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The town of Zihuatanejo combined with our Club, is everything you think your Mexican vacation should be. Oceanfront resort. Check. Vacation Homes featuring panoramic views, private terraces and personal plunge pools. Check, check and check. And the town itself? Cobblestone streets, fishermen selling tuna on the beach and a farmer's market bursting with organic fruits, vegetables and herbs.
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Looking up from the beach, you can't help but notice the gigantic palapa roof – a focal point of Club Intrawest — Zihuatanejo. Underneath you'll find acopio – the Club's restaurant for breakfast and dinner. The word 'acopio' is Spanish for 'gathering'. Dinner is a time to come together and celebrate the local culture. Think of acopio as a place where the freshest local ingredients are combined to create meals that are approachable and affordable. Unpretentious, familiar, welcoming – acopio is a place to bring your family for a casual but memorable meal.
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Our family (Hubby, myself and our two sons 19 and 16) went to Club Intrawest — Zihuatanejo in February – our first visit to the resort. We stayed in a 2-Bedroom Vacation Home which was very spacious – it is such a lovely setting but one of the most memorable experiences was the chef's cooking class. Continue reading.
We have been spending the last week (March 19th 2012) at Club Intrawest in Zihuatanejo and we can say this has been one of our best beach vacation yet. The location is great and the sea is perfect. The suites, balconies, breath taking views, service, are all up there as top ratings. We are recommending you come here and enjoy every minute. We will surely be back as soon as possible...
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We are at Club Z right now. There aren't words to express the beauty of this place. Truly awe inspiring. And -- the Club Z staff is by far the warmest, most knowledgeable and friendliest hospitality staff I've ever been graced with. Half way in and I feel like they are friends -- who go above and beyond to anticipate any need I might have. Intrawest -- I am impressed!
Lori posted March 28, 2012
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Stay on the main boulevard marked Mexico 200 and follow the directional signs to Zihuatanejo. Entering Zihuatanejo, pass under a banner sign "Bienvenidos a Zihuatanejo" and take the left lane past the stop light. Follow the signs to Zihuatanejo Centro. Keep to your left for several blocks until you see a sign to Zona Hotelera and have almost made a half circle to a stop light. Passing the light stay to the right until you see another sign to Zona Hotelera and turn right onto a small avenue with a narrow median and trees.
Continue to a round-about with a structure that looks like a Japanese arch, called Plaza Kyoto. Go half way around the Plaza Kyoto and over a small bridge. Continue along that road past the fire station on the left side and up the hill. This is called Carretera Escénica La Ropa and winds along to Club Intrawest — Zihuatanejo.


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Von Heyl's inspiration for this commissioned mural, part of the Museum's Wall at WAM series, was Ellsworth Kelly's Orange White, a 1961 abstract painting in the Museum's collection. In a quickly executed initial sketch, von Heyl instinctively adapted the orange and white palette and vertically-stacked lozenge structure of the Kelly to the horizontal demands and architectural setting of the mural. Von Heyl's challenge in translating her drawing on site at this monumental scale (17 x 67 feet) was to reinvent each gesture with equal degrees of precision and liveliness (the painting process did not allow for mistakes or revisions) in order to keep the overall image, rhythm, and freshness of her original sketch. Simultaneously structured and improvisational, the Worcester mural is a painting that can be experienced as a single expansive composition as well as one that unfolds in contiguous segments spatially defined by the lozenges. In her ambitious reincarnation of the museum's Kelly, the intrepid von Heyl recharges that modernist moment while invigorating both the long history of murals and the current chapter of abstract painting.
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From Shia and Jim to Kanye and Kimmel, check out some of the most notable celebrity feuds.
Miley Cyrus and Sinead O'Connor. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Miley compared her "Wrecking Ball" video to Sinead's "Nothing Compares 2 U." The Irish singer then responded with an open letter. Miley responded and Sinead penned a second letter warning the young singer, "Taking me on is even more f*&kin' stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism."


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For the period of Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, the Niagara Falls Fire Department responded to 107 calls. The total number of service calls to date in 2013 is 573.
• FIRE: On Jan. 28, Engine 7 and Truck 2 responded at 6:22 a.m. to a vehicle fire in the 6400 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard. A ruptured brake line on a 2005 Chevy truck sprayed fluid onto the hot engine and caused the fire. Damage was estimated at $3,500.
• FIRE: On Jan. 28, another vehicle fire occurred at 10:04 p.m. in the 1100 block of Grove Avenue. The crew from Engine 3, consisting of Capt. Mike Zambotti and Firefighters Risky Sanabria, Chris Finitz, and Adam Farinas found a 2002 Jeep Cherokee that had earlier been reported stolen and was now fully involved in fire in the passenger compartment. The crew was able to quickly put out the fire, which is considered an arson and remains under investigation. Three men were observed leaving the vehicle shortly before the fire and are considered suspects. Damage is pegged at $5,000.
• INCIDENT: on Jan. 30, Platoon 3 was sent at 4:46 p.m. to the Rainbow Mall parking ramp for a large water leak. A 4-inch pipe broke, flooding a large area. Crews remained on the scene for over three hours, diverting the water until the Water Board could repair the pipe. Due to the recent freeze/ thaw cycle in the weather, the Falls Fire Department has responded to many burst pipe situations involving sprinkler systems in commercial structures in the last few weeks.
• FIRE: On Jan. 31, Platoon 2 was dispatched at 11:30 p.m. to a structure fire in an apartment complex in the 1700 block of Lafayette Avenue. The fire had started in a first-floor apartment, due to careless smoking, and spread to adjacent apartments before firefighters could extinguish it. Three apartments were damaged and seven residents received temporary living arrangements via the Red Cross. Damage to the building and contents was listed at $60,000.


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Report: Contract extension in works for Brees
The Saints are expected to reward QB Drew Brees for his stellar play later this year with a contract extension.
Carney serves as generous mentor to Hartley
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Bush hopes to break long punt return
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Saints' Bush has endured growing pains
Saints RB Reggie Bush has had an up-and-down career to date, but head coach Sean Payton believes his knowledge of the offense has improved. Read Wednesday's Super Bowl notebook.
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FS Darren Sharper doesn't think the Saints' defense is "dirty," but he admits it might be a bit grimy.
Smith squares off vs. Johnson and Manning
PFW's Eric Edholm analyzes the matchup between Saints DE Will Smith and Colts OLT Charlie Johnson in the third of a daily series examining a matchup of the day leading up to Super Bowl XLIV.
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Saints MLB Jonathan Vilma discussed the matchup with the Colts and being traded by the Jets in 2008 with the media on Tuesday.
Greer battles, but Wayne is tough assignment
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Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said the team agreed to terms on a one-year contract with Leonhard, a free agent.||||||| Leonhard played in all 16 regular season games and had one start for Denver last year, finishing with two interceptions. He also returned 15 punts for 89 yards.
Leonhard practiced Tuesday for the first time since undergoing a right knee operation in December. The Broncos removed him from their PUP list and placed him on their 90-man roster. He participated in drills with other defensive backs but was held out of team drills.||||||| Leonhard said he hopes he can practice in team portions when the Broncos return from a day off Thursday. He also said he'd like to play in one of Denver's final two preseason games, but he's sure the training staff will "protect me from myself" and take things slowly.
