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I don't have the authority to change first posts after a day now, so I'll figure something out to put in here in the next 24 hours.
I don't have the authority to change first posts after a day now, so I'll figure something out to put in here in the next 24 hours.
Fascist Dictator of the Heath Davis Appreciation Society
Supporting Petone's Finest since the very start - Iain O'Brien
Also Supporting the All Time #1 Batsman of All Time Ever - Jacques Kallis and the much maligned Peter Siddle.
Vimes tells it how it is:
Roland Garros II - Men's Singles
GRAND SLAM - Sunday (Day One) - Paris, France - Clay (Red)
- West CWLand's Sven Oxenstierna was the first player out on Court Philippe Chatrier in Season II, and for the first time since his finals defeat last season, as he opened his campaign with a straight sets victory over Paraguay's Aldo Marín. The World No. 4 expected a big win over the World No. 90, but, as is so often the case against these lower ranked players early in Grand Slams, Marín threw the kitchen sink at Oxenstierna and even edged a break in front in the second set. But it was clear to all in the stadium that he wasn't on the same level as the Ox whose rampant clay run continued with some confident baseline tennis in a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win.
- He meets fellow Scandinavian-born opponent Kasper Buur after the World No. 57 survived an opening jolt against wildcard entrant Rick Langley to coast into the second round. Langley started in awesome fashion to hold a double break lead at 4-1 before his game dropped right off the face of the earth. Buur, a PTA tour title winner, was rocked into action and managed to claim an unbelievable eighteen of the next nineteen games to cripple the West CWLander's confidence. Langley essentially threw in the towel in the second set after being subjected to nine breaks of serve throughout the match; Buur into the second round 7-5, 6-0, 6-0.
- Following the Oxenstierna-Marín match was a battle between 28th seeded Aussie David Champion and French hope Jean-Christophe Genghini. Champion has never been a great mover on clay at the best of times, but drew Genghini into the match he wanted early as neither player broke service in the first set. Champion fired down eleven aces to take it in a tiebreaker 7-1, before being broken for the first time early in the second by Genghini. As the gloss wore off Champion's game, the Court Phillipe Chatrier crowd grew in voice as the World No. 77 eliminated the first seed from play 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-2, 6-1.
- Nearest to a big upset, though, was the unknown 172nd ranked qualifier Scott Whitehouse. The Brit at one stage led two sets to one and was at 5-5 against the sixteenth seed Miroslav Brdar and one of the biggest upsets of the year was looming. Brdar, though, caught a lucky break as Whitehouse missed an open court with a volley to hand him the fourth set and the Croat eased past the Brit in a fifth to win 6-3, 4-6, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1.
WC-Ducard def. Highsmith, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
Villaneuva def. Q-Bruce, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 (Match of the Day)
30-Joaquin def. Z.Boniek, 6-3, 7-6(2), 6-1
Quezada def. Bertolotto, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(0)
11-Altman def. Isaev, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-0
Genghini def. 28-Champion, 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-2, 6-1
Day def. Brookes, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1
Engel def. Zakov, 6-0, 7-5, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3
4-Oxenstierna def. Marin, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
Buur def. WC-Langley, 7-5, 6-0, 6-0
WC-Lebegue def Aguero, 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-4
27-Emelio def. Q-van der Cleer, 6-1, 6-2, 7-5
Donaldson def. Lazzeri, 6-3, 6-0, 6-3
16-Brdar def. Q-Whitehouse, 6-3, 4-6, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1
12-Z.Varga def. Mandonna, 6-0, 6-4, 6-2
- Seeded players out: David Champion.
What, no 16-14 fifth set? Clearly this world has too few Raonics.
Seeded players out: David Champion. <--- Awww.
Commserations to Langley.
once you think you're out they pull you back in
I had a glimpse of Eureka
Chewing me up, chewing me up and spitting me out
-jected, I was rejected
I wasn't good enough to be elected
Lava, it was like lava
Moving through my body like fire
Roland Garros II - Men's Singles
GRAND SLAM - Monday (Day Two) - Paris, France - Clay (Red)
- Cremona champion Scotland Rivers has taken a five-set victory in his first round match in Roland Garros against Croatia's Adem Tadić. On his least favourite surface, the West CWLander struggled early as he dropped the first set to Tadić before he began to find his feet on the red clay and storm back into the match with some aggressive tennis. Claiming twelve of sixteen games, he looked set for a four-set victory before Tadić managed to break in the sixth game of the fourth set and cling on to send the match to deciding fifth. The pressure was on, and although Rivers gave up an early break he managed to bring up two match points with a slick backhand winner off the Croat's second serve. It was enough to pick up the win as Tadić bowed out with a double fault; Rivers through 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
- He meets thirteen seed Rick Henson after the former champion ousted Rivers' compatriot Rob Bowenburg in straight sets. The scoreline didn't really sum up how Bowenburg played as the improving Westerner had two set points to level the match at a set each. He couldn't convert either of them - admittedly in the face of two fine winners from Henson - and dropped the set 10-8 in the tiebreaker. Down two sets to love, Bowenburg needed a miracle but didn't get it - falling away abruptly to a 3-6, 6-7(8), 2-6 defeat.
- There was a big Grand Slam debut for Ishan Narang as the East CWLander played fine tennis to oust Spanish qualifier Rafael Fernando. Narang, fresh off a successful qualifying campaign, started like a rocket to take a two-sets to love lead with big serving and some solid baseline play. Fernando struggled with Narang's power, but managed to take the third set 6-4 and lead by a break in the fourth. It wasn't enough, though, as Narang fought back strongly against the weak serving of Fernando to pick up a 6-3, 6-0, 4-6, 6-4 win. He meets eighteenth seed Diego Hurtado in the second round after the Colombian beat Ukraine's Roman Dorogan 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.
- In the all-Western qualifier bout, it was Jason Lawley who picked up the win over Pierre Rose in four sets. It was really a perfect opportunity to pick up some much-needed ranking points for both players, but in fairness it wasn't a match fought at the highest quality. Both players blew numerous opportunities, and Rose somehow managed to throw away a 5-2 lead in the second set and four different set point opportunities. Despite going down two sets, he showed some fight to clinch the fourth 6-4 before Lawley got the jump on him early in the fifth to lead 5-1. While he couldn't convert his first match point against the Rose serve, he clinched the match on serve to secure a second round appearance. 6-2, 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-2. His next opponent is 23rd seed Antonio Bachunelli who smashed Ivan Čeljar 6-1, 6-1, 6-2.
- There was no such luck for East CWLand's Martti Korpinen who was on the receiving end of a disastrous defeat to Janos Varga. Varga was in great touch last week in Dusseldorf with a 3-0 record, and ensured that the World No. 125 would have time to focus on his doubles assault with a 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 win.
- Spas Delev came in as a bit of an underdog for his first round clash against highly touted Spanish youngster Marc Carretero, but ultimately outgunned the World No. 59 in a highly entertaining affair. It was a battle of the steely defence of Carretero against the all out assault of Delev whose style, if he was born in a different universe, could be described as Andrew Ilie-esque. Despite dropping the first set, Delev continued to chip away at Carretero with a barrage of searing forehands and continually created chances. Against the barrage of the Easterner, though, Carretero resisted and prevented being blown off the court against a man who was in the zone. While he couldn't win another set, it was a sign of the maturity of the young man which is a positive to come out of his defeat. Delev's 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 win sets up a second round clash with the Czech Republic's Petr Broík after he ousted twentieth seed Henry Charles in an awesome five-set performance 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3.
- Delev could be shaping up for another third round meeting with rival Jojo Mustard after the fourteenth seed came from a set down to beat Dutchman Maarten Berg. It was always going to be a particularly difficult contest for Mustard with Berg fresh off a semi final appearance in Nice. The Dutchman was typically solid right throughout the match and wasn't too far behind Mustard who just had the extra polish and firepower as he picked up a 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-4, 7-6(7) win. The Westerner was dealt a tough draw, and now meets in form Ukrainian Viktor Vuriak who cruised past local teenager Dominic Viens 6-1, 6-0, 6-3.
- Finally, Phoenix Wleft put up a fantastic fight against ninth seed Dwayne Murdoch before succumbing in three sets. Amazingly, Wleft was never a break ahead of Murdoch despite the extremely close scoreline as he produced a far bigger contest than the American admitted he suspected. The man who beat Blanco not long ago was pushed deep into each set, but ultimately the World No. 9 had just too much polish for the youngster in his 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 win.
- The match that promised the most delivered as West CWLand veteran Brett Read took out a tough five-set tussle against 21st seed Carlo Amato. After his finals appearance in Nice this past weekend, Read started like a shot to take a two-sets to love lead in seriously tense affair to leave the fiery Italian with his back firmly against the wall. It was a typical case of grafter vs. shotmaker as Amato continued to be frustrated by what was essentially a game of Pong as Read continued to get the ball back. But after taking the third and fourth sets with some inspired shots, the Italian looked like staging a miraculous comeback. However with the match heading into a fifth hour, it was clear that Amato's energy reserves were running low. Finally Read was sprung into a more assertive style and managed to shut off any talks of a dream comeback to secure his place in the second round 7-6(4), 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 6-2. He meets Jason Bradley who tamed the Latvian giant Ivars Emsis 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-4, 7-6(5) in a typical Emsis affair.
- In news that will have Sven Oxenstierna grinning ear-to-ear, Czech rival and third seed Radek pidlá's horrific clay run came to an end with a four set loss to German leftie Alex Peters. The third seed was awful against the World No. 66 who even managed to get a read on the pidlá serve in three of the sets en route to a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 win. Elsewhere, top seed Jason Hall made a winning start with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win over Ion Andueza of Spain.
1-Hall def. Andueza, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
17-Micic def. Q-Scalforo, 7-5, 6-4, 6-1
Santos def. Q-Martins, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6(7)
13-Henson def. Bowenburg, 6-3, 7-6(8), 6-2
Rivers def. Tadic, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
Q-Narang def. Q-Fernando, 6-3, 6-0, 4-6, 6-4
18-Hurtado def. Dorogan, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3
5-Cowan def. Cordiero, 6-1, 7-5, 6-7(4), 7-5
Read def. 21-Amato, 7-6(4), 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 6-2
Bradley def. Emsis, 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-4, 7-6(5)
Parmentier def. T. Vollan, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 4-6, 9-7
Q-Lawley def. Q-Rose, 6-2, 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-2
23-A.Bachunelli def. Cesljar, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2
26-Haas def. LL-Murray, 6-0, 6-1, 6-3
J. Varga def. Korpinen, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2
LL-Banks def. Menon, 6-0, 6-3, 6-1
7-Boros def. Aksu, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5
32-Orlov def. M-W. Li, 6-7(1), 6-2, 6-3, 7-5
Denisov def. Rodrigues, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
Depuis def. Navarro, 4-6, 7-5(5), 3-6, 6-2, 6-1
Peters def. 3-Spidla, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1
Brozik def. 20-Charles, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 (Match of the Day)
