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My letter to the editor has prompted several people to accuse me of being too negative and of being a pharisaical bigot. There are good reasons why my letters are largely negative.
First, because it is biblical. From Genesis 3 onward, God never praises humanity in general, though he sometimes praises his people. This is because humanity is "dead in trespasses and sins," as Ephesians 2:1 declares. The only people God has any use for are his elect who he saves by his grace through Christ. All the rest of humanity are chaff for hell, as Matthew 3:12 says.
Look at the 10 commandments. The majority are negative commands. Study the messages of the prophets, the apostles, of Christ himself. All largely negative. This is because we are sinners and must be told so.
Second, because the times demand it. Again, I point to the prophets and Christ. Were they going around telling people, "smile, God loves you" and, "I'm OK, you're OK?" Hardly. Their main message was always for people to repent before God of their sins. Should not God's people nowadays be preaching the same message? Indeed, in this world that is daily sinking farther into false religion, fornication, theft, murder, sodomy, etc., the message is needed more than ever. Sadly, the majority of professed Christians and preachers are so busy telling the whole world God loves them, which is completely unscriptural that they are largely ignoring their duty of telling people they are sinners who must repent.
Do you want a positive message? I have the most positive you'll hear. It is that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. See 1 Timothy 1:15. But he only saves those who turn from their sins and trust him alone for salvation. If you reject this message, God has only negative words for you.
Finally, to you who accuse me of negativity and bigotry: You aren't being positive or open-minded in your response to my letters, are you? Either start giving positive responses to my letters or put on your own Pharisee robes.
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A two car crash occurred at Route 41 and Old Elm Road on Wednesday, according to the Lake Forest Police Department.
A car turning left from westbound Old Elm to southbound Route 41 was struck by a second car going northbound on Route 41. The northbound car disobeyed the red light on Route 41 at Old Elm, witnessess told the Lake Forest Police. The driver, a 27 year-old male from Chicago, was cited for disobeying a red light.
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Two Pierce County schools, along with five others statewide, will serve as Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) mentors to other schools in the state.
Known as Lighthouse schools, the seven were each awarded $18,000 grants that will promote and develop STEM education, including technical assistance and advice for other schools that are creating their own STEM environments.
The two Pierce County Lighthouse schools are Franklin Pierce High School outside Tacoma and Columbia Crest Elementary School in Ashford.
The other Lighthouse schools are: Riverpoint Academy (Mead School District), Cascade K-8 Community School (Shoreline), Toppenish Middle School (Toppenish), STEM School (Lake Washington), Lakeside High School (Nine Mile Falls).


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Nintendo releases a new tablet-like game console just in time for the holidays. The WSJ's Daisuke Wakabayashi gauges whether Wii U can help Nintendo boost revenue and compete with rivals.
Like its famous character Super Mario in his latest game, Nintendo Co. is trying to outrun its enemies.
The Japanese videogame pioneer, coming off of its first annual loss in more than three decades, began selling the Wii U in U.S. stores Sunday—its first home console in six years.
With the new machine, Nintendo is betting it can continue to push pricey hardware in a videogame market where most of the growth has been in software for smartphones and other mobile gadgets.
"The changes that have taken place over the last few years are massive," said Nintendo President Satoru Iwata in a recent interview. "If we don't do anything to keep pushing forward, we may see demand shrink as those devices encroach on our space."
After unveiling the new Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo of America's President Reggie Fils-Aime stopped by the WSJ offices for a private demonstration of the new console. Plus, Fils-Aime sits with WSJ's Paul Vigna to discuss Nintendo's strategy for Wii U.
Starting at $299, the Wii U packs high-definition graphics with a 6.2-inch, tabletlike controller that offers a second screen in addition to the television display—a big change from the current generation's more simple motion-sensing wand.
In packing more technological muscle, Nintendo aims to win over the core gamers who never fully embraced the motion-sensing games of the original Wii.
It is a pricey gamble: The cost of manufacturing the touch-screen controller, known as the Wii U GamePad, forces Nintendo to sell the machine at a loss, a trade-off to draw in a large base of consumers who will eventually buy the high-margin Wii U software. It is a common strategy in the industry, but one that Nintendo has tried to avoid in the past.
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Three years ago, Nintendo was king of the $78 billion videogame industry. The Wii was a smash hit and Nintendo's DS hand-held was the best-selling portable gaming device.
But a series of stumbles—a lukewarm debut for Nintendo's 3DS hand-held game player and a sharp decline in Wii sales—raised questions about whether the company is on the wrong side of a generational divide.
Nintendo has refused to veer from its tried-and-tested formula of creating dedicated videogame machines, passing up a potentially lucrative opportunity to apply its game-making prowess to billions of smartphone and tablet users.
By 2016, the number of mobile phones sold world-wide is expected to reach 2.24 billion units while the tablet market is expected to top 364 million units, according to research firm Gartner Inc. IT -0.14% Gartner Inc. U.S.: NYSE $69.95 -0.10 -0.14% July 25, 2014 2:23 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 204,476 P/E Ratio 35.07 Market Cap $6.32 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $304,179 07/23/14 Data Storage Recast By Softwar... 07/16/14 Some Standard Assembly Require... 07/09/14 Swoon in PC Sales Eases More quote details and news » The number of videogame consoles is expected to total 48.8 million units.
"If Nintendo were to put their games on mobile they would probably sell millions of copies," said Michael Pachter, a Los Angeles-based analyst at Wedbush Securities.
Even its console rivals Sony and Microsoft are hedging their bets. Sony created a specialized app store, called "PlayStation Mobile," offering about 30 new games that work with some phones and tablets powered by Google Inc. GOOG -0.77% Google Inc. Cl C U.S.: Nasdaq $588.81 -4.54 -0.77% July 25, 2014 2:23 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 567,189 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $404.31 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $1,321,150 07/23/14 Facebook Answers Critics With ... 07/22/14 EU Prepares to Step Up Google ... 07/21/14 MTV, Spotify in Music-Streamin... More quote details and news » 's Android operating system. Microsoft has integrated Xbox features into computers, tablets and smartphones running its latest software.
Speaking together at Nintendo's corporate headquarters in Kyoto, Japan, Mr. Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's top game creator who is credited with many best-selling titles including "Super Mario Bros." and "Legend of Zelda," said that only by creating its own unique hardware can Nintendo offer games that can't be replicated on other devices.
"We think it's the least cool thing to start doing something just because other people are making money doing it," said Mr. Iwata. "We always want to do something that forces people to slap their knee and say 'we didn't think of that.'"
Messrs. Iwata and Miyamoto said they are worried about "devaluing" Wii U's software by making the games available on phones and other devices overrun by games that are either free or sell for a fraction of the price of traditional console software. A game for the Wii U game console about $60, while most smartphone and tablet games cost less than $10 and many sell for as little as 99 cents.
Traditional console games tend to be more sophisticated, but players with limited time and money may find the free and low-priced games good enough.
