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The decision to convert more city vehicles to compressed-natural gas fuel could be viewed as even more prudent following the Secretary of State's announcement Monday that chemical weapons were likely used in Syria.
CNG fuel was running $1.65 Thursday in Athens compared to the $3.21 to $3.49 per gallon of gasoline at local pumps. Some forecasters are predicting a short-term spike of up to 10 cents per gallon of gasoline after crude oil prices and gas futures rose amid fears of U.S. military action in Syria.
Over the past year, officials with the city of Athens and the Athens Utilities Gas Department have been choosing or converting vehicles to accept CNG, including garbage trucks, Gas Department vehicles, fire department trucks and even the car driven by Mayor Ronnie Marks.
Next week, the Gas Department will open a fast-fill CNG station at 1755 Trigreen Drive at the entrance to the Sportsplex on U.S. 31. That should lure other CNG vehicles to fill up in Athens since it will be the only public fast-fill station located along the Interstate 65 corridor between Birmingham and Nashville.
Members of the public can learn more about the CNG vehicles and the station during a public event at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4.
The Greater Limestone County Chamber of Commerce will conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Gas Department Manager Steve Carter and Athens Mayor Ronnie Marks will explain the city's efforts to go green and reduce fuel costs. Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition Executive Director Mark Bentley will address the importance of the project as part of a statewide effort on the use of clean fuels.


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Here are the notes and news items from the world of pro wrestling: During their wrestling careers, Ric Flair and Roddy Piper swapped plenty of punches. Now they're swapping lives and homes.
The wrestling legends will appear on ABC's "Celebrity Wife Swap" at 8 p.m. on June 30. Flair's girlfriend, Wendy, will live with Piper for a week while Piper's wife, Kitty, will live with Flair for a week.
An ABC press release describes the families: "Ric and Wendy live a very lavish and fast-paced lifestyle and enjoy the finer things in life, spending most evenings out on the town where Ric revels in his celebrity and the attention of fans. The Pipers are a close-knit family who enjoy spending time at home together. Kitty is solely responsible for the running of the home, including cooking, cleaning and caring for the family's animals."
• WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan is legitimately injured, according to several reports.
The Local Corner: TWA Friday Night Brawl is at 8 p.m. at the TWA Arena off Reed Road in north Whitfield County, about three miles north of the bypass. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for ages 6 to 12; senior citizens 60 and older with proof of age will be admitted for $3. Kids younger than 6 will be admitted free. Any military member with proper identification will be admitted free. If it's your birthday, you will be admitted free.
Renegade Championship Wrestling is at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 806 Second Ave. in Chatsworth. TNA's Gunner and Steven Walters will face off in a steel cage match this week.
Trivia Teaser: What adjective was used to describe Ron Garvin during his stint in the WWF?
Check back next week for the answer.
Last week's question: The Road Warriors said they snacked on this and dined on what?
They snacked on danger and dined on death.
Jamie Jones invented "The Garvin Stomp." You can contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or (706) 272-7723.


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By Jessica Bagley
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Tonawanda News — The Town of Tonawanda Republican Committee has chosen its candidates for the upcoming town and village board races this November, town GOP Committee Chairman Mark Tramont said Monday.
"Town council candidates are local business owner Michael Vishion, accountant Ann Morelli and human resource professional Gigi Grizanti," Tramont said in a statement. "All three have deep roots in the town and village and are products of the Ken-Ton School system."
Vishion, Morelli and Grizanti will be challenging three of the board's Democratic incumbents who are up for election — John Bargnesi Jr., Lisa Chimera and Joseph Emminger Sr.
The three incumbents have served on the board for eight years, and will run again in November's race.
"I look forward to the debates," Emminger said. "We run on our record, on the fiscal responsibility and growth in the town. I don't concern myself who is running against me."
Bargnesi echoed Emminger's comments.
"This time around, we are going to run on our accomplishments," he said. "I work very hard on development and redevelopment ... our economic growth, new companies and commercial development. That's really what I am most proud of and what I put my work into."
Chimera, too, said she is anticipating the start of election season.
"I feel proud I was able to fulfill promises I made," she said. "I look forward to a very positive and productive campaign where we can focus on the issues."
In his statement, Tramont said this year's Republican candidates give voters the "opportunity to bring back highly qualified candidates that are willing to do the right thing for the residents and business owners of Tonawanda."
One of those candidates, Vishion, operated the concession stands at the Sheridan and Brighton golf courses until 2011, when the town abruptly canceled the deal after the businessman challenged Dan Crangle for his board seat.
After the cancellation of the contract, Vishion quickly became an outspoken critic of the board. In October, he criticized the town when officials announced that they had never paid sales tax on concessions sales.
Vishion now hopes to serve the town in what he calls a "transparent" and "ethical" way.
"I will utilize my vast experience in government funding, contracts and program oversight to assure our tax dollars are used as efficiently and effectively as possible," he said. "I will also work with local businesses to implement strategies and policies to maintain our current businesses, attract new businesses and create additional employment opportunities for town residents."
The second challenger, Ann Morelli, is a graduate of Kenmore West and D'Youville College, and is the former president of the Ken-Ton Parent Teacher Student Association.
"I will work to restore transparency to all levels of town government and bring a fresh perspective to the operations of our town," Morelli said. "I plan to improve both the environment and safety of our town by collaborating with outside agencies and our town police, to ensure that the town is indeed a great place to live, work and play."
Grizanti, who ran unsuccessfully for the board in 2011, will try again this November. According to the town GOP committee, Grizanti has 25 years of professional business experience and also has strong community ties through her involvement in the Ken-Ton Friends of Youth and the Tonawanda Aquettes.
"I will bring to the town my experience in human resources, health care plan administration and innovative approaches to cost containment," Grizanti said. "I will see to it that all residents of Tonawanda are treated with the respect they deserve, listen to their problems and ideas and find solutions that work for all residents and tax payers alike."
Tramont also announced Monday that they have selected Leonard Rollo, a recent Kenmore West graduate, to run for a village trustee position. One Democratic trustee, Paul Catalano, and one Republican trustee, Salvatore Muscarella, will defend their seats this November.Contact reporter Jessica Bagley at 693-1000, ext. 4150


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Beverly Hedges says language on the Nov. 6 ballot concerning the proposed charter schools amendment misleads voters.
The preamble to Amendment 1 says it "provides for improving student achievement and parental involvement through more public charter school options."
The ballot then asks, "Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow state or local approval of public charter schools upon the request of local communities?"
Hedges, who teaches at Dalton's Blue Ridge School, says the ballot leaves out some important information.
"It doesn't tell you it takes money from public schools. It doesn't tell you that it allows for-profit companies to manage charter schools. It doesn't tell you these decisions will be made by an unelected commission appointed by the governor," Hedges said.
Supporters of the amendment deny that if passed it would mean less money for public schools and say that legislation has been drafted that would specify that state money going to local schools couldn't be reduced. But the amendment itself doesn't address funding.
Hedges and the Rev. Timothy McDonald, senior pastor at First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta, filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Superior Court of Fulton County asking for a declaration that the ballot language is purposely misleading. Gov. Nathan Deal, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
"We already have charter schools in Georgia. Local school boards can create them. This just takes decisions away from local elected officials and puts it in the hands of unelected people in Atlanta," Hedges said.
She said she decided to file the lawsuit after talking to her sister, who'd voted for Amendment 1 during advance voting.
"When I explained to her what it really does, she felt so bad," Hedges said.
She said she doesn't want other people to vote on the amendment without knowing all of the facts.
Saying it is a pending legal matter, officials with the governor's office and the lieutenant governor's office referred questions to the state attorney general.
"We believe that the ballot language complies with the law and will fully carry out our constitutional duty to defend the state in this litigation," said Lauren Kane, director of communications for Attorney General Sam Olens.
To view a copy of the lawsuit, go to bl-1.com/click/load/BzZcZARjWmgHYQdh.


