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PLAYERS: Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Danny Green, Tiago Splitter, John Wall, Martell Webster, Stephen Jackson, DeJuan Blair, Manu Ginobili, Trevor Booker
TEAMS: San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards
TEAMS: San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Tim Duncan sprained his left knee and right ankle in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs' 96-86 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night. Tony Parker scored 19 points, Danny Green added 15 and Tiago Splitter had 12 for San Antonio (38-11), which has won 18 straight at home. John Wall scored 21 points and Martell Webster had 14 for Washington (11-35), which has lost 13 straight to San Antonio. Webster rolled into the back of Duncan's legs while fighting for a rebound with 3:54 left in the second quarter, and there were audible gasps in the crowd while the All-Star was on the floor holding his left knee for several minutes. The severity of the injuries is not known, but Duncan did not return to the bench after being helped off the court by teammates Stephen Jackson and DeJuan Blair. Duncan, who was listed as probable, returned to the lineup after missing the past four games with a sore left knee. Recently selected to his 14th All-Star game, Duncan is averaging 17.5 points and 9.8 rebounds per game this season. He had eight points and five rebounds in 13 minutes before the injuries, helping San Antonio get off to a fast start against Washington. The Spurs used their ball movement and rotating defense to dominate the Wizards from the start. Green ran in front of Wall to grab the opening tip, sprinting to the basket to throw down a one-handed dunk against the former No. 1 overall pick. San Antonio opened the game with a 15-4 run sparked by Parker and Duncan. The Spurs' All-Stars were a combined 5 for 5 from the field with Parker picking up three assists in the spurt. Washington shot 35 percent from the field in first quarter and finished at 40 percent overall. NOTES: Spurs G Manu Ginobili was sidelined by left hamstring tightness. . Washington F Trevor Booker (sore left wrist) was a late scratch. . The Wizards have had nine different leading scorers for an individual game, with six in the last 10 games. . Washington's last win in San Antonio was 99-89 on Dec. 11, 1999. ... Wall was averaging 13.7 points, 6.5 assists and 2.9 rebounds since returning from injury. . San Antonio was playing its final home game before its annual "Rodeo Road Trip." The Spurs will play nine straight road games while the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo is held at the AT&T Center.
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Author and attorney Jeffrey Shapiro wrote an eye-opening piece in the Wall Street Journal this week about the effect that strict gun control legislation had on our nation's capital. Numbers clearly show an increase in gun violence when gun controls are in effect and a decrease when law-abiding citizens can protect themselves with firearms.
"As a former prosecutor in Washington, D.C., who enforced firearms and ammunition cases while a severe local gun ban was still in effect, I am skeptical of the benefits that many imagine will result from additional gun-control efforts."
Although Shapiro admits to personally disliking guns, the city numbers do not lie, and they paint a picture that does not bode well for the nation as regulations on guns become more restrictive.
A 1976 law in Washington D.C. banned firearms from everyone except police officers. This ban included residents of D.C. keeping firearms in their homes, although some were allowed to keep their firearms under the condition that they remain disassembled or trigger-locked. According to the city, broken guns were sufficient for private, law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.
Over the years since the ban took effect, gun violence rose. "It emboldened criminals because they knew that law-abiding District residents were unarmed and powerless to defend themselves. Violent crime increased after the law was enacted, with homicides rising to 369 in 1988, from 188 in 1976 when the ban started. By 1993, annual homicides had reached 454."
Gun violence nearly tripled during the ban, and people's constitutional right to keep and bear arms was clearly trampled on. In 2007, a D.C. appeals court ruled the ban unconstitutional and subsequently repealed the law, allowing people in D.C. to once again take advantage of their 2nd amendment right. Gun violence decreased sharply since the law's repeal. In fact, less than 100 murders took place in the city in 2012, a far cry from the number of murders during the gun ban.
"The urge to drastically restrict firearms after mass murders like those at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month and in Aurora, Colo., in July, is understandable. In effect, many people would like to apply the District's legal philosophy on firearms to the entire nation. Based on what happened in Washington, I think that would be a mistake. Any sense of safety and security would be a false one," Shapiro wrote.


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Hostess Brands filed for liquidation this week. Management blamed its workforce for the failure.
That is scapegoating.
In 1978 Dan White killed San Francisco's mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk. The press labeled his defense the "Twinkie Defense" because he claimed eating sugary junk food – like Twinkies – caused diminished capacity. Amazingly the jury bought it, and convicted him of manslaughter instead of murder saying he really wasn't responsible for his own actions. An outraged city rioted.
Nobody is rioting, but management's claim that unions caused Hostess failure is just as outrageous.
Founded in 1930 as Interstate Bakeries Co. (IBC) the company did fine for years. But changing consumer tastes, including nutrition desires, changed how much Wonder Bread, Twinkies, HoHos and Honey Buns people would buy — and most especially affected the price – which was wholly unable to keep up with inflation. This trend was clear in the early 1980s, as prices were stagnant and margins kept declining due to higher costs for grain and petroleum to fuel the country's largest truck fleet delivering daily baked goods to grocers.
Hostess spent decades fighting the trend
IBC kept focusing on operating improvements and better fleet optimization to control rising costs, but the company was unwilling to do anything about the product line. To keep funding lower margins the company added debt, piling on $450M by 2004 when forced to file bankruptcy due to its inability to pay bills. For 5 years financial engineers from consultancies and investment banks worked to find a way out of bankruptcy, and settled on adding even MORE debt, so that – perversely – in 2009 the renamed Hostess had $670M of debt – at least 2/3 the total asset value!
Since then, still trying to sell the same products, margins continued declining. Hostess lost a combined $250M over the last 3 years.
The obvious problem is leadership kept trying to sell the same products, using roughly the same business model, long, long, long after the products had become irrelevant. "Demand was never an issue" a company spokesman said. Yes, people bought Twinkies but NOT at a price which would cover costs (including debt service) and return a profit. Demand statements are irrelevant if you are giving the product away!
