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The interest and demand for superhero stories in movies and TV is only increasing. As I write this, the show No Ordinary Family is on ABC which is about a family of superheroes, Stan Lee is putting together a super-web series that they plan to bring to TV, and people are buzzing in anticipation about the Green Lantern, Thor, and Avengers movies. Not to mention, the recent Spider-man, Brave and the Bold, Iron Man, Avengers, and Marvel Superheroes cartoons. Superheroes are all the rage.
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The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage reached a new all-time record low this week, averaging 2.61 percent, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey. The 5-year adjustable-rate mortgage also reached a new record low this week of 2.58 percent.
This marked the fourth-consecutive week mortgage rates inched lower.
"The housing market is getting a boost with mortgage rates hovering at or near record lows,” says Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac’s chief economist.
Freddie Mac reports the following national averages for mortgage rates for the week ending April 25:
- 30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 3.40 percent, with an average 0.8 point, dropping from last week’s 3.41 percent average. A year ago at this time, 30-year rates averaged 3.88 percent.
- 15-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged the new low of 2.61 percent, with an average 0.7 point. The previous record low for 15-year rates was set the week of Nov. 21, 2012, when 15-year rates averaged 2.63 percent. A year ago at this time, 15-year rates averaged 3.12 percent.
- 5-year adjustable-rate mortgages: also averaged a new all-time record low of 2.58 percent this week, with an average 0.5 point, dropping from last week’s 2.60 percent average. Last year at this time, 5-year ARMs averaged 2.85 percent.
- 1-year ARMs: averaged 2.62 percent, with an average 0.3 point, dropping from last week’s 2.63 percent average. A year ago at this time, 1-year rates averaged 2.74 percent.
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When we are making websites we can choose from a wide range of domain extensions.
The extensions are originally created for different types of websites each having specific meanings. We have to choose a domain name extension which fits your business while helping you build a recognizable brand in your industry.
We use .com domain name because the .com domain name indicates a commercial site. .com is used for business websites, websites that want to make money online, personal websites, blogs, etc.
It’s much easier for people to remember a .com domain name than any other domain extension. Also, most mobile keyboards have a dedicated .com button then the .com domain names are very popular for this reason.
If you are registered your website domain name as mywebblog.com and running your business through this platform but there is a chance that any other create the identical website like mywebblog.net or .co.uk or .biz etc for that it is necessary to register your domain using multiple domains.
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The owner of two motorcycles that were stolen from a shed has offered a £2,000 reward for information that leads to conviction of the culprits.
Surrey Police said a Green Kawasaki Ninja 1000 and white Husqvarna, valued at about £14,000, were taken from Byfleet Road, New Haw, near Addlestone.
Detectives said it was a "targeted burglary" and released CCTV images of three men they want to trace.
They have also appealed to anyone with information to contact officers.
Det Con Caroline Millar said the burglary, on 2 June, had been "planned and calculated".
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Whenever I am rushing to get out of the house to get caught up with the day I will undoubtedly forget my keys, wallet, or to make sure the dog has his chew toys handy. While these occurrences aren’t the worst things to happen they certainly aren’t great either. That is how I would begin to explain Justice League.
Its all about the expectation you have with super hero movies. I believe that in most peoples mind that Justice League was already going to be a bad movie. I don’t feel that it was terrible but I don’t think it was that great. Imagine going to Vegas and having to stay in the Budget Inn. Cool, you have a place to stay but your left unsatisfied because you want all the glamour and fun that comes with staying on the strip in the big hotels.
DC is in such a rush to keep up with Marvel that it is missing out on what makes Marvel the gold standard for superhero movies and that is the foundation. Marvel is what it is today because every hero has had the groundwork laid for their character. There have been three Iron Man, three Captain America, three Thor, and a handful of other solo adventures. So when you watch The Avengers you have a certain familiarity and connection with the characters. DC is simply going backwards with this approach and having the Justice League introduce characters like the Flash and Aquaman.
The movie has a much less dark tone than previous films, such as, Man of Steel and Batman vs. Superman and has more of a fun and relatable tone like that of the Wonder Woman movie. Batman is my favorite superhero of all time simple because he isn’t a superhero but rather a person who wants the best for the world. In Justice League you really come to see that Batman himself knows he has limits and cannot be the beacon of hope he once thought he was. Batman tries to steer Wonder Woman into being the leader of the League and that beacon of hope she has avoided since being in the human world by encouraging and angering her.
Other members of the League (Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg) help bring the lighter tone to the movie but because there have been no previous story arcs for them their back stories are rushed to help us care more about them. Out of the three The Flash is the highlight of the movie as he brings a young and dorky attitude to the movie that previous DC films have avoided.
To conclude I was say that Justice League is an average movie but is watchable based on the expectations I originally had. It is going to receive 4 out of 10 popcorn buckets.
Most memorable quote. “The world needs Superman, the team needs Clark. He’s more human than I am. He lived in this world, fell in love, had a job. In spite of all that power.” Batman when discussing Superman. This is memorable because it shows that Batman is realizing who he really is and all his flaws.
Hero of the movie: I give this nod to both The Flash and Wonder Woman. The Flash is hilarious and Wonder Woman continues to be the best character in DC movies.
Cringe worthy: So much CGI!! I know it is needed but the movie is just filled with it or in a specific case it is used to take out a mustache. You’ll understand when you see it.

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UNF Faculty Recital-Everybody Sang: Music and Words from Living Americans
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Researchers find fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET is a better indicator of cognitive performance when compared to PET scans that detect amyloid protein
While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective method for measuring their cognitive function, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University.
The researchers concluded that fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET, which measures the brain's glucose consumption as a marker of neural activity, is a stronger approach for assessing the progression and severity of Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as compared to florbetapir-PET scans, which reveal amyloid protein deposits in the brain.
