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The Quarryman plans visit here — Page 3 Halloween festivities set — Pe Amherst News-Time O H- O O o uo x x r— 00 M M C <J1 O O ■* X 00 < X M cr m m Vi r— (/) s> 3 H M J> o ^ ■J) <s> > h rj < o ^ m 2> is WEDNESDAY, October 1ft, 2002 AMHERST, OHIO o X 00 ro I Business owners cry foul over early pay by JASON HAWK News-Time* reporter Members of downtown Amherst businesses have expressed anger at the way city auditor Diane Eswine chose to distribute downtown revita- lization funds. At a monthly meeting of the Amherst Downtown and Betterment Association, members said that Es- wine's early delegation of state funds to one business owner was not fair. Eswine made $10,249 in state Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds available to Dave Coffman, owner of Sandy's Tax & Financial Services, TJ.'s Framing, and Mary's Bird World. She said she reimbursed him with state funds within 48 hours of completing work on his building because he said he had a financial need. The CDBG money matches (up to $10,000) expenditures by business owners to fix up downtown areas and give buildings repairs and aesthetic improvements. Usually funds must be cleared with the state and provided to the city before being dispersed — a four- to six-week period. In this case, the monies were reimbursed within 48 hours. Members of the ADBA said that this wasn't equal treatment. Eswine said she bypassed the normal policy to accommodate the business owners' need. "I think I have the legal right to do that,*' she said. "I feel that is my judgement call to make.*' She said that the city has a responsibility to help its residents, and that in this case, she had the opportunity. "Everybody always accuses auditors of being bean counters, and not being responsive to the needs that are here. I see myself as being more than just a bean counter," she said. Eswine addressed the concerns of downtown business owners in a statement at the Oct 3 ADBA meeting. "As a responsible steward of the city, if there is a serious financial problem that has arisen, the auditor can review the situation and address the issue of expediting payment. "The purpose of the CDBG program is to help the downtown bu sinesses to become more fiscally viable. It would be counterproductive for the city to be blind to a potentially damaging financial situation for a business person simply to get a few more dollars in interest from the city's money,*' she said in a short speech to assembled ADBA members. "It is within the authority to use his/her judgement to determine when an exception needs to be CONTINUED on page 5 Vandals cost Drapery Decor owner windows by JASON HAWK News-Times reporter Downtown business owner Mary Phillips is angry. Phillips, who owns and operates Drapery Decor & More on Park Ave., got a nasty surprise Monday, Oct 7, when an early morning employee phoned to inform her that two faces of her storefront windows had been broken out. "My first thought was that it happened because of a bar fight," said Phillips, who found a broken beer bottle on the sidewalk under the damaged windows. "I've heard people ■ay that there are two downtown Amhersu — the daytime one and the nighttime one," she said. "I know that there are fights in town at night from the bars." Initially reluctant to clean up the damage because she feared that removing the evidence would erase valuable clues for police, Phillips did some investigation of her own. Looking closely at the glass, she found what appeared to be small BB gun marks in the glass, and discarded the bar fight theory, she said. Police later told Phillips that BBs leave a perfectly round hole all the way through glass, and the marks did not match those indications. They told her the damage was most likely caused by concrete being thrown at the glass, although Phillips said no foreign objects were found inside the store or in the window showcases. With nobody to blame yet, the window repairs and replacements will cost her $600. Phillips also said she was afraid that the vandalism would cause her insurance to rise. Phillips has been specializing in custom window treatments at her Park Ave. location since 1993, and although this is the first time she has had problems with vandalism, she said several other local businesses have had similar occurrences. The owner of the nieghboring CONTINUED on page 7 Boys and ghouls just want to have fun Friends (from left to right, bottom to top) Madyson, Mark, Mariah, Blake, Tyler, and Vinny hang out with the decorations at 882 Cleveland Ave. on their day off school last Friday. Families up and down the street and all around town are busy decorating for the Halloween season with pumpkins, hay stalks, colorful festive ar rangements, and scary monster props. Amherst kids will get to enjoy the decorations during the annual Trick-or-Treating event on Sunday, Oct. 27. There will also be a Halloween parade that day at 4:30 p.m. Sewer system update to cost city by JASON HAWK I News-Times reporter Amid continuing questions about water and sewer cost increases, mayor John Higgins made a statement this week to clarify the issue. According to Higgins, rising costs are intended to compensate for the cost of constructing a new wastewater treatment plant ' The $11 million building project is the direct result of threats of prosecution from the Environmental Protection Agency, which has declared that Amherst is in violation of EPA regulations for proper disposal of sewage. "We want to avoid having the EPA lower the boom on us," said Higgins, who also stated that in accordance with state law, the EPA could fine Amherst $25,000 each day until the regulation breaches are corrected. "I believe that the state attorney general had. already started to move against us, but the fact that the city started to take steps to comply stayed,the fines," he said. City council voted unanimously on all recent ordinances related to the project, including measures to seek funding, to seek contracting work, and to have a $40,000 manual written for the future facility. But with a budget in decline, city officials are forced to find a way to fund the extensive wastewater treatment plant project Higgins said that in addition to seeking grants and loans, the city has gradually raised water and sanitary sewer charges over the past two years in a three- step program. "Our hope is that by starting out early, we'll build up a surplus of a few million dollars that will help offset the costs we'll see," said Higgins. "That way, we won't have to CONTINUED on page 7 Baker believes in using the best by JASON HAWK Newa-Times reporter Well, South Amherst resident Marilyn Miller sure gets my nomination for "Super Grandma" status. Miller bakes her award-winning pies, cookies, and breads every Wednesday and babysits six lucky grandchildren every Thursday. "My family doesn't ever seem to get tired of sweets," she laughed when I talked to her last Friday in her toasty little kitchen. And who can blame them? I wouldn't get tired of eating baked foods whipped up by the woman who won 22 ribbons this year at the Lorain County Fair. Miller won bint ribbons for her blueberry jelly, strawberry freezer jam, peach freezer jam, nut cake, carrot cake, angel food cake, tpvngr cake, pumpkin rolls, holiday bread, rolled cookies, and filled cookie*. She also won first place in the "any other" cakes category. And let's not even get into the second place and third place ribbons she grabbed. So what's so great about her Mking? "Everything's made from Miller told me. "I pick all CONTINUED on page 5 —*?*?*| r B% *"^ ^ ■"."'.' ^A l Y y-i«e*i*—" ^_ \_ ■PW \w ■' > ■ "lUSHr-fl -y rmm ;£_.., '3H Marilyn Miner has a shoebox filled to the brim with Lorain County Fair ribbons that one's won for her baking, sewing, palming, and photogra- phy entries over tha past 30 years. APD has free locks for guns The Amherst police department is presenting a special child safety program called "Operation Gunlock" next week. The program is intended to create awareness of the need for gun owners to protect young children from death and injury from the misuse of firearms. With proof of residency, Amherst residents may pick up a free gun lock and literature on gun safety any time between Wednesday, Oct 23 and Sunday, Oct 27 at the Amherst police deoartinent The gunlocks are limited and will be distributed on a first- come, first served basil. Only one gunlock per residence will be given out The police i that residents do not bring fire- anns to the station. The Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police and the Law Enforcement Foundation, through a grant from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, sponsor the Operation Gunlock program statewide. National statistics show that every seven hours, a child i 19 yean of age dies from a gun-related incident At I four times that many sm daily in emergency facUites for ftrearm-related injuries. Through Operation Gunlock, the Amherst police < seeks loi developing sale handling and storage procedures for all gun* ini
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and a bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at re-creating the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era measure that separated commercial and investment banking.