In a last, desperate effort to keep the outdated model alive management decided the answer was another bankruptcy filing, and to take draconian cuts to wages and benefits. This is tantamount to management saying to those who sell wheat they expect to buy flour at 2/3 the market price – or to petroleum companies they expect to buy gasoline for $2.25/gallon. Labor, like other suppliers, has a "market rate." That management was unable to run a company which could pay the market rate for its labor is not the fault of the union.
Failure was management's fault.
By constantly trying to defend and extend its old business, leadership at Hostess killed the company. But not realizing changing trends in foods made their products irrelevant – if not obsolete – and not changing Hostess leaders allowed margins to disintegrate. Rather than developing new products which would be more marketable, priced for higher margin and provide growth that covered all costs Hostess leadership kept trying to financial engineer a solution to make their horse and buggy competitive with automobiles.
And when they failed, management decided to scapegoat someone else. Maybe eating too many Twinkies made them do it. It's a Wonder the Ding Dongs running the company kept this Honey Bun alive by convincing HoHos to loan it money! Blaming the unions is simply an inability of management to take responsibility for a complete failure to understand the marketplace, trends and the absolute requirement for new products.
This Twinkie Defense of business failure is pervasive.
Sears has 23 consecutive quarters of declining same-store sales – but leadership blames everyone but themselves for not recognizing the shifting retail market and adjusting effectively.
McDonald's returns to declining sales – a situation they were in 9 years ago – as the long-term trend to healthier eating in more stylish locations progresses; but the blame is not on management for missing the trend while constantly working to defend and extend the old business with actions like taking a slice of cheese off the 99cent burger.
Tribune completely misses the shift to on-line news as it tries to defend & extend its print business, but leadership, before and after Mr. Zell invested, refuses to say they simply missed the trends in media and let competitors make Tribune obsolete and unable to cover costs.
Businesses can adapt to trends. It is possible to stop the never-ending chase for lower costs and better efficiency, and instead invest in new products that meet emerging needs at higher margins. Like the famous turnarounds at IBM and Apple, it is possible for leadership to change the company.
But for too many leadership teams, it's a lot easier to blame it on the Twinkies. Unfortunately, when that happens everyone loses.
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Innovation matters to creating success – and avoiding failure – even in food companies
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Why bankruptcies don't work – Tribune case example
Defend and extend leadership causes missed opportunities – or why Microsoft took 2 years to release a tablet
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While there are some valid points about Hostess not changing their product offerings, it is inconceivable that their union would rather lost 18,000 jobs. How can any company survive the union demands of 80 different healthcare plans Hostess was forced to offer? How can a company survive when it must send two (2) trucks to each stop because you are not allowed to transport breads and snacks on the same truck?? 2 employees were needed at every store, one to do the driving, and the other to unload……sounds ridiculous, but it's true….Management's only failure was caving in to union greed
When management fails they get replaced, when unions cause failures, they whine and get government assistance.
See a lot of finger pointing and no action.
How about the employees getting together and try buying the company this eliminates the two extremist groups from the equation management and the union.
This will also automatically tell you who is who.
With a liquidation the only group getting hit here is the employees.
I understand it is an uphill battle. But when you accumulate the kind of debt management did some of it is most likely vapor. Finding amenable shareholders is easier. With the right amenable shareholder you never know.
I read Hostess employees were making $19/hr. I can guarantee you those soon to be former Hostess employees will never make $19/hr again doing what they were doing for Hostess.look for some billionaire to buy the brand and ship those jobs to China or Mexico. That is the name of the game and you can dissect Hostess managerial issues all you want, fact is Apple sells I phones to US carriers for $600 it costs Apple $300 a month per Chinese worker to make. I suspect what I just wrote may have played a role in Hostess going under, a big role.
Of course. As usual, the most essential facet of this story is missing: Who was running the show (board of directors, company execs) and how much did they steal….I mean make? You don't suppose they, and their lawyers, got rich from this, do you?


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After starting the 14 nodes as a MOSIX cluster, we wanted to test our installation. By default, all the diskless CPUs mount an NFS directory on PC1. So we placed the Linux kernel 2.2.14 source code directory under that NFS space, making it visible to all nodes, and we started the kernel compilation process using MExec/MPMake, the parallel make, a contributed software that assigns new processes to the best available cluster nodes (available for download from MOSIX web site).
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 show snapshots of mon, a MOSIX tool that shows the load on all the nodes. As Figure 3 shows, there was a high load on node 14 because it was the node on which the compilation started. A few seconds later, Figures 4 and 5 show less load on CPU 14, and then Figure 6 shows a good distribution of the load among all the nodes.
MOSIX supports configurations with large numbers of computers with minimal scaling overheads to impair the performance. You can have a simple low-end setup composed of several PCs connected via Ethernet, on the other hand, you can have larger configurations that include workstations and servers connected via higher speed LANs such as fast Ethernet. A high-end configuration may also include a large number of SMP and non-SMP workstations and servers connected via a high-performance LAN such as Gigabit-Ethernet.
Our last experiment will include testing MOSIX on a new self-contained NEBS-compliant cabinet that consists of 16 Pentium III processors powered with 512MB of RAM and running at 500MHz. Each CPU has two on-board Ethernet ports and is also paired with a four-port ZNYX Ethernet card (used to provide Ethernet redundancy). Eight of the CPUs have a RAID setup (RAID 0 and RAID 5) with three 18GB SCSI disks.
MOSIX for Linux is subject to the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. It is available for download from the MOSIX web site (see Resources).
MOSIX allows us to do an uninstall and clean up the kernel source it modified. During the initial installation, mosix.install modifies the following system configuration files: /etc/inittab, /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/rc.d/init.d/atd and /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron.
The original contents of these files are saved with the .pre_mosix extension and the changes made to kernel files are logged to the mos_uninstall.log file in the kernel-source directory. To uninstall MOSIX, you run the command ./mosix.install uninstall and answer the questions. When you are asked if you want to clean the Linux kernel sources, answer "yes". The script will then attempt to revert all the changes that were made during a previous MOSIX installation. At the end you need to reboot the node so start it as a plain Linux node.
