhere is God sent.
Some of my colleagues are "skeptical" about casino gaming. The people struggling and out of work don't give a damn about political skepticism, nor do I. They want to work and it is our job, to create the economic conditions where they can find work. A commercial gaming license for Region C starts the process of creating the economic environment which creates jobs now.
At a time in the commonwealth where we are looking at cutting basic services to the truly needy and the governor is asking to raise taxes by $2 billion, why would anyone (in his or her right mind) suggest that taxing one group less than the 25 percent that which every other commercial gaming entity has to pay the commonwealth is OK? It is NOT; it is wrong and basic common sense tells us so. Why should the taxpayers of Region C, and frankly the entire commonwealth, financially subsidize and reward a multi-billion dollar Malaysian gaming company?
Moreover, the argument that you can't have two casinos; a commercial and someday a tribal in the same region is complete nonsense. The gaming customer will patronize the facility with the best value, entertainment and experience. Since when have the citizens of the Commonwealth become afraid of a little competition; maybe the folks north of Boston can't handle it, but here, we love competition, we're not afraid, bring it on.
Mr. Chairman and members of the commission, I respectfully ask you to please open Region C to a commercial gaming license process now and provide the people I represent, and the entire SouthCoast area, that which has been provided to the rest of the commonwealth: an equal process to pursue a commercial gaming license and provide jobs for our people.
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Road to the World Series: Oct. 9, 2013
For the first time in five years, there will be American League Championship Series baseball in Boston.
And for the second straight year, there will be an AL Division Series Game 5 between the Tigers and A's in Oakland.
For the first time in five years, there will be American League Championship Series baseball in Boston.
And for the second straight year, there will be an AL Division Series Game 5 between the Tigers and A's in Oakland.
Those were the takeaways on the Road to the World Series after another stunning day and night of October baseball on Tuesday.
The Red Sox beat the tough Tampa Bay Rays, 3-1, in Game 4 in St. Petersburg to close out that series, 3-1, and Boston will begin the ALCS on its home turf on Saturday.
And the Tigers fought off elimination, toughing out a grueling 8-6 victory over the A's in Game 4 that forced a Thursday finale in Oakland that will determine who shows up at Fenway Park to meet the Red Sox and play for the pennant, starting this Saturday on FOX.
Although it was the late game, Boston's win over Tampa Bay on Tuesday gets top billing because it ended with a champagne party.
See you in the #ALCS!!!! High Five Tunnel to Clubhouse https://t.co/131PgGjQ7X- Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) October 9, 2013
It might not have been easy for the Red Sox, but beating the Rays is never easy. Boston had Tampa Bay starter Jeremy Hellickson on the ropes early and manager Joe Maddon didn't hesitate to pull his starter in the second inning of a scoreless game.
That set the tone for Tampa Bay's revolving door of pitching changes (Maddon used nine pitchers in all), a strategy that worked until the Red Sox, trailing, 1-0, in the seventh, scored two runs to take the lead, adding an insurance run in the ninth to end it.
Now, they're going back home for a chance to get back into the World Series for the first time since 2007.
"This team loves playing at Fenway, and love the atmosphere that's created there," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "To maintain some momentum and fight back the way we did when not much was happening or breaks weren't coming our way, tonight was a big night for obvious reasons."
The Tigers and A's battled in a five-game Division Series last year, which concluded in Oakland with Justin Verlander beating the A's to move on.
After Tuesday, it'll be the same situation, the same setting and the same Detroit starter.
Detroit made sure of it in Game 4, beating Oakland in a wild, entertaining, seesaw of a baseball game that offered plenty of offense and even more intrigue.
SEE YOU IN OAKLAND! #WeBelieveDET- Detroit Tigers (@tigers) October 9, 2013
The A's forged a 3-0 lead, but Jhonny Peralta tied the game with one swing -- a three-run home run off A's starter Dan Straily. The A's took a 4-3 lead in the top of the seventh, but the Tigers came right back and regained the advantage for good when Victor Martinez homered off Oakland reliever Sean Doolittle to tie it and Austin Jackson singled in a run later in the inning.
The Tigers broke it open with three more runs in the eighth to go up, 8-4. The A's scored twice in the ninth, but Detroit closer Joaquin Benoit sealed the victory.
Manager Bob Melvin was asked in the aftermath if the A's had felt comfortable with the three-run lead. He said no. Not a chance.
"Look, they have a good offensive club," Melvin said. "You've got to finish it out for nine innings. Just because we had the lead doesn't mean you're going to win the game."
As for the Tigers, they knew the task at hand and will now hand the ball to Verlander on Thursday. It's a spot they were in last year and a spot they find themselves in once again.
"We just do it like we have been doing it all season long," Martinez said. "We end up winning a pretty good ballgame and it's over, turn the page.
"We go to Oakland now and play another game. We all know it's a tough place to play, but like I say, we have been doing a great job all season long just turning the page and go to the next day and play a brand new ballgame, and see what happens."
The Road to the World Series will continue for one team and end for the other on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on TBS, when there's only one game to be played.
Then again, what a game it's shaping up to be.
Game 5 of the NL Division Series between the evenly matched Pirates and Cardinals will be the 24th game in which these two teams have faced each other since Opening Day, including the four in this incredible series. The Pirates have won 12 and the Cardinals have won 11. The Cardinals have scored 102 runs in those games, the Pirates 99.
"We respect the talent that they have ... how they fight until the end, just like it's the kind of baseball we want to play," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.
"But with that being said, it comes down to going out and competing regardless of who we're playing against and whether there's good history, bad history. It doesn't matter. We're going out to win every single night. And the fact that it is another NL Central team, we've seen a lot of each other. There's a lot of adjustments to try and make, and it's who's going to be one step ahead and who's going to execute. That's what it comes down to."
