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Municipal budget cutbacks triggered by The Great Recession may have forced the gutting of much of Manteca's gang unit but during the 18 months it was up and running at full force it provide police with an invaluable weapon - an expanded list of documented gang members.
Manteca Police did not arrest the 21-year-old suspect who crashed his 1995 Ford Mustang after a chase that reached speeds of up to 110 miles per hour following a gang-related fight at a North Main Street convenience store.
RIPON - A 2003 Mitsubishi being test driven by a potential buyer was carjacked at a Ripon truck stop Thursday evening with Galt police officers arresting the suspect on Highway 99 where he had parked on the side of the freeway some five hours later.
Car thieves earlier this week didn't get far before they crashed in a vehicle parked in a drive way in the 800 block of Mt. Vernon Place at about 10 p.m. on Monday.
A woman returning videos to Blockbuster on North Main Street narrowly escaped injury as gang gunfire erupted setting off a police chase that left one Sureno gang member in critical condition with head injuries when he crashed while trying to escape law enforcement.
Crime continues to drop in Manteca with one huge caveat – gang-on-gang violence.
Copper thieves struck at the Brown Sand, Inc. operation near Mossdale sometime over the weekend causing in excess of $10,000 in damage, according to San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies.
Five people were shot shortly after midnight Tuesday morning – miraculously no one was killed. A neighboring resident told the Bulletin she heard a burst of gunfire that sounded like an automatic weapon being discharged.
Jason Giles, 25, has been arrested a third time as he awaits a jail reporting date to serve out a 90-day sentence for auto burglaries and possession of stolen property - a total of six felonies, police said.
After being sentenced to 90 days in jail for auto burglaries, one 25-year-old Manteca man has been stopped twice by police while waiting to report for his county jail term. It is a commentary on today's judicial system in San Joaquin County allowing felons back on the street after their arrests.
Thieves raided the Manteca Towing storage yard in the 3700 block of West Yosemite Avenue sometime Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning creating some $10,000 in losses.
LATHROP – A 19-year-old employee at Target store in Lathrop was arrested Wednesday and booked into San Joaquin County Jail on charges of grand theft and embezzlement.
"Rusty" the Manteca Police Department's drug dog, was the star of a region wide parole sweep on St. Patrick's Day Wednesday hitting on the "green" – $20,000 in green cold hard cash.
Jeffrey Maurer, who teaches psychology, economics and government at Sierra High School, turned himself in to Manteca Police Tuesday night at 6:30 for alleged inappropriate sexual behavior with a student.
The kindness of a 93-year-old Manteca retiree turned on him with thefts of some $4,000 in cash, and other valuables from his bedroom closet lock boxes.
It was fast police work from Saturday to Tuesday noon in finding those responsible for the theft and arson of high profile commercial vehicles valued at over $400,000 and parked next to a Manteca hotel in an daring caper in the dark of night.
Three stolen Tillamook Cheese microbuses valued at $300,000 were located in Copperopolis Monday night by a county-wide law enforcement team led by Manteca Police Department officers.
The following is a summary of the significant events the Manteca Police handled during the past week:
LATHROP – All that the 25-year-old man remembered was talking on his cell phone as he went up to the coin dispenser at the Wash Pro Car Wash on Harlan Road.
Two men authorities believe were responsible shooting into a Moffat Boulevard motel on May 9 have been arrested.
Foul play was not believed to be a factor in the death of a man discovered by Manteca Police officers behind a cluster of Main Street businesses Tuesday evening.
Just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday a property owner conducting a search of his property found something that seemed out of place.
A man was shot in the face on Saturday after accompanying a woman back to her house to get belongings following a fight with her husband.
By GLENN KAHL
When Manteca Pastor Robert Cox was first interviewed by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police about a fight outside of a popular restaurant in June of last year, he told them he had punched the other man in the face.
An elderly Manteca gentleman wanted to hire someone to clean his house.
A Manteca youth pastor is facing manslaughter charges after an altercation outside of a Las Vegas restaurant left a man dead.
