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The Wood County Genealogical Society invites the public to hear guest speaker Lisa McKinney at the Quitman Public Library on Monday, April 16, at 7 p.m.
McKinney will explain what information is available for family researchers in the 1940 census and methods and sources to most effectively find that information.
As with all the regular monthly meetings of the Wood County Genealogical Society, members will be available at the library from 6-7 p.m. to help the public and other members with starting research of their ancestors and family tree or with research problems. A limited number of work stations will be available on a first-come, first serve basis to use the free library version of Ancestry.com. Personal Wi-Fi-enabled laptops may also be used.
Additionally, a social Dutch-treat gathering of society members and guests is open to anyone interested in genealogy on each third Monday meeting day at 5 p.m. at Peralta's Mexican Food Restaurant in Quitman.
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Suns ease to win over Saints
The AFL's expansion hordes are swarming at the gate to the top four.
But Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna refuses to buy into the growing hype, saying their sole focus this season remains a finals debut.
The Suns' breakout year continued to gain momentum when they smashed rebuilding St Kilda in the first half at Etihad Stadium on the way to a regulation 38-point win.
The 19.11 (125) to 13.9 (87) result meant the Suns improved from sixth to fifth with a 6-2 record.
Only 14,625 fans attended the Sunday twilight fixture.
Gold Coast are behind fourth-placed Geelong on percentage and this has all the hallmarks of a breakout year.
In their fourth season, Gold Coast are on a four-game winning streak - their previous best was two-straight.
After winning at Etihad Stadium for the first time a fortnight ago, their hard-running game looks right at home under the roof.
They have also won all three of their games in Melbourne so far this season.
Gold Coast equalled their highest score in any quarter with 8.4 in the opening term against the Saints.
Their 13.7 was a club-record first half and the best start by any team this season.
But McKenna is not reading much into their lofty ladder position
"I reckon it takes you 16 (wins) to get into the top four, so we are a long way off that," he said.
"The last month has been favourable for us, but we have just completed one lap and we have two laps to come.
"We have a tough draw coming up and we are going to have to weather the storm."
McKenna said the goal remained 12 wins, which should mean they make the finals.
"We are not shying away from that," he said.
"If the boys think the work is done, we have got a long way to go."
Captain Gary Ablett surely took another three-vote step towards his third Brownlow Medal with 37 possessions and four goals.
Ruckman Zac Smith also impressed in his first game back after 12 months out with a knee reconstruction.
Saints coach Alan Richardson said Gold Coast were improving everywhere - game plan, defensive work, bigger bodies and harder running.
"So they're certainly significantly advanced compared to the team I saw out there last year," he said.
Unlike a fortnight ago, when they suffered a record 145-point loss to Hawthorn, the Saints were also resilient in the second half.
After trailing by 57 points at the long break, they dramatically improved their intensity and workrate.
"There's no doubt the guys' response after half time was a positive," Richardson said.
"Having said that, it's disappointing when the game's up for grabs that we get beaten so badly, particularly in the contest."
The injury-plagued Saints will welcome the bye.
They suffered more casualties, with substitute Blake Acres (ankle) only lasting a couple of minutes and Luke Delaney hurting his hip.
Jack Steven and Lenny Hayes were best for the Saints.
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Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, sits off the mainland on an island in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. Abu Dhabi is a luxurious metropolis with flair of traditional values combined with the modernism of 21st century. It is the largest of the seven Emirates and referred to as a shopperês paradise. One of the richest cities of the world, Abu Dhabi is a perfect example of modern Gulf oil-city evolved from being a fishing village in about half a century. With its rich past tracing back to 3000 B.C., Abu Dhabi, unlike Dubai has preserved its distinct Arabian culture amid all glitz and shimmer. Nestled on a T-shaped island, the place is a federal capital city of U.A.E with all kinds of modern amenities and architecture. The desert city is also home to some of the most beautiful mosques and rustic old towns sprinkled with dust displaying its desert-trader past.
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Pony rides, a barbecue and a tombola were among the attractions at a family fun day held at Fernhill House this summer.
Friends and relatives joined residents to enjoy a delicious meal cooked in the grounds by the home's award winning chef Chris Williams.
Chris has an impressive pedigree – he has worked with Heston Blumenthal and Marco Pierre White and won AA rosettes and culinary accolades aplenty over the course of his 25 year career.
A huge fan of organic and home grown produce, he has appeared on MasterChef and has just cured the pizza oven within Fernhill House's two acre grounds, which will be inaugurated shortly.
People across four generations were represented at the event – with some children visiting their great grandfather. The event is one of an eclectic range of activities which reflect Fernhill's ethos of fun, being an integral part of the wider community and of an ongoing relationship with the friends and family of those living at the home.
Other activities include visits from musicians, authors, TV personalities and animals, a range of beauty and holistic therapies and trips to places of interest.
The all inclusive residential fee enables friends and relatives to share meals and drinks with their loved ones as often as they wish – an unusual and popular feature aimed at ensuring Fernhill House is a home in the true sense of the word.


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Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL news items for today:
Big Boost: Strong sales of the iPhone 5 have lifted Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) share of the U.S. smartphone market past 50%, MacRumors noted. Industry research firm Kantar Worldpanel found that the iPhone accounted for 53.3% of the U.S. smartphone market from September through November, compared to 41.9% for devices running Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system. That marks an improvement from the 48.1% share Apple held from August through October, against Android's 46.7%. The September through November data represents the first time Apple has passed 50% of the domestic smartphone market. In Europe, by contrast, Apple accounts for just 25.3% of that market, compared to 61% for Android during the period. From September through November, smartphones running on Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone and devices from Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) accounted for 2.7% and 1.4% of the domestic smartphone market, respectively.
Ban Reconsidered: Apple is appealing a recent decision by a California court not to ban the sales of several Samsung mobile devices found to violate Apple patents, USA Today notes. Earlier this week, Judge Lucy Koh, who presided over the patent infringement lawsuit that resulted in a $1 billion jury award against Samsung, rejected a ban on Samsung devices, noting that only some of their features infringed on Apple patents and citing potential harm to consumers. Apple has now appealed Koh's ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Koh also dismissed Samsung's request for a new trial over alleged misconduct by the jury foreman.
TV Needed: An analyst says for Apple to maintain its growth it needs to launch its own TV set, as well as a lower-cost iPhone, BGR notes. Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi warns that without an Apple-branded TV to boost sales, Apple's earnings growth could slow to single digits. While Sacconaghi expected iPhone sales to remain high for at least two years, he thinks Apple needs to release a cheaper iPhone to keep up with competitors like Samsung. As tablet computer sales continue to grow, Sacconaghi calls the iPad "an absolute juggernaut." Still, Sacconaghi lowered his price target for Apple for next year from $800 to $750 a share.