Leonhard received a chance to take a physical and meet with some former teammates, but not much else at Buffalo Bills training camp on Friday.||||||| Coach Chan Gailey said he didn't watch the player's workout and did not meet with Leonhard during his two-day visit. Gailey then referred questions regarding Leonhard to general manager Buddy Nix. Leonhard is a seven-year veteran who spent the past three seasons emerging as a fan favorite with the New York Jets. His stint with the Jets ended this offseason, when the team did not re-sign him.
Jets coach Rex Ryan says safety Jim Leonhard will miss the rest of the season with a torn patella tendon in his right knee after being injured in Sunday's victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.||||||| Leonhard underwent an MRI exam, which confirmed Monday what the Jets first feared when he went down on a tackle following and interception. It is the second straight year Leonhard has been lost for the season because of a devastating injury. Leonhard broke the same leg in a collision with teammate Patrick Turner during practice a little more than a year ago.
Leonhard was scheduled to have an MRI exam on his right knee Monday to determine the severity of the injury after being hurt making an interception in the second quarter of the Jets' 37-10 victory. Several teammates feared it could be a season-ending injury.||||||| Leonhard was hurt when he intercepted a pass by Tyler Palko intended for Steve Breaston and the Chiefs wide receiver made a twisting tackle. Leonhard immediately reached for his leg in pain before being helped to the sideline by two trainers and carted into the locker room.


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It's looking more and more like there are a number of teams interested in Klay Thompson in tonight's NBA Draft, which is nothing but great news for the former WSU star.
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I don't want to steal the thunder of Shellin, who dug this up in a FanShot a short time ago, but I did want to actually post the video of it. Take it away, Shellin: "Video talking about day two here at the combine, Chad Ford seems incredibly impressed with Klay's showing today, going as far as saying he could see Klay climbing into the Top-10 of the draft. Klay stuff starts at about 1:15 in the video."
Klay Thompson worked out for NBA executives at the first day of the NBA Draft Combine. Unfortunately, talk of his marijuana arrest dominated the broadcast.
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Klay Thompson said he'd stay in the NBA Draft if he was a sure-fire first rounder. With the NBA Draft Lottery in the books, it sure looks like that's where he's going to end up.
Klay Thompson declared for the NBA draft. Which teams would be the best and worst fit?
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A man involved in a fatal Lincoln shootout has pleaded no contest to a related case.
Robert Robinson was convicted after his plea Monday to a charge of willful reckless driving. Prosecutors reduced an earlier felony charge in exchange for Robinson's plea.
Prosecutors say Robinson admitted to driving over a firework on July 4th but told investigators that he didn't realize his car had struck the boy who lit the firework. The boy suffered only minor injuries.
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ISM manufacturing index ends 2012 above growth mark
December figure in at 50.7% as experts see firming growth
Manufacturing closed out 2012 on the upswing, as the monthly ISM Report showed a growth pattern and a solid increase over November.
After dropping below the 50% mark that indicates growth a month ago, the December ISM report came in at 50.7%. That's a 1.5 percentage point increase from November, and marked the eighth month in 2012 that the index topped the 50% mark. In addition, the index indicated growth in the overall U.S. economy for the 43rd consecutive month.
"This month's PMI reading moved manufacturing off its low point for 2012 in November. The New Orders Index remained at 50.3%, the same rate as in November, indicating growth in new orders for the fourth consecutive month," said Bradley J. Holcomb, chair of the Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. "Comments from the panel this month are mixed, with some indicating a strengthening of demand and others indicating a continuing softness in demand. Additionally, many respondents express uncertainty about government regulations, taxes and global economics in general as we approach 2013."
Among those comments included:
- "Many Chinese sources are coming to us with cost reductions to maintain their current business volumes."
- "We are seeing stabilization of orders and costs as well as production capacity for the first time in months." (Miscellaneous Manufacturing)
- "Black Friday was good, but forward economic visibility is foggy." (Computer & Electronic Products)
- "The election is over; unemployment is dropping; consumer confidence is increasing as are home sales prices. We seem to be turning the corner. New car sales are increasing, which affects our customers." (Fabricated Metal Products)
- "Uncertainty in additional government regulations and tax climate seems to be slowing orders." (Chemical Products)
Other indexes also indicated growth in December. The Production Index registered 52.6%, a decrease of 1.1 percentage points, indicating growth in production for the third consecutive month. The Employment Index registered 52.7%, an increase of 4.3 percentage points, indicating a resumption of growth in employment following only one month of contraction since September 2009. Both the Exports and Imports Indexes registered 51.5%, returning both indexes to growth territory following consecutive periods of contraction of six and four months, respectively.
A PMI in excess of 42.6%, over a period of time, generally indicates an expansion of the overall economy. Over the last six months of 2012, manufacturing registered expansion in three months and contraction in three months, moving back and forth across the 50% mark.
"The past relationship between the PMI and the overall economy indicates that the average PMI for January through December (51.7%) corresponds to a 3.1% increase in real gross domestic product," Holcomb said. "In addition, if the PMI for December is annualized, it corresponds to a 2.7% increase in real GDP annually."
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With the nation still reeling from a violent rampage at a Wisconsin Sikh temple, leaders are calling for communities across the country to take a stand against hate and violence.
Rallied by Punjabi Radio USA, various community leaders and volunteers plan to unite Friday at 7 p.m. at city halls in 101 cities nationwide, including Newark, Union City, Fremont, Hayward, San Jose, Chicago and New York.
"The reason we're holding these at city halls instead of the gurdwara is because we want to come out to different communities to show that we are members of the community, too," said Harpal Mann, a Union City planning commissioner who is spearheading the local vigil.
Though the motive of Sunday's mass shooting is uncertain, the suspect was identified as Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old army veteran and known white supremacist. Wade entered the parking lot of a Sikh house of worship in the town of near Milwaukee at about 10:30 a.m., opening fire outside, then entering the house of worship. At the end of Wade's spree, he had taken the lives of six innocent people before he was killed in a shootout with a police officer.
Mann said the Friday night vigil will not only serve as a memorial for those victims, but those lives claimed during .
Mann, who said he's advised CNN on its coverage of the Wisconsin rampage, hopes the nationwide vigils will send a message of peace and tolerance.
"What happened in Wisconsin could happen anywhere. There are mad people everywhere," Mann said. "These hate groups don't like anyone who does not look like them, who does not have the same names as them, who does not practice the same religion as them."
California is home to 84 hate groups — the most in the country — according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
According to religious leaders, Sikhs, who wear turbans and head scarves, are frequent victims of discrimination and hate crimes, often because they are mistaken for Muslims, who became a national target of "Islamaphobia" after 9/11.
"Since 9/11, we've been on the receiving end, from the government and airports' racial profiling to innocent victims in Wisconsin who had nothing to do with 9/11," Mann said.
Mann hopes the vigils will bring greater awareness, tolerance and racial and religious harmony. As of Tuesday evening, 35 cities had agreed to participate in the Friday night vigils.
The events are open to the entire community, and anyone is invited to speak out against hate and violence, Mann said.
