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[While reading the article, why not sample the Matthew Ryan Spotify playlist featuring some of his songs, similar-sounding artists and some of his favorite tracks? Four videos also included just to your right! - RFG]
This Friday night, singer-songwriter Matthew Ryan returns to New Jersey in support of his latest album, In the Dusk of Everything. He released the album on his own label, The Dear Future Collective, in October.
Ryan began his music career shortly after college, making two guitar-driven albums for A&M Records, May Day (1997) and East Autumn Grin (2000). The experience was not all that he hoped it would be. "My work requires intimacy with listeners. I was aware of that early on. As much as I loved being part of a bigger label, I knew that our goals were different and that made for a certain friction. The business was changing such that I could make my work available to people in a very efficient fashion," stated Ryan.
After leaving the major label world, Ryan continued to make music and gradually started adding more electronic sounds to his work, especially on his recent albums, Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State (2008), Dear Lover (2010) and I Recall Standing As Though Nothing Could Fall (2011).
For his new album, Ryan returned to the guitar looking for a more organic sound. "For a few years, I was having a lot of fun creating a little mood with a beat and an organ or a synth. It would evoke a different type of writing. With this record, I just sat down with my guitar again and wrote the whole record. It was fun. Songs just kinda show up and you gotta be there," said Ryan.
"Sometimes if you act within a certain mode for too long you become predictable. You have to challenge yourself so it feels fresh and exciting," added Ryan.
The resulting album is very spare, using mostly guitars and percussion with a touch of keyboard. Ryan recorded the album with the help of longtime friend and collaborator David Ricketts. "A lot of my work is quietly rebellious. It was very much on purpose to make it barren because we live in such a cluttered time. That can be real dangerous but I'm proud of the results. It's just as open as I had hoped," said Ryan.
In the Dusk of Everything was the result of a move from Nashville, where Ryan had lived since 1993, to the Pittsburgh area, which is closer to where he grew up. "I felt like my time in Nashville had really hit a wall. It was time to get out of there. I hoped to reengage with the present, not respond too much to what I saw all around me. I was happy to see when you remove all that stuff, they become the barriers of the maze that you're operating in. I was happy to see that the more organic songs were still there," said Ryan.
For Ryan, the new album completes a personal trilogy. "The last three records (Dear Lover, I Recall and Dusk) have been ruminating on a particular event that happened in my life that is personal. I don't talk about it because the songs ultimately really aren't about that or me. The hope with art is that you can tap into something that resonates because it's a common experience. Sooner or later we all go through these things," said Ryan.
"It's beautiful if you can go through these things and still operate via romance and optimism. That's essentially what these records are about," added Ryan.
Ryan is the beneficiary of a devoted fan base which includes many fans of Bruce Springsteen. "One of the reasons I've gotten to keep doing this is because of the Springsteen community. They actively seek out other music and they're great people," said Ryan.
"I feel fortunate because I have a lot of friends who are just as talented who can't seem to find listeners," continued Ryan.
Ryan recently completed a set of dates opening for the New Brunswick band The Gaslight Anthem.
Future plans for Ryan include more touring. Said Ryan, "It really is one of those records that occupies a particular space and I hope that listeners give it a shot. This kind of record needs time to breathe. We're just gonna keep doing what we can to raise awareness and make a case for it."
Ryan is optimistic about 2013 and beyond. "There are times when I'm a little frustrated, where I feel that my philosophy is being challenged by the speed of things. In my mind, it only means that I have to write a better song. I think that great songs are irresistible and I think that people find them. Fortunately, I can glide along and I do believe that over time people will find me."
"My whole career has been about following my gut. It doesn't make for a good business plan but hopefully it makes for some peaks in expression," concluded Ryan.
Matthew Ryan appears this Friday night at The Saint (601 Main Street, Asbury Park). Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance and $14 at the door. Opening acts include Rick Barry and Bobby Mahoney. This will be a solo acoustic show for Ryan.


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As the Governor's "Year of the Teacher" marches on, it's critical to be on constant watch for surprises coming out of Richmond. Someone noted on my Facebook wall that, seeing what the Governor proposed regarding teachers this year, "You better hope he doesn't decide to have a 'Year of the School Board.'" However, I have to believe that such an appellation could, in fact, also describe 2013.
The Governor's proposals and accompanying legislation strike at the very basic authority of school boards to maintain local control of schools. The two most worrisome measures to be passed in different forms by both the House and Senate call for all schools to be branded with grades ranging from A to F and establish a statewide institution granted the power to take over failing local schools. These measures, relying on state and federal accountability measures, further entrench a testing-based culture and put more work on the backs of our teachers, two national trends from which the Fairfax County School Board has been desperately trying to pull away. Luckily, legislation failed that would have allowed the State Board of Education to authorize local charter schools without local School Board approval. While he'd never state it outright, this truly has been the Governor's "Year of the School Board."