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By Doug Ireland
---- — The state Department of Environmental Services is offering $2.2 million in grants to protect drinking water supplies in Southern New Hampshire towns along Interstate 93.
These towns include Salem, Windham, Derry and Londonderry, where the use of salt over the years on icy parking lots and roads, especially I-93, has affected wetlands and streams, according to Eric Williams, supervisor of DES watershed assistance section.
That's why the state is giving towns and nonprofit land trusts the opportunity to apply for money to minimize the negative impact on the environment, he said.
"What we are after is efficiency in salt use," Williams said.
The money, provided to the state through the federal government, comes from a fund established to help reduce the impact of the I-93 project on streams and wetlands. The matching grant program covers up to 25 percent of the value of land or conservation easements to protect drinking water supplies.
Local communities have benefited tremendously from the program over the years, receiving thousands of dollars that's been spent to help the towns and the environment, DES grant coordinator Holly Green said.
Windham Town Administrator David Sullivan said the town has taken advantage of state grants through this program and others in the last few years to purchase conservation easements, as well as two dump trucks and salting-spreading equipment. The town is applying for money for a third truck, he said.
The new equipment is calibrated to reduce salt use, which also saves the town money.
Sullivan said the town is working with the state Department of Transportation to reduce the amount of salt spread each winter along I-93 and Route 111.
"It's historically been a problem," he said of the salt's impact on water. "But they are doing what they can to mitigate it as much as possible."
Williams said the DOT has reduced its salt usage by at least 20 percent since the program began nearly a decade ago.
Salem received nearly $200,000 from the state this year to buy two new dump trucks and salt-spreading equipment, Town Manager Keith Hickey said.
"It's a nice benefit to be able to take advantage of the grants," he said. "It will allow us to save some money and reduce the effect on the environment. We are happy to participate. "
Two bodies of water particularly vulnerable to salt-contaminated runoff from I-93 are Canobie Lake and Cobbetts Pond.
Derek Monson of Windham, a leader of the Cobbetts Pond Improvement Association, has said the I-93 project has created problems with stormwater runoff.
He said offering grant money to communities and land trusts would be beneficial.
"I think it's a good start, but there's a long way to go," he said. "Every bit helps."
The deadline to apply for the money is Dec. 13.