Clustering offers several advantages that result in sharing the processing and the ability to achieve higher performance. If you are interested in clustering your servers with efficient load-balancing software and you need support for high performance, then MOSIX can certainly be useful for you. It is easy to install and configure, and it works.
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Robert Betts suffers from severe depression.
A few years ago, a friend suggested he get pet rabbits to help him with his social phobias.
Now he has Thumper and Pegasus, and he pushes them in a baby stroller all over downtown Raleigh, where Betts lives. He has a note from his psychiatrist stating his therapeutic needs for the bunnies and has identification cards for them, he said.
But it may be harder for Betts to get into public places now that the federal government has limited the definition of service animal. Now, dogs or miniature horses trained to perform certain tasks for their disabled owner count as service animals.
The U.S. Department of Justice issued the new definition in July, and it took effect in March, said Philip Woodward, access specialist with the N.C. Vocational Rehabilitation Services, who is in charge of registering service animals for people with disabilities in the state.
The old definition did include any animal, Woodward said.
But plenty of people were taking advantage of that, bringing their "service" snakes, monkeys and pigs to public places like restaurants - not really where you want to see a snake sitting on the table.
"Businesses worried about people bringing snakes and causing safety concerns," Woodward said.
Nicole Sickles got a therapeutic/service miniature pot-belly pig after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The pig, named Blue, went everywhere with her.
"I'd take him anywhere because I had a doctor's note saying he helped me with my disability," Sickles said.
Then, her son, Adam, was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, and Blue became his service animal, she said.
"All of the Down groups have said animals are great therapy," she said, adding that pigs can do everything a service dog is trained to do, such as open a purse, fetch and open the refrigerator.
I wrote about Blue, who slept with Adam, after he was killed in February by an off-duty Wake County Sheriff's Deputy, who mistook him for a feral pig.
If Sickles wants to get her son a new service animal that he can take to public places, she'll have to get a dog or miniature horse and not a pig.
Shortly before the new definition went into effect, Betts got a taste of what life could be like under the new amendment after he and the bunnies visited the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh.
The staff denied him access because the rabbits do not count as service animals, he said he was told - even though he and the bunnies were allowed into the same museum six months ago, he said.
Betts is outraged about the new rule. He's worried that his access to downtown will now be limited.
"I think it's harmful to a lot of people," he said, adding public places are not required to deny access to his service rabbits - they just have the choice to do so now.
Betts has contacted elected officials to express his opposition to the new definition of service animals.
Though not trained to perform specific tasks, Thumper and Pegasus help him get out of his apartment because they enable him to interact with people, he said.
"Otherwise, I'm scared to death of people; otherwise, I'd be a shut-in," Betts said. "Since I've gotten the rabbits, they've increased my functioning."
The rabbits are trained to stay in the stroller, he said, and they don't pose any danger to people unless you smell like a carrot.


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Who should decide on how to handle illegal immigration. The State or the Federal goverment?
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Who should decide on how to handle illegal immigration. The State or the Federal goverment?
Since one of the two government entities you mentioned is in control of it now, but refuses to enforce the law? Laws, by the way, that the heads of agencies and elected officials swore an oath to enforce. We are quickly moving away from a country based on the rule of law and toward a country based on politics, political considerations, and elections from a party perspective. Fold up my tin foil hat if you wish, but that is the beginning of the end of the Republic.
The feds should enforce the national borders. The state should be able to enforce who is allowed in their sovereign territories.
Depends if it is a presidential election year or not.
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
― George Washington
I think the military should be charged with the task of defending our Nation. Give them the equipment and the OK to use it. I bet our military can handle the border just fine. It would be nice to see the military used for national defense as it was designed.
PS, I will enforce my own rules on my property.:boxing::laser:
I'm all for small government as far as the feds go, and more power to the individual states. The military could get a handle on the border situation in about a week, I'd bet on it. This should be priority #1 in my opinion. Cornfed, I couldn't agree with you more... I too will enforce my own rules on my property.


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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Rain and age likely played a role in partial building collapse in downtown Huntington early Tuesday morning.
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---- — TRAVERSE CITY — A city police probe into an attempted robbery stabbing on Northwestern Michigan College's campus continues to nab suspects.
Two women — Ashley Ann Day, 21, and Alyssa Ann Rodriquez, 17 — are listed as codefendants in court documents for three men who are accused of attacking an Indiana man on Jan. 31 in an unsuccessful bid to steal drugs.
Traverse City Police Capt. Mike Ayling said he's waiting on warrants for two women on charges related to robbery and conspiracy. He said authorities already arrested Day on an outstanding warrant and she remains lodged in Grand Traverse County's jail.
"She was arrested the day we arrested the three guys," he said.
Police on Feb. 7 arrested Jorge-Antonio Lopez Alvarado, 21, Tony Fabio Orozco, 18, and Jorge Alberto Vasquez-Antonio, 15, on assault with intent to murder and armed robbery charges.
Prosecutors this week filed additional felony charges of assault with intent to rob while armed, conspiracy to commit assault with intent to rob while armed and assault with a dangerous weapon against all three, according to court documents in 86th District Court.
Ayling said the three men ambushed Dwight Johnathan Thompson, 35, of Indianapolis, in an attempt to steal heroin. He said one of the women baited Thompson with a fake drug buy and waited in a car while the three confronted him.
Court documents state three suspects attacked Thompson as he walked from an NMC apartment building, stabbed him in the back and slashed his forehead with a machete.
A police officer found marijuana and cocaine in Thompson's jacket after the attack, the documents state, and he faces drug-related charges.
Detectives zeroed in on the three suspects after a witness reported seeing men with bloodied weapons enter a Shadowland Motel room. Court documents state police found a silver butterfly knife in a bed shared by two of the suspects and a blue knife in Orozco's pant pocket.
Ayling said one suspect told detectives the suspects dumped the machete — a Gerber Bear Grylls Compact Parang knife — in a trash can near a Culver's restaurant on U.S. 31 after the attack. He said the machete went to a landfill and couldn't be located, but detectives found the blade's sheath in the suspects' "getaway car."