As for Fairfax County's priority positions, many of which involve retaining current levels of state education funding, the picture is mixed. It appears Fairfax will retain at least some Cost of Competing funding (which helps fund staff in our expensive job market) that was completely eliminated in the Governor's budget, but Fairfax will see at least a 60 percent cut from pre-2012 funding levels. On the bad side, no budget amendments related to early (pre-K) education were included in budget proposals and the Governor's proposal for increasing teacher salaries by 2 percent is of little help to Fairfax teachers—in order to access $1.6M at most for salaries, Fairfax would have to spend upwards of $40M.
On the legislative side, Fairfax's need to allow county-employed school health aides to administer epinephrine passed unanimously in both houses. Unfortunately, our perennial desire to remove the Labor Day calendar restriction has failed to make it out of the Senate Education and Health committee and the so-called "Tebow Bill," which would allow home-schooled students to play on public school sports teams, passed the House and will be up for vote in the Senate.
One surprise piece of legislation—and unfunded mandate—would require that all teachers be required to be certified in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and adds a SOL graduation requirement that all students be certified starting in 2016, as well. Of all things, we certainly needed another training course for our teachers and something else to pack into our curriculum.
If you desire to contact your legislators about issues critical to the School Board and public education in Fairfax, you might want to focus on three issues:
1) Repealing the Labor Day calendar restriction (Senators);
2) Ensuring the budget retains Cost to Compete (COCA) funding (House members);
3) Preventing the "Tebow Bill" from passage (Senators)
What this General Assembly session has shown is that, if we didn't already know, Virginia's Governor lacks the values supporting public education that we hold dear in Northern Virginia. What began as the "Year of the Teacher" turned into an all-out assault on public education.
Ryan McElveen (At-large) is the Fairfax County School Board's Liaison to the Virginia General Assembly.

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Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
Desktop publishing is easy, and it also can be fun. With OpenOffice.org you have a rich selection of tools to create high-quality documents for personal or business use.
Desktop publishing (DP for short) differs from word processing. In word processing, you type pages of characters and numbers to create documents for others to read. They might include graphics, such as tables and charts, to illustrate points made in the text, but the goal is to create a written document to convey information. In DP, you use graphics, along with text, to create a document with more visual appeal. Look at any printed advertising--the graphics in the document often are more important than the written word.
A while ago, I needed to create a simple one-page document--a Christmas gift card--to give with a set of open-source CDs (OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 for Microsoft Windows and Knoppix 3.3) that I made for colleagues and friends. I also wanted to test the abilities and performance of OO.o 1.1.0. I had used previous versions of OO.o for simple tasks with less than enthusiastic results. I was anxious to see how OO.o 1.1.0 would perform on a real DP test.
I am not a desktop publishing professional or a graphic artist. My DP experience has been limited to writing documents for my employer or for personal use, such as Letters to the Editor, resumes and cover letters. I've used other desktop publishing programs, such as Microsoft Publisher and CorelDraw for Windows, to create simple documents and to make signs and flyers.
The computer I did this work on is a home-built box with a 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor running on an ASUS mainboard. It has 512MB of RAM and has two IDE hard disks. I am running SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional with a SuSE-compiled 2.4.21-athlon kernel. The desktop is KDE 3.1.2.
Before you begin planning a project, you need to understand a few basics of DP. Text is letters and numbers and special characters typed on a page. Text is put into a DP document exactly where you want it by placing text boxes on the page. You then type your text in the box (see Figure 1_. Text boxes can be moved, rotated and resized. Clicking on the text box allows you either to type characters or to paste them in from another document. You can format text fonts and sizes and other attributes such as making it boldface, italicized or underlined.
You must make sure your text fits into the box and does not overrun. You can reformat and resize the text (or edit it) to make it fit. You also can resize the text box, as we will see below.
Graphics and images are considered to be objects. These also are inserted into the document and moved to their desired location. With OpenOffice.org, you have a tremendous amount of control. You can precisely place your image and resize it by shrinking or stretching it or by resizing it and keeping the proportions in tact. You can rotate it and choose the axis of rotation, as well.
Graphics can include charts, tables, graphs, raster or vector graphics and images of any format including JPEGs, GIFs, TIFFs and PNGs. For more information on these file formats and on the differences between raster and vector graphics, see Resources.