"It will take a lot of tools to get rid of too-big-to- fail, but one of them ought to be that if you want to do high-stakes gambling, good on you, but you do not get access to people's checking accounts and savings accounts," Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, told Bloomberg Television's Peter Cook in an interview today.
The bill sponsored by Warren along with Senators John McCain, an Arizona Republican, Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat, and Angus King, a Maine independent, would separate traditional banks that offer checking and savings accounts insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. from "riskier financial institutions." The latter category includes companies involved in investment banking, insurance, swaps dealing, hedge funds and private equity, according to the lawmakers' statement released yesterday.
Warren, who announced plans for the bill at a hearing on Dodd-Frank Act implementation, told regulators testifying before the Senate Banking Committee that she didn't expect them to back her right away.
"Based on what the regulators did to Glass-Steagall over the last 30 years, I don't expect anyone on this panel will jump and endorse the new Glass-Steagall bill," Warren told officials from the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and other agencies. "Even so we're going to keep pushing for it."
Previous Attempts
Previous Senate attempts to revive Glass-Steagall, which was repealed in 1999, or otherwise limit the size of banks have failed to gain enough support to become law.
The Senate turned back an attempt to impose limits on the size of banks during debate over legislation that became the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. An amendment sponsored by two Democrats, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Ted Kaufman of Delaware, was defeated 61-33.
McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, said he's reintroducing a measure to restore the firewall because it's needed to protect taxpayers and restore confidence in the financial system.
"Since core provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act were repealed in 1999, shattering the wall dividing commercial banks and investment banks, a culture of dangerous greed and excessive risk-taking has taken root in the banking world," McCain said in the statement. McCain in 1999 voted for the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act, which overturned Glass-Steagall.
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WASHINGTON -- President Obama's plan to allow insurance companies to continue offering canceled policies may not be enough to quell the uprising among Democrats on Capitol Hill and did little to reverse the continued Republican opposition.
As the White House team made another Hill visit Thursday to tamp down concerns among congressional Democrats, they were running into resistance from both sides of the aisle for having proposed an executive branch fix rather a legislative one through Congress.
Many Democrats want the chance to vote on the issue as a way to telegraph to their constituents they are listening to their concerns and standing up to the president.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who drafted a Senate bill that was gaining among Democrats, said after the president's announcement she was "encouraged" but would continue her legislative course.
"We will probably need to make a legislative fix," said Landrieu, who is in a tough reelection battle.
The White House prefers to avoid turning to Congress, which could give Republican lawmakers another shot at killing his signature healthcare law. But Landrieu said legislation may be needed if insurance companies do not agree to extend canceled policies. If needed, she said Congress could compel insurers to extend the plans.
PHOTOS: 2013's memorable political moments
Other Democratic senators said they wanted a more permanent or longer-term fix.
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) indicated Democrats he has spoken with are waiting to see how insurers respond to the president's announcement. But he added that many were inclined to move ahead with legislation.
"I think it's a matter of days," King said, referring to when Democrats might offer an alternative legislative solution.
In a nod to the growing anxiety among Democrats, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi promised that House Democrats would introduce their own symbolic legislation, which would be offered Friday. A Democratic leadership aide said Pelosi's plan was expected to mirror and support the president's.
"Think of a belt and suspenders," Pelosi told reporters Thursday. "What the president will put forth will be one and what we will do will be the other."
Many were watching to see how House Democrats would react and whether the president's plan would be enough to sway those who are threatening to join House Republicans in voting for a GOP bill to address the problem of cancellations.
That bill, from Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), would not only allow insurance companies to continue selling canceled plans, it would not require them to notify consumers that those policies are considered substandard under the Affordable Care Act.
The president's plan, by contrast, would grandfather in existing policies that have been canceled for only one year.
The Upton bill is expected to face a vote Friday. House Democrats were unusually silent after Obama's announcement, suggesting the White House had successfully cast enough doubt on the Upton bill to prevent large-scale Democrat defections.
On the right flank, Republican leaders dismissed the president's action as too little, too late, and tea party-styled conservatives quickly categorized it as an overreach of executive authority.
PHOTOS: The battle over Obamacare
"A decree brought down on high from President Obama is not how the legislative process works," said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). "It is unconstitutional for the president to repeatedly bypass Congress and unilaterally change the law to fit his daily political objectives."
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said he doubted the White House could make such a fix that would be "both legal and effective."
"I am highly skeptical that they can do this administratively," Boehner told reporters Thursday. "The only way to fully protect the American people is to scrap this law once and for all. There is no way to fix this."
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Farewell to Corrie's Bill Tarmey
WEEPING Coronation Street stars past and present yesterday said a final farewell to TV legend Bill Tarmey.
Bill "made me laugh so much that on occasions I would be crying with laughter"
Fans mingled with their on-screen heroes to pay tribute to the actor who played workshy Jack Duckworth for 33 years.
Bill died two weeks ago aged 71 at his family's holiday home on Tenerife.
Liz Dawn, 73, who played wife Vera Duckworth, led 700 mourners at his funeral at Albion United Reformed Church in Ashton-under-Lyne, Gtr Manchester.
Bill's wife of 50 years Ali, son Carl, 46, daughter Sara, 42, seven grandchildren and great-grandson were joined by Street stars stretching back five decades.
They included William Roache, 80 (Ken Barlow), Julie Goodyear, 70 (Bet Lynch), Roy Barraclough, 77 (Alec Gilroy), Michael Le Vell, 47 (Kevin Webster), Sue Nicholls, 69 (Audrey Roberts), Brooke Vincent, 20 (Sophie Webster), and show creator Tony Warren, 76.
Samia Ghadie, 30, who plays Maria Connor, fought back tears as she said Bill "made me laugh so much that on occasions I would be crying with laughter".


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Boletus aereus
Boletus aereus is a bolete, an edible mushroom frequently consumed in the Basque Country, Navarre, France and Italy. It is commonly known as ontto beltza in Basque, porcino nero in Italian, and tête de nègre (negro's head) in French. As a member of the Boletaceae family, this mushroom has tubes and pores, instead of gills beneath its cap.