Manteca Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are searching for a man that walked into the Bank of the West on E. Yosemite Avenue Tuesday afternoon, produced a note demanding money, and walked away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
At one point, as the camera bobbles up and down the duty shirt of exhausted Manteca patrol officer Ben Cromwell, a single question illustrates the seriousness of the situation he just found himself in.
A transient claiming that Manteca Police used excessive force when they tried to roust him from his sleep alongside an East Manteca car wash last week put a Manteca patrol officer out of work for a month as a result of the melee.


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Knoxville and Melcher-Dallas —
Flags will be raised at Graceland Cemetery at 8 a.m. Friday, May 24. There will be a brief memorial tribute at the Veterans' Plot after the flag raising.
A free breakfast for participants will follow at the VFW. Flags will be taken down at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 28. Please join the American Legion, VFW, Boy and Girl Scouts at these events.
Dallcher Legion Post Memorial Day Schedule
Dallcher Legion Post Commander Darrell Thomas, Jr., stated that members of the American Legion, Dallcher Legion Post #632, Melcher-Dallas, will conduct its annual Memorial Day services on Monday, May 27, at the nine locations and times listed below. The public is cordially invited to attend.
• Tickle Cemetery-8:45 a.m.
• St Joseph Cemetery (Bauer)-9 a.m.
• St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery (Germantown)-9:15 a.m.
• Dallas Cemetery-9:40 a.m.
• Fairview Cemetery-9:50 a.m.
• Township Road-10:10 a.m.
• Gosport Cemetery-10:40 a.m.
• Sacred Heart Cemetery (Melcher)-11 a.m.
• Melcher City Park-11:45 a.m.
The Post would appreciate organizations such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Lions, Fire Department and any other clubs to attend the Memorial Services in the Park.

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Eurozone crisis may trigger wine bubble, say experts
- Thursday 14 June 2012
While his is a cautionary tale, Authers notes that the scenario offers short-term opportunity for bold and disciplined investors who can spot a potential bubble and sell before it bursts.
'There are many people who will talk very caustically and matter-of-factly about "can I find the next bubble and can I get into it now", and there is certainly an interest in treating wine that way,' he said in a presentation at the London International Wine Fair.
Wine's attributes as a wasting, hard asset that is not directly correlated to either stocks or bonds make it attractive as a safe haven, like gold.
'There is a law in economics called Gresham's Law,' said Joe Roseman, former hedge fund economist and author of 'SWAG [Silver Wine Art Gold]: Alternative Investments for the Coming Decade'.
'Stated simply, it means that bad money drives investors to seek good money,' he said. 'In this instance, the bad
money is the euro currency and the good money is an asset like wine.'
Henning Thoresen, CEO of Bordeaux Winebank Group and manager of the €50m Wine Growth Fund, is more cautious, although he has received enquiries regarding the euro's volatility, mainly from Asia-based investors.
'We are advising them to stay calm,' he said. 'We have a ten-year horizon and I don't think the eurozone situation will affect wine as a long-term investment. We have large positions in 2005 and 2009. There is no point in flooding the market now.'
There is little sign of a surge in wine investment as yet. The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 index is down by 22% versus this time last year, while the Liv-ex Investibles index is down by almost 21%. In contrast, the FTSE100 index is down by 11%.


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I really enjoyed Artscape, it was very interesting. I want to say the music also was really good , I…Read More LOVE ANTHONY HAMILTON thinking ahead for the distance to have a big screen so those that are up on the hill can see the performers if you are up on that hill.
Maryland-Based 'House of Cards,' 'Veep' Snag Emmy Nominations
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Maryellen Brady July 5, 2014 at 12:06 pm
Congrats to the guys and gals at Section 3 in London Towne for the most spectacular 1 hours…Read More fireworks display. It was fantastic and several hundred residents were there to enjoy every moment. Great to be able to WALK to the beach with family and friends.