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"You get a lot of entertainment for less money than you used to," said Nexon Chief Financial Officer Owen Mahoney.
Mr. Mahoney said Nexon strives to offer the type of creative, entertaining games that Nintendo is known for but does so with a different business model. Free games allow users to try new titles that they may be reluctant to pay for, and developers can monitor which games gain momentum and devote resources to the most popular.
But Mr. Iwata, who started programming videogames on his calculator as a teenager during the 1970s, holds philosophical reservations with the free-to-play model that entices users to make in-game purchases to gain a leg-up during gameplay. He said he wonders if this is a good way to develop a long-term relationship with customers.
"History will decide whether we're right," said Mr. Iwata. "Or whether the people who say we're old fashioned are correct."
Nintendo started dabbling with the concept of a game machine with a second-screen controller in 2009. At the time, the Wii was still selling well, but Nintendo executives saw its broader reach as a living room hub limited because it required the Wii to monopolize the family's TV when it was in use.
"We wanted to become independent from the TV," said Mr. Miyamoto.
The wireless controller can function separately from the television, so a person can continue playing a game on the GamePad when someone else is using the TV. It only works within close proximity to the console, so the controller isn't meant to be a portable device outside the home.
To push the idea of making the controller a key device in the living room, Nintendo built in a Web browser and video chat capability. The company also added a remote control function that works with video recorders, set-top boxes from cable and satellite providers, and online video services such as those from Hulu LLC and Netflix Inc. NFLX -0.74% Netflix Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $422.25 -3.13 -0.74% July 25, 2014 2:23 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.15M P/E Ratio 123.37 Market Cap $25.56 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $2,102,160 07/25/14 BSkyB to Buy Sky Italia, Sky D... 07/22/14 HEARD ON THE STREET: Comcast B... 07/22/14 Comcast Pares Video-Subscriber... More quote details and news »
The tablet-style controller can also allow for games where one player has different information than the rest of the players (known as asynchronous gameplay). One of the early games Nintendo created that uses this function is "Nintendo Land: Mario Chase"—a videogame version of hide-and-seek.
In the game, the player controlling Mario holds the Wii U GamePad and enters the maze with a 10 second head start. With the GamePad controller, that player can see where all the other players are in the maze. Up to four other players try to catch Mario, but the chasers, looking at the TV, can only see the view straight ahead.
"This is a totally new structure that allows a new way of play," said Mr. Iwata.
Mr. Iwata said shoppers snapped up the entire allotment of Wii U preorders at U.S. videogame retailer GameStop Corp. GME -0.95% GameStop Corp. Cl A U.S.: NYSE $45.66 -0.44 -0.95% July 25, 2014 2:23 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 888,788 P/E Ratio 14.36 Market Cap $5.25 Billion Dividend Yield 2.89% Rev. per Employee $539,441 07/20/14 Now on Sale: Six Promising Ret... 05/23/14 Stocks to Watch: Aeropostale, ... 05/22/14 GameStop 1st-Quarter Profit Ri... More quote details and news » in less than two days in September, with more than 250,000 people on a waiting list. It remains to be seen whether Nintendo can sustain demand after the holiday surge.
After its North American debut, the Wii U will roll out in Europe on Nov. 30 and on Dec. 8 in Japan. Nintendo said it aims to sell 5.5 million units by the end of March, and hopes to sell 24 million units of software for the new console during the same period. The company plans to offer the basic Wii U model for $299 in the U.S., while a version with additional memory and a copy of the game "Nintendo Land" which contains a dozen mini-games including "Mario Chase," will sell for $349.
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By Thom Jennings
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Night & Day — Over the next week, The Rapids Theatre has two impressive hard rock shows coming to the region. On Sunday, Buckcherry returns to the region after a hugely successful show in North Tonawanda last summer. They are joined by special guests Heaven's Basement. Two days later, Papa Roach and Stone Sour come to town for a Tuesday night show.
Papa Roach and Buckcherry have co-headlined tours in recent years, the last time being in 2011 when the pair appeared on the Rock Allegiance Tour together.
Formed in Los Angeles in 1995, Buckcherry is headed by vocalist Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson, both of whom have been in the band since its inception. After achieving commercial success in the late '90s the band split up in 2002, and then reformed in 2005 releasing their signature hit "Crazy Bitch."
Buckcherry has toured with some of the biggest names in rock music including AC/DC, Motley Crue, and Kiss. They performed at Gratwick Park in North Tonawanda July 15 of last year along with Fuel. The hour and a half performance featured a great selection from the band's catalogue, including "Lit Up" and "Dirty Mind."
This time around, Buckcherry will be performing songs from their upcoming studio album entitled "Confessions," which is scheduled for release on Feb. 19. A single from the album entitled "Gluttony" is available to stream on YouTube.
Opening for Buckcherry is a four-piece hard rock outfit from the UK called Heaven's Basement. The band has toured with Papa Roach, Theory of a Deadman and Shinedown. They are appearing in advance of their debut album entitled "Filthy Empire." Their management sent me an advance copy of the album and I can honestly say it is impressive. If it's available at the show I highly recommend you grab a copy.
Formed in 1993 in Vacaville California, Papa Roach is best known for songs like "Last Resort," "Scars" and Lifeline. They have released seven studio albums including their latest entitled "The Connection" which was released in October. Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix is coming off of throat surgery, and early reports say that his voice sounds great.
Stone Sour formed in 1992 in Des Moines, Iowa. It was ten years before they released their eponymous major label debut in 2002. Last year Stone Sour released their fourth studio album "House of Gold and Bones-Part 1," and plans are for the band to release House of Gold and Bones-Part 2" later this year.
One thing new this year from The Rapids Theatre is that the venue is offering VIP cards for their concerts. There are two levels, and they offer the concertgoer secured parking, coat check and other benefits including early entry for general admission shows. The passes are not available day of show, so if you want to use them for these shows you must purchase them in advance.
Tickets for Buckcherry with Heaven's Basement on Sunday January 20th at 7:30 p.m. are available at the Ticketfly.com for $25 in advance and $30 day of show if available. Tickets for Papa Roach and Stone Sour Tuesday Janauary 22 at 7:00 p.m. are $32.50 in advance, $37.50 day off show if available. Tickets are also available at the Rapids Theatre box office the day show.IF YOU GO • WHAT: Buckcherry with Heaven's Basement, 7:30 p.m. Sunday • WHAT: Papa Roach and Stone Sour, 7 p.m. Tuesday • WHERE: Rapids Theatre, 1711 Main St., Niagara Falls • TICKETS: Buckcherry ($25 advance, $30 day of), Papa Roach ($32.50 advance, $37.50 day of) Thom Jennings is covering the local concert and music scene for Night and Day.


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Cambria County Controller Edward Cernic Jr., has robbed Peter to pay Paul, as the old saying goes, and has enough money to meet the county's $1.2 million payroll today, but little money is in place for the final two months of 2013.
