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Lodi man booked at Sac County Jail
A 40-year-old Lodi man was arrested following a chase that took officers from Stockton to Auburn on Saturday night.
David Mohammed Hunter was driving a Ford van on Highway 99 in Stockton when CHP officers tried to pull him over for driving erratically.
Authorities said instead of stopping, Hunter accelerated and continued North to Business 80.
Officers put down spike strips, but Hunter was able to avoid them and got on eastbound Interstate 80.
Hunter was chased up to Auburn where he tried to hit a CHP cruiser and another vehicle on the road, officers said.
Spike strips eventually slowed the suspect down in Auburn, causing him to pull over to the shoulder.
It took a few minutes for Hunter to come out of his car, but officers said he told them he was having a nervous breakdown.
Hunter was booked at the Sacramento County Jail on charges, including resisting arrest and assault with a deadly weapon.
CHP officers told KCRA the van that Hunter was driving is impounded in Sacramento.
Officers would not say what was found inside the van.


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Badgers go for back-to-back Big Ten titles Saturday night in Indianapolis
Cornhuskers look for first Big Ten title
On Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium, No. 14 Nebraska will rely on some of the lessons from losses in the 2009 and 2010 Big 12 title games as they try to claim their first Big Ten crown as they take on the Wisconsin Badgers.
Wisconsin comes into the game after back-to-back losses to the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions and three losses in overtime this season -- two by a field goal, including a 30-27 defeat Sept. 29 at Nebraska.
But the Badgers do have Montee Ball, a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2011 and the new career touchdown leader in the Bowl Subdivision, and he has a long history of performing well with titles at stake. Wisconsin has been to the last two Rose Bowls and is trying to become the first Big Ten team to make three straight trips to Pasadena, Calif., in more than two decades. The feat was last achieved by Michigan following the 1987-89 seasons.
A year ago, Wisconsin passed its initiation into these title games by holding off Michigan State in Indy.
"The thing I remember about that game was the environment was something that every player dreams of. It was great. The lights, the cameras, the energy on our sideline, and we hope it's very similar this weekend," Ball said. "You play on a pro field, so that's very special, and it felt like a bowl game. It was just very fun to be a part of."
Wisconsin made it back to Indy despite losing quarterback Joel Stave with a broken collarbone for the final month of the season and going with little-used Curt Phillips at quarterback. Phillips has been sacked nine times in the last three games, and Badgers linebacker Chris Borland has been bothered by a leg injury.
"They are different situations, and I think we have different teams, too," Borland said comparing this year's trip to Indy against last year. "There's no lull in excitement, though. We do come into this year with five losses, and that's different, but we're not that far off from being undefeated, so I think we'll come into this game with a lot of excitement and try to win our third straight championship."
Despite being one of only seven schools with 800 wins -- they have 856 -- appearing in 34 consecutive bowl games from 1971 to 2003 and winning 43 conference championships, the Cornhuskers (10-2, 7-1) haven't claimed a conference crown since 1999.
It's not been for lack of effort.
In 2009 against Texas, Nebraska started celebrating when Colt McCoy's errant pass sailed out of bounds as time expired. After a replay review, the officials added 1 second to the clock -- enough time for Hunter Lawrence to make a 46-yard field goal as time expired again, sending the unbeaten Longhorns into the national championship game with a 13-12 victory.
A year later, Nebraska was back. This time, they jumped to a 17-0 second-quarter lead against longtime rival Oklahoma, surrendered the lead before halftime, got the lead back on a 42-yard field goal with 8 seconds left in the half, and then got shut out in the second half. Oklahoma hung on for a 23-20 victory in Nebraska's final Big 12 game, preventing the Huskers from reaching a BCS bowl.
So when this week began, Compton and the upperclassmen didn't need any reminders about championship games past.
"It's very motivating for our team and the whole state of Nebraska,. They haven't had a conference championship since 1999, and we're really excited to go out and play for our third one in four years," quarterback Taylor Martinez said. "Hopefully, we can bring this one home."
It's been such a strange year in the Big Ten that Nebraska isn't even facing a ranked opponent in Indy.
The league's best team, No. 4 Ohio State (12-0), can't play because it is ineligible for the postseason under NCAA sanctions. Resurgent Penn State couldn't play, either, because of the same reason. The only other ranked teams in the league, No. 21 Michigan and No. 22 Northwestern, are in the same division as Nebraska, putting the stumbling Badgers (7-5, 4-4) in the title game.
Nebraska, meanwhile, would settle for just one elusive December win.
They should have running back Rex Burkhead, who returned from a sprained left knee last week against Iowa, , and the Cornhuskers have won six straight.
Will it be enough to win a title? The upperclassmen can only hope so.
"It's good to be back in a conference championship game again," Burkhead said. "The first two times we were in it, it was kind of a bum deal. Being part of Coach Bo (Pelini's) first recruiting class, we had it as one of our goals to win a conference championship, and we have a chance to do that."
WISN 12 Sports' Dario Melendez is in Indianapolis for the game and will live reports Friday and Saturday on WISN 12 News.

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I started the year on vacation in sunny Tampa, Florida. Husband and I flew down to meet my dad and my brother for the Outback Bowl - where Michigan State beat Georgia in hands down the most exciting game of football I've ever witnessed. on actual New Year's Day we went to the Salvador Dali museum, which was an all-around amazing experience.
2012 was the year of the nailpolish for me. my essie obsession started the previous fall, but over the year it exploded. I now have 37 bottles of essie. and I love each and every one. this was also the year of what I like to call the "red pants revolution". I got over my fear of being judged and decided to wear what I wanted, even if it meant being overdressed or in head to toe neon. my colored denim collection now includes pants and/or shorts in the following: wine red, mint green, olive green, lemon yellow, bubblegum pink, deep teal, and yellow with white polka-dots. being colorful makes me happy.
our trip to Boston in February was perhaps the most significant event - the one that triggered a huge life-change. I spent a lot of time that week in our hotel room writing and trying to be brave enough to accept that what had once terrified me so much I said I would never do it [moving to Asia] was becoming a reality. but once it was decided, it was a huge weight lifted. Husband and I had been spinning our wheels in the unknown for months... knowing we wanted to move abroad but having no idea where we would end up.
we spent a wonderful few days celebrating [with incredible brunch, mexican, and a bottle of johnny walker blue label] before we had to come home and face the reality of all that needed to be done: passports, visas, moving, packing... deciding what to bring, what to leave, and what to get rid of... quitting our jobs, selling our cars, leaving our family + friends + cats behind.
in our months before we left we tried to spend as much time as possible soaking in what we would miss. a million thanks to all our friends for the memories made... baseball games, concerts, bonfires, going away parties, barbecues, and many many drinks. and our amazing families who took our moving to the other side of the world without [much] complaint.
and then we were here. I know that many things may have been easier had we moved to another country. somewhere I could use my Spanish, anything within the eastern time zone, someplace that takes less time and money to get home from, an English-speaking culture, or Turkey where Husband has spent so much time already. but Taiwan has been good to us. especially in the people we have been lucky to meet here. and regardless of where we go next, this place will always have a piece of my heart.
I won't rehash all the events since moving to Taiwan, but some favorites have been our road trip to Hualien and Taroko Gorge, euchre nights, figuring out how to bake in a toaster oven, learning to scoot, our epic karaoke evening, the daytrip to Yehliu Geopark, painting my chalkboard wall, drinking on the rooftop, exploring the statue garden [post coming soon], and the many dragon-covered temples of our city.
2012, you were an adventure.


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EDITOR'S NOTE- The Tough Customer debuts
Fans of consumer dust-ups can now rejoice. Although Barbara Nordin has left the building, Alan Zimmerman has just arrived.