This suggests that FDG-PET is also a better means for determining the effectiveness of Alzheimer's therapies, as well as tracking patients' disease advancement, in both clinical and research settings. Results of this study are detailed in the August issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
"Both florbetapir-PET and FDG-PET are approved diagnostic methods for Alzheimer's disease, and both appear to be effective in indicating some sort of cognitive impairment. However, we have now shown that FDG-PET is significantly more precise in clinical studies, and it is also available for routine use with modest costs," said the study's co-principal investigator Abass Alavi, MD, PhD, a professor of Radiology at Penn. "Our results support the notion that amyloid imaging does not reflect levels of brain function, and therefore it may be of limited value for assessing patients with cognitive decline."
Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, affecting up to 5.8 million Americans currently. As clinicians aim to spot and treat the symptoms of dementia in its earliest stages, PET plays an increasingly pivotal role in diagnosing and monitoring Alzheimer's disease, as well as MCI, a condition that often precedes dementia.
Two of the most significant biomarkers found in Alzheimer's are decreased glucose uptake and the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain. PET scans use different radioactive drugs, called radiotracers, to measure these biomarkers within the brain tissue of patients with cognitive impairment. FDG-PET is one of the most commonly used imaging techniques to diagnose Alzheimer's. However, in recent years, several other radiotracers, such as florbetapir, have been developed to detect the deposition of amyloid plaques.
Recently, the effectiveness of amyloid imaging as a strategy for monitoring dementia symptoms has been called into question. While the presence of amyloid plaques in the brain is considered as being characteristic of Alzheimer's, some studies have shown that large amounts of amyloid plaques were present in healthy, non-demented individuals. Conversely, recent clinical trials have shown that the intended removal of amyloid from the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease led to no change in, or even worsened, cognitive performance.
In this study, the researchers evaluated 63 individuals, including 19 with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease, 23 with MCI, and 21 healthy individuals. The study participants underwent both FDG- and florbetapir-PET imaging. They were then assessed with a Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE), a widely used diagnostic test for detecting and assessing the severity of cognitive impairment. The researchers used a novel "global quantification approach" to generate data from five different regions of the brain, which were correlated with the results from the MMSE scores.
The study revealed that both FDG- and florbetapir-PET scans are able to effectively discriminate the individuals with dementia from the healthy control group. However, when compared with the MMSE scores, the correlation between low cognitive performance and high levels of amyloid was significantly weaker than the correlation between FDG and low cognitive performance for all groups included in the study. This suggests that FDG-PET is a more sensitive indicator of cognitive decline.
"Amyloid imaging has a value in diagnosing or ruling out Alzheimer's disease, but it's a bit like all or nothing. Our study shows that it can reveal disease, but you wouldn't be able to differentiate between someone who had very mild or very severe symptoms," said co-principal investigator Andrew Newberg, MD, a professor of Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University, who added that these findings have important implications for clinical research.
"In a clinical drug trial, for example, it may be more relevant to do an FDG-PET scan, rather than using amyloid as a marker, to find out whether the therapy is working," Newberg said.
While FDG-PET may not be a perfect diagnostic tool, the study confirms that currently it is the best available method for monitoring symptoms of dementia, according to Alavi.
"Right now, FDG is king when it comes to looking at brain function, not only in Alzheimer's disease, but also diseases like vascular dementia and cancer," Alavi said.
Additional Penn Medicine authors include Jonah Peter, Sara Pourhassan Shamchi, and Thomas J. Werner, all in the department of Radiology. Thomas Jefferson University authors include Mohsen Khosravi, Nancy A. Wintering, and Mijail Serruya.
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Soft robots have a distinct advantage over their rigid forebears: they can adapt to complex environments, handle fragile objects and interact safely with humans. Made from silicone, rubber or other stretchable polymers, they are ideal for use in rehabilitation exoskeletons and robotic clothing. Soft bio-inspired robots could one day be deployed to explore remote or dangerous environments.
Most soft robots are actuated by rigid, noisy pumps that push fluids into the machines' moving parts. Because they are connected to these bulky pumps by tubes,...
Researchers at TU Graz are working together with European partners on new possibilities of measuring vehicle emissions.
Today, air pollution is one of the biggest challenges facing European cities. As part of the Horizon 2020 research project CARES (City Air Remote Emission...
Over the next three years, researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Cambridge, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI-Paris) and Empa will be working together with the Dutch Polymer manufacturer SupraPolix on the next generation of robots: (soft) robots that ‘feel pain’ and heal themselves. The partners can count on 3 million Euro in support from the European Commission.
Soon robots will not only be found in factories and laboratories, but will be assisting us in our immediate environment. They will help us in the household, to...
Scientists at the University of Leeds have created a new form of gold which is just two atoms thick - the thinnest unsupported gold ever created.
The researchers measured the thickness of the gold to be 0.47 nanometres - that is one million times thinner than a human finger nail. The material is regarded...
An international team of scientists involving the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg has unraveled the light-induced electron-localization dynamics in transition metals at the attosecond timescale. The team investigated for the first time the many-body electron dynamics in transition metals before thermalization sets in. Their work has now appeared in Nature Physics.
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Protected disclosure (‘whistleblowing’) is when an employee of an organisation is able to disclose information about serious wrongdoing, wants the wrongdoing to be investigated and wishes the disclosure to be protected (kept confidential).
For more information see section 6 of the Protected Disclosures Act 2000.
Employees (and former employees) of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) and Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) are prohibited from disclosing intelligence and security information in an unauthorised way. If an employee of NZSIS or GCSB encounters evidence of wrong-doing by their employer (that might include classified and/or security and intelligence information) they can make a protected disclosureto the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS).
What the New Zealand Intelligence and Security Bill 2016 proposes
- Consolidating, simplifying, and strengthening the existing offences related to unauthorised disclosure.
- Clarifying that protected disclosures regarding classified information must only be made to the IGIS.
- Creating a new offence for people who hold a government security clearance, or people who have been given access to classified information on a confidential basis, who wrongfully communicate, retain or copy classified information.
- Extending the current offences of impersonating an employee of NZSIS, and publishing or broadcasting the identity of an NZSIS employee to cover employees of the GCSB.
Extending the protected disclosure regime
The Bill proposes extending the requirement for protected disclosure of classified and/or security and intelligence information to cover other government employees (such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Currently the Ombudsman is identified as the responsible authority for protected disclosure, not the IGIS.