This species is classified in Boletus section Boletus, alongside its close relatives which include Boletus edulis and Boletus pinophilus.[1] In 2008, a taxonomic revision of western North American populations initially thought to represent Boletus aereus, formally established them as a separate species, Boletus regineus.[2]
The height of this boletus is 15–25 cm, broad at maturity; specimens of 40 cm have been found in some cases. The cap is dark brown and the ringless stalk is 6–15 cm high, usually shorter than the cap diameter. The pores are greyish white when young, then become yellow.[3]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Boletus aereus is found mainly in central and southern Europe, being rare in colder climes such as England. Mushrooms are found in summer and autumn.[3]
It is well known in southern Europe for its culinary qualities, and is appreciated by some even above Boletus edulis.[3] The similar Boletus regineus (the Queen bolete) is widely collected by both amateur and commercial collectors in California.
See also[edit]
- ^ Beugelsdijk DCM, van der Linde S, Zuccarello GC, and others. 2008. A phylogenetic study of Boletus section Boletus in Europe. Persoonia 20: 1–7.
- ^ Arora D. (2008). "California porcini: three new taxa, observations on their harvest, and the tragedy of no commons". Economic Botany 62(3): 356–375.
- ^ a b c Carluccio A. (2003). The Complete Mushroom Book. Quadrille. ISBN 1-84400-040-0.


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A World War II B-17 seeks passengers for flights over Baltimore
This is what flying feels like.
I'm soaring 1800 feet above Chesapeake Bay in a plane that 70 years ago housed soldiers — and 50 years later actors.
The Liberty Foundation is touring with the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 built in World War II. Restored to replicate the original Memphis Belle, it's one of 13 B-17 still flying.
The Liberty Foundation travels from city to city, raising awareness for World War II veterans by taking visitors back in time to experience the flight.
"Most vets would keep quiet. They would just tell you that they were doing their job," says Keith Youngblood. "But, well frankly, we all know that they did more than just their job."
Liberty volunteers like Youngblood use plane rides to keep veterans' stories and experiences alive, lest planes and memories die in museums. This year's tour raises money for the B-17 Liberty Belle, which caught fire last year.
Before I could take my ride, I had to crawl through an entrance sized for oompa loompas. The green metal interior morphed into a long tunnel. In cloth-swing seat in the rear compartment I buckle up, my knees bumping the rider across the aisle.
Once soaring, passengers roam the plane freely. Still in the back, I stick my head out the large open windows that line both side of the plane. The houses look like the Polly Pocket toys I played with as a kid; wings and propellers frame the foreground of the miniature backdrop. What isn't so Polly Pocket-esk is the large replica guns sticking out the window with ribbons of ammo hanging from their side.
I didn't think it could get any better until I moved forward through the green tunnel interior. In the radio room, I could finally stand straight, with my head is almost out of the plane. The wind from the open turret blew my hair straight up as if I were in a vacuum. Gazing out, I saw the tail of the plane behind, Bay right below us.
But the best scene was the World War II veteran invited on the flight. Warren Dorfler, 92, who served as an engine mechanic in the Army Air Corps, hadn't been in a B-17 since May 8, the day before the war ended in 1945. Dorfler and his fellow mechanics flew on the planes after making major repairs to make sure they were running smoothly before sending them back into combat.
Dorfler sat in the radio room, too frail to walk around his old stomping grounds, clutching the seat above him to propel him forward so he could look outside the B-17's small windows.
"This was such a pleasant surprise," Dorfler, all smiles, said. "I loved it. I wouldn't have missed it for the world."
Like an Olympic gymnast on the balance beam or a circus performer on a trapeze, I slowly make my way across the pathway from the radio room to the nose of the plane. Putting one foot in front of the other on a strip wide enough for only one foot at a time, I keep my balance in the turbulence. Walking would have been much harder task if the plane had been filled with bombs on both sides as in wartime.
To reach the nose, I had to go still farther. After a pit stop to watch the pilots, I crawled through a space even smaller than the entry hatch.
I was Rose at the bow of the Titanic spreading her arms in the air. I was in the nose of the plane, in a bubble able to see all around me. This is what flying feels like.
As we land it hit me: I'd flown in a time machine. That's what today's Memphis Belle is.
The Memphis Belle makes its Baltimore flights at Martin State Airport on August 18 and 19. Thirty-minute flights in the historic plane costs $450, but the experience is priceless.
If the thought of going up in the air makes you nauseated, visit at 3pm when for free ground tours.
This B-17 was built at the end of the war and never saw combat. When it came off the assembly line, it transported staff for over a decade. On the civilian side, the plane next worked as a fire bomber to put out forest fires in the West.
In the early 1980s, a former B-17 pilot bought the plane and restored it. It was painted to replicate the original Memphis Belle that flew on countless missions with the 91st bomb group of the 8th air force. The aircraft then hit Hollywood in the 1990 film Memphis Belle.
Information and reservations: 918-340-0243; www.libertyfoundation.org.


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Victoria Justice: 'Music Is My Focus Right Now'
Victoria Justice shows off her toned tummy in this new shot from the new issue of Annex magazine.
The 19-year-old actress opens up about her future projects, charity and staying normal. Check it:
On looking beyond Victorious: "As far as TV or movies, I'm just looking for a role I can sink my teeth into. I love comedy, but if I were to do another TV show, I would want it to be so different than my character on Victorious. In other words, I'm looking for a challenging dramatic role. It doesn't really matter to me if it's film or TV, just as long as the material is something that I'm excited about. As for music, that's my focus right now. I'm busy writing songs for my debut album. I love writing because it's something that I create and can mold any way I want. It's not a script that's being handed to me and I have no choice in the matter, but to read someone else's words.
"When it comes to music, I'm driving the bus and I like having the control. I also love collaborating with people I respect and admire. When you have great chemistry with a producer, it makes all the difference in the world. I'm really lucky that I get to explore both worlds…so going forward, I would like to keep doing both… let's see what happens."
On keeping herself grounded: "I never have to remind myself that I'm a normal 19 year old girl, if anything I forget that people are going to recognize me from TV or Fun Size. I'm still me, I'm just in a not so normal circumstance. I do pretty much the same things that most people my age do. I go to the movies, hang with friends…you know, the usual stuff."
On Girl Up: "It's about bringing awareness to the cause and helping to raise funds to help girls in developing countries who just don't have the same opportunities that we are so fortunate to have here. Last year during my concert, we gave a sneak peak of the music video and had GirlUp booths set up where girls could sign up and help spread the word. The response was great! At the moment, we're trying to raise twenty thousand dollars for the cause. I just looked today and we're about $1,700.00 away. When we reach it, I will release the song I wrote for Girl Up along with the music video."
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STOCKTON - A 20-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds when someone got out of a silver luxury sedan and began shooting at him in a north Stockton neighborhood Thursday afternoon, police and witnesses said.
STOCKTON - A 20-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds when someone got out of a silver luxury sedan and began shooting at him in a north Stockton neighborhood Thursday afternoon, police and witnesses said.
