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Romney for Senate? Succeeding Kennedy Could Help in 2012
Republican would get a chance to show the type of commander in chief he could be.
By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Though it may be hard to see at first, the passing of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts may have a profound impact on 2012's race for the GOP presidential nomination.
Back when Sen. John F. Kerry was his party's presidential nominee, the Massachusetts Legislature—which is overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats—changed the law to require that a special election be held after a vacancy occurs in one of its U.S. Senate seats rather than allow Republican Gov. Mitt Romney to make an appointment if Kerry had won.
The law is still that way today. (As he lay dying, Kennedy asked the state's political leaders, now that a Democrat was the commonwealth's chief executive, to revert to the previous method of picking a replacement.) And that means voters in Massachusetts will go to the polls, unless the law is changed soon, sometime in the next few months to pick a replacement for Kennedy.
Surprisingly enough, this brings things back full circle to Romney, who up to now has been busy laying the groundwork for another presidential bid in 2012. It would be an intriguing thing if, after waiting a day or two out of respect for the late senator, Romney were to downshift and announce he will be a candidate in the upcoming election to fill Kennedy's vacant Senate seat.
Such an announcement would likely be embraced immediately by the Republicans, who would like almost nothing more than to deny Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada his new, hard-won, 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority. As a self-funding candidate who has already been elected once statewide, Romney has nearly 100 percent name ID. And, in an environment where President Obama seems to be dragging the Democrats down, he would be a serious threat to the Democratic hegemony in Massachusetts's congressional delegation. Meaning Romney likely would win.
If he did, Romney would then have a platform to actually introduce legislation modeled on the proposals he put forward as a presidential candidate in 2008 and planned to put forward in 2012. No guesswork. No empty rhetoric. Real ideas, on the Senate floor, that could be evaluated, debated, and perhaps even voted on.
From the Senate floor, Romney could show his fellow Republicans, and the country, just what kind of president he would be. How he would approach national problems. As an added political benefit, it would give him the opportunity to establish true conservative bona fides allowing him to finally overcome the suspicions many conservatives in the GOP's primary electorate still harbor about him. Rather than tie him down, Romney could actually use the Senate seat to lock up the GOP nomination in 2012.


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From the frightening creatures that crawled from the
oorboards to haunt our youthful slumber to our struggle
to comprehend the symbolism behind the nocturnal chimeras of adulthood,
our dreams inspire us, terrify us, comfort us, and provide an endless mental
labyrinth of imagination and possibility. Even our daydreams provide us with
respite and oen result in increased creativity and innovative thought.
With "Reverie", the women of FRINGE bring to light
the visions that were borne of the dark.
Juried group exhibition featuring art from:
Christie Hackler, Christie Owen, Angela Westerman, Lisa Jean Allswede,
Brandi Downham, Sarah Day Short, Krystle Brewer, Mary Ketch,
Brooke Rowlands, Debra Ashley & Vanessa Lango.
Where: AKA Gallery
Phone: 606-2522
Address: 3001 Paseo
Website: akagallery.net

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A man with multiple drunken driving convictions has avoided a life sentence for the latest charges.
John David Caldwell pleaded guilty Monday in Cabell County Circuit Court to third-offense driving under the influence, third-offense driving on a suspended/revoked license for DUI and fleeing while DUI.
The Herald-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/RE508C ) reports that Circuit Judge Alfred Ferguson sentenced the 49-year-old Caldwell to five-to-16 years in prison. Caldwell also must receive alcohol treatment while in prison.
According to court records, Caldwell has been arrested on DUI charges 13 times and has at least seven felony third-offense DUI convictions since September 1982.
Caldwell was eligible for a life sentence but prosecutors chose not to pursue it in exchange for his guilty plea.
Information from: The Herald-Dispatch, http://www.herald-dispatch.com


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Manage and stream your music online to several clients connected through a LAN and/or the internet.
Use Ampjuke in native mode: Each user listens to his/her choice of music. Individually.
...or let AmpJuke run as a regular jukebox or online radio station where all users listens to (and requests) the same music. Simultaneously.
Besides managing and streaming your music collection, AmpJuke can fetch album covers/images/lyrics automatically.
AmpJuke has several modules included that hooks up to various API's (last.fm and the Echonest f.ex.), which takes care of this automatically.
AmpJuke performs well, - even on rather old/slow equipment.
If AmpJuke is unknown to you, then you might want to take a quick look at the features, the comprehensive documentation and/or the requirements.
The best ? AmpJuke is free ! (GPL license).
Below are the most recent news entries in relation to AmpJuke. You might also want to subscribe to the RSS-feed:
A little later compared to the yearly, earlier releases I'm proud to announce that AmpJuke version 0.8.7 is available for download. As seen in the changelog, this is a release with improvements in a lot of areas.
For starters, I've introduced a "you might also like" list of (similar) tracks when adding something to a favorite list, as seen in this example:
...this is something that relies on configuration and "fingerprinting" of your music collection using the Echonest API. There's a lot of math behind this, so please read the beforementioned FAQ-entry and - if anything is still unclear - write your question in the forum.
Talking about the Echonest API: If you have it configured on your own box, there's also an opportunity to search and build favorite lists consisting of tracks with more or less identical "fingerprint".
It's done using AmpJuke's advanced search, and enables you (or your users) to adjust one or several of the parameters (BPM-, Energy-, Year-range etc. or a combination) in order to search for "similar" tracks with more or less identical "fingerprint":
Besides that, a number of other improvments have been made - here's an example of a tracklist appearing when doing a "mouseover" on an album-image:
So - go ahead - download, install, and start enjoying hosting and streaming your own music - either as a personal service (every user listens to his/her own choices) or using the "jukebox mode" (every user listens to the same music).
After a long time where the old forum was left in a state of limbo, I have finally found the time (and the code) to start a new community (forum).
You'll find a link to the community in the menu to the left, - or right here.
The old forum is still online as a kind of reference. If you've registered in the old forum, you need to register again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yes: Once again it's been a while (a whole year) since last release.
This also means that AmpJuke's online "age" incremented with one year. Happy Birthday, AmpJuke!
This release - version 0.8.6 - contains some exciting new functionality as well as the usual bunch of small improvements here&there.
A brief introduction to the most important things in AmpJuke 0.8.6:
AmpJuke as an online jukebox.
Up until this release, AmpJuke acted (more or less) as a personal streaming service, making it possible for each individual user to listen to whatever he/she prefers to listen to - individually.
With the new "jukebox mode", you can turn AmpJuke into a regular jukebox, where each individual user requests music to be played. All users listen to the same music - simultaneously.
Requests are placed in the queue and can also be viewed there:
You can read more about running AmpJuke in jukebox mode in the FAQ.
The best place to start is here: http://www.ampjuke.org/?id=faq93.
AmpJuke + the Echonest: Improving the listening experience.
If you're familiar with AmpJuke, you might know that most of the artist+album images and biographies comes from accessing various webservices (or API's), - mainly the webservice provided by last.fm.
As I mentioned a year ago I "stumbled across an extremely interesting API".
This time the API/webservice is provided by the Echonest.
You can enable access to the Echonest API in order to take a huge leap towards improving the experience of listening to your music. The Echonest feature will 'identify' the song you are playing – analyse the tempo/bpm, danceability, and loudness levels among other things.
That last sentence might have caught your interest, right ? Read more here: http://www.ampjuke.org/?id=faq87
A simple 'screensaver' is available. Naturally, it only runs within the browser where AmpJuke is running:
Imagine something like this running as a "front end" to a computer/client accessing AmpJuke running in jukebox mode....
If you want to know more about how to enable+configure the screensaver, take a look at this FAQ-entry: http://www.ampjuke.org/?id=faq98.
Alternative scan+music management.
By Marc Apgar - THANKS!
Marc's got a rather big music collection and wanted a little bit more control of the scan routine compared to what's offered out-of-the-box in AmpJuke.
You will find this new feature/tool in the admin panel on the left side on the "Welcome" page.
The tool is included "as is" as I haven't really had the time to look close into it.
Bye bye Bing!
Sometimes I get just a little tired of Microsoft...
...here's another reason:
Recently, Microsoft decided to (almost) pull the plug on free usage of the API in relation to Bing!