Cernic, controller for the past eight years, says he's concerned.
"We've never had to do this this early," said Cernic on Thursday. "We're making payroll this week, but after that I don't know."
During the past several weeks the county, by borrowing from the fund balances of its agencies, has generated $2.6 million in funds to cover the payroll and the $1 million tab due for health care costs at the first of each month.
But the reserve accounts from agencies such as Area Agency on Aging, drug and alcohol and other county human services branches have been tapped heavily, leaving each with a $10,000 reserve, Cernic said.
As of Thursday, the county had a general fund total of a little over $100,000, Cernic said. Unpaid bills totaled $300,000.
While some funds are anticipated over the next two months in the form of state reimbursements for services provided by county agencies, nearly all real estate tax revenue has been paid and spent, Cernic said.
Budget meetings by the commissioners to develop a spending plan for 2014 are already well underway, President Commissioner Douglas Lengenfelder said. Work is being done to guarantee money will be available for the next payroll and health insurance premium due Nov. 1.
Lengenfelder said the tight cash flow problem comes as no surprise because of the change in the budget approach taken last year.
"We're working out something with the banks. The deal is in the works," Lengenfelder said.
"We're working with the banks in the hopes of putting the county in a better position at the end of the year."
Lengenfelder said details of the plan will be revealed in an upcoming commissioners' meeting. The board next meets at 10 a.m. Thursday.
"We knew at the beginning of this year that for October to December money would be tight," he said.
In late November, the commissioners unveiled a 2013 budget of $56.7 million which avoided a tax increase in part by freezing wages of nonunion and management workers.
They also asked departments and agencies to reduce by 4.75 percent their proposed budgetary requests in the hopes of keeping operating costs down.
Introduced at that time was a zero-based budgeting process used in developing budget requests, a move Lengenfelder said made people look at what they're doing and spending.
"Last year, we got our hands around the scope of the problem and some very smart folks are coming up with a long-term remedy," he said.
Lengenfelder questioned Cernic's analysis that the agencies funds have been all but exhausted.
While not offering specifics, Lengenfelder said the agencies still have some money available.
"There are other dollars that can't be touched. There is money the county can't touch," he said. "We're not ready to default on anything. We've been working on this all year."
Kathy Mellott covers the Cambria County courthouse for The Tribune-Democrat. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ kathymellotttd.


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NORMAN — Interstate 35 will be replaced in connection with the Main Street interchange project, officials said Thursday.
The issue was recognized during construction.
"They got the first bridge piers up and realized there was a problem," Norman Public Works Director Shawn O'Leary said.
ODOT officials had hoped to salvage the existing roadbed while widening it to three lanes in each direction.
"About three months ago, it was reported to city staff that the ODOT team had detected a design concern with the project as it related to the vertical clearance between the new bridge and the current interstate highway," O'Leary said. "Those clearance standards have changed over the years since that original highway was built because trucks are getting taller. You can't raise the new bridge, so the only practical solution is to lower the existing highway to create the vertical clearance."
The Main Street bridge and interchange project is a SPUI — a Single Point Urban Interchange designed to use space more efficiently and allow for the safe movement of higher volumes of traffic within a limited space. Oklahoma's first SPUI was completed last year at Interstate 40 and Morgan Road. Norman will have the second SPUI in the state.
"There are unforeseen issues in any construction project, and those issues become something you have to adapt to," said Caleb Riemer, Oklahoma Department of Transportation resident engineer. "Instead of leaving the existing lanes in place, we will be reconstructing those to the profile grade that was on the project."
The design challenges are strictly related to the outdated grade of this stretch of I-35 and are not related to the SPUI design. While the state's investment has increased, it was a pay-now-or-pay-later situation.
Paul Rachel, the Division 3 engineer with ODOT, said while the project will be delayed somewhat, the silver lining is that Norman will get a stretch of three-lane interstate that is homogenous with current grade standards instead of piecemeal improvements. The end result will be better in the long term.


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A gravestone will be returned to relatives of a World War I veteran from Nebraska.
The stone had turned up in the municipal burn pile of the east-central town of Bradshaw and was turned over to Bradshaw Cemetery caretaker Bob Goodridge, who then tried to find out where it belonged.
Goodridge told the York News-Times on Monday that several people who had seen the newspaper's story about the gravestone joined his sleuthing effort.
It turns out the military-style gravestone of Lawrence F. Steenson had been at the Grand Island Cemetery and likely had been replaced by a different marker. How it ended up in Bradshaw remains a mystery.
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LAPEL, Ind. — The disappointment was written all over Lapel coach Tim Miller's face after Friday's homecoming game.
Not in the Bulldogs' 36-0 loss to Triton-Central in a rain-soaked rout. But in his team's loss of composure in the face of adversity.
Leading 28-0 in the fourth quarter and on Lapel's 41, Tigers quarterback Dillon Nelson rolled to his right and threw an incomplete pass. Behind the play, a Tri-Central lineman blindsided a Lapel defender and his teammates took exception. When the scrum was sorted out, a Bulldogs' player was ejected and the Tigers had the ball on the 26. Six plays later, Tri-Central scored its final touchdown.
There were two Lapel players ejected Friday, and both will be ineligible for next Saturday's game against Scecina. Miller made it clear the entire team's behavior was unacceptable.
"I'm very disappointed with our kids acting like that," Miller said. "This town has more character (than that). That's why you move your family here, because of the character of the people in this town. And that shouldn't happen here."
The Bulldogs (2-3) were understandably frustrated by their inability to move the ball. Lapel managed just 142 yards of offense, and quarterback Brady Cherry, the second-leading passer in the state before Friday, was largely ineffective. Cherry finished 12-of-31 for 93 yards and three interceptions. The first-year QB was obviously bothered by the rain, often wiping his right hand on his pants just before re-gripping and throwing the ball.
Triton Central stymied the ground game as well. The bulk of Lapel's 49 rushing yards came during the final minutes of the game when Austin Ward and Will Jones combined for 24 yards.
Miller thought the Bulldogs made enough plays to put themselves in position to score but mentally took themselves out of the game.
"I don't think the weather should have affected us at all. We're not the first team that's had to pass in the rain," Miller said. "I think we let it mentally affect us but it shouldn't have."
Nelson led the Tigers on 6-of-8 passing for 110 yards, including a 32-yard touchdown pass to Drake Holtz. Jonah Thacker, a small but slippery back who fought for every yard, muscled his way to 79 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries. Tri-Central's defense also got in on the scoring action as DJ Simpson blocked a Cherry punt and returned it nine yards for a TD.
Miller has put the onus on the Bulldogs to refocus and regroup themselves before Saturday's game. He felt the team took a step forward in last week's win over Park Tudor but were just going through the motions during this week's practice.
"Hopefully, this gets their attention," Miller said. "I think we can play with a team like Triton Central. And I think our kids believe that. We just have to prove it."