Delev def. Carretero, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
Vuriak def. WC-Viens, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3
14-Mustard def. Berg, 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-4, 7-6(7)
9-Murdoch def. Q-Wleft, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5
WC-Lachance def. WC-Sagna, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(0), 6-0
Q-Holland def. Machado, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-5
22-Kennedy def. LL-Konc, 6-0, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(1)
- Seeded players out: Carlo Amato; Henry Charles; Radek pidlá.
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Nein Maxum bitte?
Nice work, Mustard.
And some decent other results to boot.
Hell yeah!
Pretty easy draw to pick up some ranking points now it seems.
RIP Craig Walsh (Craig) 1985-2012
RIP Hughesy 1988-2014. 63* for eternity.
Good to win I guess. Disappointing to spend five sets on clay, will cause massive issues with my allergies.
Roland Garros II - Men's Singles
GRAND SLAM - Tuesday (Day Three) - Paris, France - Clay (Red)
- Youngster Matt Bre was on the receiving end of a first round pounding as he fell in straight sets to 29th seed Tiago Matias. The World No. 78 started poorly by being broken in his first two service games, and was always playing catchup from there as the World No. 36 kept at him with an aggressive returning game. Bre's style is certainly more suited to the hard courts, and he continued to struggle against a player who is born to play clay court tennis. The match got closer, but Matias was too good as he won 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.
- No luck either for teenage qualifier Marcuss Deane as he was brought back down to earth with a crushing loss to Atthaphol Sae-ul. Many Western pundits talked up Deane's chances against Sae-ul who has not had much success on the clay. But the World No. 55 was clinical against a nervous Deane who struggled to consistently serve his way out of trouble against the Thai No. 1 who looked convincing in his 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win.
- 24th seed Heath Davis, meanwhile, made light work of Czech straggler Vaclav Zeman in a dominant straight sets win. It is a sign of how far Davis has come in a season as he brutalised Zeman with some great hitting and regular approaches to the net. Whether his style will match up against some of the better players remains to be seen, but Zeman was almost powerless to stop the West CWLander; Davis through to a second round meeting with Sae-ul 6-3, 6-0, 6-4.
- There was a winning start for the eighth seed Jefferson Drake, but it wasn't all one way traffic as he was given a couple of scares by his Austrian opponent Heinz Hainisch. In an error-ridden first set, the Nice champion was forced to come from a break down on two occasions before reeling Hainisch in with a magnificent inside out forehand to clinch the first set 7-5. After the early struggles, Drake quickly adapted to the conditions to cruise past Hainisch with his typical bravado in a 7-5, 6-0, 6-2 win.
- He will meet West CWLand qualifier David Briggs who prevailed in a bizarre affair against World No. 143 Mikel Fosdike. Fosdike, ranked No. 143 in the world, looked in well-placed to pick up a victory after claiming the second and third sets 6-1, 6-1, but Briggs turned the tide to take the fourth to love to begin a dramatic turnaround. Neither player was particularly impressive their performance, but Briggs showed great poise to secure a massive victory 6-3, 1-6, 1-6, 6-0, 6-3.
- The last of the CWLanders in action was Jarkko Maxum who picked up a good victory over the only Swiss player in the draw Pascaul Schmidt. The World No. 40 had it easy early against Schmidt as he claimed the first set 6-2 with an early double break, but was immediately thwarted in the second as Schmidt took the ascendancy early before taking out the set 6-3. The third set was the crucial one, and despot having two opportunities to serve out the set Maxum was taken to a tiebreaker. With the scores locked at 5-5, Schmidt sent a forehand about a foot long giving Maxum the chance to take the set. He took it by drawing an unforced error from Schmidt which essentially sealed the deal for him; Maxum cruising through the fourth to advance 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-2. He meets 31st seeded local Pierre L'Estrange next after his 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 win over Slovakian qualifier Mario Timko.
- Elsewhere, defending champion Daniel Paez Blanco got his campaign off to a winning start with a 6-0, 6-4, 6-3 win over brave Russian Oleg Puder. In the big upset, Season I quarterfinalist Oneil Stewart of Jamaica was beaten in four sets by Nilikar Midid of Croatia.
6-Olesen def. Henrikkson, 6-1, 6-3, 7-5
Harmel def. Heug, 2-6, 6-7(7), 6-0, 6-2, 8-6
James def. WC-H.Thompson, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
29-Matias def. Bre, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
19-Pascaul def. Fok, 6-0, 6-3, 6-1
Durand def. Q-Berianidze, 7-5, 6-4, 6-0
Ortiz def. Morkel, 7-6(0), 6-2, 6-1
Midid def. 15-Stewart, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
10-Daneu def. Doh, 6-3, 6-0, 6-0
Juraev def. Q-Marzec, 7-6(8), 1-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
Sae-ul def. Q-Deane, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
24-Davis def. Zeman, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4
8-Drake def. Hainisch, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2
Q-Briggs def. WC-Fosdike, 6-3, 1-6, 1-6, 6-0, 6-3
Farkkila def. Maurer, 1-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 8-6
25-K. Vollan def. W. Jones, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5
31-L'Estrange def. Q-Timko, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3
Maxum def. Schmidt, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-2
Reiter def. De Kinsele, 7-5, 6-1, 6-3
2-Blanco def. LL-Puder, 6-0, 6-4, 6-3
- Seeded players out: Oneil Stewart.
Pretty sure the doubles start day 4, so I'll make the draw this evening some time. If anyone has requests for partners, now would be the time.
Obvs going with the Korps.
Good to get an early win with some resistance.
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Planning and Zoning Commission
The development and use of the land is a major determinant of the future physical form of the Town, and therefore it is the primary objective of the Planning and Zoning Commission to manage the development in a responsible manner in order to protect the public health and safety of the town's citizens, as well as the environment, natural resources and character of the Town, and to further the goals of the Woodstock Plan of Conservation and Development.
The full Planning and Zoning Commission meets monthly, usually on the third Thursday of the Month (includes Public Hearings where applications for Subdivisions and Special Permits etc., are heard. (Note: Regulatory Subcommittee meetings (to discuss regulations and other non-business matters) are held on the first Thursday of the month.) at the time indicated on the PZC Calendar. See the blue Calendar tab (above) for upcoming meetings. Special Subcommittee meetings are scheduled as needed. Agendas and minutes are available at the Town Hall and on this website. Meetings are open to the public.
TO DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTS FOR THE MAY 21st PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING CLICK HERE.
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The Commission consists of 9 members and 3 alternates elected for a four year term. Member vacancies are filled by a majority vote of remaining members until the next Town election. Alternate vacancies are filled by the Selectmen for the unexpired portion of the term.
Current Members
- Jeffrey Gordon, (Chair)
- David Morse (Vice-Chair)
- Jeffrey Marcotte (Secretary)
- Joseph Adiletta
- Mark Blackmer
- Syd Blodgett
- Gail Dickinson, M.D.
- Frederick Rich
- Timothy Young
- Nancy Fraser (Alternate)
- Doug Porter (Alternate)
- Dwight Ryniewicz Alternate)
Current Staff are:
Tina Lajoie, CAZEO (Town Zoning Enforcement Officer)
Delia Fey, AICP, CAZEO (NECCOG Senior Regional Planner)
- Send regular mail to: Planning and Zoning Commission, Woodstock Town Hall, 415 Route 169, Woodstock, CT 06281-3039
- Email: Tina Lajoie/ ZEO
- Phone: For further information, please Zoning Enforcement Officer at (860) 963-2128 x332.
The Town has four zones/districts in the Zoning Regulations: Community District, Industrial Park District, the Village Green District and the new Lake District. You can see the newly revised Zoning Map that was approved by zone change on 8/21/14. Click HERE for the revised Zoning Map which became effective on 9/14/14.
- The Lakes District includes all properties within the following Lake Tax Districts; Lake Bunggee, Quassett Lake and Witches Woods.
- The Village Green District is a floating zone, and as such shall be established only after: (1) a zone change and (2) a general plan of development application has been approved for a Village Green Development at a specific location or locations.
The Woodstock Industrial Park District shall comprise those lands specifically described as follows: all those parcels or tracts of land known as the Woodstock Industrial Park, located in South Woodstock, as more particularly bounded and described in the Declaration and Agreement dated March 1, 1973, and recorded at Volume 66, Page 671 of the Woodstock Land Records, and as shown on the map entitled "Plan of Land of the Woodstock Industrial Park Butts Road & Peake Brook Road Woodstock, Connecticut Scale 1" = 100' February, 1973," filed and recorded as Map No. 512 in the Woodstock Land Records. (The properties are off of Crab Tree Lane).
The Village Green District is a floating zone, and as such shall be established only after (1) a zone change and (2) a general plan of development application has been approved for a village green development at a specific location or locations. Please see the Zoning Regulations, Articles III, Section D and IV, Section E (page 57) for more information on the Village Green District regulations.
Please note: The Town of Woodstock does not have any Village Green Districts at this time.
The following explains key details about land use regulations.
There are two kinds of zoning amendments.
- Zoning Regulations Text Amendment - this modifies, changes, replaces or creates new language within the regulation.
- Zoning Map amendment - this change modifies the zones or land use districts in town by altering the boundaries, creating new zones or districts or can abolish current zones or districts.
Facts about the land use Regulations
A zone and a district are essentially the same thing.
Zoning identifies minimum standards for development in town such as the density (lot size and dimensions), etc. as well as the kinds of land uses in various zones or districts in town. The Regulations define, describe and provide details on what the rules are for how development must occur as well as well as defining what types of uses are allowed or prohibited by zone or district.
The Zoning Map geographically illustrates the zones or districts coinciding with the Regulations.
Special Note: Please don't confuse zoning or Zoning Regulations with subdivisions or Subdivision Regulations.
Subdivisions Regulations detail how properties are divided up into smaller properties for development. The kind of development needs to comply with what is allowed in the zone or district the land is located in.
Click here to view the newly amended Zoning Regulations, effective May 15, 2019 .
Click here to view the most recent (3rd) proposed draft amendments to sign regs
The Woodstock Planning & Zoning Commission held a Public Hearing on proposed text amendments to the Subdivision Regulations on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 7:45 p.m., at the Woodstock Town Hall, 415 Rte. 169, Woodstock, CT 06281, Lower Level, Room l. The proposed amendments were approved as shown in the attachments unless otherwise noted.
Subdivision Regulations Updated through January 2019
Click Here to see the approved amendments to Temporary Health Care Structures to the Subdivision Regulations.
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Do you live on a Scenic Road?
The following roads are locally designated Scenic Roads:
- Bradford Corner Road
- Bull Hill Road
- Camp Road
- Center Cemetery Road
- Corbin Road
- Dividend Road
- Marcy Road
- Phelps Road
- Pond Road (portion from Kenyonville Road to Route 171)
- Pulpit Rock Road
- Quarry Road
- Roxbury Road
- Sherman Road (dirt portion)
- Smith Road
You need PZC approval for the following activities if proposed within the town Right-of-Way on a Scenic Road:
- improvements to the road (widening, paving or changing the grade)
- removal of stone bridges
- removal/straightening of stone walls
- removal of mature trees
- new driveways or encroachments
For more information refer to the "Ordinance Concerning the Designation of Scenic Roads" or regarding submitting an application contact Michael D'Amato, ZEO.