Local events to be held weeklong
The Gurdwara Sahib of Fremont — one of the largest Sikh worship centers in the nation with a membership of more than 12,000 — is also holding special services throughout the week.
Tonight, members of the Gurdwara Sahib and other faith groups are holding a candlelight vigil at Lake Elizabeth at Central Park in Fremont at 7 p.m. Originally planned to be held at the Fremont Hall of Justice, the location was moved due to a large expectancy.
Lake Elizabeth is located at 40000 Paseo Padre Pkwy. in Fremont. The vigil will be held at the park's pavilion, which is located close to the park community center near Mission View Drive and Paseo Padre Pkwy. For more information about the event, visit the Facebook event page.
Local community members are also invited so join the Sikh community for its Sunday prayer service. Held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Gurdwara Sahib of Fremont, the special service will be dedicated to the Wisconsin victims, marking one week since the shooting. Free food will be provided.
Gudwara Sahib of Fremont is located at 300 Gudwara Rd. in Fremont.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Condemned Texas prisoner Mario Swain is to die for the beating, stabbing and strangling of a woman during a break-in at her East Texas home a decade ago.
The 33-year-old Swain faces lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville for the slaying of 46-year-old Lola Nixon at her home in Longview.
Swain led police to the woman's body dumped in the back seat of an abandoned car in a remote part of Gregg County, about 120 miles east of Dallas. Authorities said he had a pattern of attacking women and robbing them, often using a chemical inhalant or stun gun to knock them out.
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Legendary music icon Stevie Wonder has filed court documents to split with his wife, Kai, reports TMZ.
According to papers, the couple has been separated since 2009 and are divorcing due to irreconcilable differences.
The Morris' have two sons together, ages 10 and 7. In the documents, Wonder will be paying his estranged wife both spousal and child support, although an exact amount has yet to be determined.
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MOUNDS – Chester Pittman reflected on picking up his 600th career victory at the Mounds Tournament on Friday night.
"You think back to all of the great players," the Oktaha coach said after his Lady Tigers topped the Bristow Lady Pirates 61-40 in the semifinals. "The 600 wins can go to a lot of kids."
Pittman has a 600-122 career record in 24 years as a head coach, all at Oktaha.
His current group certainly has had their share of Ws.
The Lady Tigers, ranked fourth in the Okrankings.com Class 2A poll this week, improved to 15-1.
Oktaha used a 7-0 scoring run in the first four minutes of the second quarter, increasing its lead from 18-15 at the end of the first quarter to a 25-15 advantage with 3:56 left in the first half. The Lady Tigers led 32-19 at halftime.
"They had made a run on us and we turned right around and made adjustment on our defense," Pittman said. "We wanted to stop giving them an easy look. That kind of got us jump-started when we did that."
Oktaha and Pittman will face Haskell (9-7) in the championship game at 7 tonight.
"This group does about as much as getting the most out of each individual player as I've had in a long time," said Pittman. "We're not as athletic as we have been, but they really play well together."
Lanessa Grayson scored a game-high 21 points to lead the way to the milestone win. Jaylie Roper added 16.
Grayson said she didn't realize the significance of the game for her coach until it was announced after the game as the teams walked off the floor.
"He's a great coach," she said. "Even though he's hard on us, he wants us to do well. I wouldn't play for anybody else. The harder he is, the better we play."
Courtney Leach led Bristow (6-11) with 16 points and Taylor Conkling added 11.
Haskell had four players in double figures to beat Glenpool 66-57. Sherrell McHenry led the Lady Haymakers with 18 points. Tashay Love had 14, Denora Wheeland scored 13 – all on free throws -- and Maddie Cheatham added 11.
McHenry also had 10 rebounds for her fifth double-double this season.
"We played under control and when we do that, we're a better team," Haskell coach Rick Kirkhart said. "We hope that carries over to the finals, but we know Oktaha is a good team. We just hope to stay in the game."
Porter's girls lost 52-32 to Summit Christian. Cierra Richardson led the Lady Pirates with 15. Checotah defeated Mounds 45-34 for its second win in 15 games as Katie Smith had a team-high 10 points.
Checotah plays Summit Christian at 1 p.m. for the consolation championship and Porter meets Mounds at 10 a.m. for seventh place.
Coach Jim Glover doesn't know how many career victories he has, but he's going to fondly remember his latest win as his Oktaha Tigers trampled the Glenpool Warriors 70-45 in one semifinal.
Glover has reason to be happy as his 2A No. 4 Tigers improved to 15-2 and beat a Class 4A foe in doing so.
"It was a big win for us and against a good 4A team," Glover said. "I told the kids we had to play well and we did. We put together a full game tonight."
The Tigers play Checotah (10-6) for the championship at 8:30 tonight.
Oktaha jumped out to a 21-9 lead after the first quarter and never looked back. The Tigers led 39-20 at halftime.
Three players scored in double figures with Blake Pittman leading the way with 20 points. Christian McIntosh had 19 and Dustin Leach added 14.
McIntosh also had a team-high eight rebounds.
"Everything was clicking for us," he said. "Everything was falling for us and we also were intense on defense."
Checotah beat Porter 64-46 desite 30 points from Porter's Jacob Richardson.
"Defensively, we tried to slow them down as much as we could," Checotah coach Jason Dowdy said. "They like to get up and run. We also tried to slow Richardson down a little bit. He's going to get 30-40 points per game. It's hard to hold him anything below 30."
The Pirates (13-3) will play Glenpool (7-9) at 5:30 p.m. today for third place.
Three Wildcats scored in double figures: DeShawn Jackson led the way with 17 points. Cameron Pipe scored 15 and Braylon Warrior added 13.
In the consolation side of the bracket, Haskell beat Mounds 79-61 as Wes Davis had 30 and Michael Love added 25. Summit Christian defeated Bristow 56-45 in the other game.
Haskell will play Summit Christian at 2:30 p.m. for the consolation title.
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Prospects for a quality waterfowl season in Alabama remain good as hunters prepare for the early teal and goose seasons across the state.
David Hayden, waterfowl expert with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, said the number of waterfowl in North America has risen slightly and weather will be the driving force for Alabama's hunters.
"Teal numbers are still good, like they were last year," Hayden said. "If we can have some weather to get some migration and we can get them to stop and stay a while, we should have a good early season."
The special teal season is set for Sept. 11-26 with a daily bag limit of 4 and a possession limit of 8.
The overall waterfowl count for the upcoming season is encouraging with a welcome increase in pintail numbers.
"Duck prospects are real good," Hayden said. "Numbers are similar to last year, but the numbers for some species are up. Bag limits are the same except for pintail. It's gone up from one per day to two per day. If we get the weather, we're looking for a real good season."
For the regular waterfowl hunting, the seasons for ducks, coots and mergansers are Nov. 26-27 and Dec. 4-Jan. 30.
The liberal bag limit remains in effect. Hunters may take 6 ducks per day with no more than 4 mallards, only 2 of which may be female. The bag limits on other species are: 3 wood ducks, 1 mottled duck, 1 black duck, 2 redheads, 2 pintail, 2 scaup and 1 canvasback. The daily limit on coots is 15 per day with 30 in possession, while the merganser limit is 5 per day, only 2 of which may be hooded mergansers. The possession limit on mergansers is twice the daily limit.