And for any advantage observers might give to St. Louis on Wednesday because of home-field advantage and ace Adam Wainwright on the mound for the Cardinals, the Pirates like where they are. They've considered themselves underdogs all year long, and now they have rookie Gerrit Cole, their best starting pitcher of late, taking the hill for the deciding game.
"What we have seen since Gerrit has been here has been a young man that continues to improve," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "He uses his eyes very well and he uses his ears very well. The competitive edge that he takes on the mound is visible. The emotion that he pitches with, I think you've been able to see over the course of time. That's special and that can be significant.
"The flat-out skill set, the no fear. He respects everything. He fears nothing. The volume of work has put him into place to have success tomorrow night ... that's my feeling."
The Cardinals have similar feelings about Wainwright, who has been on World Series-winning teams as a starter and closer and got the ball in Game 5 of the Division Series last year against the Nationals. Wainwright wasn't at his best in that outing and was in a position to take the loss when his team uncorked a furious, improbable rally to win the series.
Wainwright said he learned valuable lessons from that outing.
"I persevered through some hard times, and the fact of the matter is last year, I pitched a good Game 1 [of the Division Series], terrible Game 5 [of the Division Series] and a good Game 4 of the NLCS, but there's no guarantee my stuff would have returned in the World Series had we even got there," Wainwright said.
"This year, I have all the confidence in the world in my stuff. I will be prepared. I will be confident going into the game. It's just a completely different situation."
Wednesday's Division Series game
Pirates (Cole) at Cardinals (Wainwright), 8 p.m. ETPreview >
Division Series: Red Sox beat Rays, 3-1 | Tigers at A's
Division Series: Pirates at Cardinals | Dodgers beat Braves, 3-1
2013 postseason schedule
NL Division Series
Game 1: Cardinals 9, Pirates 1
Game 2: Pirates 7, Cardinals 1
Game 3: Pirates 5, Cardinals 3
Game 4: Cardinals 2, Pirates 1, Series tied, 2-2
Game 5: Pirates at Cardinals, Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET (TBS)
Game 1: Dodgers 6, Braves 1
Game 2: Braves 4, Dodgers 3
Game 3: Dodgers 13, Braves 6
Game 4: Dodgers 4, Braves 3, Dodgers win series, 3-1
AL Division Series
Game 1: Red Sox 12, Rays 2
Game 2: Red Sox 7, Rays 4
Game 3: Rays 5, Red Sox 4
Game 4: Red Sox 3, Rays 1, Red Sox win series, 3-1
Game 1: Tigers 3, A's 2
Game 2: A's 1, Tigers 0
Game 3: A's 6, Tigers 3
Game 4: Tigers 8, A's 6, Series tied, 2-2
Game 5: Tigers at A's, Thursday, 8 p.m. ET (TBS)
NL Championship Series (All games on TBS)
Game 1: Lower seed at Higher seed, Friday, TBD
Game 2: Lower seed at Higher seed, Saturday, TBD
Game 3: Higher seed at Lower seed, Monday, Oct. 14, TBD
Game 4: Higher seed at Lower seed, Tuesday, Oct. 15, TBD
Game 5*: Higher seed at Lower seed, Wednesday, Oct. 16, TBD
Game 6*: Lower seed at Higher seed, Friday, Oct. 18, TBD
Game 7*: Lower seed at Higher seed, Saturday, Oct. 19, TBD
* - if necessary
AL Championship Series (All games on FOX)
Game 1: Tigers/A's winner at Red Sox, Saturday, TBD
Game 2: Tigers/A's winner at Red Sox, Sunday, TBD
Game 3: Red Sox at Tigers/A's winner, Tuesday, Oct. 15, TBD
Game 4: Red Sox at Tigers/A's winner, Wednesday, Oct. 16, TBD
Game 5*: Red Sox at Tigers/A's winner, Thursday, Oct. 17, TBD
Game 6*: Tigers/A's winner at Red Sox, Saturday, Oct. 19, TBD
Game 7*: Tigers/A's winner at Red Sox, Sunday, Oct. 20, TBD
* - if necessary
World Series begins: Oct. 23.
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB.


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Budget raiders: Why do we keep trusting politicians?
March 27. 2013 5:46PM
Can you trust Concord politicians with your money? How about Washington politicians?
OK, stop laughing and consider this story in the context of the above questions.
In the state budget, a "dedicated fund" is a reserve account financed directly by a special tax or fee. The best-known example is the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP), which since 2008 has been financed be a $25 "fee" on real estate transactions. When this fee was approved in 2007, legislators swore that it would be used exclusively to fund LCHIP.
Naturally, the LCHIP fund has been raided regularly ever since. The state began collecting the fee on Jan. 1, 2008. That November, Gov. John Lynch ordered LCHIP to give $3 million to the general fund. Over the years, legislators of both parties have confiscated LCHIP funds repeatedly.
Gov. Maggie Hassan's proposed budget builds on that precedent. She claims the authority to confiscate all not-yet spent dedicated funds. This week the Democratic majority on the House Finance Committee assented to this grab of both money and legislative power.
The politicians undertaking this grand switcheroo are the very same ones who assured the people of New Hampshire just last week that politicians should be trusted to keep their promises. The House voted last week to expand Medicaid eligibility, which will cost New Hampshire taxpayers millions and will cost tens of millions more if Washington does not keep its promise to fund almost all of the costs.
The House went with the Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee's assurance that the promised federal money will come because "Medicaid expansion and its federal financing/matching rate are enshrined in federal law."
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Pick your own oranges this Saturday and you'll also be helping the family of a 3-year-old boy who is fighting leukemia.