Alvarado, Orozco and Vasquez-Antonio are scheduled for a preliminary examination Feb. 21 in 86th District Court.


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San Francisco's district attorney won't file criminal charges against Crabtree after reviewing evidence of an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers.||||||| After examining a "thorough investigation" submitted by police, District Attorney George Gascon said Friday his office determined that no charges would be filed "at this time." Crabtree's attorney, Joshua Bentley, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment, and the team has referred all questions about the matter to him.
Crabtree is starting in the NFC championship game against the Atlanta Falcons after he was interviewed in connection with an alleged sexual assault.||||||| The alleged assault occurred in a San Francisco hotel room last Sunday.
Crabtree has voluntarily met with police in their investigation into an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers last weekend, his attorney said Saturday.||||||| The statement comes after police said they were investigating a sexual assault allegation involving Crabtree in a San Francisco hotel early Sunday. Crabtree hasn't been detained or arrested, and has agreed to be available for more questions in the future, police said. The 49ers said Crabtree made the trip to Atlanta. The team referred all other questions about the matter to Crabtree's attorney.
Crabtree caught touchdown passes of 49 and 7 yards and finished with a career-high 172 yards on eight receptions, leading the 49ers to another rout of Arizona after a slow start.||||||| Crabtree's outstanding outing was the best by a 49ers receiver since Terrell Owens' 166-yard performance on Nov. 25, 2002, against Philadelphia.
Crabtree had 107 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 6:25 to go, as the San Francisco 49ers earned a playoff berth by withstanding a 28-point comeback from New England and beating the Patriots 41-34 on Sunday night.||||||| Crabtree has 301 of his 868 yards over the last three games. The fourth-year receiver is seven yards shy of topping his career-high total from 2011, and has a personal-best 73 receptions and seven TDs.


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This week, several events celebrate a common quality to explorers and creative types: the willingness to step out of ones comfort zone and risk learning something new. Whether exploring a rain forest labyrinth, hearing childrens stories in another language, playing in a rock band or hiking in the woods at night, new experiences can inspire curiosity in the young; as parents, its part of our job to encourage this.
• Stay up late Friday at Hemlock Bluffs in Carys Night Out in Nature. From 6-9 p.m. kids will roast marshmallows at campfires and take night hikes. For kids unfamiliar with how the sounds and feel of a forest change with nightfall, this could be fun and enlightening. For those nervous about the dark, pack a flashlight. Recommended for ages 8-12. Residents pay $19, and its $24 for others. Call 919-387-5980 for more information.
• On Saturday, part of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences transforms into a jungle maze for the Rainforest Adventure special exhibit. A path leads through it, from the emergent and canopy layers down to the understory and forest floor, and kids are quizzed about the ecosystem throughout; in this living labyrinth, incorrect answers lead to dead ends. Also at the exhibits Saturday grand opening, there will be presentations on biodiversity and conservation. Exhibit admission is $5-$7 or free for museum members. naturalsciences.org
• Quail Ridge Books Saturday morning storytime focuses on German tales, and the stories and songs will be in that language. If you want to expose your children to how people speak around the world and maybe even stimulate interest in learning another language this is an excellent opportunity to explore a language pretty closely related to English. Storytime starts at 10:30 a.m. and is free. quailridgebooks.com
• ArtScene 2014 hands the North Carolina Museum of Art over to teenagers on Saturday. There will be arts of all kind from screen printing and photography to writing and graffiti and several local bands that just happen to be high school-aged will perform. One neat thing about the Spring Teen Event is that teens will explore things they may still care about in their twenties and beyond perhaps playing in bands with their friends or writing expressive poetry at an event organized by their peers in the museums Teen Arts Council. The free event runs from 1-4 p.m. ncartmuseum.org.
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UPDATE (5:49 p.m.): Chlla Choi continues to maintain a one-shot lead at 5-under, playing the par-5 17th hole. The mist/rain continues, but with no thunder or lightning, it looks like the round should be able to be completed. South Korean Jiyai Shin has a bogey-free round going. She's currently in a tie for third place at 3-under through 15 holes.
UPDATE (4:59): Leader Chella Choi has made her first bogey of the day on the par-4 13th hole, dropping back to 5-under, still in solo possession of the ead. The rain continues to fall on the course.
UPDATE (4:23 p.m.): Chella Choi has made another birdie on the par-4 10th hole to move to 6-under par and two strokes clear of the field. Choi has no bogeys on the card thus far. The rain has started falling harder here at Locust. Fingers crossed for no delays.
UPDATE (3:40 p.m.): South Korean Chella Choi has surged ahead, shooting a 31 on the front nine to go 5-under par and one stroke up on Morgan Pressel. Choi has birdies on the second, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth holes. The 22-year-old is looking for her first career win on the LPGA Tour. She did, however, show signs of breaking through last season with seven top-10 finishes.
UPDATE (2:45 p.m.): Yani Tseng just recorded a hole-in-one on the 150-yard, par-3 15th hole using an 8-iron. It's the sixth hole-in-one recorded at the 15th in LPGA tournament history at Locust Hill, and second in as many years following Jodi Ewart's ace last year.
Good afternoon from Locust Hill Country Club, where the afternoon wave is off in the first round of the Wegmans LPGA Championship. Those players out on the course are currently chasing leader Morgan Pressel, who closed her first round with a marvelous run of four straight birdies to shoot a 4-under 68.
Pressel made six birdies and two bogeys on the day. She's currently one shot up on Brittany Lincicome, who shot a 69, and Chella Chois, who's through five holes.
American Jessica Korda and South Korean Se Ri Pak are two shots back after opening rounds of 70.
Players are allowed to lift, clean and place their balls today after the course took 2.5 inches of rain on Thursday, and more than five inches in the past nine days.
"We are extremely impressed with the work of Rick Slattery and his crew at Locust Hill. Given the amount of rain we received yesterday, we thought we might be hard pressed to start at 7:15 a.m. today. We were able to start on time because of the hard work of the folks at Locust Hill," said Sue Witters, the LPGA's vice president of rules and competitions.