Waterfowlers get their first opportunity in the field with the special Canada goose season, which runs Sept. 1-15. The bag limit is 5 per day with 10 in possession. In Escambia and Monroe counties only, a special snow/blue goose season is set for Oct. 30 through Nov. 14 with a daily bag limit of 5 and possession limit of 10.
"If folks have the opportunity to hunt geese, we hope they will take advantage of it," Hayden said. "Hunting keeps the geese wary of man and helps keep them away from public places where they won't be a nuisance. We also have the start of our regular goose season later in September, so that gives people a second opportunity to hunt geese early."
The regular goose seasons are Sept. 25-Oct. 6 and Dec. 4-Jan. 30. The daily bag limit is 5 with no more than 2 Canada geese or 2 white-fronted geese. The possession limit of 5 shall include no more than 4 Canada geese and white-fronted geese in aggregate.
The use of non-toxic shot is required for waterfowl hunting in Alabama. A valid hunting license and state and federal waterfowl stamps are required, as well as a Harvest Information Program (HIP) permit. Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset statewide except for the area of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta north of Battleship Parkway, west of Alabama Highway 225, south of the CSX Railroad tracks, and east of the west bank of the Mobile River. In that area of the Delta, shooting hours are one-half before sunrise until 12 noon Monday through Thursday. Friday through Sunday shooting hours will be one-half hour before sunrise until sunset.
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KEENE, N.H., Sept. 7, 2005 – Springfield College sophomore forward Brittany Veazie (Dexter, Maine) had two goals and two assists, including the game-winning score in double overtime to lead the Pride past Keene State College, 4-3, at the Owl Athletic Complex on Wednesday night (Sept. 7). With the win, SC improves to a perfect 3-0 on the young season.
Coming down the left wing, Veazie's shot found the far corner of the net for the winner at the 95:30 mark. In the first three games of the season, Veazie has scored an impressive four goals to go along with two assists for the Pride.
Trailing 3-2 at the half, Keene State tied the game on an unassisted goal by Amanda Rosenbeck four minutes into the second stanza. Seniors Amber Paradee (Sheldon, Vt.) and Sarah Brooker (Auburn, Maine) had the other two scores for SC.
The Pride will look to keep it going as they next host Middlebury College on Sunday, September 11th, in yet another non-conference match-up at Benedum Field.


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text: We will now present an example of three basis expansions that yield different levels of sparsity for the same signal. A simple periodic signal is sampled and represented as a periodic train of weighted impulses (see Figure 1). One can interpret sampling as a basis expansion where our elements in our basis are impulses placed at periodic points along the time axis. We know that in this case, our dual basis consists of sinc functions used to reconstruct our signal from discrete-time samples. This representation contains many non-zero coefficients, and due to the signal's periodicity, there are many redundant measurements. Representing the signal in the Fourier basis, on the other hand, requires only two non-zero basis vectors, scaled appropriately at the positive and negative frequencies (see Figure 1). Driving the number of coefficients needed even lower, we may apply the discrete cosine transform (DCT) to our signal, thereby requiring only a single non-zero coefficient in our expansion (see Figure 1). The DCT equation is with , the input signal, and N the length of the transform.


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Only a handful of drivers have won back-to-back track championships at South Boston Speedway, and 2011 NASCAR Southern Vintage Modified (SVM) Champion Darryl Lacks can now count himself among that number.
The Forest resident won the first two races this past season and emerged the SVM points winner in a tight battle with brother Donnie Lacks, winning by a three-point margin.
Although he finished with one less win than his brother, three race wins to two, Darryl Lacks was a model of consistency with four second-place finishes and a third-place finish in eight races.
Lacks, who now owns three SVM championships overall, is now included with such South Boston stalwarts as David Blankenship and Ray Hendrick, and more recently Justin Johnson who have won back-to-back track titles.
"I thought they told me at the banquet last year there were three or four different people who have won back-to-back championships at South Boston, David Blankenship, Ray Hendrick included," recalled Lacks.
"It's less than a handful. That really makes me pleased to be with company like that."
It wasn't always smooth sailing this season for Lacks, who had to battle his brother and at least a couple of other solid cars for the track title.
"This year was a whole lot rougher than last year and 2008," said Lacks.
"This year was the roughest, hardest championship I've ever had to win.
"The beginning of the year it started off real good and I won the first two races, then after that I had obstacles to overcome the rest of the year.
"The third race me and Donnie got tangled up together and had a bad wreck. Both of us were on the backstretch and our wheels got together and we had a big crash."
Lacks' seventh-place finish in that race was the only time he finished out of the top-three.
Not only did he have to battle his brother, he had to compete with perhaps the most competitive field of cars in his division in several years.
"Competition was a whole lot tighter than it has been, plus there were a whole lot more people trying to legitimately run hard for the championship," said Lacks.
Saying that, there were a few more on-track mishaps and a few more hurt feelings than past years in his division, but Lacks' primary competition came from his brother.
"My brother drives for Buck Duvall, and he's been a real competitor," explained Darryl Lacks.
"Me and him have been super competitive, he won three races and I won two, but he had some worse races than I had.
"That was the difference. Me and Donnie always help each other in the shop and everything on the cars, but when we go to race, it's every man for himself.
"He wants to outdo me as bad as I want to outdo him, and it's a big brotherly rivalry there.
"He ran better than he had been running, and with all the wrecks, I had some trouble with other cars."
It all came down to the last race, with Darryl Lacks 10 points ahead of Donnie and 13 ahead of Daryl Gwynn.
Donnie Lacks won that final race, but brother Darryl was right behind to clinch the track title.
"We help each other a lot but on the racetrack there's no driver the other wants to outrun more," noted Lacks.
Although he led in the points all season, Lacks said he never felt he had enough of a lead where one bad race or wreck could have derailed him.
"It was tight all the way to the end," he pointed out. "I never really thought I had it made, but last year I came into the last race without a lot of pressure.
"All I had to do was start the race. This year, each race it could have changed at any given time, and that puts additional pressure on the drivers because there aren't as many races.
"If you make a mistake and mess up, if your car breaks down, or if you get involved in an accident, you can go from the top to the bottom real quick.
"The ones I was running with for the championship were running up front every week, so I had to keep on my toes every week."
He couldn't have raced this year without a lot of help, Lacks noted, including the help of Bass Automatic Transmission Parts, and Bucky and Barbara Bass.
"They helped out Donnie a little bit and me a whole bunch," he explained.
"Lou's Auto Repair helped a lot, and Central Virginia Classic Auto Club.
"In my whole racing career, 35 years, there's no way I could have done this without my father's help, Bill Lacks.
"He helps me work on the car and he builds the engines. He's really helped Donnie and I a tremendous amount.
"It's as much credit to him as me for these championships, and he's really sacrificed a lot for me and Donnie to race," added Lacks, who also noted support from Chris Carroll, Josh Barnes, Janice Moore and her daughter, and Cheyenne Moore.
