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Published: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 10:39 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 11:18 a.m.
BARTOW | The Polk County Courthouse was evacuated for about 20 minutes this morning after dust particles triggered a smoke alarm.
Loud emergency sirens inside the courthouse directed everyone to exit, and hundreds of people lined the streets as a fire engine drove by with lights and sirens blaring.
A maintenance worker inadvertently triggered a smoke alarm while working on the sprinkler system in the sixth-floor maintenance closet, Court Administrator Nick Sudzina said.
Dust particles were agitated and blown into the sprinkler system, setting off the alarm, he said.
To prevent this from occurring again, the sprinkler bypass system will be engaged during any maintenance work, Sudzina said.
"The good thing about this incident is the evacuation system worked as it is supposed to and everyone left the building timely and reported to the proper assembly area," he said in an email.
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Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian, ditched his Speedos and signed a new endorsement deal with swimsuit maker Aqua Sphere.
Phelps, who came out of retirement in April after winning a record 18 Olympic gold medals, has worn Warnaco Group Ltd.s Speedo swimsuits since turning professional at the age of 16.
Aqua Sphere is a producer of swimwear and accessories for triathletes and fitness swimmers that has not made racing suits before. The company, which began in Genoa, Italy, in 1998, will work with Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, to develop products that are accessible to a broad range of swimmers, from professional to recreational, it said in a news release.
There is an opportunity to help make the sport more inviting to others by recognizing that everyone begins at different levels, requires assistance matching their skills with products, and lacks the appropriate context in order to maximize their swimming experience, Phelps said in a statement.
Contract terms werent disclosed. Phelpss deal with Speedo expired at the end of 2013. His contract with Vista, California-based Aqua Sphere runs through 2022, according to the Sports Business Journal.
Phelps won six gold medals at the Athens Games in 2004, broke Mark Spitzs record for golds at a single Olympics with eight in Beijing in 2008 and added four more in London in 2012.
By matching Spitzs record of seven gold medals in Beijing, he was awarded a $1 million bonus from Speedo.
Having won a record 22 Olympic medals, he retired at the age of 27. He returned more than 18 months later, saying he changed his mind because he missed the sport.
The 29-year-old is signed up to compete in four events at the U.S. national championships this week in Irvine, California. The swim meet will determine U.S. roster sports for the Aug. 21-25 Pan Pacific Championships in Australia, which then help determine the U.S. team for next years world championships in Kazan, Russia.
Phelps has said he isnt sure whether he wants to swim at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
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ST. LOUIS There was no pass-the-hanky moment, no catch in the voice, no its getting dusty in here moment with John Lackey yesterday.
In fact, after spending a few hot and sticky and uncomfortable minutes with Lackey in the Cardinals home dugout, it sure felt as if he had not only turned the page on his 412-year Red Sox career about three seconds after the trade went down last Thursday, but that he had already begun reaching to turn that page well before the trade.
Lackey paused for two seconds and looked out into the mid-summer haze when asked if he was hoping to get traded.
Im not going to go that far, he finally said. I wasnt surprised.
Lackey was on guard for the interaction with a group of media comprised mainly of Bostonians, eager to get Lackeys take on the trade. He had not taken out an ad in any newspapers to express his thoughts and feelings (if any), and nobody who had contact with his shallow New England roots had sought out his opinion since last Thursday.
While former rotation mate Jon Lesters name was in trade talks for what felt like weeks if not months, Lackeys name did not surface until three or four days before the big day. Besides his strong performance last year and so far this season, Lackey had the added bonus of costing only $500,000 next season. That pittance had much to do with Lackeys high trade value.
Before the Cardinals would do the deal, however, they needed assurance from Lackey that he would indeed play for that amount and not just walk away.
Lackey gave them his word.
But when asked if he would have given the same word to the Red Sox, Lackey got squirrelly about the topic.
I dont know about that honestly. I didnt get that far ahead to think about it at that point, Lackey said.
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Its the stuff dystopian sci-fi is made of: A city on the edge of the largest fresh water reserve on the planet suddenly has no drinkable water. At 1:21 am Saturday morning, the City of Toledo put out an alert: dont drink or bathe in water from the city water supply. About 500,000 residents of the region were affected. Including me.
Lake Erie has a long, troubled history. A common refrain in 1960 was Lake Erie is Dead. The lake and its tributaries have been polluted enough to catch on fire multiple times; the 1969 Cuyohoga fire is just the most famous one. Lake Erie is even mentioned in Dr. Seuss 1971 book The Lorax.
Lake Eries mess helped inspire the formation of the EPA in 1970, and the Clean Water Act of 1972. Things got better; Lake Erie became a hub for fishing and recreation, and is considered the Walleye Capitol of the World. To be able to consume fish from the lake at all, much less swim in the water, is a major achievement in just a few decades.
How did Lake Erie go from polluted, flaming disaster to environmental success storyand then back again to environmental disaster, in just 45 years? And why is it always Lake Erie that has issues? The answers to that question are not hard to find.
Lake Erie is different from the other Great Lakes because its so shallow. The western end of the lake (where Toledo is) has an average depth of only 24 feet. The water warms quickly, and its a great place to live if youre a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). Say, toxin-producing Microcystis. Microcystis has the ability to control its buoyancy; it can sink or rise to the top of the water at will to chase the sunlight.
When you look at the satellite photo below of the cyanobacterialbloom, its a pretty close overlay for the warm western shallow section of the lake. And exactly where the water intake for the Toledo Water Treatment plant is (red marker on map). The satellite image here is fromJuly 31st, 2014; the problem with toxic algae was not a surprise overnight development.
Both scientists and politicians know there is a problem with algae at this end of the lake nearly every year; look at this satellite photo from 2013. Or 2012. But its not just bad luck and geology; there is a third piece in the Lake Erie Algal Bloom equation.
Toledo is located on the mouth of the Maumee River. It was a strategic area in the 1812 War; and again in the Toledo War of 1835.
The Maumee River was key to Toledos early economic success; its also the cause of algal bloom problems now. Maumee is the largest watershed in the Great Lakes system. It runs right through the Breadbasket of the Midwest, an intensively farmed area. Satellite views show thousands upon thousands of little boxes of green; the highly productive farms and fields of Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana.
The Maumee watershed is such productive farmland because it was once a swamp; the Great Black Swamp. Drainage tiles allowed removal of water from the surface of the soil, and made wonderfully rich swampland available for farming. Drainage tiles also collect up runoff and deliver it very efficiently to streams and rivers.
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