Pick your own oranges this Saturday and you'll also be helping the family of a 3-year-old boy who is fighting leukemia.
The fundraiser is being organized by Scott Conley, who inherited an orange grove from his grandfather, Marion Roche, a former citrus producer and educator in Marion County.
A graduate of Forest High School and the University of Florida, Conley is coming to Ocala from his current home in Bowling Green, Ky., this weekend to host the fundraiser for Kaedyn Ballew, who was diagnosed with infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia two years ago.
Kaeydn responded well to blood transfusions and chemotherapy, and his illness had been in remission. However, he relapsed recently and will need a bone marrow transplant within the next couple of months, his mother, Shelsie, said.
"He finished treatment in August. He was doing so well, you would never have known he was sick in the first place," Shelsie Ballew said. "He started bruising in December, and two weeks later it turned into full-blown leukemia."
Conley, 40, knows the Ballew family from having attended the same church, Central Church of Christ. He said he lost his mother to cancer two months before his grandfather died in 2010 and can identify with people who struggle with aggressive diseases.
"Kaedyn comes from a really super family, and I just want to help," Conley said. "I used to mow his grandmother's yard when I was in high school. Kaedyn's grandmother battled cancer last year. It's just an awful thing. It's a hard thing for a family member to go through. I just want to support them any way I can."
Conley has about 1,800 fruit-bearing trees on his property. Most of the crop consists of Hamlin oranges, a cold-hardy variety that can be juiced or peeled and eaten.
During Saturday's orange-picking event, for liability reasons, people will be asked to gather oranges from low-hanging branches or off the ground. Conley said 100 percent of the sales will go to the Ballew family.
Also, T-shirts that read "Pickin' for Kaedyn," will be available for $10. Conley hopes to raise at least $1,000.
Although the family has some insurance, Shelsie Ballew said the fundraiser will help with extra financial pressures. Her husband, Nic, is an electrician at Stevens Electric & Mechanical in Ocala and drives regularly to Gainesville while his son is at Shands.
Meanwhile, Shelsie stays by Kaedyn's side, at night climbing into her son's crib and cuddling him in her arms.
Thinking back to Kaedyn's original diagnosis two years ago, Shelsie said it was difficult to accept at first.
"Of course I was scared, but I just kind of pushed that to the back of my mind. I thought he would be OK and be a survivor," she said. "It's been a tough road. You try to focus on the positive and how well he's doing."
Kaedyn's recent relapse struck the family hard.
"I was definitely devastated the first time, but this time is so much worse," she said. "I cry every day. There's nothing worse than having a child that's ill."
After this weekend's orange picking fundraiser, Conley plans to get his grandfather's citrus business going again.
"One of my goals is to get it up to the production it was 10 years ago," he said. "My grandfather had a knee replacement and just couldn't continue to go out there like he was. He had a little fruit stand there. As an educator, he would sell to other educators in the county. They would come to the back door of his house."
Conley is in the process of building a country store on U.S. 441 near the orange grove. His uncle, Jim Conley, and his brother-in-law, Joey Whitaker, will manage it. Conley expects to open for business in about a month.


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Editor's note: This is one in a series of editorial board meetings with candidates in major races in the November general election.
DOVER — Executive Council candidate Bill Duncan said he would take a less partisan approach to serving on the council than his opponent, Republican incumbent Chris Sununu, during a meeting with the editorial board of Foster's Daily Democrat on Tuesday.
Duncan, a retired software entrepreneur from New Castle, is challenging Sununu for the District 3 seat this fall. District 3 encompasses most Rockingham County communities and one Hillsborough County town, Pelham.
Duncan said he doesn't believe council votes ought to be ideologically driven, and instead, the council ought to carry out state mandates. As an example, Duncan said Sununu was wrong for helping to vote down a study regarding railroad options in the state's central corridor.
"The closer I looked, the more problematic that kind of partisanship seemed to be to me," Duncan said. "It seems to me that (the Executive Council is) a nonpartisan, common sense straightforward kind of place, and when you deny people in southern New Hampshire the opportunity to study the possibility of passenger rail when they've worked on it for years, they've given up a lot, business have contributed money ... it seems to be a partisan political kind of statement."
As another example, Duncan said he opposes proposals to convert federal health care programs into block grant-style offerings, but if the New Hampshire Legislature and governor mandate a block grant approach, he will not oppose contracts supporting block grant programs, as long as they are fiscally sound.
Duncan said the "bass drum beat" of being on the Executive Council is to scrutinize contracts for cost-effectiveness, bidding legitimacy and reliability of the contractor. He said he rejects Sununu's "frame of reference," which he characterized as a willingness to impose policy views to avoid being a "rubber stamp" for the Legislature.
"The difference I'm trying to draw, clearly, is that if I disagreed with a policy that the Legislature had passed, I would not use my role on the council to override the Legislature's mandate."
Before entering the world of software development, Duncan served in the armed forces. He graduated from the naval academy in 1965, and spent time on ships and as a political warfare adviser in Vietnam for a year. He went on to found businesses in California and Kentucky, where he started an economic development organization, and later relocated to New Hampshire with his wife and children.
Duncan said he founded the company Newmarket Software Systems with a friend and helped to grow the business into a large employer. He also founded a company called Daylight Software, which operated in locations in Durham, Dover and Portsmouth before being sold off in 2005.
Duncan founded the advocacy group Defending New Hampshire Public Education in 2011. According to Duncan, the group's aim has been to "limit the impact of the large number of anti-public education bills in the Legislature."
Some of Duncan's most strident advocacy has been centered on legislation that would create a new education tax credit in the state. Duncan and other opponents say the tax credit is a backdoor attempt to create an education voucher system, which could sap funding for public schools.