THE LACKS RECORD • Starts: 8 • Wins: 2 • Top-Five Finishes: 7 • Top-Ten Finishes: 8 • Poles: 5 • Laps Led: 81 out of a possible 200 {fcomment}
• Starts: 8
• Wins: 2
• Top-Five Finishes: 7
• Top-Ten Finishes: 8
• Poles: 5
• Laps Led: 81 out of a possible 200


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This is to express my distress over the severe, and in many Tarrytown residents' opinion, unnecessary noise pollution which I feel is totally avoidable.
It is very unfortunate that the fire house on Main Street still uses this antiquated World War II technology as an alarm system which consistently deeply startles residents, particularly those hundreds of families in the immediate vicinity of the fire house and the adjoining streets. This loud piercing noise which forces you to pause everything you do interferes with quiet dinners at home or in the area restaurants or nice evening strolls, thus deterring many potential shoppers and customers from frequenting our businesses.
More disturbingly, the appallingly piercing sound may wake up the sick, pregnant women, the very young, not to mention most of us who need to get six hours of sleep in order to function in our respective jobs. In ungodly hours such as 2 or 3 am it wakes us, thus impacting the health of many of this quaint village residents.
This is no longer acceptable. It's time to change this unwelcome tradition. While I support the volunteer firefighters and understand their plight, having myself been in military and public service for the past 45 years, a tax payer and active supporter of the schools and the community at large, I urge the Mayor, the Administrator, the Trustees and the Fire Chief to seek other alternative means of summoning the volunteers to the fire houses.
Many of us bought property in Tarrytown to escape the City with its noises and other stressors and always imagined the Village as a serene and charming historic community that it is. But the constant alarms have turned living into an unpleasant experience for many of us – to the point where some would bail out when the real estate market recovers and intentionally avoid local establishments, seeking instead adjoining communities where their meals wouldn't be interrupted.
Accordingly, we urge you to consider at a minimum:
Limit the use of the fire alarm to day and evening hours
Review the protocol of its use and use it only in cases of serious threats to life and property
Actively seek alternative means of summoning the volunteers – the technology is out there.
Thanks for your consideration.
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Life experience, viewed through a sort of existentialist paradigm, is an extremely persistent animal. There are certain lessons that life seems bound and determined to teach us, no matter how many times we attempt to ignore the moral. Foremost among those teachings and concurrently the one that is seemingly reinforced most often in our lives is "don't judge a book by its cover." It's a little shameful to admit, but I've spent thirty years on this earth and occasionally still have slips in my understanding of this basic tenet.
I judged Monster Truck and their album "Furiosity" before I had listened to it. I did my due diligence on the vitals, or so I thought: Canadian rock band, blue collar naming convention, a lot of beards. I thought 'here we go: another generic, booze-addled butt rock album fit for goin' out muddin' and not much else.'
Someday, I'll learn. I promise. In the meantime, Monster Truck's new record is not anything I mentioned above, with the exception that it is a rock album. There are going to be plenty of editorials written about how "Furiosity" is a long lost cousin of Molly Hatchet or the Allman Brothers or Golden Earring or some other blues-infused classic rock, but those comparisons (while partially accurate) are judging the songs on their sound alone and not correctly gauging the spirit of the music. In short, "Furiosity" is very much like "Robot Hive"-era Clutch, with just a little less oomph (that's a technical term for all you kids out there) and a little more soul.
Monster Truck's greatest feat for this album is finding a way to execute the tried and true tenets of blues rock and roll in a way that seems fresh and does not blend into the background of the genre's sixty-plus year history. There's no one trick I can put into words that exemplifies how Monster Truck figures it out, but listen to the easy magnetism and subtle harmonies of "Psychics" and it should be fairly evident. As it is, "Psychics" is part of a four song barge that begins with "Power of the People" and ends with "Oh Lord" that floats on down the river with both aural power and listening ease. As a block of songs, this is the strongest, most memorable part of the record and the finest showcase of Monster Truck's melodic je ne sais quoi.
Of course, those songs are all under four minutes and two of them are under three, which means Monster Truck clearly understands that brevity can be key in rock songwriting. Naturally by contrast, they follow that set with "For the Sun" a seven mnute cut that drags unnecessarily and is badly positioned in the middle of the record. Why do bands do this? The country blues of album closer "My Love is True" are better written and would have sufficiently filled the album's ballad quota.
For the back half, Monster Truck shows some versatility, opting for a Priestess-like sheen for the two-minute experimental romp "The Giant." Additionally, there is just a sprinkle of decoration that might be confused for an influence of gospel music, and it comes from more than just the hammond organ (or a reasonable facsimile.) It has something to do with the major chords and uptempo feel of each cut, notably on "Sweet Mountain River."
The sheer honesty of "Furiosity" is very much to its credit, and helps propel the album above the swamp of swampy albums that have been concocted in the name of revival. In an ocean of also-rans, Monster Truck does a good enough job of cutting through the waves that the few generic moments it does have can be easily forgiven.
I can't quite explain it, but despite being just a little outside my wheelhouse, I really like "Furiosity" a lot. Don't make the mistake I made and assume that you know what this is before you've listened to it. There's a lot to like, and "Furiosoty" is an easy listen that coasts on by.


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Without big government, President Obama likes to suggest, we would all be poor, miserable creatures. For starters, he claims that business became possible only because government built roads and bridges.
Actually, Obama has it backwards. Private business came first, then roads and bridges.
They weren't originally developed by governments. They were developed by merchants who began establishing trade routes thousands of years ago. In the beginning, before the first Department of Public Works, there were innumerable trails.
Developing trails required that somebody travel, and kings generally didn't travel unless they were conquering new territory. If they left their territory for an extended period, they would probably have returned to find somebody else ruling the territory that used to be theirs. So it was merchants, hoping to make money, who blazed the trails for regional and long distance trade. At their own expense, merchants determined the most worthwhile places to go and the most efficient ways of getting there.
Europe's first great civilizations arose from private trade. Starting perhaps around 7000 B.C.E., a resourceful maritime people who became known as Minoans established themselves in Crete. They were ancient history to Homer. They brought copper from Cyprus, tin from Asia Minor, elephant Tusks from Syria and diorite from the Nile Valley – and Minoan pottery made its way to Egypt.
The ancient origin of private markets and trade routes is most dramatically evident in prehistoric trade goods such as obsidian, a brittle volcanic glass that can be chipped into knife blades, mirrors and other implements. Valued for perhaps 30,000 years, obsidian tools have turned up at most early village sites in the Middle East and Mediterranean. Usually such villages were hundreds of miles away from the sources.
How do we know this? During the 1960s, British archaeologists J.E. Dixon, J.R. Cann and Colin Renfrew gathered obsidian samples from extinct volcanoes throughout the Mediterranean and ancient Mideast. Heated to incandescence, each element in the samples emitted a characteristic wavelength of light. The amount of certain trace elements – barium, zirconium and cesium – varied from one volcano to another. By analyzing obsidian samples from ancient settlement sites, Dixon, Cann and Renfrew could determine which volcano they came from. This isn't the only method of dating obsidian.