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STILLWATER, Okla. —
It's been 14 years since the Stillwater High School swimming team hung its last state championship banner in the Pioneer Fieldhouse.
With a core group of swimmers back for both the boys and girls, Stillwater coach Kurt Goebel hopes to put that streak to an end.
"We'll be in Class 5A, but I think we have a decent chance at it," Goebel said. "We have some talented kids coming up through the freshman class. We'll certainly try to put together a situation where we we'll be competitive, if not try to win it."
That quest for the elusive state championship begins 6 p.m. Thursday at the Stillwater Family YMCA, when Stillwater takes on Booker T. Washington.
"I know the kids are ready to get going," Goebel said. "What I have to be careful of is that they don't go out and swim themselves out the first meet and then just kind of fumble along until the state meet. We want to get in the mindset that every time we go out, we try to improve our times, improve our scores and improve our relays."
Relay teams weren't a problem for the Lady Pioneers last year. Stillwater won the 200-meter medley and the 400-meter freestyle relays at the state meet and looks to repeat the feat with Sydney Goad and Alex Thomas back this season.
"I was just putting the relays together for Booker T. Washington and I think we'll have an A, B and C relay in the medley and probably in the 200 free and 400 free," Goebel said. "We could have three teams that will make the state (qualifying) times in the first meet. That's how much depth we have."
Goad and Thomas are expected to lead the way for the Lady Pioneers, but it's the mystery of how well some of the younger swimmers will perform that has Goebel excited about the season.
"I'm anxious to see some of the unknowns," Goebel said. "I haven't seen some of these kids in a competitive atmosphere and how they swim. The things that they do at practice, you may not see at the meet, or they may make a mistake at the meet that we can fix. There's a lot of unknowns there and I'm anxious to see how the kids are doing."
It isn't just the girls who will be looking to raise a new banner at the end of the year. The Pioneers also have aspirations of making a big splash at state after finishing 10th in Class 6A last season. The boys will be looking for their first state championship since winning back-to-back titles in 1973 and 1974.
"We have 22 boys swimming and a lot of talent in there," Goebel said. "We've got some kids that could potentially do very well. ... We'll have a lot of kids qualify for state at the first meet and we'll be several relays deep. We've got some kids working hard and I think the boys' team will do really well.
"The only significant guy we're missing is Clark Hattey. I think they're motivated and I think they're excited about competing. I'm anxious to see what kind of times they can kick out."
Goebel said that kind of depth has already produced some intense competition in practice — something Goebel hopes carries over throughout the season.
"We saw that (Monday) in practice," Goebel said. "I kind of broke them up into stroke lanes. They know what strokes they're going to be doing and what they're going to be mastering or specializing in, and they're starting to become a little competitive on that in pushing each other.
"We had a pretty young group of kids that wasn't terribly experienced. Our senior class started off swimming as sophomores. Now they've developed a good stroke technique and good skill. I've seen good results from them. Our juniors are a lot more experienced and our sophomores have a lot of good talent. I think you'll see that overall level on the boys' team will be a lot better than last year."
The competition may heat up at times in practice, but Goebel said what may be the biggest factor in whether or not both teams get to state won't be in the pool but outside the pool.
"I think the kids get along really well," Goebel said. "It seems like it's a pretty good group. Normally, when you have a large boys team like that there are some kids that get along with others and some that don't. They form little cliques, and the same can be said for the girls. We just really haven't had any of that. Every one pretty much likes each other and they work hard, and it ends up being a pretty good situation all the way around. It's been pretty easy to coach so far and that's probably going to help us down the road."
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With every new report on the New Castle school district's tuition scandal, the puzzle grows more complex.
Last week, in a story published in the New Castle News, superintendent John Sarandrea said the district is conducting hearings into non-resident school employees allegedly found to have sent their children to city schools without paying required tuition.
These hearings, overseen by the city school board, are closed to the public. Throughout this process, it has been obvious the law — or at least the law as interpreted by the city school system — is far more interested in protecting these employees than it is in the need of citizens to understand how their government works.
The identities of these employees has not been made public. We note this newspaper is in the midst of an open records battle with the school district, seeking those names and other financial and decision-making data related to findings by the Pennsylvania auditor general's office.
The district has retained the services of an outside law firm to assist it in its efforts to keep the information confidential.
We happen to believe details related to this matter are — for any number of reasons — crucial to the public's right to know. The evidence is clear that the New Castle school district failed miserably to account for funds in these cases. Now the public is expected to be satisfied that the district is suddenly doing its job properly, without any means of gauging that.
Based on comments and filings, the district appears to be taking the position it's worried about the consequences of identifying the employees responsible. "They have union rights, too," Sarandrea told The News. He noted any action the district takes against these employees could be challenged through a union grievance.
Well, there is a very simple solution to that. The matter could be turned over to law enforcement for criminal investigation. There is no union grievance available for criminal charges.
And we think there is ample indication individuals knowingly filed false documentation to avoid tuition payments. The state's finding that all individuals responsible were school employees shows a pattern of internal abuse of public funds within the district.
In his recent comments to The News, Sarandrea implies school secretaries were to blame for the failure to take proper tuition payments. But that position fails to explain why the employees in question provided inaccurate residency data to the district. That's not the fault of secretaries.
District officials would be doing themselves a favor, and striking a blow for public accountability, by calling for a criminal investigation into these matters. It would also send a clear message that this district is serious about putting an end to such abuses of taxpayers.
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Shanksville senior Kayla Stockenus' surpassing the 2,000-point mark in Tuesday's loss to Windber brought a rare milestone back into the area's spotlight.
While 1,000-point scorers have become fairly common in both boys and girls basketball, 2,000 is a much more rare feat.
Stockenus is only the second girls 2,000-point scorer in Somerset County history, and the third in The Tribune-Democrat's current coverage area.
Conemaugh Valley's Samantha Pollino scored 2,316 points. She played on a 2006 state runner-up Blue Jays team and earned Associated Press Class A Player of the Year honors. Pollino went onto a standout Division I career at Duquesne University.
Next up is Meyersdale's Jen Tuscano, who had 2,236 points with the Raiders through 1995. Tuscano tallied 1,396 points at Pitt-Johnstown, then later coached at Meyersdale and worked with the University of Pittsburgh athletic department.
Stockenus had 27 points against Windber and has 2,007 for her career.
Area boys 2,000-point scorers include: Berlin's Travis Eisentrout (2,824 points, 2001 graduate); Ferndale's Matt Lushko (2,541 points, 1992); Conemaugh Valley's Brandon Studer (2,540 points, 2003), Conemaugh Township's Paul Byer (2,505 points, 2000); Conemaugh Township's Andy Byer (2,360 points, 2005); Shanksville's Owen Long (2,357 points, 1971); Portage's Len Chappell (2,240 points, 1958); Shanksville's Jeff Berkey (2,118 points, 2006); Central Cambria's Jordan Miller (2,105 points, 2009); Laurel Valley's Bob Golis (2,099 points, 1956) and Northern Cambria's Ryan Galiczynski (2,004 points, 2002).
Shanksville now has three 2,000-point scorers in Stockenus, Long and Berkey.
Long, who was a longtime coach at Meyersdale, got his 2,000th point well before the 3-point line was put into the game, or the long-range shooter's total most likely would be even higher.
Portage's Chappell went on to a lengthy NBA career and scored 5,621 points. He is a Cambria County Sports Hall of Famer.
Ferndale's Lushko is Cambria County's all-time leading scorer, one point in front of Valley's Studer. Lushko had 1,046 points at UPJ from 1993-97, while Studer ranked in the top five at Washington & Jefferson with 1,439 career points from 2003-07.
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Blacklick Valley's Dalton Cesarz had 461 points and a 25.6 scoring average through Monday.
Other players with a 20-plus scoring average are: Northern Cambria's Adam Polites (372 points/21.9 average); Cambria Heights' Isaac Vescovi (370/21.8); Johnstown's Phillip Madison (291/20.8); Ferndale's Chad Eisenhuth (310/20.7); and Penn Cambria's A.J. Leahey (301/20.1).
Mike Mastovich is a sports writer for The Tribune-Democrat.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. – FGCU Swimming and Diving head coach Neal Studd has announced the hiring of April Woo as assistant swimming coach on Thursday, May 24. Woo comes to FGCU with three years' experience as a Division I assistant.
"I am delighted for April to join our staff," said Studd. "She really stood out in the interview process and impressed everyone including the staff, administration and the team. Both April and I felt that we will be a phenomenal partnership that can move the program forward. I am really looking forward to working with her and can't wait for her to get down here. It is a very busy summer here between camps, Olympic Trials and getting ready for the Olympic Games so she will be hitting the ground running. April came very highly rated and respected from everyone we talked to, her enthusiasm and hardworking attitude is second to none. Having done a great job recruiting and coaching at Cleveland State, they were reluctant to lose her. April will be instrumental to the future success of our program as we continue to find creative ways of improving an already strong squad."
Woo just completed her third season as an assistant for the men's and women's swimming teams at Cleveland State. As the sprint coach, her primary responsibilities were focusing on dry-land and weight training portions of the sport, as well as assisting with day-to-day aspects of the CSU program. Upon completing her swimming career at the University of the Pacific in 2009, Woo was named as an assistant coach under head coach Wally Morton's staff. She then became driven to transfer her enthusiasm and passion for dry-land and weight training to the Cleveland State swimmers.
Woo also was the Ohio Master's swim coach for three seasons in Cleveland, Ohio. Her responsibilities included creating workouts for beginners, triathletes and competitive adult swimmer's, while holding stroke clinics to teach adults stroke technique.
During her first season, the Viking men tied a school record with 14 wins in a season, and the women were able to break the previous record of 10 set during the 1982-83 campaign with a 14-win season of their own. Woo's background in Division I swimming was evident as she assisted the men's team to a second place finish in the Horizon League Championship along with a fifth place finish for the women.
Woo was previously an instructor at Tiger Aquatics in Stockton, California, where she planned and conducted swimming workouts for people of all ages and abilities. She spent time teaching biomechanics and water safety procedures at the Pacific Swim School (also in Stockton) and the Iolani Swim School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
During her career at Pacific, Woo swam sprints in all four strokes for the Tigers. Her swimming career was capped off during her junior season, when she set personal bests in all of her strokes. She finished with an eighth place ranking in the Pacific record books in the 100 breaststroke. In 2008, she was part of the top-10 all-time 400 freestyle relay.
Woo graduated from the University of the Pacific with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
For more information about the FGCU women's swimming and diving team visit www.FGCUAthletics.com and follow @FGCUSwimandDive on Twitter for more updates.


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Several of the men arrested in connection with the have faced criminal charges before, including one juvenile charge of aggravated attempted murder.
Douglas L. Wright, 26, Brandon L. Baxter, 20, Anthony Hayne, 35, Connor C. Stevens, 20, and Joshua S. Stafford, 23, are each charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of attempted use of an explosive, said Mike Tobin, public affairs specialist for the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of Ohio.
Charges against Wright, Baxter and Hayne were made Monday. Charges weren't made against Stevens and Stafford until Tuesday.
For at least three of the men, their arrests in the suspected bomb plot is not their first run-in with law enforcement, according to Cuyahoga County arrest records obtained by Patch:
Brandon Baxter
The former Lakewood resident and student was arrested a few times as a juvenile — including a September 2009 incident when he was arrested for stabbing a family member with a knife. Lakewood police charged him with aggravated attempted murder, but the outcome of the case is not available as juvenile court records are sealed. As an adult, Baxter — whom acquaintances told Patch was intelligent, quiet and strange — was charged with criminal trespassing in 2010, stemming from an incident at .
Anthony Hayne
With a criminal history that stretches back to theft charges in Strongsville in 2000, Hayne has faced with nearly two-dozen charges by several of Northeast Ohio law enforcement agencies — including a few in Lakewood. His record is littered with charges of theft, drugs and receiving stolen property. Hayne was most recently found guilty of breaking and entering into a Detroit Avenue deli in November 2011. In that case, he was sentenced in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to probation.
Joshua Stafford
With a listed address of Lorain Avenue in Cleveland — and arrested in that city — Stafford has also faced charges in Lakewood. In August 2010, he pleaded guilty in to charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor; giving false information to a police officer; and possession of drug paraphernalia. In Lorain County, he also was charged by the on four separate occasions, with charges that include criminal trespassing; theft and receiving stolen property; and attempted breaking and entering.
Neither Stevens nor Wright have any criminal record in Cuyahoga County, according to law enforcement records.
Correction: Hayne's 2011 breaking and entering charge was filed in Lakewood.