So, how do you manipulate text boxes and images? Clicking on a text box or image object activates it by making it the active layer. You can see small green boxes at the corners of the object (including text boxes). These boxes are "handles" you can "grab" with your mouse pointer by clicking on them, holding down the left mouse button, and move by dragging the mouse. Figure 1 shows the mouse pointer changed to a double-arrowed line indicating the handle--and the side of the text box--can be moved to the left or right. Releasing the left mouse button sticks the handle in place. When you place your mouse pointer over the active object, you should see arrows indicating that you can move the object. A set of arrows in a cross formation indicates you can move the object in any direction. A diagonal, vertical or horizontal arrow set indicates you can move only that corner or handle to resize the entire object.
Figure 2 illustrates an object--our beloved Tux--being moved to a new location on the page. The shadowed Tux is at the original location and the full-color image with the handles is being moved to its new location.
When you want to rotate an object, you have some interesting choices. You can choose a pre-determined rotation, such as 90 or 180-degrees, or you can custom rotate the object. When you choose to custom rotate, you can choose the axis of rotation and exact rotation of the object. When you drag the corner of the object to rotate it, and you see as in Figure 3 a semi-circle with arrows on it indicating rotation.
For this project we create text boxes, move and rotate them. We need to edit and format the text we put into the boxes to make sure it fits. We'll also be hunting around the Web for an appropriate graphic and insert it into our document, move it around, resize it and rotate it.
typo? knsapshot or ksnapshot
In the list of resources used to make the article you list "knsapshot." Did you instead mean "ksnapshot"?
Do you know something about D
Do you know something about DTP?
Important note for OO.o DTP and printers
While it's all well and good to use apps like OO.o for DTP, they're not really made for it. You will quickly find this out when you try to send (say) an advertisement to a newspaper, or a job to a printing house. It's all well and good if you're printing your own work, but if you need to go through a print agency or if you're producing something to be part of a larger publication, you're likely to run into problems.
Expect comments like "Your colours are all RGB, the fonts aren't embedded, and you've produced a PDF 1.4 document - we require PDF 1.3. Please correct that and get back to us." "Your PDF failed preflight" is also not uncommon.
What I'm saying is that you need to confirm with the intended recipient what their requirements are, before going ahead and doing your document in OO.o. It could save you a lot of trouble.
Thankfully, OO.o has built-in PDF export, making it much less of a nightmare for users and publishers than Microsoft Word. Daily I have to tell people that their ad, done in Word, may not look the same on our screen (or print the same) as what they see, we don't have their WeirdFont.TTF and unless they send it to us we can't use it, etc. Word is a publisher's nightmare. Many users have it set to US Letter, even though their printer is A4, so when you open a document they create on a correctly configured machine, the layout is wrong. Font substitutions aren't highlighted and are hard to detect. The list goes on.
If you must do your document in OO.o, at least make sure to provide a PDF as the end product. Most printers will appreciate it if you also supply them with the original document (and all fonts + images used in it), but the PDF will probably get used anyway.
If you need more serious desktop publishing, look in to Scribus. It's getting to be quite a nice, easy to use and very powerful app, though definitely still being polished up. It supports PDF/X-3, so you can produce colour-managed high-quality PDFs that any PDF/X-3 compliant RIP (ask your printer if theirs is - it should be) will print without fuss.
Alternately, you might be able to beg access to a machine with QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. Quark, in particular, isn't too hard to get the hang of for basic work. Getting access to these wallet-busting beamoths, on the other hand, isn't easy unless you have a friend in a print house, advertising agency, publisher, newspaper, or (maybe) the marketing dep't at work.
A final option is to use GhostScript or Adobe Acrobat Distiller to convert output "printed" from any app into a PDF. This approach may also be problematic if you need to send your job to a print house, as most programs don't give you control over the choice of CMYK or RGB colour spaces. On the other hand, it's probably better than sending a Word, or (worse) Microsoft Publisher document. There are tools that let you use GhostScript as a "PDF Printer" on Windows, and the function is built into many Linux distros already.
In the end, you just need to make sure that if you're sending the document for use elsewhere, that it confirms to the requirements the recipient sets. Checking this will save you time and frustration.
Also, as others have noted, the usual acronym for desktop publishing is DTP. Expect confused looks if you say "DP" instead.
Craig Ringer
IT Manager
POST Newspapers
OOo needs handy layer management
I'd like to see a handy layer management in OOo (something like in Photoshop maybe: separate floating layer menu with opacity [slider], layer locking and visibility indicator).
For a start that would be really nice.
Re: OOo needs handy layer management
OOo handles layers by giving each one a separate tab at the bottom of the screen. I don't think that there's an opacity control, but you can set locking and visibility. If either one is set, the name of the tab appears in blue.
Good article. (give the author a break!)