Not Perfect July 5, 2014 at 02:54 pm
Fireworks display from Baysox Stadium was GR8! They started a bit late but, it was worth the wait.…Read More So many people in parking nearby parking lots EVERYTHING (to my knowledge) was PEACEFUL! I enjoyed watching people of ALL backgrounds, cultures and persuasions enjoy the light show, TOGETHER. I thank GOD for allowing me the pleasure to spend the time with my sons and granddaughter. It was bittersweet because my husband is no longer with us. If there is such a way, I am sure he was watching over us from his mansion in Heaven... THANX BOWIE law enforcement, the smooth operation of traffic control. It was a bit tedious but, EXPECTED. Most drivers were courteous and patient. As with EVERYTHING there are ALWAYS those who think they are ABOVE the law and devoid of patience. Still in all, we had a beautiful time.
Bethesda, Germantown Teachers Take Top Prizes in Maryland 'Star-Spangled' Contest
Area Theaters Offering $1 Movies This Summer
Director John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
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Gary Elwards June 12, 2014 at 11:20 am
Seems to be the new thing. Most of the news stations (radio and TV) seem to prefer using the present…Read More tense while reporting on things that happened in the past. Drives me nuts. By the way, isn't hitchhiking dangerous, and illegal in most places? Why is it cute when someone famous does it?
Jay June 12, 2014 at 12:21 pm
After I saw him on Bill Maher along with Weiner he sucks!
Got Black Tie? 'House of Cards' Casting Call on Saturday
Wm Thomas Capps June 4, 2014 at 11:31 am
Not interested in show business. to many fakes thinking they are better than everyone
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Must be nice to be in a business that makes the tax payers pay twice. 1. To have them film in your…Read More state. 2. To view the show/movie when it is released. and temporary jobs at that created. Maybe more tax breaks for companies to provide more full time jobs in the state would be better?
John Waters in Town for Maryland Film Festival: Full Schedule
Preakness Adds Nas to Infield Festival Lineup
Anne Arundel County's Arts Council Accepting Grant Requests
Singles Wanted: Maryland Casting Call for The Bachelor, Bachelorette
Music in May Concert Series Set at Historic London Town and Gardens
2014 National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade Set for Saturday in DC
Dinginess Part of the Charm? Ocean City's Boardwalk Named Top Attraction for Kids
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Fantastic. She takes her work very seriously. She is putting together her exercise album and going…Read More out to see how people react to the music first hand. That way, she can feel assured that children/adults will play, dance and enjoy the experience.
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1 Our Biggest + Best Clearance Sale Ever!
Still dreaming about that Proenza Schouler dress you rented? Good news, because we're holding our biggest and best clearance sale ever! Browse over 400 styles of dresses and accessories from designers like Milly, Kenneth Jay Lane, Missoni, Tibi, Lela Rose, Dannijo, and more.
The Chinese New Year officially begins today! It is the year of the dragon, the only mythical creature in the zodiac. Traditional celebrations of the Chinese New Year inlcude a big feast and fireworks.
3 Code for America
Jonathan attended an inspiring event last week for a group called Code for America. They take the Teach for America model and apply it to creating innovative software and applications to help city governments around the country. 2011 was their first year, in which they partnered with three cities and built dozens of useful apps. We love how they are bringing cutting-edge technology to city governments and creating a sense of civic duty among the tech community.
4 Beechers
For the best grilled cheese, tomato soup, and mac n cheese in town, head to Beechers in Flatiron. A cheese factory, retail store, cafe, and bar all in one, this hot spot is not one to skip. NYC boasts the only other location than their flagship in Seattle!
5 Hot Toddies
Best way to warm up on the first snowy afternoon of the year? Hot toddies at Mother's Ruin mixed up by adorable British bartender Mark. Don't want to venture out in the cold? You can make your own quite easily:
1 oz (2 tablespoons) bourbon
1 tablespoon mild honey
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup boiling-hot water
Put bourbon, honey, and lemon juice in a 6-ounce mug. Top off with hot water and stir until honey is dissolved.
6 Superbowl XLVI
After yesterday's playoff games, it's set! The Giants and Patriots will meet again after the wildcard Giants kept the Patriots from an undefeated season in 2007. We're a house divided here at RTR, but who will you root for?