For five years, the Hook has had the privilege of being Virginia's only newspaper with a column devoted to consumer controversies. And now the torch has been passed.
While Nordin pursues other writing projects, including her recently completed two-part series on the 1996 murders of women that rocked Central Virginia, Alan Zimmerman steps in as The Tough Customer.
Zimmerman has written extensively on consumer and business issues in gigs including at SNL Financial and case-study work for the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.


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Canton Police Sgt. Eric Risner said police received reports of seven accidents around 5:20 p.m. resulting in traffic backing up on I-77. They may have been due to a chain reaction of collisions.
At least 19 accidents took place on Interstate 77 during a 31⁄2-hour period Friday night within city limits and north of the city, a city police supervisor and Ohio Highway Patrol dispatcher said.
Police Sgt. Eric Risner said Canton police responded to 17 crashes on the highway. He said he did not yet have details about the accidents because the police officers who appeared at the scene were so busy handling the crashes that they had not yet returned with their reports.
The cause of the accidents and the severity of people's injuries, if any, is unclear. Police said ODOT officials told them the temperature was well above freezing, and the highway was not icy. On the other hand, conditions were windy.
"There's no logical explanation for it," said Risner, who added that all I-77 lanes were reopened by 9 p.m.
He said a Canton police officer trying to get to work had difficulty getting on the highway at Portage Street NW due to the massive traffic congestion. Similarly, Jackson Township Fire Battalion Chief Sam Mallette said a township ambulance encountered a bottleneck near Mercy Medical Center on I-77 trying to get a patient to the hospital.
North of 38th Street NW, firetrucks with their lights flashing could be seen parked on the southbound shoulder of I-77.
Risner said the earlier accidents may have contributed to the later collisions as police closed lanes and motorists slowed down to look at the crash scene, creating traffic jams that forced drivers to slow down and may have led to more accidents.
One of the early accidents was around 5:25 p.m. on I-77 South near Tuscarawas Street or 12th Street NW, according to the ODOT ohgo.com website. Around that time, it said there had been another crash on I-77 South just south of Everhard Road NW.
By 6 p.m., Risner said, there had been seven crashes. He called for motorists to temporarily avoid Interstate 77 within the city limits.
An Ohio Highway Patrol dispatcher said a Stark County sheriff's deputy and the Plain Township Fire Department responded to a crash involving four or five vehicles at 8:05 p.m. on I-77 near the Belden Village Street NW exit. A sheriff's dispatcher said she had no information about the incident.
The OHP dispatcher said troopers shortly after 8:42 p.m. went to the scene on I-77 around the Everhard Road NW exit, where two vehicles going south had been involved in a minor collision.
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Hearing about a band's influences often used to be the perfect gateway. Like the time you saw Kurt Cobain wearing a Scratch Acid t-shirt, then you listened to them and realised that they are, in fact, one of the greatest bands ever to have picked up instruments, entered a recording studio or performed on stage. But enough about Scratch Acid, as Cloud Nothings have compiled a SoundCloud mixtape of their influences of the new record.
Have a listen below...
Here's what Dylan Baldi had to say about the mixtape:
"While I was writing the songs that would become 'Attack On Memory', I listened almost exclusively to music that was made before I was born. This is a pretty common practice for me, actually, but I took it to a new level while making the record. I more or less memorized every guitar solo on the best Thin Lizzy albums, listened to only The Wipers for about three weeks, and fell asleep to Black Sabbath every night.
This mix condenses my listening habits into an easily digestible "best of," songs that strongly affected what I was thinking while writing my own music. Not to say that every song on 'Attack On Memory' sounds like Killdozer, but I do think that the influence of these particular tracks is often obvious, and hopefully sheds some light on why the new Cloud Nothings album sounds so different from any of the past recordings."
The new Cloud Nothings record, Attack on Memory, is released on February 6 through Wichita Recordings. More information on that here.


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SKANEATELES FALLS, N.Y. (Sept. 17, 8:45 a.m. ET) — Global medical-device and diagnostic equipment manufacturer Welch Allyn Inc. said it plans to reduce its 2,750-person workforce by 10 percent over the next three years, partly triggered by the 2.3 percent excise tax on U.S. medical devices scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1.
The nearly 100-year-old family-owned company said it will close its manufacturing plant in Beaverton, Ore., and consolidate its North American manufacturing at its plant in Tijuana, Mexico, which opened seven years ago, and at its corporate headquarters plant in Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.
The Beaverton location will become one of three new product development and technology centers, with the others being in Skaneateles Falls and in Singapore.
Welch Allyn also said it will open a global finance shared service center for the company in Tijuana.
As part of the restructuring, 160 manufacturing employees in Beaverton and 45 employees in Skaneateles — where the company employs roughly 1,300 — will lose their jobs. The other 75 layoffs are expected to be voluntary buyouts of employees in Skaneateles Falls.
Those changes will reduce the Beaverton workforce to approximately 110.
"These actions will proactively prepare the company to address the onerous U.S. medical-device tax scheduled to begin in 2013 as mandated in the Affordable Care Act, as well as significant changes driven by health-care reform and market dynamics," said the company in a news release announcing the restructuring and the workforce reduction.
Welch Allyn also said it would re-examine its operations in Europe and restructure its operations in Latin America to make them more competitive.
"We firmly believe this restructuring program is the right thing to do for the long-term success of the business," said CEO and President Steve Meyer. "This restructuring plan will help us maintain competitive levels of investment in new products and technologies that are necessary to meet the changing needs of the global health care environment."
Each laid-off employee will receive outplacement service, up to $4,000 in tuition reimbursement, and what the company termed "a generous severance package" — although it did not elaborate.
"We fully recognize the hardship it will cause some of our colleagues in the short term," Meyer said.
Welch Allyn's global headquarters will continue its evolution into a high technology center and capitalize on demand for digitally enabled patient vital signs monitoring systems and diagnostic cardiology product offerings.
The Skaneateles Fall location also will absorb the patient monitoring, systems and low acuity vital signs product manufacturing operations from its Beaverton facility, the company said.
The Tijuana operations will absorb additional thermometer-probe cover, lamp and some blood-pressure cuff manufacturing operations currently done in Skaneateles Falls.


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So despite reports of general good temperament (at least compared to Beijing) we had a few incidents with the equestrian horses provided for the modern pentathlon event. The first, of course, is our rodeo moment, but sometimes the horses decide to jump fences that aren't even part of the course, as this one did during the women's competition yesterday. It sent volunteers scattering and the horse, presumably, to the exit. Or maybe the spotted dick factory.
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I'm currently in need an explicit formula in classical cohomology which I'm pretty sure is well known, but which I've been unable to find in the references I am aware of.
Let $X$ be a smooth manifold and let $\mathcal{U}=\{U_\alpha\}$ be a fixed open cover of $X$ such that all the finite intersections $U_{\alpha_1}\cap\cdots U_{\alpha_n}$ are contractible. Consider the following two cochain complexes:
the de Rham complex $\Omega^\bullet(X)$ of $X$
the total complex of the Cech-de Rham bicomplex $\Omega^\bullet(\mathcal{U}_\bullet)$.