The IGIS is the appropriate office to deal with such disclosures, as it is the only entity with wide enough powers of inquiry and all staff have appropriate security clearances.
Consolidating and strengthening unauthorised disclosure offences
The Bill also addresses the offences for unauthorised use and disclosure of classified and/or security and intelligence information.
Employees (and former employees) of NZSIS and GCSB are currently prohibited by law from disclosing intelligence and security information in an unauthorised way. People working with the IGIS, or the Intelligence and Security Committee, cannot use or disclose information related to the proceedings of those two bodies. Many of these offences have been consolidated in the Bill.
The Bill proposes a new offence for people who hold a security clearance, or people who have been given access to classified information on a confidential basis, who wrongfully communicate, retain or copy classified information.
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I was vaguely tempted to do the legendarily mediocre progressive rap band instead, but they didn’t have enough members and there’s no “Chaotic Not Good at Songs” alignment.
I assume we’ll also be seeing 30 Rock, this week, right? RIGHT?!?*
Clearly, you have a mess of free time on your hands here. Perhaps My Little Ponies have alignments as well…
entirely correct, if only on an incredibly relative scale. Incredibly relative.
“A trick is something a prostitute does for money, Michael.”
I’m not so sure about that “lawful” evil.
I think you should do a chart for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, just to send the Joss Whedon fans into conniptions.
BtVS movie? The Watcher’s LG, Buffy’s NG, Pike is CG, the principle is LN (“Citation, citation, citation”), and the other cheerleaders and the vampires fill up the rest of the slots. PeeWee Herman’s vampire would make an excellent CN for his death scene alone.
Well done. I think Tobias is really Chaotic Neutral, but I suppose he fills that corner better than anybody else.
I’m not sure if Michael qualifies as anything near “good” post-Season One.
quality as a whole, but I’d move GM over to Lawful Good, Michael down to Lawful Neutral and slot Buster in at Neutral Good.
on the other hand, maybe Oscar’s the closest the show would ever come to Neutral Good.
and Annyong might be more Chaotic Evil than the Bluths can handle.
I also wouldn’t oppose the idea of Franklin as True Neutral.
okay, okay. I’ll stop.
I feel like George Sr.’s quote here should be “I may have committed some *light* treason.”
That says Neutral Evil to me.
GOB as Chaotic Evil? COME ON!
Great stuff. I’d swap Michael and George Michael (Michael’s bent the rules to suit himself on occasion, whereas GM starts hyperventilating when the banana stand books don’t add up) but otherwise this works really well.
while there’s probably better representations for this alignments in the shoe, if you’re gonna do the main family, this is probably how I would do it.
Just using secondary characters, Wayne Jarvis should be Lawful Neutral, Stan Sitwell or Pastor Veal should be Lawful Good, as someone else said, Annyong would be Chaotic Evil, Carl Weathers would be the True Neutral… Chaotic Neutral would be Barry Zuckercorn, Chaotic Good would be Sally Sitwell, Neutral Good would be Steve Holt. Maggie Lizer would be the Lawful Evil, and Zach Braff’s character that did the Girl’s with low self-esteem would be the neutral Evil.
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I agree with Robin Shortt. Flip Michael & George Michael and this is perfect.
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“GOB as Chaotic Evil? COME ON!”
Perfect response 😀
I didn’t see Michael as particularly non-Good, but surely Buster as LG makes a lot of sense, if you want. He’s certainly lawful and acts more out of desire to do good and/or help loved ones than anyone else. Certainly, he gets it wtong, but I can’t think of any actually rules he breaks.
How about an alignment chart for Cable News personalities?
I love that you used the Charlie Brown Christmas Special tribute episode for your NG screencap.
You know a cast has a skewed sense of ethics when the analrapist is the chaotic good.
that totally made me think Always Sunny. Every single person as chaotic evil?
Not even close. Charlie is Chaotic Neutral, Dennis is Lawful Evil, Frank is more of a True Neutral, Mac is Neutral Evil, and Dee is Lawful Neutral. There really isn’t anyone that is legitimately Good or legitimately Chaotic Evil. Of course, they might have changed the alignments around a bit, I’m still going off of 2nd Edition. Unlike many of these I’m also not trying to fill in slots… this is just how it best appears to me.
Maybe the Waitress is a Neutral Good, but that’s the best I can think of. You really have to go out to secondary characters (Mrs. Kelly would probably make Lawful Good) if you want to fill the grid.
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Just found this. Good chart. I’d flip Michael and Buster, though. Michael is *much* more self-serving.
I don’t use Netflix. I just saw the fourth season on DVD. Any chance for a new chart? Michael probably doesn’t qualify as Lawful Good anymore. Maybe George Michael does?
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Louisiana is famous for its offshore fishing, but what does the coming season hold? We look into our crystal ball to provide insight.
Louisiana offshore anglers are spoiled, with a fishery that is arguably the best in the country. It’s absolutely the best in the Gulf of Mexico.
Of course, we’ve earned the right to house such an abundant fishery by allowing, even encouraging, development of the rich oil and gas resources found along the Continental Shelf.
Florida doesn’t want to spoil their waters with platforms, so their anglers have to settle for a few fish here and there.
Alabama and Mississippi anglers either head for Louisiana waters, or they share with Florida in the relative dearth of snapper, grouper and amberjack.
And Texas waters are just too danged shallow to get into any really good offshore catches.
But hop in a boat and head off Louisiana’s coast, and the expectation is the boat better be filled to the gills with succulent meat during the return trip.
But times are changing.
Sure, the fishing is still superb compared to the rest of the Gulf.
It’s just that it ain’t the glory days.
Take red snapper, for instance.
The rigs once teemed with these fish, and it was nothing for any schmo to come back with truckloads of fish.
Now, even with the tight limits currently instituted, anglers have to fish harder and longer to put their four fish per man in the boat.
Capt. Steve Tomeny of the Southerner, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea said things were looking up in late March, with his customers pulling up some huge snapper while targeting other species.