Analysis of other commodities confirmed that private trade flourished throughout the ancient world. For example, the remains of many inland Anatolian settlements include seashells from the Aegean as well as amber from the Baltic. Both were valued for jewelry. Copper was used at Ali Kosh, an early farming village in southern Mesopotamia, yet the nearest copper deposits were hundreds of miles away. Pearls from Bahrain, jasper from Armenia, beryl from India and perfume from Egypt have turned up at ancient village sites hundreds of miles away.
Civilization arose not in remote regions but along trade routes where it was convenient for people to gather. Since at least 7000 B.C.E., Jericho was a major commercial center. It was located on a natural trade route between Anatolia, which had obsidian, and Beidha, a village to the south that supplied sea shells and hematite, an iron oxide valued for its red color.
There's abundant evidence of flourishing trade further east. Archaeologists believe that a light-skinned, dark-haired Sumerian people migrated south from the Caspian Sea about 8500 B.C.E., settling along the delta where the Tigris and the Euphrates empty into the Arabian Gulf. Trade was absolutely vital for civilization there, because the only natural resources were water and mud. Sumerian traders invented sailboats so they could travel long distances. They organized caravans for overland routes.
By the sixth century B.C.E., Greeks began hearing about wonders from the Orient.
The sea route from India brought cashmere, furs, finished cotton, gems, jewelry and some silks. In addition, there were spices – pepper, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves.
Yes, but of course we're not living in ancient Greece and no private business is going to maintain (and certainly not build) the interstate highway system that is critical to the transportation of goods in commerce.
It was a Republican President who championed the expenditure of federal funds to build the interstate highway system. See below from Wikipedia.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, Interstate Freeway System or the Interstate) is a network of limited-access roads, including freeways, highways, and expressways, forming part of the National Highway System of the United States.
The system is named for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who championed its formation. Construction was authorized by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, and the original portion was completed 35 years later.
The network has since been extended, and as of 2010, it had a total length of 47,182 miles (75,932 km).[2] As of 2010, about one-quarter of all vehicle miles driven in the country use the Interstate system.
The cost of construction has been estimated at $425 billion (in 2006 dollars) making it the "largest public works program since the Pyramids."
Ms. Pynchon,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but not once does the author make any mention of the words 'Democrat', 'Republican', 'Conservative', or 'Liberal'. In my opinion, the author's main focus in this article was the illustration of why private business is more efficient (both financially and in efficiency of implementation) of internal improvements by providing historical examples of this assertion. For you to simply respond with the classic "The fact that a Republican (or Democrat, if one happens to be an ignorant Republican doing the same thing as what you've done) did *insert point here* proves that your entire argument is invalid," indicates that you're assuming that everybody is as ignorant as you and solely concerned with political identity rather than heeding the rigorous, INFORMATIVE aspects of an argument.
Now, in response to your point concerning the Interstate Highway System: the fact that "…the network has since been extended, and as of 2010, it had a total length of 47,182 miles (75,932 km).[2] As of 2010, about one-quarter of all vehicle miles driven in the country use the Interstate system" does not mean that it was planned well nor is the best current option for providing roads for public transportation. Rather, there are numerous flaws with the financing behind the system as documented by the US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. The most important of these flaws (ignoring the time and budgetary inefficiency of bureaucratic decision-making in implementing changes and/or improvements in the highway system) is that per the Federal Highway Act of 1956, the Federal government is responsible for 9/10 of the cost incurred from the program (which is in large part funded by highway user tax revenue which, as any economist will tell you, is mathematically proven to decrease economic efficiency) while the state is responsible for 1/10. What ends up happening is that the state will be burdened with the initial payments for improvements and only later, once work has begun, is able to submit the bill to the Federal Highway Administration for reimbursement. Of course, because the FHWA is a bureaucratic agency, reimbursement generally takes several years for each request from the state. During this time the state is unable to fund prudent ventures (such as paying off its own debt to the federal government…) and unemployment, as well as innumerable other economic maladies, result.
All of this information can be verified at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.htm (By the way, don't expect to be taken seriously in a conversation concerning political ideology and history if you're citing wikipedia in defense of your argument).
Mr. Powell, thank you for your wonderful and informative article. I look forward to reading more in the near future.
David Vernet
University of Maryland Department of Mathematics
I was thinking along the same lines as you Victoria. The Interstate Highway system is, without hyperbole, the most expensive public works project in the history of the world. Nearly half a trillion in todays money. That doesn't include maintenance. I don't think private industry would ever build anything like this, and my initial thought was that it is essential for commerce. Then I remembered driving out west. There were not a lot of cars on the road. It seemed like most of the people using the road were trucks. I don't believe these roads are in any way necessary. If they didn't exist, more freight would be moved by rail and it would take me and 6 other people more time to drive between Fargo and Bismark. I think a strong case could be made that we would be better off today if the interstate system had not been built. I think there would have been sufficient demand for nice roads in populated areas to enable private industry to build them and turn a profit and, in unpopulated areas, money would not have been wasted on an extreme excess of capacity.
Pr. Venet,
You posting is all very interesting but entirely beside the point. The interstate highway program has been of immense benefit to the business community and the US economy as a whole and could not have been built by the private sector.
Without businesses and the employees they hire who purchase homes and a multitude of consumer goods, there exists no need for roads and no tax dollars to build them with. In addition, it is businesses who are charged with collecting those taxes and remitting them to the government – a service for which government pays them nothing, zero.
Government did the job they were supposed to do with the expenditure of tax dollars collected for road construction and that greatly facilitated trade which brought vast sums of money into government coffers for all the other things that government funds. Why do those in government need elaborate praise for doing their job at the same time they denigrate the contributions of private businesses?
Possibly more than any other segment of society, business people are acutely aware of their connectedness to a complex system and the balances that need to exist for everything to thrive and grow. For example, they understand that taxes on businesses are really taxes on consumers; tax burdens and regulatory costs put on businesses are a cost-of-doing-business that must be passed on in products and services. It's an indirect way of raising taxes from consumers while, at the same time, making those same people blame the businesses and not the government who can claim that government is working earnestly in behalf of the people standing up against those horrible businesses who oppress them.
Prices of goods and services go up due to increased regulations and taxes, government blames businesses for rising prices, consumers buy foreign produced goods because they're cheaper, business and jobs go where production costs are cheaper so they can compete and politicians and the public blame businesses for taking jobs out of the country – a very painful chain of events plays out to who knows what end.
Politicians don't get the complex system idea at all it seems to me. They don't make policy based on the best results to be achieved for the health of the whole economic system or controlling costs and efficiencies but rather on getting more people from their party elected no matter what it cost the most productive and responsible people of this country (businesses and individuals) or how much social chaos and destruction they create in the process. For political favor and votes, too many politicians have actively created enmity between the American people and businesses that nobody survives without – not the people and not the government.
There's a LOT of room for improvement among businesses and government.
Actually, I think the Cherokee built 1/32 of all the infrastructure.