Hi there,
The article is a good one. Failry well written and informative. Why must people tear the author apart for nit picky things?
If you all could do better, write a whole damn article yourself in your repy, instead of a short negative criticism.
Re: Good article. (give the author a break!)
Bravo !
Re: Good article. (give the author a break!)
I agree with you. I think it was a good article for us newbee's using OOo. Some people just think they are better and smarter if they tear the author apart for nit picky things.
I use OOo on my linux box and am very pleased with the results. The learning curve is relatively easy and intuative.
Re: Good article. (give the author a break!)
Thanks, appreciate ALL of the comments and feedback.
--Karl Agee
The value of PDF not to be understated ..
A few years ago, I had a project preparing a show flyer (maybe 12 pages) for an organization and got into an incredible catch-22 with MS Publisher.
I went out and purchased a new copy of Publisher2002, created this big file on a CD and went to the local CopyMax figuring this was surely the lowest common denominator.
They only had Publisher2001, totally incompatible with P2002. No other copy shop in 75 miles had anything but Pub2001. However, you could not BUY 2001 anywhere, only 2002. The Pub2002 exporter to the old format seemed to work, but produced only garbage when read by Pub2001.
I finally got it (Pub2002) on to a machine at my office with Acrobat Distiller and produced a PDF burned to the CD and taken to the copy shop that they read with no problem - and printed up the 500 program copies.
Working with PDF as the target format from the beginning would have saved me a LOT of work.
Install a PS Printer and Print to File
Here's another work-around that is a more "general" solution to the problem of MS producing incompatible, proprietary formats.....
In a pinch anyone can install a PostScript printer, then "print to file" . Most copy shops can handle a PS file natively, though if you are talking to a lacky at the front desk they might not realize they can.
There are also a lot of Postscript to PDF applications and web services that can do the conversion easily.
Google (as always is your friend)
Re: The value of PDF not to be understated ..
Absolutely. MS Publisher is a particularly nasty case, because few printing houses really want to deal with it. They'll often have a copy, but rarely mention it if you ask what formats they prefer. In my experience it's actually been harder to support printing Publisher documents than MS Word documents (!!), despite Publisher allegedly being a DTP package.
Re: Good article. (give the author a break!)
I just think that there are so many people picky about these issues because they appear right from the start of the article: OpenOffice is NOT a DTP application. To stay as compatible as possible with Microsoft Word, Star/OpenOffice chose to go for wordflowbased textprocessing instead of truely framebased textprocessing. While the result might appear tiny on the first glimpse sooner or later you'll run into troubles if you want to do "more" or even real DTP.
If you want to do real DTP you might want to consider scribus:
Re: Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
Industry Standard abbreviation of Desktop Publishing is DTP.
If author of this article does not know this, my guess is he knows only a little about DTP. And he admits it.
This is not DTP, it's just advanced printing with some simple graphics, IMHO.
Re: Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
It may well be the "industry standard" (which I doubt) but it is good writting practice to spell things out when you are writting for a novice public - and that is exactly what this article is about. And I find little humility in your opinion!
Re: Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
This is one area where StarDivsion/Sun/OOo screwed up in that *Writer is too much like M$-Weird. StarOffice/OOo does have a lot going for it as far as being cross platform and having a well documented file format (good for very long term document retention).
I've used various versions of Word for DOS and Windblows as well as StarOffice/OOo, but none of them are as good for even rudimentary DTP work as Island Write Draw & Paint. With Island Write, laying out the page was a matter of placing containers where I wanted them - and the containers could be irregularly shaped to boot. Text boxes could be placed anywhere and the text could be edited at any time (the text boxes on StarOffice/OOo are just plain irritating by comparison). Unfortunately, the last upgrade for IWD&P was in 1996. :-(
From what I hear of KOffice, it would be a better choice for simple DTP - things could be really interesting if the KOffice crew can achieve file format compatibiity with OOo.
Re: Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
The people at KOffice is really into adopting th OASIS standard. Actually the head developers of KOffice are on the OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/) board. Koffice (http://www.koffice.org/developer/fileformat/validate.php)
Re: Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
"DP" is actually the abbreviation for "Data Processing", although that is now somewhat archaic. Anyone who doesn't know that DTP is the standard abbreviation probably has never read anything on Desktop Publishing before - which just goes to show that it's wise to have at least a cursory look at the existing literature in a field before opening your own mouth and putting your foot in it.
Re: Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
A comparison with Scribus would have been really really useful
Re: Desktop Publishing with OpenOffice.org
For an article on Scribus, please see the November 2003 of the print edition of Linux Journal, on page 88.
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A new survey released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that many Americans don't know much about religion.
In fact, the groups that scored the highest on the test were atheists and agnostics. There are many possible reasons for this.