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Jack Balkin:
jackbalkin at yahoo.com
Bruce Ackerman
bruce.ackerman at yale.edu
Ian Ayres
ian.ayres at yale.edu
Corey Brettschneider
corey_brettschneider at brown.edu
Mary Dudziak
mary.l.dudziak at emory.edu
Joey Fishkin
joey.fishkin at gmail.com
Heather Gerken heather.gerken at yale.edu
Abbe Gluck abbe.gluck at yale.edu
Mark Graber
mgraber at law.umaryland.edu
Stephen Griffin
sgriffin at tulane.edu
Jonathan Hafetz
jonathan.hafetz at shu.edu
Jeremy Kessler
jkessler at law.columbia.edu
Andrew Koppelman
akoppelman at law.northwestern.edu
Marty Lederman
msl46 at law.georgetown.edu
Sanford Levinson
slevinson at law.utexas.edu
David Luban
david.luban at gmail.com
Gerard Magliocca
gmaglioc at iupui.edu
Jason Mazzone
mazzonej at illinois.edu
Linda McClain
lmcclain at bu.edu
John Mikhail
mikhail at law.georgetown.edu
Frank Pasquale
pasquale.frank at gmail.com
Nate Persily
npersily at gmail.com
Michael Stokes Paulsen
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Deborah Pearlstein
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Rick Pildes
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David Pozen
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Richard Primus
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K. Sabeel Rahmansabeel.rahman at brooklaw.edu
Alice Ristroph
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Neil Siegel
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David Super
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Brian Tamanaha
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Nelson Tebbe
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Mark Tushnet
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Adam Winkler
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Compendium of posts on Hobby Lobby and related cases
The Anti-Torture Memos: Balkinization Posts on Torture, Interrogation, Detention, War Powers, and OLC
The Anti-Torture Memos (arranged by topic)
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Immigration reform as a "natural experiment"
Friday, February 01, 2013
Immigration reform as a "natural experiment"
Sandy Levinson
David Brooks has a fine column today on why immigration reform (including, if there is a political "truth-in-advertising" law, "amnesty") is such an easy case. I'm particularly interested in his concluding sentence: "The second big conclusion is that if we can't pass a law this year, given the overwhelming strength of the evidence, then we really are a pathetic basket case of a nation."
Brooks correctly identifies the long known economic benefits of immigration, but glosses over or simply denies the costs to the taxpayer of introducing millions of low skill, low wage immigrants into a welfare state and the costs to native low skill workers when that labor pool is dramatically expanded while available low skill jobs are shrinking.
Voter opposition to immigration under these terms is hardly know-nothing nativism and is your primary political problem - not the Constitution, the Hastert Rule or any of your other hobby horses.
The obvious solution (and the one I personally support) would be to return to the immigration rules under which many of our European and Chinese ancestors came to America - so long as you are not a criminal, diseased or mentally disabled, you are in. Once here, you are on your own. The streets are occasionally paved with gold, but they do not lead to a welfare office.
This approach turned a colonial backwater into a world super power.
However, the political class who looks at low skill immigrants as an ongoing source of government-dependent voters is hardly likely to truly liberalize immigration as I suggest. Rather, they prefer ongoing amnesty bills and immigrant welcome packets with Obamacare inserts.
Nothing about Brooks' column is "fine", everything he writes is full of huge holes.
For just one example, there's no "humanitarian case" involved: everything Brooks writes would make things worse (for most people). It would make things more difficult for struggling Americans who'd have to compete against those who previously couldn't compete with them for their jobs (such as federal construction, bank teller, Denny's waitress assuming Denny's checks IDs, etc. etc.)
At the same time, it would harm foreign countries who'd lose even more of their strivers to the U.S. (in one MX state a few years ago, most of their workers were in the U.S.) MX needs all the smart ppl they can hold on to, Brooks would have them come here. That has long term impacts for them and for us.
But, some people would make out: crooked business owners who've knowingly used illegal labor, crooked banks that would profit from deposits and sending money back, crooked pols who take favors from the latter two groups and in exchange turn a blind eye to massive illegal activity, and so on.
Shouldn't law professors avoid siding with and enabling unrepentant crooks?
its a little weird to attribute the coming sequestration (aka austerity program) to the U.S. Constitution when England Ireland and several other European countries who do not have our const's have imposed far worse austerity on themselves than we soon might. (in fact, the us const. has "caused" higher stimulus than almost all non-us const. countries)
It is one thing to say the us const. is not a very good document which is obviously correct; it is quite another to say this actually matters. To do so convincingly you must not only show that there is a "correct" policy out there but also that the const is thwarting its implementation - thats a hard thing to do but its surely your burden. Good luck, it cant be done cuz its simply not the case.
Here's link to Digital History's "Landmarks in Immigration Hisstory":
I provide this because of our yodeler's comment:
"The obvious solution (and the one I personally support) would be to return to the immigration rules under which many of our European and Chinese ancestors came to America - so long as you are not a criminal, diseased or mentally disabled, you are in. Once here, you are on your own. The streets are occasionally paved with gold, but they do not lead to a welfare office."
Perhaps our yodeler could provide us with dates of those good old immigration days of yesteryear he yearns for. Based on comments by our yodeler on other threads at this Blog, he yearns for those laissez-faire days of the late 18th and the 19th centuries in America's glory days before being ruined by progressives. Also, I wonder if there is a book or books on immigration in America that our yodeler uses as his sources, especially on our "Chinese ancestors" who came to America. Here in MA I am familiar with immigration patterns going back to the Irish and Italians in their initial waves of immigration, followed by other Europeans and Asians. Some of my familiarity goes back to the 1850s in the history of Boston.
So perhaps our yodeler could favor us by identifying with dates the immigration rules of America's past that he favors. Our yodeler's open immigration policy (subject to exceptions - " ... so long as you are not a criminal, diseased or mentally disabled, ... ") might add to the changing demographics that have been doing in the GOP. {Note: Some of our yodeler's exceptions should be compared to the welcome inscription on the Statue of Liberty.]
My Irish, German and Italian ancestors came over between the 1860s and 1903. Their experiences are what I based my comment.
I was discussing immigration and not naturalization, which is why I included the Chinese.
Perhaps our yodeler's Irish, German and Italian ancestor immigrants did well but many were treated poorly in that time frame until achieving political power through naturalization. And the Chinese were treated poorly, including denying them citizenship that was available to our yodeler's Irish, German and Italian ancestors.