Unless - of course - you want to pay real $$ to get access to their webservice (API). Guess Microsoft is of the impression that that's a great offer.
I don't think so.
So I flushed the countless hours of coding against the Bing webservice down the drain and turned to last.fm+Google for artist/performer images.
That's it! I bet your computer mouse is already looking for a download link and installation instructions!
Well - go ahead - don't let me keep you waiting.


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Thank you for your post..I think i will get 2 UPA-1 Mono block amps.they are going for 349.00 each..lil more, but bigger payoff..thanks again.
You've got that right Tim...I was just out to a sumptuous lunch. And a young Chinese guy a few tables down from me passed out from drinking too much. We had an ambulance and EM team--taken out on a stretcher! Between courses of sliced Pork Hunanese, Eggplant and bitter fruit, and Sichuan style dofu (Tofu). I was stuffed.
Are you building a new rack for your stuff as well?
Hows things. I bet your eating chinese food more these days...lol
Things are good here....just been doing a lot of work around here. I'm nearly finished my new tv room. I just have to order some old movie posters for the walls and get them framed or plaque mounted.
I have not been here in a long time. Since I will be looking at the 400's thought I would see if anyones nose is not to high in the air, to talk to this old redneck.
Yeah, I am looking to get RTi9's, CSia6, FXia6 and a SVS pb12 or pb13 Ultra and I will be content to serve out the rest of my years with these (38 so I'm sure that upgradeitis will hit again). Thanks for your help, hated to see CC go down!
You're gonna have to take me under your wing so I can learn about the speakers I can't hear. I'm so far behind everyone because I can't go to a place where they have higher end speaker...lol
Good to hear from you man, wasn't sure if you bailed for good, lol. In case you didn't see my thread, I am moving to Germany here in about 6 months. Good luck to you, and hope all is well.
Did you get your sda's on the week-end?
So did you get your SDA's yet??
Hey Tim,
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HOUSTON -- It's rodeo time and you can smell the barbeque in the air.
About 350 teams are competing at Reliant Park in the 2013 Houston Rodeo BBQ Cookoff.
It's a tough job, but 11 News' Tiffany Craig was out there monitoring the grills Thursday night.
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Vila Valverde - Design Country Hotel
The magnificent manor house which dates from the 19th Century was completely renovated and tastefully enlarged in 2004.It has been converted into a design country house with many lovely details in decoration.
The magnificent manor house which dates from the 19th Century was completely renovated and tastefully enlarged in 2004.It has been converted into a design country house with many lovely details in decoration. Combines elegance and modern interiors with the historical architectural style and its wonderful location. Situated on the outskirts of Luz with a beautiful view over the Bay of Praia da Luz the stately home overlooks a 5 ha property planted with a mature tree population, orange trees, biological market gardening, it's own spring, a small pond and wide panoramic lawns.
The interiors, whose light colors create a relaxing and comfortable atmosphere, playing perfectly with the straight lines of the furniture. In some rooms, the wall between bathroom and bedroom is glass - which, besides being highly original, creates a sense of space.
A very nice design, with special emphasis on aesthetics, functionality and comfort turn Vila Valverde in an exclusive place for individualists.
Reception, panoramic terrace, breakfast room, wine cellar, small room for groups, lounge/ TV- room, heated indoor pool (15x5m, sun bed with covers included), outside pool and fitness centre with Sauna.
On request we organize special programs such as golf, tennis, bicycle tours, horse riding, sailing and diving.
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---- — Hurricane Sandy caused a cancellation for a Friends program in October, which is now rescheduled. Rachel Stevenson, manager of special events at Hartwick College, will present a more-than-10-year study of art theft discussing famous art thefts in the 20th and 21st centuries. Included will be some well-known and obscure facts about art theft, and book titles for further reading will be shared. Be prepared to experience interesting information on a fascinating subject.
The Friends of Huntington Memorial Library are holding this program from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. Monday in the meeting room at the library. The program is free and open to the public. At the beginning of the meeting, the Friends will hold a brief annual meeting and elect officers and board members for the coming year.
Attorney Brek Cuttler finds herself standing on a train platform and has no memory of how she got there. She is also covered in blood. Brek's actually dead, and when she is informed that she was selected as part of a special group of lawyers who defend souls at the final judgment, she wants to escape. Her first client has clues about her death and each successive person makes her discover that the choices she made in her life has led her to this point. "The Trial of Fallen Angels" by James Kimmel is a riveting first novel.
"Young Philby" by Robert Littell is a fictionalized biography of Kim Philby, a double agent. At the beginning of World War II, he was recruited into the British secret intelligence service where he quickly rose up through the ranks. After the war, he was a liaison with the CIA in Washington. It became known that he had been spying for the Russians for more than two decades and he fled Britain once he was discovered. This novel takes you through Kim's life and all that he was, but was he ever truly known for what he was?
Oliver Sacks has written "Hallucinations" in which he talks about the organization and structure of our brain which allows us to see or sense things that aren't really there. He has spent the bulk of his career exploring these experiences and talks about how they bring both comfort or terror to individuals. As a neurologist, his stories from patients and his own experiences provide for very interesting reading.
Historical novel lovers will enjoy "The Time of the Wolf" by James Wilde. The year is 1062 and King Edward is ailing. Hereward, a ruthless warrior, knows that the tide of war is close at hand and he must take a large portion of land in order to stay alive and remain a free man. Others throughout the land, and even in other countries, are also waiting to take over King Edward's lands. There will be brutal fights, alliances and attempts at peace in this novel.
"1-2-3 Va-Va-Vroom" by Sarah Lynn features three children zooming around the race track and super fast cars. Count with them as they race for 10 laps and see what happens during each lap in this rhyming story.
Another counting book is "Dinosaur Countdown" by Nicholas Oldland. Starting with 10 and counting downward, children will enjoy the variety of dinosaurs pictured. Their names are also included, and chances are children will be able to pronounce them while adults won't.
Library Hours: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday.
Marie Bruni is director of Huntington Memorial Library in Oneonta. Her column appears in the community section of The Daily Star every Thursday. Her columns can be found online at www.thedailystar.com/librarycorner.


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# Browns safety T.J. Ward's deal with # Broncos is worth average of $5.5 million a year, source tells http:// cleveland.com .
Wow, TJ Ward's deal with Denver only averages about $5.5 million a year. Browns had offered $8 million in the past. He obviously preferred going to a contender. Can't blame him. Great player, awesome attitude. One of the few players the Browns have lost over the years that I will miss.
7/21 - !!! @ Club Congress (Tucson, AZ)
8/23 - Galactic @ Rialto Theater (Tucson, AZ)
8/25 - Future Islands @ 191 Toole (Tucson, AZ)
10/11 - Carolina Chocolate Drops @ Rialto Theater (Tucson, AZ)
11/10 - The Black Keys @ US Airways Center (Phoenix, AZ)
4/10/15 - 4/12/15 - Coachella
I'm sure I'll find a way to remember the good times.
God damnit Reggie is the worst fuckin GM. All the cash in the world and we let all our best players walk, then sign guys that aren't as good for more money. He is in his own world. Fuck I hate being a Raiders fan.
Let's go on a livin' spree!
Jonathan Martin to Niners for conditional draft pick.
Upcoming Shows:
I think by "bully" he meant "childish asshole."
Hey Unit, quick hypothetical. Harbaugh or Baalke, you only have one rose.
Aqib Talib to the Broncos
Upcoming Shows:
Awwww snap Broncos. Damarcus Ware up next. I <3 Elway now.
The Broncos are really going all in for next year. Might as well. Good moves for them.
Pulling the Yankees card. As a season ticket holder it feels so good.
Someone tell me more about Ryan Mundy. I'm thinking he HAS to be better than dipshit Chris Conte.


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The Department of Art History at Penn State offers at the undergraduate level the B.A. degree in art history and two minors: the minor in art history and the interdisciplinary minor in architectural history. The Department offers graduate programs of study leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in art history. The department also offers lecture/discussion courses and undergraduate and graduate seminars on a broad range of topics, from ancient to contemporary art and architecture in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Asia. Courses are also offered in museum studies, historiography, iconology, criticism, connoisseurship, and methods of research. Courses are taught by twelve faculty members, two affiliate faculty members (who are curators in the Palmer Museum of Art) and four visiting faculty members.