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Lung Transplant Questions
A friend of mine is supposedly high on the list for transplantation.
How long is the wait? is the list long? What is the status of lung transplants in WI? Can an organ be obtained from out of state? My friend is working to keep mentally distracted. Would her chances be increased if she did not work? How could a person anonymously donate a lung to a specific person? Are there any advocacy groups for organ donation? Thank you.
The waiting times for lung transplantation can vary and are primarily determined by: the candidate's severity of illness (reflected, in part, by an assigned Lung Allocation Score), donor organ availability, and obtaining a suitable match (size and blood type) between donor and recipient. Consequently, the waiting times experienced at any given program are determined, in part, by these factors. As a result, waiting times can vary widely between institutions and even for candidates on an individual institution's list.
Some of the more prolific programs can have candidate waiting lists that approach 200 patients while other programs may have as few as 10 patients. Regardless of the size of the waiting list, an individual candidate's position on the list may be moved up or down based on the assigned allocation score. When an organ becomes available for transplantation, the organ is offered to the candidate who is a match and who has the highest score in the region where the donor is available. This region may encompass one or more transplant centers and therefore the candidate with the highest score in that region (not necessarily the highest score at a given transplant center) is offered the organ.
Organ procurement does not generally follow state boundary lines but is related to the site where the donor is located. Organs are generally first offered to any potential matches within the immediate area adjacent to the donor. If no matching candidates are available, then the organ is offered to any other potential candidates that are located in successively increasing distances from the donor location. State boundaries are generally not considerations in this allocation scheme.
The decision to continue at one's employment is quite individualized. Some patients need to continue working to maintain necessary tangible job related benefits. Depending on the type of physical exertion that their job requires, some patients may find it necessary to reduce or even suspend their workload to remain as physically fit as possible and thus remain suitable transplant candidates. Others find that continuing at their job gives them a sense of purpose and accomplishment and may actually help their mental fortitude. A lung transplant candidate should discuss these concerns with their physician so that the best decision can be made for that individual patient.
There presently exists no format where a lung can be anonymously donated to a recipient. There exist a few programs in the United States where lobes from two living donors can be harvested and implanted into a recipient – each transplanted lobe assuming the entire function for one of the recipient's diseased and excised lungs. These are highly specific situations and not all candidates and donors qualify for this procedure. When a candidate does qualify, lobes are most often harvested from willing and compatible family members. A patient needs to discuss with their physician as to whether they are a candidate for this type of procedure.
Two popular advocacy groups for lung transplantation are:
Second Wind who can be contacted at 1-888-855-9463.
United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS).
For more information:
Go to the Lung Transplantation health topic.