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Fighting Words
Does reading this make you a terrorist?
"Most greens can still consider themselves nonviolent for one reason: Their victims don't fight back. So far no one has taken up arms to defend his logging equipment against Earth First! sabotage or his factory against EPA closure....The 'debased human protoplasm' that [environmentalist writer Stephanie] Mills holds in contempt...will not go down non-violently....And many ordinary human beings will not give up the right to own land without a fight, complete with guns."
I wrote that in April 1990. In April 1995, it would have gotten me declared an enemy of the state, an inciter of violence, and for all intents and purposes the murderer of babies.
Which, in the eyes of E. J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Bill Clinton of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I apparently am. After all, in REASON's May issue, which subscribers received in early April, I suggested that Americans are rightly afraid of government power, and I criticized Washingtonians for being too cool to use the word tyranny in polite conversation.
Back then, it was gauche to point out that Washington rules by force--that lawmakers' symbolic gestures, from drug laws to wetlands regulations to the Americans with Disabilities Act, are enforced by government agents backed by guns. It was gauche to suggest that many government actions are unjust. It was gauche to tell Washington that the rage of the powerless was building in the land.
Now it's not just gauche, it's criminal. It makes you a terrorist, guilty by association.
"Underlying fears that the United States government is a tyranny is an increasingly popular rhetorical style that economist Herbert Stein rightly criticized...as 'demagogic,'" writes Dionne in a post-Oklahoma City column.
"Only a handful of unfeeling fanatics take the rhetorical excesses of politics to deadly extremes," he continues. "But the fact that they have done so--and the fact that the potentially violent militias are growing--ought to lead to some soul-searching in the mainstream. After the suffering in Oklahoma City, the country needs an extended period in which political rhetoric is toned down, words are more carefully weighed and, as the president said yesterday, 'the purveyors of hate and division' and 'the promoters of paranoia' are resisted and condemned."
As the editor of a magazine devoted not only to liberty but to rational discourse, I'm happy to endorse weighing one's words carefully. But responsible rhetoric makes distinctions, and E. J. Dionne does not.
He jumps from mad bombers to "potentially violent" militia members to gun-control opponents to anyone who uses strong language to condemn tyrannical acts of the U.S. government. He lumps these disparate groups together with few distinctions and absolutely no attempt to understand the arguments or philosophy of his political opponents. E. J. Dionne is a purveyor of hate and division, a promoter of paranoia. And he is not alone.
In the column next to Dionne's, Richard Cohen writes in favor of disarming Americans in lieu of sacrificing other civil liberties to thwart terrorism: "Consider that the man linked to the bombing is also 'linked'--that most elastic of journalistic terms--to paramilitary groups that, in turn, are linked to one another. The pillar of their paranoia is the Second Amendment....These are stupid people, but because they are armed they are dangerous." Using "links," Cohen can go from Timothy McVeigh to militias to Republicans who want to repeal the assault weapon ban. All in 15 column inches.
A Los Angeles Times news report by Janet Hook is direct: "Gingrich has kept his distance from the violent extremes of the right....But Gingrich has continued to champion the same causes as these extremist groups: criticism of the Waco siege, opposition to gun control and general anti-government themes."
Congress shouldn't investigate Waco, says a May 9 Times editorial, because "given how large Waco looms in the mind of a violent fringe, this is not the time to pour salt into that wound." The Times rightly did not apply a similar standard of guilt by association to rioters and critics of the Rodney King beating.
Or consider The New Republic's Robert Wright. In the same column in which he exhorts public figures to avoid appealing to the worst in human nature and saying untrue things, he writes that "McVeigh and his buddies are anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-gun-control, anti-U.N." He thereby appeals to the worst in New Republic liberals by demonstrating that blowing up a building full of people is not very different from denouncing regulation. He then glibly refers to "the militia milieu that spawned McVeigh," although the McVeigh-militia connection appears to be this year's Big Lie.
It gets worse. Buried in a Washington Post article on "extremism" and the Internet is the sentence: "Jack Rickard, the editor and publisher of Boardwatch Magazine, said that out of about 65,000 on-line bulletin boards nationwide, he has heard of about 300 for libertarian and 'paranoid' groups." Our Washington editor, Rick Henderson, faxed me the article with the greeting: "Good morning, fellow paranoid/extremist." With all those "links" out there, how can we expect a responsible newspaper to distinguish between, say, Nobel Prize-winning economists and people who think the government has put microchips in their buttocks? After all, they're all suspicious of runaway government power.
And perhaps there is no difference between free market economists and conspiracy-obsessed terrorists. In a leap worthy of Evel Knievel, "Republican" commentator Kevin Phillips actually manages to jump from Oklahoma City to the flat tax. "The 'wacko' factor is intensifying," he writes in the Los Angeles Times. Tim McVeigh. Dick Armey. No difference.
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PayPal Moves Into More Brick And Mortars
PayPal announced on Monday that it has reached deals with 23 major national retailers to enable customers to pay with PayPal in stores.
Participating retailers include: Famous Footwear, Dollar General, Mapco Express, RadioShack, Spartan Stores, Abercrombie & Fitch, Advance Auto Parts, Aéropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, Barnes & Noble, Foot Locker, Guitar Center, the Home Depot, Jamba Juice, JC Penney, Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Nine West, Office Depot, Rooms To Go, Tiger Direct, and Toys "R" Us. The other two will be named soon, PayPal says.
"Delivering valuable digital and mobile payments is alive and thriving, and consumers all over the U.S. will now start seeing PayPal more where they shop every day, including the grocery store and at the gas pump," says PayPal VP, Retail Services, Don Kingsborough. "We believe that by bringing value to the checkout experience 'every day' with proven technology that is simple, fast, and secure and offering true benefits such as coupons, rewards and loyalty, we've uncovered a winning solution when people pay. No bells, whistles or buzzes – just technology that works and gets the most from your money."
These are some big name retailers, for sure, and that means a big boost to PayPal as a payment options for many consumers. It stands to reason that the company will only expand on this roster, surely making mobile payments a much bigger phenomenon in 2013. PayPal has an edge over rivals given its longtime brand recognition.
"This is an exciting time at PayPal because our path to enabling people to pay with PayPal in the store has now gone from a vision to a reality," says Kingsboough. "We are executing on our vision of cloud-based payments to enable true convenience across any channel from your laptop to your smartphone or the store. Some of the competition has stumbled with alternative technology offerings that don't address true customer pain points – they have created technology, just for technology's sake."
According to PayPal, there are 18,000 stores in the U.S. where you use PayPal.
If all of that wasn't enough, however, PayPal will soon be available in millions of locations, according to Kingsborough. According to multiple reports, PayPal has also struck a deal with NCR, which will see PayPal payments in NCR's mobile apps and restaurant and retail services. According to VentureBeat, NCR powers payments for half of the major retail chains and 38% of the top 100 restaurants in the U.S.
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While media finally became critical of filmmaker and actor Spike Lee for recklessly re-tweeting (twice) an elderly couple's address, his actions only received national attention after the Water Cooler blog last Tuesday pointed out that the address Mr. Lee re-tweeted did not belong to 28 year - old George Zimmerman of Sanford, Florida.
Lee apologized and legally compensated an undisclosed amount to Elaine, age 70, and David, age 72, McClain for re-tweeting out their home address to Lee's over 250,000 followers. The original tweet belonged to Marcus D. Higgins who confused Ms. McClain's son, William Zimmerman, from a previous marriage, with that of George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot Trayvon Williams in February.
There is no relation between George and William. Given the anger over the case that is currently being exacerbated by the New Black Panther Party, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and Jesse Jackson, the couple received death threats as a result of Lee's tweet.
Last Tuesday morning, I visited the Edgewater Circle address in Sanford that Mr. Lee tweeted out, when I suspected the address was not that of George Zimmerman's. No one was at house, but a neighbor named Tim, who lived across the street, confirmed that George Zimmerman did not live in the neighborhood or at the address across from him but a woman named Elaine did.
In fact, according to Tim, a number of news outlets already came through the neighborhood days before my visit looking for George Zimmerman. However, not one news outlet bothered to point out the address Spike Lee re-tweeted on Friday and Saturday was incorrect. There was plenty of national media in Sanford, as protests in the area were covered on cable news channels all weekend through Monday, but hardly a mention that a an online action potentially dangerous to others was made.
An article that appeared last Sunday by Joel Pollack at Breitbart.com, which was picked up by Fox Nation last Monday as well as the Michelle Malkin's Twitchy site, which initially picked up Lee's tweets, and rightfully upset individuals on Twitter were all critical of Lee even before it became known the address was not Zimmerman's. Just the idea that Lee tried to stoke the flames was the issue.
Additionally, although he apologized, and legally settled with the McClains, Spike Lee started an out of control wild fire. Some are still re-tweeting the McClain's address and attaching threats to it, believing George Zimmerman lives at their house.
A Zimmerman family member, according to The Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle, wrote in a letter about race baiters who are stirring up death threats towards George himself:
"If something happens to George as a result of the race furor stirred up by this mischaracterization of George there will be blood on your hands as well as the rest of the racists that have rushed to judgment. You need to call off the dogs. Period. Publicly and swiftly."
"Regardless of this fact, George Zimmerman has been hiding for his life because of the death threats made against him by the black community … all of our family is in hiding and frankly scared by the threats."
Spike Lee's actions also inspired a fellow Hollywood actor. Roseanne Barr tweeted out George Zimmerman's parents' correct address. According to NBC's Today:
"If Zimmerman isn't arrested I'll rt his address again. maybe go 2 his house myself," Barr tweeted.
Criticism came quickly from the comedian's more than 100,000 followers. Tweeted rob b, "Apparently Roseanne Barr is even dumber than Spike Lee, tweeting the correct home address of George [Zimmerman's] parents." In response, Barr wrote on Twitter Friday, "The 'witchburnings' will continue despite apology…Decent [people] move on, indecent ones like to keep slinging mud [because] they r morally damaged."
According to the Smoking Gun, the information Barr circulated was correct. However, she later admitted, "I don't know if the address is accurate or not."
Since last Tuesday morning, it appears that most in the media and general public are astonished that Mr. Lee tweeted out anyone's personal address, even if the address turned out to be the George Zimmerman being talked about on the cable news channels.
However, it should not have taken the realization that Mr. Lee tweeted out the "wrong" address to understand that tweeting out anyone's personal address is wrong. Roseanne Barr did not get the message. She looked at it as an opportunity, in fact, to push the envelope.
More importantly, George Zimmerman and his own family continue to be threatened. Unfortunately, given the initial media complacency with Lee and his tweets as well as other distorted if not questionable coverage of the Trayvon Martin case up to this point does not bode well to help sustain a violence-free environment for everyone.