“We’re catching some really big snapper,” Tomeny said.
But he readily admitted it was too early to make an accurate read on how the fishery would fare this year.
“It’s really hard to assess how long they’ll last,” he said.
The state’s top marine fisheries biologist said he wouldn’t bet the bank on having a spectacular year.
“I would not expect red snapper this year to be much different than last year,” Department of Wildlife & Fisheries biologist Harry Blanchet said. “I would think it would be just like last year — a lot of small fish, but not a lot of big ones.”
Blanchet said the science shows there are simply fewer individual red snapper moving into the fishery.
“What we have seen for red snapper in the last couple of years has been relatively low recruitment,” Blanchet said.
That came after a cycle of strong age classes moving into the fishery.
“If you go back a few years, we saw pretty strong recruitment,” he said of the years between 1995 and 1997. “Those year classes became available, and have moved through the recreational fishery and are less available now.”
Blanchet said the life cycle of these long-lived fish means that anglers have only about five years to catch individual fish from any one year class, and that tends to level out any wild swings in year-to-year fishing.
“It comes into the fishery at about a 2-year-old fish, and by about a 6-year-old or 7-year-old fish, you’re not seeing many of them any more,” he explained. “You just don’t get a lot of variation in the fishery.”
There are a couple of reasons for this.
“Part of the reason for that is maturity, and part of that is fishing pressure,” Blanchet said.
The first part of the equation — maturity — is largely responsible for the relatively small catch of old red snapper from the rigs on which so many anglers rely.
“In general, those older fish are less structure-oriented entirely,” he explained. “They will be on different structure or no structure at all.”
That doesn’t mean that 30-year-old snapper can’t be found around structure: It’s just that they turn their backs on the oil platforms on which most anglers concentrate.
“They’re just basically scattered out,” Blanchet said. “They might be on little humps or on ledges.”
Mature red snapper also leave shallower waters.
“You have to be in at least a couple hundred feet of water,” he said.
That makes them very difficult for the average angler to find, but Blanchet said it might be worth the effort if the goal is not simply to fill the fish box.
“If you’re rodeo fishing, you’re going to have different priorities,” he said. “It might be worth working a long time to find these fish.”
Tomeny said the search can be very rewarding.
“It’s cool when you find a new spot,” Tomeny said. “You’ll pop your limit in 20 minutes.”
But locating such honey holes is the real trick.
“Most of the natural bottom structure doesn’t show much. It’s flat bottom,” he explained.
What he looks for are small spikes on his bottom machine while running from one known fishing area to the next.
When he sees one, Tomeny shuts down and moves over the area slowly, studying his finder.
“You usually just see the fish. A lot of the natural bottom spots are real subtle,” he said. “When you happen along one, you have to stop and road-check it.
“There’s just no other way to tell if it’s holding fish.”
He’ll call for lines to be let out while he holds the boat steady.
And sometimes the most unlikely looking spot will produce big.
“A lot of those spots, you’ll stop and things start growing,” Tomeny said. “There’s a lot of fish holding right on the bottom, and they won’t show on the machine.
“But when you drop the baits, you’ll see the fish come up in the water. They come off the bottom to the bait.”
Fishing pressure also has an impact on the number of individuals available.
“Remember, we’re fishing these guys pretty hard,” Blanchet said.
That means a lot of fish between 2 and 7 years of age are landed and taken home.
Of course, it’s easy for anglers to pound the fishery because red snapper are very structure-oriented at younger ages.
“Things like hurricanes will really shuffle the deck, but unless there’s something to make snapper move, they’re going to stay in the same area,” Blanchet said.
That might mean a school of red snapper remains around the same rig for weeks. As long as food is available and oxygen levels are adequate, they will usually stay put.
“Fishing pressure by itself will not move fish off that rig,” Blanchet said.
And when they do move, they normally won’t go far.
Tomeny pointed to an LSU research project conducted several years ago that involved placing transmitters on undersized fish.
“We caught fish with those transmitters in that same (oil) field for over a year,” he said.
That’s good news for anglers, who can go back to the same areas time and again with the assurance that fish will be waiting.
However, it also means schools can literally be fished out.
Mortality rates for undersized fish that are released are another factor into the lack of recruitment.
“That’s figured into the stock assessment,” Blanchet said.
But the more small fish that are caught, released and die, the fewer fish there are that reach the magic 16-inch minimum.
So the key is to reduce the number of undersized fish that are caught.
Tomeny said that’s relatively easy to accomplish
“You don’t want to sit there and catch little fish,” he said. “I’ve seen it turn around, so I’ll give it a few seconds, but usually what you start catching is what you get.”
“What you bring up first is a good indication of what you’re going to get,” he said. “Your largest fish are going to be your most aggressive.
“Because they are larger, they’re going to be dominant, and they are going to be able to out-compete the smaller fish.”
And, despite the fact that fisheries managers calculate a certain level of mortality into their stock assessments, Blanchet said it’s just not good business to sit there and pound on undersized snapper.
“That’s not good for the resource,” he said. “Pick up and move on.”
Blanchet also recommended leaving the close-in rigs and looking for underwater structure that’s not hammered by others.
“You might want to start thinking in terms of fishing structures that are on the bottom,” he said. “You might also want to spend the effort to go that extra 10 to 15 miles.”
Tomeny said those little-pressured wrecks, artificial reefs and ledges are what pay off big for his charter business.
“There’s nothing easier than throwing a rope on a rig, but sometimes you have more access to the fish when there’s not a rig,” he said.
That’s because the schools often are wadded up inside rig legs, making fish on wrecks and other submerged structure easier to get to.
“You’re actually hitting the fish on the head,” he said.
And for decades, many Louisiana offshore anglers concentrated solely on red snapper to satisfy their appetites.
“If you went back to the mid ’80s, what were people doing?” he said. “They were bottom banging for snapper.”
Back then, when other species such as grouper and amberjack were yanked up, they were grudgingly thrown in with the creel.
Blanchet said that showed just how spoiled Louisiana anglers are, especially in light of how important those other species have been for anglers in other Gulf Coast states.