7 Edun's Scarves
AJ loves Edun's scarves which are not only incredibly cozy but the brand (founded by Bono) is aimed at developing trade with Africa and encouraging others to do the same. By 2013 their mission is to produce 40% of their collection in Africa.
8 Vermont
Katie spent the weekend in Vermont and although she missed the first snow in NYC, there was certainly no shortage in Stowe.
9 Clothing Swap for A Cause
We love Flying Kites' 2nd Annual Clothing Swap for a cause. Tickets are only $20, and you can bring 5 or more gently, or never worn, quality items to swap with others. All proceeds benefit orphaned children in Kenya. You can still buy tickets (which include snacks and libations) for the event this Thursday in Greenpoint!
10 Creative Cupcakes
Our resident graphic designer/photographer/extreme baker Mikkel made these gorgeous cupcakes for a bridal shower over the weekend. They are red velvet with cream cheese frosting and vanilla and chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. Yum!


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What to Do if You Think You're About to Get Fired
Don't ignore your manager's criticism, even if you don't think you can change.
Often, when someone is having serious performance issues and in danger of losing their job, they simply do...nothing. Sometimes it's denial about the severity of the situation, but other times people just feel helpless to change anything. If you're getting signals that your job may be in jeopardy, however, doing nothing is about the worst thing you can do. Instead, here are some ways to take control of the situation and turn it into something more manageable:
1. First, drop your ego. It's human nature to want to defend ourselves against criticism. But focusing on your defense—or the idea that your boss is crazy/tyrannical/wrong—can keep you from an objective analysis of whether there's any truth to the complaints. I've seen a sad number of cases where the things that got someone fired could have been fixed if the person had truly heard the criticism, rather than put up walls and refused to process it. Even if your boss is a tyrant, you do yourself a disservice by not hearing the feedback with an open mind.
2. Next, drop your ego some more, and go to your manager with your guard down. Tell her that you know she hasn't been happy with your performance and that you'd like her advice on how to improve. This conversation is not about defending yourself, even if you ultimately become convinced she's wrong. This step is simply about hearing what she's saying, correct or not, because even if she's objectively wrong, you need to fully grasp her answer in order to figure out the best step for yourself.
3. Whether or not you think there's any truth to your manager's assessment, the reality is that her assessment likely has more weight than your own in determining whether you ultimately succeed in your job. So, now that you know her take, there are two questions before you: Can you do what's being asked? And do you want to do what's being asked? There's no shame in deciding you can't or don't want to. Just be honest with yourself about it.
4. In some cases, dropping your defenses, truly hearing your manager's feedback, and accepting that there might be some truth in it will help you turn things around. I've seen employees go from very shaky performances to excellent ones. Don't discount this possibility.
5. In other cases, you may decide that you either can't do what she's asking or that you don't particularly want to. If you and your boss share a bleak assessment of your future in the job, there's a relatively untraditional—but often surprisingly effective—approach you might consider. Go back to her and say something like: "I appreciate you being candid with me about your concerns. I'm going to go on trying to do a good job, but it sounds like we should be realistic about the possibility this won't work out. I wonder if we can make arrangements now to plan for a transition that will be as smooth as possible for both of us. Would you be willing to work with me while I conduct a job search? That will help me, and it will give you time to search for a replacement and have a smooth transition, and I can be as involved as you'd like in bringing the new person up to speed."
Many managers are likely to hear this with relief. No one wants to fire an employee if it can be avoided. By making it easy for your boss to end the relationship and offering terms that help you both, you're maximizing the chance that she'll work with you in the way you've proposed. You get some grace time to find a new job, you don't have to explain a termination in future job searches, and you gain more control over the situation than you'd otherwise have.
(But a disclaimer: You should take your knowledge of your company culture and manager into account before proceeding this way, because some companies might respond with, "It sounds like you're resigning, and we'll accept that." Proceed with caution, and let your knowledge of your employer be your guide.)