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The Grand Vision has shown me that the people of this region love it here and have a commitment to building a better future. We care about what happens here and we care about the future.
My main concern is that we sometimes forget about all things we hold in common and focus more on what keeps us apart. I worry that we focus more on personalities than principles. We have forgotten that disagreement and disrespect are two very different words. The world is only going to get more complex.
We can only achieve a better future if we learn to listen to each other and find solutions that work for everyone's benefit. My biggest hope for the future is that we learn how to do this.
Here are my other hopes for our home in 2159:
-- The region will be prosperous.
-- There will good employment opportunities for everyone.
-- Inventors and entrepreneurs will still thrive here.
-- Rich natural resources, scenic beauty and a thriving arts community will distinguish this region.
-- The transportation system will be green and efficient and connect to the rest of the world.
-- Beautiful cities and villages will house people of all income levels.
-- The region will be more self-reliant, producing more local food and products.
-- The community and its leadership will be more diverse.
-- There will be a regional governmental system.
-- There will be increased educational opportunities at every level.
Marsha Smith is executive director of Rotary Charities, of Traverse City. She recently chaired the Public Involvement Committee of the Grand Vision and currently is involved in beginning the implementation of this citizen-driven 50-year vision.


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Draft and Trade Talk Message Board
Championship HELP
I'm debating between 2 positions first do i start Indy D vs KC or Ari vs chi. Ari plays good at home & no telling what cutler will do but it is KC that Indy is playing.
Also Hilton or Amendalo at my flex, return yards do count, 10yds-1 point.
opinions, insight, suggestions are welcome. thanks peopleSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
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Start Indy's D and Amendola. Chiefs got nothing to play for and will prob just give the rock to Charles 20 times seeing as he only got 9 touches last week. KC has a pretty serviceable secondary which I think will put a cap on Hilton
yup, Indy/Amendola


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I write about business and technology.
This is a nice little story for that awkward period between Christmas and New Year, when there's pretty much nothing at all happening except the faint and lingering rumbles of all the family rows we had over the holidays. A company has had a look at the pictures of all of its female users who are also Mac users and come up with the statement that female Mac users are pretty cute if awkwardly dressed.
Whether this is a good thing for the company to have said or not I cannot say. I guess it depends upon which strand of feminism their female customers ascribe to. I can certainly imagine some of the more militant shouting that this is "lookist" or even "clothesist" (based on my experiences with the more militant wing of the UK arm of feminism) and others concentrating on the cute part as a piece of praise.
Still, the press release is here:
To commemorate the launch of the new Mac program, BlueStacks debuted "Ms.Mac 2012," an infographic representing the typical Mac user worldwide. Ms.Mac is an amalgam of photos that make up one young woman, using statistics gleaned from surveying Mac users from BlueStacks' over one million Facebook fans worldwide, along with recent research from Nielsen.
"It turns out the average Mac user is pretty cute, if awkwardly dressed," said BlueStacks VP, Marketing John Gargiulo. "We felt like mad scientists putting her together these past two months." BlueStacks' Facebook fanbase has grown from 145,000 when the Mr.Android infographic was released, to over 1.1 million fans today. "The data was much richer (than last year)," said BlueStacks Senior Data Scientist Lokesh Setia, Ph.D. "The increase in sample size gave us a lot more to work with in determining what makes up the prototypical Mac user today. The blouses were a surprise. Apparently, females who use Macs very much enjoy blouses."
The number that slightly surprised me was that 45% of female Mac users wear glasses. That sounds very high: certainly higher than the general incidence in the population isn't it? I guess geeks are still geeks, male or female, Mac users or not.
So, your opinions please. Are we about to see a torrent of articles denouncing the company as sexist (or even lookist, clothesist and the rest) from HuffPo, Feminista and The Guardian or not?
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You've apparently missed the "Geek Chik" fashion craze. It's the latest rage to wear glasses, even if one has no need for corrective lenses of any sort. Look up press conference photos of American basketballers LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, and you'll see what I mean.
The city busses in my town are currently (or at least were before I took a week off) plastered with ads for the very trendy "American Apparel" stores. They had two different ads- one was a gymnist (I suppose they were trying to sell leotards?) the other was a girl with glasses that really took up the majority of her face.