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A female elementary school teacher in South Texas has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having sex with a 12-year-old male student.
A judge in San Antonio on Tuesday sentenced 41-year-old Lucinda Rodriguez Caldwell as part of a plea agreement.
Caldwell pleaded no contest to felony indecency with child by exposure. She originally was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and could have received life in prison if convicted.
Caldwell taught fifth grade at Cable Elementary School in the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio when she was arrested in July 2010. She resigned after being accused of having several sexual encounters with the boy.
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Kenya is home to more than 100 bat species, but these invaluable animals face an array of threats from human settlement and charcoal burning to witch doctors and agriculture. And bats have few human allies in Kenya. Now two local conservationists are not only educating residents about the importance of bats, but also teaching the skills needed to protect them.
Simon Musila and Judith Mbau, both of the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, said the goodwill of villages and towns is critical to bat conservation. So they visited four sites along the nation's coast, assessing bat diversity and interviewing local residents of their attitudes toward the flying mammals.
They found that villagers generally knew that bats provide such important services as eating insects, seed dispersal and pollinating plants. But their perceptions of bats were overwhelmingly negative. Many considered them to be messengers of evil, ghosts or bad omens. Such attitudes lead to direct killing of bats, the felling of mango trees used as roosts, and attacking roosting bats with slingshots.
Kenya's coastal bats also suffer from frequent loss of habitat as forests are cleared for farming and human settlements, while bat caves are often overused for tourism and cultural ceremonies, and by witch doctors as sites for consultations with local residents.
Musila and Mbau, with support from BCI's Global Grassroots Conservation Fund, used data from their interviews for a bat-awareness workshop in Mombasa, Kenya's second-largest city. The goal was to empower local communities with real knowledge regarding bats. They invited coastal residents who had shown previous interest in conservation and who were willing to share what they learned with their neighbors.
With posters, a BCI bat-identification guide, formal lectures, taxidermy bats from the National Museums and an assortment of bat-capture equipment, the workshop were judge a major success by those who attended.
The participants produced a list of 39 significant bat-roosting sites based on their personal knowledge of the coastal region. After the workshop, Musila and Mbau visited most of those sites to identify priority roosts for conservation efforts. Kenya's coastal strip is rich in bat roosts, with a number of caves, as well as roosts in trees, especially mango and baobab trees in the villages, towns and in Mombasa City.
Musila and Mbau note that this initial step toward bat conservation along coastal Kenya is a modest one. But their workshop participants already are sharing their new knowledge, and the prospects for conservation are good.
"We hope to continue and expand this effort into the future by introducing bat houses, which do not yet exist in Kenya, to address the declining availability of natural roosts along the Kenyan coast," the two conservationists said.
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CARY — Wake County school board members voted Tuesday to work with county commissioners on school construction rather than just hand over authority for building, maintaining and renovating schools to them.
In November, Republican commissioners approved and proposed an inter-local agreement spelling out circumstances under which the school board might ask commissioners to take responsibility for school construction.
On Tuesday night, the school board approved a revised form of the agreement that gives them the option of turning over individual projects to the commissioners, but also lays out how both boards can work together on acquiring sites and designing schools.
"What we are working to do is to have enhanced collaboration and cooperation with the county commissioners," school board Chairwoman Christine Kushner said after the vote.
Board members said they forwarded a copy of the revised agreement to the commissioners on Tuesday, but county board Chairman Phil Matthews said he couldn't comment until he has had a chance to review the changes.
With the school system in the early stages of a $983 million construction program, the pact could pave the way for changes in how schools are built and maintained. Both boards are expected to discuss the agreement at a joint meeting in February.
The Republican-led commissioners have been feuding with the school board since Democrats won a majority on that panel back from Republicans in 2011. The two boards temporarily put aside their differences to persuade voters to approve an $810 million school construction bond issue in October. But after the bond issue passed, the debate resumed.
One dispute is over who should control school construction.
Last year, commissioners unsuccessfully lobbied the General Assembly for a state law that would shift authority for school construction from the school board to the county commissioners.
Earlier this month, the commissioners had cited the school board's lack of a response to the proposed agreement as one of the reasons they had refused to allocate $3 million needed to design four new schools. In the aftermath of that vote, the leaders of both boards held a private meeting Friday.
School board members reviewed the changes to the agreement behind closed doors Tuesday before unanimously voting in public to approve the document with their revisions.
"This is a good-faith attempt to work with them," Kushner said. "It outlines a good-faith system of checks and balances."
Changes made by the school board include laying out a detailed process for the county and schools staffs to work together on finding sites and developing school designs. The new wording also calls for both boards to meet together annually to discuss property acquisition, school building design and construction.
"This is an effort to expand that spirit of collaboration with county staff," school board member Bill Fletcher said. "To go another mile to make sure the county commission is fully informed as to the processes we use and the clarity and specificity with which we go about that responsibility of building schools for our students."
Also on Tuesday, the board heard feedback from meetings school administrators have held with principals and teachers about how they can help teachers do their jobs better. One of the "strong themes," Deputy Superintendent Cathy Moore said, was to review options to restore having a consistent, districtwide, professional-learning team meeting time for teachers each week.
This could result in something similar to what was done in the 2009-10 school year when school was dismissed an hour early every Wednesday so that teachers could meet for planning and professional development. Critics called it "Wacky Wednesdays" because it resulted in parents having to pay additional child care costs.
Kushner advised her colleagues to be cautious about considering whether to restore that controversial program.
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Omaha police have identified the victim of an early morning shooting Thursday.
Fifty-five-year-old Lee Page was walking in the area of 21st and Locust around 2:45 a.m. when someone approached him demanding money.
Page tried to run away and was shot. He walked into the Alegent Creighton University Medical Center and was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Around 2:45 a.m., 55-year-old Lee Page walked into Creighton University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the chest. His injuries are not considered life-threatening.
He originally told officers he was walking in the area of 21st and Locust when a black male approached him and demanded money. Page reported that he was shot as he tried to run away; however, as police continued to question Page, his story changed.
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With a new, more rigorous GED test coming next year, local adult education administrators are pushing adult students to take the test as soon as possible.
The nonprofit American Council on Education, partnering with for-profit education publisher Pearson PLC, is rolling out the 2014 General Education Development test with tougher elements based on the federal Common Core education standards.
State legislators are considering other ways to award high school equivalency diplomas, since the test will be almost double the cost of the current 2002-era test. In the meantime, those who've started the GED process are being urged to finish it by the end of the year.
In Cass County, 18 percent of adults 25 years and older don't have a high school diploma or equivalent, according to data from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
"Our number one concern right now is those students who have previously taken the GED but maybe haven't passed a section or two," said Tami McMahan, director of the Cass Logan Educational Attainment Resource center in Logansport. "They only have until the end of this year to pass the current GED and if they don't, they have to start all over."
The center offers adult GED preparation classes. It can register adults for up to 10 GED tests per month, she added.