The restriction of a global form on $X$ to the open sets $U_\alpha$ gives a linear map
$j: \Omega^\bullet(X) \to Tot^\bullet(\Omega^\bullet(\mathcal{U}_\bullet))$
which, if I'm not wrong here, is a injective quasi-isomorphism of cochain complexes. I've been able to prove this (if I've not made mistakes), by brute force: i.e. by showing that $j$ is bijective in cohomology. But I'd like to have a fancier proof by writing an explicit "globalization" morphism
$\pi : Tot^\bullet(\Omega^\bullet(\mathcal{U}_\bullet)) \to \Omega^\bullet(X)$
such that
$\pi j= id_{\Omega^\bullet(X)}$
$j \pi = id_{Tot^\bullet(\Omega^\bullet(\mathcal{U}_\bullet))} + [d_{tot},K]$
with $K$ some explicit morphism of graded vector spaces $Tot^\bullet(\Omega^\bullet(\mathcal{U}_\bullet)) \to Tot^\bullet(\Omega^\bullet(\mathcal{U}_\bullet))[-1]$.
I guess one should be able to build $K$ by using a partition of the unit subordinate to the cover $\mathcal{U}$, but somehow I got lost in the computation. Since I feel this should be a well known fact, I'm asking here for direct references before attempting back to write $K$ myself.


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Winter's wrath
Arctic blast leaves 64,000 co-op members in the dark from Branson to the Bootheel
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Miles of leaning and downed poles like these Ozark Border lines near Qulin formed an iconic image of the ice storm's aftermath. Linemen who worked repairs in the Gulf States said the destruction rivaled damage caused by hurricanes.
Electricity: You take it for granted. You flip the switch and the light comes on. But then an outage occurs and the light doesn't respond to the switch. Creatures of habit, we continue to flip the switch knowing nothing will happen.
That was the experience for 64,000 rural Missourians who suffered through one of the most damaging acts of nature ever to strike the state.
The ice storm that hit in waves beginning Jan. 26 affected fewer people than previous outages.
But in terms of destruction, this one takes the cake. With damage estimates exceeding $144 million, broken poles topping 17,000 and the length of the outage — more than three weeks — setting new records, the January 2009 ice storm will go down in history as the worst ever for the state's electric cooperatives.
From Branson to the Bootheel, five cooperatives saw significant destruction with as much as 4 inches of ice forming on lines. The heavy weight of ice, estimated at 10,000 pounds per span, snapped poles, caused wire to sag and toppled trees into power lines.
Worse, this storm brought down large portions of the transmission grid owned by M&A Electric Power Co-op.
So many lines were down for M&A, which supplies power to four southeast Missouri electric cooperatives, that dispatchers ran out of the yellow magnets used to show open breakers on a map of its lines. M&A lost 39 of its 75 substations and was faced with replacing 2,400 poles.
The shattered remains of this transmission line show the severity of the storm.
The H structures that hold up its high-voltage lines looked like a crop duster had flown down the middle, taking out crossarms, braces and the tops of poles. In the flat Bootheel, toppled power lines could be seen all the way to the horizon.
"This was our Katrina," Rob Land told the board of directors at the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives. Land, who coordinates finding help for electric co-ops in harm's way, was practically on his hands and knees that day, begging for another eight bucket trucks and men to meet a request from hard-hit SEMO Electric.
Land and his staff convinced cooperatives across Missouri and from Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana and Mississippi to send crews to the Bootheel and the south-central Ozarks. When that wasn't enough, they worked with Ameren UE to retain contract linemen released by the investor-owned utility.
In all, more than 3,000 men and their equipment came to the aid of the systems involved. Together, they accomplished the daunting task of replacing in weeks what it took 75 years to build.
Here's a co-op by co-op look at what it took to complete the restoration effort, which ended Feb. 18.
White River Valley Electric, Branson
At the peak of the storm, White River Valley had around 7,400 outages. The first of the five cooperatives to restore power, White River Valley saw all members back on in six days.
"Number-wise, it's not the biggest outage we have had," says Jeff Pardeck, manager of member services. "But I don't recall seeing that much ice in the 19-plus years I've worked here."
Employees of Ozark Border Electric fielded calls from members around the clock. Left:
With plenty of advance warning of the storm from the National Weather Service, the cooperative had all of its employees on standby.
"We were prepared, waiting for it to happen, but we thought it would happen on Monday, Jan. 26," Pardeck says. "We had crews that hung around all night, but nothing happened."
Sleet and ice fell, but the lines initially stood the strain. The next morning, there were only scattered outages across the system.
Then came Round 2. The first reports of outages came in around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, and steadily built throughout the day.
Crews, aided by 55 contractors, made great progress until about Thursday when ice started melting. As the ice fell off, trees snapped into lines, and the lines themselves, free from the heavy weight, began galloping.
"There was one 24-hour period where literally the numbers never changed," Pardeck recalled. "You would get a line back up and you would leave and 30 minutes later you would have that same line go down."
Ultimately, the hard work gained the upper hand, temperatures moderated and the power was restored. Looking back, Pardeck saw many good deeds. "The thing that sticks out the most, it was amazing how many members would bring the linemen food or something to drink or just try to make the situation more pleasant."
Howell-Oregon Electric, West Plains
Employees of Howell-Oregon thought the cooperative would dodge the bullet. Early on, only sleet fell across the system, knocking out power to around 300 members, nothing the co-op's crews couldn't handle.
Glen Ward, a lineman for Ozark Border Electric Cooperative, works to clear icy limbs from a line west of Dexter.
"I think it was around 3 o'clock on Tuesday, the temperature warmed up to 29 degrees and the sleet changed to freezing rain," says Dan Singletary, manager. "We stood in the dispatch room and for the next two and a half hours, we watched feeders just start clicking off on our system. All we needed was a few more hours and we would have come out of this OK."
Instead, heavy ice blanketed the system. "We had two things happening," Singletary says. "We had ice loading. When it got to an inch or bigger, that's when things started going down. The system did really well up to that point.
"The other thing, we had trees fall that were located out of our right of way. Just the weight of ice on them caused them to come crashing down on the power lines."
Like all of Missouri's electric co-ops, Howell-Oregon has an emergency plan in place. Singletary says the cooperative's plan worked well.
"I got my linemen in and we started making plans before it hit," he says. "I told them we are planning for 20 poles to go down and we are planning for 2,000 poles to go down. So we were arranging for crews and material before the storm even hit us."
Even spouses were brought into the effort, with the manager's wife cooking for linemen several times. "We had all sorts of volunteers," Singletary says. "It was a true community effort."
Crews worked late into the night on Saturday, Feb. 7, and the cooperative managed to reenergize all of its members the next day.
SEMO Electric, Sikeston
A lineman from Barton County Electric Co-op works from a bucket truck to repair damage to this line owned by Ozark Border Electric.
With so many miles of line on the ground, SEMO Electric Cooperative's Manager of Communications Glen Cantrell likened the effort to building a new power line from St. Louis to Memphis — in two weeks.
The cooperative seemed to have turned a corner on Feb. 10 when it saw outages dip from a high of 11,000 to below 700. Then powerful winds blew into the area.
With gusts up to 60 mph pounding the service area, SEMO's staff watched outage totals bounce all over the place. Crews would energize a line, only to see another go down in a day of chasing their tails.
The soft, sandy soil of the area liquefied under the double burden of melted ice and rain. Poles recently replaced once again toppled to the ground. In some areas, poles that withstood the burden of ice toppled into the mud due to the wind.
Jerry Dockins, a 24-year veteran of the co-op, was amazed at the destruction he saw. "I thought the ice storm of 2008 was the worst one I would ever see. 2008 was a piece of cake compared to this one.
"I talked to an old man who is 91 years old and he was born and raised at Kewanee. He said he has never in his life seen anything as bad as this ice storm. He would know."
To repair its 5,000 broken poles, the cooperative enlisted the help of more than 850 additional linemen. Power was restored to all members on Monday, Feb. 16. However, work on agricultural loads will continue.