Penn State is a Big Ten, land-grant university whose University Park campus is situated in a congenial college town, aptly named "State College," surrounded by the ridges of the Alleghenies of central Pennsylvania. The campus is a half-day's drive to the museums, galleries, and libraries of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Toronto, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh.
In the summer of 2008, the Department of Art History moved from the Arts Building (its home for more than forty years) to much expanded facilities in the newly restored and remodeled Borland Building. Borland was originally built in 1931–32 for Dairy Husbandry and housed Penn State's Creamery (with its famous ice cream), which moved into a new Food Science Building in 2006. Borland was originally designed by Charles Z. Klauder (1872–1938), a noted collegiate architect from Philadelphia. The building's neoclassical porticoes on its two main façades are animated by elegant Adamesque bowed projections and relief carvings emphasizing the building's bovine past. The Department of Art History occupies most of the top floor of the building and now boasts a Graduate Student Commons, with spacious facilities for both communal activities and quiet individual study. State-of-the-art classrooms, an art history seminar room, and an art history reading room (the Lord/Hyslop Library) also enhance the new Borland. The Department of Art History Visual Resources Centre is staffed by two full-time professionals who keep abreast of the latest advancements in digital image production, storage, databases, and use.
Penn State's University Libraries have major and extensive holdings in the history of art in the Arts and Humanities Library, the Architecture Library, and the Rare Books and Manuscripts unit of the Special Collections Library.
In 2011 the Harold E. Dickson Memorial Lecture Series in Art History was established. This endowed lecture series is named after Dr. Harold E. Dickson (1900-87), one of the founding professors of art history at Penn State. This annual lecture series brings leading scholars to the University to share their latest research and meet with students. Often the topics of the lectures will relate to courses that are currently being taught.
Pierette Kulpa, Ph.D. candidate, teaching in the summer study abroad program based in Todi, Italy. Ms. Kulpa is lecturing in front of the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice.
Eleven volumes of the Papers in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University have been published by the Department of Art History, based upon former lecture series (the volumes are distributed by the Penn State University Press). The department's George Dewey and Mary J. Krumrine Endowment has helped support the publication of the Papers and is currently supporting major publication projects of the art history faculty and graduate students.
Penn State students in the summer study abroad program in Todi, Italy, with Dr. Brian Curran, bravely posing in front of the Sacro Bosco during a field trip to the Park of Monsters, Bomarzo.
Spring 2010 saw the beginning of the weekly Department of Art History Tea, held every Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the Graduate Student Commons. This gathering of art history faculty, staff, graduate students and undergraduate majors/minors fosters casual conversations and/or profound discussions in an informal atmosphere of steeped beverages and finger foods.
Our department is regularly invited to select graduate students to participate in major graduate student symposia, including the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Penn State art history graduate students often present papers at scholarly conferences/symposia across the United States and abroad.
The department also has an active Undergraduate Art History Association. Penn State's Summer Abroad program in Todi, Italy, is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History.
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Bordeaux 2009: First price released, 18% up on 2008
- Thursday 8 April 2010
The 18ha property, owned by Gaëton Lagneaux, is being offered at an ex-negociant price of €10.50, up from €8.90 last year.
'Around one-third of the estate (approximately 3,000 cases from a total production of 10,000) will be allocated to wine merchants, and the rest will be kept to sell direct.
Lagneux told decanter.com: 'The decision to come out today was taken by my broker, but I always like to come out early in the campaign, and get things moving.
'I have kept my price stable for a number of years, but it was getting increasingly difficult to make any margin at all.
'I'm sure there will be plenty of chateaux who make my 15% rise seem more than reasonable!'.
Decanter's scores and tasting notes from the Bordeaux 2009 en primeur tasting week can be found here.
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Going for the Golds: Detroit's 'Hardcore Pawn' Returns Aug. 16
TruTV execs appear to think they've struck gold – as in Les and Seth Gold, the father-son team who, with their daughter-sister Ashley Broad (Gold), are proprietors of Detroit's legendary American Jewelry and Loan on 8 Mile and the cable channel's latest reality-show stars.
After a one-hour, two-episode tryout last December, the family pawnbrokers debut at 10 p.m. Monday in their own regular series, Hardcore Pawn, and truTV is promoting the bejeezus out of it. On-screen reminders of the show's premiere have aired during virtually every program on the station's schedule.
And with good reason, since it's hard to imagine how the Golds possibly can top Monday's return with any successive episodes. It's almost a certainty that TV has never witnessed a horse performing on a stripper pole, even on America's Got Talent. If that's not enough, Les gets a little ass during the show – in the form of a tiny donkey who follows the horse inside the pawn shop. You read that right: inside the building.
Shot on location inside the 50,000 square-foot Detroit emporium and produced by Richard Dominick, the man who gave the world The Jerry Springer Show, Hardcore Pawn has enacted some subtle changes since its December test run. The most noticeable difference is that, following the style of other truTV reality series, Les, Seth and Ashley are intercut throughout the show in individual shots, commenting on the in-store action and philosophizing about the highs and lows of pawnbrokery. Ashley, for her part, tries a bit too hard to position herself as the contrarian bitch of the store as general manager; a key will be whether viewers are attracted by her chutzpah or repelled by her attitude.
In the main storyline, a woman who claims American Jewelry and Loan lost the diamonds out of her earrings goes on a mini-rampage, calling Les everything but a respectable merchant and eventually threatening his safety, which in turn causes Les to go off on the store's security crew.
Hardcore Pawn is not a show for the meek of ear: edited f-bombs fly around the store faster than pawn tickets. But like Les likes to say, it's a crazy business.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday that his department is taking another book-keeping manuever to buy additional time before hitting the debt ceiling. The agency will not invest fully in the pension fund of public employees. By law, the fund will be made whole one the debt limit is increased. Federal retirees and employees will be unaffected by this action, Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders. On Monday, Treasury said it will likely run out of emergency measures to avoid a debt crisis sometime between mid-February and early March.
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Girl Scouts from around Westchester County, including Tarrytown, got a chance Monday to learn about patient therapy at Blythedale Children's Hospital.
The annual workshop gave scouts an inside look into the various therapy programs offered at the Valhalla therapeutic center, including occupational and speech therapies, and nutrition and fitness.
This year's workshop was particularly important for Chappaqua scout Julia Desmarais. A junior at Horace Greeley High School, she got to run the event as part of the process for earning a Gold Award. Her fellow scouts in the troop helped lead groups of scouts from other communities through different therapy stations.
"We love it here," said Desmarais, who has been coming to Blythedale for years as a scout. Aside from the workshop, Desmarais is doing other work at the hospital as part of pursuing her Gold Award, including improvement of the kids' clothing closests. The Chappaqua scouts, in past years, have performed tasks at Blythedale including decorating the hospital for the holidays, planting flowers and playing with children who use the facility.
"So it's been a lot of different things," Desmarais said.
The Chappaqua troop, which has had an operating role of the workshop each year, was joined by scout troops from several neighboring communities. They included Briarcliff, Croton, Peekskill, Tarrytown, Lakeland and a joint Bedford-Armonk troop.
"It's an awesome, wonderful program," said Jan Phair, one of the Croton cadet leaders.
Laura Desmarais, who is Julia's mother and a troop leader, said there have been a lot of changes to the workshop over the years, with feedback from the scouts. New this year is a tour of the hospital, which is in addition to the scouts having the workshop in the space of Blythedale's special education school for patients. Scouts also got to meet hospital patients, which Laura Desmarais felt is rewarding because it can allow for them to become familiar with their situations.
Being involved with the workshop can also help scouts in their own lives, Julia and Laura Desmarais explained.
Julia Desmarais talked about how scouts can make a connection between what they're learning about and what can be happening with people they know who are in similar situations as the patients.
"So they're really excited about finding the connections between themselves and what's going on here at Blythedale, which I think is amazing," she said
Laura Desmarais noted that what is learned at Blythedale could spark a career interest, describing her own anecdote of learning from a Briarcliff scout about her new interest in vision therapy.
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I have some things on my mind.