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General Information
Name : Barry Anderson
Also known as : Barry
Age : 57
Place of residence : Apple Valley, MN
Attended college : Yes
College : Gustavus Adolphus College
Degree : B.A. double major in History and Political Science
Year of graduation : 1976
Grad school
Ph D.
University : University of Minnesota Law School
Area of research : Law
Year of graduation : 1979
Employment Information
Job titles held : Partner
Employers : Arnold, Anderson & Dove, PLLP
Political Information
Party affiliation : Other
Party affiliation : Non-Partisan
Running for a: State office
Running for position: Associate Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Chamber/district: State wide
Incumbent: Yes
First elected: 07 November 2006
Previous elective offices : Minnesota Court of Appeals
Unsuccessful bids for elective offices: NA
Website : www.justicebarryanderson.com
Twitter : www.http://twitter.com/gbarryanderson
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/JusticeBarryAnderson
Other facts
Justice Barry Anderson is an experienced judge, first appointed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in 1998, and to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2004.
He has written over 400 judicial opinions and participated in over 1,500 decisions. He serves on the Judicial Council, the statewide governing board for the Minnesota Judicial Branch. He has taken a leadership role in implementing electronic filing of documents throughout the judiciary, an innovation designed to improve efficiency, save money and enhance access to documents for lawyers and litigants.
Justice Anderson was born and raised in Mankato, and is a 1976 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and a 1979 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. He was a general practice lawyer, first in Fairmont and then in Hutchinson, where he served as the city attorney for over a decade. He is certified as a civil trial specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association and was an experienced trial lawyer, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of cases. Prior to his judicial career, Justice Anderson was a community volunteer and leader in public access television efforts, with school and church related activities and on numerous boards and committees. More recently, he has served as a member of the Minnesota Valley YMCA Community Board of Directors, as a youth athletics coach, and as a national judge of the "We the People" high school civics competition. He regularly engages in outreach efforts on behalf of the Supreme Court, speaking to many groups of students and adults, in St. Paul and across Minnesota, about the role of our courts in our state.
He and his wife, Louise, a public school teacher, have three adult children.


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text: It would be wrong to base one's judgments about politicians too heavily on their gaffes. Public speakers are exposed to microphones so often that it would be shocking if the occasional boneheaded remark didn't slip out. But in the case of National Rifle Assn. Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, the achingly incongruous statements tend not to come from off-the-cuff remarks but carefully vetted prepared statements.


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The Information Systems major focuses on combining hardware, software, infrastructure and trained personnel to facilitate planning, control, coordination and decision-making. It deals with the collection, storage, and analysis of information and data for decision-making purposes.
Required courses for major: http://ww.bus.wisc.edu/undergrad/majors/infosys.asp
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Written by Carina A. Brunson Friday, 28 January 2011 11:35
McALLEN — Orlie Ozuna loves vinyl. After 10 years of collecting vinyl records, and with the help of a friend, Ozuna opened Fall Back Records, which celebrates its one-year anniversary on Feb. 5.
"I had developed a mild addiction to it and I just assumed if I liked it so much, there had to be enough people out there that could make this idea a success," the McAllen resident said about opening his business.