Ozark Border Electric, Poplar Bluff
As the ice began to melt, mud became the enemy. Only tracked vehicles could move across the muddy fields to repair the downed lines.
"I've never seen anything like this," says Ozark Border Manager Stanley Estes, who has worked for the cooperative for 32 years. "It is by far the worst. We've got 170 of these Pike linemen who work a lot of hurricanes. The co-op linemen, they say the same thing. This damage is as bad as you see in a hurricane if not worse."
For emphasis, Estes points to the 3,000 poles the co-op lost. That compares to 1,000 replaced by Dixie Electric, a Louisiana co-op helped by Ozark Border after Hurricane Katrina.
At the peak of the storm, more than 28,000 here were without power. Employees, most without power themselves, worked around the clock for the first few days in order to get ahead of the outages. One room was devoted to a bank of phones, and office staff worked in shifts to handle the thousands of outage calls.
On Feb. 11, outages were under 1,000. Then powerful winds tore through the service area. Poles previously replaced leaned or fell down in the waterlogged soil. Three substations and five feeder lines went down.
While the new problems were quickly repaired, crews lost two days. Power was finally restored on Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Pemiscot-Dunklin Electric, Hayti
A weary Tim Davis, operations manager for Pemiscot-Dunklin Electric Cooperative, directed more than 1,000 line workers sent to help restore power.
By far the worst damage was in the two Bootheel counties served by Pemiscot-Dunklin Electric. When roads were cleared enough for an assessment, Manager Charles Crawford found 90 percent of the system on the ground and hardly a meter on.
Those without power included all of the cooperative's employees and the cooperative's office.
Two weeks later, only three of the cooperative's substations had power to them due to the massive amount of damage done to the transmission lines. Service had been returned to 2,000 members, but each one came at great difficulty with trucks drug through flooded rice fields.
Broken poles are expected to total more than 9,000. And the 1,000 additional crew members marks the largest mobilization of men and equipment sent to a Missouri electric co-op.
To house this army, the cooperative turned to the University of Missouri Delta Center and the New Madrid Power Plant.
Crawford, a 26-year veteran of the cooperative, says the destruction done to the Pemiscot-Dunklin system is the worst he has ever seen. "It's just un-real," he says.
Poles came uprooted. Poles that were new broke. Poles that could not hold the weight of the ice broke. Lines came down. This was a hundred year storm."
He called the effort to restore power "miraculous." After three-weeks of all-out effort, the cooperative saw power restored to members on Feb. 18.


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Mobile operators face a number of game-changing challenges, including an explosion in data usage, as handset vendors corner the market for applications. Plans to deal with these issues could prove to be a boon for consumers, but also stand a chance of annoying them.
It is clear operators are barely coping with huge increases in data traffic, and the situation is only going to get worse as waves of new smartphones and tablets appear, according to Shaun Collins, managing director at market research company CCS Insight.
Technology such as Wi-Fi and femtocells, as well as network improvements like fiber backhaul and the rollout of WiMax and LTE (Long-Term Evolution), will help clear data-transmission bottlenecks. But operators also need to directly address the source of the problem, and that means putting controls on data traffic to throttle demand, Collins said.
Operators including AT&T in the U.S., KDDI in Japan and Vodafone in Europe have all underlined the need for new pricing schemes that address heavy users of mobile data. But there have been few details on what that would actually mean.
Subscriptions will come with more controls, limits and payment parameters, expects Richard Webb, directing analyst at market research company Infonetics. Some heavy users are going to be disappointed because they won't be able to do what they used to, or will have to pay more for what they used to get, Webb said.
The flip side is that the changes will probably benefit normal users, who today run the risk of having their access slowed down, for example, by people who download music all day, Webb said. New controls and payment plans may allow normal users to get better and more consistent access, while having the option to pay for a higher priority when desired, he said.
One of the ways operators seem to want to tackle the data issue is by using quality of service mechanisms to offer differentiated classes of mobile broadband subscriptions, similar to an airline that allows travelers to choose between economy, business or first class, according to Webb. Wireless users in a lower class and with a lower monthly cost could get better access for a limited time by hitting a "turbo button" and paying a one-time fee, he said.
Alcatel-Lucent's CEO Ben Verwaayen thinks operators should rethink the notion of just charging for capacity and data. Most people don't understand what a gigabyte of data allowance means, according to Verwaayen. Instead, operators should look at charging extra for services, he said.
For example, a user may be willing to pay an extra US$0.50 per month for an alert on something that is important to them wherever they are. "That is perceived value and has nothing to do with bandwidth. But then you have to market it in a way that people understand the added value," said Verwaayen.
When operators start implementing tiered services, they have to be careful to not over-promise what users will get, because doing that is part of the nature of mobile operators, according to Collins.
How far operators actually dare to stray from existing pricing models, or are allowed to do so by possible network neutrality rules, remains to be seen.
The Swedish-Finnish venture TeliaSonera, which is so far the only operator that has launched mobile broadband services based on LTE, has taken a cautious approach, and will charge subscribers 599 Swedish Kronor (US$80) per month for 30GB of data, compared to 319 Swedish Kronor for 20GB using HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access). LTE is a premium service with higher speeds -- between 20M bps (bits per second) and 80M bps compared to up to 10M bps -- that users will have to pay more for, according to Indra
TeliaSonera wanted its first LTE-based subscription to be something that users recognize, and is as easy as possible to understand, according to
In theory, having as many options as possible is a good thing for consumers, but operators also run the risk of confusing them, according to
Higher mobile speeds -- using not only LTE, but also WiMax and HSPA+ -- will let users do more with their smartphones, tablets and laptops. The way people use such devices is changing also thanks to a growing number of available applications that let users do everything from sleep-pattern monitoring to visualizing where the Berlin Wall was located.
Today, that market is dominated by Apple and Google, but operators are hoping to change that by working together within the Wholesale Applications Community. The organization, announced in February, boasts 24 mobile operators in its member roster, including AT&T, China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telef
The group aims to let developers create applications that can be sold in all the members' application stores and run on high-end smartphones as well as cheaper handsets. The first applications based on the work done by the Wholesale Applications Community will arrive in February next year, but meanwhile developers can get to work in September, the organization said on May 5.
The fact that the Wholesale Applications Community is proposing a model that spans multiple phone vendors could be great for consumers, since it would allow them to take their applications with them when they switch from one phone maker to another, according to Webb.
"At the moment, people are locked into their iPhones. Even those who are frustrated are sticking with it, because they have spent money on applications, and can't move them to a handset from HTC," said Webb.
Whether they are already too far behind to be able to catch up to Apple and Google remains to be seen, according to Webb. Collins agrees: The operators have a long way to go before they can convince developers that the Wholesale Applications Community is as attractive as the iPhone or the Android platform, he said.
The Wholesale Applications Community is also looking to lure developers by simplifying access to the network APIs (application programming interfaces) at multiple operators, which, for example, would let them access billing features.
There is also a lot that can be done with micropayments using the billing relationship that the operators already have with subscribers, according to Collins.
"These are the seeds of the future of mobile ... If the mobile phone isn't at the center of your life, it is inevitably going to become so," said Collins.


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Goodyear Ballpark
1933 S. Ballpark Way
Goodyear, AZ 85338
Ballpark Operations: 623.882.3120
Ticket Office: 623.882.3130
Player Development Complex
(all Indians mail must be directed here)
2601 S Wood Blvd.
Goodyear, AZ 85338
ACCESSIBLE PARKING/DROP-OFF: Goodyear Ballpark was built to comply with the rules and regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Seating, restrooms, concession stands and drinking fountains have all been designed to provide comfortable access to all. Any persons with disabilities needing a wheelchair may request assistance at the Guest Services booth in the Home Plate Plaza. Accessible parking is available in the lot across from the Third Base Entrance (Lot 3). Drop off is also available at the Third Base Entrance.