No matter which route you choose, the key to all of this is to listen with an open mind and be honest with yourself. Don't ignore warning signs in the hope that you can just somehow muddle through. Be proactive, know there's no shame in things not working out, and tackle the situation head-on.
Alison Green is chief of staff for a medium-size nonprofit where she oversees day-to-day management of the staff as well as hiring, firing, and staff development. She is working with the Management Center to coauthor a book on nonprofit management. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Maxim, and dozens of other newspapers. She blogs at Ask a Manager.
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'Snow White and the Huntsman' lost in the woods
Published: 12:50 PM, 06/07/2012
Last updated: 4:13 PM, 06/08/2012
It's called "Snow White and the Huntsman," but "Dopey and Sleepy" seems more fitting.
Riddled with poor dialogue and plagued by an uneven screenplay, this fairy tale reimagining is a case of crappily ever after, despite (mostly) solid casting and a high production value.
Although laden with cartoonish special effects, "Snow White and the Huntsman" hardly resembles the animated classic that brought new life to Disney's Magic Kingdom.
It's dark in that teenage, angst-y kind of way – you know, dark for the sake of being dark, while taking itself way too seriously – and is written in the same manner. Its dialogue seems so juvenile and anachronistic that viewers feel embarrassed for high caliber talent like Charlize Theron ("Monster") and Bob Hoskins ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit?").
First-time director Rupert Sanders is aiming for epic, but his efforts are stuck in the wrong end of a mire between "Twilight" and "Lord of the Rings." If you need an indication of what end that might be, look no further than "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart's portrayal of the titular Snow White.
Given a decent screenplay, Stewart could deliver an equally decent performance, but stilted writing only brings out her worst, as anyone who's endured "New Moon" can attest.
But the tedium of "Snow White and the Huntsman" doesn't rest on her shoulders alone. That falls to Sanders and his screenwriters, who confusingly include the talented Hossein Amini ("Drive") and John Lee Hancock ("The Blind Side"). The labored plot and shoddy dialogue seem below them.
A long time ago, in a kingdom far, far away, an evil witch (Theron) murders her king (Noah Huntley, "28 Days Later") and seizes the throne, imprisoning his young daughter, Snow White, in a castle for years to come.
Obsessed with maintaining her youth through any dark magic necessary, the wicked queen learns that only Snow White's still-beating heart can grant the eternal youth she seeks, prompting her to over-emote with lines like, "Bring me her heeeeeeaaaaaart!"
But Snow White (Stewart) escapes her tower and flees into a haunted forest that negates the queen's dark powers. To capture her, the queen enlists the service of a drunken huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, "Thor"), who's survived the forest's perils.
Upon finding Snow White and learning that the queen plans to betray him, the huntsman ultimately sides with his quarry, realizing she has the potential to lift the queen's darkness from the kingdom.
In order for this to happen, though, he'll have to see her to the stronghold of Duke Hammond (Vincent Regan, 2010's "Clash of the Titans"), a friend of Snow White's late father and thorn in the queen's side.
Along the way, they encounter seven dwarves who've taken to banditry, including Ian McShane (HBO's "Deadwood"), Bob Hoskins ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"), Ray Winstone ("The Departed"), Nick Frost ("Shaun of the Dead"), Toby Jones ("Captain America") and Eddie Marsen ("Sherlock Holmes"), all of whom agree to help Snow White defeat the queen and assume the throne.
Stewart's Snow White isn't the type to sing with animals in an enchanted forest, instead donning armor, shield and sword to ride into battle. It's certainly a different take on the fairy tale, just executed poorly.
For a movie that boasts a wide array of characters, it's utterly bereft of character. The bloated story – at a staggering 127 minutes – is written with action, angst and special effects in mind, forsaking any attempt at character development apart from some flashback backstories.
There's no sense of real danger, as the film's characters are so paper-thin that an audience couldn't care less for their wellbeing. Despite her character's awful lines, Theron manages to wrench some feeling and even a modicum of sympathy for her evil queen, although it's the Seven Dwarves who nearly steal the show, despite their miniscule (no pun intended) role.