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Rich Kidz mixtape #Straightlikethat2 was one of the best (and most slept on) of last year—just ask the NY Times. Now the Atlanta duo is back with another tape of triumphant rap, Everybody Eat Bread. They are at their best when they're at their most jubilant, and those peaks are hit on many of the tracks, notably "My Life" with Waka Flocka, "Koo Koo," with the late Slim Dunkin, and "Never Did."
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We know what September feels like - but what does it sound like? You only need to go as far as Carroll Creek in Downtown Frederick to listen and find out.
Every Friday in September, Music on the Terrace brings talented musicians to the Carroll Creek Park Amphitheater across the creek from C. Burr Artz Public Library for your enjoyment. You're welcome to bring your own picnic and a blanket - or just stroll along the Creek and soak up the tunes on a fall afternoon.
September 6 - Bonerama (New Orleans Brass Funk Rock)
Even in a city that doesn't play by the rules, New Orleans' Bonerama is something different. They can evoke vintage funk, classic rock, and free improvisation in the same set—maybe even in the same song.
Founded by members of Harry Connick's band, Bonerama has been repeatedly recognized by Rolling Stone magazine, praised for their "…crushing ensemble riffing, human-feedback shrieks and wah-wah growls." As co-founder Mark Mullins puts it, "We thought we could expand what a New Orleans brass band could do. Bands like Dirty Dozen started the 'anything goes' concept, bringing in the guitars and the drum kit and using the sousaphone like a bass guitar. We thought we could push things a little further."
Along with his jazz connections, Mullins is Bonerama's resident rock 'n' roller: it was Mullins who instigated the offbeat classic-rock covers that have become a band tradition. Edgar Winter's Frankenstein was the first nugget to get the treatment, and songs by Hendrix, Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and the Allman Brothers Band have since appeared in their set right alongside the funk and jazz-flavored numbers. Indeed, the sounds Mullins makes by playing through a guitar amp and wah-wah pedal may explain why he's named Jimi Hendrix as one of his favorite trombonists. "It's great to grab people with the rock songs, and then turn them on to some New Orleans music at the same time," Klein says.
The Bonerama Horns have become one of the most in-demand horn sections in New Orleans and appear on several songs on Alec Ounsworth's (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) 2009 release Mo Beauty; R.E.M.'s 2010 release Collapse into Now, and Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars 2010 release Rise and Shine. Visit Bonerama online at http://www.boneramamusic.com/
September 13 - Cabinet (Modern Acoustic Bluegrass)
An inclusive and engaging energy is the uniting through-line as Cabinet weaves bluegrass, country, and folk influences to powerful effect. Tight dynamics punctuate gorgeous, soaring harmonies as down-to-earth rhythm and lyrics give way to dreamy jams that are the musical equivalent of the back road scenic route. Cabinet is a band that has outgrown any "regional favorite" tag and has progressed to a broader fan base, all while retaining their signature sound. The band has played many great venues and festivals across the land and has shared the stage with Infamous Stringdusters, Railroad Earth, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, 7 Walkers, and many more. Visit Cabinet online at http://www.cabinetmusic.com/
September 20 - Chaise Lounge (Jazz, Swing, and Pop)
Chaise Lounge performs a blend of music that sounds like it was recorded at Capital Recording Studios in 1962 and somehow found its way into today's pop charts. The band's music has been referred to as "Early Stereo." The combination of five of the Washington area's top jazz musicians, along with the luminous vocals of Marilyn Older, is truly enjoyable. Visit Chaise Lounge online at http://chaiseloungenation.com/
September 27 - Fishtank Ensemble (Gypsy Jazz)
The LA Weekly calls Fishtank's sound "cross pollinated gypsy music…one of the most thrilling young acts on the planet." Formed in 2005 and playing everywhere from the hippest LA clubs to festivals, cultural centers, museums, parades, and even on the street, Fishtank includes two explosive violins, the world's best slap bass player, musical saw, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, trombone, opera, jazz and gypsy vocals, accordion, and one little banjolele. Tackling everything from French hot jazz to wild Serbian and Transylvanian gypsy anthems, Flamenco, and oddball originals, this band is a not-to-be-missed event for world music lovers. Visit Fishtank Ensemble online at http://www.fishtankensemble.com/
Music on the Terrace concerts begin at 11:30 am and end at 1:30 pm. The event is open to all ages at no charge. Concerts will move indoors in the event of rain. For details, call 301-600-1629.
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Malaga were tremendous in the Champions League group stage, topping a group that included AC Milan and Zenit St. Petersburg. Quickly, they became a real threat to make a run in the knockout stages, but their financial problems caught up to them and Nacho Monreal was sold in January leaving the team with a gaping hole at left back.
Uh oh.
Only Malaga haven't suffered at all in Monreal's absence. They have taken full points since Vitorino Antunes stepped in at left back, but they will have new questions to answer and a new test before them in their Monreal-less world on Tuesday.
Porto and a packed Estadio de Dragao awaits them in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie, where Antunes will face some combination of Silvestre Varela, Marat Izmaylov, Christian Atsu and Danilo. That's not enviable for anyone, let alone someone like like Antunes.
But while Malaga may have questions about Antunes, they don't about their fitness. Eliseu will miss the match after suffering a knee injury, but he is the only injury of note for the visitors, while Porto is similarly fit with just Steven Defour set to miss out after Varela returned from a muscle injury.
Malaga might still be able to make a run. After all they have plenty of quality elsewhere, but there will be skepticism until Antunes is tested this week against a Porto team that has gone more than a year without a loss in the league.
Match date/time: Tuesday, February 19; 2:45 p.m. ET
Venue: Estadio de Dragao, Porto, Portugal
TV: Fox Sports Net/Fox Soccer Plus (USA English), Sky Sports 2 (UK), Sportsnet World (Canada), TVE La Primera (Spain), TVI (Portugal)
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WESTVILLE — Tucked away in a remote corner of Forest Glen County Preserve east of Westville stands the Pioneer Homestead.
Today, anywhere from 100 to 300 visitors will make the trek down the leaf-encrusted foot path to a one-room cabin constructed of logs of a yellow poplar, which is a tree native to the area.
During the county preserve's annual Thanksgiving at the Cabin, visitors not only learn what the area's first settlers might have eaten and how they cooked it over an open fire, but they also get to sample delicacies made from ingredients that are locally grown and gathered.
Susan Biggs-Warner, a historic interpreter with the Vermilion County Conservation District, has been involved with the cooking demonstration since it started a year or two after the cabin was built in the mid-1980s.
When Thanksgiving at the Cabin began 25 years ago or so, the public was invited to watch as the food was prepared and cooked over an open fire, but it was the conservation district staff who enjoyed the meal.
For a few years, the Revolutionary War re-enactors also helped prepare the meal that they then shared with the conservation district employees.
In recent years, Civil War re-enactor Robert Hale from the Chrisman/Paris area and Ridge Farm librarian Lisa Davis join Biggs-Warner and conservation district program secretary Amy Steeples in dressing up in period costumes and cooking over an open fire.
This year, Thanksgiving at the Cabin is a stop on the Georgetown Holiday Gathering map.
While some visitors come prepared to eat a full meal — and in the past some even have brought their own table service — Biggs-Warner emphasized that the event is a cooking demonstration during which samples are served.
"Visitors will be able to sample food inside the cabin and outdoors," she said.
"They don't eat a Thanksgiving dinner. As food is ready, they receive samples.
"We just give away samples and recipes so we can keep it free for the public."
Weeks of preparation
Biggs-Warner begins preparing for the event weeks in advance. She pores over cooking magazines for new recipes she can adapt but also makes sure she includes some old favorites.
"I go through my old recipes and see what has been popular in the past," she said.
"I start with a big list of ideas and whittle it down.
"They're not old recipes, but they use local, native or old-fashioned ingredients," she said. "We change it up every year. We always have two or three recipes that are different each year."
Although it might not be authentic early American fare, Biggs-Warner makes sure the food incorporates ingredients that the area's settlers would have used, such as persimmons, black walnuts, white walnuts, butternut, American chestnut, sweet corn, wild mushrooms and butternut squash.
"Pioneers in this area would have raised hogs rather than cattle," she added.
Because the food is cooked over an open fire, the weather also is a factor in what's on the menu and how much food will be prepared.
"I've been keeping notes the last eight or nine years about how the weather was that day and how many people showed up," she said.
"If it's a cold, blustery day, we might get 100 people, but if it's a beautiful weekend, we could get 250 to 300 people."
Next, Biggs-Warner gathers the ingredients she needs — whether it's picking persimmons, walnuts, sassafras and herbs grown at Forest Glen or going to the Covered Bridge Festival to purchase American chestnuts.
This year, however, Mother Nature has had a say in what's on the menu.
"I don't know if I'll have enough persimmons this year to make anything," Biggs-Warner lamented earlier this week.
"The man at the Covered Bridge Festival didn't have any American chestnuts because of the freeze earlier this year," she said, "and I might have to cook a venison rump instead of another cut of meat depending on what's available.
"Sometimes you have to improvise," she said. "Sometimes it's hard to decide what's going to be on the menu because I have a lot of ideas."
Two items, however, usually find their way to the menu every year — a dessert sweetened with maple syrup tapped from the trees at Forest Glen and whole cranberries.
"We use the end syrup, which is the darker syrup," she said, "and we always try to cook whole cranberries, which aren't native to this area, but they're something a lot of people have never had."
Taste of history
Biggs-Warner said part of the fun of Thanksgiving at the Cabin is allowing people to taste new delicacies.
"We have people who tell us they don't like something, but when they try it, they change their mind," she said.
The event is also a lesson in cooking and history.
Hale, who makes the ever-popular Dutch oven yeast bread, started the fires going today at 8:30 or 9 a.m.
Steeples, who has been one of the cooking demonstrators for the last 15 years, said she enjoys preparing the food in cast iron Dutch ovens over an open fire and even in the fireplace inside the cabin.
"We'll hang little pots over the fire," she said as she pulled out a hinged iron bracket that swings in and out of the fireplace and from which pots and kettle hang over the fire.
Biggs-Warner added, "One thing we do to cheat is I might have all the dry and liquid ingredients measured out ahead of time, because we're busy talking to people and we want them to ask us questions."
Thanksgiving at the Cabin does have quite a following.
"Every year we'll have people call to make reservations," Biggs-Warner chuckled because reservations aren't needed or taken.
"Some people come right at 1 o'clock with their lawn chairs and stay for the whole time," she said. "They won't be able to get a full meal, but we want them to enjoy the samples."
Biggs-Warner and Steeples said they appreciate the support they receive every year from the community.
"The people who come out to this are really loyal," Biggs-Warner said. "We love that people come out and watch us and love it."
What's on the menu
The dishes being sampled between 1 and 4 p.m. today at the Pioneer Homestead in Forest Glen County Preserve, east of Westville, are:
Minestrone soup
Corn fritters
Dutch oven yeast bread
Applewood bacon venison loin
Garlic rosemary rump roast
Roasted fingerling potatoes
Maple sweet potatoes with black walnuts
Stuffed pumpkins "en earth"


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TRAVERSE CITY — Homemaker, mother, care giver and child care provider were among the many hats worn by Iris as she traveled through her 99-year life. That journey ended when she passed peacefully in her sleep Feb. 26, 2013.
The daughter of David and Estella Heimforth Priest, she married Edgar M. Brugh on her birthday, Jan. 11, 1934. Together they raised two boys, Lon E. and Jerry L. Brugh. She had four grandchildren, Charles, Michael, Shawn and Jesica; and two great-grandchildren, Kylie Rae and Hailey Louise.
She was preceded in death by her husband and all seven of her siblings, Earl, Raymond, Fern, Alfred, Orpha, Orville and Bud.
Iris worked at Essex Wire and retired in 1979 with an offer to raise her granddaughter, Jesica, while her parents worked. The offer was gratefully accepted.
Cremation has taken place. The family plans a celebration of her life when the weather is more appropriate.


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Lap-Band Support Group
6:00 pm -
7:00 pm,
Thursday July 25 2013
Location: Arbor Room
Lee's Summit Medical Center's Lap-Band Support Group is intended for any individual who is considering or has had the Lap-Band procedure, either in our program or in other programs. Please come to this support group if you are interested in learning success strategies to maximize results from the Lap-Band procedure. We encourage individuals and families to attend and share their successes and challenges. The goal here is to foster a community and network of support for anyone working to accomplish their individual weight loss goals.
* If such event falls on or near Thanksgiving or Christmas, the lap band support group will not meet on its regularly scheduled date but will meet one week earlier.