One reason is that a lot of religions don't exactly encourage you to go nosing around learning about other faiths, or even the history and details of your own.
That's sad.
If a religion can be decimated by an ounce of honest inquiry or doubt, it isn't much of a religion.
Having grown up in church and spent countless hours in Sunday School, I'm not appalled that people don't know much about other faiths, but I'm appalled that we don't know more about our own.
It wasn't until I studied on my own as an adult that I learned that the King James Version of the Bible wasn't the one used by the Apostles like my grandmother believed.
Some people justify their willful ignorance with a misuse of the term "faith." They use faith as an intellectual get-out-of-jail-free card, rather than a final bridge of grace after a long soulful journey.
To these people, fancy book-learning is the enemy of faith, even if that fancy book is the Good Book.
One thing the survey revealed is that our Sunday schools need to do a better job of teaching religious literacy. It's school, for crying out loud! It should primarily feed the head, not the heart. Sermons and prayer meetings will handle the latter.
So next time that Pew Forum comes around to ask me what the Second Commandment states, I won't mess up again and say it's the one that gave us "the right to bear arms."


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An Upland resident is fighting for his life after he contracted the West Nile Virus and fell into a coma, his family and doctors said. He has emerged from the coma, but is not out of the woods.
The man contracted a neuroinvasive form of the the disease, which doctors say is the most deadly form of the virus, according to a report by KABC7 news.
Raymond Smith, 66, was bitten by a mosquito, almost two days later he began feeling very weak, his daughter said. Smith eventually fell into a coma. When and where Smith was bit by the mosquito was not revealed in the report.
"He noticed that he got bit by a mosquito and approximately a day and a half later, he became very, very weak," said Smith.
Smith says her father experienced tremors, headaches and severe diarrhea. When his temperature spiked at 104, Smith drove him to San Antonio Community Hospital, where he was admitted into the intensive care unit.
"He was just very ill and very weak," said Smith. "He couldn't stand, and every time he tried to stand, he would fall."
Infectious disease specialist Doctor Sohan Bassi says 1 percent of those infected by the virus will become seriously ill.
Smith was admitted to San Antonio Community Hospital where a blood test revealed his affliction.
Officials are calling this year the worst in West Nile Virus cases, with 87 people dead nationwide after contracting the disease, five of that tally were from California.


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Five quarterbacks to choose from, but only one can start for the Bluefield Rams.
Josh Erby made sure his name was called.
"I am pretty excited," said Erby, a freshman from Rock Hill, S.C. "I came up here to get my starting spot, I just had to work hard at it, put in the work and I finally got it."
Erby put his talents on display during an intrasquad scrimmage on Friday evening at Mitchell Stadium. So did four others, all hoping for the same opportunity, but Bluefield offensive coordinator Aaron Mingo made his choice.
"It has been a great camp, a lot of competition, at this point we are going to go with Josh Erby," Mingo said. "I think he gives us the best chance to win.
"He is a true freshman so I am sure there will be some growing pains with that, but he has made a lot of progress this camp and he did a phenomenal job leading the offense today."
An hour-long scrimmage witnessed by around 150 Bluefield College supporters included big plays on both sides of the ball. In fact, it was so close that the offense had to squeak out a 23-19 win over the defense in the scoring system devised by new head coach Ordell Walker.
The last possession of the scrimmage was the offense with the ball at the 10-yard line, but the defense held the Rams without points.
"They are so young and as many reps as we can get them, it was good to see the passing game early and have some good success," Walker said. "I was really proud of that.
"Then the defense and the way those guys played in the red zone. They gave up some yardage, but they found a way to get stops so I love the back and forth, and ebb and flow of the scrimmage."
Erby led the Rams' quarterbacks with an unofficial 89 yards through the air, including 4-for-5 for 79 yards in the first two possessions for the offense. He was able to roll away from coverage and connect with Richard Johnson from the 40, and the JUCO transfer dashed the rest of the way for the 60 touchdown.
It was that type of play that allowed Erby to stand out from the other competitors at quarterback since preparations began on Aug. 8 for the season opener next Saturday at Point University in Valley, Ala.
"I just knew I had to be perfect in everything that I did, work hard, and put in the work," said Erby, of his thought process heading into preseason camp. "I just had to step up and take the spot and be the leader of the team."
Marion Harris, who is back for his second season at Bluefield, led all backs with 70 yards, while Adrian Pope added 33 yards, including a 10-yard touchdown run. Graham product Lamont Edwards, who was wearing No. 44, the same number used by his cousin, NFL running back, Ahmad Bradshaw, had 42 yards on the ground.