The shooting occurred at 12:48 p.m. in the 9500 block of Kelley Drive, a residential area known for crime and gang activity, authorities said. According to witnesses, the victim was standing in front of a duplex between Rion Way and Salters Drive when he was shot three times by a black man with a light complexion.
"We heard the shots: 'Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,' " said a witness who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety. "Then somebody said this boy got shot."
The victim, identified by witnesses as a former Bear Creek High School student, was rushed to a hospital in serious condition to undergo surgery, police said. There was no update on his condition late Thursday.
"I just want to know if he's going to make it," the witness said. "I was throwing up, because I've never seen anything like that. He got shot in his chest, in his stomach, in his arm. It was crazy."
Witnesses said the shooter then got into a silver two-door car that was parked nearby. Police described it as a four-door Lexus or Mercedes-Benz occupied by at least one black man.
The shooter sped around the block with tires squealing, going north on Kelley Drive, east on Salters Drive, south on Bancroft Way and west on Rion Drive before heading south on Kelley Drive to make his escape, witnesses said. He nearly collided with another vehicle as he fled the scene, said Dan Stoddard, a contractor who was working in the area.
Witnesses rushed to the victim's side to administer aid until emergency responders arrived. One woman applied pressure to the victim's wounds to slow the bleeding.
"I've never seen anybody get shot, so I didn't know what to do," said a second witness who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she, too, feared for her safety. "We were just trying to help him and make sure he didn't bleed so much."
Another woman tried to keep the victim alert.
"My friend was holding him, and I was slapping his face to make his eyes stay open, because he kept closing them," the first witness said.
Officer Joseph Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department, said investigators were working to identify a suspect and establish a motive for the brazen midday shooting.
"Our investigators are trying to determine what led up to this shooting and what the motive is," Silva said. "Our officers are talking to witnesses, and our evidence technicians are out here processing the crime scene. This is a residential neighborhood, and you see kids out here walking around, so this situation could have been even worse."
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Foot pads are easy but I noticed a lot of people are looking for a good cheap set of foot straps, for their homemade boards, $100 new for pads and straps is a little ridiculous I thought I could pick up a good used set of pads and straps but after losing most ebay auctions at over $60 (w/o shipping) I gave up on that.
Now I know Real kiteboarding sells a set of JL straps for 40 bucks but by the time I factor in shipping duty and exchange it's at least 60 to the door step.
So here's how to make a damn good set. All in cost me $24 bucks Canadian. and was able to pick up all the supplies easily.
Here's what you need
2 x 10"x2" piece of Velcro the grippy side (hook side) (available at Canadian tire or walmart) âINDUSTRIAL STRENGTH 2" STICKY BACK VELCR€ 4 FT = $12
2 x 5"x2" piece of grippy Velcro
4 x 9"x2" piece of fluffy(loop side) Velcro
2 x 21" piece of seat belt (Available at Auto scrap yard.....dirt cheap)
2 x 13" piece of seat belt
2 x 3.5" piece of seat belt
1 x set of "kuny™" foam knee pads (Available at rona/homedepot) $10
5/16" grommets (walmart $2)
2 x 2" Rectangle ring don't know where to get these, Use stainless steel "king chain" harness rings 1-1/4" and crush them in a bench vice. 1$ each
1. Clean the seat belt really thoroughly and allow it to dry. You will be applying sticky back velcro to many portions of it. If you can clean all the grease and crap off you will get a good bond and not need to sew throught this stuff too much
2. Cut seat-belt to length 2 x 21" , 2 x 13", 2x 3.5"
3. Burn ends of seat belt to prevent fraying
4. Put the 21 inch and 13inch length of seat belt together line the ends up and using a soldering iron burn a hole through both pieces of belt roughly 1/2 inch from the end at the mid point in the width
5. Install a grommet into the hole you just burned to attach the pieces of belt together.
6. Sew a reinforcing square around the grommet using sail repair thread V90 (you should already have this stuff) If you don't buy it you will use it to fix EVERYTHING, From kites to harnesses to bindings
7. Take a 3.5 inch piece of seat belt fold it over 2 inch Rectangle ring. Burn a hole in it using a soldering iron, install grommet and sew a reinforcing square around it.
8. Remove strap from knee pad, and pull off crappy felt liner.
9. Clean the top of the knee pad between the strap holes with isopropyl alcohol, allow it to dry, then stick 5 inch piece of grippy Velcro between the holes for the straps
10. Orient the the 2 pieces of seatbelt you attached in step 3 so that the 13inch piece is on top.
11. Route the 21inch piece through the knee pad as shown
12. Adhere a 9 inch fluffy Velcro strip to the end of the 21inch piece of seatbelt on both sides.
13. Adhere the 10inch grippy Velcro to the bottom side of the 13inch piece of seatbelt
14. Sew the Velcro on as you determine is needed. This is good adhesive if applied in 1 shot on a clean belt, it should hold well, However, even with a perfect bond, At minimum you will have to add reinforcement to the end of the fluffy Velcro as shown or the
Velcro will tend to peel itself off in these areas
15. Install on to board as shown. (be careful to do it as shown doing it the other way will cause your pads to fall down, making board off's impossible and getting in the bindings difficult
16. Shape for comfort as desired,
Ready for board offs.
Repeat for other side
These bindings are made too big intentionally so there is a large error margin and it will fit all feet and boot types with all foot pads. If you have small feet and or thin foot pads you will need to cut the end off the 21" piece of velcro to get it to fit right. Once you tighten it you'll know what I mean.
If you find the bindings are sagging too much for you liking, ensure they are installed as per my directions. If they are, add some velcro to the 21" piece of velcro close to where it grommets to the board, (right side in the above photo) this will stiffen it and hold the top of the binding up better.
Feel free to cut out toes if you think they are too corny looking, I actually find the toe caps comfy
If you really wanna get fancy, sew some neoprene to to the underside of the knee pad where the strap crosses your feet. and sew a patch of your choice to the top of the 13" foot strap making it look like factory bindings with your own custom logo. (I'll post pictures when they are done)
for the seat belts I went to a pick you own scrap yard cut them out with a pair of scissors and then went to cash asked em how much they want for these and they said 5 bucks I pulled out my credit card and they just told me it's on the house. seat belt at full length will be enough
Obviously a sewing maching makes life much easier and your stiches a bit more professional looking.


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This Week In Island History
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, Jan. 16, 1914
At the annual financial report of St. Mark's Church, it was reported there were 27 baptisms and five marriages during the year. The estimated value of the church property is $29,400.
The transformers and switchboards have been installed in the new concrete building on the Bay State Company's property on Clarke Street, and the wire will be changed from a temporary structure that has been used since last July.
The ice cutters on Carr's pond completed work Sunday and with the supply secured by Clarke and Littlefield on the reservoir and Clarke on the south pond, all ice now available has been cut and another freeze will be necessary before more can be harvested.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Jan. 23, 1939
By spring it is estimated that 500 men will be at work on the substructure of the proposed bridge between Jamestown and North Kingstown. Preparations were going forward today for the construction of a dam to create a reservoir. Negotiations are underway, it was disclosed, to get a site for a construction base on the North Kingstown shore. A place known as the quarry is expected to be the site.