Better luck next time, perhaps, as Hollywood kicks into dark-reimagining-of-fairy-tales mode. Next up: Bryan Singer's "Jack the Giant Killer." One would imagine it's about "Jack and the Beanstalk" and not an abnormally hefty killer named Jack.
"Snow White and the Huntsman," rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sensuality, is playing at Regal Cinema 7 in Boone. For show times, see page 12-B or visit http://www.mountaintimes.com/movies.


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Nathan Schlicher took his first community-college class at age 9. He was a college student by 14, a lawyer by 19, a doctor by 23 and a state senator by 30.
But if he can't find a way to reverse a more than 9-point primary-election loss to his Republican opponent, Jan Angel, he will be a former senator by age 31.
Don't count Schlicher out yet. The Democrat hasn't allowed much to slow him down on his rocket to prominence. Angel's path to this point has been more like a roller coaster – or like one of the cliffs she used to scale as a licensed falconer.
"I've been down and up and I've been stuck," she said. She's referring to climbing, not life, but the latter has also had its ups and downs, from workplace tensions in an era of gender discrimination, to the death of a husband, to career success.
Angel, 66, a state House member from Port Orchard with a business background, and Schlicher, an emergency-room physician from Gig Harbor, are nearing the Nov. 5 end of a hard-fought and expensive contest.
Fueled by money from outside the 26th District and out-of-state, independent groups have spent a record-setting sum for a legislative race. Add the candidates themselves and the spending reaches a combined $1.2 million, which makes it about to blow past the record for total spending in a legislative race.
The winner, whoever it is, will bring a diverse background to the Senate. But their histories couldn't be much more different.
Skipping the first, fourth, seventh and ninth grades vaulted Schlicher to college at age 14. Unusual – but not completely unique even in his own family. Growing up in Kitsap County, he and his two sisters all skipped at least one grade.
Their mother, Carol Schlicher, said her kids just learned differently. She and her husband realized that about Nathan in his kindergarten year, when he didn't want to go back to school after Christmas.
By then, she said, he already knew how to multiply and divide and do calculations similar to simple algebra.
Schlicher's first attempt to influence state policy came early in his life. It didn't go all that well.
Determined to move away to college, there was an obstacle in his way: He wasn't old enough to drive.
"He wrote to the governor of the state," said his mother, "and said that, 'I don't think a license should be based on your chronological age but instead on your ability.' They wrote back and said you'd have to have the laws changed and by that time you'd be old enough to drive."
Schlicher wanted to live on campus, and turned down the University of Washington when administrators wouldn't let him. Instead he chose Pacific Lutheran University, where he said he had a pretty normal college experience, for a 14-year-old. There was a college girlfriend, a dorm roommate.
For a while, he was able to keep his secret identity hidden from his roommate and everyone else.
"Everybody knew that there was a 14-year-old on campus, so they knew of the story, but they didn't know who it was," he said. "And there was a guy who was ... shorter and looked younger than me, and so when they would ask: 'I don't know, maybe it's him?'
"Everybody found out within a month or something like that, but by then it had challenged their preconceived notions and it wasn't a big deal."
It wasn't all studying -- he spent his first summer of college at 15 working on a llama farm -- but Schlicher finished college at 17 and found himself still too young to go to medical school.
Angel was working at 15, too. Growing up in rural Colorado and needing money to buy a car, she started her own business.
Angel turned her skill as a baton twirler in the high school marching band into a job. She posted flyers all over town to advertise baton lessons, then charged 50 cents a lesson to the kids who showed up at her house. With 75 students, the money added up.
Her group, the Sequinettes, performed all over, and Angel stuck with twirling, winning competitions in college.
"I started twirling on my own in sixth grade," Angel said. "I was self-taught at that point. Mr. Stark, my band director, told me I marched like a cow. I was just horrified."
"So when I won the Rocky Mountain championship, I brought that back to him, and I said, 'Mr. Stark, that was for you.'"