Johnson caught three passes for 80 yards, while tight Matt Hollandsworth also had three receptions. The offensive line was paced by Graham product Darrius Carper, Hayne Darby, Mike Tufaro and Tysean Rogers.
"Marion Harris and Adrian Pope, just a phenomenal camp, right now they are the strengths of the offense," Mingo said. "Anytime they touch the football there is big-play capability, and we are excited to begin the season...
"We are real excited for Point, it is going to be a long trip, it has been a long camp so we are excited to get down there."
Among the standouts on defense were holdovers Frank Brooks at defensive back, linebacker Michael Hall, and defensive linemen Tanner Gilleland and 350-pound nose guard Cameron Carter.
Eli Overstreet had an interception, while Ernest Moore had a pair of sacks. Tazewell product Kyle Sheets recovered a fumble.
"We have got several guys who are stepping up," Bluefield defensive coordinator Mike Scott said. "The first team 'd' that I put out there today didn't get scored on, they bent a little bit and they didn't break.
"There at the end we had a red zone situation on the 10 and got a stop so hopefully we can keep building from there."
Perhaps the most impressive performer on defense was former Bluefield High School product R.J. Buford. The sophomore defensive end continued his strong play since practice began, recording two quarterback hurries and deflected a pair of pass attempts.
"Even if he does not rush the passer, he has rushed the passer because they tried to cut him down with little quick passes out to the flat and just today I think he batted down two balls," Scott said. "He bats down at least two every practice so even with him just standing up on the line of scrimmage, he rushes the passer."
Walker was pleased to see a trend continue for the Rams, with the season opener just a week away.
"Every other day it seems like one side of the ball kind of takes over so that is what we want," said Walker, who had the fans come out on the field with the team after the game for an 'afterglow', in which the team shared positives thoughts with each other to help build a family atmosphere. "If one side of the ball dominates I would probably be pretty nervous."
"Confidence has nothing to do with being ready now because we have got a game on Saturday so we have got to be ready," added Scott. "We are going to put a team out there that is going to be competitive and with Coach Walker leading us, we will continue to battle."
Bluefield kicker Caleb Frye was 1-of-2 on extra points, while Daniel Griffith punted once for the Rams.
Up next is Point, as Bluefield continues to set its depth chart as the school's second season with football since 1941 begins in a week.
"I think we have got an idea," Walker said. "There are still some eligibility problems we have got to clean up, but as far as 1s and 2s, we pretty much know where we are at, but there are some still very, very tight races, and it is a long season.
"We need that because we are just not very deep and so everybody is going to have to find a way to contribute and be ready."
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On Nov. 14, I will take the oath of office for the next term of the Legislature. I have now served six years as your state representative and I am at the halfway point of the time I am allowed to serve under Oklahoma's term limits laws. In reflecting on the past six years, I want you to know that I have not taken for granted the kindness provided by House District 31 residents.
When I came by your house seeking your vote, you allowed me the time to talk about why I was running for office even though it was a hot summer afternoon. You shared your views and provided great insights for the reforms and changes that needed to be enacted. You made a conscious decision to support me based on this interaction, and I take that very seriously.
You stayed true to this support by treating my wife, family and supporters with friendship and encouragement when they visited your home to ask for your vote on my behalf even though it was perhaps the fifth time that year someone from a campaign visited your house. Your kindness to my beautiful wife is perhaps the most appreciated of all. Especially during the 2006 election cycle, when the odds were absolutely stacked against our campaign, she made hundreds (if not thousands) of door-to-door visits. She made sure to tell me the stories of your kindness and support. Thank you!
You let me put that sign in your yard, knowing full well that it might draw the wrath of the neighbor down the street.
You stayed firm in your support even when confronted with libelous political attacks and dishonest coffee shop rumors. You took the time to see through the dishonesty, even though this may have required researching the facts.
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EDITORIAL It's easy to forget why the race for San Francisco sheriff is so important. For 30 years, retiring Sheriff Mike Hennessey has done such a good job promoting progressive law-enforcement policies that the voters haven't had to think much about the office. But the race between Sup. Ross Mirkarimi, former police union leader Chris Cunnie and deputy sheriff Paul Miyamoto is critical — and there's no better evidence than the debate over recidivism.
More than 65 percent of the people incarcerated in San Francisco wind up reoffending after they're released. That's a huge number, something the city's been struggling with for years. Now Mirkarimi has a proposal to address that: He's suggesting a tax break to encourage businesses to hire ex-cons. And already, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, and Mirkarimi's two opponents have jumped on the idea, accusing him of being soft on crime, of coddling felons and putting "victimizers before victims."