From the Newport Daily News, Jan. 26, 1939
At the School Committee meeting it was reported that the tuition will have to be increased by several thousand dollars next year. The committee traced back tuition totals for the past 10 years and found a steady increase from $4,300 in 1929 to the present time ($11,980.34). Latest figures from the school census just completed shows the greatest total of children from the ages of 4 to 21 ever enumerated. The report shows 514 children checked, an increase over last year's high by 17, and the largest number ever enrolled in schools and colleges, this figure standing at 410. The school enrollment at present is 300 in grade school, 95 in high schools, and 15 of census age in higher institutions.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Jan. 21, 1964
Jamestown art classes for children will resume for the spring session on Jan. 31, under the direction of Mrs. Henry N. Armbrust, instructor, at her Melrose Street home.
Clean Conanicut, the group recently formed to combat roadside litter in Jamestown, calls attention to that fact that the melting snow disclosed much trash along the town roadsides.
From the Newport Daily News, Jan. 24, 1964
The Rhode Island Supreme Court has dealt a serious blow to hopes for early construction of a bridge across the east passage of Narragansett Bay from Newport to Jamestown, holding many provisions of a bridge act passed last year to be unconstitutional.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Jan. 24, 1989
The Town Council voted unanimously Monday night to ask the state to limit the number of trucks on the 50-year-old Jamestown Bridge at any one time. Truck traffic could be monitored through a station at the west end of the bridge, the council said.
From the Newport Daily News, Jan. 26, 1989
After a preliminary review of underwater inspection reports for the Jamestown Bridge, state officials are satisfied the 50-year-old bridge is safe.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press, Jan. 21, 1999
The town will voluntarily enter into the state remediation program to clean up its closed, and now infamous, landfill on North Road.
The February board meeting of the Rhode Island Bridge and Turnpike Authority will shed some light on the feasibility of whether local commuters can expect some reduction in the price of a token to cross the Newport Bridge. Results of extensive engineering studies done late last year will reveal whether the 30-year-old bridge needs work done on its decking, a 7-inch thick layer of concrete with two layers of steel.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press, Jan. 22, 2004
At their Jan. 15 session, the second of two budget hearings was held between the School Committee and Town Council. The council looked at the $13,595,775 school budget for the upcoming 16-month fiscal year.
The Rhode Island Foundation announced Jan. 15 that a $25,000 grant has been awarded to the town through Church Community Housing Corporation of Newport to support an affordable housing strategic plan.


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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Gummi Lightning Bugs
I miss living where there are lightning bugs. When I was in Pennsylvania last month it was a little early for them ... we saw one or two, but not the nighttime display I so longed to see. It was certainly fun catching them as kids and putting them in a jar and setting them on a bookshelf in my bedroom overnight to watch all night (and then release in the morning).
I thought this product was pretty cool looking. It's just gummis shaped like bugs and they include a set of tweezers with a battery and LED at the tip that activates when you close them around something.
The tweezers work really well, they'll light up when they get close to being closed, so you can grasp one of the gummis and without even squeezing hard they light up.
The LED is red, which is kind of disappointing because fireflies have a more green/yellow color to their luminescence in real life, but I understand the limitations of making a novelty product at a particular price point. The other thing that I found a little bit of a bummer is that the gummis aren't actually lightning bugs ... they're glow-worms.
The gummis are pretty good. A little different than a Haribo, more like a Trolli. They come in two different colors: red and yellow. They're very soft and chewy. The orange one is citrus of some sort and the red one tastes like strawberry.
Once you've eaten the small portion they give you, the fun with the tweezers isn't over. You can pick up all sorts of things with them. Light colored jelly beans worked well, gumdrops, hard candies (they're really cool with these), vitamin gel capsules and of course any small gummis like the traditional bears. If the battery lasts as long as that light up lolly I got last year, you can have hours of fun with them!
I've never been particularly fond of most of the novelty items out there (such as clear plastic cell phones with little candy inside) but this one really seems to provide interactivity and promotes imagination ... as well as being a candy delivery device!
If you're looking for a fun little party favor for a summer kids birthday celebration, these aren't priced too bad at $1 per if you find a good sale. However, I'm seeing them online for about $1.50 each ... still not a bad deal for a little toy.
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Craig McDermott has quit as bowling coach of the Australian team, citing the conflicting demands of constant touring with family life, Cricket Australia said Friday.
Former Test fast bowler McDermott, 47, has worked with great success in developing Australia's fast bowling stocks in the 12 months he has been in the job.
"It has been a very difficult decision to leave my position as the bowling coach of the Australian cricket team, a job I have thoroughly enjoyed since beginning 12 months ago," McDermott said in a statement.
"However, the team's schedule is a particularly busy one and after looking at the upcoming touring demands, I felt this to be the right decision from a personal and professional point of view."
Australia, who have recently returned from a tour to the West Indies, play a series of one-day internationals in England from next month, followed by an ODI series against Pakistan. They host South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies next southern summer.
McDermott has been prominent in the development of young fast bowlers James Pattinson, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc along with the renaissance of senior bowlers Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle.
"It has been a great honour to work with our most exciting bowlers over this period and we have achieved much success," he said.
"The progression of particular players and the improvement of depth in Australian bowling stocks has been the result of much hard work from both sides and is something I am particularly proud of."
McDermott said he will continue to work at Cricket Australia's centre of excellence and was not ruling out being involved with the Australian cricket team in the future.
Head coach Mickey Arthur said McDermott would be hard to replace.
"Craig has taken our fast bowlers to another level and his skills and experience will be sorely missed around the group," Arthur said.
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Craig McDermott has quit as bowling coach of the Australian team, citing the conflicting demands of constant touring with family life, Cricket Australia said Friday.


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Batten disease, a rare genetic disorder, belongs to a group of progressive degenerative neurometabolic disorders known as the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses. These disorders share certain similar symptoms and are distinguished in part by the age at which such symptoms appear. Batten disease is sometimes considered the juvenile form of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs). The NCLs are characterized by abnormal accumulation of certain fatty, granular substances (i.e., pigmented lipids [lipopigments] ceroid and lipofuscin) within nerve cells (neurons) of the brain as well as other tissues of the body that may result in progressive deterioration (atrophy) of certain areas of the brain, neurological impairment, and other characteristic symptoms and physical findings.
The symptoms of Batten disease usually become apparent between 5 and 15 years of age when progressive loss of vision, seizures, and progressive neurological degeneration develop. In some cases, initial symptoms may be more vague and include clumsiness, balance problems and behavioral or personality changes. Batten disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait and occurs most in families of Northern European or Scandinavian ancestry and is found worldwide.
For years, the term Batten disease was used to describe the chronic juvenile form of NCL (JNCL). Recently, some researchers have begun using the term Batten disease to encompass all types of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose revolutionary studies of what was once called "primitive man" transformed Western understanding of the nature of culture, custom and civilization, has died at 100.