— The NFL combine is not one of them. I'd rather watch the wife's reality TV shows all night long and have her tell me about her day during the commercials.
I have some things on my mind.
— The NFL combine is not one of them. I'd rather watch the wife's reality TV shows all night long and have her tell me about her day during the commercials.
— I'm big on "Skyfall," but the fact it's not one of the nominations for movie of the year makes a mockery of the Academy Awards.
— I'm also big on Dwight Howard and believe most Lakers fans and the media owe him an apology.
And let's begin with ESPN's screamer, Stephen A. Smith, who said this week that no one else has reported it, so he will: He said San Antonio Coach Gregg Popovich had hit Howard with a number of obscenities for not paying attention in a team huddle at the All-Star game.
The story quickly spread. San Antonio Express-News columnist Buck Harvey, among others, repeated the Smith report and used it to heap more criticism on Howard.
Harvey never talked to Popovich but did report: "Spur assistants who were in the All-Star Game huddle in Houston say the incident has been overblown."
Howard said Friday night that what Smith had told everyone "just never happened."
"Pop was diagramming a play for me, and then as he showed us what to do he kept saying, 'Blake.' So Blake and I are confused, but he keeps saying Blake, so Blake takes off his jersey and goes into the game.
"Pop sees me and wants to know why I'm not in the game running the play, so I tell him he kept saying Blake so Blake went in. He wasn't swearing at me."
The report by Smith provided more ammunition, though, to those who insist Howard isn't as intense as he should be.
"It hurts me, but what can I do about it?" said Howard, who has averaged 19 points and 12.6 rebounds the last five games. "I can't fight ESPN."
I got fired by ESPN, so I understand.
— By the way, I'm not big on the media, and I would like to apologize for the media being so ridiculous, beginning with Kobe Bryant's guarantee the Lakers will make the playoffs.
Stop the presses, please.
What would you expect him to say? How can we make the playoffs with Mike D'Antoni as coach?
"It's not a question of if we make the playoffs," Kobe told Sports Illustrated. "We will."
Where's the news in Kobe saying what everyone would expect him to say?
And yet the local media went to every player Friday night wanting to know what he thought of Kobe's guarantee.
Why weren't they asking his teammates if they were disappointed in Kobe for not saying, "I'll retire if we don't make the playoffs."
Are you people really eating all this sports pablum?
How about the ESPN headline this past week? "Sources: Rondo available but trade unlikely."
Stunner. The guy is injured, out for the season, and it's news he's available and unlikely anyone wants him?
— I'm big on "Cat Ballou." Just saw it again, Lee Marvin won an Oscar, but he should have gotten two for his dual role. Amazing how a young Jane Fonda strikes a strong resemblance to Jeanie Buss. I'll bet Phil loves "Cat Ballou" as well.
— Almost forgot. I'm also down on folks who criticize Howard, who agree Howard's back and shoulder are hurting but still criticize him for not playing hard.
It's like co-workers who say they are sick but look fine so there are doubts about just how sick they are. It's not fair.
— The folks at Staples Center got Howard in a nutshell Friday night. The ball came his way just beyond the three-point line. He faked that he was going to shoot, giving everyone a big grin as he did so, then passed. A moment later he got the ball back, scored and was fouled.
I can't remember if he made the free throw, but I presume he missed. If I'm wrong, I'm just doing my Stephen A. Smith impersonation.
— It's interesting how John Ireland and his partner on the radio are always talking about how Howard and Kobe don't get along. And yet Ireland said he will pay me if I write ESPN's Ramona Shelburne should replace his partner. No need to pay just to state the obvious.
— I'm down on anyone who sings the national anthem and makes "wave" into a four-syllable word.
— I know I'm supposed to be big on the Dodgers, but I'm concerned they might turn out to be the Lakers.
I went to "Les Miserables" thinking it was a recap of the Dodgers' last few seasons. Talk about crying a tune, it was like being in the team's clubhouse.
We already have Carl Crawford bellyaching about his stay in Boston. We don't care.
This is L.A., but Adrian Gonzalez had to tell us how he was mistreated in Boston and Hanley Ramirez in Miami.
Throw in the head case that is Josh Beckett, the world according to Zack Greinke and Andre Ethier's me-first approach, and maybe the Dodgers really are the Lakers.
If so, does that make Ned Colletti — Jim Buss?
Don Mattingly — D'Antoni?
The Dodgers can't fall apart, can they?
— I'm big on a friendly A.B. Jackson, who mans the Chick Hearn media room at Staples and who didn't see any of the Academy Award nominees.
"Last movie I saw was 'Jaws,'" he said. "Jaws 1."'
It scared a lot of people out of the water, but the theater?


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SAN ANTONIO — N.C. Central players sat quietly at their lockers after losing a heartbreaking game to Iowa State in the second round of the NCAA tournament late Friday night at the AT&T Center.
Dejected and worn out, players held their heads low and tried to enjoy their postgame meal. There wasnt much taste. They had exhausted themselves trying to slow down a powerful opponent and came up short, snapping a 20-game winning streak and ending a historic season for the N.C. Central athletic program.
The Eagles (28-6) were not ready to end their magical season, which included big wins and awards.
As crazy as this may sound to the outside world, you know, if you go in our locker room right now its like a morgue, because those kids walked into here expecting to win a basketball game, N.C. Central coach LeVelle Moton said after the loss. There are no moral victories. That doesnt count in our program.
During this season, the nation learned more about N.C. Centrals young Division I basketball program. After the athletics department moved from Division II to Division I in 2007-08, the Eagles joined the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and after a five-year process became eligible to participate in Division I postseason tournaments.
This season the basketball team won the schools first MEAC championship and advanced to the NCAA tournament.
It was the basketball teams first conference title since 1950.
The bar is set pretty high, N.C. Central junior Jordan Parks said. Excellence is expected. Perfection. Those who are coming back and those coming in, we expect to be right back in this position, but with a better feeling.
Having won so many games in row, it was difficult for players to reflect on what the team had accomplished after losing to Iowa State 93-75, particularly after going into halftime down by six points. Yet through their tears, they recalled the collective effort that created so many special moments.
Everything we did, we did together, N.C. Central senior guard Emanuel Chapman said. Defensively, offensively, on and off the floor we were a family, and were still a family.
Chapman set the schools all-time assist record and single-season mark this year. He was half of the guard duo along with fourth-year guard Jeremy Ingram that Moton said help build the program.
Together they were a hard-to-guard one-two punch.
Before the clock expired against Iowa State, Moton took Ingram, Chapman and senior Alfonzo Houston out of the game. He embraced each on the sideline.
I just told them I love them because they made me look really good as a basketball coach this year, said Moton, who was named MEAC coach of the year and MEAC tournament outstanding coach. I didnt make a shot. I didnt grab a rebound. I didnt throw an assist. It was those guys along with other seniors.
Ingram scored the most points 708 since Ted Manning posted 825 points during the 1964-65 season. He averaged 20.6 points per game and became the player every team scouted and marked.
Its special to be part of history, Ingram said. Youre going to be in books 20 years from now. Its been a special year.
The teams success resonated throughout campus and inspired alumni. On the road during the postseason, the Eagles were supported by loyal fans.
At home, where the Eagles went undefeated, the crowds grew larger and louder, drawing comment from Moton who recalled many empty seats when the program started in Division I.
N.C. Central athletics director Ingrid Wicker-McCree said her office fielded hundreds of calls from alumni during the tournament run.
This really culminates our transition process, she said. It means so much for our program obviously for the university in terms of the visibility. Most importantly for our young men especially those who were with us through the transition. This is what they worked for. This is what we all worked for.
Wicker-McCree said chancellor Debra Saunders-White asked members of the leadership team to select goals during their performance reviews. She said she initially wrote win championships, though the chancellor asked her to be more specific because goals needed to be measurable.
So she wrote down that mens basketball, womens tennis and baseball were going capture MEAC titles. She was prophetic.
Wicker-McCree said the basketballs teams success should bode well for the future of the athletic department.
Keep winning, Wicker-McCree said. You cant go back. Its contagious. This is only going to inspire our other student athletes to more because they want to be here as well.
It will take Moton several days, perhaps months, to shake off Friday nights loss. Still, he didnt want the teams journey to be forgotten amid the disappointment.