AISLE POLICY: As a courtesy to others, guests are asked to refrain from walking or standing in aisles during play.
ALCOHOL SALES: Goodyear Ballpark offers a variety of alcoholic beverages for sale. Guests must be 21 to purchase any alcoholic beverages. Alcohol sales will end at the bottom of the seventh inning. All alcohol must remain inside the ballpark.
ANIMALS: Guests are not permitted to bring animals into Goodyear Ballpark unless they are certified service animals for persons with disabilities. Animals are permitted on the practice fields, but must be on a leash.
ATM MACHINES: ATMs are located in the ballpark at Home Plate Plaza near guest services and on First and Third Base concourses.
AUTOGRAPHS: During a ballpark game, autographs are available from players choosing to sign until the start of the national anthem. At that time, ushers will inform guests to return to their assigned seats. Autographs are also available from players choosing to sign during team practices. Practices are normally held during the morning hours at the Development Complex practice fields. Promotional autograph days will be listed on the Web site.
AUTOMOBILE ASSISTANCE: Guests experiencing minor automotive problems (jumpstart, flat tire, etc.) while at Goodyear Ballpark should proceed to Guest Services for assistance.
BABY STROLLERS: Baby strollers are to be folded and positioned under the railings behind accessible seating sections. Strollers must not impede or interfere with any guest walking in the seating bowl.
BAGS AND PURSES: Guests are welcome to bring small bags and purses into the ballpark, as long as their dimensions do not exceed the 16" x 16" x 8" Major League Baseball size requirement. All bags are subject to search upon entry to the ballpark.
BANNERS AND SIGNS: Banners and signs are welcome as long as they are not commercial, political, derogatory or obscene in nature and do not interfere with the game and/or block the view of any other guest.
BOTTLED WATER: One factory-sealed plastic water bottle (non-carbonated and colorless water only) not exceeding one liter in size per guest may be brought into the ballpark.
CAMERAS & VIDEO EQUIPMENT: Non-commercial cameras and video recording devices may be brought into the ballpark. Guests should not obstruct the views of others while using this equipment and should refrain from using any camera support equipment such as tripods.
CHILD LOCATOR WRISTBANDS: our young fans are encouraged to stop by Guest Services to pick up a Child Locator Wristband, which will include the child's ticket location and/or a contact phone number in case the child gets separated from his/her party.
CLUB SEATING: Sections 106A, 106B and 107A are located under a canopy and are entirely shaded. Club seats are wider, padded and offer in-seat wait service.
CODE OF CONDUCT: No one is allowed on the ballpark field at any time without proper credentials. If anyone enters onto the field without proper credentials, he/she will be immediately ejected from the ballpark without a refund. The same ejection rule applies for the practice fields. Anyone using obscene or abusive language or causing any type of discomfort to the guests around them will be asked by Goodyear Ballpark personnel to cease this conduct. If the offensive conduct persists, those involved will be subject to ejection from the ballpark without a refund.
COMMENT CARDS: Comment cards are available at Guest Services located in the Home Plate Plaza.
CONCEALED WEAPONS: In accordance with A.R.S. § 13-3102 and A.R.S. § 4-229, firearms and deadly weapons are prohibited from entering the Ballpark. All guests entering the facility are subject to metal detection entry screening.
CONCESSIONS: Professional Sports Catering is the contracted concessionaire at Goodyear Ballpark. There are four signature fixed concessions stands throughout the ballpark as well as 24 portable sales units with a variety of food and beverage offerings. Portable stands include items such as nachos, frozen treats, margaritas, specialty burgers, ice cream, cotton candy and kettle corn.
COOLERS: Soft-sided coolers not exceeding 16" x 16" x 8" may be brought into the ballpark and are subject to search. Hard-sided coolers are prohibited.
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS: For sponsorship and advertising opportunities at Goodyear Ballpark, please call (623) 882-3120.
CREDIT CARDS: All major credit cards are accepted at the Ticket Office, Team Shops and concession stands.
DIAPER CHANGING STATIONS: Diaper changing stations are available in all public and family restrooms in Goodyear Ballpark.
From I-10 westbound
- Take exit 127 (Bullard Avenue) and proceed South for approximately 2.5 miles. The ballpark will be located on your right.
From I-10 eastbound
- Take exit 126 (Estrella Parkway) and proceed South for approximately 2.5 miles. The ballpark will be located on your left.
DRINKING FOUNTAINS: Drinking fountains may be found near each of the restrooms.
ELEVATORS: Goodyear Ballpark is equipped with two elevators. The elevator in the Home Plate Tower provides access to Suite and Terrace level ticket holders, team/ballpark staff and media personnel only. The other elevator is located at the Right Field Pavilion, providing access to the Premium Field Box seating area on the first-base side.
- Home Plate Plaza Entrance
- Located at the intersection of Ballpark and Festival ways, just east of Estrella Parkway.
- First Base Plaza Entrance
- Located on Festival Way, between Estrella Parkway and Wood Boulevard.
- Third Base Plaza Entrance
- Located on Ballpark Way, between Goodyear Boulevard and Festival Way.
- Outfield Plaza Entrance
- Located on Goodyear Boulevard, just east of Estrella Parkway.
FIRST AID: The first aid station is located inside the Home Plate Entrance across from the Team Shop.
FOUL BALLS: Guests are welcome to keep any foul ball hit into the stands. At no time should a foul ball be thrown back on the playing field. Violators will be subject to ejection.
GATES OPEN: Ballpark gates normally open 90 minutes prior to game time. Practice field gates normally open at 9 a.m. daily.
GROUP TICKETS: Discounts are available for groups purchasing 20 or more tickets, subject to availability. Group tickets are available in the Suites, Terrace, Right Field Pavilion, Party Patio, Club Seating, Infield Box, Outfield Box, Outfield Reserved and Berm seating areas. Please contact the Ticket Office for more information at (623) 882-3130.
GUEST SERVICES: Guests with questions, comments and concerns may seek assistance at the Guest Services booth, located on the concourse behind home plate. Guest Services is open from the time gates open until the crowd departs.
KIDS ZONE: Located on the First Base concourse, the Kids Zone includes interactive inflatable activities and a children-sized Wiffle Ball field.
INJURY DISCLAIMER: The holder of a ticket voluntarily assumes all risk and danger of personal injury and all hazards arising from or related in any way to the event for which it is issued, whether occurring prior to, during, or after the event.
LOST AND FOUND: Lost and found inquiries can be directed to Guest Services or by calling (623) 882-3120.
LOST CHILDREN OR COMPANIONS: In the event of a lost child or companion, please proceed to Guest Services for assistance.
NATIONAL ANTHEM PERFORMERS: Those interested in performing the national anthem should submit their information and audition through goodyearbp.com.
NON-GAME DAY EVENTS: Goodyear Ballpark is available for community, private and corporate events such as team buildings, workshops, concerts, arts and crafts festivals, tournaments and more. For more information and rental pricing, please call (623) 882-3120.
NURSING MOTHERS: Mothers who need nursing accommodations may use the family restrooms located on either the first or third base side of the concourse.
OFFICIAL GAME: A game is considered official after 4 1/2 innings have been completed.
PAGING: Requests for paging are only honored in the event of an extreme emergency.
PARKING: Ballpark parking is $5 for cars and $10 per RV. There is no overnight parking on site. There are no refunds once a vehicle has been parked. Vehicles are parked at their own risk. The City of Goodyear is not responsible for stolen or damaged vehicles. Parking Diagram »
PAY PHONES: There are no pay phones in the ballpark. Guests needing to use a telephone may proceed to Guest Services.