Since CLEAR launched in October 2010, the center has administered 177 GED tests. From that, 17 of the center's classroom students have failed to pass at least one of the five sections of the current GED test. Another 37 adults who registered for the tests through CLEAR without first attending the center's preparatory classes have also taken the test without passing one or more sections.
CLEAR is urging those students to "close out" their tests, McMahan said, "just trying to get them to come in, get a couple classes, polish up on what they didn't pass."
The center charges most students $60 for each test. Two tests per year are sponsored by a local sorority and the Region 4 Workforce Board of WorkOne funds a few tests each year.
Should the cost of a high school equivalency diploma rise, McMahan said, "I think that's going to be a huge challenge."
"We have students that can't afford it at $60," she added.
Some of those students are eligible for a test sponsored by WorkOne, which paid for 13 tests during the 2011-2012 school year for students pursuing full-time employment through WorkOne services, according to Region 4 board chief operations officer Deb Waymire. "We've not had to turn anyone down because of funding," she said.
While the current GED test is a pencil-and-paper test, the new one will be computerized and will embed writing-related assessments within other content areas.
CLEAR will not be a certified testing center for the 2014 GED test, McMahan said, unless it comes up with a little under $1,000 for certification through the testing service.
But whatever changes come down the pike, McMahan doubts they'll hurt efforts to improve local educational attainment.
"A lot of times there's panic in the unknown, and right now there's a lot of unknowns," she said, adding that staff at the state workforce development office are putting significant time and research into their decisions.
"I think in the end that, while we may have some bumps along the way, I think we have the support at the local and state level that we can work through those bumps," McMahan said.
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The Honorable Augustus Christian Martin, 68, of Ladson, S.C, entered into eternal rest Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. Born July 29, 1944 in Macungie, he was a son of the late Edward H. Martin and the late Jennie M. Hammond.
After graduating from Emmaus High School, Martin enlisted in the United States Navy and served more than seven years on active duty in the submarine service. After leaving the Navy, he obtained an associate degree in Electrical/Electronics Technology from the Pennsylvania State University and began a 32-year career with Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. in 1970.
During his career at PP&L he attended night school and received a B.A. in Economics from Lafayette College, an M.B.A. from Lehigh University, and a J.D. from Temple University. He received his Professional Engineer's License in 1977 and was admitted to the Bar in 1986. After admission, Martin was actively involved in Bar Association activities, including serving as president of the Bar Association of Lehigh County. Martin was the first corporate counsel to serve as president and believed that all lawyers, regardless of their employment, should not only support, but also be involved in bar association activities to ensure high ethical and professional standards.
A dynamic advocate for the local community, Martin served as a member and president of the East Penn School Board and as a trustee, vice chairman and chairman of the Lehigh Carbon Community College Board. He also served as Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troup 71 in Macungie.
Known to family and friends as "Gus," he traveled to Japan many times over the last 20 years to study the martial art of ninjustu. Having achieved the level of 13th dan, he studied the art from the perspective of a multi-dimensional professional background. He helped many other students see the value of using ninjutsu as a basis for self-development by applying tenets of the art to a broader spectrum of life.
Survivors: He is survived by his daughter, Kim Martin Korda and her husband, Peter, of Larchmont, N.Y, two sons, Andrew C. Martin and his wife, Margaret, of Alexandria, Va., and Jonathan R. Martin and his wife, Denise, of Bordentown, N.J. Five grandchildren; Samantha, Alexander, Cara, Jessica, Isabella, a sister, Betty, and four brothers, Ed, Bob, Jim, and his twin brother, Ben. Gus will be missed by a large, extended family and by many friends and colleagues.
Services: A Funeral Service will be held at noon on Saturday, Feb. 23, in the Schantz Funeral Home, P.C., 250 Main St., Emmaus. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. – noon in Schantz Funeral Home on the day of the service. Inurnment will follow at a later date. Online condolences may be made to Schantz Funeral Home.
Contributions: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, Children of Fallen Patriots or the United States Submarine Veterans Charitable Foundation.
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Braintree Town's FA Trophy game is postponed
10:44am Saturday 24th November 2012 in Local Sport By Simon Spurgeon
Braintree Town's FA Carlsberg Trophy First Round march at home to Havant and Waterlooville, that had been scheduled to be played on Saturday afternoon, has been postponed.
The game will now be played this coming Tuesday - November 27 - with a 7.45pm kick-off.
The club announced on Saturday morning that the Amlin Stadium pitch had been inspected by a local referee.
With the surface already heavy, with prolonged spells of rain forecast in the run-up to the scheduled 3pm kick-off and in agreement with the match referee, it was decided that the pitch would not be playable.
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In the video clip at right, Michele Bachmann accuses Keith Ellison of "a long record" of association with the Muslim Brotherhood—a claim Ellison flatly denies in the video clip at left.
A between the two members of Congress from neighboring Minnesota districts got personal Thursday, as Bachmann directly tied Ellison to her claims of "" of the U.S. federal government by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Here is an excerpt from a transcript of the Bachmann's interview with Glenn Beck:
REP. BACHMANN: And they call for Jerusalem to become Egypt's capital, not Israel's capital. They call for the demise of Israel and the demise of the United States. They believe in civilization, jihad, which is to come into the United States and subvert the United States from within. I know it sounds like radical stuff, but all you have to do is look—right, just look at the Muslim Brotherhood and who they say they are.
GLENN BECK: Okay. So when you wrote this letter, then Keith Ellison comes out. And Keith Ellison is—he has a record of being the Mafia hitman.
REP. BACHMANN: Well, he has a long record of being associated with CAIR and with the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR is an unindicted co‑conspirator, as stated in the large terrorist financing case that we've had in the United States of America and so he came out and essentially wanted to shut down the inspectors general from even looking into any of the questions that we were asking. So he wanted to shut it down. In response I wrote another letter back to Keith Ellison, a 16‑page letter which I would encourage all of your listeners to go and read this letter. It's what I call a bulletproof letter. I have 59 footnotes with one example after another of the penetration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the federal government. One of the most recent is so outrageous, it's hard to believe. Two weeks ago the State Department broke its own law, like I said, and let a foreign terrorist come into the United States, into the White House, meet with the National Security Council—
Here is the first part of Ellison's exchange with Anderson Cooper on CNN:
ANDERSON COOPER: She's saying you have a long record of being associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Is that true?
REP. ELLISON: No. That's not true.
COOPER: Do you support the Muslim Brotherhood?
ELLISON: You know, I don't support any organization. I support American institutions. I don't know enough about them. What I know about them is that in Egypt one of their candidates has ascended to the presidency. I've never met that person. But I do think the United States should have a foreign policy where we talk to foreign leaders of all kinds. But no, I don't have any Muslim Brotherhood connections that she's talking about.
COOPER: And when she says you are trying to shut down their investigation, what do you make of that?