The tax credit was passed by the House and Senate, but vetoed by Democratic Gov. John Lynch. Lawmakers voted to override the governor's veto.
Asked to discuss appointments to state government and the judiciary, which are vetted by the Executive Council, Duncan said he takes issue with some of Sununu's votes against appointees nominated by Gov. John Lynch.
The council rejected the reappointment last year of New Hampshire Consumer Advocate Meredith Hatfield on a 3-2 vote. Explaining his vote to the Concord Monitor, Sununu indicated Hatfield has a "very liberal" viewpoint.
Duncan said he wouldn't oppose appointees of a Republican governor whose viewpoints fall on the far right side of the political spectrum, as long as those candidates prove they are qualified and "prepared to serve the people of the state.""I do believe that what I'm looking for is non-partisan, common sense, business-oriented management of the council," he said. "In that respect, I would say that I do not put myself forward as the Democratic alternative to a Republican councilor."
Among the District 3 communities are Epping, Exeter, Greenland, Hampton, Hampton Falls, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Portsmouth, Rye, Seabrook and Stratham.
Duncan: Executive Council no place for partisanship
Editor's note: This is one in a series of editorial board meetings with candidates in major races in the November general election.


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British-born photographer Thaddeus Holownia predominantly works with large-format cameras, producing black-and-white and color images of the natural world—meditations on time, atmospheric changes, and human intrusions into the environment. For his series "24 Tree Studies for Henry David Thoreau", Holownia visited Walden Pond in all seasons over the course of two years—echoing Thoreau's time spent in the area—and produced an intimate portrait of the forest through studies of trees. For Anatomy Lesson—Moose (2006), Holownia constructed a wall of individual bones and bone fragments from a moose skeleton he found while walking in the Newfoundland wilderness. The artist's careful organization and study of the creature's anatomy constitutes a sort of memorial to its prior existence. His photographic series of an artificial pond near his home in "New Brunswick, Jolicure Pond", 1994-2004, documents the interaction between unnatural and natural elements of a landscape
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San Jose Earthquakes club partner Tottenham Hotspur has sent another promising prospect across the pond, the Mercury News confirmed Tuesday.
John Bostock, the youngest player in Spurs' club history and a former English U-17 captain, arrived in camp with the Earthquakes over the weekend. The 21-year-old attacking midfielder began his Spurs career at 16 years, 295 days, entering as a substitute in a UEFA Cup group match against Dinamo Zagreb at White Hart Lane on Nov. 6, 2008. He has since spent time with Brentford, Hull City and Swindon Town on loans.
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Dawkins tallied 14 goals and three assists in 53 appearances during his time in San Jose. After helping the Earthquakes to the club's second Supporters' Shield trophy, he joined Aston Villa on loan for the remainder of the 2012-13 English Premier League season, making his first appearance on Sunday in a 2-1 Villa win.
Reclamation projects have become a specialty for the Earthquakes in recent years.
Reigning Volkswagen MLS Most Valuable player Chris Wondolowski has flourished under head coach Frank Yallop, leading the league in goals for three-consecutive years after finding the net just seven times in his first five professional seasons. Thirty-one-year-old forward Alan Gordon posted career highs with 13 goals and seven assists in 2012 and earned his first cap with the U.S. Men's National Team. The list of success stories goes on.
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FREEPORT — It was 1973 when Ron Fry and Terry Werntz first met.
Werntz, an art teacher at Freeport High School, was also a football coach at Dakota High School. Fry was one of his players.
This is where Fry first learned of Werntz's artistic talents. He secretly tucked away the notion that the two would someday collaborate on a children's book. Fry would be the author. Werntz the illustrator.
Fry went on to college, eventually becoming an airline pilot. Their paths rarely crossed, but Fry held onto his dream to write. In addition to teaching, Werntz become a published author of a children's book called "Grace the Church Mouse," which he wrote and illustrated in 2010. He hoped his book venture would lead to future collaborations with other authors.
By 2008, Fry began working on his first children's book. It would have a Christian theme, aimed at atheists, with the hope to offer a challenge to their beliefs. Fry consulted with book publishers, looking for an illustrator. Werntz was the name given to Fry. After more than 30 years, fate brought the two talents together.
"I was excited to learn it was Ron. Our collaboration began two years ago. Today, we have our first book," Werntz said.
"The Good King" was published this year. Last month, Fry received his first box of books from his publisher. The book is now available locally at Book World and the Freeport/Stephenson County Convention & Visitors Bureau. You can also order the book through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
"From the get go, I wanted to tell a story to honor God and challenge atheists to reconsider a lack of belief in God," Fry said.
Once Werntz was given the story by Fry, he painted the illustrations by oil. To create the main character's look, a pirate, Werntz used his grandson, Domminick Alber, 10, as his model.
"I'd read some of the script and did some sketches. I'd then photograph them and send them to Ron," Werntz said. "I always tried to get his approval, but he gave me the freedom."
"I'd look at the sketches and was worried the story was not worthy of his art," Fry replied.
Now the two men are ready to release the book to the public. Fry is also working on a second and third books. He is just waiting for his illustrator to catch up.
"It's very meaningful to see my first book in print. We got it right," Fry said. "I have more stories. I don't want to be one and done."
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New Series Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the NGSQ
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The recent revelations of how government agencies track cell phone records and e-mail exchanges has set off a firestorm of how much surveillance is justified, but when it comes to parents snooping on their kids' Internet activities, experts say there is no limit.
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According to Neil Rubenking, lead security analyst for PC Magazine, many parents have started engaging in government-style surveillance of their kids, with and without their child's knowledge, over safety concerns. He says the monitoring tends to start when children get their first smartphone or Facebook account and that the trend leans towards more at-risk kids.