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How to protect the rope?
As the rope is a relatively vulnerable component in the belay chain, it is important to take care of it. Here are some tips for optimizing the life of your rope.
- Read the technical notice before viewing the following techniques.
- It is important to fully understand the information provided in the technical notice before using this complementary information
- Mastering these techniques requires training.
- Consult a professional before attempting to perform these techniques on your own.
Use a rope bag.
When the rope is in contact with the ground, dirt gets into the rope and accelerates wear. The rope bag keeps the rope off the ground. A rope bag also removes the need for coiling: it is stored stacked, which helps reduce twists.
A rope should not be stored wet.
Before storing, it should be dried in a ventilated area, away from UV.
Chaining the rope for efficient drying.
Do not store a rope in a car trunk in the heat.
Keep your rope far away from chemicals.
The most dangerous chemicals are acids (beware of battery acid, for example).


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A set is a collection of things. A set can consist of numbers or letters (such as 1, 2, 3, 4 or a, b, c, d) or of objects (such as chairs or books). Set theory is the field of mathematics that deals with the properties of sets that are independent of the things that make up the set. For example, a mathematician might be interested in knowing about sets S and T without being interested at all about the concrete elements of the sets.
The following article addresses the history of set theory, but it also serves as an excellent introduction. It is written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, and published at the MacTutor site.)
"The history of set theory is rather different from the history of most other areas of mathematics. For most areas a long process can usually be traced in which ideas evolve until an ultimate flash of inspiration, often by a number of mathematicians almost simultaneously, produces a discovery of major importance.
Set theory however is rather different. It is the creation of one person, Georg Cantor. Before we take up the main story of Cantor's development of the theory, we first examine some early contributions.
The idea of infinity had been the subject of deep thought from the time of the Greeks. Zeno of Elea, in around 450 BC, with his problems on the infinite, made an early major contribution. By the Middle Ages discussion of the infinite had led to comparison of infinite sets. For example Albert of Saxony, in Questiones subtilissime in libros de celo et mundi, proves that a beam of infinite length has the same volume as 3-space. He proves this by sawing the beam into imaginary pieces which he then assembles into successive concentric shells which fill space.
Bolzano was a philosopher and mathematician of great depth of thought. In 1847 he considered sets with the following definition
an embodiment of the idea or concept which we conceive when we regard the arrangement of its parts as a matter of indifference.
Bolzano defended the concept of an infinite set. At this time many believed that infinite sets could not exist. Bolzano gave examples to show that, unlike for finite sets, the elements of an infinite set could be put in 1-1 correspondence with elements of one of its proper subsets. This idea eventually came to be used in the definition of a finite set.
It was with Cantor's work however that set theory came to be put on a proper mathematical basis. Cantor's early work was in number theory and he published a number of articles on this topic between 1867 and 1871. These, although of high quality, give no indication that they were written by a man about to change the whole course of mathematics.
An event of major importance occurred in 1872 when Cantor made a trip to Switzerland. There Cantor met Richard Dedekind and a friendship grew up that was to last for many years. Numerous letters between the two in the years 1873-1879 are preserved and although these discuss relatively little mathematics it is clear that Dedekind's deep abstract logical way of thinking was a major influence on Cantor as his ideas developed.
Cantor moved from number theory to papers on trigonometric series. These papers contain Cantor's first ideas on set theory and also important results on irrational numbers. Dedekind was working independently on irrational numbers and Dedekind published Continuity and irrational numbers.
In 1874 Cantor published an article in Crelle's Journal which marks the birth of set theory. A follow-up paper was submitted by Cantor to Crelle's Journal in 1878 but already set theory was becoming the centre of controversy. Kronecker, who was on the editorial staff of Crelle's Journal, was unhappy about the revolutionary new ideas contained in Cantor's paper. Cantor was tempted to withdraw the paper but Dedekind persuaded Cantor not to withdraw it and Weierstrass supported publication. The paper was published but Cantor never submitted any further work to Crelle's Journal.
In his 1874 paper Cantor considers at least two different kinds of infinity. Before this orders of infinity did not exist but all infinite collections were considered 'the same size'. However Cantor examines the set of algebraic real numbers, that is the set of all real roots of equations of the form
an xn + an-1 xn-1 + an-2 xn-2 + . . . + a1 x + a0 = 0,
where ai is an integer. Cantor proves that the algebraic real numbers are in one-one correspondence with the natural numbers in the following way.
For an equation of the above form define its index to be
|an| + |an-1| + |an-2| + … + |a1| + |a0| + n.
There is only one equation of index 2, namely x = 0. There are 3 equations of index 3, namely
2x = 0, x + 1 = 0, x – 1 = 0 and x2 = 0.
These give roots 0, 1, -1. For each index there are only finitely many equations and so only finitely many roots. Putting them in 1-1 correspondence with the natural numbers is now clear but ordering them in order of index and increasing magnitude within each index.
In the same paper Cantor shows that the real numbers cannot be put into one-one correspondence with the natural numbers using an argument with nested intervals which is more complex than that used today (which is in fact due to Cantor in a later paper of 1891). Cantor now remarks that this proves a theorem due to Liouville, namely that there are infinitely many transcendental (i.e. not algebraic) numbers in each interval.
In his next paper, the one that Cantor had problems publishing in Crelle's Journal, Cantor introduces the idea of equivalence of sets and says two sets are equivalent or have the same power if they can be put in 1-1 correspondence. The word 'power' Cantor took from Steiner. He proves that the rational numbers have the smallest infinite power and also shows that Rn has the same power as R. He shows further that countably many copies of R still has the same power as R. At this stage Cantor does not use the word countable, but he was to introduce the word in a paper of 1883.
Cantor published a six part treatise on set theory from the years 1879 to 1884. This work appears in Mathematische Annalen and it was a brave move by the editor to publish the work despite a growing opposition to Cantor's ideas. The leading figure in the opposition was Kronecker who was an extremely influential figure in the world of mathematics.
Kronecker's criticism was built on the fact that he believed only in constructive mathematics. He only accepted mathematical objects that could be constructed finitely from the intuitively given set of natural numbers. When Lindemann proved that is transcendental in 1882 Kronecker said
Of what use is your beautiful investigation of . Why study such problems when irrational numbers do not exist.
Certainly Cantor's array of different infinities were impossible under this way of thinking.
Cantor however continued with his work. His fifth work in the six part treatise was published in 1883 and discusses well-ordered sets. Ordinal numbers are introduced as the order types of well-ordered sets. Multiplication and addition of transfinite numbers are also defined in this work although Cantor was to give a fuller account of transfinite arithmetic in later work. Cantor takes quite a portion of this article justifying his work. Cantor claimed that mathematics is quite free and any concepts may be introduced subject only to the condition that they are free of contradiction and defined in terms of previously accepted concepts. He also cites many previous authors who had given opinions on the concept of infinity including Aristotle, Descartes, Berkeley, Leibniz and Bolzano.
The year 1884 was one of crisis for Cantor. He was unhappy with his position at Halle and would have liked to move to Berlin. However this move was blocked by Schwarz and Kronecker. In 1884 Cantor wrote 52 letters to Mittag-Leffler each one of which attacked Kronecker. In this year of mental crisis Cantor seemed to lose confidence in his own work and applied to lecture on philosophy rather than on mathematics. The crisis did not last too long and by early 1885 Cantor was recovered and his faith in his own work had returned. However, despite a wealth of important work in the years after 1884, there is some indication that he never quite reached the heights of genius that his remarkable papers showed over the 10 year period from 1874 to 1884.
Although not of major importance in the development of set theory it is worth noting that Peano introduced the symbol for 'is an element of' in 1889. It comes from the first letter if the Greek word meaning 'is'.
In 1885 Cantor continued to extend his theory of cardinal numbers and of order types. He extended his theory of order types so that now his previously defined ordinal numbers became a special case. In 1895 and 1897 Cantor published his final double treatise on sets theory. It contains an introduction that looks like a modern book on set theory, defining set, subset, etc. Cantor proves that if A and B are sets with A equivalent to a subset of B and B equivalent to a subset of A then A and B are equivalent. This theorem was also proved by Felix Bernstein and independently by E Schröder.
The dates 1895 and 1897 are important for set theory in another way. In 1897 the first published paradox appeared, published by Cesare Burali-Forti. Some of the impact of this paradox was lost since Burali-Forti got the definition of a well-ordered set wrong! However, even if the definition was corrected, the paradox remained. It basically revolves round the set of all ordinal numbers. The ordinal number of the set of all ordinals must be an ordinal and this leads to a contradiction. It is believed that Cantor discovered this paradox himself in 1885 and wrote to Hilbert about it in 1886. This is slightly surprising since Cantor was highly critical of the Burali-Forti paper when it appeared. The year 1897 was important for Cantor in another way, for in that year the first International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zurich and at that conference Cantor's work was held in the highest esteem being praised by many including Hurwitz and Hadamard.
In 1899 Cantor discovered another paradox which arises from the set of all sets. What is the cardinal number of the set of all sets? Clearly it must be the greatest possible cardinal yet the cardinal of the set of all subsets of a set always has a greater cardinal than the set itself. It began to look as if the criticism of Kronecker might be at least partially right since extension of the set concept too far seemed to be producing the paradoxes. The 'ultimate' paradox was found by Russell in 1902 (and found independently by Zermelo). It simplify defined a set
A = { X | X is not a member of X }.
Russell then asked :- Is A an element of A? Both the assumption that A is a member of A and A is not a member of A lead to a contradiction. The set construction itself appears to give a paradox.
Russell wrote to Frege telling him about the paradox. Frege had been near completion of his major treatise on the foundations of arithmetic. Frege added an acknowledgement to his treatise.
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundation give way just as the work is finished. In this position I was put by a letter from Mr Bertrand Russell as the work was nearly through the press.
By this stage, however, set theory was beginning to have a major impact on other areas of mathematics. Lebesgue defined 'measure' in 1901 and in 1902 defined the Lebesgue integral using set theoretic concepts. Analysis needed the set theory of Cantor, it couldn't afford to limit itself to intuitionist style mathematics in the spirit of Kronecker. Rather than dismiss set theory because of the paradoxes, ways were sought to keep the main features of set theory yet eliminate the paradoxes.
Did the paradoxes come from the 'Axiom of choice'? Cantor had used the 'Axiom of choice' without feeling that it was necessary to single it out for any special treatment. The first person to explicitly note that he was using such an axiom seems to have been Peano in 1890 in dealing with an existence proof for solutions to a system of differential equations. Again in 1902 it was mentioned by Beppo Levi but the first to formally introduce the axiom was Zermelo when he proved, in 1904, that every set can be well-ordered. This theorem had been conjectured by Cantor. Émile Borel pointed out that the Axiom of Choice is in fact equivalent to Zermelo's Theorem.
Gödel showed, in 1940, that the Axiom of Choice cannot be disproved using the other axioms of set theory. It was not until 1963 that Paul Cohen proved that the Axiom of Choice is independent of the other axioms of set theory.
Russell's paradox had undermined the whole of mathematics in Frege's words. Russell, trying to repair the damage, made an attempt to put mathematics back onto an logical basis in his major work Principia Mathematica written with Whitehead. This work attempts to reduce the foundations of mathematics to logic and was extremely influential. However the method of avoiding the paradoxes by introducing a 'theory of types' made it impossible to say that a class was or was not a member of itself. It did not seem a very satisfactory way around the problems and others sought different ways.
Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory. Many other mathematicians attempted to axiomatise set theory. Fraenkel, von Neumann, Bernays and Gödel are all important figures in this development. Gödel showed the limitations of any axiomatic theory and the aims of many mathematicians such as Frege and Hilbert could never be achieved."
Related articles
- The Early Development of Set Theory (plato.stanford.edu)
- A Trip To Mathematics: Part II Set(Basics) (wpgaurav.wordpress.com)