Firstly, when did President Obama, either implicitly or explicitly, state that there would not be any business without roads? I think you've kind of created a straw man here. He simply stated that today's business owners did not create the road system which they use to move their products. You can play the chicken and the egg game all you like, but it won't change the fact that businesses of today benefit from a system built with public money (a modern-day business taking credit for roads simply because merchants several thousand years ago created trails is a bit like me taking credit for the establishment of universities because I am a professor). They then turn around and essentially bite the hand that fed them by reducing their tax liability, by hook or by crook, as much as possible. This was Obama's point; not that businesses were successful because of roads, but that they were disproportionately benefiting from them without proportionately sharing in the cost, which leads me to my second point.
Two quotes from your article are quite telling: 1)"It did some demonstration projects, but merchants, auto manufacturers, bicycling enthusiasts and others all wanted somebody else to pay the bills" and 2) "Hundreds of entrepreneurs thought land could be farmed if there were irrigation, so they started building irrigation systems, but they couldn't recoup their costs. States bailed out the projects by issuing bonds" It is well known that businesses are, if nothing else, externalizing machines in terms of costs. They always look to either the consumer or government, in the form of tax breaks, etc., to pay for as much of what they need as possible. Roads and dams, as your own examples show, are but two of the things for which businesses have been able to externalize the cost.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say a Memphis bartender has been charged with assault after a disabled retired police officer with speech problems was thrown out of a bar when the bartender couldn't understand him.
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Nineteen senior Wildcat football players were honored Friday night, as the 'Cats held their senior night. The Wildcats ended their regular season however with a loss, falling to their fourth region foe of the season, the Coffee High Trojans (38-17).
With the loss, the 'Cats move to 6-4 on the season and will prepare to travel to Fairburn Friday, Nov. 15, to take on Langston Hughes of Fairburn.
Plagued by turnovers, the Wildcats were unable to correct mistakes throughout the game, losing the ball five times to the Trojans. The Wildcat defense gave up 431 yards of offense to the Trojans in the form of rushing and passing plays.
"At times we did some things OK. We turned the ball over too much and you can't do that in games like this," said Wildcats Head Coach Rance Gillespie. "Not to take anything from Coffee, but our football team was not ready to play. We have to play a whole lot better than we played tonight. We have battled and fought all year long, and we let ourselves down tonight."
The 'Cats received the ball first, and scored on a four-play drive covering 70 yards. The first play of the game was a draw play for senior running back Malcolm Joseph who took the ball for a quick 30-yard gain. After a short run by Joseph, sophomore quarterback Seth Shuman found freshman tight end Khalil McClain for a first down, moving the Wildcats into the redzone. On the next play, the Wildcats' other senior running back, Nelson Herring, took the ball into the endzone on a flashy nine-yard touchdown run, making the score 7-0.
Herring ran for 46 yards and Joseph added 140 yards, bringing the total rushing yards of the 'Cats to 248 combined, including a few rushes by quarterback Mac Loudermilk. The Wildcats accumulated 590 total yards, with 226 coming on a comination of kick returns and punt returns.
The Trojans struck back quickly, scoring on a short touchdown pass by Tyree Paulk, making the game tied at 7-7. The Wildcat defense made some nice plays on defense during the drive, including two big tackles by junior linebacker Terrell Roundtree and a tackle for loss by sophomore Todd Bradley.
On the 'Cats next drive, the offense continued to click, effectively running the football with Herring to gain a first down. Senior receiver Alex Cason, a commit to Marshall, caught a crucial first down pass to move the chains. However, the drill stalled, forcing the 'Cats to kick a field goal, making the score VHS 10 to CHS 7.
Coffee continued to fight back, scoring on the next drive with another Paulk touchdown throw, making the score CHS 14, VHS 10.
The Wildcats kept fighting on offense, with Shuman completing a pass to ex-starting quarterback and current starting punter for the 'Cats, Mac Loudermilk for a big 20-yard gain. Shuman capped the drive off throwing an electric touchdown pass to Cason in the endzone, making the score VHS 17, CHS 14.
With the Trojans facing a 4th and 3 on their next drive, they faked a punt and converted, extending their drive. The drive only resulted in a field goal for the Trojans, making the score tied at 17.
With the Wildcat offense taking the field again, Shuman was pressured in the pocket and threw an interception that resulted in 6 points for Coffee.
VHS was unable to move the ball on their next drive after the interception and Coffee took advantage. Paulk delivered yet another touchdown pass over the 'Cats defense, making the score 31 to 17.
After halftime, the 'Cats knew they needed to stop the turnovers on offense and stop the Trojans on third downs. They were unable to do this.
With the Trojans receiving the ball first, Paulk threw a wobbly pass that was, in turn, intercepted by senior defensive tackle Darrius Sapp for the 'Cats. The 'Cats moved the ball to the Trojan three yard line but the Trojans caused a Herring fumble and recovered it in the endzone for a touchback.
The Trojans were forced to punt after the drive resulted in a 4th and 10.
The Wildcats took the opportunity to run the ball hard, giving the ball to Joseph for two first down runs in a row. Changing the pace, Herring was placed in the game and proceeded to break off similar runs to Joseph, gaining the 'Cats two more first downs. However this drive came to end with an incomplete pass on 4th and 8 by Shuman.
After a Trojan punt, the 'Cats moved the ball quickly down the field, with the help of penalties against Coffee. However the drive was ended by some penalties of their own, and were unable to convert a 4th and 16 with Loudermilk under center.
After another CHS punt, the Wildcats began to drive once more.
With quarterback Shuman getting injured, Loudermilk once again came out at quarterback, only to fumble the ball on a very questionable call from the referees.
Getting the ball in good field position, the Trojans were able to punch it in once again, making the score 38-17, with less than seven minutes remaining in the game.
With the game on the line, Loudermilk drove the 'Cats to the redzone and was intercepted in the endzone, ending the 'Cats come back bid.
The Wildcats return to practice on Monday and will be working to rebound and prepare for their game 7:30 p.m. Friday at Langston Hughes in Fairburn.
"We're going to find our heart again. We will find a way to play hard and play at our best ability," said Gillespie. "If we do that, we will be all right."


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The career of a long-time Eatontown Police Department Officer came to an end today when he admitted that he requested sexual favors from a woman he had arrested after flushing drugs seized from her down a toilet.
Detective Philip Emanuele, 33, of Brick, pleaded guilty to criminal coercion and tampering with physical evidence in a plea bargain that calls for a probationary term.
Emanuele, as part of his plea, was required to immediately forfeit his position as a police officer with the Eatontown Police Department and was also barred from all future public employment in New Jersey. He was suspended, without pay, by the department in June and was making $114,712 a year at the time.
In March, the Professional Responsibility Unit of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation following a complaint made by a 24-year-old woman concerning Emanuele's actions.
According to documents filed in the case, as well as Emanuele's statements made in court today before Judge Scully, on December 21, 2011, Emanuele responded to the Monmouth Mall following a complaint made by a Monmouth Mall store that one of their employees had stolen money from the store.
Emanuele placed the female employee under arrest and escorted her to the parking lot where he told her that he would help her in any way possible if she helped him.
Once at the car, the woman turned over narcotics to the Emanuele, who then drove her to Eatontown Police headquarters. At headquarters, Emanuele signed a theft complaint against the woman for stealing from her employer and flushed the drugs down the toilet and asked the woman if she would be willing to act as an informant for him.