Although we didnt give our best effort on this national stage, I do want them to understand that they represented North Carolina Central and the MEAC basketball conference really well, he said.


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Since the Obama Administration approved the unregulated planting of genetically engineered alfalfa (and sugar beets) last month, the organic community has been organizing against the deregulation.
Organic farmers and food producers fear for their very livelihood — and for the integrity of the organic food supply, because GE (or GM, genetically modified) alfalfa could cross-pollinate with nearby organic crops, causing them to lose their purity and their ability to be organically certified.
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In late October, New Zealand's parliament passed the Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill, the effect of which was to make film industry workers by default independent contractors, rather than employees. Previously, New Zealand's Employment Relations Act required courts to interpret the 'real nature' of the work undertaken to determine whether a worker was in fact an employee or contractor. The extra-contractual nature of this interpretation exercise is also taken by employment courts in Australia, the US, the UK, and Canada.
The Bill excluded all workers who undertake 'film production work' from the definition of employee. It was passed as a reassurance to MGM Studios, who were threatening to move filming of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit to the Czech Republic following a dispute between actors' unions and the studio which MGM claimed would make continued production in New Zealand untenable.
Trumka's November 15 letter to Groser said that the "misclassification" contained in the Bill represented a "serious problem" which deprived workers of the right to organize and bargain collectively.
He want to say that the Bill "would violate the labour provisions of any future trade agreement between our two countries that we could support."
The Herald goes on to report that NZ Industrial Relations Minister Kate Wilkinson will respond to Trumka's letter, re-affirming her government's view that the law change reflects the realities of the film industry without preventing film production workers from being employed as employees where all parties in a contract agree.


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Published: Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 9:03 p.m.
Linda puts on my makeup around 4:30 in the afternoon. She dabs color over my blemishes and age spots, and then she sprays my entire face with color. With the makeup I look 10 years younger, like a guy who hangs out at the beach even in winter. With the makeup I'm ready to go.
I never thought I'd be the makeup type. I mean, come on. It's just that once a week, I'm a guest on CSNBayArea's show "Chronicle Live," and if I don't have makeup under those bright lights I'd look like a cadaver. Maybe you've seen me sitting on the set, yakking about sports from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., listening to producer Adam Littlefield talking in my earpiece — "Video coming up." The set is exactly where I'll be this afternoon.
But I'm not here to brag about my little TV career or to swap makeup tips. I'm here to talk about the Green Room. It really is green, and the hosts and guests gather there before going on TV, and what happens in the Green Room is as interesting as what happens on air.
First, about Linda whose name is Linda Gyuling. She used to play tennis at SF State and now she's a makeup artist par excellence. I mean, she can make me look acceptable. The Green Room is her room, her rules, which means no matter how famous you are, you act regular and you're always polite. In the Green Room you are the best possible you.
Just the other day, Dr. Harry Edwards was in there talking about old age, a subject I can relate to. In the Green Room he is not Dr. Edwards. He is just plain Harry.
During baseball season, I walk into the Green Room and Vida Blue and Bill Laskey are sitting on the couch watching the Giants on TV and keeping score. How would you like to sit in a room with Blue and Laskey and watch them keep score and talk ball?
They were two of my favorites when I covered them, and now they are working stiffs like me. No attitude. No nothing.
Blue, Laskey and I were talking about one baseball player — nameless here — whose pickup line was "I am So-and-So. Do you want to sleep with me?" Vida eyeballed Laskey and said, "I never did that, and I'm Vida Blue."
We'll all be sitting there swapping stories, making Linda laugh, and after a while Marty Lurie comes in and watches the game with us. After that, it's Greg Papa and Jim Kozimor. We're all watching ball. And Blue might ask Marty or me what we think about a certain play. Vida Blue wants my opinion?
And there will be another columnist in there, maybe Scott Ostler or Ann Killion or Mark Purdy or Tim Kawakami or Monte Poole or Ray Ratto. And Barry Tompkins is always there on a Monday. And we're all telling stories. And get this. We are equals with the athletes. In the past, we journalists ran after them with pads and pens, and begged for their time. Not here.
The Green Room normalizes relations. No egos allowed.
Garry St. Jean is there a lot. He does analysis on Warriors games. Years ago, we were supposed to go wine tasting in Sonoma County — I would write a feature about it for The Press Democrat. Just before we were scheduled to go, Latrell Sprewell attacked P.J. Carlesimo. St. Jean phoned me. "Do you think we could put off the wine trip for a while?" he asked in an apologetic voice. "It won't look good for the general manager to be drinking with a writer after the player just choked the coach."
We have told that story in the Green Room a million times.
Or the one about Randy Moss, Linda's favorite. It was 2006 and Moss was with the Raiders and they lost on a Monday night in Seattle and Moss walked out of the shower in a towel and announced he wouldn't talk to the press. I said we didn't want to talk to him because we were waiting for quarterback Andrew Walter. Moss, indignant now, said, "Who are you?" and I said, "Lowell Cohn." And then, maybe the Devil got in me, because I said, "Who are you?"
The man flipped. He pointed at his bare chest and shouted, "Moss 18, Moss 18."
Maybe Randy can visit some day and we'll get a laugh out of that one.
During football season, Bill Romanowski is always in there talking about vitamins and food supplements. He's so nice and I'm thinking, "What happened to the wild man he used to be?"
And Joe Nedney and Dennis Brown, former Niners, are in the Green Room because they are football analysts. Brown sits quietly in a corner working on a computer, and when he talks he's always philosophical, has lectured me on how texting has changed the nature of relationships. And Nedney comes in and shakes everyone's hand, careful to leave no one out. And I'm thinking, "Who knew we would act like this with each other when they were players?"
Other regulars are Shooty Babitt and Bip Roberts, who once jumped out of the makeup chair and got in his batting stance with an invisible bat and showed me what Aubrey Huff was doing wrong. And Warriors' GM Bob Myers is there a lot, talking hoops, laughing. One of the guys. And Andy Dolich is there. One day he gave Dave Feldman and me a book called "Yiddish with Dick and Jane."
And sometimes I just sit quietly and listen to all that talk I'm privileged to hear. Then someone says it's time, and we get up and walk through two heavy soundproof doors onto the set in the cold cold studio and the show starts.
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The June issue looks at identity thieves targeting children, efforts to train culturally sensitive health care workers, federal waivers for No Child Left Behind and much more.
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States are at the forefront of recent advances in early childhood issues. Armed with compelling brain research and economic and evaluation findings, lawmakers are improving services, designing new programs, and expanding investments to support children's development and early learning and to support working families.
The resources found here are designed to help legislators who are unfamiliar with early childhood policy learn more about: child care, prekindergarten, home visiting, infant and toddler issues, data systems, early childhood advisory councils, and early childhood budgets. Click on the links to the right to navigate to each topic.
Child care subsidy programs have been both a long-standing support for low-income working families and—in the last decade—have been seen as an opportunity to provide environments that support early learning and development. Federal law governing the Child Care and Development Block Grant establishes parameters for how states must operate child care subsidy programs, but many decisions are left to the states. State lawmakers have decision-making authority over who is eligible for the subsidy and what they need to do to receive it. The federal government sets basic health and safety requirements, and the states can take it from there in tailoring their programs.
Some of the major issues in child care include:
With the focus on improving children's learning in child care as well as preschool settings, state lawmakers have developed what are known as quality rating systems, developed early learning standards for what children should know and be able to do, improved professional development systems for teachers and caregivers, and used assessments and gathered other data to gauge children's learning.
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State legislatures have led the way in developing and expanding state prekindergarten programs in order to improve children's readiness for school. Forty states and the District of Columbia currently provide a total of $5.3 billion in state funding for pre-K programs. Research shows that quality preschool programs help promote a child's intellect and build strong social and emotional skills. Understanding the positive return on investment, state legislators have focused on funding expanded services, improving teacher qualifications and enhancing standards.