PRESS BOX: The press box is located on Level 2. This area is restricted to members of the media, team and working staff, and those who have proper ballpark credentials.
PROGRAMS: Official souvenir programs are available at all Goodyear Ballpark games and may be purchased throughout the concourse and in the team shops.
RE-ENTRY: Those guests who need to leave the ballpark, but plan to re-enter, must have their hand stamped in order to regain entrance back into the ballpark. Re-entry access is available at all gates.
R.V. PARKING: R.V. parking is available in overflow parking on Wood Boulevard across from the Cleveland Indians Development Complex. Overnight parking is prohibited.
SAFE SITTING ZONES: Guests attending a game who would like to reduce their risk of being struck by a flying object from the field have the opportunity to change their seating assignment, based on availability. However, no seat in the ballpark can be guaranteed to be completely safe from such flying objects.
SCOREBOARD MESSAGES: Goodyear Ballpark offers the opportunity to relay anniversary or birthday messages on the scoreboard. For a $25 fee, a message will be shown during the sixth inning. Inquiries should be directed to Guest Services. Requests may be filled out until the 3rd inning.
SMOKING POLICY: In accordance with the laws of Arizona, fans are not permitted to smoke or use tobacco products anywhere on Goodyear Ballpark property. Electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes), vapor cigarettes or devices that mimic smoking are also prohibited. Goodyear Ballpark is a non-smoking facility. Fans may use the re-entry available at the Center Field, Third Base or First Base Gates to smoke outside the ballpark.
SUITES: Four suites are available for rental on a per-game or per-season basis. Each suite holds 15 people, and two to four suites may be combined to accommodate larger groups. Suite rental price includes food. For more information or to rent a suite, please call (623) 882-3130.
TAILGATING: Tailgating in ballpark parking lots is restricted to guests' own parking spaces in front of or behind their vehicles. Gas grills only.
TEAM SHOPS: The main Team Shop is located at the Home Plate Entrance, and three smaller locations are located at the First Base, Third Base and Outfield Entrances.
TERRACE LEVEL: Located on the third floor behind home plate, this exclusive area accommodates up to 90 people and tickets include game entry, food and fountain beverages, access to a cash bar and private restroom facilities. The Terrace offers some of the best views of the ballpark.
UMBRELLAS: Guests may bring personal small umbrellas not exceeding 36 inches in diameter into the Goodyear Ballpark as long as they do not interfere with other guests' view or enjoyment of the game. Umbrellas larger than 36" are prohibited.
WHEELCHAIRS: Guests needing wheelchair assistance may be taken to and from their seats. Wheelchairs are available at each of the entrance gates.


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Brennan: NFL can take the lead vs. domestic violence
- Domestic violence has been lost in the discussion after Belcher's murder-suicide
- More women are affected by domestic violence than breast cancer
- The Chiefs have been appropriate in the way they have not glorified Belcher the player
One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by a partner each year. Women between the ages of 20-24 are at the greatest risk of nonfatal partner violence. Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police.
We're all about statistics in sports. Life too, for that matter. These stats from the U.S. government and other agencies don't get as much attention as, say, quarterback ratings or yards per carry.
Perhaps that will always be the case.
Then again, perhaps not.
The National Football League has been given a great opportunity this week. A tragedy of immense national importance has occurred within its midst, the murder of a young mother by her football-playing boyfriend, followed by his suicide in the parking lot of the facility where he practiced for four years as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Despite the intense focus on this murder-suicide, incidents such as these are not just the NFL's problem, of course. But the NFL could become a big part of their solution.
Whether the Chiefs' home game the next day against the Carolina Panthers should have been played is now a moot point, because it was. In those early hours after the tragedy, though, the NFL exhibited a sensibility that should give it a road map for how to move ahead on domestic violence awareness and prevention in the months and years ahead.
There was a moment of silence at Arrowhead Stadium before the game on Sunday, but it wasn't for Jovan Belcher, the man who murdered the mother of his 3-month-old daughter, Zoey. It was for the mother, 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins, and every other victim of domestic violence.
While the Chiefs did create a memorial of sorts by hanging Belcher's jersey in his empty locker, his teammates did not wear the now-customary patches on their jerseys or decals on their helmets in memory of Belcher. There clearly was no reason to give such an honor to a murderer.
That was a good start, but now it's time for the NFL to do more, much more. We have become quite familiar with the league's color scheme in October. It's a whole lot of pink, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Love it or hate it, you notice it, and that's the point.
October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The color for that is purple. Next season, in October, a week shouldn't go by without some teams appearing trimmed in purple, while others are decked out in the usual pink.
It might sound trivial, all this pink and purple splashed around the league, but it clearly makes a statement that this matters to the powers that be in our national pastime, which is football. Nothing reaches the nation's young male demographic, the exact audience that is so vital to stopping domestic violence, like the NFL. There should be public-service announcements, significant community outreach and corporate partnerships that benefit victims of domestic violence. NFL games are the ideal vehicle to finally begin a serious, long-term, national conversation on this issue.
What's more, the league has reported for years that 40% of its fan base is female. It's not only the right thing for the league to be awash in pink, it's also the smart thing. The same goes for the issue of domestic violence and all that purple that should be forthcoming.
"Breast cancer is a huge issue and we would never want to take away awareness for that," Rita Smith, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said in a phone interview Wednesday. "But domestic violence actually affects more women in this country."
In response to an e-mail she sent to the NFL after the Kansas City tragedy, Smith has heard back from the league indicating interest in discussing "possible educational opportunity."
For that, she is heartened. There would be no better partner for her cause.
"The amount of influence the NFL can have on the way people think would be very significant," she said. "It would be great to identify certain players who are really good role models, good members of their communities, good family men, and have them speak out to start to influence people's attitudes in stopping domestic violence."
The league already counsels its players in mandatory sessions on all kinds of issues, including domestic violence. It has given money to charities involved with the cause. One of its players, Eli Manning, appeared in a White House video on dating violence.
That's all well and good, but it's not enough. This is an issue that's screaming out for the league's serious attention. It's well past time that it received it.


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A very detailed talk on the cause of the current world financial crisis that starts off by explaining the background economics in an easy to understand manner, moves on to the role the war and other events apart from the sub-prime crash played and concludes with a look at what opportunities have been created for anarchist by this sequence of events.
This talk has been made available in a range of formats as described below, if you view the youtube video file please follow the direct link below and rate it. The talk was recorded at a Dublin WSM meeting on October 1st.
mp3 file - should be playable by just about anything but no images, you can view the images at indymedia.ie, url below. The mp3 is at http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/oct2008/economicscr...y.mp3
m4a file - best choice for iPods as the screen will show the slides in sync with the audio - http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/oct2008/economicscr...y.m4a
Both of these files don't include the post talk discussion, this is available as an mp3 at http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/oct2008/economicscr...n.mp3
This audio was first posted to indymedia where you can view the slides at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89311
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Hi - I've just discovered this talk (www.anarkismo.net/article/10063) and while I've only skipped through it, it's fantastic! As one who still thinks of wee bushes when someone says 'hedge fund' it was certainly enlightening and entertaining. Who is the speaker? Does he ever come to Scotland? I give talks on peak oil and the need to reduce energy demand and am trying to get head around financial situation. Pass on my thanks to the speaker anyway.
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If there had to be a preview for the two mini games that the Library at Carnegie Mellon University just released through their cleverly labeled "Library Arcade" that would be it. Thank you John Fudrow for passing along the link and information about the launch of the games.
