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First the snow, then the bitter cold -
January 7, 2015 by
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January 6, 2015 | 9:25 pm
No one could be blamed for avoiding the outdoors on Tuesday, which saw half a foot of snow on the ground and temperatures in the single digits.
Yet out there on his bike was David Martyn, a delivery driver for Jimmy Johns in Iowa City.
Buried in four layers, Smartwool socks, a face mask and ski goggles, Martyn was hauling subs by way of a stud-tired mountain bike in a five-mile radius of downtown Iowa City. The digital temperature display outside the local bank read 3 degrees.
Its not too bad, Martyn said. Just dress like you are going skiing.
That not too bad assessment could change drastically by Wednesday morning. After a fairly moderate start to the season, which saw only trace amounts of snow in December and relatively mild temperatures, winter is announcing its presence with authority this week. Roughly six inches of snow fell on the area Monday afternoon into Tuesday morning but that was only the opening salvo. Dangerously cold temperatures are expected to follow for the rest of the week.
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Awful, is how KCRG-TV9 meteorologist Kaj OMara described it.
Its going to be cold and not fun, OMara said Tuesday.
Mondays storm dropped 5 to 7 inches of snow on the region before tailing off Tuesday morning. In its wake will be the coldest temperatures of 2015, OMara said. Beginning Tuesday night, the mercury will fall to a low of -17 degrees.
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The City of Morgan Hill is about to undergo a tree removal project that will significantly change the appearance of a southwest Morgan Hill park, according to city staff.
The city annually pays a professional arborist to evaluate trees in all city parks to ensure that they are healthy and safe for the public, reads a press release from Morgan Hill Communications Manager Maureen Tobin. The 2014 tree evaluation identified about 50 trees that need to be removed from city parks.
Most of the trees are scattered throughout the city, but about 20 are slated for removal from Paradise Park on LaCrosse Drive, city staff said. Removing these trees will create a very noticeable difference in park appearance.
Even though some of the trees remain in good health, city staff said the structure of the plants is unstable. Large branches could fall without notice, resulting major damage to surrounding property and threatening injury to people below the branches.
The work to remove the trees is scheduled for Jan. 19, to be completed by the citys contractor West Coast Arborists, city staff said. The removal of each tree will be posted for two weeks before their removal.
The removed trees will be turned into mulch and spread throughout the city, the press release said.
Anticipating the declining health of the Paradise Park trees in recent years due to the annual evaluations, the city began planting replacement trees two years ago in order to restore the park canopy, Tobin added.
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Vail kitchen fire contained quickly -
January 7, 2015 by
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VAIL A New Years Eve kitchen fire in a condominium at Lion Square Lodge, 660 W. Lionshead Place, was quickly contained by the activation of the automatic fire sprinkler system in the unit. According to Vail Fire Marshal Mike Vaughan, the fire in the recently renovated east building was controlled by a single sprinkler in the kitchen near the stove.
Firefighters responded to the property at around 5:30 p.m. on report of a waterflow alarm. Investigators determined that the cause of the fire was related to a pan being left unattended on the stove.
Building maintenance crews had turned off the sprinkler valve by the time fire crews arrived. Damage is estimated to be less than $5,000 and was contained to the microwave above the stove as well as the underside of adjacent cabinetry.
Water damage was minimal as each unit is equipped with its own sprinkler shut off. Building maintenance was able to use a shop vac for clean up.
The occupants of the residence did not need to be relocated and there were no injuries, according to Vaughan. The sprinkler system was restored to a working condition that evening.
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Firefighters use a fire truck ladder to reach the top floors of the Wedgwood Apartments at 6701 Blanco Road.
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Wedgwood Senior Living Apartments, an 11-story structure at 6701 Blanco Road.
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Wedgwood Senior Living Apartments, an 11-story structure at 6701 Blanco Road.
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Units from the San Antonio Fire Department are staged and ready to respond to a fire at the Wedgwood Apartments in the 6700 block of Blanco Road.
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Units from the San Antonio Fire Department are staged and ready to respond to a fire at the Wedgwood Apartments in the 6700 block of Blanco Road.
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Welcome to 2015! Moving Sheds, Building Gardens, Planting Orchards and more!
2014 was great but 2015 will be even greater! I have so many plans and projects to share with you. This first video of this year lays out a few of the current projects. I will be moving a...
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Standing 6-foot-10, Johnson is 5 inches taller than Fergie Jenkins, who along with the late Don Drysdale and Eppa Rixey stood as the tallest pitchers inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Jenkins will be looking up to Johnson next July when the Big Unit steps onto the stage on induction Sunday in Cooperstown.