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Every Economic Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Are you still listening to the mainstream media that tells you the economic crisis is over and the U.S. economy is now in recovery?
Don't believe it.
We were told the statists in Washington wanted to raise taxes on the rich… and Congress obliged with their so-called "fiscal cliff" deal. However, it's not just the rich that are feeling the pain of this deal. You are likely already feeling the effect of Congress's "fiscal cliff" deal. With taxes being raised on 77% of Americans, virtually every paycheck earner in the country will be obligated to fork over more income to the federal government.
Even more outrageous is that the midnight compromise did nothing to address the unsustainable trajectory of reckless spending.
The news will continue to be bad and will get worse. The U.S. and economies around the world will continue to rack up debt. Unemployment could reach 30% to 50% before this depression ends. Thousands of banks will fail. There will be widespread social unrest.
The dollar continues to lose value. Every day we see the value of the U.S. dollar being inflated away as paper money is becoming more worthless each day.
The problem is that the same old, obsolete, and misunderstood Keynesian economic philosophy rattles around in our leader's brains. Alan Greenspan told us the U.S. will not default because we can print as much money as we need. Hello? Does that sound a bit inflationary? Isn't paying off our debt with dollars that are worth less just another form of default? So, the crisis worsens, even if economists say, "The recession is over."
Meanwhile, gold and silver are on the rise.
Protect YOUR assets from being inflated away with SILVER. Silver is a great investment as a hedge against inflation.
Oh sure, we've seen some pretty dramatic swings in the price of silver in recent years and I suppose the speculators love that. But, I'm not suggesting you become a speculator. Instead you should be protecting your wealth over the long term. For some strange reason, the masses only get interested in buying precious metals when their price is going up. Smart buyers accumulate silver when the price is low and they are the ones who benefit when the price rises. Take a look at the chart below and it's clear for any silver you bought more than a couple of years ago… you're investment has increased in value.
Get something of real value – Silver Coins – while you still can.
Stop throwing your money away on paper scams and promises and invest in real money… Silver Coins.
Did you know silver is drastically undervalued?
Traditionally it trades at 15 times less than the price of gold. Just a few short months ago it was trading at 70 times less. Today, silver is trading at 56 times less than gold and it's forecast to go up by 25% to 30% in the coming months. The Chinese are buying it like crazy! You need to act and act soon.
Be Prepared Instead of Surprised
The financial crisis of the past few years should be a wake-up call and a period of preparation for the coming collapse.
Those who are awake can see the handwriting on the wall and are getting prepared. Economies around the world are collapsing and as we learned in the 2007/2008 crisis and now in the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. economy is closely tied to global economies. What is happening in other countries is coming to the U.S.
Time is running out… and it will run out. Now is the time to prepare yourself for the collapse of the U.S. Dollar, hyperinflation, depression, and the collapse of our economy.
At all times and in all circumstances gold and silver remains money – not paper gold and silver, but physical gold and silver. It is about all there is to protect your wealth from inflation and provide yourself with a viable currency to survive the destruction of our economy.
If you haven't started to prepare already… there is no better time than right now. If you have begun preparing, you might want to accelerate your accumulation of gold and silver before it's too late.
Even if I'm wrong and our economy defies the historical trends, physical gold and silver will continue to be a valuable asset that will provide you the peace of mind of holding real money in your hands.
You'll be glad you did.


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Former Marquette Coach Rick Majerus dies
Coach took medical leave from St. Louis U. to fight heart problems
WISN 12 News has confirmed that former Marquette University basketball coach Rick Majerus has died.
Majerus, 64, was born in Sheboygan Falls and was an assistant coach at Marquette during the 1977 championship season. He became head coach in 1983, and later an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Majerus returned to college coaching and led Utah to the 1998 NCAA Championship Game.
Majerus most recently coached at St. Louis University before taking a medical leave of absence several months ago because of heart problems.
Majerus said Nov. 19 that he wouldn't return to Saint Louis because of his heart condition. He ended the school's 12-year NCAA tournament drought last season with a 26-win team that won its opening game and took top regional seed Michigan State to the wire. The Billikens were ranked for the first time since 1994-95.
Majerus had a history of heart problems dating to 1989. He had a stent inserted in August 2011 in Salt Lake City and missed some games in the 2011-12 season after gashing his leg in a collision with players.
"As an institution, a program, and as a coach, we are saddened by Coach Majerus' passing," said current Marquette basketball coach Buzz Williams. "The game has lost one of the great innovators whose mark will never be forgotten. He will be missed by the entire college basketball community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Majerus family."


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Regular Posting to Resume Next Week
I've just emerged from finals and am now enjoying my recovery period. I've got some thoughts on this past week's Graham and Comstock decisions, and how they relate to the Roberts Court and our political climate. Those, as well as analysis on the Court's forthcoming opinions on Monday, will be up next week.
Thank you for your patience!


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text: A homeowner looks for ways to stay afloat. May 1, 2009 When Michelle Jacobson bought a brand-new, three-bedroom house on an oversize lot in Northwest Las Vegas five years ago, she thought she had it made. The house, which had granite kitchen countertops and a casita for the kids, was in the right school district. It had walk-in closets. And although it was a bit pricey at $287,000, it looked like the perfect place for Jacobson to settle down with her husband and two children. "We thought, We can't lose," Jacobson recalls.SEE ALSO: Refi Out of an Underwater Mortgage Sponsored Content So the 37-year-old real estate agent and manager of apartment buildings planted some roots. She and her husband acquired an interest-only loan with a fixed rate of 5.875% from Countrywide. Then, they got to work on the upgrades -- a pool with a rock waterfall for $40,000, ceramic-tile floors for $6,000, and customized closets for $2,800. When the house appraised for $500,000 just over three years ago, the improvements looked like a smart move. But that was then. Before long, the market turned -- big time. In fact, Nevada was the worst-hit state in the country thanks to a bubbly buildup of speculative condominiums and hotels. Home prices plummeted. Recently, says Jacobson, her house appraised for just $230,000. But her mortgage balance is $364,000, so the home she initially thought would be a good investment is instead underwater. As of the end of last year, 20% of all mortgages nationwide were in the same situation, according to First American CoreLogic, a Santa Ana, Cal., firm that analyzes real estate trends. Advertisement Jacobson's neighborhood is no longer as appealing as it once was, and she worries that her home's value won't bounce back when the market recovers. A lot of the homes in the community are foreclosures. What's more, the neighborhood is experiencing an increasing number of break-ins. Jacobson would like to move her family to the other side of the interstate, but they have few options. If they could sell the house for its appraised value, they'd owe the lender more than $130,000 -- money they don't have. They considered renting it out but nixed that idea because, in the current market, they'd be able to bring in only about $1,200 to $1,300 a month -- just over half of the monthly mortgage payment of $2,250. Jacobson is worried about what a short sale (meaning the lender accepts a price that's less than the mortgage balance) or a voluntary foreclosure would do to her credit score, which is currently in the upper 700s. Plus, if she went to foreclosure, she and her husband wouldn't be able to buy another home for several years. On the other hand, if they stay in the house, they won't be able to pay back the loan in full after their ten-year interest-only loan comes to an end in four years. "We are in a desperate situation -- we could lose our house," says Jacobson. Jacobson thought she could refinance her mortgage to get some wiggle room. Not a chance. Because their home is worth less than their loan, the refinance is considered high-risk. And when she called Countrywide to ask about modifying the terms of her loan, she was told she had to be three months behind on her mortgage payments to qualify. She's not -- and doesn't want to be. The family's next step is to check with a HUD-certified housing counselor to see whether any options remain. But they might not be able to find relief from the Obama administration's housing program, which is likely to limit help for borrowers who are deeply underwater. Advertisement HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SAVE YOUR HOME If you owe more on your mortgage than your house is worth, get in touch with your lender to see if you qualify for a loan modification. If that doesn't work, contact Hope Now for free assistance on how to prevent a foreclosure. A coalition of HUD-approved counseling agents, investors and mortgage companies, Hope Now will help you come up with a plan of attack. Another good resource is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency. More homeowners will qualify for assistance under President Obama's "Making Home Affordable" plan. Details of the plan are still being nailed down, but it includes an option to refinance that you can use if your mortgage is backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. It also has a loan-modification program to help reduce payments. Under this program, the lender would reduce monthly payments and Uncle Sam would kick in funds to lower them further. The Treasury Department is setting up a new Web site to explain the program. MORE PROFILES ON H0W TO SURVIVE THE RECESSION "I Lost My Job." "My Retirement Savings Are Gone." "I'm Buried in Debt." "I Can't Get Started."


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This is apparently what Jennifer Aniston's hair in Squirrels For The Nuts will look like. This is apparently what "therapist" hair looks like? She plays one in the film. Here's Jen heading to set today wearing her big engagement ring. These shots provide a really good illustration of what a difference good hair makes. Real Jen, famously, has great hair. Character Jen does not have great hair. What's the effect?
Remember when Jen cut her hair during Friends? She hated it. She said she was eating every vitamin and algae, in her words, to get it to grow faster.


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WATERVILLE, ME (WABI/Gray News) -- Authorities say a man was quickly arrested after attempting to rob a bank when he tripped and dropped the money and his gun right in front of a special agent with the Maine State Police, WABI reports.
Jason Mackenrodt, 37, is charged with robbery and terrorizing. He is being held on $25,000 bail.
Officers with the Waterville Police Department say Mackenrodt pulled out a BB gun at a Bangor Savings Bank around 10 a.m. Tuesday and made off with an undetermined amount of money.
While running from the scene, Mackenrodt slipped on the ice in a parking lot across the street, police say. He dropped his gun and the cash, which blew across the lot where bystanders began scooping it up.
Mike Levo, an assistant general manager at Advance Auto Parts, was on break and saw it all go down right in front of him.
"He was being chased by something. I didn't know what though, at that point, and then, he fell and I started yelling. I think he tripped on himself. He just tripped," Levo said.
The unlucky Mackenrodt fell right in front of Special Agent Glenn Lang of the Maine State Police, according to Waterville Deputy Police Chief William Bonney.
"Special Agent Lang obviously recognized the combination of a running person, money and gun and realized that something was amiss and took Mr. Mackenrodt into custody," Bonney said.
Within moments, Waterville officers arrived and took Mackenrodt to the police department.
"The special agent from the State Police, he was in the right place at the right time - very competent officer with a lot of years of experience. He did a great job in apprehending this guy without any injury," Bonney said.
Levo says with the alleged crime happening in such a public place, it's a worrisome situation.
"It is unnerving to know that there are people out there that are going to the extremes with disregard of the safety of others," Levo said.
Police say members of the public helped gather the money and returned it to officers.