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Michigan State Finishes 29th in Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings
MSU tied a department record with six Big Ten Championships (regular season and tournament) in 2013-14.
Mark Hollis Shares His NCAA Tournament Experiences
MSU's AD discusses his roles as both a member of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Committee as well as the head of a Big Ten program.
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Alan Haller Named Varsity S Club Executive Director
MSU Athletics Department Organizes Random Acts of Spartans
Spartan coaches and staff members volunteer in the Greater Lansing area to support the community.
Tour the Rose Bowl!
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"We gather and engage our community to teach, support and celebrate our student-athletes in their quest for excellence."
This is the vision Mark Hollis has for the Michigan State Athletics Department. A Michigan State graduate and veteran Spartan athletics administrator, Hollis assumed the role of MSU's 18th athletics director on Jan. 1, 2008, succeeding Ron Mason.
Hollis has more than 20 years of athletics administration experience, either at the school or conference level. His well-rounded background has led to his knowledge of all areas within an athletics department, including marketing, financial administration, television negotiations, fund-raising, game operations, facility management, personnel policy, corporate interaction, sports management and public relations.
A 1985 MSU graduate, Hollis returned to his alma mater in 1995. Since then, he has been a critical component of the athletic department executive management staff, helping guide the department through short- and long-range plans. In addition, Hollis is chair of the NCAA Division I Amateurism Cabinet, a member of the NCAA's Men's Basketball Issues Committee, and a member of the Division I Men's Basketball Committee.
Hollis is credited with developing some of college athletics' most innovative events. It was his vision that led to Michigan State playing North Carolina in November 2011 in the first basketball game to be played on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. In 2003, Hollis was the architect of the "BasketBowl," which established a then-world record crowd of 78,129 who witnessed the Michigan State-Kentucky game at Detroit's Ford Field. The concept, which involves placing the court in the center of a football stadium, has been used at the last five NCAA Final Fours. In 2001, Hollis helped mastermind the Michigan State-Michigan outdoor hockey game that attracted a then-world record crowd of 74,554 in Spartan Stadium.
Hollis' leadership and innovation has not gone unnoticed, as he was named the 2012 Athletic Director of the Year by Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal/Daily. Since his official appointment as athletics director began in 2008, the Spartans have won 19 Big Ten Championships (regular season and tournament), appeared in two Final Fours and five bowl games, and finished in the top 40 of the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup four times. In addition, during Hollis' tenure as an administrator at MSU, the Spartans have appeared in 16 consecutive men's basketball NCAA Tournaments - the longest current streak among Big Ten schools and the third longest in the nation - and six Final Fours.
Michigan State had another successful year in 2012-13, ranking 30th in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings, the second-highest showing under Hollis and the sixth best in department history. In the fall, the football team appeared in a school-record sixth consecutive in a bowl game with a win over TCU in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, men's soccer won the Big Ten Tournament title, volleyball advanced to the Sweet 16, and the men's and women's cross country teams reached the NCAA Championships. Among the winter sports, the men's basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 for the 11th time in the past 16 years, the women's basketball team earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the fifth-straight season, and two Spartans earned national runner-up honors at the NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championships. The achievements continued in the spring, as men's tennis received its first-ever bid for the NCAA Championships, women's golf qualified for the NCAA Championships for the ninth time in the past 14 years, and women's track and field placed 18th at the NCAA Championships.
During Hollis' tenure, Michigan State student-athletes have excelled not only in competition, but in the classroom as well. For five consecutive semesters, Spartan student-athletes have posted better than a 3.0 cumulative GPA. The department had a record-breaking number of student-athletes (57) receive a spring semester GPA of 4.0 in 2013, and 350 student-athletes posted a cumulative GPA above 3.0. Additionally, 238 student-athletes earned Academic All-Big Ten honors throughout the 2012-13 academic year, including 64 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars (min. 3.7 GPA). In the spring of 2012, the athletics department compiled the highest grade-point average in program history with a 3.0644.
Spartan athletic facilities have been upgraded at an unprecedented rate the past decade, and will only continue to improve under Hollis. More than $34 million has been committed in the past two years to projects at Spartan Stadium. Prior to the 2012 season, $10 million scoreboards, totaling 13,300-square-feet, were installed in the north and south end zones, giving MSU one of the top video board systems in the nation. In June 2013, the Michigan State Board of Trustees approved a $24.5 million project to the north end of Spartan Stadium that will feature a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition as well as an entrance plaza, renovated gates, and additional restrooms and concessions. The building will include new locker rooms for teams, coaches and officials, a media center, and a recruiting lounge for all varsity sports. The project is scheduled to be completed in July 2014.
The Spartans moved into one of the nation's finest football facilities in August 2008, as a $15 million expansion and renovation project for the Duffy Daugherty Football Building was completed. MSU alumni Robert and Julie Skandalaris of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., donated $5 million as the lead gift for the facility expansion and upgrade. The Skandalaris Football Center includes team, staff and position meeting rooms, coaches' offices and a hall of history. In addition, an expanded weight room was finished in September 2008 that increased the facility in size from 9,000 to 16,500-square feet.
Also in 2008, the men's and women's soccer programs opened DeMartin Stadium, a state-of-the-art 2,500-seat facility that enables MSU to host conference and national tournaments. The baseball program played its inaugural season in McLane Baseball Stadium in 2009 following a $4 million donation to the 2,500-seat ballpark by former Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane Jr. In 2011, with the help of a $1 million gift by alumnus Ambassador Peter F. Secchia - the largest cash (outright) gift received by an MSU women's intercollegiate sports program - Secchia Stadium, a 1,100-seat facility located at Old College Field, opened for the softball program.