His son Laurent said Mr. Lévi-Strauss died of cardiac arrest Friday at his home in Paris. His death was announced Tuesday, the same day he was buried in the village of Lignerolles, in the Côte-d'Or region southeast of Paris, where he had a country home.
"He had expressed the wish to have a discreet and sober funeral, with his family, in his country house," his son said. "He was attached to this place; he liked to take walks in the forest, and the cemetery where he is now buried is just on the edge of this forest." {Read on} and {Here}
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Here are Black Friday hours at Central Florida malls and power centers. Anchor stores' hours vary.
Altamonte Mall, Altamonte Springs: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Festival Bay, Orlando: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Florida Mall, south of Orlando: midnight Thursday to 10 p.m.
Lake Square Mall, Leesburg: 4 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Loop, Kissimmee/Orlando: Stores will start opening at midnight Thursday, and run through midnight Friday.
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MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government says it will challenge a recent declaration by lawmakers in Catalonia that the region is a sovereign entity.
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria says Friday that the appeal to the Constitutional Court is based on the opinion of the Council of State consultative body, which says the declaration is unconstitutional.
Though the January declaration is largely symbolic it potentially paves the way for a proposed referendum on Catalonia's right to decide its relationship with Spain.
Catalonia is the wealthiest region of Spain and in Barcelona has one of Europe's most high-profile cities. The regional government's president Artur Mas accused the government of being anti-democratic.
Polls show Catalans are evenly divided over independence, though a majority oppose it if it means exiting the European Union.


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Angela was born and raised in Newark, N.J. She lived in Orange, N.J. and then Parsippany, N.J., for 43 years before moving to Stroudsburg in 2009.
She was a dressmaker for Saks Fifth Avenue in New York before becoming a loving and dedicated homemaker.
Angela was a member of St. Christopher Roman Catholic Church in Parsippany, N.J.
She was pre-deceased by her husband, Anthony on May 27, 2010; her brothers, Jerry and Nick; and her sisters, Josephine and Phyllis.
Survivors include her sons: Michael and his wife, Patricia and James and his wife, Marion; and her grandsons, Michael Paul and Daniel Anthony.
Visiting hours are from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at Par-Troy Funeral Home, 95 Parsippany Road, Parsippany, N.J.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend her Liturgy of Christian Burial to be offered at 10 a.m. Friday, June 28, at St. Christopher RC Church, 1050 Littleton Road, Parsippany, N.J.
Interment will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J.
Par-Troy Funeral Home
95 Parsippany Road, Parsippany, N.J
Angela (Errichetti) Petruzzi
Angela (Errichetti) Petruzzi passed away on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at VNA Hospice House in Stroudsburg. She was 85.


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Candia teen faces more counts in connection with burglaryBy Ryan O'Connor
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April 23. 2014 12:32AM
CANDIA — A local teen who was arrested by Raymond police last week on charges he burglarized a family member's home has been booked on related charges in Candia.
According to Candia Police Chief Mike McGillen, 17-year-old Matthew Mahar stole a Troy AR-15 rifle, prescription drugs and a iPad tablet from his uncle's Raymond residence on April 11.
The next morning, Candia police said they spotted Mahar walking on Depot Road, near his residence, and turned him over to Raymond police after he lead investigators to the wooded area where he hid the stolen rifle.
Mahar, who had been booked for burglary and two counts of theft in Raymond, was charged in Candia with a Class A felony for receiving stolen property.
McGillen said Mahar also has a suspended sentence hanging over his head.The teen was sentenced to 60 days in the House of Corrections and a $500 fine after being arrested in 2013 following a domestic assault. He pled guilty to criminal mischief and simple assault charges in exchange for a suspended sentence and suspended fine.
He is being held on $25,000 cash bail following a probable cause hearing Monday.


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GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A man accused of hijacking one car, stealing two others and trying to take more during a wild chase west of Denver last week has been charged with 46 crimes, including aggravated robbery and assault.
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|— Independent City —
- 1 Courthouse
- 2 History
- 3 Resources
- 3.1 Biography
- 3.2 Census
- 3.3 Church History and Records
- 3.4 Directories
- 3.5 Genealogy
- 3.6 History
- 3.7 Inventories, registers, catalogs
- 3.8 Land and property
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- 3.10 Military History and Records
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- 4 Societies, Libraries and Museums
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- 6 References
For additional records, see Roanoke County.
The town first called Big Lick was established in 1852 and chartered in 1874. It was named for a large outcropping of salt which drew the wildlife to the site near the Roanoke River. In 1882 it became the town of Roanoke, and in 1884 it was chartered as the independent city of Roanoke.
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1884: Roanoke was created in 1884 from Roanoke County. [1]
- History of Roanoke City and history of the Norfolk & Western Railway Company FHL
- Garland, Hugh A. The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke. New York: D. Appleton, 1851. Two volumes. FHL World Vital Records ($) Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Roanoke County Cemeteries
- Records of the field offices for the state of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - FHL Collection
Church History and Records
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- A history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Virginia Roanoke Mission : with special emphasis of the Church in Roanoke. FHL Collection
- Presbyterian churches of Roanoke, Virginia FHL
Contains historical information about the following Presbyterian churches from both the city and county of Roanoke: Salem, First, Second, Bethany, Norwich, Vinton, West End, Belmont, Melrose and Raleigh Court.
Court Records
- Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery
- Chancery order book, no. 1, 1838-1866 FHL
- Circuit Court
- Chancery papers, ca. 1836-1900 FHL
- County Court
- County Court common law order books, 1838-1868 FHL
- County Court papers, ca.1838-1910 FHL
- Judgements, ca.1837-1899 FHL
- Roanoke, Virginia, city directory : including Salem and Vinton, also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory FHL
- History and wars of Roanoke County FHL
- History of Roanoke County, Salem, Roanoke City, Virginia and representative citizens, 1734-1900 FHL
- A place apart: a brief history of the early Williamson Road and North Roanoke Valley residents and places FHL
- Roanoke: story of county and city FHL
- Places near the mountains: from the community of Amsterdam, Virginia up the road to Catawba, on the waters of the Catawba and Tinker Creeks, along the Carolina Road as it approached Big Lick and other areas, primarily North Roanoke FHL
- Salem and Roanoke Valley: a circular of information, location, railroad facilities, business interests, manufacturing prospects, water power, mineral wealth, fertile lands, healthful climate, social, moral, religious and educational advantages FHL
- When past is prologue: a history of Roanoke County FHL
Inventories, registers, catalogs
- Roanoke and New River Valleys, Virginia, manuscripts: a guide to collections in the United States FHL
Land and property
- Botetourt County, Virginia, early settlers : from the earliest times through 1795, in the area that was Botetourt County in 1782, covers parts of present-day counties of Montgomery, Bath, Giles, Floyd, Alleghany, Roanoke, Craig and Monroe FHL
- Botetourt County, Virginia, early settlers from the earliest times through 1795, in the area that was Botetourt County in 1782 FHL
- County Court
- Deed books, 1838-1902 ; general indexes to deeds, 1838-1923 FHL
- General index to mixed probate records, 1838-1953; mixed probate records, 1838-1903 FHL
- Commissioner of the Revenue
- County Surveyor
- Surveyors' records of Roanoke County, 1849-1868 FHL
- Botetourt County, Virginia, 1865 and Botetourt and Roanoke counties, 1865-66 land ownership map FHL
- Roanoke County, Virginia land ownership maps, [186-?] and 1864 FHL
- Botetourt County FHL
- An historical map of Roanoke County, Virginia : compiled from old maps, historical records and traditions FHL
- Map of a portion of Roanoke County, Virginia, showing original grants in the area FHL
- Map of a portion of Roanoke County, Virginia, showing the location and ownership of farms (1825-1875) in relation to a modern map of the area (1960) FHL
Military History and Records
Civil War
Since Roanoke was created in 1884 from Roanoke County, see Roanoke County for information about this area in the Civil War.