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Chances are San Diegans will be seeing a lot of Channelle McNutt in the future.
The enthusiastic Helix High graduate is currently the executive vice president and chief operations officer of San Diego State University's Associated Students.
In her student government role, 21-year-old McNutt plans campus activities, works with sports departments and attends meetings with university administrators. Over the years, she's also worked on campus diversity projects, environmental issues and was named SDSU's 2012 homecoming queen.
McNutt, who is scheduled to graduate in May, found some free time to talk about her life as of one of the busiest women on campus.
Q: Why did you decide to attend San Diego State University?
A: I knew I wanted to attend a big university and make an impact on campus as well as in the community; SDSU granted me that opportunity. I also was able to transfer several AP and college courses to SDSU, making me a year ahead of my other classmates. Also, being close to home was an extreme advantage.
Q: You've accomplished quite a bit in your four years there — what are three things you're most proud of?
A: I am extremely proud of graduating in four years with two bachelors degrees, one in communication and the other in political science. I know I'm making my parents and family proud. My father being from Mississippi and my mother from the Philippines, me graduating college is a big accomplishment for them as well. In addition, I am proud of making a real impact within the SDSU community. Because of my journey at SDSU, I have provided more opportunities for students to get involved with all aspects of campus, especially students of color. Lastly, I'm very proud of being crowned the 2012 SDSU homecoming queen. This is a very distinguished honor and I'm blessed and humbled to be recognized my campus community. Being selected as homecoming queen really sums up my college experience because it acknowledges me for everything I have achieved within my time at SDSU.
Q: Where did you get an interest in government?
A: I've been interested in government since I was literally 7 years old. I have home videos of me talking about my plans to become president of the United States and what people need to do to improve the community. From this natural passion for people, community and service, my involvement in government was inevitable. I was class president every year in high school, and then immediately got involved with AS at SDSU.
Q: If you could do one thing to improve San Diego, what would it be?
A: Create more leadership opportunities for young women within their schools (middle and high school). My senior year of high school, I created a program, "Girl Adolescent Leaders," where I empowered middle school girls to embrace leadership and be change agents within their community. Until that program, most of the women within my group had never been told they were special or that they could have goals outside of San Diego. That experience and program really instilled the passion I have to empower women in leadership especially within their early stages of adolescence. There are so many things women are constantly being bombarded with, some more negative than positive. Leadership and community service provides avenues for innovation and passion, something all women can benefit from.
Q: What do you see yourself doing in 10 years?
A: In 10 years, I will have my law degree and MBA and practicing law in Southern California. I will be in the process of creating my own consulting or law firm. In addition, I will start organizing for office, planning to get elected for congresswoman within the next five to seven years. I also see myself staying involved with SDSU as an alumni and still attending Aztec basketball and football games!
Q: What's your favorite spot on campus?
A: Thursdays at 1 p.m. on Campanile Walkway at the Farmer's Market and Aztec Chef event is by far my favorite time and place on campus. From all the people, food vendors, and beautiful Hepner Hall in the background, it's energetic and refreshing.
Q: Please describe your perfect San Diego weekend.
A: Exploring new restaurants in Downtown San Diego and Hillcrest, taking a jog along the shore at Mission Beach, spending time with my younger cousins (immediate family lives in Florida) and reading under the sun. Having ample "Channelle" time, and with family, would be amazing because I hardly get enough of either.


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"We seem to be falling for the idea that we should measure nonprofit programs only for how much good they do for individuals, not for how our larger society benefits. Colleges, hospitals, arts institutions, international aid groups, and others will be valued based on how much they better and enrich the relatively few people they serve, not society itself."Especially in light of our recent #RecodingGood discussion on philanthropy in democracy, I think Rosenman raises an important issue - there is a value to the sector itself that is lost when we focus on the instrumental and individual outcomes of each enterprise. Colleges are an interesting example - perhaps no other field has been as fraught with the need to "justify" its value than that of liberal arts education. At the same time, the most well endowed and longest lasting (i.e. sustainable, in today's philanthropic parlance) institutions in the U.S. are not-for-profit liberal arts colleges and universities. Colleges are also an interesting "test case" for this scorecard use of public data as there are countless other "Best of" lists of colleges, geared toward almost every conceivable point of view and measures of value.
But the most interesting thing about the scorecard - in my opinion - is that it puts for-profits on the same footing as nonprofits and allows them to be compared on equivalent data. What could be a clearer acknowledgement that we are in fact operating in a social economy - in which every type of social good from education to healthcare to eldercare to cultural expression to volunteer mobilization - is available from either a nonprofit or a commercial enterprise or a hybrid of the two? This is the key "reality check" for nonprofits - in most cases they no longer are the sole purveyors of the "good" they provide. Rosenman argues that comparing nonprofits to each other on the basis of their individual outcomes is bad for colleges and bad for nonprofits - but his article misses the bigger picture - college education is not just a nonprofit "good" anymore (if it ever really was).
What is particularly notable about the scorecard is that it reflects the reality of higher education choices. Unlike any of the dozens of nonprofit comparison sites or ratings agencies that have emerged over the last decade, from GuideStar to GiveWell, the scorecard reflects the real choices we make when it comes to using our private resources for public good. We are choosing among different kinds of providers. Whether we are a potential college student or a large foundation seeking to decide whether to make a grant or an investment we are comparing enterprise options in pursuit of a mission.
The Scorecard's use of comparative data is what others are seeking when they ask, "Why can't we mashup impact investing flows with philanthropic grants, or see social enterprises and nonprofits on the same map?" The Department of Education accomplished this because it provides revenue - student loans and federal funding - to all providers. Those dollars then became the data that the Department used to reveal the real landscape of college choices. Health care, conservation, arts and culture, international aid - all can be shown this way (and probably will be, very soon).
More so even than Rosenman argues, this reality requires that we consider the value of an independent sector, an associational and expressive space. We use many types of institutions to support our desires to assemble and act as private citizens for a public interest, separate from the market and the government. It is no longer reality to describe this "space" as the nonprofit sector, for those shared public interests that have long been provided primarily by nonprofits are available from a mix of vendors. In some cases, the nonprofit vendors will be deemed to provide greater value (see my post on the College Scorecard comparing Yale (a nonprofit) to the University of Phoenix (a commercial college). In some cases, they may not.
But that won't answer our question - what is the purpose of this independent space? Does democracy need a space separate from the market and government where people do things together for their own definition of a public benefit? I think the answer is absolutely yes. But we shouldn't conflate the need itself with the most familiar provider of the need. We need ways to act together as individuals, free of market or government pressures, using our own resources in pursuit of shared public interests. While this has been the primary purview of philanthropy and nonprofits, it isn't anymore. It is the realm also of social enterprises and impact investors, crowdfunding and informal networks, B corporations and flash mobs.
The new constellation of actors providing these shared social goods already represent new forms of enterprise and new rules and regulations to guide the use of private resources for public good. I don't think we're done yet. We will see more enterprise forms emerge, we will need modifications of the forms (nonprofits) that we already have and we need, as Rosenman argues, to think about the value of the whole, not just the value of the pieces.


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A baby was born at the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station early Monday morning to an Antioch couple just as commuters were arriving for the rush hour.
The mother, Jasmine Osborne, 30, of Antioch, was on her way to Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley with the baby's father, 24-year-old Donyell McCullough, after she started having contractions. The baby then started to emerge, so he quickly pulled off the highway at the Bailey Road exit to the BART station. The baby was born in the van about 6 a.m. in the station's parking lot.
This is the third time a baby was born at a BART station. A baby was born at the San Leandro BART station in 2008, and another was born at a BART station in 2005. To date, only one baby has been born while the mother was riding the train. That happened in 1996 when a mother gave birth to a baby on a train that had stopped at a Hayward station after the train operator was told she had gone into labor.
The Antioch couple's baby girl, named De'Aurie McCullough, weighed in at 7 pounds, 9 ounces. The baby and her parents were taken to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Antioch after the birth.
The couple had left their Antioch home early Monday morning and were driving on westbound Highway 4 near the Bailey Road exit when the baby started to emerge.
"By the time we pulled into the parking lot, she was already out in the van," Osborne said from her hospital room on Tuesday morning as De'Aurie cried in the background.
"I don't remember too much because I was so much pain. … (De'Aurie) is healthy. Everything is all right with her," she said of her third child.
At around the time De'Aurie was being delivered at the BART station, two commuting good Samaritans showed up, including one who happened to be a UPS driver.
K.C. Mattox, the UPS driver, and his wife, Tonya, had arrived at the station at 5:53 a.m. from their Pittsburg home for their morning commute into San Francisco.
"We were getting ready to take the 6:02 a.m. BART train to San Francisco, and we were walking in the parking lot, and we see a van screech around the taxi zone," said Tonya Mattox, a manager at the Best Western Tucson Inn in San Francisco.
Meanwhile, another good Samaritan, a taxi driver, had called 911 for help. A 911 dispatcher was giving directions to McCullough to carry out the birth while waiting for paramedics to arrive.
"They said they need to tie up the umbilical cord, and to tie it up does anybody have any shoelaces? I made my husband take his shoelace off," recalled Mattox, who hugged McCullough after the baby was born.
"He gave me the shoelace so I could tie the shoelace around the umbilical card," said McCullough, adding paramedics arrived in time to cut the umbilical cord.
McCullough, who works at his family's restaurant in Patterson, said his grandfather has suggested Freeway as a nickname for De'Aurie, since she was born on the road. "He called and said, 'Where is Freeway,'" McCullough said with laugh.
Mattox said she and her husband relived the experience while on their morning commute into San Francisco. "It was pretty amazing," Mattox said.
And the shoelace her husband took off in furtherance of this memorable event?
"He got off at the BART station in San Francisco, stopped into a Walgreens and got a new pair of shoelaces," she said.
Contact Eve Mitchell at 925-779-7189. Follow her on Twitter.com/EastCounty_Girl.