On the playing field in 2011-12, MSU won three Big Ten Championships (women's cross country, men's basketball and women's golf) and the football team won the 2011 Big Ten Legends Division title and played in the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game. The Spartans finished ranked No. 10 in the final USA TODAY Coaches Poll after tying the school single-season record with 11 wins, including a dramatic 33-30 triple-overtime victory over Georgia in the 2012 Outback Bowl. The men's basketball team captured a share of the conference regular-season championship, won the 2012 Big Ten Tournament title, and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16. Overall, nine sports participated in their respective team NCAA Championships, while individuals competed in five more NCAA Championships. The Spartans finished 34th overall in the 2011-12 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings.
In 2010-11, Michigan State had a record-setting year, winning five Big Ten Championships - the most in department history. The football team won a school-record 11 games and claimed the program's seventh Big Ten Championship, the baseball team won its first Big Ten title since 1979, while the women's cross country, women's basketball and women's golf teams also won conference championships. In 2009-10, the men's basketball team advanced to the Final Four for the sixth time in the last 12 years and won its second-straight Big Ten regular-season title, and field hockey captured both the Big Ten regular-season and tournament championships.
One of Hollis' major goals upon becoming athletics director was accomplished in 2010 when he unveiled the new brand and identity program for the athletics department. All of Michigan State's uniforms now incorporate consistent use of colors, logos, lettering and numerals along with standardization for logos. The brand and identity program for Michigan State Athletics was a result of nearly a two-year collaborative effort between the athletics department and Nike that included input from university and athletic administration, coaches and student-athletes. Michigan State was also selected to participate in the 2011 Nike Football Pro Combat system of uniforms, which the Spartans wore during their victory over Michigan on Oct. 15.
In Hollis' first full season as athletics director in 2008-09, Michigan State enjoyed one of its most successful years of the decade with a 27th-place finish in the Directors' Cup, the best showing for the department since 2003 and the third highest in the department's history. Ten teams earned bids to their respective NCAA Championships, led by men's basketball, which reached the national title game against North Carolina while also winning the Big Ten regular-season championship.
Hollis was named athletics director-designate on Sept. 12, 2007, and teamed with Mason in the transition throughout the fall of 2007. Prior to his official appointment as athletics director, Hollis played a lead role in two significant head coaching searches during the 2006-07 year. He spearheaded the effort to hire Mark Dantonio as football coach, which has resulted in a school-record six consecutive bowl appearances for the program and a Big Ten Championship in 2010. He also provided major assistance in the hiring of women's basketball coach Suzy Merchant in the spring of 2007, who led the Spartans to the Sweet 16 in 2009 and has brought MSU to five-straight NCAA Tournaments. Hollis' first hire as athletics director arrived on July 2, 2008, when he tabbed Jake Boss Jr. to direct the Spartan baseball program; in just three seasons, Boss won a Big Ten title in 2011, the first for the program in 32 years, then followed in 2012 by guiding MSU to the NCAA Tournament.
On Oct. 13, 2005, Michigan State University and WJR - 760 AM announced a five-year agreement to carry Spartan football and men's basketball games, along with coaches' radio shows. The successful partnership led to the announcement on Jan. 19, 2010, of a 10-year extension through 2020. Hollis played a leading role in finding MSU athletics a home on the 50,000-watt Detroit radio station, known as the "Great Voice of the Great Lakes." The agreement has benefited more than just athletics as WJR regularly promotes the academic accomplishments of the university in addition to broadcasting sporting events.
Prior to returning to Michigan State, Hollis spent two years at the University of Pittsburgh as assistant and associate athletic director. Before his stint at Pitt, Hollis worked for the Western Athletic Conference. He joined the WAC as an administrative assistant immediately after college. Two years later, he was appointed assistant to the commissioner and soon thereafter was promoted to assistant commissioner.
Hollis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from Michigan State in 1985, where he served as a basketball team manager under Jud Heathcote. In 1992, he earned his MBA in business administration from the University of Colorado.
He and his wife Nancy, have a daughter, Katy, and two sons, T.R. and Michael.


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I cover law and policy with a focus on security, technology and crime.
A Pakistani man, one of approximately 10,000 people participating in an anti-American rally, has reportedly died. The cause of death? Complications from inhaling the smoke of burning American flags, according to The Express Tribune, a Pakistani newspaper affiliated with The International Herald Tribune ("The Global Edition of The New York Times"):
One of the participants of the rally, Abdullah Ismail, passed away after he was taken to Mayo Hospital. Witnesses said he had complained of feeling unwell from the smoke from US flags burnt at the rally.
The rally is part of protests organized by Jamaat-Ud-Dawa, the political arm of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Protesters are allegedly insulted by America's unwillingness to punish the makers of the film "Innocence of Muslims." The protesters, demanding respect for and tolerance of Islam, threatened to destroy the U.S. consulate in Pakistan if the United States does not publicly hang the movie's producer, director, and "all those involved in the production and release of the movie" (which would presumably include Google and YouTube employees). The protesters also will not be satisfied until the United States makes a "law against blasphemy."
CNN ran a piece questioning the accuracy of the original Express Tribune story. A commenter has helpfully provided a link to that video here and I've embedded it below.
Gregory S. McNeal is a professor specializing in law, public policy and international affairs. You can follow him on Twitter @GregoryMcNeal.
What a damn fool !!! lmao
i say let's donate some more flags
oh please do not donate flags :P donate more Americans they r already loaded with poisonous hate lol
This article can be an interesting study of how to twist a small piece of news. Though small enough, it is laced with the right quatities of words like 'terrorist group', 'allegedly', old photos, mixing contempt and arrogance, such that a death can become funny. McNeal arrives at a conclusion himself as for cause of death, while citing actual news that said witnesses had heard that guy complain about smoke. The 10,000 people gathered, as the citation said, were from multiple groups, not just Jamat Dawa as stated. where in the article was threat made to destroy the embassy?
The point is, why twist a news story? what about the whole story? Vast majority were on a peaceful protest march. People felt hurt.
Imagine if some lunatic made a video against the holocast for instance, or against prophet moses, or jesus…. in the name of free speech. Would that also not hurt?
