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Woman IDs bat-wielding robber
A Fort Wayne man accused of entering a north-side home and robbing a woman while armed with a plastic baseball bat in August was formally charged Monday. Larry Robinson, 27, of the 4400 block of Sanford Lane, is charged with burglary, robbery and criminal confinement after his photo was picked out of an array by the robbery victim in August. Robinson had not been arrested as of Tuesday night. Fort Wayne police were called to the woman's home in the 2300 block of Leroy Avenue about 9 p.m. Aug. 20. She told police she took her trash out earlier that evening and left her garage door open because she usually rides her bicycle at night. She was in her house grading papers when about 8:55 p.m. she heard footsteps in the kitchen. She said at first she was not concerned because she thought it was her son.
JG Ballard reminisces on his boyhood years in Miracles of Life
To return to Shanghai, for the first time since I was a boy, was a strange experience for me. Memories were waiting for me everywhere, like old friends at an arrivals gate, each carrying a piece of cardboard bearing my name. I looked down from my room on the 17th floor of the Hilton and could see at a glance that there were two Shanghais – the skyscraper city newer than yesterday and at street level the old Shanghai that I had cycled around as a boy. I slipped out of the hotel and began to walk the street. The pavements were already crowded with food vendors, porters steering new photocopiers into office entrances, smartly dressed young secretaries shaking their heads at a plump and sweating 60-year-old European out on some dishevelled errand. And I was on an errand, though I had yet to grasp the true nature of my assignment.
JR East to test electricity generation by train riders
I thought JR was long over this waste of money years ago. If I remember correctly it was for a competition on eco and a little girl drew up this contraption to make human guinea pigs. It used to be something like 1 million people can make a light bulb light up for a few minutes so I guess it is getting a little more efficient. One could imagine the entire station rigged up, but after people start tripping and falling over the unstable and hard to maintenance floor the cost of medical bills will exceed any profit made. .
Three Cape officers to be feted for heroism
The quick action of two Cape Coral police officers saved a life and the quick thinking of a third helped solve a crime against a 93-year-old woman.
All three will be honored Wednesday at the departments monthly awards ceremony.
The first two officers Brian Gumm and Matthew Squires are receiving a life-saving award after an incident that happened Jan. 2. According to reports, Gumm was on routine patrol that day when he spotted a car that had just crashed into a palm tree.
The driver was pinned inside the vehicle in such a way that his airway was blocked and he couldnt breathe, police spokeswoman Dyan Lee said. Officer Squires was able to rip away part of the drivers seat and position the man so that he could breathe better.
The man suffered life-threatening injuries, but he survived.
Pharmacy and accounting volunteers fill important roles
During World War II he joined the Navy as a pharmacist. However, the Navy sent him to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy to get a degree in marine engineering and then sent him out to sea. After the war he was a neighborhood pharmacist and then a medical service representative for Eli Lilly & Co. The company transferred him to Jacksonville in 1973. Currently he is a consultant pharmacist for nursing homes and surgery centers. He was attending a meeting of the Northeast Florida Society of Hospital Pharmacists and an old friend, Jim Burt, came to speak to the group and ask for volunteers to work at the pharmacy at Volunteers in Medicine. Located downtown on East Duval Street, VIM is a volunteer-run medical clinic improving the health of Jacksonville area residents by providing free outpatient medical services to the working uninsured.
'Raulistas' Expected to Back Raul Castro
Other generals and colonels have run fishing, transportation and Habanos S.A., which works with a European firm to market Cuban cigars abroad.
Ramiro Valdes, 75, one of only three men honored with the title of Commander of the Revolution, for years operated a key company importing computers and other electronics, until Raul named him communications minister shortly after Fidel fell ill.
The armed forces also manage a chain of hundreds of small consumer goods stores and a tourism company that runs more than 30 hotels, with subsidiaries that provide domestic tourist travel by air and land.
Generals who once served as battlefield commanders have become leaders of a new military entrepreneurial class, with personal stakes in Cuba's future.
"Second- and third-tier officials have every incentive to stand together, if only as the best strategy for preserving their equities," Latell wrote.
Artist takes class staple to new heights
It was forwarded to the Roller Girls after he showed it to others in the fan club. It subsequently was shown in a Naptown-inspired exhibit at Big Car Gallery.Hoffar also gave several custom flakes as Christmas gifts this past year, including people's names in cursive and a rosary for his mother. A friend created a website for Hoffar to capitalize on his upstart talents. Hoffar now works under the name Mister Flakes."That came out of desperation," he said. "I needed a name for the website because it was coming out in conjunction with the window display. I wanted something fairly silly because I don't take what I do too seriously."Hoffar doesn't spend much time on his craft, usually only when someone requests a custom flake."Most of my orders are still local," he said. "If it got any bigger I'd probably be overloaded."While Hoffar will incorporate petitioned elements into his flakes, he likes it better when he starts cutting with no idea what he wants it to be."I can't explain what I feel when I first unfold it," Hoffar said.
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A fascinating archive of wildlife films from the last 100 years will be available online this week when www.wildfilmhistory.org goes live. The website, created by Bristol-based conservation charity Wildscreen and digital British wildlife library ARKive, will be launched on Tuesday February 26 2008. Two years in the making, WildFilmHistory celebrates the pioneering people and landmark productions in the world of natural history film-making. .
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