“We in Louisiana have always been blessed with abundant fish stocks,” Blanchet said.
But the tightening red snapper regulations produced one of two results: Louisiana anglers either quit going offshore, or they decided those other “trash” fish weren’t so bad after all.
“When one thing is not doing as good as it used to, you have to depend on another fishery,” Tomeny said.
Blanchet said the increasing pressure on those other species has resulted in more and more regulations.
The amberjack fishery was among the most-affected by the change.
“Amberjack was one of those species that saw a lot more pressure,” Blanchet said.
So the once very liberal limits have been tightened until today each angler can keep only one greater amberjack longer than 28 inches.
The current management measures are expected to greatly improve the stock of AJs within 10 years, but Blanchet admitted there’s still a lot that’s not known about amberjack stocks.
“It’s is a better-studied fish than it was 10 years ago, but we don’t know everything,” he said.
One thing researchers know is that AJs spawn off of Louisiana’s coast, which accounts for the vast numbers of the fish found in the oil fields.
But they move about a whole lot more than other rig fish.
“They aren’t as structure oriented as red snapper,” Blanchet said. “They are structure oriented, but they move between structures more.”
Blanchet also said the fish move seasonally due to the fact that they are a high-salinity species.
“They need a certain amount of salinity,” he said.
AJs also prefer warmer water. That’s why they are hard to find when the Mississippi River is high, and show up at the nearer rigs when the river drops and the weather heats up.
Blanchet predicted that AJs would be about as prevalent in this year’s fishery as they have the past couple of years — that is to say, the fishing should be pretty good.
Grouper fishing also should be about the same as last year, since they are long-lived species like red snapper.
That tends to make for less year-to-year variations, Blanchet said.
There are many species of grouper, but the most commonly caught off Louisiana are gag and black grouper.
“Gag grouper are widely distributed across the Continental Shelf,” Blanchet said.
But there can be several different species swimming around the same rig.
“Grouper are one of those things that you can come up with three different species in a row,” Blanchet said. “They will be in completely different habitat on the structure.”
Like red snapper, grouper are extremely structure oriented. In fact, they are probably more prone to set up shop around specific rigs than red snapper.
“In Florida, they say some of the big grouper will be on the same structure for years on end,” Blanchet said. “The divers say they know some of the big grouper — they know them personally.”
But unlike in waters off of Florida and Alabama, grouper are seldom targeted in Louisiana waters, even by charter captains.
“I find it’s hard to target them out here,” Tomeny said. “The really consistent grouper fishing is in at least 400 feet of water.”
Most anglers just aren’t going to make those long runs, but Tomeny said there’s another reason he hasn’t focused on the fish.
“It’s so deep, it’s hard to fish them,” he said. “Sometimes the current is going one way on the surface and another on the bottom.”
That means that it can appear lines are drifting out behind a boat, when in fact the hooks are being swept the opposite way into a big mess closer to the bottom.
“The deeper it is, the tangle ratios go way up,” Tomeny said.
That means it’s really only feasible for small groups of anglers.
But Tomeny said that if the effort is made to reach deep water, the results can be plenty of fare for the table.
“There’s certain deep stuff out here that will hold just grouper, or grouper and a few snapper,” he said.
Those making the effort, however, should be very careful which fish are kept because the creel limits are very prescribed.
“The difference between a gag and black is tough to tell, and we’ve got two species (goliath and Nassau) that are illegal to have,” Blanchet said. “You’d better know what they are.”
Blanchet recommended the use of detailed identification guides.
“Educate yourself,” he said.
The recently thriving mangrove fishery is another product of the clamping down of red snapper limits.
“It’s getting bigger all the time,” Tomeny said. “We come in a lot of days with more mangrove than red snapper.”
Anglers often will run out in search of red snapper, but make a few stops at platforms on the way back in to pad their creels.
This is a species that has been targeted for years in Florida, so quite a bit is known about it, Blanchet said.
“It’s the most estuarine of our snapper,” he said. “In Florida, juveniles are found very commonly in the mangrove swamps.”
Likewise, Louisiana researchers often catch them in minnow traps set adjacent to Grand Isle and Grand Terre at the mouth of Barataria Bay.
“Any of your high-salinity barrier islands are serving as nursery grounds,” Blanchet said.
And similar to grouper, these fish are highly structure oriented.
“They tend to be more residential than red snapper,” he said.
Blanchet said he wasn’t aware of any stock assessment on the species, but as fishing pressure increases on the species, so too might regulations.
Gray triggerfish might not be on the top of many anglers’ lists of target species, but Blanchet said the species has increasingly been in Louisiana landings.
That, he said, has caught the eye of federal regulators.
“The National Marine Fisheries Service said they are overfished, but the Gulf Council didn’t accept that,” Blanchet said. “Some of the science just didn’t jibe with what they were hearing on their own.”
Rig anglers can attest to that, he said.
“They’re very common in Louisiana,” Blanchet said. “They can be a nuisance at times, but essentially, their status is unknown.”
There is an upcoming stock assessment, but until then, the fish will continue to fall within the 20-per-day aggregate creel for reef fish.
Although Blanchet said the catch is mainly incidental to snapper fishing, Tomeny said the fish is actually pretty important to his customers.
“We target them,” he said. “When snapper fishing is tough, or when the season is closed, we go after them.”
And Tomeny said that he’s been doing it since 1990, when a 13-inch minimum was placed on the red snapper fishery.
“It was hard to catch a 13-inch (red) snapper,” he said. “I remember that first summer I had the boat, the triggers were thick.”
He said his customers often initially turn their noses up at the fish, but he generally makes them change their opinions.
“They’re a little tough to clean, but they’re beautiful fish to eat,” Tomeny said. “Our customers sometimes don’t want to mess with them, but I send them home with some and when they come back, they want to go catch more.”
The problem with targeting these fish are the tiny mouths.
“You’ve got to use a little hook,” Tomeny said.
His captains switch the heavy-duty offshore hooks for 1/0 models, and their anglers quickly put the fish in the boat.
“They’re not shy fish at all,” Tomeny said.