Home visiting is a strategy to support to pregnant women and new mothers to support healthy child development, prevent child abuse and neglect, and connect families to resources that they need to be good parents. Almost every state is using this strategy as a way to support families, often targeting families with a variety of risk factors. Lawmakers have been champions in designing and funding the program or programs that best meet the needs of the state. There are a number of well-known national program models such as Nurse Family Partnership, Healthy Families or Parents as Teachers as well as many locally developed programs operating in different states. States use a variety of funding sources including general fund, TANF, recovery act funding and Medicaid.
In 2010, a new federal program was created as part of the health care law that will provide $1.5 billion to states to fund evidence-based home visiting. States will be developing their state plans early in 2011 and lawmakers can determine how involved they will be in that process. The new federal funding also provides an opportunity for state leaders to assess current programs and investments and make changes as needed. The most recent trend has been to consider coordinating home visiting programs to ensure the best match between what the family needs and the skills and resources of the home visitor.
Data are a vital resource in state efforts to reduce the school readiness gap and bolster educational achievement for all children. But, states often struggle to obtain data that will answer even basic questions about their state's public early care and education system or children's early learning experiences. States are looking to create data systems that will help with decisions about the effectiveness and improvements of early care and education programs, the workforce and better child outcomes. Both the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Race to the Top, which offered incentives for the use and development of education data systems, have advanced this work even further.
In 2007 Congress passed the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007 which required the governor of each state to designate or establish a council to serve as the state's early childhood advisory council. In response, governors and legislators across the country have created councils through executive order and legislation.
Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Congress included $100 million to be used to support the work of the state councils. For the original grant, 50 states and territories applied and received funding for their state's council. Since a handful of states did not apply for funds, the Administration for Children and Families reopened the grant process to allow for supplemental applications for the remaining money. Forty four states and territories applied and received these supplemental grants.
States have begun using these funds to plan and improve early childhood services. Issues the councils are focusing on include home visiting, data systems, kindergarten readiness, child care quality and a number of other topics.
State legislators make fiscal decisions in early care and education policy and programs, such as child care, prekindergarten, home visiting and other related early childhood programs. Recent state budget challenges and the effects of ARRA funding on early care and education programs have caused state legislatures to take a closer look at fiscal investments. A recent NCSL fiscal survey found that state FY 2011 appropriations to early care and education remained stable with a slight increase.
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Each devotion clearly articulates the message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ and offers practical examples of God's action on our lives today. Each includes a Bible verse, short reading, activity suggestion, and prayer starter.
A short order of worship is included as a suggested framework for daily use as the parents lead each devotion including an invocation, Scripture, the devotion, and a closing prayer.
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One of my favorite local people apparently read my recent note about the effort to bring Trader Joe's to Huntington and attract Target to Ashland. Since I've never had a Trader Joe's experience, she decided to give me a little taste of the action and I arrived at work to find a bag of great stuff from that particular grocery store in another city, along with an outstanding giant sub from Firehouse Subs.
Man, that was some good stuff.
The Trader Joe's bag had only "store brand" items, including Trader Joe's vacuum fried pineapple chips, which I shared with a musician friend who took one taste and got this big goofy grin on face before saying he didn't expect "an explosion of flavor" from the healthy snack. There was also a box of Meyer lemon-flavored Old-World-Recipe cookie thins my wife and I both went nuts for. I had assumed the recipe was created by someone named Meyer, but it turns out it's a type of citrus fruit native to China and "thought to be a cross between a true lemon and either a mandarin or common orange." The cookies reminded both of us of the Moravian spice cookies we used to enjoy while living in Winston-Salem, N.C., although I'll rank them as 10 times more delicious.
And, the real treat was a bag I initially looked at and thought, "I wonder who I can give this to?" For nearly a decade I've been avoiding cashews because of an allergic reaction that causes me to break out and itch in places no man wants to scratch. The tough part is I genuinely love cashews and could easily eat pounds of them in a single sitting. So, when I saw a bag of Trader Joe's Thai Lime and chili cashews, I thought I could use my incredible willpower to just leave them sealed. That lasted for maybe two minutes before I was telling myself, "You can get away with one or two of them," which soon turned to "I know I'll pay for this, but I'm going to eat a few more of these." I limited myself to a fistful of the spicy, citrusy cashews (which aren't really nuts if you want to research that one on your own) and waited for the next few days to see where the intense itch would show up. To my shock, I never had the first reaction and started eating those cashews in increasing amounts until I had finished the 1-pound package. Reading the label, I also discovered there was no actual lime involved, and the cashews got their distinctive flavor from the leaves of the Thai lime tree.
So, without ever stepping foot into a Trader Joe's, I'm a huge fan. If the economic development folks in Huntington can recruit these folks into the area, I'll certainly make the short drive to shop there.
And, the Facebook campaign to bring a Target store to the Kyova Mall at Cannonsburg is also reported to be at or beyond the halfway mark as far as the number who've signed up to show their support. If you like the idea of having a Target store locally, log on there and hit the "Like" to show your support.
Bogie's on the move
Bogie's, a local haunted house that has been in operation for the past six years, has announced plans to relocate in Raceland at 469 Greenup Ave. Owners Rick and Jodi Mullins report the business relies upon the help and dedication of friends, family members and local businesses, and they give back to the community every year. Last year, for example, they gathered nearly 400 pounds of nonperishable food for Ashland Community Kitchen.
Bogie's Haunted House will be open Oct. 4, with frights available starting at 8 p.m. each Friday and Saturday through Nov. 2. Admission will be $5, with children younger than 5 admitted free. Big believers in family-oriented activities, the Mullinses say they started Bogie's based on their desire to provide safe activities for children.
For more information, check out the video on YouTube, visit the Facebook page or call (606) 694-2924.
New in Grayson
There is a new consignment store called Sugar-n-Spice & Puppy Dog Tails Consignment behind Rite Aid Pharmacy on Carol Malone Boulevard in Grayson.
Store owners Clay and Kim Settle say they are eager to work with consignors and shoppers. The business features clothing for newborns, toddlers, boys, girls, youth, college age and adults as well as maternity wear. They also offer name-brand clothing lines such as American Eagle, Mud Pie, Gymboree, Justice, Pink, Miss Me, Aeropostale, Abercrombie & Fitch and UK collegiate wear. The shop also sells shoes, accessories, books, backpacks, purses, stuffed animals, children's games, baby nursery items and more.
The shop is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday. The store is closed Sunday and Monday. The Settles "pledge to offer high quality, gently used clothing and merchandise to their customers with a large selection of styles and sizes," in addition to excellent customer service.
The shop is accepting clothing and items from consignors. All clothing must be freshly laundered, in excellent condition, stylish and "in season," and free of holes, stains, odors, damage, pet hair and similar concerns. Consignor "take-in" days are Tuesday and Saturday between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
For more information, visit the Facebook page, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call (606) 615-8150.
Greek to me
I've had a few messages in response to editor Mark Maynard's search for a Greek salad, including a report the cafeteria at King's Daughters Medical Center makes an excellent version of the classic salad.
And, perhaps the most practical advice came in an email from Kali Orexi advising, "Tim, it's very easy to prepare. Even you and Mark can do it." The message offered the following recipe: "Greens (lettuce), cucumbers, onions, tomatoes. Mix with salt, pepper, garlic powder and oregano to taste. Toss with olive oil and red wine vinegar and top off with feta cheese and kalamata olives (sold at Kroger's)."
I'm not sure if Mr. Maynard is a do-it-yourself kind of guy or not, so if anyone knows of any other good commercially prepared Greek salads, please let us know.
Traveling burger brothers
I love field reports, especially from the small band of friends who seem to be willing to travel great distances to test drive interesting burgers.
This week's report comes from nearby West Virginia, where the fellows made the apparent mistake of ordering a burger at a barbecue restaurant.
"We went upriver on our burger search, we ended up at Buddy's All American BBQ at 1537 Third Ave. in Huntington," their report said. "My burger buddy and I ordered the Buddy Burger with cheese and bacon at additional cost of 79 cents per item. The wedge fries were included in the Buddy Burger price of $5.99. They also have a 1/2 pound burger for $6.99, plus additional cost of 79 cents per add-on item."
Both concluded the meat was in the form of frozen patties, resulting in a chewy burger of uneven consistency. "They need to stick to their pulled pork, beef and chicken. The restaurant was busy, but we felt this was an evening gathering place by the atmosphere, serving adult beverages, and since it is only a few blocks from Marshall U," the reported.