Max has some work to do and he needs your help. Max is ordinary student who has procrastinated his research paper until the last day but before he can get started on his paper his needs to help his fellow students and the library. Help Max organize a shelving cart of books by subject and LC call number as he races against the clock. Next Max needs to answer the reference questions of other students before he can get started on his own work, but the demands of time and deadlines force Max to "serve" as many patrons as possible. Test out your library skills and help Max complete his work.
Daniel Hood an Information Literacy Fellow and a small group of librarians worked with a graduate class from Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center to develop and create an information game. I talked with Daniel back at May's LOEX conference in San Diego and just recently followed up about the progress of the game and the development process. I'll blog about that tomorrow, but before I get into those details I want to highlight the end product. The production values of both games are great and really have that "just one more try / one more level" feel that makes casual game so enticing and addictive.
There are two mini games available: "I'll Get It" & "Within Range." "I'll Get It" (shown on the right) plays very much like the classic casual game Diner Dash, and that's a good thing. You play as Max, a student helping other students answer reference questions on a variety of subjects. You "conduct" searches at a computer terminal and find a handful of results from various sources (books, articles, & websites). The task is to answer each students' question with the appropriate resource.
The game plays out exactly like Diner Dash making it easy for any student to jump in and play. The interface is completely mouse driven and there are hints available at any time. The player clicks on each table to get the reference question, navigates back to the computer to conduct a search. The results of the search (on the right) show the question at the bottom and the four potential sources in windows above the shelves (printed books and articles) and the public computer (internet resources). The player needs to determine which source best meets the need, retrieve it, and bring it to the patron. As shown in the screen shots, NPC students display a face over the head that represents their pleasure/anger level. Similar to Diner Dash (and real life), the longer a patron waits the more angry they become. The pace of patrons coming and going picks up as the game progresses. Too many "red faced" anger patrons and it's game over.
The second game, "Within Range" is much simpler and straightforward. Max needs to put the books back on the shelving cart in the correct LC order. The player races against the clock to put all the books away in order to move onto higher levels. Call numbers start simple and then before more complex. Higher levels include just subject (on the left wall) descriptions and require the player to place it accordingly.
Again the gameplay in simpler than "I'll Get It" but the interface is intuitive. There are hints available in this game as well.
I'll write more of my impressions later, but in the meantime check out the Library Arcade for yourself.


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Oregon Focus: People to Know: Captain Meriwether Lewis
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Captain Meriwether Lewis. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)
Meriwether Lewis was born in Virginia in 1774 not far from the home of Thomas Jefferson. Their families were good friends.
In 1794 he enlisted in an expedition to quell the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania, and then joined the regular army in 1797.
President Jefferson chose Lewis to be his private secretary in 1801. This led to his appointment as head of an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory in 1803. Lewis then chose his friend Captain William Clark to co-lead the effort.
The expedition set out from St. Louis, Missouri in 1804 and arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River where they wintered in 1805. Their camp was called Fort Clatsop. It was located just south of Fort Astoria, and was chosen because hunting was good and the ocean was nearby for gathering salt. In fact, the site of the salt cairn can be seen today at Seaside -- a pile of rocks on which the fire was built. Ocean water was boiled constantly to evaporate the water and leave the salt.
The route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Image courtesy Florentine Films)
During the expedition, Lewis proved to be a resourceful and brave leader. Among the Native Americans, he was called "Long Knife." He reported that the Native Americans with whom he dealt and who he put in charge of various jobs such as supplies and horses, were very trustworthy and dependable.
Lewis had many exciting adventures on the expedition. One day he was returning to camp and killed a large buffalo. He was so intent on getting the meat that he forgot to reload.
Suddenly, he looked up to see a large brown bear less than 20 steps away. He escaped by leaping down an embankment into waist-deep water. He reloaded his gun after the bear departed and continued toward camp. On the way, he was surprised by a crouching, snarling wolf (probably wolverine). He shot the animal, which disappeared into a burrow. Then a short way farther on, he was charged by three bull bisons who came to within 100 yards of him and came to a sudden stop. Late that night, he rejoined his party. However, the climax to these adventures was topped off when he awoke the next morning to find a large rattlesnake coiled on the trunk of the tree under which he had been sleeping. The party returned to St. Louis in September 1806.
Lewis, along with William Clark and Sacagawea, is depicted on one of the stone sculptures at the entrance to the Capitol in Salem.
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Ask students to:
Read from the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
A U.S. postage stamp honors Captain Meriwether Lewis.
Explore Web exhibits about the expedition.
Show the route of the expedition on a map of the United States.
Paint a mural showing specific places on the trip.
Visit Fort Clatsop or another Lewis and Clark Expedition site in Oregon.
Make a model of Fort Clatsop.
Have a Lewis and Clark Day. Come dressed as explorers.
Map a journey through the school grounds or a nearby park. Use a compass to navigate.
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My favorite list of quality dividend stocks that I use in my research is the list of dividend champions updated every month by David Fish. It is the most comprehensive list of U.S. dividend growth stocks available.
I also like David's additional lists of the Contenders, while the Challengers provide another list of upcoming dividend growth stars. Without these lists, I would have been stuck in the dark days of following the Dividend Aristocrats and the Dividend Achievers indices, which exclude stocks based on stock market volume or the fact that they are not included in the S&P 1500 index.
I use the list to routinely scour the market for attractively valued stocks for further research. Every month, I run the following parameters:
At least 25 years of consecutive dividend increases
Only companies which have a solid business that generates extra cash flows are usually able to boost dividends for 25 years in a row. A company that cannot boost profitability will be unable to raise dividends over time. This does not ensure future success, but narrows the list for further research down significantly.
Price/Earnings ratio below 20
Even the best dividend stocks are not worth owning at any price. Investors who purchased Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) in the year 2000 did not earn much in returns over the past 12 years, except for the dividend checks they cashed along the way. The business boomed since then, but because the price investors paid was expensive, stocks prices remained flat.
Dividend Yield above 2.50%
I like to purchase stocks that pay me at least a decent amount of dividend yield to hold on to their stock. If the dividend doubles over a decade for example, then the income I receive will be noticeable. If a company didn't pay a very high dividend and yielded only 1%, then dividends would have to increase substantially in order for me to generate a decent amount of dividend income. In addition, when stock prices fall in the next recession, a 2.50% yielder would provide a higher level of comfort than a 1% yielder.
Dividend Payout Ratio below 60%
I try to avoid companies paying more than 60% of earnings out in the form of dividends for safety. Earnings fluctuate every year, which is why a well-covered dividend can be sustained even in the event of a recession that leads to a temporary dip in profitability.
Ten year annual dividend growth rate above 6%
I usually look for a company that grows earnings and dividends at roughly the same percentages. The 6% dividend growth rate is slightly higher than the 5.50% dividend growth rate in the Dow Jones Index between 1920 – 2005 that I observed in this analysis. However, the premium is warranted because the companies I focus on have managed dividend policies.
The list I came up with, after applying the five criteria on the dividend champions group includes:
I use this list only as a starting point for further research. Before investing your money in a business, you need to gain a very good understanding of it. One needs to understand how the business makes money and whether it has any competitive advantages such as recognizable brand names, which can translate into strong pricing power. In addition, investors also need to look at trends in revenues, earnings and dividends, and then try to assess whether profits can increase over time. A company that targets earnings growth should also be analyzed to see if it has a plan to achieve this.
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Go to the Places dashboard/locations page of the new account and select Add another business.
Enter the phone number for the existing claimed listing, select "find business information" and go through the process of editing the listing that Google displays.
Change as little as possible initially and be sure to keep name, address and phone number the same.