- 1990-present - Roanoke Times at Genealogy Bank ($).
- General index to mixed probate records, 1838-1953; mixed probate records, 1838-1903 FHL
Vital Records
- Records of the field offices for the state of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 - FHL
- United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872
Societies, Libraries and Museums
- Pleasants Lodge No. 63, A.F. & A.M
- 100 years in the Roanoke Valley (a history of the Lodge) FHL
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).


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Coach is a designer, producer, and marketer of high-quality modern American accessories. Its primary product offerings include handbags (65% of fiscal 2012 sales), women's and men's accessories (wallets, belts, cosmetic cases, etc. 28%), briefcases, luggage, leather outerwear, gloves, scarves, etc. (7%). Coach holds the number one position in the U.S. premium handbag and accessories market and the number two position within the Japanese imported luxury handbag and accessories market. The Direct-to-Consumer segment (89% of sales) consists of company-operated stores in North America (63%); Japan and China (18%); other Asia (2%) and on the Internet (6%). The Indirect segment represented approximately 11% of total net sales in fiscal 2012. It sells products in approximately 990 wholesale locations in the U.S. and Canada. Its most significant distribution partners are Macy's (M), Dillard's (DDS), Nordstrom (JWN), Lord & Taylor, and Saks Fifth Avenue (SKS). The company's customers generate relatively high household income, and more than half of them are college graduates.
Coach is coming off a worse-than-expected holiday quarter where earnings per share grew 4% year over year, but fell 5% short of Wall Street's consensus estimate. In general, the handbag industry has been growing at a 5% to 10% clip for the past several quarters. Meanwhile, the company's primary competitor, Michael Kors (KORS), saw earnings rise over 200% in its most recent reporting period, thanks partly to "very,very, strong acceleration" of the handbag business. It should be noted that Coach is a much larger and more established company that competes in fewer categories so it is hardly an apples-to-apples comparison. Still, the two companies' recent results are a clear indication that Coach is losing market share.
Management appears well aware of this dilemma and is taking the challenge head on, recently acknowledging that the KORS threat has reinvigorated its competitive spirit. The company cites its strong brand loyalty/relevance, established history, quality craftsmanship, and ability to innovate as differentiating factors for its business. It also brought up a prior instance in the late 1990s when it overcame increased competition from European brands such as Gucci, as well as new entrants like Kate Spade and value brands like Nine West.
Specifically, Coach looks to increase dwindling mall traffic by introducing more shoes into the product mix over the near term, and eventually offering a broader general merchandise assortment. Although footwear likely won't make a substantial direct contribution to the bottom line anytime soon, it may well lure people in the door and provide a "halo" effect for the handbag business, i.e. encourage shoppers to make purchases of core products while increasing the brand's relevance in the fashion world and getting women excited about its assortments.
Other potential growth drivers include revamped marketing, better merchandising and use of floor space, more fixtures, and the ability to offer customers information and completed transactions via mobile devices. Asian expansion should not only help the bottom line, but also lift the gross margin. Furthermore, the men's business is on track to grow 50% this year, to $600 million or over 10% of sales. And, growth of the Internet platform is also a priority.
The company voiced its commitment to returning cash to shareholders, and currently pays a solid dividend that yields 2.4%. It will likely keep a lid on footprint expansion as it sees opportunity to use the selling space it has now more efficiently.
Although it may take several quarters until investors see evidence that the aforementioned turnaround strategies are taking hold, with the shares trading near their 52-week low and at a relative P/E ratio of .77, we think they present an attractive risk-and-reward scenario for patient investors.
Dividend Yield
Apple Inc.
bebe stores
Insperity Inc.
Quality Systems
Questcor Pharmac.
Sturm, Ruger & Co.
Coach Inc.
Men's Wearhouse
NVIDIA Corp.
Pan Amer. Silver
Cascade Corp.
Exxon Mobil Corp.
Foot Locker
Chevron Corp.
East West Bancorp
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Sports Medicine
MRI finding of osteonecrosis
I had surgery on my left knee due to a 3rd degree posterior meniscus tear due to a non-traumatic event. My doctor removed most of the meniscus. I went to rehab and have been working out every day. I am still in a great degree of discomfort and I am not able to do the same activities pre-surgery and pre-injury.
I just had a second MRI which said I had osteonecrosis with a subchondral collapse. It also said the adjacent medial meniscus was abnormal and partially resected.
Can you please tell me what all this means in lay terms? Can this be treated? Will I ever be able to play sports again?
I haven't been able to find what is meant by a "3rd degree meniscus tear", but based on the fact your surgeon removed a portion of your meniscus, your meniscus tear must not have been repairable (the majority of meniscus tears which remain symptomatic are treated by partial removal rather than repair).
The fact you continue to have pain despite partial meniscus removal indicates the torn meniscus may have accounted for only a portion of your pain. Now that another MRI scan has revealed osteonecrosis, this condition can certainly be a source of joint pain, and may or may not have been present to some degree prior to your meniscus surgery. Even if the report from the first (pre-surgical) MRI made no mention of osteonecrosis, comparing the actual MR images from the two studies - and not just the reports - would be necessary to determine whether there was any evidence for osteonecrosis on the first MRI.
"Osteo" means bone, and "necrosis" means "dying". If the blood supply to a portion of a bone is disrupted - which can result from trauma, excessive alcohol or steroid use, among other causes, but at other times can occur for no identifiable reason - that portion of bone may have inadequate nutrition to remain viable/alive, and as a result, may "die."
When this involves a weight-bearing bony surface, the compressive forces on this weakened portion of bone may cause it to collapse, meaning flatten or indent. "Subchondral" means "beneath cartilage", and refers to bone underlying a layer of cartilage.
The MRI finding that the "medial meniscus was abnormal and partially resected" is what is expected following partial removal of the medial (inner, as opposed to lateral or outer) meniscus.