Perhaps our yodeler's ancestors passed down journals that he relies upon for his open immigration policy. But there is quite a bit of history on the treatment of various ethnic immigrants that may not square with our yodeler's anecdotal approach. And naturalization is a significant aspect of immigration, thus should not be ignored.
As I've said before I always appreciate Mr. Levinson's willingness to speak iconoclastically about the Constitution, but I think he is off base here. A lot of Americans (many polls show majorities) simply don't favor amnesty or increased immigration. That elites who are in greater consensus about the issue would like to give those folks what they don't want but are having trouble doing so doesn't indicate our system is broken. If anything, the fact that so many people have for so long been so opposed to increased immigration and so little has been done about it indicates if there is any 'broken-ness' about this issue it is in the other direction...
It is surely my own fault that the discussion has turned into a substantive debate immigration. My point is that some kind of genuine "reform" (or, more neutrally, "change") now seems to have the support of both the President and, quite likely, a bi-partisan majority of the Senate, not least because at least some Republicans are coming to the conclusion that the future of the Republican Party as a president-electing party may be at stake.
If the change/reform doesn't happen, it will be, almost certianly, because of the constitutional power of the House to block it. I take it that both Andrew and Mr. Whiskas agree with this analysis--how could they not?--which makes it clear that the institutions established by the Constitution matter and help to explain the actual laws on the books. (Consider in this context George W. Bush's veto of the stem-cell research bill some years ago.) That is why I literally don't understand the dismissive argument that the Constitution just doesn't matter.
Again, to be perfectly clear: I happily concede that lots of people are opposed to "normalization" or "amnesty" of those who are now here illegally. The one and only issue I'm interested in discussing is whether the bicameral system established in 1787 means that such opponents, even if only a minority of the country (or even the electorate), are able to veto changes desired by the majority, who, as it happened, voted for the President and Senate and against the Republican dominance of the House.
Perhaps this ability to veto changes is a good thing. I've certainly supported some in my time. But the debate between Jack and myself (and others) concerns the extent to which "the Constitution matters" and, indeed, helps to prevent the transition he predicts. That's why I still think the future of immigration reform is a good natural experiment.
I share many of Sandy's concerns with the Constitution, particularly those provisions that seem to thwart a true democracy, including the role of the Senate with power based not on population but the state. Yes, the upper chamber may have been more democratic (despite the slavery provisions) back when there were 13 states. Did the Founders/Ratifiers anticipate the extent of expansion with some new states significantly populated and others sparsely, with each having equal votes in the upper chamber? While the Gerrymander came along early in our Republic, consider how it has been used to thwart the concept of one-person, one vote, demonstrated in the recent House elections with the Republicans maintaining a majority in spite of greater Democrat votes.
There are other undemocratic provisions in the Constitution identified well prior to Sandy's current concerns with the Constitution. The population of America has increased substantially, making representative government perhaps more difficult providing democracy. Would more parties make a difference by sharing power via coalitions? There are no easy solutions. I shudder to think of the potential turmoil of a constitutional convention, with so many disparate views out there, especially at a time when America's leadership role in the world remains critical. I'm reminded of my classmate Joe at Boston English High School who used to quote his Italian grandfather's:
I love Sandy, I love Jack. Whatever their differences, I hope they continue to collaborate from time to time as they have added so much to better understanding our Constitution, which may have been "A Covenant with Death" (per William Lloyd Garrison), but has survived with some breath left.
"The one and only issue I'm interested in discussing is whether the bicameral system established in 1787 means that such opponents, even if only a minority of the country (or even the electorate)"
False premise. Polls show opponents of amnesty to be a persistent majority of the population and electorate. The only reason it's got any chance is because the democratic system in this country is breaking down, such that on an increasing number of issues public opinion isn't effective at controlling the government anymore.
Assuming Brett's:
" ... the democratic system in this country is breaking down, such that on an increasing number of issues public opinion isn't effective at controlling the government anymore."
perhaps Brett might list some of the public opinion that isn't effective.
And Brett might identify the bases of his view on the democratic system breaking down. Perhaps he shares some of Sandy's concerns.eheretr
Mr. Levinson, I think you are correct in many of your arguments that the Constitution is flawed and I applaud your willingness to run counter to the blind praise for the document and those who wrote it in saying so. And I got that you were not discussing the merits of immigration reform but rather were using it as an example of dysfunctional structures of our government, that is why I only argued that this example was perhaps not a good one since many people do in fact oppose elements of proposed reform. I should note that seven Democratic senators are currently in the Senate voted against reform in 2007, several of them have already indicated they will do so again this time. If only four Republicans have come out for it so far we're looking at perhaps a bare majority in the Senate alone.
To me it is interesting that usually it is the Senate cited as undemocratic in a way that blocks the majority will, but in this instance it is likely going to be the House, the body most like that in a parlimentary system, which is going to where even more difficulties to reform will be faced. To the extent the House is undemocratic I think we can blame gerrymandering more than the Constitution (though perhaps the Constitution should have anticipated this in its rules).
As for the argument between Mr. Balkin and Mr. Levinson I've often seen it as not as big a one as some may think; Mr. Levinson argues the Constitution's flaws hold up many necessary actions and reforms, but Mr. Balkin often talks about how change and action occurs outside the literal text of the Constitution in changing national 'understandings' of the text. I think the two are rather complimentary actually...
"perhaps Brett might list some of the public opinion that isn't effective."
Term limits: Adopted essentially everywhere the citizen's initiative was available, pretty much nowhere it wasn't.
Balanced budget amendment. So popular Congress made a show of voting on it, while bringing up multiple versions so that everybody who had to could vote for one of them, without the risk that any particular version would get enough votes to go to the states.
Immigration reform: Public opinion has favored enforcing the borders, and opposed amnesty, for decades, and we never get effective border enforcement, and they keep trying to pass amnesty again.
Essentially what Sandy seems to characterize as America becoming "ungovernable", is that the general population is starting to push back against the political class, preventing it in some cases from having it's way.
Brett's reading of polls is as simpletonian as his reading of the Constitution. The devil is in the details of polls, whereas Brett merely cherry-picks right-wing "talking points" as his guide. And we do have the concept of representative form of government (guaranteed to the states specifically in the Constitution and implicitly for the national government). While polling has value, our elected officials are not representative merely by holding a wet finger in the air to determine which way the political winds are blowing. Representative government must be thoughtful, reflective. The ebb and flow of public opinion requires careful analysis. And it must be kept in mind that public opinion of a moment may be misguided, or worse.
The Pew Foundation provides public polls with careful analysis, including changes over time. Brett's P-U version of public cherry-picked polls is pungent.