Google will require you to reverify but you will be the dominant controller of the listing. As the last to claim the listing most of your data will be given preference.
It is preferable to claim it with an email at your business domain so if there is a dispute in the future, you will be recognized as the authoritative listing holder.
There are some quirks in this process the most annoying being that categories and photos from the original claimed Places Dashboard will continue to show in the newly claimed listing when displayed in Places.
The other quirk is that if the other SEO firm wants to go in and update the record, the account's data that has updated the listing last will show in Places. This can lead to some strange outcomes.
The optimal tactic would be for the business to get the login from their SEO but sometimes that just isn't possible


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The PitchDark themes have been updated to be compatible with the latest application releases from Mozilla – Firefox 3.6 and Thunderbird 3.0. Now you can once again enjoy the harmonious light text on dark colored look for both your browser and desktop mail client. There was a long stretch of no updates to either theme, but I'm hoping these meet your expectations.
Please remember to submit questions, comments, suggestions, to the project page, the Mozilla Addons site or contact me.


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If you miss a shot, some coaches want you to try to grab the offensive rebound to set up another chance to score.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers has a different philosophy. He expects his players to get back on defense to prevent the other team from scoring.
"We have no problem with offensive rebounds," Rivers insisted. "I have a bigger problem if you're standing outside that paint and you go forward and don't get it. Then you just gave up a bucket in our league."
It should come as no surprise then that the Celtics are on pace to top last year's team as the worst in offensive rebounds since the NBA began keeping the statistic in the 1973-74 season. This season, the Celtics have averaged 6.5 offensive rebounds and 35.8 total rebounds, and are getting outrebounded by six per game, all at the bottom of the NBA. To put the Celtics' meager offensive rebound average in perspective, Dennis Rodman averaged 6.4 offensive rebounds by himself for Detroit in 1991-92.
According to basketballreference.com, the Celtics this season have grabbed only 16.9 percent of available offensive rebounds, the lowest percentage in the nearly 40 years the stat has been compiled. Last year's Celtics ranked second worst, grabbing only 19.7 percent, and the 2010-11 Celtics ranked fourth worst with 21.1 percent.
In a loss to the Spurs Wednesday at the Garden, the Celtics grabbed only one offensive rebound — a tip-in by Brandon Bass with 1:28 left. Over the last 25 years, the Spurs are the only team not to have any offensive rebounds in a game.
Rivers isn't bothered by his team's lack of offensive boards.
"You're a big believer in offensive rebounds, I think," he told a reporter who asked him about it. "I'm not. Listen, like I said, you can pick on that all you want. That is a number I rarely look at, is offensive rebounds. Statistically, it holds up. I can tell you, you don't offensive rebound, you stop transition, you win more games than when you get offensive rebounds. I can guarantee you that on those stats."
That may be true, but when Celtics beat the Thunder Friday, they grabbed eight offensive boards, one of their highest totals of the season.
Last year and the year before, the Celtics overcame their rebounding woes by playing tough defense. They allowed the lowest field goal percentage in the league both years and the second fewest points last year and the fewest the year before. This year, they allow the 12th most points and the fourth highest field goal percentage.
All of the Celtics' offensive rebounding woes can't be blamed on Rivers' coaching style.
"If they're outside the paint, we want them getting back," Rivers said. "If you're in the paint, you should always go to the basket."
Most of the Celtics' big men, however, simply aren't very good at grabbing their teammates' misses. Bass leads the team with 1.8 offensive boards per game, and rookie Jared Sullinger is second with 1.3 a game. They're the only two Celtics who average at least one a game. Kevin Garnett averages only 0.8. Rivers said that offensive rebounding can be taught, but only to a certain extent.
"Either you're good at it or you're not," he explained.
In other words, it's instinctive. So Rivers would rather concentrate on improving the team's defense.
With Garnett switching to center and no true power forward to take his old spot, the Celtics have gone with a smaller lineup, and rebounding as a whole has become an even larger problem than usual. Detroit ranked next to last in rebounding before outrebounding the Celtics, 39-30, in a 103-83 Boston loss last Sunday.
Garnett leads the team with 7.2 rebounds a game, which would be the lowest average to lead the Celtics since Paul Pierce's 6.7 topped the Green in 2005-06. Pierce is second this season with 5.4 and failed to grab any rebounds Wednesday. Bass is third with 5.2. Chris Wilcox, the largest Celtic off the bench, averages only 2.2 rebounds. Jeff Green averages just 2.8.
Before Wednesday's game, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called his team "older than dirt," and the Spurs have not rebounded well this season either, but they outrebounded Boston, 41-25. Tim Duncan grabbed 15 rebounds, three more than the Celtics' starting five.
Rivers is correct when he says defense has been the No. 1 problem for the Celtics this season, but rebounding is a close second. You can't score if you can't get the ball.
Kevin Durant has won three NBA scoring titles, and LeBron James has captured three NBA Most Valuable Player awards. So what does the Oklahoma City forward have to do to unseat James as the MVP?
"I don't think he's looking at that," OKC coach Scott Brooks said. "Just being around him like I have for the last six years, that's not in his mind. If he gets it, great."
Actually, it is in Durant's mind, but way in the back of it.
"Of course," he said, "every player would like to be MVP, but this is all about me getting better every single day. We'll see what happens."
Durant is scoring a little less than usual this season. Entering last night, his 25.7-point average ranked second in the league to Kobe Bryant's 27.5, but he was averaging career highs in rebounds (9.5), assists (4.5), steals (1.8), blocks (1.2), field goal percentage (49.3) and 3-point percentage (44.4). James trailed Durant in scoring (24.8), rebounds (9.1), steals (0.9) and blocks (1.0), but he led in assists (6.6) and field goal percentage (52.4). They were tied in 3-point percentage.
"They're both great, great players, dynamic players, stat fillers," Brooks said. "Kevin just has to keep playing. Most importantly, and Kevin will say this, we just have to keep winning. It's about winning for Kevin. If we really wanted to and he really wanted to, he could score 35 a night, but he's about winning the game and doing whatever it takes to continue to improve."
The biggest difference has been on defense. James has made the first-team All-Defensive team in each of the past four years, and while Durant has improved on defense, he has never made the first or second team.
Most important of all, James and Miami beat Durant and the Thunder in the NBA Finals last year.
When Pierce missed a couple of free throws late in a loss at Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago, the Celtics shouldn't have been shocked. Pierce has always been a very good foul shooter, but not always late in games.
The previous five years, the Celtics tried to force opponents to foul Ray Allen down the stretch because he's one of the league's all-time best foul shooters. Allen uncharacteristically missed a few free throws in the playoffs last season when he was playing on a sore ankle, but until then, he was about as close to automatic at the line as you could get.
Allen used to take the technical foul shots, but now that he's in Miami, the Celtics have turned to Pierce and Jason Terry to take them. Pierce is shooting 86.6 percent from the line this year, and he has shot 80.8 percent for his career. Terry is shooting 86.2 percent this year, and he has shot 84.6 percent for his career.
They should consider Bass as well. Bass is shooting a team-high 89.3 percent, and he has shot 82.5 percent for his career. Bass has never been called upon to be the designated foul shooter during crunch time, but pressure hasn't bothered his foul shooting in the past. Pressure is at its highest in the playoffs, and he has been a 92.1 percent foul shooter in the postseason.
Allen, by the way, is shooting only 84.2 percent from the line for Miami for his lowest percentage since his rookie year of 1996-97.
You don't want to foul Durant at the Garden. The Oklahoma City forward made all eight of his free throws Friday against the Celtics, and in the five games he has played at the Garden in his career, he's 41 of 41 at the line.
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