ELLISON: I am absolutely not trying to shut down their investigation. What I'm trying to do is to raise a concern about unfounded allegations of disloyalty—specifically with regard to [Secretary of State Clinton's deputy chief of staff] Huma Abedin and a few other people who she mentioned. But I mean, if she has legitimate evidence, she should go forward. All I did was ask her to put up the proof.


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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal — A Gasport man will return to Niagara County Court next month, after pleading not guilty Wednesday to an assortment of charges — including rape and assault — stemming from a domestic violence incident.
Justin West, 32, has been charged with two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of assault and two counts of first degree sexual abuse. Assistant Niagara County District Attorney Lisa M. Baehre said West was arrested Aug. 23.
West remains in Niagara County Jail on $50,000 bail, after County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III denied Baehre's request to increase it to $250,000. A pretrial conference is scheduled for Oct. 23 and a tentative trial date is set for Feb. 3.
Baehre told Murphy the reason she requested an increase in bail is because of West's alleged "long domestic violence history." There are pictures of injuries the victims suffered, as well as pictures of holes in a wall made reportedly by West smashing the victim's head through it.
• In another Niagara County Court case, Judge Sara S. Farkas put a Town of Lockport man on probation so he could continue mental health treatment.
David B. Tomporowski, 31, Birchwood Drive, was originally charged with burglarizing a Kenyon's Variety store last year on Robinson Road. Farkas gave him five years of probation so he could continue with treatment, which is working, he said.
"The process has changed my life," Tomporowski said in court.
• A Texas man appeared before Farkas Wednesday on a warrant that has been outstanding for almost 13 years.
Nahshon T. Hughes, 33, of Killeen, Texas, was taken to Niagara County Jail on Monday. According to Baehre, an warrant was out for his arrest since May 2000 when Hughes failed to show up for sentencing. The court did not have much information on Hughes, so Farkas scheduled a status report hearing for Oct. 2.
Hughes was given six-month interim probation in 2000 for a felony but left for Texas to help a family member, attorney Michael Benedict said. Hughes remains in county jail on $5,000 bail.
Contact reporter Joe Olenick at 439-9222, ext. 6241, or follow him on Twitter @joeolenick.


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One pitcher the Minnesota Twins should sell high
by, 07-12-2013 at 02:02 PM (608 Views)
Originally posted at The Tenth Inning Stretch
It is a weekend series with the Yankees away from the All Star break, and it is obvious that the 2013 version of the Minnesota Twins is not much better than the 2012, so understandable, they should be "sellers" in the fast approaching trading deadline. Several names of players, like Justin Morneau, Josh Willingham, even Trevor Plouffe and Glen Perkins have been mentioned as potential "trade bait". I strongly believe that non-contending teams with plenty of faults should rebuild by trading players at the last year of their contracts and trade veterans or players in their late 20s at their peak of their value ("selling high".)
From the aforementioned only Justin Morneau (last contract season) and Glen Perkins (value peak, plus friendly contract) fit the bill. I would like to examine whether there other potential players who the Twins should think about trading based on peak of their value. I have to mention that the Twins have been extremely bad about trading players at the peak of their value, and instead they sell low or give away. For every Bobby Kielty, AJ Pierzynski and Denard Span (3 examples of players sold high,) there is an army of Delmon Young, Fransisco Liriano, Jose Mijares, Kevin Slowey, Alex Burnett, Joe Nathan, Nick Blackburn, Mike Cuddyer, Carl Pavano etc who just rode into the sunset. Selling high and selling impeding free agents before the hit the market is how good teams, like the Tampa Bay Rays, keep themselves competitive year after year.
So the Twins should trade Justin Morneau and Glen Perkins (but not give them away.) Anyone else who according to this formula should be a candidate?
Enter Casey Fien.
Casey Fien will turn 30 this October and arguably he is on the peak value for his career. He has pitched in 42 games (36.2 innings), struck out 40 and walked 7 (2 intentionally), has a 3.19 ERA, 9.8 K/9, 5.7 K/BB and a miniscule 0.791 WHIP. And last season, he became a fixture in the Twins' pen in the second half appearing in 35 games (36.2 innings), struck out 32 and walked 9 (4 intentionally), with a tiny 2.06 ERA, and a 0.971 WHIP.
Why trade him? At first glance he appears as a pitcher who can be Glen Perkins' replacement as a closer potentially. Why not go that route? Here are the reasons:
- He has been pitching over his head. This season his BABIP is .207; last season it was .229. This is not sustainable and expect a Diamond-like regression once balls start to go through.
- His numbers are better than his stuff. He is mainly a fastball and cutter/slider pitcher with an occasional slurve he uses as a change of pace. His fastball is in the low nineties and the cutter in the high eighties. This season he lost 2-3 mph of velocity in all of his offerings. I do not want to speculate the reason.
- RH middle relievers are the easiest players to replace. The Twins have a plethora of 6th starter/AAAA starters. It is very possible that conversion to the pen will have a Glen Perkins' like effect for them.
So I would add another name for the Twins to shop, that of (the mighty) Casey Fien.
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Sept. 18, 2013 — East Carter volleyball sweeps Morgan County
The East Carter volleyball team took the regular season series with the Morgan County Cougars, winning the match 3-0 (25-16, 25-8, 25-6).
The Lady Raiders (6-3) have not dropped a set since losing 0-3 to Raceland back on Aug. 26. They have won four straight matches.
East Carter will host Greenup County in Grayson on Thursday at 7 p.m. and will participate in the Citizens Bank Volleyball Throwdown at Bath County this weekend. From there, they will host Fairview Monday at 7:30 p.m.
West Carter boys soccer takes down Elliott County
The West Carter boys soccer team had to finish a game with Elliott County before the next scheduled game started and the Comets came away with two victories over the Lions.
In a game that was called for darkness a few weeks ago, West defeated Elliott 10-2. In the second game, the Comets downed the Lions 4-1 to have a 16th Region's best seventh win of the year.
In the shortened game, West had four goals from Troy Brickles, three goals from Tyler Glover, two from Peyton Adkins and Daniel Dehart had one. Glover finished the game with five assists. Cody James and Blade Conley each earned one assist each.
In the second game, Brickles and Glover added two more goals en route to a 4-1 victory. Glover added two assists while Brickles had one and Hunter Adams added an assist.
However, West Carter dropped a 3-1 decision to Bath County on Monday. They played at Boyd County on Tuesday. They will return home for a game against St. Patrick on Wednesday at 6 p.m. before hosting Paintsville on Saturday in the All "A" State sectional on Saturday at 5 p.m.


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If Laura Mulvey ever decided to write about cars, she'd have a field day with John Carpenter's 1983 Stephen King adaptation Christine. Forget cinema's "male gaze," [how's that for a reference, fellow film nerds?] she'd need to term the phrase "car gaze" as the film completely, and unabashedly, fetishes every single inch of the beautiful red 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine. The camera lingers on her every curve and shiny texture. It's quite a thing to behold. And who better to play the female equivalent of this fetishistic gaze in the film than the stunningly beautiful, and equally talented, Alexandra Paul. Only 19 years old at the time of filming, Paul handles the "second female lead" role of Leigh like a seasoned veteran and gives horror fans a reason to hope for poor Christine's destruction.