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She felt more comfortable with the Sig after one mag then she did with three range trips with the LC9. Much better shooting too.
I have ended up losing my P238 that I had for about two months after wanting one for three years.
She is not adverse to carrying it either..
Bottom line, if your wife is tiny like mine she will probably be more comfortable with something like the P238. I know you were thinking 9mm and a higher round count. But, if it is a choice of getting something she will carry OR getting a higher capacity 9mm I would choose the smaller one that she would actually carry.
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ABode Canterbury's County Restaurant offers the ultimate dining experience, with delicious modern European cuisine accommpained by an exceptional wine list, served with professional yet not too formal style.
Speciality: Burgers, ribs, pies
Restaurant & traditional microbrewery situated in part of an old foundry in the heart of the city. Brewery on display behind a glass wall will provide a range of modern fresh cask conditioned ales, available to try in the restaurant.
7 Butchery Lane, Canterbury, CT1 2JR, Tel: 01227 458081, www.thecityarmspub.co.uk/
The City Arms is a 15th century pub situated in the heart of the city of Canterbury where you will be guaranteed a warm welcome. The City Arms is renowned for its range of Craft Beers from around the world and traditional ales.
Chapman's is an independent, friendly, local seafood restaurant with a brasserie style menu. We offer the freshest fish, locally caught, alongside locally sourced ingredients. Light lunches and Set Menu available Tuesday - Saturday.
37 St Dunstans Street, Canterbury, CT2 8BZ, Tel: 01227 456665, www.monumentcanterbury.co.uk
Recently refurbished 19th Century Shepherd Neame pub, that offers traditional home cooked food as well as tapas.
14-15 Beer Cart Lane, Canterbury, CT1 2NY, Tel: 01227 200777, theambrette.co.uk/
The Ambrette Canterbury is a multi-award winning restaurant set within the historuc city walls on Beer Cart Lane.


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Program Coordinator, Sanford in DC
Kishanna, the Sanford in DC Program Coordinator, works out of the Duke in DC office supporting the semester-long undergraduate Duke in DC program, and the Sanford School’s broader activities and programming in Washington, DC.
Kishanna is a former public-school teacher and librarian, who has also served as a consultant and curriculum writer for museums, universities and nonprofits.
As a proud graduate of Tuskegee University, earning her undergraduate degree in English, with an additional focus on Language Arts Education, Kishanna pursued graduate studies at The University of Maryland, College Park, focusing on Curriculum and Instruction, and Towson University, focusing on Instructional Technology, School Library Media.
In addition to her professional pursuits, Kishanna is the mother of two wonderful children, who practices as both a student and teacher of yoga.

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Our resident artist here at ParkinsonsDisease.net, Peter, created a new comic in a four-part series on PD symptoms and side effects. This second installment discusses medication side effects and drug interactions.
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This move, if implemented, could push up the price of chicken by an estimated 20%. Dr Boitshoko Ntshabele, DAFF’s director for food safety and quality assurance, said the department was opening the matter to all stakeholders to determine what the maximum permissible amount should be.
“Legislation currently allows for whole chickens to pick up 4% water from the chilling process and 4% from additional brine injections. It is applicable only to whole chickens and we want to include coverage to portions. More importantly, we are opening this matter for public consultation with the whole of South Africa, he said. Some people are saying we should adopt zero tolerance and disallow this, as done by other countries.”
Brine, a salt solution, is injected into poultry on the justification that it enhances the flavour and succulence of frozen birds. However, detractors say it is a cheap way of adding weight to a product sold on weight. SA Poultry Association (SAPA) CEO Kevin Lovell said his organisation fully supported the need to regulate brine content. “However, the amount of brine a chicken portion can hold differs to that of a whole chicken. Those amounts are part of our negotiations with DAFF,” he said.
Brine content in whole birds produced by South Africa’s major poultry producers is generally not more than 15% but for portions it can be 23% to 30%. Reducing the level of brine in whole birds would not noticeably affect the overall market, as whole birds constitute only 2% of the market.
“But it would have a dramatic effect on portions, which make up over half the chicken market. Chicken is the single biggest drawcard for South African retailers. It accounts for between 10% and 15% of food turnover. If brine content is reduced and the price goes up 10% to 20%, consumers will respond with their wallet.” Astral Foods CEO Chris Schutte said a 4% regulated injection level would substantially increase the retail cost to consumers.
“A change from 30% to 4% would result in an approximate additional cost per kilogram of R1,80/kg or nearly R4 per 2kg bag of individually quick frozen mixed portions.” Schutte said lower injection rates would yield a significantly drier and less flavoursome product, especially in breast meat. “Quick service restaurants are injecting at double digit rates to improve taste and succulence. Consumer acceptance, however, is likely to be dictated by the price of a low injection product.”
Poultry producer Zofia Collett, owner of The Shed chicken producer in Richmond Valley, was strongly against brine injections. “I have a hard time believing that it is done for the consumer’s benefit. Our bodies don’t need the extra salt. However, I can understand why processors do it. The costs of feed and inputs are very high.”
In terms of the Department of Health’s Regulation R146 of 2010, producers have to clearly state the chicken-brine split on the packaging. “Brined chicken has between a quarter to a half of the salt per 100g of standard bread. This makes brined chicken a medium salt level product, less than tomato soup, tuna and many other foodstuffs,” Lovell said.


But the airless spray gun doesn’t have these knobs. It only has one action trigger, one inlet connector to the paint hose, one fixed size spray tip without any adjusting function.
So how to change the airless spraying volume? how to chose the right airless spray tip size?
please kindly note the relationship of the tip opening (orifice) to spray pattern size is
- Given a constant width (fan), the larger the orifice, the more material the sprayer will apply. (A larger orifice means greater paint flow).
- Given a constant orifice size, an increasing fan width will apply a thinner coating of material to the surface because a given amount of material is distributed over a larger area.
Sizing a Spray Tip Chinese manufacturers typically use three numbers to designate tip size, as in 517 or 211.