We have the concept of representative government, which in order to work requires that the government be representative. When the views of the 'representatives' systematically and persistently differ from those of the general public, this suggests something is broken.
Brett, "When the views of the 'representatives' systematically and persistently differ from those of the general public", the general public will vote them out of office. That is why we have elections. The fact that this isn't happening (in your view) would indicate that your views about what the public really wants, and/or what their representatives are doing, are not correct (delusional, actually).
Our representative form of government is in place because simple "polls" is not deemed the appropriate way to get a true sense of what the public long term wants & should receive. Polls repeatedly don't give a true sense of the complexity of people on the issues like abortion or whatnot.
It is ironic that Brett cites polls when he rejects certain governmental action when it is deemed to violate certain rights. Thus, polls, e.g., show a rejection of his views on gun regulation, but I don't think he thinks blocking such regulation is perversion of self-government.
Immigration both involves rights and the conflicted nature of the electorate (e.g., those who like the cheap labor undocumented workers bring). Ditto balanced budget amendments. The multiple versions is just one reflection the lack of a clear united front here. Same with term limits really -- they vote for people who say they are for term limits who then change their minds, but the people still vote for them. See, e.g., Tom Coburn.
Anyway, sure, representatives are different from the general public in some ways. That's the point, right? We don't have simple democracy. Brett likes this at times, not liking much government, thus resulting in gridlock. Selectively, he does not.
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I've been a little surprised lately by some of the questions I've seen in our forums at SQLServerCentral.com with questions that weren't questions. I've seen people post things that make it hard for people to help them. Among those items:
- statements, and never really ask a question.
- An error message or partial error with no context.
- Broad questions like "What do I need to watch out for when upgrading to SQL Server 2005?"
- Posting a question you got asked and nothing else.
- Advertisements - I delete these, even in response to a question if they don't apply.
Jeff Moden wrote a great article on Forum Etiquette that I've tried to rerun and point out to people so they can better frame what they need to post.
There isn't a set of things I can say you always need to post, but you really should think about your question for a minute and post what's appropriate. Imagine that most of us don't understand your context, so we need to know the version (pay attention to where you're posting), and some information about what is happening. It helps to see your observations of the system or the code you've tried and also what happened that you didn't want.
The one thing that always bugs me is someone giving me a test question. Or interview or some other question they got asked and they haven't done any work. I had someone do this recently, actually it happens regularly, but this person posted a question with no code. I gave a few hints and asked them to try, saying that I didn't want to give answers to questions. They responded with "this is not a test question"
OK, maybe it's not. I'm not assuming that it is, but just that it appears to be and the posted didn't show any work. I tried to explain that and hoped that no one else just posted the code. I can appreciate that you sometimes need a code answer, but if you haven't tried anything, it looks like you're lazy and not intersting in doing work. Or that you want a good grade. If you're willing to post a test question, wouldn't you be willing to lie and say it isn't?
The bottom line is that I enjoy helping people and try to do so, but I'm not interested in feeding people, I'm interested in teaching them to fish.


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Date: July 17, 2012
District: 11 - San Diego and Imperial Counties
Contact: Public Information Officer Hayden Manning
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SAN DIEGO - Caltrans joined elected representatives and local transportation officials today to celebrate the completion of the last major segment of a new six-lane freeway on State Route 905, connecting the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to Interstate 805.
"This is a vital project that will boost California's economy by improving the efficient movement of international goods now and in the future as trade grows through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Total imports and exports between California and Baja California, Mexico were $15 billion in 1995. Today, they total more than $36 billion, with 98 percent of this trade transported by trucks. In 2005, more than two million trucks passed through the California/Baja California border ports of entry, and the volume is expected to double by 2020.
The entire SR-905 Project cost $441 million and constructed more than six miles of a new six-lane freeway in three phases beginning in 2005. It was among the first in the state to receive funding ($74 million) from the Recovery Act. California has put more than $2.3 billion of its $2.6 billion in Recovery Act funding back into the state's economy. This includes nearly 1,000 highway, local street and job training transportation projects.
The project also received $85 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. To date, nearly $14 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
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- Bob Greene: In Ohio, highway signs memorialize soldiers felled in recent wars
- He says the Ohio General Assembly authorizes the signs; about 70 erected so far
- He says the signs for soldier's named are on highways near their hometowns
- Greene: Corporations pay millions to be named on signs; these soldiers paid dearer price
The names on the formal, state-government-erected memorial signs by the sides of Ohio highways are not famous to the outside world.
But once you know the story behind them, you understand completely. You look at those signs and you offer a silent word of thanks.
Usually stretches of highways around the country are named for politicians, or for renowned figures from American history, or perhaps for singing stars or athletes or Hollywood actors who were born in the area.
For the last several years, though, whenever I've been in Ohio I have noticed the highway signs with the unfamiliar names.
Last week I got in touch with the Ohio Department of Transportation to ask about them.
The answer makes you want to pause humbly.
On August 31, 2009, Marine Lance Cpl. David R. Hall, of Elyria, Ohio, was killed in an explosion while serving in Garmsir, Afghanistan. He was 31; he worked at a Ford assembly plant back home before joining the Marines.
In most cases of fallen service members, there is a solemn funeral ceremony when their remains are returned home, and a respectful obituary in the local newspaper. It can feel all too fleeting.
But in Ohio, in recent years, there has been an effort to do more.
Which is why the Ohio General Assembly authorized that a stretch of State Route 2 in Lorain County -- David Hall's home county -- be named, now and forever, to honor him.
"After the General Assembly votes to name a portion of a highway, we manufacture the signs and put them up at the designated places," said Steve Faulkner, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation. He said that two signs are usually erected, each facing a different direction, so that people in cars on either side of the highway will see the honoree's name.
Always, the memorial signs are placed in the service member's hometown or home county, so that friends and family members are reminded every day that the state and its citizens want to remember and salute him or her.
Thus, Army Master Sgt. Shawn T. Hannon's portion of Interstate 71 runs through Grove City, Ohio. That is where he lived; he was 44 when, on April 4, 2012, he died of wounds caused by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. He was a long way from home, but back in Grove City now his old neighbors and buddies see his name and think of him each time they pull onto that part of the interstate.
In the United States, there has grown to be a mercenary ritual around so-called naming rights. If there's a Major League Baseball park, an NBA or NHL arena, or an NFL stadium, corporations line up to bid for the opportunity to plaster their names on it. Airlines, financial services companies, big merchandisers -- all they have to do to get their names on the signs is come up with tens of millions of dollars.