On the heels of the intended March 12 release date for Twilight Time's Limited Edition Blu-ray of Christine*, FEARnet sat down with the actress to discuss making out, playing second fiddle to a car, and the possibility of another Baywatch reunion.
*All 3,000 units sold out in the pre-order window.
Having watched Christine again this morning and I'm kind of struck by how, especially for someone in one of their first big roles, you do a lot of making out in this movie.
[Laughs] Yeah, it was my second movie. I'd done a TV movie before that. I remember being nervous at the scene in the drive-in, but Keith is such a nice guy that he made me feel more comfortable.
Now I'm just an old hand at it. I feel disappointed if I don't get to kiss a guy in a movie. [Laughs]
How was it working with Keith throughout the film?
Oh, he was fantastic. You know, he's such a nice man. He's one of the nicest people I know. He's really lovely, and he had so much experience. He did such a good job. Actually, Keith worked really closely with John Carpenter because it was complicated getting the arc of his character since we were shooting out of sequence. I wasn't a part of that.
Also, the primary relationship of Arnie is really with Christine, not with Leigh so, in a way, I was not the female lead. I was the second female lead. And that is why I hate that car! [Laughs]
You'd read the script before you started so you already knew that you were going to be playing second fiddle to a car.
Yeah, although you don't really realize it as much when you're reading your script because the car is just a car. She doesn't have lines, so it doesn't seem that way until, of course, you shoot it and then you realize that the car is the star of the film.
I'd go as far to say that she's the star of the film, even over Keith.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, she runs the show. As any good woman should. [Laughs]
I'm not sure if you know this, but Twilight Time's limited edition Blu-ray sold out in pre-orders in a matter of hours. Are you surprised that the fan base is still so rabid for this film, even after several decades?
You read my mind because that's what I was going to say. When you're making the movie, especially when you're 19 like I was, you don't think about the future at all. In fact, I couldn't even imagine that I would be around at 49, approaching 50.
No, I had no idea. I didn't think about it like that. Basically, when you're an actor working on a part, while you're shooting it you're thinking just of what's coming up for the next scene or the next day.
Christine is totally a "car movie." Even the way the camera moves completely fetishizes the car. Were you into cars at all before you decided to do the film?
I am not into cars and the only cars I'm into are ones that are electric, and only because they're emission-free.
I was not into cars and I had never read a Stephen King book or seen a Stephen King movie before I started this movie. After I was cast, and before we started shooting, I read the book Christine and I was really surprised at how good of a writer he was. It was a really good book.
I had a recurring dream when I was kid and it recurred for years. It was me crouching behind a big rock in front of our house (I grew up in the country) and down the road were these two headlights coming at me and I was scared. Now I just figure that was a pre-cursor to Christine for me.
I never saw the car. I just saw the headlights, and I woke up before anything bad happened. It was just that fear of the car coming towards me, so I was able to conjure that up pretty easily when we had to shoot those scenes.
When I was on the set, though, I was really fascinated with all the cars that they had on the set. There were 21 Christine cars in different states of disrepair. On the call sheet you'd see which Christine cars were being used: Muscle Car 1, Muscle Car 2, and things like that. They ended up destroying all but three of them during the filming.
After you did Christine, you went on to act in a bunch of genre projects. What is it about horror that pulls you in?
I'd actually like to do more. I don't watch horror because I'm still as wimpy as I was when I was 19, but I really love the fans because they're so loyal. I especially like it when there's humor with horror. That's the thing about horror fans; they run the gamut and they appreciate all the different areas of horror.
When you read horror scripts, do you do it through your hands while clenching your teeth?
[Laughs] When I read a script for an audition or something, or if it's not for when I'm actually cast, I skip through all the action parts with the killing and gore. I just look to see who died at the end. [Laughs]
Did working on Christine help prepare you for the rest of your career?
My career has gone through ups and downs so I think I was really lucky in that I came to Hollywood when I was 18, I had been cast in a TV movie [Paper Dolls], in which I starred, that was one of the top five TV movies of that year, and then I was cast in Christine. I was really on a roll.
Did it prepare me? I feel very fortunate. John Carpenter was wonderful and my co-stars were wonderful and I had such a good experience. When you're that young, you don't realize how luck you are. I just took it as, "Oh, I got a part. Good!" I didn't even understand John Carpenter's place in Hollywood then, at all, because I didn't watch those kinds of movies and I didn't see a lot of movies when I was growing up.
What's your favorite memory of the movie, on or off screen?
I fell in love when I was on that movie with William Ostrander, who plays Buddy Repperton.
I think every woman fell in love with him by watching Christine.
[Laughs] Because he's a bad boy. It's funny because normally I don't go for that. My husband is the straightest, sweetest, most wonderful, blondest guy.
Yeah, Bill was the love of my life before I met my husband so that was an important relationship for me. I felt very grateful for that.
And, then, I also dated for several years Barry Tubb, who played a football player in the film, but you never see his face. So those are two people from that movie that were important to me in my life.
I just have to know: Will we ever see another Baywatch reunion?
Yes! I am working with several of my Baywatch co-stars on this thing we have called The B Team. We're getting together to do something that doesn't really have to do with Baywatch, but it does happen to include about eight of us Baywatch people.
Is David Hasselhoff going to be involved at all?
Yeah, David will be involved. I talked to him this morning. We're very excited.
You can see Alexandra Paul as "Leigh" in Christine. The Limited Edition Blu-ray from Twilight Time sold out of all 3,000 units during the pre-order window so your best bet at this point might be finding one on eBay.


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Bobbi Kozul's got this recipe for hot dog sauce you could call a work in progress.
She's been working on it for the past 30 years or so, and she thinks she's finally got it down pat.
"I always just dumped or sprinkled the ingredients. Then it would turn out different each time. 'It doesn't taste the same,' people'd say. When my kids grew up and moved out, they wanted the recipe. So then I had to measure it," she said with a grin.
"Now I have it to where everybody really likes it."
Her first try at it was almost like a lesson in how to not make hot dog sauce.
"That first recipe was funny. It was just ground beef, but all I added was salt, pepper and ketchup. It didn't taste very good at all."
So next time she added some garlic powder, chili powder, tomato sauce ... and ketchup for thickener. She learned to boil the meat in water, not brown it, in just the right amount of water so that it's not too thick and not too thin. And just skim the grease off as it rises to the top.
Here's the important part: The sauce tastes better a day or two after you make it, she said.
"It will really taste good because your seasonings marry in the sauce and give it a really good flavor."
You can make the sauce mild, hotter or "breathing fire" hot, she said. Just depends on the crowd.