While driving the woman back to her car, Emanuele asked her to perform a sexual act upon him and she declined. Emanuele later met with the woman on two subsequent occasions.
On one of those occasions, Emanuele began kissing her with the hope and expectation that she would have sex with him. On another occasion, he told the woman that he wanted to help her and said that he had contacted her former employer in an attempt to get her theft charge dismissed.
Emanuele was also charged with two counts of Official Misconduct and one count of sexual assault. However, those three charges will be dismissed at his sentencing on Nov. 30.


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Have you heard of Kickstarter or crowdfunding? You soon will.
Crowdfunding is an alternative way to raise capital to get a venture off the ground. The concept's been around for several years and it's growing fast: The largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, received over $300 million in pledges in 2012.
It's going to be an important component of tomorrow's business. In fact, the crowdfunding phenomenon has fascinating lessons for any business…
An individual or organization first brings a project idea to Kickstarter. The project has to fit within one of Kickstarter's categories, such as Film, Food, Technology, and Games.
Kickstarter doesn't fund businesses, or projects that continue into the middle-distance. Instead, it accepts a well-defined project that can easily be said to be finished. For example, a CD, a movie, or even a party.
You tell Kickstarter how much money you want to raise and how much time you wish to raise it in. You get to choose whichever amount of money you think you need, but your time is limited to 60 days.
Kickstarter is an "all or nothing" proposition. If you fail to raise the amount of money you identified, you get nothing from your backers/donors. However, if fortune smiles, and you meet or exceed your funding goal, you get to keep the money pledged to your project (less 8–10% in fees).
When I tell people how to be successful in crowdfunding, I usually give four pieces of advice. But these are applicable to any business, even those that don't seed using crowdfunding:
More than half of all Kickstarter projects fail to reach their funding goal. Those that succeeded started with a focused message and a clear understanding of their target audience.
If you don't hone your message and tightly identify your audience, you'll fail to find success. In tomorrow's business, more is not better when it comes to identifying your market: More people equals more segments—equals more diversity.
That dilutes your message, making it complex and unfocused.
Benjamin Franklin and Winston Churchill are both credited with saying "If you fail to plan you have planned to fail." No matter who said it, it's completely true when it comes to success in crowdfunding.
Having a plan, whether it's a business plan or a Kickstarter plan, dramatically increases the chances for success. The plan needs to identify the message you're sharing, your market, your audience, and your prospect.
The tighter the definition, the greater chance for success. A plan should lay out the timeline, responsibilities, expected results, and milestones along the way.
It takes a lot of work to create a detailed plan. The excitement of the idea can begin to dim with time, and you may be tempted to rush in while you burn bright with ambition and enthusiasm. But don't give in.
Resist the urge to wing it. The hard work will pay off in the end.
Your plan should describe how you'll make a strong presence before you launch. You should build awareness and a fan base long before you start asking for money.
This lesson is especially important for businesses. No one likes to be sold to: If the first contact you have with your customers or backers is a request for money, your chances for success are very low.
Build a relationship with your market before you ask for the sale. It strengthens the relationship and increases your chance of closing the deal.
Fans are critical to success in tomorrow's business. Without their support, their efforts, and their belief in the project, you're almost guaranteed to fail.
When was the last time you asked someone for money? The feeling can be one of humiliation or of fear.
Our society doesn't look kindly on those who come begging for money—especially if they don't appear to need it. Nevertheless, this is what a project owner does: They step out of their comfort zone and begin to ask strangers for money.
It's a terrifying experience when your personal passion or dream is tied up in a project in full view of the world, which you then ask to judge with its money.
But this risk taking is what separates success from failure. Taking the chance, knowing that more than half of efforts fail, a project owner still has to believe in themselves and put themselves out there, to face failure in a very public way.
Or, if they've done their planning, their fan building, and focused on their message, tomorrow's business executive can find success.
Those four points are important for any businesses to recognize. The crowdfunding economy generates a level of excitement that's a perfect example for tomorrow's business.
It demonstrates what happens when you pursue a dream or idea, with a focused message, a solid plan of execution, a strong fan base, and the willingness to take risks. You create a culture that rewards risk taking, and inspires people to pursue their dreams and passions.
But wait! I said there were five lessons…
Crowdfunding is a great example of how a culture of support—even in the face of failure—can bring about great things.
I've personally backed many projects; at times, my pledge hasn't generated anything, other than the chance to let that person know that I support their passion. But often that same person later goes on to manage a successful crowdfunded project.
If you focus on rewarding those who pour passion into their work, who take risks worth taking, and who support their fellow workers, then you'll build a culture that works magic.
Thank you Richard! You give a lot to think about for those us contemplating on "how" to put together a crowdfunding project for products. Your article puts focus on things to consider more.
I noticed a comment that seemed to call to question the expertise of the author but at the same time seemed to disregard the opening sentence of the article which started with the question, "Have you heard of Kickstarter or crowdfunding?"
Having been involved with crowdfunding for awhile it is easy to forget that it isn't known by everyone. It is articles such as these which help push these new forms of funding and entrepreneurship further…in fact crowdfunding only becomes more successful the larger the crowd gets, and introductions such as these not only educate as to what crowdfunding is but also give a glimpse into high level concepts that can be taken and applied outside of a crowdfunding platform.
Was this a high-level analysis? Yes
Was it intended to be a high-level analysis? That also appears to be 'yes.'
An expert generally is someone who can not only dive deep into a topic when necessary but also can explain to a newcomer at a high-level what is going on and make it relevant. For those who are "in the know" about crowdfunding (and not just Kickstarter but Indiegogo, Pledge Music, Gambitious, etc.) this isn't intended as a deep dive, but serves the purpose of a one-sheet to provide to those who don't yet know. And for those "not in the know" here is a one-sheet that not only gives an overview but provides relevance to non-crowdfunding efforts as well.
And as many of us grew up hearing, "knowing is half the battle."
Thank you, Richard. You aggregate the advice of countless successful and unsuccessful Kickstarter projects and present that collected advice in easily understood and digestible ways.
Good article. I especially like the targeting of the message in point 1. I wish politics ran that way – instead of watering-down the message in the hopes of trying to appeal to everyone and satisfy no one. Focus the message to generate enthusiasm in the core constituency.
What isn't available for free on the Internet? As in any other arena at a certain point in time that arena was new. The people who are quickly sought out/paid/deemed an authority are the ones who have taken the time to study and educate themselves deeply on the topic. It's a commitment and a passion. Richard was an early adopter in the space, and he's sharing what he's learned along the way, in large part by asking questions of other project creators on his podcasts. And we all know that the best way to keep learning is to teach!
One more thing, crowdfunding appears deceptively easy; it is not. The fact that articles such as this one continue to resonate has to do with the fact that folks are not scouring the multiple, multiple sites containing piecemeal how-to information. It's further evidenced by continued failures of so many projects that this industry needs individual voices. We all learn differently; some of us learn more efficiently when we are spoken to by someone with a name and a face, usually recognizable.
We're all still figuring it out, and honestly I don't think those who are respected in the industry throw the word "expert" around without seriously qualifying the term and where they fit on the ever-changing continuum. Does "devoted enthusiast" work better for the commenter?


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