But the people with their names on the signs by the sides of Ohio's highways have paid a much, much higher price, for much less selfish reasons. And they are so deserving of the honor, which can't begin to repay the sacrifice they made.
The most poignant thing about the placement of the signs is that almost invariably they are next to spans of road upon which the service members, when they were younger, drove their own cars: on the way to movies, on the way to dances, on the way to grab late-night burgers with their best hometown friends. Back then, they never could have imagined that the roads would before long bear their names, or why.
But, while most of the rest of us during this last decade enjoyed life, or complained about it, inside America's borders, they crossed the oceans because their country said that it mattered. They didn't argue the politics of it. They answered the call.
Thus, on this Memorial Day weekend, there is a bit of highway near Canton, Ohio, set aside for U.S. Marine Pvt. Heath D. Warner, 19, who died in combat in Iraq in 2006; on State Route 7 in Washington and Monroe counties there is a road for Army 1st Lt. Christopher N. Rutherford, 25, who died in Iraq in 2007; in Tuscarawas County is Army Cpl. Keith V. Nepsa's road, named for the 22-year-old who died when an IED detonated in Iraq in 2007; on State Route 322 in Chesterland is the portion of road for Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christopher R. Thibodeau, 28, who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2011; on State Route 729 in Clinton County is the road honoring Marine Lance Cpl. William Brett Wightman, 22, killed in combat in Iraq in 2005; near Wilmington, on State Route 73, is Army Sgt. Steven D. Conover's road, honoring a hometown young man who was only 21 when he died during an attack in Iraq in 2003.
The Ohio Department of Transportation's Faulkner told me that, because the authorizations from the General Assembly are sent over at widely spaced intervals, he did not have a readily available number of how many Ohio service members in America's recent wars have had portions of highways named for them. Reporter Robert Vitale of the Columbus Dispatch calculated that, as of last year, more than 70 Ohioans killed in the line of duty during the past decade had received the honor.
Almost certainly there will be more; almost certainly the last highway sign has not been erected.
But summer will be here soon. In Ohio, that is the time when long, leisurely drives along wide roads and narrow strips of blacktop can feel the most enticing. The sun is high in the sky; the nights are warm and lit by impossibly white stars.
For those who left home never to return, those who once knew these highways by heart, the roads are now eternally theirs.
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Shannon Remembers the Day She Found Out She Was HIV Positive
I had been sick a lot. I was going to have gastric bypass surgery because of health problems. The doctor kept calling. I had shingles at the time. When I got better, I went in on May 11, 2012.
They had called the health department; they were in the office waiting for me. The doctor came in and asked if I knew I had HIV. I said no, so they talked to me about it, and I burst out hysterically crying. I was devastated! I went out and had every guy I had slept with in the last two years get tested. I was in denial.
I found out it was my boyfriend who was positive. I didn't know what to say, do or how to act. All I know is that my whole world came down crashing. My boyfriend was married and I was always loyal ... so of course I was confused. I have four kids, three grandbabies and a wonderful mother who has always stood by me. But really was it enough? My life was ruined.
This really isn't a happy story, because I am as devastated as I was when I found out. But just wanted to share. And recently, I found out I have TB, so it keeps getting worse. In all, I take 39 pills a day and don't really know my life expectancy. But I am trying to live it like it's my last.
Shannon is a woman living with disabilities in Fresno, Calif.
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The genre transcender. The trouble with the superhero genre, or with any genre, are the tropes. Winged men, evil geniuses and weird costumes demand a brassy treatment and suspension of disbelief. Minor keys are tough. One interesting thing that all genre allows, however, is wiggle room for broader aims. Or, conversely, genre allows its cliches to be worn by more ambitious movies like ornamentation. "The Godfather" is a gangster movie -- and a dissembling of gangster movies. The audience for Christopher Nolan's crime epic doesn't necessarily grasp that the solemnity of Sidney Lumet ("Dog Day Afternoon") was plugged into six decades of comic-book lore. The result is a superhero movie in genre only.
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Eastern Mennonite Seminary main campus is located in the heart of the scenic and historic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Situated in Harrisonburg, a city of 52,000 people, EMS is fronted on the east by the Massanutten and Blue Ridge mountain ranges. To the west lie the Alleghenies.
Harrisonburg is 125 miles from Washington, D.C., to the northeast and 115 miles from Richmond, Virginia, to the southeast. Harrisonburg is located at the junction of U.S. 33 and U.S. 11 and is situated along Interstate 81.
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Canonical's (Possibly) Excellent Adventure
Jun 17, 2010 5:00 AM PT
Canonical's Ubuntu may have that special je ne sais quoi when it comes to the desktop, but will enterprise users be similarly enchanted by its new commercial support?
That's the question of the moment, as Linux bloggers ponder the company's recent foray into Red Hat territory with its new Advantage enterprise service.
"Ubuntu Advantage provides systems management, support, legal assurance and direct access to the experts," in the company's own words. "Available for both servers and desktops, you can choose the right service level to meet your needs."
'Just Pay Us Some Money'
Now, "when it comes to the commercial sector, there's no question that Red Hat is the king," as Linux Magazine's Christopher Smart recently pointed out. "Canonical might not be deliberately setting out to challenge Red Hat with their new support offerings, but they are now competing in the same space.
"So with this latest move from Canonical, could the crown be possibly up for grabs?" Smart wondered.
Over at LWN, meanwhile, jake quickly picked up on one surprising feature in Canonical's offerings: the availability of indemnification in case of patent claims.
"We take care of intellectual property (IP) infringement legal claims brought against customers in their use of Ubuntu," the site's Assurance section explains.
"Hmm, that's curious, isn't it?" jake wrote. "In one way, it's sort of playing into the whole racket. 'Ubuntu Linux could be at risk, so just pay us some money and we'll make sure that you're covered.'"
'They Will *Surely* Tarnish Linux'
Linux bloggers, as is their wont, had no shortage of thoughts to share.
"Ubuntu's indemnity is the same offering as Redhat and other commercial vendors," wrote sharms in the LWN comments, for example. "They all offer it because it is required for doing business with actual clients. Nothing to see here."
On the other hand: "That is wrong," countered rilder. "It is like indirectly stating that if you don't (or use competitor's linux) you can get 'sued' for using linux. They will *surely* tarnish linux with that."
It quickly became clear that the topic was a divisive one. Linux Girl took to the steamy streets of the blogosphere for more insight.
'This Scatter-Gun Approach Won't Work'
"This makes me think of jam. Raspberry jam," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"In The Secrets of Consulting, Gerald Weinberg talks about the Law of Raspberry Jam: 'The wider you spread it, the thinner it gets,'" Hudson explained.