- The first digit refers to fan width and is one-half the size of the working fan width. The second and third digits refer to orifice size in thousandths of an inch; thus, the 17 in 517 refers to an orifice size of .017 inches.
The following examples illustrate the tip numbering convention:
Airless Tip Number - Fan Width - Orifice Size 211 - 4 inches - .011 inches 417 - 8 inches - .017 inches 527 - 10 inches - .027 inches
Dino-power Reversible airless spray tips are stamped on the top of the directional arrow for easy reference.
5 = 10″ fan pattern at 12 inch spraying distance
17 = 17 thousandths orifice size
Which tip size to buy? Well now you know what the sizes mean, the question is which sized do you need? This will depend on:
- A: Area you are spraying.
Example: If you were spraying a 4 inch baseboard in a new house, you would not pick out a 517 (10 inch fan) to spray it with.
- B: What size paint sprayer you have
If your pump is rated at a max tip of .017 you can not spray with a 519 tip
- C: Kind of material you are spraying ( Example latex primer, or oil base stain. )
This is actually not as important of a factor as you would think, since a 415 would spray either of the above mentioned materials, but is a factor to consider.
We made a TOP Seven “most popular” sizes spray nozzle tips we sell and their main usage. Top Seven airless tip sizes:
- #1: 415 Would be the most popular size for spraying just about anything. Walls, doors, ceilings, decks, exterior walls, exterior siding a good all around tip.
- #2: 517 Very popular for spraying int. walls, and int. ceilings.
- #3 413 This is good size for painting the doors, and exterior. overhang and exterior siding. Gives you a little more control vs a 415 for exterior spraying. Also sometimes used for spraying Cabinets.
- #4 313 Same areas as 413, but just for narrower areas.
- #5 515 About the same areas as a 415, just a bit wider fan width.
- #6 211 This is a very small tip, we sell it more for new construction for spraying baseboard installed up on the wall. And for exterior facial board. Note you will need a extra fine red spray gun filter for spraying with this small of a tip. Also you will have to watch that red filter when spraying latex with this small tip setup, it will tend to clog faster than normal.
- #7 619 First make sure your pump will maintain a .019, main use is for New construction were over spray is of no concern, and high output is needed. If you are not familiar with spraying you will need to watch for runs with this tip size.
If you still have questions on tips, feel free to email or call us. We would be glad to give a recommendation.
Hopefully now you have a better understating of paint spray tip nozzle. Click this link to order: https://www.dpairless.com/products/airless-tips-spray-nozzle-orifice
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Sramana Mitra: How big was the LexisNexis deal?
Dave Copps: It ended up being a multi-year deal that paid us over $3 million.
Sramana Mitra: That’s awesome.
Dave Copps: For a startup, it’s amazing.
Sramana Mitra: What about the early parts of this company? Obviously, you had made money from the previous company and you had some personal capital to put in. Did you put in personal capital or did you raise money?
Dave Copps: From my last company, I had met some investors who know me very well. We had a track record together so the natural thing to do was to get together with those people to fund this company. That’s what I did but again, I did it like the last time. We didn’t overfund it. I raised $1.2 million. Just enough to bring in some people without having to have them work for free. We bootstrapped the rest of it.
We literally got clients pretty early. Lexis became a client and they were paying us several thousand a month. Most of it was bootstrapped but we had the investor equity to help us get started. This company has been through three rounds of financing. The A and B rounds were really close together. We did the funding and had great investors. I consider myself incredibly lucky. I have a very close relationship with my investors. It’s probably different for most companies.
Sramana Mitra: You said you did three rounds of financing. Was it an institutional round or were they high net worth individuals kind of financing?
Dave Copps: The first A and B rounds were with high net worth individuals. The C round I did two years ago was with Medina Capital. We were Manny Medina’s third investment. He had just started his fund.
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little bit about the business and how this business developed. You started off with an early deal with Lexis. Did that kind of pattern of being able to win against Autonomy and other bigger competitors continue?
Dave Copps: It did. When I look back, the timing for starting a business wasn’t very good because the market crashed hugely in 2008. Luckily, we had that funding. That was a dead year really. Nothing happened except for development and some growth. It flipped again in 2010. For our first three years, we had two downturns. Right after that, things really started picking up. We’re still pretty small.
We latched onto the e-discovery industry. We wanted to find an industry that can get this company off the ground. We wanted to find an industry where there was urgency. We latched on to e-discovery like right now with Volkswagen. We latched on to that and did very well. Seven of the top legal service providers in the world standardised on our technology including companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, and KPMG. As a matter of fact, since I spoke to you last, we now have global agreements with all three of those major consulting companies. It’s really growing.


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There’s nothing like a big critter dive to get the adrenaline pumping – even before you hit the water. The sailfish and sardines off Mexico’s Isla Mujeres is one for the logbook!
Text and Photography by Jesse Cancelmo
The bait ball was under attack and as I surged through sun-shot water the hunters sailed past at arm’s length like a deadly flight of arrows.
The predators streaking by were Atlantic sailfish. Their prey: sardines, a migration of millions. Easy targets in a bright blue kill zone.
Streaming bubbles from their fearsome spears, the sleek ‘sails’ quickly and efficiently corralled their quarry. Reacting, the sardines contracted their silvery spheres, a survival illusion of the small to combat the large, with little effect on the outcome.
Motor drive whirring, I finned hard to stay close to the action, recording the onslaught. The repeated attacks were a marvel of lethal efficiency. The multitude of sardines no match, like so much battlefield fodder. Their numbers diminished – rapidly – before my eyes.
This yearly spectacle plays out north of Isla Mujeres in the plankton-rich waters of Mexico’s Yucatan, a quick boat ride from the holiday splendors of Cancun. From mid-January to mid-March it’s the frigate birds holding overhead that direct boats to the bait balls, the big fighting fish and the marine melee they produce.
With its prey herded tightly together, the sailfish get down to serious business using their bills to strike and stun. The rapid bite and gulp action that follows leaves plenty of sardine bits in the warm shallows, tasty snacks for the frigate birds and other freeloaders.