I truly admire people like you, Sensible and courageous. I don't seems to understand why some people are hell bend on insulting a Personality which is so highly loved by millions of people world over, Hurting so many people is right???? Not a single Muslim have ever insulted Mosses or Jesus. Its sad even most educated people act like illiterates and senseless.
Point not understood ma'am. Islam is respected and the Sufi saints revered equally by Indians. No one, not even the radical or right wing Hindus dare ridicule them since they are very much a part of our lives here in India. Yet we have people taking off in boats (from Pakistan)and landing into the country just so they can shoot and blast innocent people. This tacit support for maniacs hell bent on making the wedge run deeper between people does lie in Pakistan too. This hell bent love for hatred (in the name of a beautiful religion) for other people will always face ridicule and lead to lack of sensitivity unfortunately by the rest of the world.
AINA) — During the demonstration which was held in front of the American Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, 9/11, a Muslim cleric named Abu Islam tore and burned the Holy Bible in front of thousands of Muslims. His action was met with applause and anti-Christian cheers from the demonstrators. Before leaving the demonstration and getting into his car, he told the crowds "next time I will urinate on it."
Have you seen the film on TV? If not you can watch it on YouTube or go to the internet site of Asyrian International News Agency (AINA)
Well, you can't just admire those that agree with you. I agreed with a few of your other posts actually, but I can not with this one. As Islam is often refered to as a nation, so is America. I have travelled to many countries, and met with many practitioners of Islam. But seeing how denying the existance or practices of a certain faith is deemed as an insult, doesn't that mean all Muslims insult other religions? And Lech is correct as well.
Poor guy. At least he did not become a recruit for Hafiz Sayeed pictured above. He would have died anyway AND killed a bunch of innocent people
I must admit I love this. We should make millions of US flags that emit cyanide when burned and distribute them freely in the Muslim world then create some ruse to have them burn our flags. The results would solve all our problems.


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Collection Development Policy
The primary purpose of the Collection Development Policy is to correlate the educational philosophy and instructional objectives of the University with the systematic development of the Library's print and electronic resources. The need for informed decisions and practical guidance in handling everyday selection issues derives from several factors: the revised University Mission and Strategic Agenda, the proliferation of new courses and programs, the veritable information explosion, escalating library material costs and the constant erosion of the Library's purchasing power, the need to pursue bold technological initiatives while maintaining traditional print-based collections, and the growing realization that local autonomy and self-sufficiency no longer appertain. No acquisitions policy is static or immutable. As the educational assumptions and course offerings evolve, and as Pace University reinforces its commitment to being a student-centered university, the scope and thrust of the Library's collections will inevitably change and a reformulation of the original statement becomes necessary.
As an organizational entity and unifying construct, the Pace Library consists of geographically dispersed campus-based operations in New York City and Westchester, which are functionally integrated and centrally administered through the Office of the University Librarian. The Pace Library supports the undergraduate, graduate, professional, and service learning programs in the following college and schools: Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science & Information Systems, Lienhard School of Nursing, and the School of Education. The Pace Library also supports a variety of distributive learning and extension courses and outreach initiatives such as, the newly opened Pace High School in Chinatown.
A synergistic relationship exists among the constituent libraries which fosters cooperative acquisitions and resource-sharing, the creation of complementary and transferable collections, and the elimination of redundancy wherever feasible. The Pace Library embodies the attributes of the "virtual library", combining the development of strong core material collections with ubiquitous and seamless connectivity to a wide spectrum of internal and external electronic knowledge and information resources. The Pace Library balances ownership decisions with electronic access in a networked environment which has become increasingly demand-driven and less supply-oriented.
The term "collection" is broadly defined to encompass both conventional print and multi-media formats as well as the newer digital storage and transmission technologies. Materials identified in the online public catalog physically reside in the campus libraries and circulate according to prescribed borrowing and access procedures. Whenever possible, the Pace Library substitutes digitally-based products for paper and microforms, including, but not limited to, reference sources, serial subscriptions and retrospective files, and special monographic research collections. Flexible budgetary allocation formulas are employed to further the syllabi project, maintain collection strengths and rectify deficiencies, and fund digitization initiatives. As the University implements a strategy to become a Tier II national comprehensive university by 2008, the Pace Library must review existing collection density and collecting intensity levels in critical areas and seek additional funding sources.
The Pace Library regularly employs interlibrary loan channels and commercial document suppliers to obtain materials requested by patrons which are not owned by the University. The Pace Library also participates in regional networks and consortia to effectively leverage financial resources, particularly with respect to database procurement. Additionally, the Library advocates efforts targeted at the development of cooperative acquisitions arrangements, shared offsite storage facilities, and digital repositories.
The Pace Library endorses the principles embodied in the ALA Library Bill of Rights, Freedom to Read Statement, Intellectual Freedom Statement, and Confidentiality of Library Records in compliance with the provisions of the Patriot Act.
Core Selection Criteria:
- Materials that support the newly instituted Core Curriculum, information literacy initiatives, and the various instructional programs and curricular offerings of the University.
- Course reserves and supplementary and ancillary readings identified in course syllabi.
- Materials that support scholarly research and independent study with a strong potential for wider application.
- Materials that foster civic competency, global understanding, and multi-cultural diversity
- Scholarly non-fiction, biography, classic and contemporary works of literature, and literary criticism.
- Materials interdisciplinary in scope which support thematically linked courses and emerging learning communities.
- Materials presenting diverse or controversial points of view from authoritative sources.
- Materials of contemporary significance, permanence, universality.
- Materials of literary merit, artistic quality, or social value.
- Reprints of germinal or landmark works.
- Appearance of a title in a primary index, bibliography, reading list, or standard reviewing mechanism (e.g. Choice, Library Journal)
- Journal titles indexed in a print source or database to which the Library already subscribes
- Certain popular works used in conjunction with course offerings or for which there is a palpable student demand and anticipated use.
Materials Generally Unsuitable for Inclusion:
- Most textbooks unless they constitute the main corpus of knowledge for the discipline or represent the most suitable format for supplementary reading, reference, or research.