"Obviously my height was to my advantage but only [after] I was able to harness my ability," said Johnson, who was 26 before spending his first full season in the Major Leagues. "Being 6-foot-10 and all arms and legs, obviously not too many [similar] pitchers, power pitchers, came before me. I didn't have a blueprint to work with."
Working diligently from his teenage years, Johnson learned to use his body's system of hinges and levers to throw a baseball with both velocity and torque. Because of his height and his wingspan, the ball had less distance than normal to travel on its way to home plate once he released it.
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Physicists estimate that it made his pitches appear to hitters as much as 4 mph faster than they were, and they were already plenty fast. At the peak of his 22-season career, one that he extended until after his 46th birthday, baseball's best hitters didn't think they had a chance against him.
When Johnson threw his perfect game against the Braves, the lineup he faced included Chipper Jones and Julio Franco, who would combine for 5,312 hits and both win batting titles. They were 0-for-6 with four strikeouts, and Jones says he doesn't think he even had a foul tip.
Jones described his mound opponent on that night as "electrically unhittable," and MLB Network's Kevin Millar can relate. He has called Johnson the most dominating pitcher he faced, because of velocity, a devastating slider and the unique angles in his delivery.
"The slider would come out of his hand -- it was a strike -- then it would end up over your back shoelace," Millar said. "Slider, back shoelace. Slider, back shoelace. Slider, back shoelace. And his size was so different than anyone else. You're not used to it. Take any pitcher's release point, then add a foot and a half, and that's his."
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Las Vegas: Want to know what TV and movie content will be available on the Australian version of Netflix when it launches in March? You're going to have to wait a little bit longer.
Speaking to journalists at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Netflix's vice-president of product innovation, Todd Yellin, carefully dodged questions as to the range of content Australians will be able to access on the service when it arrives in March.
First, he tried to tie it up in a nice bow, along the lines of 'good things come to those who wait':
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Chemical-biological research from the University of Copenhagen sheds light on important communication processes in the brain by means of new effective molecules that improve the starting point provided by nature by more than 1,000 times. In the long term, this new knowledge may lead to psychopharmacological drugs with fewer side effects.
The results have just been published in the recognised journals Nature Communications and Angewandte Chemie.
Proteins play a fundamental role in almost all biological processes. They consist of chains composed of up to 20 different amino acids, and their composition, structure and function are controlled by the genetic code. Brilliant minds at the Center for Biopharmaceuticals are now attempting to rewrite the core function of proteins by making alterations in their molecular composition, for example. By means of advanced chemical-biological techniques, researchers are capable of designing new chemical compounds that overcome nature's limitations.
In the current study, the researchers studied receptors that play a key role in the brain in health and disease. Then they designed new chemical compounds -- peptides -- with superior effect on the receptors' interaction with gephyrin, a protein that is vital for the brain:
"The capacity to manipulate proteins has led to important breakthroughs in biotechnology and biomedicine. We have, among other things, studied the so-called GABA receptors which are important targets for drugs for the treatment of mental disorders, e.g. benzodiazepines for the treatment of anxiety and insomnia. We have, more specifically, studied the receptors' interaction with the protein gephyrin. Not only to learn more, at a structural level, about a key interaction in the brain, but also to see whether we could turn it up or down. We have very successfully achieved the latter -- we can document an inhibition, which, at best, is more than 1,000 times stronger than what is seen in nature," says Postdoc Hans Maric. He is part of the Center for Biopharmaceuticals at the University of Copenhagen, which is headed by Professor Kristian Stromgaard.
The new research findings have just been published in Nature Communications and Angewandte Chemie. The first article describes the initial work with mapping glycine and GABA receptors, respectively, and how the two receptor types interact differently with gephyrin. The other article describes the molecular restructuring that has created a neuro-active peptide that is 1,000 times more powerful that what nature offers.
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SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -
14-year old Joseph LaCour was missing for almost 18 hours. Diagnosed with autism, LaCour wandered off in an effort to keep up with his routine of going to church and see his "paw-paw."
Since returning home, Joseph has received an outpouring of love from his family who are happy he's home safely.
Deysha LaCour, Joseph's mother, says words don't do it justice for how happy she is to have her baby boy home.
"It's indescribable. We were just staring at him. We were so glad to have him home," said Deysha LaCour.
The 14-year old, who is limited in his verbal communication, was back to his normal routine a day after creating an emotional roller coaster for his family and friends.
Well, almost his normal routine.
"Joseph stayed home from school today to rest," said Deysha LaCour. "We noticed at the hospital that he has some blisters on his feet from all the walking he did, so we thought it would be best to give him a day at home."
LaCour walked more than 15 miles from his home in Bossier City to Shreveport.
His mother, who works at a local library, has used reading to her son to try and emphasize the severity of his wandering off.
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