Treatment options for your particular situation should be discussed with your orthopedist. The "stage" of osteonecrosis, along with the exact location and extent of involvement, will determine whether nonsurgical or further surgical treatment options would be most appropriate for you, and depending on what's decided, the degree to which your future sports participation should be restricted.
Low impact or nonimpact sports will most likely still be an option for you. If high impact sports involving jumping and cutting are what you prefer, returning to and then continuing to participate in such activities after the removal of the majority of your meniscus would not typically be recommended, but again, these considerations all need to be discussed with your orthopedist.
Brian L Bowyer, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University


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Is oneline Perl actually faster than Shell+AWK?
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Dear Guru's
I started learning Shell+AWK to do some data manipulation work on big data a year ago. Recently I read some articles on internet and they all said that Perl is much faster than Shell script. So I wrote the following two brief scripts in order to compare the speed.
However, the Perl results is very disappointed; it shows that the oneline Perl command is even slower than Shell + awk command.
The following scripts are designed to output records with p.value < 0.05. It will go through 50,000 txt files. Each file contains 10,000 records with two column, p.value and ID.
### AWK (took ~3 hours) ###
for i in file_num*.txt
awk 'BEGIN{OFS="\t"}{if($1<=0.05) print $1,$2}' $i
>> ./pvalue/output.txt
### PERL oneline (took more than 5 hours)###
for i in in file_num*.txt
perl -lane '$F[0] <= 0.05 ? print "$F[0]\t$F[1]" :
continute;' $i
>> ./pvalue/output.txt
My questions are
(a) Is "oneline" Perl command not equal to real Perl script?
(b) Only for data manipulation, is simply AWK better than Perl?
(c) Will it be worth learning and writing C code to do data manipulation? I know it's gonna be very difficult but it can save me a lot of time in the future doing data manipulation because no language can be faster than C?
Any suggestion or feedback will be deeply appreciated!!
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The start up cost of the perl interpreter is greater than awk. You need to rework your test so that the perl one liner is not being run inside a shell script loop.
I have not tested this, but give it a try outside of the shell script.
perl -lane 'BEGIN{@ARGV=<file_num*.txt>} print "$F[0]\t$F[1]" if $F[0]<.05'
Answers to your questions:
The interpreter start up cost would be the same, but in nearly all cases the script would be doing more things or do them in a different way.
This question is too vague. In some cases awk would be "better" in other cases perl would be "better".
It's always worth learning another language. The benefits and draw backs you get from writing in C as opposed to perl will depend on the task being done and how fast you need to have to the code completed. It's much faster and easier to write perl scripts than C programs.
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It was implicit in my comment, but just in case you didn't catch my meaning. In your test you were launching the perl interpreter 50,000 times passing in 1 file at a time. In my example I'm launching the interpreter only once and passing in all 50,000 files at once.
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My questions are
(a) Is "oneline" Perl command not equal to real Perl script?
(b) Only for data manipulation, is simply AWK better than Perl?
(c) Will it be worth learning and writing C code to do data manipulation? I know it's gonna be very difficult but it can save me a lot of time in the future doing data manipulation because no language can be faster than C?
It really depends on what you are doing. And you have to compare things that can really be compared.
The shell is really much much slower than Perl, no doubt about it, provided things are used correctly.
About 10 years ago, a colleague of mine and I once had to filter about 100 million records in order to keep only those pertaining to the clients loaded into the test database (about 25% of the full client database). I wrote a Perl program that was loading 500,000 clients into a hash and then reading the records to keep only those of interest. My mistake was to think that the 100 millions records were coming in one big file. The reality turned out to be that the records actually came in tens of thousands of small files. My colleague took my Perl file and then made a shell script to call my Perl program for each incoming file. So that my Perl program had to be compiled and to load the 500,000 clients into memory for each file, which usually had from a few hundreds to a few thousands records. The result was (obviously) devastatingly slow (taking hours). My colleague complained that my Perl program was slow. The program was not slow, the program was just massively misused. When I realized the situation, I changed my Perl script to load only once the relevant customers into the hash, and then process all the files. Once this simple change was done, the filtering of the records took only a couple of minutes.
I think that I can claim that I am really an expert on performance issues on large datasets. And I know that you just can't make general rules.
About ten years ago, I benchmarked a Perl program against an awk program, Perl was at least 5 times faster. I made a similar test recently (different versions of Perl and, much more importantly, different implementations of awk - not the same vendor), Perl was still faster, but only slightly, by a much narrower margin (perhaps 25% only). I do not think that that the Perl performance decreased, but the recent awk implementation was obviously better on AIX than on whatever I has tried ten years ago (most probably Solaris or HP-UX at the time, but I don't remember for sure). Similarly, 10 years ago, Perl was way faster than sed. I recently found cases or very simple scripts where the AIX implementation of sed turned out to be marginally faster than the equivalent Perl program (but only for doing very simple things).
However, generally speaking, and keeping in mind that I am working on extremely large files on a daily basis, Perl is really my tool of choice.
I could give you hundred of examples, but will give you just one from yesterday and today. I was asked to help some colleagues using SQL and VB scripts on an Access database for processing some moderately large data. The process was taking more than 24 hours to execute, and that was not acceptable in the context of the business process. I wrote a Perl program using hashes and working on the original flat files. My program took less than a minute to generate the required output data.
Now, it is obviously possible to write a C program that will be faster than Perl. But you would have first to find the libraries that will offer a good implementation of hashes and of many of the other Perl functionalities that I used. And even then, the C program would still be at least ten or possibly twenty times longer (in terms of the number of lines of code) and probably much more difficult to debug. So that where I spent two days to write the program in Perl, I might have needed a month (possibly more) for the same thing in C. And again, don't think that a C program is by itself faster than a Perl program. It is the case only for extremely well written C programs or very specific CPU-intensive problems where C is faster. I am still using C once in a while for very very specific issues, but Perl gives me much more at least 99.5% of the time.
And, BTW, probably more than 90% of the Human Genome project was done in Perl. C Programs would be faster on these huge amounts of data, but these C programs probably would not be completed before the next ten years. With Perl, the results are already there.
In brief, if you are really working on computationally intensive problems (finding the next prime Mersenne number, multiplying matrices with millions of lines and columns, or preparing weather forecasts), C might be you best friend. For more common problems, Perl will give you far more. Provided you know how to use it.
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Thank you FishMonger & Laurent_R!!
Your professional and quick feedback stop me trying things infinitely..
So my program was starting Perl 50,000 times and that's the reason why the performance was not as good as I expect. I am learning about how to use @ARGV now so that I can feed in all files at once...
Moreover, it seems that Perl can be very powerful in handling large dataset. I used to use R to do input/output and data manipulation work, yet it's no good anymore since I need to start dealing with larger dataset in my work (bioinformatics). I think I will start with Perl Hash table, but probably won't dig too deep on C at current stage.
I am very lucky to find this forum for the Perl beginner
Thanks again for your kind assistance
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