"Canonical simply isn't credible when they are running in so many directions at once -- tablet, virtual, netbook, cloud, desktop, server," she opined. "This scatter-gun approach won't work."
'The Death Smell'
"I call it the 'death smell,' because beneath the glossy surface, you can almost smell the sweat of the stand-up comic who is bombing because the audience isn't going along for the ride, or the salesperson who starts babbling when they sense they're losing the sale," Hudson asserted.
As for Canonical's "patent protection" promise, whereby it vows to "replace or modify" any infringing software, "some quick statistics show that Canonical simply doesn't have the expertise to do much rewriting," Hudson noted. "Canonical has never been a significant contributor to linux."
In short, "if Canonical were the only source of support, I'd move to one of the *BSDs for my own safety," she concluded. "As a bonus, freeBSD's retro text-mode ascii-art demon boot screen isn't nearly as fugly as Ubuntu."
'It Is Time to Kick M$ Out of Servers'
Legal threats "should become less of an issue after SCOTUS rules on Bilski soon," blogger Robert Pogson predicted. "With software patents muzzled, legal insurance should be a non-issue."
That aside, Canonical's move "is not as much a competition as an expansion into a growing market," Pogson opined. "GNU/Linux has taken about all it can from Unix operating systems; now it is time to kick M$ out of servers."
The "ridiculous complexity and overhead of an OS designed for a single-user desktop has no place on a server, and both Red Hat and Canonical can ramp up share for GNU/Linux desktops/thin clients/virtual desktops and services," Pogson explained. "With that other OS reduced in share on the desktop, there is far less need for that other OS on servers to manage the mess M$ created."
Customers will get "better service for less money," in fact, "using GNU/Linux on servers with help from either Red Hat or Canonical," Pogson concluded.
'They Pay Good $$$$ for Support'
Indeed, "having commercially supported distros with proper package managers would lower my stress level considerably," Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack agreed. "Dealing with RPM-based distros has a tendency to make me want to throw things through my monitor."
Finally, "this is simply a sign of something I've felt will happen all along: Canonical will eventually get out of the desktop game," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet told Linux Girl. "Trying to compete with MSFT in the desktop, especially when you don't have the $$$$ to hire your own development team to ensure QA, is simply madness."
On the other hand, "businesses can save money using Linux on servers," he pointed out, "and they pay good $$$$ for support."


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Poll numbers have not been kind to Gov. Rick Perry since his fall from relevance in the 2012 presidential primary race.
However, Monday, which is also the governor's 63rd birthday, a Texas Tribune poll shows Perry beating his potential primary opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, by a margin of nearly 3-1 among Republican voters.
The longest-serving governor in state history would receive 49 percent of Republicans' votes if the GOP gubernatorial primary were held today, according to the poll. Abbott would get about 17 percent while 31 percent haven't decided.
Eric Bearse, a spokesman for Abbott who also works as a consultant for Perry, downplayed the poll and said, "Fight promoters and the media want to create a conflict that doesn't exist, and we aren't going to comment on a poll that plays into that narrative."
Insiders have echoed Bearse, saying the Texas-sized showdown is doubtful and our bureau chief Peggy Fikac reported on Abbott's chances and a possible 'win-win' situation for both last month.
A spokesman for Perry declined to comment. Both politicians have said they will announce their political plans in June or later. Rumors have swirled about another presidential run for Perry and Abbott's race for the governor's mansion.
Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak said polls released more nearly 20 months before an election "should be taken with a grain of salt" and that a race between the two is "highly unlikely."
"Perry has strong support among the Republican base, but also strong opposition in a general election with 36 percent opposing him. Abbott is viewed favorably by those who know him, suggesting that he has a lot of room to grow his support," Mackowiak said.
Not all was good news for Perry, as Mackowiak points out. Perry "beat himself" among all voters with 26 percent saying they'd vote for his re-election and 36 percent saying they'd vote against him, regardless of the candidate.
Texas' junior U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who upset Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in last year's primary, was also included in the poll. Thirty-nine percent of respondents had a favorable view of Cruz while 28 percent had an unfavorable one. As for Texas senior U.S. Senator John Cornyn, 32 percent had a favorable opinion while 28 percent had an unfavorable view.
"Ted Cruz has greater support than John Cornyn, which is striking given that Cruz has only been in office two months and for much of that time he has been sharply criticized," Mackowiak said.
The poll was conducted by YouGov out of California and included 1,420 respondents from Feb. 15-25.


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As the legend goes an Elder Shaman had a vision. He dreamed that a spider appeared to him and told him to watch.. The spider proceeded to spin a web in the hoop that the Shaman was holding saying that that it was weaving a Talisman to guide the Shaman and his people in the Way of Life. As the spider wove, he told the Shaman that there was good and evil in the path of life.. And that the web would would let the good dreams pass through the openings in the Talisman but trap the evil ones. This web of life would guide the dreams of the Shaman and his people to know which path to follow. And to hang the Dream Catcher above their bed to to catch the bad dreams and guide them with the good dreams.


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KEMMERER, Wyo. — Before you exit Interstate 80 and start down the 37 miles of two-lane highway it takes to reach this coal-mining town in the southwest corner of Wyoming, remember that Jerry Buss never considered it anything other than a one-way road.
Nobody would leave the big city in search of Kemmerer, let alone in the middle of a snowstorm, when the trucks from the mines come barreling down the unplowed highway in the other direction. The same direction that Buss' dreams all led.
This is the town where Buss grew up and graduated from high school in 1950, where the chain of events started that led to him owning the Lakers. In the story of his life, though, Kemmerer is the place that Buss put in his rearview mirror.
It was here that he shined shoes at the old Kemmerer Hotel, set pins at the bowling alley and worked on the Union Pacific railroad. The train still comes through town, but the rest of the landmarks from his youth have not stood the test of time.
"It was just a place that he knew was too small of a town for him," daughter Jeanie Buss says. "There was not a lot of excitement that went on in the town, and my dad is a person that likes entertainment.
"There were only so many pool halls and places to relax."
There is no sentimentality on Buss' part for the town he left as a teenager and last saw some 20 years ago. When he speaks of Kemmerer these days, the 74-year-old Buss makes no apologies in saying, "The town pretty much has died a slow death."
Yet Kemmerer is still very much living and breathing, a town waiting to see where the current energy boom will take it. For as remote as it is, for as harsh as its winters can be, the biggest problem these days is a housing shortage.
It is a place where you wish the buildings could talk, to tell stories from Buss' days when the triangle (not a square) at the center of town somehow served as home to nine different bars, all of which were packed with orchestras playing on a given Saturday night.