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It was a hot summer morning, and I had just pulled out what seemed to be the 100th root in my little quadrant of a dig. Cursing under my breath, I wondered again why I had signed my husband and myself up for an archeological adventure in the middle-of-nowhere Canada.
Okay, it felt like the middle of nowhere, but we were actually in Bodo, a small Alberta community about three hours from Edmonton, at one of Canada's largest and most well-preserved archeological sites. Just a few inches under the ground were thousands and thousands of bison bones.
Bodo was inhabited by the Plains Indians, who hunted bison and camped in the area in the past 5,000 years. Christie Grekul, the senior archeologist at Bodo, assured us we would find something. But all I had seen so far was lots of roots, lots of dirt, and maybe the occasional "tooth fragment." Big deal.
"I better find something exciting, like an arrowhead or a bison skull," I told my husband, who responded sagely, saying something about it being more about the experience than the find. What did he know? And then it happened. After several hours of digging, just when I was about to step away, Christie yelled at me to come back.
"I think we have something big here," she said excitedly. Peeking through the mud was a small smooth grey edge. I quickly grabbed the paintbrush (archeologists improvise with their tools) and started brushing, breath held in. Moments later, an arrowhead emerged.
Based on the size and shape of the arrowhead, Christie made an educated guess that it was around 200 to 500 years old, providing further evidence that the site had been in use some time between the 16th and 18th centuries.
It was a huge thrill: like holding a piece of Canadian history in my hands, and the feeling was overwhelming.
Forget the Indiana Jones style of artifact hunting! Real archeology is sweaty, methodical, hard on the knees, slow and bug-infested. But the rewards are worth the slog. When you see something in a museum, it's not the same. A tiny shard of pottery or a small arrowhead like the one I found might appear insignificant. It certainly doesn't seem as impressive as a giant fresco or sculpture. But when you dig it out of the ground, even the smallest arrowhead or bone feels more exciting, because it is your "find." There is that personal sense of connection to history.
The Bodo site was discovered in 1995 during the construction of a pipeline. In 2011, it was opened for public archeology and has since become the largest of its kind in Canada, which means lay people like my husband and me can excavate a part of Canadian history under the watchful eye of an archaeologist. The experience is intimate, as Christie likes to maintain small numbers, so that amateurs like us don't do something stupid that would compromise the dig site.
Bison hunts came to an end in the late 19th century after the wild buffalo population had been decimated. In Bodo, the flat desert-like terrain and sands preserved the bones and artifacts in excellent condition. As we excavated various artifacts, Christie explained how each piece told a part of history. The black mud was indicative of charcoal used in cooking. The fact that we found only bones and arrowheads in our quadrants confirmed that part of Bodo was a kill site, which meant the camp was set up elsewhere.
As we approached our final day at Bodo, the discoveries were getting bigger. My husband had found the lower part of a bison leg bone, and I was just starting to unearth a bison upper jaw. Frankly, I didn't want to leave. I wanted to yank that jaw right out of the soil, just to see what it looked like, but I didn't want to give Christie a heart attack. Basically, I was hooked and lassoed in. As much as I wanted to hum the Indiana Jones theme, I stuck to my cowboy hat and continued digging slowly and methodically.
If You Go
Bodo Archeological Society runs public archeology tours in the summer. Visits to the interpretative centre and school tours can be arranged year-round.
Adult two-or four-day dig programs run all summer, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you can, go for a four-day camp to maximize your artifactfinding time.
Price: $125 per day. Let them know ahead of time if you are a vegetarian or have any dietary restrictions, this being bison and beef country. To book, visit bodoarchaeology.com or call 1-780-753-6353.
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Modern football is a business all of its own, but back when the game was just a pastime, some of today's biggest clubs grew from teams of work-mates into champions. FIFA.com looks at some of those sides.
It's hard to imagine that some of the game's most recognisable sides blossomed from seeds sewn by just a small group of colleagues decades ago, but one side who clearly wears its roots on its sleeve are PSV.
Philips Sports Vereniging formed in 1913, commemorating the centenary of Dutch independence, as a team for the workers at electronics giants Philips. Created by company founders Gerard and Anton Philips, the club entered the Dutch league two years after being formed and made it into the top flight in 1925, winning the title four years later and never being relegated.
A further 20 championship wins have followed, as well as nine KNVB Beker trophies - the latest coming this year. They have also triumphed on the continent, claiming the European Cup in 1988, beating Benfica on penalties, and the UEFA Cup in 1978 as part of a treble-winning season.
Bayer Leverkusen are another side whose roots can be seen clearly in their name. The pharmaceutical giants have had a side associated with them ever since a letter sent to the board of directors at Friedrich Bayer & Co by 170 employees requesting a gymnastics and sports club in 1903.
Four years later a football club was in place and at Christmas in 1907 they were gifted a crest by the company, containing the Bayer lion which still adorns it today. They would have to wait 80 years until their first taste of a major trophy, though.
Their humble beginnings led to UEFA Cup glory in 1988, a win in the DFB-Pokal five years later and a host of silver medals, none bigger than the UEFA Champions League – losing 2-1 to Real Madrid in 2002.
The road to glory
Fellow German side Wolfsburg have a history intrinsically linked to a global giant in the world of industry. The city was developed to house the workers at the Volkswagen factory, so it's no surprise that the football club is linked to it as well.
They've since grown into a Bundesliga ever-present since the turn of the millennium, winning promotion in 1997, and have not looked back since. Playing their home games at the Volkswagen Arena, they have gone on to claim their first piece of professional silverware in 2009 by winning the Bundesliga.
Car firms have had their links to clubs elsewhere in the world. Sochaux of France has grown out of a project by Jean-Pierre Peugeot, who wanted something to occupy his workers' free time. Established in 1928, they very quickly became the country's first professional club and one of the founding members of the French Division 1 in 1932.
Graced by the likes of three-time FIFA World Cup™ France international Etienne Mattler, they won their first and only league titles in 1935 and 1938. They have since held the record for most appearances in the French top flight, featuring in 62 of 81 seasons played, and have found recent success in the Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France, winning in 2004 and 2007 respectively.
The trend is reflected further afield too, with five-time Japanese title-winners Yokohama F Marinos starting life as Nissan Motors FC. With six Emperor's Cups to their name, the team changed their name after the formation of the J.League, but still play their games at the Nissan Stadium.
Modest beginnings to global giants
On the other side of transport, a number of clubs that have gone on to great things from train companies, but none more than Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in England. Newton Heath LYR Football Club is a name that means something to only a few, but it spawned a team that is known throughout the world.
Initially they played against other railway teams having formed in 1878, before joining the football league in 1892, four years after it began, but struggled, losing out to Liverpool in a relegation play-off and became the first side ever to drop out of the Football League.
They then hit financial trouble in 1902, and were on the brink of folding when local businessmen saved the club. They thus renamed the club, rejecting the titles of Manchester Celtic and Manchester Central, instead deciding on Manchester United.
They were soon promoted in 1906, before winning their maiden title in 1908 and first FA Cup in 1909, where the trophies have followed consistently, accruing a whopping 41 major national, continental and international titles in the following 110 years since changing their name.
A fellow side to be born out of the train industry is Rosario Central of Argentina. They have gone on to become the most successful Argentinian team outside Buenos Aires having initially been made up of workers from the Central Argentine Railway.
On Christmas Eve 1889 an Englishman brought 70 employees together to form 'Central Argentine Railway Club Athletic', electing a Scotsman as president. By 1904 they opened the club to players from any walk of life, not just railway workers, and changed their name to the one they hold today – Club Atletico Rosario Central – winning four Primera Division titles since.
Soviet sporting society
The heritage of teams from Eastern Europe is often very prominent, with teams carrying the prefix of Lokomotiv, Dinamo (or Dynamo) and CSKA all originating from a work-based environment. Lokomotiv are, unsurprisingly, heralding from the railway industry, Dynamo roots from the police force while CSKA stands for Central Sports Club of the Army.
Dinamo and CSKA were part of the USSR's universal sports initiative that begun in 1923, being part-funded by their respective government sectors, with Dynamo Kyiv becoming the most successful of these teams. They dominated the Soviet Top League from the 1960s onwards, before winning 13 of the 20 Ukrainian Premier League titles so far.
They are the record title winners across the post-war USSR nations and have been the dominant force in Ukraine since independence. This all stemmed from a side built from members of the Kyiv branch of the Soviet Secret Police, and other footballers in the city, in 1927 and has gone on to spawn national heroes such as Oleg Blokhin and Andriy Shevchenko.