She started tinkering with the recipe after she moved to Ohio, where hot dog sauce and pepperoni buns might as well be from Mars.
"They didn't know anything about them. Then we moved to Connecticut, and they hadn't heard of them either. So I just kept trying to make mine taste good.
"My fiancé, who could turn into a hot dog, is always telling me I should open my own hot dog stand! What a compliment to any cook!" she said.
She eventually returned to her native Marion County with her children, Maresa and Robert, now 28 and 26.
She also makes pretty good spaghetti sauce and lasagna, says Bill Phillips, her fiancé.
The lasagna is a multi-day process, she said.
"You make the sauce at least three to four days in advance. Then, one to two days before, you cook up your meat and onions and garlic, and put them in the sauce. Then you make your noodles and cook it. It's all about the seasonings intermingling with your meat to get that good taste."
The eldest of 10 siblings, she likes to see a full table.
"When we had dinner, the whole family was around the table, sharing the day's activities," she said. "And even though we were all busy doing our own thing, at the end of the day, everybody came together as a family. This encourages the cook because that's how you get them all together."
Every once in a while, inspired to do something different, she turns to her cabinet of cookbooks in search of a new recipe.
"That may go over or it may not. If it's not good, which has happened a few times, you just dump it out and do something else.
"My mother, Joyce Schleicher, is a great cook. She learned early on how to make meals stretch. And she did a pretty good job. My grandfather always encouraged me to be in the kitchen because he loved to cook, too. But he made odd things you wouldn't find in a restaurant, like turtle soup or rabbit stew. I like to make deer meatballs and not tell people what they are," she said with a laugh.
Thanksgiving is held at her house every year. She'll make the turkey and mashed potatoes, dressing and green beans for the crowd of 32, while others bring more side dishes.
Phillips grew up on a farm, and is used to as much homemade food as he can get.
"Homemade bread, potatoes and some kind of meat. Always. That's how I grew up.
"Her food is really good," he said, patting his tummy. "I don't complain about it one bit. I'm not a small man, but I like to eat. And when she cooks, I overdo it all the time. It's all good."
For medical reasons, he can't have his beloved fried foods anymore, so Kozul makes her food tasty and healthy, too.
Even though they're grown and out of the house, her children will still call to see what's for dinner.
"Their favorite question, and I just laugh, is, 'What is it that you made?' Maybe they'll come for dinner and maybe not. Depends on what I fix."
She's carrying on the family tradition of home cooking with her niece, little Maddie Gump.
"When she comes to stay, we have to make something because she's learning to cook, too. She loves brownies. I wanted to make them the light way, with applesauce and not oil, but, well, she was having none of that. 'That's not the recipe,' she said. So we have to go exactly by the recipe for Miss Maddie. She has her little bonnet and apron, and gets things all over the table, but she does a good job."
Her spaghetti sauce, flavored with peppers and sausage, is her favorite, and others', too.
"I work for surgeons and when I bring it in in a Crock-Pot, one of the surgeons, even if he's in surgery, will come up and make sure he gets some of that."
Bill's favorite?
"I've got a list," he said, laughing. "I love her lasagna and her hot dog sauce and her stuffed shells. Everything she cooks is good. Whatever she cooks is basically my favorite."
Although her maiden name is Schleicher, she comes by her Italian cuisine honestly.
"My grandmother was Italian," she said. "I guess that all filtered down."
They celebrate Christmas Eve at the home of one of her sisters.
"They cook the feast of the seven fishes. She's an amazing cook, much better than I could be. She makes things restaurants would serve. You just don't eat a week before you go ... or after," she said laughing.
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All in the seasonings
Bobbi Kozul's got this recipe for hot dog sauce you could call a work in progress.
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Sweet enough
If you like something sweet, Jessi Polis has the cake for you.
Her orange cream cheese pound cake is light, refreshing and just sweet enough to satisfy those cravings.
This cake is her husband Sam's favorite, she said.
Powerful poppers
Paula Ansberry makes some pretty powerful pepper poppers.
She got the recipe from a friend a couple of years ago. She was a little hesitant to try one. She's not a spicy food kind of person.
Sweet success
People say they go to cookouts and picnics to get together with friends and family.
They say they like the burgers and dogs, and pasta, fruit and potato salads, and all those other side dishes you can't have a picnic without.
Art of cooking
Kim Holbert isn't one of those "Try it; you'll like it" kind of cooks.
She's more like, "You like it; I'll make it."
"If I know that you have a preference toward something, I aim it that way," she said.
Just home cooking
Food doesn't have to be fancy to be tasty.
Judy Starn learned this growing up on Sugar Lane in Catawba. She was the only girl in nine children of Woodrow and Anna Starn. One brother passed away, so she grew up among seven brothers.
"I like to cook, but I wouldn't say I'm a good cook," she said.
Just plain cooking
You know those pretty layered salads people put in clear glass bowls, and you have to lift all the layers out at the same time and then spread them out on a plate so everybody can see how pretty it is, and then they go "ooh" and "ahh"?
'Just plain good'
When it's just too darned hot to cook, or you need something cool and light in a jiffy, Josephine Vespoint has a quick-as-a-wink salad for you.
Take two cans of pears, and drain and place each pear right side up on a bed of lettuce.
All about family
All her life, Alma Hoy Parrish has been about one thing: family.
She's put the knowledge she learned at her mother's knee to good use during her 46-year marriage to Tom Parrish while raising their two children, Mike Parrish and Lori Hill.
Easy and versatile
There are salads that you ever-so-politely nibble on.
Not Cathy Davis' California Tossed Salad.
It fills a large bowl to the brim. You have to grab it with tongs, lift it to your plate and, as she says it, "dive on in."
It's filling. It's healthy. It's easy to make.
Light and fluffy
Grandmas are probably the world's best cooks.
Just ask anybody who's been lucky enough to have eaten their scrumptious cookies, luscious pies, fluffy cakes and wholesome breads.
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Our Wine & Beer experts offer a one hour introduction to wine. The topics vary, but you'll always learn a little more about the production process; the history of the vineyard and/or winery; and how to identify the aromas and flavors as you sample multiple wines in these well-priced classes.
Instructor: Central Market Beer & Wine Manager
Our Beer & Wine experts offer a one hour introduction to beer. The topics vary, but you'll always learn a little more about the production process; the history of the brewery; and how to identify the aromas and flavors as you sample multiple beers in these well-priced classes.


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There's snow in the forecast in Westminster. Rather than grumble, grab one of those new digital devices you received this holiday season and start snapping photos.
Is your dog adorable in the snow? Can your kids build the neighborhood's best snowman? Is your backyard at its prettiest when snow-covered? Is your street badly in need of a snow plow?
From your laptop or desktop, click here to upload photos to our gallery—be sure to give your photo a title. You can also post photos to the Boards on any Patch home page. Or, download the Patch mobile app and add the photo directly from your smartphone.
If you need help uploading your photo, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Stay warm and have fun!