As legend has it, even the biggest drinkers couldn't make it through those three blocks while paying a visit to each bar. There was backroom gambling as well in those days, and maybe even a cathouse or two, as the locals say with a certain pride.
It also is the place where the question can be asked: Without Kemmerer would the Lakers as we know them exist?
Consider that Buss might never have met a science teacher named Walter Garrett, who helped him earn a scholarship to the University of Wyoming. He might never have gotten a degree in chemistry (with a minor in card playing) and moved to Los Angeles.
Buss went on to earn a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from USC. He was working in the aerospace industry when he invested $1,000 into a 14-unit building in 1958. What started as a side business eventually led to Buss owning thousands of apartment units.
"Jerry will admit that it was a lot of guts and just the right timing," says Jim Dover, one of his Kemmerer High classmates who still lives in town. "Prices were going up. It just went from there."
It also gave Buss the fortune to make one of the biggest deals in sports history. He bought the Lakers and Kings, as well as the Forum and a 13,000-acre ranch, from Jack Kent Cooke for $67.5million in 1979.
The Lakers won their first championship under Buss the following season and have added seven more titles during his 28years as owner. It is that track record that gives fans hope for the future as the team continues to rebuild after the Shaquille O'Neal trade.
(As Buss transfers ownership of the Lakers to his children, the franchise most recently was valued at $568million by Forbes magazine, second only to the New York Knicks.)
It takes a harrowing drive up US Highway 189, where the only goal is to stay on the road and out of a snow bank, to realize just how humble Buss' origins were. It would take the population of Kemmerer seven times over just to fill all the seats in Staples Center for a Lakers game.
The locals who still remember Buss' years in town can only marvel at the starting point for a life so extraordinary.
"It blows my mind that a Kemmerer boy like that would make it that big," says 83-year-old Joe Sebastian, who owned one of the ninebars on the triangle and remembers Buss working at the hotel.
And there might be a connection to the town that exists deeper in the Buss family than any of them know. Jeanie Buss got a sense when she made her first trip with Phil Jackson to his summer home in Montana eight years ago.
"It was eerie to me because it felt so much like my home," she says. "I realized that I had it in my roots."
For a town of only 2,651 residents, about 2 1/2 hours outside of Salt Lake City in the least populous state in the country, Kemmerer has three claims to fame.
It is the fossil fish capital of the world, with the Fossil Butte National Monument just west of town. It is home to one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the state and one of the largest natural gas hubs in the country.
And it is the town where a man named James Cash Penney arrived in 1902 to open a Golden Rule Store. The JC Penney mother store is still in business on the Kemmerer triangle, not far from where Buss lived above his stepfather's plumbing shop.
What Kemmerer is not known for is being home to one of the most celebrated owners in sports, a man who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in October and was nominated to the Basketball Hall of Fame this year.
"I don't think most people even know," says Lester Fatheree, who is a Realtor in town, a pastor and a sports writer for the weekly Kemmerer Gazette. "Of course, the old-timers all know and they have some pride in that.
"I think Kemmerer is – and very typical for this part of the world and the jobs we have – Kemmerer is a fairly transient community.
"Twenty-five, 30 percent's permanent. The rest of them move in and out."
Born in Salt Lake City, Buss was no different. He moved to Kemmerer when he was 13 and lived with his mother (Jessie), stepfather (C.O. Brown), half-sister (Susan), half-brother (Mickey) and stepbrother (Jim). He was one in a graduating class of 42.
"You knew everybody," Buss says. "You could walk down the street and say hello to everybody. I think it was very good. Growing up in a small town, I think, has a lot of advantages for a young man."
It is next to impossible to imagine what Kemmerer was like in the Wild West days. The nine bars on the triangle were filled with miners, ranchers and more than a few folks from Utah in search of a drink or with an itch to gamble.
"It was plenty wild but it was totally different," Dover says. "When we were in high school, 15, 16, you could drink if you could put the money on the bar."
As Dover remembers, that triangle also was a place where Kemmerer could pull together. When one of its boys had the chance to compete at a national track meet, the town managed to raise $700 in a half-hour going from bar to bar.
There was also backroom gambling in those days, before a new sheriff put an end to it. Dover can remember Buss shooting pool and playing cards long before he ever became one of the modern-day poker stars on television.
The two ran around town and ate banana crme pies for breakfast at the Kemmerer Hotel by rigging the slot machine while Dover's future mother-in-law looked the other way. At the same time, Buss also had to work to keep money in his pocket.
So he shined shoes and carried bags at the hotel. He set pins at the bowling alley, which he still remembers had only two lanes. And he opted to work as a section hand on the railroad instead of heading out to the coal mines.
"I just remember Jerry was very industrious," says Raymond Barp, who graduated from Kemmerer High in 1964, knew Buss' half-brother and lives in Glendale. "If there was a job he could do and make a buck, he was there."
The way out of Kemmerer started when Buss met Garrett, the man he calls his "inspiration."
Garrett was the town's science teacher and wound up taking Buss in during his senior year, after Buss had a falling out with his stepfather. For a while, Buss had been living in a glorified closet at the hotel.
"He was the most important thing in my life," Buss says. "He's the one that turned everything around for me. I was not academically inclined – school was easy for me, I didn't have bad grades – but he encouraged me and I was able to get a scholarship."
Garrett arranged for Buss to take a national science test sponsored by Bausch and Lomb. He headed to the university in Laramie with a scholarship and roomed with Kenneth Doi, one of his closest friends from Kemmerer.
Doi remembers that Buss petitioned to take algebra, trigonometry and analytical geometry concurrently rather than in a sequence. He played poker almost every night and graduated from college in only 2 1/2 years with one amazing distinction.
"He never turned in a paper with an error on it, whether it was a daily quiz or a final exam," says Doi, who now lives in Orange. "That's really an accomplishment. Everything was 100 percent."
Buss received an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Wyoming in May 2005, at which time he spoke about the road out of Kemmerer that education offered.
"I realized that most of the kids who grew up in the mining camps stayed in those towns and worked in the mines," Buss said. "I didn't see myself doing that. … Freedom became the most important thing in my life and education became my way out."
Years later Buss offered to buy Garrett a Cadillac to show his appreciation, although Dover remembers the former teacher wasn't able to accept it with his health declining.
It takes a special breed to live in Kemmerer. The town's mayor, Dave Fagnant, can remember a stretch of threeweeks in winter 1972 when the temperature never rose above zero. Another local claims to have seen snow in every month on the calendar.