For the record, we're not fond of tax breaks as a way of stimulating job creation. We opposed the payroll tax break for Twitter and we opposed the biotech tax break. We've never seen any credible evidence that giving one group of companies special treatment under the city's payroll tax actually encourages the creation of a single job.
But at least Mirkarimi is trying to address a problem that is only going to get worse. Under Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment, thousands of prisoners who would normally be sent to a state institution are going to wind up in the San Francisco jail system — and nearly all of them will ultimately be released, in the city.
If 65 percent of those people wind up committing another crime, that's more victims, more police work, more time and expense for the courts — and more prisoners to crowd the local jails. And one of the biggest factors in recidivism is the lack of employment opportunities.
In other words, putting ex-felons to work is a cheap and effective way to reduce the crime rate. Cunnie and Miyamoto, who have both spent their careers in the criminal justice system, ought to know that.
But instead of supporting Mirkarimi's approach — or even his overall goals — they've been taking a surprisingly right-wing line. Miyamoto announced that the proposal would "needlessly coddle at-risk individuals." Cunnie charged that "the supervisor's proposal puts victimizers before victims when it comes to incentivizing job creation."
Never mind that the federal government adopted a similar program under the administration of that notorious criminal coddler George W. Bush. Never mind that several states have followed suit. Never mind that this is anything but a radical idea. Never mind the logic: Two of the candidates for sheriff of one of the most liberal cities in America are talking like hard-core Republicans.
We prefer direct public spending and other approaches to job creation, but Mirkarimi's goal is entirely valid. The city ought to be putting resources into finding jobs for ex-offenders. And the fact that Mirkarimi is the only one talking about that shows had profoundly important this race is for the future of law-enforcement policy in San Francisco.
Ross Mirkarimi for Sheriff of San Francisco has my vote and my friends in the City and County of San Francisco.
This is a brilliant idea due to Gov. Jerry Brown's idea of the release of many convicted felons from the state of California's prison system. Remember they are not all violent.
I am a San Franciscan and a businessman as well as a somewhat conservative and liberal view points. I am proud that current Sheriff Michael Hennessey endorsed Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi to fill Sheriff Hennessey's retiring shoes. I have followed Hennessey from day one of his ideas, some pro some not. I understand the reasons that I'm sure Hennessey visions to pass his sheriff's badge when he retires this term of why he endorsed Ross Mirkarimi for the next San Francisco Sheriff. Best wishes to you and yours Sheriff Hennessey.
I hope that everyone has read this article thoroughly with an open mind and understand that there are some jobs that convicted felons are very much capable in doing that some of those individual in San Francisco cannot OR would prefer not to do. Rehabilitation and 2nd chances can straighten an individual's life, I'm sure Hennessy and Ross would agree. Question- Ask yourself. Why not give them the opportunity? There are many individuals that have changed their ways and we don't even know they work and live next to you because of their embarrassment of what has happen in their past life. Many and have become successful and we not know it.
The county jail of San Francisco has set programs to better those inmates with lesser convictions to prepare them as they are released out of custody. Why not felons? Some may excel and some may not. Are they humans as we are? Yes, of course!
As much as deputy sheriff's disagree with the current Sheriff Michael Hennessey's 31 years in service ideas, then why are they even working for the San Francisco Sheriff's department? Go elsewhere! Hennessy has given them a job. He is fair, chance worthy and successful in his years of service. You might ask have I been in trouble with the law? No, not at all!
As I mentioned, I have somewhat conservative and liberal view points. I am frightened also for those in custody, their families, the current programs that may change and the citizens of San Francisco to have either of the following conservatives, Capitan Paul Miyamoto or Chris Cunnie as Sheriff of San Francisco. We need someone with much similar ideas and some growing changes like Ross Mirkarimi as San Francisco Sheriff.
Please join me and my friends to vote November 8, 2011 for ROSS MIRKARIMI for San Francisco Sheriff.