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Let it bleed: Seeing red over blood woes
Some people faint at the sight of blood, which I don't quite understand because we all bleed– some more than others (especially drama queens). Remember the Saturday Night Live skit* on Julia Child?
It's amazing any of us are alive. I'm studying for my 10-year re-certification for the internal medicine boards. I reviewed the blood clotting pathways (coagulation), and they're more complicated than setting up a surround-sound stereo system. (I think Tommy Lee should study the coagulation pathways while he's in college so he can flunk out and end his reality TV show pronto.) There are hundreds of ways for the blood clotting system to– well– spring a leak.
Bleeding disorders include such things as iron-deficiency anemia, excessive bleeding following surgery or tooth extractions (e.g. Little Shop of Horrors), heavy menstrual periods, easy bruising, nose bleeds, and mouth bleed. Sounds like the WWF. (By the way, what's the deal with Hulk Hogan? He is so '80s.)
The number-one acquired bleeding disorder is related to platelets. Platelets are not small dishes for cake from your Easy Bake Oven. Platelets form clots in blood vessels to stop bleeding like a scab on a cut.
In people who take aspirin, small bruises and petechiae are pretty common. Petechiae are tiny spot-like bruises usually seen on areas that come into contact with pressure like the lower legs if you cross your feet, the elbow if you think a lot like The Thinker, and your forehead if you are arrested a lot and handcuffed on the ground face-down.
Aspirin has an effect on platelets for about nine days, while other pain medication like ibuprofen affects them for a couple of days. This is why when you have surgery, you're told to stop your aspirin a week ahead of time so you don't bleed like the Dark Knight from Monty Python ("It's just a flesh wound!").
Boxers cannot afford to have von Willebrand Disease (VWD) because one punch to the mouth will make Tina Turner's lips look like two spaghetti noodles in comparison. VWD patients usually have bad mouth and nose bleeds, so flossing can be like a scene from Friday the 13th. VWD is the #1 inherited bleeding disorder, though we don't hear about it as much as we hear about hemophilia. Up to one percent of the population has deficiency of von Willebrand factor which is needed for platelets to huddle together to form a clot.
Vitamin K– found in dark green leafy vegetables and digested by bacteria in the gut– is necessary for coagulation. If someone is on chronic antibiotics or has a malabsorption problem (sort of like Mary-Kate Olsen), bleeding and bruising can start to occur.
Some medicines and diseases can cause the bone marrow to stop producing platelets or simply wipe them out by destruction. When that happens, on a blood smear, we can't count enough platelets to constitute a Happy Meal.
Folks, there are five billion other reasons for bleeding disorders, and I'm sure you would all like to read more about them. However, my fingers are bleeding from typing, so I must stop and take a nap. Save the chicken liver!
*In the skit, Dan Ackroyd as "Julia" is slicing up a chicken and accidentally cuts her thumb. Blood starts to squirt everywhere like the Bellagio Hotel fountains, and she reaches over to the phone to call 911, only to realize it's a prop phone. Despite applying pressure to her wound, her thumb continues to gush like a fire hydrant and she becomes very tired. So she says, "Good-bye, I'm going to take a nap here– and don't forget to save the chicken liver!" Eat your heart out, Martha Stewart.


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We are a startup company who are looking to provide an one stop online resource of information of Halal eating places around Australia. We are looking to fill a void in which there is a lack of information about Halal eating options, and are looking to provide an interactive, easy to use directory show casing Halal restaurants, and allow users to rate their favourite places.
Our target audience is all ages, generally the Muslim community, however we are not aiming to portray religious messages, rather our site will be just like any other restaurant directory website, where the niche is Halal restaurants.
Contemporary web design for a business listing directory focused on Halal Restaurants. There needs to be a web 2.0 look and feel to the design.
We have an existing logo, and would like some text treatment applied to it as part of the design.
What I already have versus what the provider will deliver:
We already have a basic design with some generic elements, however the current design is amateurish and am looking looking for someone to come in and add some real oomph and life to the design. I will provide annotated screenshots for a three column and two column layout. A unique homepage layout will need to be designed.
Existing design:
All web designs will be delivered in PSD format, and logo to be provided in AI/EPS format.
1. Like the idea of having a banner/hero image underneath the header, with the About HalalSquare text blurb this will serve well as the homepage. Hero image can include dishes of food from around the world, give it that *global* feeling.
2. Details page - please include a mini version of the Google Map, which will link to the actual Map page. No need to design Map page.
3. Menu - needs to be flexible enough to add/remove items, as members/advertisers will have different menu options. So menu should be placed in a bar.
4. Menu - Level 1 items, Needs to have hover/active status designed
5. Menu - Level 2 items. needs to be designed and have hover/active status designed
6. Quick search, no need for this to appear in homepage, but needs to appear on all other pages
7. About Halal Square no longer needs to appear in footer, it should appear on the homepage on top of the hero/background image. The footer as per brief needs keyword anchors, a good example is http://www.exa.com.au/ - You can add dummy text for the keywords
8. Please use the gradient used as the table gradient on original design - because this is derived from a third party control and is too much work to change. This gradient can be used as background of promo pane titles
9. Design 2 variants of the promo panes, the only difference should be different gradient colour, will be used as for extra special promos etc
3 PSD templates
1. Home page - Three column, include banner and blurb at the top.
2. Content page - Three column, without the banner and blurb at the top. Contains 3 variations of RHS promo pane. variant is colour based on the header
4. Details page - Two column, without banner and blurb. Include mini version of Google Map.


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LOVELAND — Two potential neighbors are objecting to a plan to expand a former bank building in Orchards Shopping Center and open five new restaurants.
The two property owners will make their case Monday evening before the Loveland Planning Commission.
A special-review modification for the Loveland Preston 7 Restaurants development had received approval from the city's current planning division.
The Fort Collins-based developer, Post Modern Development, hopes to add onto the 4,960-square-foot former FirstBank building at 225 E. 29th St., vacant since last year, to create a 12,825-square-foot building that could contain as many as five restaurants. It would have one drive-up lane.
J.D. Padilla, one of the members of Post Modern Development, was involved in the development of the Villaggio project at East Harmony Road and Snow Mesa Drive in Fort Collins. That development features seven buildings with stores, offices and several restaurants, including Smashburger, McAlister's Deli and East Moon Asian Bistro.
Two property owners in Orchards Shopping Center are appealing the restaurant plan. One is Matador-Orchard LLC, managed by David Duke.
Duke founded Duke Communications, a Loveland-based computer-magazine publisher that he sold to Penton Media Inc. in 2000. Matador-Orchard owns the 41,000-square-foot office building directly east of the FirstBank building that Penton occupied until it moved its operation to Fort Collins at the end of 2010. That building is for sale or lease.
John Waterbury, principal with California-based Waterbury Properties, the owner and manager of much of the Orchards Shopping Center, also is appealing the plan.
According to city of Loveland documents, the two allege that the approval of the Preston 7 plan involved various failures to follow Loveland municipal code. They say the project won't be compatible with surrounding property uses, it didn't receive the required consent of other property owners and it will negatively affect the area's parking arrangements, traffic flow and property values.
The Planning Commission meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the City Council Chamber of the Loveland Municipal Building, 500 E. Third St.
Contact Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Craig Young at 970-635-3634 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at twitter.com/CraigYoungRH.


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Cliffs of Neuse expansion vision; Veterans activities on Saturday
Superintendent hopes to expand state park
Ed Wilkerson has plans for expanding Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, where he became superintendent 13 months ago, and he laid out those plans for the Rotary Club of Kinston on April 26.
�The State Park Service, as an agency, is ever evolving,� Wilkerson said. �The new administration (of Gov. Pat McCrory) has singled out customer service as being one mission of state government. It�s always been a mission of the park service.�
That thinking is in line with Wilkerson�s hopes to add five miles to the Wayne County park�s hiking trail and improve access to the Neuse River, which flows for two miles through the park.
�Our goal is to get up to at least six to seven miles of hiking trails,� he said.
Currently, there is no put-in point for boats in the park, something Wilkerson wants to remedy since he thinks the view of the cliffs from the river offers the best perspective on geological formations dating back 75 million years ago.
The cliffs stand 125 feet above sea level, an anomaly in generally flat Eastern North Carolina, and were formed by plate tectonics and volcanic activity. The area was designated a state park in 1945, now one of 40 in North Carolina. An 11-acre swim lake was added in 1955 and a new visitors� center opened in 2011.
State parks draw about 14 million visitors a year, Wilkerson said, with Fort Macon the biggest attraction in the east. Attendance at Cliffs of the Neuse in 2012 totaled 180,000, which was up about 20,000 from the previous year. Attendance at state parks is growing overall, he said.
�We�re trying to figure out if it�s because of the economy � people staying closer to home � or if they are just getting out doing more.�
The Rotary Club of Kinston meets at 1 p.m. each Thursday at King�s Restaurant.
Veterans groups plan Saturday events
The Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold their annual Memorial Day remembrance flag raising at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Lenoir County Courthouse. The public is invited to participate.
Immediately following, the group will lay a wreath at the Korean/Vietnam Memorial at the Richard Caswell State Park on Vernon Avenue. The American Legion, Marine Corps League, Vietnam Veterans of America and AmVets, along with the VFW, also will place American flags in local cemeteries to honor the men and women who have served this country.
At 2 p.m., the VVA Chapter 892 will hold their annual cookout at Pearson Park near the Lenoir County Vietnam KIA Memorial. The public is invited to attend and spend a few minutes with the veterans.