In my years of exploration and underwater photography I haven’t witnessed predator-prey behavior quite as remarkable as this food chain fray off Isla Mujeres.
I did think twice before jumping in the water with an excited pack of spear-wielding game fish. The power and potential of a speeding sailfish bill cannot be underestimated. It states the obvious to say that such a long pointed weapon has evolved to stab, to impale, to inflict grievous harm.
Observing these agile animals repeatedly slap and immobilize small, fast moving fish inspires awe and commands respect. As dozens of the big fish darted around us in the feeding frenzy, it was evident their big eyes were taking everything in. Sailfish can turn, accelerate and stop on a dime. Their precision is astounding. They always manage to change direction – whew! – just as you accept becoming a shish kebab. Though I can’t say I ever felt directly threatened I did find myself backpedaling from a bait ball on more than one occasion when the action became a little too frenetic and crowded. We were in skin diving gear on these photographic forays because of our own need to move quickly.
At almost twice the speed of a barracuda, sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) are the fastest fish in the ocean, known to reach speeds of almost 70mph (110kph). They’ve been clocked at 68mph, faster than bluefin tuna, wahoo and swordfish. A California sea lion tops out at about 25mph (40kph) and easily the fastest swimmer on our boat, a former lifeguard, was clocked at 5mph (8.3kph) using his one-metre long free diving fins.
Sailfish are capable of extreme bursts of speed. Combine this with their maneuverability and you have a formidable hunter. Pelvic fins contract into body grooves minimizing drag. Forked tails feature double keels and notches on the upper and lower surfaces that function as hydrofoils. As the name suggests, the Atlantic sailfish has a spectacular fan-like, blue and purple dorsal fin that runs nearly the full length of the body, though it’s often folded when they swim. When threatened or excited, however, the fish hoists this dorsal fin or ‘sail’ to look bigger and more formidable. The raised sail is also thought by some marine biologists to be a cooling system for the animal. The sails were used to full advantage herding the sardines as the accompanying photos indicate.
Their bills protrude from the upper jaw and typically measure about twice the length of the lower jaw.
Laterally, the top of the body is blue, the mid section brownish and the underside white and silver. Light blue dots make up a series of about 20 parallel stripes on either side of the body that crosscut the colours running from head to tail. A sailfish uses its pigment cells or chromatophores to flash or light up its body colouration depending on the situation and its level of excitement.
In the western Atlantic, sailfish range from Maine to Argentina. They tend to stay in warm waters but migrate to the northern and southern extremes of their range during summer months. Sailfish abound in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and the coastal waters off the east coast of Florida. The sardines migrate from the coastal waters of South America to feed in the plankton-rich shallows atop this stretch of Mexico’s continental shelf.
Sails in the Western Hemisphere are typically six to seven feet (1.8-2.1m) long and weigh in at 30 to 40 pounds (14-27kg). Indo-Pacific sailfish are a little longer and somewhat heavier. Sailfish live for about 16 years during which they travel an average 190,000 miles (300,000km).
In addition to sardines, sailfish feed on mackerel, needlefish, tuna and squid. For their jumping and surface acrobatics, sails are prized game fish although their tough meat is not so palatable. Fortunately, most sailfish being caught by rod and reel are released.
Mark Strickland and I accompanied Doug Perrine on this special charter aboard the 42-foot (13m) Keen M out of Isla Mujeres. Captain Anthony Mendillo managed to find bait balls and sailfish on each of our six-days, which came at the end of the season. Evidently, we hit the sweet spot. In previous weeks there had been sailfish action but sometimes the bait balls were elusive. One day our captain trolled for sailfish using hookless lures or teasers. This ballyhoo bait was very effective drawing the sailfish up to the boat’s transom. The captain would then shout for one of us to jump in while his mate showered the water with live bait. Though effective in a limited way, allowing us to get a few shots of a couple or more sails, the trolling was still a distant second to bait ball action.
This spectacle of nature off Isla Mujeres that brings together the birds, the bait and the hunters, is a thrill like no other. Most of the time our eyes were wide, our jaws were dropped and adrenaline was pumping furiously. Hands down, this diving experience was on my hit parade, easily in the top ten.
IF YOU GO:
Contact Information: Captain Anthony Mendillo Jr.
Phone: 52(998) 877-0759 – Phone/Fax 52(998) 877-1124
Time of Year: Mid-January through mid-March.
Water Temperature: 80ºF (27ºC).
Air Travel: Many international carriers offer direct flights to Cancun, Mexico. Ferry from Cancun to Isla Mujeres takes about 20 minutes.
Accommodations: Numerous hotels on Isla Mujeres just a Google away. Stay in town and rent golf cart to shuttle people and gear between your hotel and dock.
Diver/Snorkeler Equipment And Tips: Bring light wetsuit to 3 mm and a bright coloured cap or hood. Mostly surface snorkeling but some opt for 40 cubic-foot pony bottles available on boat. Bring an extra snorkel. Bring a windbreaker or sweats for the boat between jumps.
Photography Tips: Use fast shutter speeds, 1/400 sec or faster. Choose continuous shutter shooting mode. For available light exposures, keep the sun to your back at all times. Bring 4GB or greater compact flash cards.
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Teen dies in car crash
Published: Monday, April 28, 2003 at 10:43 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 28, 2003 at 12:37 p.m.
A Lexington teenager died Sunday evening after being injured in a car accident on Beck's Church Road.
Sarah Elizabeth Carrico, 18, of Frontier Drive, died at 6:45 p.m. at Lexington Memorial Hospital. She had been injured an hour earlier when her car struck another vehicle, a Highway Patrol spokeswoman said.
Carrico was traveling north on Beck's Church Road Road in a 1996 Saturn and driving 75 miles per hour in a 45-mile-per-hour zone when she ran off the right side of the road, according to the Highway Patrol. She then jerked the car to the left and struck a 2003 Chevrolet Time Warner van that was traveling south in the opposite lane. The two vehicles landed on the side of the road.
The driver of the van, Barry William Lawson, 45, of Holloway Church Road, was not injured, according to the Highway Patrol. He was not charged in the accident.
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