You state that "there are some jobs that convicted felons are very much capable in doing that some of those individual in San Francisco cannot OR would prefer not to do". Really? Can you name some of these JOBS that regular, law abiding "joe citizen" cannot or prefer not to do? In this economy? Yeah, ok. How about this? Since these are felons were talking about, meaning those who have convicted of committing a crime, punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year and you stated "remember they are not all violent", how would you determine which ones aren't violent? Drug users, sex offenders, robbers? Will you hire them? Just a question. Also, you say you're conservative but seem to speak more favorably about felons than deputies. You say, deputy "go elsewhere"!? Why because they don't agree with everything the Sheriff does? They still administer the Sheriffs ideas and policies. How many people do you know that agree with every idea their boss has? Do they still do their job? Why not talk to a deputy and see what their disagreements are. I talk to deputies. I don't know any who said Hennessy was unfair. How many do YOU know, who've said so? But you want Ross to give a felon a job but deputy, "go elsewhere!" Wow! Here's another one. You've followed Hennessey ideas from day one to 31 yrs later, right? So I'm sure you've heard about his award winning rehabilitation programs. Under his watch, San Francisco is known, countrywide for having these programs. Boy, if they win awards, they sure must be effective! Funny thing, though. With all these wonderful rehabilitation programs, San Francisco, somehow, has one of the highest recidivism rates in the country! Oh c'mon, that can't be right. Can it? Bottomline, I'm just trying to point out some things & thoughts from another side but I don't hate all felons. See, I'm a San Franciscan, too. Born and raised. I've never had any trouble with the law and I grew up around felons. I have relatives who were felons. (one of which I wrote a letter of recommendation for to help him get a job, which he got, btw) My best friend has a felony record but is working on becoming a pastor. I know personally that a 2nd chance can change lives BUT they all knew what they did, the choices they made, and the consequences that could come behind them. All of them, made a choice and they knew they could be held accountable. They also knew that even if they could turn things around, it could be hard, if not near impossible. It should be hard. Regular, everyday law abiding citizens have it real hard right now. How do you give a felon a job, when law abiding Joe & Jane citizen can't get a job, or pay their mortgage or rent? This sends the wrong message. All things equal, people who didn't make bad choices should be helped before we get to the ones who made their own bad choices. Finally, your boy Mirkarimi is an opportunist. He's just looking for another addition on his political resume. So when he runs for congress or whatever, he can show all the things that qualify him for the next political spot he can sneak into. He doesn't care about deputies or your oppressed non-violent felons unless it helps get him elected. Next it'll be Mirkarimi for Congress, so I guess you'll still be "frightened for those in custody", eight years later.
Captain Paul Miyamoto for Sheriff! - Experience NOT Politics!!!
Ta Hell!?!
The bedrock Progressive power piece on the chessboard of SF politics is the D-5 supe seat. If Ross wins and anyone other than Adachi (whom you hate) or Avalos wins the Mayoral race we'll have a conservative supe in D-5 for the next 9 years to join your double-crossers, Chiu and Kim.
Tim, Bruce, Steve, Marke ... comment on the very real possibility that Progs might lose the D-5 seat with your help.
Or, ignore me.
Go Cardinals!
If Yee wins he will very likely appoint a strong progressive in D-5.
You yourself have even claimed there is some secret conspiracy for him to do so.
Now you are all too conveniently (for Adachi's purposes) leaving the Yee factor out of your comment.
If you were any more transparent we could see right through you -
We can...
Yee is 25 points behind Lee in the polls.
If we accept the lower end of the curve due to Lee's barrage of scandals, he is at -best- at around 25% with the rest of the front runners in the mid to low teens. Lee is leading Yee by 15% tops, and probably less.
This is Eric's conjecture - not in any way backed by fact. Until a poll shows the cumulative weight of "Lee's barrage of scandals" detracting from his previous lead and shows Yee making up his dismal showing in every other poll, then this is nothing more than Eric Brooks' substituting what he WISHES were reality for what is actual reality.
which put Lee's low end for the first round at 25% of the vote.
All the polls I've seen have Lee over 30% and slated to win without any other candidate getting to 15%
My point is to show how even your own overly rosy projection simply isn't strong enough to establish what you are claiming.
Mirkarimi for Sheriff? But if the Dalton boys ride into town, who's going to drive them out? Could Ross Mirkarimi handle the job? If you smoke that much weed, can you shoot straight?
San Franciscans looking for non partisan and comprehensive information on the candidates and the measures can easily go to the League of Women Voters of San Francisco's Smart Voter website to obtain that information. See the link here: http://smartvoter.org/2011/11/08/ca/sf/ballot.html and check it out.
and those picks look fairly partisan to me.
San Franciscans looking for non-partisan information about the candidates and local propositions. The League of Women Voters of San Francisco's Smart Voter website put up information about the election in a comprehensive and non-biased manner for voters. Check the Smart Voter out before you cast the ballots: http://smartvoter.org/2011/11/08/ca/sf/ballot.html
Only one man can untie this nasty knot -- Hugo Chavez, the illustrious president of Venezuela. Can we persuade him to come to San Francisco, interview the parties, and find a just solution? Mirkarimi's wife wants to know who are the powerful interests who compelled Ivory Madison to bring these trumped up domestic violence charges to the police. Chavez could find out. And as for the wife's claim that monied interests are behind the charges brought against Mirkarimi, President Hugo Chavez could find out who those interests are, shame them as they ought to be shamed, and mete them the justice they deserve.
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