The town was founded in 1897, named after a Pennsylvania coal magnate, and has had boom and bust years ever since. The darkest day in its history came in 1923, when 99 men were killed in an explosion at the Frontier Mine.
There are coal seams more than 100 feet thick in the mountains and enough natural gas to maintain production for the next 190 years. As energy prices increase, Kemmerer is at the start of a boom cycle again, much as it was in the late 1970s.
Yet the decline of the Kemmerer triangle remains a sore spot for many residents. The Kemmerer Hotel had to be torn down in 2004. The plumbing shop where Buss once lived had met the same fate years before.
Only two of the nine bars still are in business.
"There used to be a lot of little ma-and-pa type stores and we don't have that," Fagnant says. "We've really lost a lot of small businesses in the county, and I think that has to do with modern transportation.
"Everybody just hops in their new Ford or GM and drives 50 miles to Evanston (Wyo.) or 90 miles to Rock Springs (Wyo.) and does most of their shopping out of town."
There are more people in town than when Buss grew up, yet fewer businesses. The common refrain is that television and cars have contributed to the decline, with people able to find 100channels of entertainment at home or head out of town on a whim.
At the same time, Kemmerer retains much of the same feel from Buss' days. As witnessed on a cold night, nobody thinks twice about leaving the engine running while ducking into the supermarket.
There's talk on Fagnant's part of hoping to grow the population to about 6,000 in the coming years. At the same time, the mayor can joke that the town's two stoplights are "probably on intersections that don't deserve them anymore."
Although he hasn't returned in 20 years, Buss has been good to people from Kemmerer who have come to Los Angeles. He hired Dover's son, Steve, to work for his various teams and took his old friend to Lakers games and boxing matches.
One of Dover's fondest memories is a dinner with Buss and Vin Scully.
There also are Lakers fans in Kemmerer, the biggest being Tracy Carotta, who owns Scroungy Moose Pizza and watches every game on TV while he makes pies.
"I like them for the superstars they've maintained down through the years," Carotta says. "I think they've just done tremendous getting players that are exciting to watch."
What Buss' legacy will be in the town has yet to be decided. There are those who wish the town had appealed to Buss to save the old hotel before it was demolished. Dover would be happy with any acknowledgment that Buss lived in Kemmerer.
"It'd be nice," Dover says, "but Jerry hasn't really wanted it either. He didn't really come back."
The biggest project in Kemmerer today is a $5million events center, tentatively set to open in late 2008 or early 2009. It will be a place where the locals can host a wedding reception and the energy companies can hold safety training.
The funding has been secured, and Fagnant, who calls the new center "a huge thing for the life of this town," already has one idea in mind: He would like to invite Buss along with a descendant of Penney back to Kemmerer for the dedication.
But there are still years to go before Buss has to make the decision about heading back down that road and returning to his old town.


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Monday, June 27, 2016
Last Call is Released!
LAST CALL by JA Konrath Now Available
ebook and paper.
Fans have been waiting over two years for this conclusion to the Jack Daniels/Luther Kite story. It was a lot of fun to write, and it ties up all of the loose ends from STIRRED and SERIAL KILLERS UNCUT.
RUM RUNNER, the ninth Jack Daniels mystery, is now available as an audiobook, performed by rock star Bob Walkenhorst of The Rainmakers.
Working with Bob was a dream come true for me, as I've been a fan of his for thirty years. I also had a chance to unleash my inner voice actor and play Harry McGlade.
Bob also narrates (and I play Harry) in the upcoming audiobook versions of WEBCAM and WATCHED TOO LONG, co-written by Ann Voss Peterson. Watch Amazon, Audible, and iTunes for July release dates.
Speaking of Ann, she and I are still writing funny erotica under the pen name Melinda DuChamp. Our latest is a novella in the bestselling Magic and Mayhem series, called THE SEVEN YEAR WITCH.
And if all that isn't enough, I have finally entered the Adult Coloring Book business with The Ultimate Adult Coloring Book of Triangles! It contains a hundred pages of the exact same triangle. And yes, it's supposed to be funny. Buy a copy for the adult coloring book fanatic in your life, or really confuse them by getting them the ebook version. CIRCLES and SQUARES are also available. Check out the reviews. They're hysterical.
There will be more new releases in upcoming months, including the long-awaited sequel to THE LIST, called THE NINE. I'm also going to finally finish that TIMECASTER trilogy.
As always, thanks for reading!
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Freshmen Lead Rams at NYU Invitational
NYU Cross Country Invitational
Van Cortlandt Park - Bronx, N.Y. - Sunny, 72 degree
Bronx, N.Y. - Freshmen Sarah Pope (47th, 23:34) and Sean Daly (30th, 17:33) led the women's and men's Cross Country team at the NYU Invitational this weekend at Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, N.Y. Both teams ran a 5000-meter course due to the construction at the park.
The men's team placed 9th and the women's team placed 10th out of 13 teams.
Top 5 Finishers - Men
Sean Daly, Freshman - 30th, 17:33
Russell Darress, Freshman - 40th, 18:01
Ben Vassallo, Freshman - 50th, 19:01
Adam Sadler, Freshman - 52nd, 19:10
Tom DiCamillo, Junior - 61st, 20:55
Top 5 Finishers - Women
Sarah Pope, Freshman - 47th, 23:34
Kristyn Ruggiero, Sophomore - 55th, 24:18
Teresa Cox, Junior - 60th, 25:53.8
Jenna DeCordova, Freshman - 62nd, 26:27
Nicole Zarek, Junior - 73rd, 30:59
The Rams will run next at the Stevens Invitational in Newark, N.J. at Liberty State Park.


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This past weekend I discovered ballet flats. You may be thinking "yeah, they're old news" but to me, it's brand spanking new. As a gal who spends most of her time in Birkenstocks or Fitflops (no judgment!), I always thought ballet flats were not for me. I have wide feet and sometimes they do not look cute at all stuffed into a pair of ballet flats.
This weekend I was browsing the sale rack at Nordstrom and saw these Report Fernley flats in Gold so I tried them on. I was shocked that a) they looked good on my feet and b) that they were so comfortable. That started a hunt for new ballet flats, I almost picked these Report Lilburn flats up but what I'm really coveting right now are these Report Burna flats, aren't they adorable? They are made out of canvas and have this great little peep toe to them so you get just peek of that spring pedi. I tried these on in Coral and just fell in love with them but didn't cave on them just yet. I'm taking this ballet flat relationship slowly! These are the perfect shoes to guide me out of Birkenstock/FitFlop land.
Do you have a favorite ballet flat? Tell me all about it in the comments. I've already been checking on Corso Comos, Me Too, Bloch and Rocket Dog flats.


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