Despite the low marks for the burger, the traveling team gave the service at Buddy's an excellent rating, noting their server asked "how everything was" at least four times. They also gave the place five stars for atmosphere, and awarded four stars for menu variety.
TIM PRESTON can be reached at email@example.com or (606) 326-2651.
Tim Preston: Trader Joe's; a haunted move; consignments; and a field report: 8/25/13
One of my favorite local people apparently read my recent note about the effort to bring Trader Joe's to Huntington and attract Target to Ashland. Since I've never had a Trader Joe's experience, she decided to give me a little taste of the action and I arrived at work to find a bag of great stuff from that particular grocery store in another city, along with an outstanding giant sub from Firehouse Subs.
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The calendar flips to August tomorrow and some students in the area will be back in school next week.
MARK MAYNARD: Parking, history, and some wiffleball
The calendar flips to August tomorrow and some students in the area will be back in school next week.
John Cannon: Bracing to stand on her own 2 feet: 7/30/14
My youngest granddaughter, who will turn 5 on Sept. 2, has been fitted with a pair of ankle braces to help prevent her from falling down so often.
Lee Ward: Pizza — on the grill? Asian shrimp grilled, too: 7/29/14
How many times have I said anything tastes good cooked on the grill?
A taste of reality
I made fried chicken with real mashed potatoes and cream gravy the other night to feed the teenagers in the house and me. Not only did they compliment me to my face, one of them raved about how I'm the queen of fried foods.
Bud Gumm an original
Truth is kinda like beauty: It lies in the eye of its beholder.
Tim Preston: Veterans, doughnuts, hog legs and jerky of squid: 7/27/14
Are there any talented wreath makers reading this column?
RONNIE ELLIS: Fancy Farm only days away
We're just days away from the annual Fancy Farm Picnic and political free-for-all which used to be the "official" beginning of fall campaigns in Kentucky.
Simply the best experience
A man was forced to take his mother-in-law with him and his wife on a safari. One day, a gorilla grabbed his mother-in-law and dragged her away.
Mark Maynard: Looking for those who inspire: 07/24/14
Inspiration, they say, comes from within. It is defined as an inspiring or animating action or influence.
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Eric Maynor hit a 15-foot jumper with 1.8 seconds left to give Virginia Commonwealth a 79-77 upset victory over the Blue Devils in the first round of the NCAA tournament Thursday night. Maynor finished with 22 points, six of them in the final 1:24.
Duke lost a first-round game for the first time since 1996. The loss also ended the Blue Devils' string of Sweet 16 appearances at nine. It was the longest active streak and second-longest behind North Carolina's 13-year run.
Fittingly, it was VCU that knocked off George Mason -- the tournament's surprise team last year -- in the Colonial Athletic Association championship game. Maynor sealed that 65-59 win by scoring nine of his 20 points in the final 2 minutes.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot denied Planned Parenthood's motion for a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the Oklahoma Health Department from ending its contracts with three Tulsa-area clinics.
Attorneys for Planned Parenthood have argued the organization's support for abortion rights played a role in the department's decision not to renew the contracts for the federal Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, program. Oklahoma Commissioner of Health Terry Cline testified last week that was not the case.
Police:More violence planned
ADA — Jerrod Murray, 18, is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 5 shooting death of 18-year-old Generro Sanchez, an East Central University student.
Murray remains jailed without bond. The Oklahoman reported Monday that an affidavit for a search warrant of Murray's dorm room says Murray told his roommate the night of Sanchez's killing that he had "reached or accomplished objective A."
Prosecutor's investigator Josh Dean wrote in the affidavit that the comment leads investigators to believe Murray had planned other crimes.
OSBI investigating Langston shooting
LANGSTON — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has joined the investigation into the shooting death of a man in Langston.
The OSBI says Michael DeWayne Milton was killed while apparently trying to steal a car from outside a home Friday night..The OSBI says there have been no arrests and did not release the names of the two men who lived at the home.
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Marshall University Enjoys Enhanced Performance for Critical Campus Activities with SunGard and Red Hat
March 31, 2008
Customer: Marshall University
Running on a slow and expensive older system caused frustration for many at Marshall
SunGard Banner on HP AlphaServer with Open VMS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Marshall University is a state-supported research university located in Huntington, West Virginia, offering two- and four-year undergraduate degrees as well as graduate degrees. Founded in 1837 and named after the late Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, the school has an enrollment of approximately 10,000 undergraduate students and 4,000 graduate and medical students. Marshall offers 26 associate programs, 47 baccalaureate programs and 49 graduate programs and boasts a faculty of more than 700. Marshalland#x2019;s Division of Information Technology is responsible for the vision, policies, planning, development, implementation, and administration for the universityand#x2019;s vast technology system. The division is comprised of Computing Services, Distributed Education Technology, Libraries, and the Marshall University Technology Outreach. Marshalland#x2019;s robust IT division employs more than 100 IT professionals, committed to helping the university fulfill its mission of being an and#x201c;Interactive University.and#x201d;
Marshall uses the popular Banner suite from SunGard for important administrative and academic tasks, including human resource functions, payroll, class registration, and financial aid. Used in almost all facets of campus life, Banner provides students with a way to manage and monitor class schedules, registration, and financial information while giving faculty and staff members a unified system for academic administration, finance, and student evaluations. The Banner suite is widely used on campus and its deployment has spread to the Marshall University Alumni Association and the Marshall University Foundation.
Prior to deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), however, the university's IT staff was experiencing subpar performance that slowed these critical campus activities. "Systems infrastructure was a big pain point for us for several years," said Jon Cutler, Marshall's director of systems administration. Banner, running on aging HP AlphaServer systems with OpenVMS was using older direct-attached, SCSI storage subsystems, and the University Computing Services (UCS) staff determined that a large-scale upgrade was needed to improve speed while increasing flexibility and maintaining a manageable architecture.
Once Marshall decided to upgrade systems, the choice to go with Red Hat was an easy one. SunGard recommended RHEL to run its solution suite and noted that RHEL was a SunGard supported platform. The Marshall UCS staff was confident in Linux and happy with the less expensive hardware options open to them when using RHEL. Already using Dell hardware and storage from EMC, UCS benefited from Red Hat's strong partnerships with those companies and SunGard. "Our application vendor, storage vendor and hardware vendor were all on board with our decision to go with Red Hat and we were happy to be able to take advantage of less expensive hardware options that were previously unavailable to us," noted Cutler.
The UCS team began pre-deployment testing in late 2004 and the system was live in May 2005, the next time available for upgrades due to the academic calendar. Members of the UCS Enterprise Systems and Systems Administration staff received Red Hat training prior to going live and continued training post-deployment, with a few becoming Red Hat Certified Technicians. "Red Hat training is a big reason we've been able to keep things running smoothly," said Cutler. "A number of us at UCS would like to continue training to take full advantage of the benefits of RHEL and become Red Hat Certified Engineers."
Since the RHEL deployment, Marshall UCS has noticed improved performance and a dramatic increase in the speed of many critical applications. Marshall's infrastructure is now able to handle the workload at peak usage times like course registration. Additionally, the IT department has been able to shelve the peak usage contingency plan that many other colleges still have in place. "We've been able to stay ahead of the growth curve on many things with RHEL," noted Cutler. "It's a great advantage not to have to worry about our infrastructure being able to handle a high volume of users or updated technologies."
In addition to enhanced performance, Marshall has enjoyed cost savings, not only with RHEL itself, but also with hardware choices previously unavailable to the school. "Along with being cost effective itself, RHEL has made a big difference in hardware acquisition and support costs. We needed to replace some of our older hardware and running RHEL gave us the option to purchase something more affordable," stated Cutler.
Support issues with Red Hat have been virtually nonexistent. Since the deployment more than two years ago, Marshall has had just one support ticket , while finger pointing among vendors when a problem arises has ceased. A simplified environment has helped with maintenance, as patch management is very easy via Red Hat Network and Red Hat's many partnerships allow Marshall to receive updates quickly. "It's common in higher education to have too few people running too many systems, but running RHEL has helped us greatly with our workload and mindshare," said Cutler.