- Multiple copies and duplicate serial subscriptions and back files. [Note: the Pace Library has been moving steadily towards the creation of a single archival file of journal holdings on microform].
- Abridgments of major works when the complete text is available.
- Consumables including workbooks, laboratory manuals, standardized tests.
- Musical scores.
- Vanity Press books and other ephemeral works.
- Media formats incompatible with University-owned equipment.
- Superfluous or mundane donations
Responsibility for Collection Development:
Material and database selection are the shared responsibilities of senior library officials who retain ultimate budgetary authority, local collection managers who implement policies and provide overall direction, and subject selectors assigned to particular disciplines. The Library's Digital Resource Management Team [DREAM Team], chaired by the Electronic Services Librarian, provides essential leadership and coordination for the selection, evaluation, purchasing, and/or licensing of electronic resources. The group, consisting of a cross section of instructional and reference librarians from both campuses, convenes every other month via video-conferencing to render decisions on existing databases, discuss new electronic resources, and schedule trials or vendor presentations. Besides meeting the core selection criteria, electronic resources are also evaluated with respect to:
- Scope, subject coverage, uniqueness of material, time span, frequency of update.
- Ease of use, search interface, quality of indexing, other value-added features.
- Projected size of user population based on courses to be served.
- Web delivery generally preferred over networked or standalone CD ROM.
- Product is platform-independent, unless no other viable option exists.
- Vendor stability and reliability, availability of technical support, quality and timely delivery of enhancements.
- Sustainable costs given the level of the electronic resources budget [Note: aggregate volume discounts are frequently available through consortial purchase].
Role of Pace Faculty and Students in Materials Selection
The Pace Library actively encourages the involvement of Pace faculty in the materials selection process. Librarians on each campus work through their respective Faculty Library Liaison Committees and with individual faculty members to ensure that their subject knowledge and expertise in key growth areas are reflected in collection management decisions. The Pace Library also welcomes input from matriculated students and alumni. Comments on the Library's collections and purchase recommendations should be communicated directly to the local collection managers in printed format, via e-mail, or through the online suggestion box appearing on the Library's Home Page. The local collection managers are happy to share the library's key selection methodologies, opening day and core collection guides, and assorted reviewing media with requestors.
Collection Assessment:
The local collection managers and subject selectors are responsible for conducting ongoing assessments of the Pace Library collections. The factors that drive assessment include: repeated inter-loan requests from certain subject categories; new course curricular support; subject searches that yield excessively high percentages of outdated materials; replacement of lost and valuable resources; and usage statistics generated from the library's online circulation system or vendors' information retrieval systems. The assessment process employs a combination of collection-based data [publication dates, circulation/ILL transaction activity, ALA/ACRL library and regional academic accreditation standards, etc.], client-based data [enrollment distribution patterns, patron satisfaction surveys, fill rates, etc.], and budget-based data [percentage allotment of University budget for the Library, impact of price indices on acquisitions activity, etc.]. Various qualitative and quantitative assessment instruments may be used, separately or in combination, such as Lib Qual+ and collection analysis software, to determine collection adequacy.
Weeding and Selective Withdrawal Process:
The periodic weeding of the Pace Library collections is an integral function of collection management and necessary to maintain the vitality and usefulness of the Pace Library collections and integrity of the catalog database. The subject expertise of Librarians combined with the use of respected bibliographic selection tools, such as Books for College Libraries, are essential determinants in retention and withdrawal decisions. Typical candidates slated for permanent discard include: mutilated and dilapidated materials, broken and defective sets, superseded editions, multiple copies of little used materials, lost and long overdue items. As an alternative, infrequently consulted, but still considered valuable materials, may be transferred to the offsite storage facility in Patterson, New York, where they can be retrieved, as needed, within 48 hours. In recent years, the Pace Library has resorted to cost effective remote storage options to reclaim space for new acquisitions plus the eventual creation of collaborative and technologically enhanced learning environments.
The Associate University Librarians in consultation with the local collection managers will determine whether a prospective donation appropriately reflects the content and spirit of the Pace Library's Collection Development Policy, including whether the gift satisfies a current or anticipated curriculum need or possesses research potential in an important academic area. Other questions that may be invoked: Is the value of the gift commensurate with the costs involved in cataloguing, processing, and warehousing the materials? Has the prospective donor placed undue or cumbersome restrictions on handling, disposition, and public access? Will the gift collection require periodic updating through the purchase of current or out-of-print publications, thereby diverting scarce financial resources from urgent academic priorities? Occasionally, the Library may accept a gift deemed prestigious, either due to the rarity or uniqueness of the gift or the donor's special credentials. The Librarian may also recommend that the benefactor redirect the intended gift to another institution with more appropriate holdings. All donations are gratefully acknowledged in writing, but it is the responsibility of donors to determine market value by consulting competent and recognized appraisers, if they wish to declare these gifts on their income tax returns.
Special Collections:
The Pace Library has established several special collections:
- Faculty-Staff Authors Collection
- Rene Dubos Human Environment Collection [coming soon]
- Isabelle M. Dell St. Joan of Arc Collection [coming soon]
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Celebrate Jersey Fresh and one of our state's favorite fruits by joining us for our second annual Just Peachy Festival August 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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On his first album with his full-time band the Big Love Choir, Jonathan Sexton finds some middle ground between the ragged alt-honky tonk of his former band the Whiskey Scars and the big choir harmonies that backed him on his 2008 solo disc Big Love. The songs on New Day are largely beefed-up singer/songwriter fare, augmented by solid rock arrangements, but the band shows some range with the piano ballad "The Mountain," the country twang of "Here We Go Again," and vocalist Elodie Lafont's torchy French-language showcase "Elodie's Melody." Like on Big Love, an almost relentlessly upbeat vibe runs through New Day—it's tempting to hear a song like "You Are Not What You Own" as an extension of Sexton's day job as an elementary school teacher. But his optimism runs deep, and he's found a band—and written a bunch of songs—that reflect his resolute hopefulness.
The band's holding its CD release show at the Square Room on Friday. The show will be streamed live on knoxivi.com.
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