"It's always been, 'If you feel you have to do it,'" Rubenking says. "What parents are really concerned about is their kids' social media—that they are being bullied or bullying."
The amount of monitoring varies, with some parents only reviewing emails and online interactions, and others tracking every call, text message and even their kid's location.
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Monitoring technology continues to evolve to help parents keep a watchful eye on their kids. For example, Social Shield flags posts, photos and friends that might cause issues for kids and lets parents monitor their children on social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
"It sends you alerts if it detects risky-sounding materials," Rubenking says. "If they get a friend [online] whose profile age is quite a bit older, you would get an alert."
Social Shield does require user buy in since it requires children's profile logins to set up.
Parents worried about their children ruining their future education and employment prospects by what they are posting online can also get a little help.
SafetyWeb, which retails for $100, collects social networking accounts and all available public information online about a child. It also collects "family information" on phone family plans and parental Facebook accounts, and can alert parents about 'dangerous events' via emails or texts, Rubenking says.
"This is for parents who don't feel like spying on their kid," he says. "It's searching publicly-available social media. It can help you protect their privacy online and help you set up more private settings for them."
For parents who want to go uber-stealth, Rubenking suggests WebWatcher, a keylogger and computer monitoring software, which allows parents to see all messages, keystrokes, screen shots and websites their kids visit. Triggers and real-time alerts of any suspicious activity will be sent to parents, including "alert words," and can also block or time-limit certain programs, without a child ever knowing. This product sells for $169.95.
Other technology takes spying and monitoring a step further with geo tracking. iHound Software allows parents to geo-fence a kid on a smartphone, monitoring where they should be and where they actually are at certain times of the day. You can get an email alert, for example, when your child gets to school. The product is $3.99 a year.
"And if they wander out of your defined area, you get an alert," he says.
How Much Privacy Do Kids Deserve?
One person who believes kids need to give their consent for such monitoring is Bob Lotter. It may seem strange, however, seeing as Lotter is founder and CEO eAgency, whose product MyMobileWatchDog provides parents with the technology to monitor their kids—but the children are made aware every time they turn on their device.
"I am fundamentally against any form of spying, as spying infers monitoring without the other persons knowledge or consent," he says.
The software is installed on a child's smartphone, usually when they first receive it around age seven or eight, Lotter says. It acts as a remote control of sorts for parents, who can block application downloads, filter Internet access and limit times when texting is available. This runs $4.99 a month per child.
More importantly, you can monitor who comes into your child's life, via their phone, he says.
"The phone syncs with a parental app and synchronizes contacts," Lotter says. "If someone calls who is not on an approved list, or sends a message or a photo, it goes straight to the parents phone as well."
This information is archived, he says, as most parents don't want to sit and read every text or joke their child sends or received. The product has led to the arrests of more than 3,000 predators, as well, and recently added location tracking.
"If your child isn't home from school one day, you can check these archives to see who they have been talking to," he says. "You can intervene at the first opportunity possible. Location is a threat just like strangers are, this allows you to protect them if someone comes into their life that you don't know."
But Should You Start? And how to Stop.
This type of surveillance is similar to parents reading their children's private diaries and journals to find out what they were up to in the past, says Elaine Heffner, psychotherapist and author of Good Enough Mothering. The problem is that once kids find out, trust can be ruined for good.
"It's destructive to generalize who should and shouldn't do this," Heffner says. "The goal of every parent is to build up trust with their child. And it's important for kids to feel they do have a sense of privacy and independence."
Doing things behind your parents' back is somewhat of a rite of passage, Heffner says, and important for development.
"Part of growing up is feeling like you are doing something behind your parents' back," she says. "It's a trade off. But it is a worrisome time to be raising your child. Parents have to set realistic limits."
Heffner says setting ground rules from the start and being open with your kids is the way to go, especially when it comes to monitoring.
"Set expectations of what you think is fair, and meet somewhere in the middle," she says.
Lotter agrees and says that when parents attempt to use the products as a punishment, it doesn't go over as well. Most parents wind up cutting this monitoring off once kids turn 15 or 16, which for some is even scarier.
"Monitoring can help kids with peer pressure and in most cases works really well," he says. "You won't get a protest from an eight-to-eleven-year-old. Most parents make the deal that if you are smart, they won't intervene."


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Customizing SMF > Graphics and Templates
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After a recent discussion in the team boards we realised that the theme_info.xml has never truelly been explained.
A lot of what some people thought others thought differently. So with this we make this post.
First of all we have the name element:
Hopefully this does not need too much explanation, this is where you place the name of your theme, not your name but the themename.
The author element is next (<author></author>) in themes from the team we see it as:
--- Code: --- <author name="Simple Machines">firstname.lastname@example.com</author>
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You do not need to include the name attribute but it is a nice cosmetic thing, and if you don't have a website or email you wish to advertise, well your profile link on Theme Site is always a nice place as people can see what other themes you have done.
Website is next, this is more cosmetic one (<website></website>) if you don't have a website of your own then you are more than welcome to keep it as default value.
So far all the above are the same no matter what SMF version you code for, but the next element is layers (<layers></layers>) this is the only element that varies depending on the smf version. So as per the layers topic that I created in 2008 (Theme Authors:SMF 2 Layers for Theme_Info.xml)
for 1.0.x to 1.1.x the layers must say:
--- Code: --- <layers>main</layers>
--- End code ---
and in 2.0.x the layers must be:
--- Code: --- <layers>html,body</layers>
--- End code ---
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Ok now we are at the final 3 and 2 of these are the most common ones with issues, so lets take the less common one first (out of the common 2). We shall look at the version element (<version></version>).