Marshall's "power users" – those who use SunGard's Banner and many other applications frequently – have noticed the increased performance while other end users have been able to conduct business as usual during and after the migration. "The best compliment from our average end user is nothing at all and that's what we've heard since the RHEL deployment," stated Cutler.
Marshall's Red Hat deployment has been so successful that both the Marshall University Alumni Association and Marshall University Foundation have migrated their SunGard suite to RHEL at the advice of UCS. The UCS team is also looking to move other servers and databases over to Linux to take advantage of the many benefits.


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RALEIGH — Free-agent defenseman Mike Komisarek had no sooner signed a one-year deal Friday with the Carolina Hurricanes than he was on the phone with Canes coach Kirk Muller.
He was really excited, Muller said. I think hes really looking forward to getting down to Raleigh, in our market, and being able to just play hockey. Just go and play and not worry about anything else.
Komisarek was one of two players acquired Friday by the Hurricanes as NHL free agency began. Carolina also signed former Boston Bruins backup goaltender Anton Khudobin to a one-year, $800,000 contract.
Komisarek, 31, came at lower price $700,000. Thats a far cry from the five-year, $22.5 million free-agent deal he signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs in July 2009.
The Montreal Canadiens selected Komisarek in the first round in 2001 and by 2009, he had become an elite defenseman for them. Muller, then an assistant coach in Montreal, watched the 6-4, 235-pounder develop into a rugged shutdown type.
He loves to compete, Muller said. He always played with great energy. He was always great in the (locker) room.
But the move to Toronto proved nightmarish for Komisarek, a native of West Islip, N.Y. Selected for the 2009 NHL All-Star Game and chosen to play for the U.S. Olympic team in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, he injured a shoulder in a game against Calgary in early January 2010.
Komisarek had season-ending surgery and missed the Olympics. His career has never been quite the same and he fell out of favor in Toronto, first under former Leafs coach Ron Wilson and then Randy Carlyle, and had to deal with intense media scrutiny.
Komisarek played just four games for Carlyle this past season. He was placed on waivers in March and then assigned to the Toronto Marlies of the AHL. The Leafs elected to use a compliance buyout on him this week and will pay him $1.667 million each of the next two years.
You sign a big contract, you come in there as a hot free agent and you want to change the world, Komisarek said. You cant do that in a day, a week, a month. Its a process. I didnt get off on the right foot and never recovered from there. It just wasnt working out.
With that being said, you dont complain, you dont whine. ... It just didnt work out. Right now Im excited for the opportunity to prove a lot of people wrong and having that fresh start.
Rutherford said Komisareks past injuries are no longer an issue. Komisarek noted he had been training in Toronto in the offseason.
My body hasnt felt this good in years, he said. I feel strong.
Rutherford said Komisarek likely would play with Jay Harrison as the Canes fifth and sixth defensemen, which Rutherford said would give him a better chance to succeed.
Khudobin, 27, was brought in to be Cam Wards backup after putting up impressive numbers 9-4-1 record, 2.32 goals-against average, .920 save percentage with the Bruins this past season.
Hes had great success at different levels and has proven he can win hockey games in the NHL, Muller said. He should be capable of do what we need, which is challenging Cam (Ward) and winning games for us.
Goalie Justin Peters has a one-way NHL contract with the Canes that will pay him $550,000 next season. Rutherford said Peters would be in preseason training camp and also would compete for the backup job.
Of the Canes unrestricted free agents, goaltender Dan Ellis landed a two-year deal Friday with the Dallas Stars. Others, including veteran forward Chad LaRose, still were looking.
Komisarek was traveling Friday to attend a wedding.
This is my second experience with the whole free-agent thing and I can definitely say this was a lot more enjoyable going through it, he said. It wasnt as hectic and crazy. ... I just thought this would be the best fit for myself and my family, to go down there and get a fresh breath of air.
Muller, whom Komisarek called Kirkie, said a defenseman with size would be needed as the Canes move into a new NHL division this season and face teams like the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers more often.
The area we needed help was in being more physical around the net, Muller said. He gives us that and just a more physical presence on the back end. He also a very good penalty-killer.
Im looking forward to him playing with the passion I know he has. Its contagious.
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Note: Add more chipotle if you like it super spicy or less if you prefer it milder.
Prep and cook time: 16 minutes
What you need:
- 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- Juice and zest of 2 limes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/2 of one chipotle in adobo sauce, finely chopped (optional)
- 2 scallions, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup corn
- 1 (15 oz.) can of black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1/4 cup cilantro, finely chopped
Equipment and supplies:
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Knife for chopping (ask an adult for help)
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- Large bowl
- Whisk
What to do:
- Place potatoes into a medium saucepan and cover with cold water.
- Bring to a boil and cook until just tender, about 6 minutes. Do not overcook.
- Drain and allow to cool.
- While potatoes are cooking, make dressing. In a large bowl, whisk together lime juice, zest, salt, pepper, honey, canola oil, and chipotle.
- Add cooled potatoes, scallions, beans, and cilantro. Toss gently.
- Serve at room temperature or refrigerate.
How much does this recipe make?
4-6 servings
Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD
Date reviewed: January 2011
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At a time when the nation is witnessing an obesity epidemic and has an aging population at risk for falls, and the population enjoys watching sports more than playing sports, health science and sport science bring together individuals with backgrounds in physiology and wellness and health education to work on these and many other important public health problems.
The Department of Physical Education offers course work directed at increasing student awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle and physical activity and at gaining the skills and understanding basic to a lifetime of wellness. Students have the opportunity to complete lecture classes focusing upon sports science and health education, as well as activity classes focusing upon physical fitness, creative expression, risk-taking and sports skills.
Facilities: The College's sports facilities include Gambrill Gymnasium which houses a dance studio, gymnasium floor, aerobics room and yoga room; Hodson Fitness Center with treadmills, stair machines and exercise bicycles, as well as weight machines and free weight equipment; Hood Tennis Complex with six tennis courts; Huntsinger Aquatics Center; and Thomas Athletic Field.
The basic instruction program in the Department of Physical Education (PE 100-199) is designed to encourage students' personal growth and understanding of the importance of physical activity in their lives. Students have the opportunity to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to enhance their quality of life and establish lifestyles that promote wellness. Courses are directed at physical fitness, creative expression, risk-taking and sports skills acquisition.
The PE Core Curriculum requirement may be met by completing 2 credits of physical education 100-199 activity classes, or by completing one of the following courses: PE 225 Health Maintenance: Stress Assessment and Control, PE 226 Health Maintenance: Physical Fitness, PE 227 Women's Health Issues, PE 228 Life Wellness and Health or PE 250 Introduction to Exercise Physiology.
Athletes who participate in intercollegiate sports may be waived from all or part of the 2-credit physical education activity option. A 1/2 credit of exemption will be granted for each season of participation. No credit is earned for these exemptions.
Students who participate in the United States Army Reserve Officers Training Program (ROTC) may be waived from all or part of the 2-credit physical education activity option. A 1/2 credit of exemption will be granted for completing each of the following courses: MSCI 101, MSCI 102, MSCI 201, MSCI 202.
The physical education requirement should be completed during the first year.
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Powdered cumin seed is widely used in Latin American, African, Asian and
Mediterranean cooking. In fact, in some parts of the world it rarely sees the
inside of a spice cabinet. In Morocco, for instance, it's as common to see cumin
kept on the table as it salt and pepper in the west. Add powdered cumin to
soups, baked goods, curries, chili and rice and bean dishes.
Scientific Name: Cuminum Cyminum
Origin: India
AKA: Cumin
Parts Used: Seeds
Active Compounds: Aldehydes, Pinene, Alpha-terpineol, Flavanoids
Background: Cumin has been used as a spice since ancient times. The plant is native to Egypt and is grown mostly in Egypt and Asia. Cumin is an herb that is mentioned in the Old and New Testament of the Bible and was popular for use during that time period.
Now, it's a common herb sued in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Chinese cooking.
Description: The cumin plant is a small, annual that only grows to be 1 foot in height. It has pink or white flowers. The blossoms give rise to oblong fruit that contains the seeds. The seeds are harvested in the late summer when they ripen.
Safety: No negative safety information is available. Consult your health care provider before beginning use of Cumin or any herb.
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