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|Halonen Wins Twice And Sets Meet Record
FAIRFAX, Virginia – Valtteri Halonen continued his tremendous showing at the Patriot Invitational, winning two more events and setting a meet record to lead UNCW on the second day of the meet at the McKay Natatoirum.
Host George Mason leads both meets while UNCW holds second and sixth in the men's and women's meets, respectively.
Halonen gave the Seahawks wins in the 100 Fly (49.39) and later set a meet record when he edged teammate Michael Baric with a time of 49.81 in the 100 Backstroke. For Halonen, it was his third event win of the meet after winning the 50 Free on Thursday.
UNCW has set a pair of meet records as Halonen joined the men's 400 Medley Relay who set a record on Thursday.
Jenson Engen, who ranked 45th entering the meet in the 100 Breaststroke, won the women's event with time of 1:03.59, just missing her season-best time of 1:03.55.
Gabe Thran gave the Seahawks a second-place finish in the 200 Freestyle.
In relay action, UNCW finished second in the 200 Medley Relay in both meets.
The meet concludes on Saturday beginning with the preliminaries at 10 a.m.


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- $8 Million NIH Grant Will Fund Multicenter Clinical Trial of Stroke Intervention Drug (April 22, 2014)
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- Study of brain cooling and clot-busting drug therapy for stroke receives FDA OK to expand (Feb. 1, 2013)
- Cedars-Sinai among first hospitals in the United States to earn Comprehensive Stroke Center certification (Dec. 7, 2012)
- Famed photographer thrives after strokes to enjoy holidays with 9-month-old grandson (Dec. 4, 2012)
- Cedars-Sinai stroke team earns award for improving region's quality of care (May 3, 2012)
- Shlee Song, MD, Named Associate Director of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stroke Program (Dec. 8, 2011)
- Cedars-Sinai Study: How Does a "Good" Protein Hurt Brain Cells After Clot-Induced Stroke (Nov. 22, 2011)
- Largest Study of Therapeutic Cooling to Reduce Brain Injury After Stroke is Now Underway (Dec. 7, 2010)
- Neurologist Patrick Lyden MD Named Carmen and Louis Warschaw Chair In Neurology During Dedication Ceremony at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (May 20, 2010)
- Multicenter NIH Clinical Trial Will Study Potential Benefits of Brain Cooling After a Stroke (March 9, 2010)
- A Primary Stroke Center: The Right Treatment at the Right Time - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stroke Program is one of the largest, most comprehensive centers in Southern California (Dec. 3, 2009)
- Stroke Specialists Expect County's New Emergency Stroke System to Save Lives and Improve Outcomes Through Earlier Interventions (Dec. 3, 2009)
- Stroke Tipsheet - Technology Can Reverse the Effects of Some Strokes, But Stroke Onset Needs to be Treated Like the Emergency Situation It Is (Dec. 3, 2009)
- Stroke Survivor Talks Prevention to African-American Community and Anybody Who Will Listen (Aug. 12, 2009)
- Renowned Stroke Researcher to Chair Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (July 17, 2009)
- KNBC-TV covers the newly launched Cedars-Sinai Center Stroke Program support group for young stroke victims (April 15, 2009)
- UPI Health News report on the risk for anyone to experience a stroke. Cedars-Sinai Stoke Program provides expertise and resources (March 25, 2009)
- Even Young People Are Vulnerable to Stroke (March 25, 2009)
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stroke Program Receives American Stroke Association's Gold Performance Recognition (This is Cedars-Sinai's second consecutive award for "sustained" high performance) (Feb. 23, 2009)
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stroke Program Awarded Joint Commission Certification as a Primary Stroke Center (Oct. 10, 2008)
- Monthly Group Provides Support for Survivors of Strokes in the Prime of Their Lives (Aug. 18, 2008)
- Cedars-Sinai Stroke Team Earns Performance Award From American Heart Association (June 7, 2007)


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AARF fundraiser upcoming
Fur Ball 2013, a benefit for Ashland Animal Rescue Fund, will be from 7 to 11 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Ashland Transportation Building.
With a theme of Mardi Paws, the event will celebrate in Mardi Gras style with live music, food, door prizes, auctions, contests and AARF products for sale. There will be a contest for best mask and one for best Mardi Gras attire.
This is the first Fur Ball AARF has offered. Dress is casual but Mardi Gras costumes are welcome.
Food will consist of appetizers made by Elite Catering.
Proceeds will benefit the AARF building fund kickoff.
Those attending will have the chance to have their photos taken by Tom Warden with proceeds going to AARF. Sweet and Sassy Treats will be for sale, also with proceeds going to AARF.
Tickets are $20 and are available at South Ashland Greenhouse, Ashland Animal Clinic, Ruffin' It and Holly B's.
The transportation building is at 99 15th St.
Paramount offers evening of romance
The Paramount Arts Center will offer "An Evening of Romance" on Valentine's Day.
Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., followed by three, romantic, one-act plays.
Cost is $100 per couple, which includes dinner, wine or beer, dessert and the shows. Those with children may take advantage of the Paramount's child care at Ashland Youth Ballet next door for an additional $15 each. The service is available for children 5 and older and includes a dance lesson, craft and a snack.
Dinner will be provided by Texas Roadhouse and includes a choice of prime rib or roasted chicken, potatoes, green beans, salad, rolls and cheesecake.
Reservations for the dinner show may be made by calling the box office at (606) 324-3175. Reservations for children care can be made by calling (606) 324-5434.
Sweet program at library
Boyd County Public Library will offer a chance to make Valentine's Day special with homemade sweet treats.
Sweets for your Sweetie, a time to sample sweet recipes and share some of your own, will be at 6 p.m. Monday at the main branch of the library, 1740 Central Ave.
This program is for adults. No advance registration is needed. For more information, call Amanda Clark at (606) 329-0518, ext. 1140.
Participants will get recipes to take home. If you have some to share, please bring them and the library will make copies.
Program matches readers, books
February is Blind Date with a Book Month at Boyd County Public Library and the library is offering a program to pair readers and book.
During February, the library will have a display of books wrapped in brown paper at the main and Kyova branches. Participants won't know what book it is until it's checked out and unwrapped.
Participants will have 21 days and one renewal, if necessary.
When finished readers fill out the Rate Your Date slip found inside the book and drop it off at the library. Each form enters the reader into a drawing for a real date — dinner and a movie for two. Patrons can go on an unlimited number of "blind dates" during the month.
Library will have bingo month
Boyd County Public Library patrons may win prizes playing bingo in February.
Participants may pick up a game card at any public service desk. The cards are filled with simple library tasks, like "attend a library program" or "request an Interlibrary Loan." There also are squares that involve checking out or downloading specific materials.
When you "bingo!" (mark off five squares in a row) you may select a prize.
Library Bingo will run through Feb. 28. Prizes include pencils, pens, magnets, key chains and other items.
For more information, visit thebookplace.org.
Exhibitors sought for expo
The Grayson Area Chamber of Commerce is accepting exhibitor registrations for its third annual Bridal Expo from 1L30 to 4 p.m. March 3 at the Grayson Conference Center.
Registrations form are available at graysonchamber.org or by calling (606) 474-4401.
Dance contest
will be March 22
The Ohio River Valley Red Cross will have its first Dancing with Our Stars competition at 7:30 p.m. March 22 at SOMC Friends Community Center.
The event, modeled after the hit television show "Dancing with the Stars," will be a fundraiser for the Red Cross and will feature well-known residents of the area.