The version element is designed to show what version of SMF the theme is designed for, not what theme version it is. Theme version unfortunatley is not a feature we have but it is one we are looking into.
The most common one is the id element (<id></id>) this should be in form of username:themename so if I were to create theme called Remote Control I would have runic:remotecontrol
Note here we have no spacing, no caps just plain simple text, ok capitals are fine, but spaces, these are no no in this element, system doesn't like them, so you could do runic:remote_control or similar. Just no spaces One thing that people forget is that when you create a new theme via admin panel it creates the id element with the username as smf. Please can we ask that if you wish submit a theme then look at this will stop one issue being brought up.
Finally we have based on (<based-on></based-on>), firstly this one has caused a lot of scratching heads specially recently in the uber top secret world domination meetings. This has been an interesting one, until recently we were under the impression that this was more to do with creditation, however with thanks to new eyes it has been brought to our attention it actually does more and will call on files from the theme mentioned in the based-on tag if its installed. This we do wish to apologise on, as this was never realised until now. This also shows you on why proper documentation is important.
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March 01. 2013 11:15PM
Pierce, Celtics top Warriors
By MIKE SHALIN
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BOSTON - Paul Pierce scored 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds and the Boston Celtics put the shackles on Stephen Curry, in a 94-86 victory over the Golden State Warriors Friday night.
Returning from their longest road trip of the season, the Celtics won their eighth straight home game and improved to 11-3 since Rajon Rondo was lost for the season to a knee injury.
The Warriors, who beat the Celtics in Oakland Dec. 29, lost for the ninth time in their last 12 games. The Warriors have lost three straight and are 1-3 in the first four games of a five-game road trip.
Curry, coming off a 54-point game in a loss at the New York Knicks Wednesday night, was hounded by Avery Bradley, Courtney Lee and whoever else was anywhere near him. After going 32 for 48 from the floor, including 18 for 23 from 3-point range for 92 points in the last two games (both road losses), Curry scored 25 points. He was just 6 for 22 from the floor, including 3 for 11 from behind the 3-point line. He did go 10 for 10 from the foul line.
Harrison Barnes scored 16 and Klay Thompson had 15 for Golden State, which got 19 points and 10 rebounds from David Lee, who returned from a one-game league suspension for being involved in a fight.
Jeff Green added 18 points for the Celtics.
In his big game in New York, Curry scored four points in the first quarter but then had 22 in the second. Friday night, his only point of the first 11 minutes came on a free throw off the first of two Boston defensive three-second technical fouls in the first half.
Curry drained a three and two free throws in the final 59 seconds of the quarter and wound up with 16 in the first half. He had only two free throws in the third quarter, going 0 for 4 from the floor.
The Celtics used a 9-0 run to go up by nine with 3:39 left in the first quarter and ballooned the lead to 13 with 23.4 seconds remaining in the quarter. The Warriors managed to knock the deficit down to one with 3:33 left in the half. The Celtics got the lead back to seven before leading by four at the break.
Golden State pulled in front in the third quarter but never by more than two points and the game was tied at 60-60 when the Celtics had another 9-0 run over a 1:50 span. Green hit two jumpers during the run.
Earlier in the quarter, Green hit the floor hard during a charge and he stayed down for several minutes. But he was fine.
The teams combined to go 8 for 38 from 3-point range.

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NOTES: The Celtics had a different roster than the one that was present for Boston's previous home game. Swingman Terrence Williams, whose 10-day contract was ending, signed for the rest of the season with a non-guaranteed year also reportedly part of the deal. Frontcourt men DJ White (signed on the trip) and Shavlik Randolph were both in a Celtics uniform for the first time and guard Jordan Crawford, acquired from the Washington Wizards, also made his home debut. Williams, White and Randolph all came back from China, with Williams debuting on the road trip.


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Clarkson University Spin-off Vento Tek Receives $50K Grant for Smart Wind Turbine Blades
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Vento Tek Inc., a spin-off business of Clarkson University, is one of four central upstate New York businesses that have received $50,000 Commercialization Assistance Program grants promoting the commercialization of new, green technologies from the Syracuse Center of Excellence Office for Industry Collaboration.
A total amount of $115,000 has been committed to this project, including cost-share from various parties involved in the project. The funds will be used for the development and commercialization of advanced wind turbine blades.
Vento Tek Inc. is one of a number of small technology-based businesses that are an outgrowth of Clarkson University research. Located in Potsdam, Vento Tek intends to bring to market a revolutionary smart wind turbine blade, incorporating active control capabilities for more efficient power generation. This is accomplished by using flow control actuators as well as twisted-coupled blades constructed from composite materials.
Vento Tek specializes in the research and development of innovative designs for renewable-energy applications and has a strong interest in wind-energy conversion systems. Research by Clarkson Professors Piergiovanni Marzocca and Erik Bollt is allowing technological improvements of current wind-turbine designs that have the potential to lower the cost of energy well below the government proposed $0.25/kWhr within the next five years.
Vento Tek is also supported in their activities by ARI Renewable Energy Company, located in northern Virginia, specializing in hybrid wind and solar renewable-energy systems; Gradients LLC, located in Plattsburgh, N.Y., an aerospace manufacturing company focused on design, analysis, manufacturing and integration of advanced systems; and Clarkson University, with the synergistic collaborative effort of Prof. Ratan Jha of the Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department and Prof. Goodarz Ahmadi, dean of the School of Engineering.
The project is on schedule and the team is progressing toward the development of a prototype technology that will be tested at the Vento Tek facility, located in a native American reservation, south of Buffalo, N.Y. Gradients LLC has established a facility at the Plattsburgh International Airport, while ARI has been relocating parts of their activities to upstate New York. Additional growth is expected in the near future.
Clarkson University President Tony Collins serves on the board of the Syracuse Center of Excellence Office for Industry Collaboration. University Provost Tom Young serves on the board's research and technology committee.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.
PHOTO CAPTION: Vento Tek Inc., a spin-off business of Clarkson University, is one of four central upstate New York businesses that have received $50,000 Commercialization Assistance Program grants promoting the commercialization of new, green technologies from the Syracuse Center of Excellence Office for Industry Collaboration. Here, Keegan O'Donnell '06, Prof. Pier Marzocca and Emanuele Nicolini, a visiting graduate student from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, hold a blade test section for wind tunnel investigations, which contains flow control actuators that are used to shape the flow around the blade.


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Demi Lovato Confirmed as 2012 Teen Choice Awards Host
Demi Lovato is everywhere lately when it comes to televised music events. The new 'X Factor' judge has just been confirmed as the host of the 2012 Teen Choice Awards, which air in less than two weeks.
While Lovato had been suggested as a possible host last week, the Teen Choice Awards made the news official with a tweet today:
Besides hosting the program, Lovato could walk away as the big winner of the night, because she's nominated for four awards. 'Give Your Heart a Break' is up for Choice Summer Song and Choice Love Song, while Lovato is also in the running for Choice Summer Music Star: Female and Choice Twit, for the best tweeter.
Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen and One Direction are among the top nominees for the show, which rewards teen faves in music, tv, movies, video games and sports. Bieber, Jepsen and No Doubt will all perform live on the June 22 broadcast, as well.
Check out the initial round of music nominees and the second wave of contenders.
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Which Bruins winger or center will general manager Brian Burke acquire next to complete his future line of ex-Boston players in Toronto?
Sometime soon, Burke might have a line on the ice featuring two ex-members of the black-and-gold-wearing family. Joe Colborne could project as a winger or center now that he's in blue and white after the deal that landed Tomas Kaberle in Boston yesterday.
Maybe someday he'll center Phil Kessel or play on the opposite wing as the veteran speedster. There was some talk last night that Colborne could be reunited with his former college linemate Tyler Bozak, who's been centering Kessel's line lately. Regardless of position, Colborne said yesterday the Leafs are expecting him to do what he does best.
"The big thing [they said] was just go out and play my game," he told the assembled media after the Toronto Marlies (AHL) game last night. "Everybody kind of echoed that they've been watching me play and they liked what they saw. So don't go out there and try to be something I'm not.
"I'm just going to go out there and try to show what I can do."
Colborne, who will report to the Marlies after skating in 55 games for Boston's Providence (AHL) farm club in his this his first pro season, played mostly center for the P-Bruins. He said he has improved his ability to protect the puck and make plays using his frame over the course of this season and his college career. He's never going to be a physical presence, which is something Burke acknowledged yesterday as well.
That's why Colborne might never have worked out in Boston. He was a bit of a reach on that draft day in '08, and like Joe Thornton and Blake Wheeler before him, he might've been destined to be criticized by the Boston faithful for not playing "big and bad" enough to pull a Bruins sweater on over his large frame on nightly basis.
Colborne was always an affable sort from that draft day all through his career with the Bruins organization and this season with Providence. My lasting impression of him will be from last summer, when he took the initiative to call several of the Bruins' 2010 draft picks, including No. 2 overall pick Tyler Seguin, to get them ready for development camp in July. With the addition of Seguin, Ryan Spooner and Jared Knight to an already-crowded pool of talented young forwards, Colborne was going to be in for some stiff competition. But he made sure everyone knew they were on the same side at the end of the day.
Now he'll take that classy personality and a solid pair of hockey hands to the Toronto organization. The questions was posed today: what if Colborne turns out to be a better NHL center than Seguin? Well, that's not likely to happen. And even if it did, it shouldn't matter to the Bruins. They made their trade to get better for today and the next couple months, which they hope will turn into a couple more all the way until June. And they still have Seguin, Jordan Caron, Max Sauve and the rest to help down the road.
The only way this deal turns into a total bust for the Bruins is if Kaberle can't get them past the first round of the playoffs and then walks as a free agent. Regardless of what happens in Boston, Colborne will probably be the biggest winner of the trade because he's headed to a rebuilding franchise where he's going to get a great chance to perform in the NHL in the near future.


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State Senate bill to prohibit gun sales to mentally ill sparks debateBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
January 14. 2014 9:32PM
CONCORD — People with mental illness should not be the only targets of a proposed law to remove gun rights from dangerous people, advocates told lawmakers Tuesday.
Senate Bill 244 would require people with court-determined mental illness to be added to the federal list of those prohibited from purchasing guns — a list that licensed dealers use for background checks.
But advocates for the mentally ill and disabled argued the focus should be on a person's dangerousness, not their mental health.
"There are very dangerous people who have no diagnosed mental illness or substance abuse disorders," said Ken Norton, executive director of National Alliance on Mental Illness NH. "Like Carl Drega, some of these people are well known to our communities and to law enforcement."
Many gun rights advocates found the provision in Dover Democratic Sen. David Watters' bill much too broad and said it infringed on the constitutional right to bear arms. Former gubernatorial candidate and Republican Party State Chair Jack Kimball of Dover said the Second Amendment is the protector of the entire constitution.
"We're beginning to see nationally a move toward gun confiscation," Kimball said. "This bill is a camel's nose under the tent."
Rep. John Burt, R-Goffstown, said the bill is the start of a movement to disarm the United States, as was done in Australia and England. "This bill will lead to that, I have no doubt," he said.
Supporters said only those with non-emergency, long-term, involuntary commitments for mental illness would lose their rights, not those with short-term problems who go to a therapist for help. Under the bill, names added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System list would include those:
• Found incompetent to stand trial;
• Found not guilty by reason of insanity;
• Having a court-appointed guardian;
• Involuntarily committed to a mental health facility.
The bill also includes a provision that allows a person to have his or her name removed from the background check list if he or she is no longer mentally ill.
Pro Gun NH backed an amended version of the bill. The group's attorney, Evan Nappen, said the bill would provide relief to thousands of New Hampshire residents.
James Bryant of Enfield said the bill would finally allow him to regain his guns, which he lost when he had a mental breakdown.
He has since recovered and has the support of his counselors in regaining his gun rights.
"(The path) comes to a dead end in the middle of the night," Bryant told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I'm just looking for a path to redemption."
The bill is supported by law enforcement and the Attorney General's Office, but ran afoul of some disability advocacy groups who said those with mental health issues are unfairly singled out.
NH Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Devon Chaffee said the decision to deny someone their constitutional right ought to be based on statistical data, not on perpetuating a stereotype that one group of people is more likely to commit violence.
She noted those with mental illness are no more likely to commit violent acts than the general population.
Michael Skibbie of the Disability Rights Center said lawmakers ought to rethink the list of qualifiers.
He noted someone can be a shoplifter and found incompetent to stand trial and the court can assign a guardian to watch over a person's financial matters; in neither case would the person be dangerous to themselves and others.
After the 3 1/2-hour public hearing, Watters said some good points were raised that he hopes to address.
The committee will accept written testimony on the bill until Friday.
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The stepped up police patrol is continuing in downtown Ocala, at least for the time being.
The stepped up police patrol is continuing in downtown Ocala, at least for the time being.
"We evaluate it on a daily basis," Ocala Police Chief Greg Graham said. "All day, we have more people downtown. At night, there's more than there is during the day ... and that's usually when you have more trouble."
The stepped up coverage downtown follows a shooting in early June outside AJ's Bar that left three men dead and their alleged assailant indicted by a grand jury on three counts of first-degree murder.
"People wanted (officers) down there because it makes them feel safe," said Mayor Kent Guinn, who oversees the police department.
He said the increased patrols will continue until "we feel conditions are such we don't need to be there."
A little more than a week after the deadly shooting, police were called to Starbucks to assist a man who entered the coffee shop after being mugged by two men, who took his wallet.
Since then, Starbucks has cut its hours, closing now at 9 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. Starbucks media personnel did not respond Friday to questions about the closing time change.
Although there has been no arrest in that case yet, police did make an arrest after three downtown visitors had iPhones stolen not long after the killings. The property was recovered and returned to the victims.
"In a short period of time we had a couple of well-publicized incidents that we are not happy we had," Graham said. "Certainly the community is not happy we have had them. We haven't seen anything really bad down there since that time. Some of it has to do with our extra patrol. Most of it has to do with it is a safe place to be."
Graham said the beefed up coverage will not be an additional cost to taxpayers.
"We are using shift personnel," Graham said. "We are just deploying people to that area as opposed to other areas.
Moving the manpower is something that is done throughout the city whenever there is increased criminal activity in an area.
"Every week we have a crime meeting where we decide how we are going to deploy our resources for the week," Graham said.
He said that patrols will fall back to more normal patterns when the police and community feel more comfortable.
"We will always be there, no matter what," Graham said.
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You just can't take your eyes off some things — emphasis on "things."
The latest in Titan Books' series of behind-the-scenes video game art books goes back to the ruins of the necromorph-infested Ishimura and forward to the frozen wastes of Tau Volantis for The Art of Dead Space. Martin Robinson, who also worked on Titan's Halo: The Art of Building Worlds, has pulled together over 300 images focusing mainly on Dead Space 3 (available today for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC), but it has a few detours back to the first two games in the series.The tech of the Dead Space universe also gets a rare spotlight, including a two-page spread covering the various designs of the signature Plasma Cutter.
Titan handed us a few exclusive (and surprisingly gore-less) images from the book, which is also available now. Launch the gallery below and enjoy!


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Louis Garneau Women's Elev Shorts - Performance Exclusive
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The Elev women's bike shorts from Louis Garneau have all the comfort-enhancing features you need for indoor training sessions or rides around the neighborhood. Three perfectly blended fabrics provide durability, softness and moisture-wicking comfort. 4-panel design and HuggFit waist offer gentle muscle support. AirZone chamois features stretchy, high-density foam for breathable comfort and Powerband leg openings give a pressure-free fit. Exclusively available at Performance Bicycle.
- Fit Sensor fabric with UPF 50 uses a double construction knit to maximize the specific properties of each fabric used: nylon on the front to resist abrasion, brushed polyester on the back to wick moisture and enhance thermoregulation, and Lycra for comfort and muscle support
- Ergonomic 4-panel design maintains comfort during activity
- AirZone chamois:
- Optimizes comfort
- B.E.M. (Beveled Molding Edges) high-density perforated memory foam eliminates drastic drops of heights at the foam edges for smooth transition, no pinching points and no chafing
- Vents with reduced size, but doubled numbers, maintain breathability without sacrificing comfort
- Foam and fabric maximize moisture-wicking
- Antibacterial treatment combats the effects of retained moisture, which can increase the growth of bacteria
- Conforms ergonomically with the human body
- Pre-molded wings for superior and ergonomic fit
- 4-way stretch maximizes fit and contour
- Seamless construction
- Thinner perineal area relieves pressure
- Contrast flatlock seams eliminate chafing
- HuggFit waist distributes pressure evenly for better tummy support
- Reflective logos add visibility
- Powerband leg openings for a better fit in motion