She didn't accumulate degrees like Schlicher. Angel put in just a year at two Colorado universities and didn't graduate -- marrying at age 19 and going to work first at J.C. Penney, then in banking. She would later go on to take about another year of banking and finance classes while working.
She moved up from the mail room to loan work. She and her husband, also a banker, raised two daughters.
In their free time, they breeded prairie falcons and trained them to hunt quail, pigeons, rabbits and the like. That was when Angel nursed injured birds back to health and returned them to the wild, sometimes to nests precariously placed on cliffs.
When the falcon mascot of the Air Force Academy was out of commission, she said, it was Angel's bird the academy flew at a football game.
Banking took the couple to Alaska, where Angel said she was "the blond lady banker" among a bunch of men with the same title but twice the salaries -- a discrepancy she didn't know about until it was corrected by doubling her pay.
That wasn't the only problem being a woman in a male-dominated workplace. There was also the sexual harassment by a senior executive, she said, which happened in an elevator where she was "dodging this guy off all four walls."
It took three times but she decided she had to tell someone. It turned out three other women had been in the same predicament, she said. The executive was fired.
For Schlicher, law school seemed like a good way to kill some time.
The University of Washington felt Schlicher was a little young for medical school at 17. His adviser suggested he get some life experience while waiting, and he had had enough of singeing his arms in the chemistry lab, so he headed to UW's law school.
"You'd think that someone coming in that young, that he's either going to be very reticent ... or he's going to be arrogant," said Anna Mastroianni, a UW law professor who said Schlicher was neither. "He could have been one or the other, but he's somebody who listens."
After passing the bar, it was on to medical school at last, where Schlicher met his wife, now Jessica Kennedy-Schlicher, another future doctor.
Now Schlicher has three kids at home and spends six shifts a month confronting heart attacks, gunshots and other emergencies at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.
"I think one of those things that test your character is, when the world is falling down around you, what's your response?" Schlicher said. "And in the ER you get to do that every day."
Before being appointed a senator in January to replace Derek Kilmer, his day job led to a confrontation with state government.
He and other ER doctors pushed successfully in court and in Olympia to overturn and replace state regulations curbing frequent use of emergency rooms. The old rules limited ER use for health conditions that were deemed nonemergencies but that the doctors argued could actually be signs of true emergencies.
Health care has been his chief interest during his brief time in Olympia.
There's a joke he tells to underline the fact that there are no other doctors in the Legislature. "I decided," he said, "that we really need a doc in Olympia. I may have since come to realize maybe we need a psychiatrist ..."
Angel remarried and her second husband's job brought them to Washington. The couple bought a franchise of Fantastic Sam's hair salon with locations in Tacoma, west Pierce County, Port Orchard and Silverdale and as many as 54 employees.
But her world turned upside down when her husband took his own life. She had two daughters to keep in college and a business to dismantle and sell.
"He left her in a huge mess," said Debbie Austin, an acquaintance at the time who later became Angel's aide and her roommate in Olympia. "I watched her grieve and then pull herself up by her bootstraps."
She dove into the real estate business while struggling to pay for food and heating bills, Angel said. She recalled living on a single Healthy Choice microwave meal a day. "I would stay at work as late as I could because it was warm there."
But soon she was selling millions of dollars worth of houses a year. Angel became well known enough in real estate to run for the Kitsap County commission and win, becoming the first Republican in that seat in decades, she said.
Now in her third term as a state representative, Angel is married to Lynn Williams. The couple own a handful of rental homes.
Angel's business background informs her legislative work. There are few or no major laws that she championed. If she has had a signature role, it has been as a voice for keeping regulations and taxes in check.
"Whatever she's thinking of, (it's) how will this affect the business community? How will this help the small people who own businesses?" said Pat Schmidt, a friend who owns DPI Print in Gig Harbor.
Now Angel wants to move from the House minority into a Senate majority whose one-vote margin of control would double with her victory. Republicans and their two Democratic allies control the Senate; the other Democrats and Schlicher hope to keep them from moving any further toward cementing their hold.
That, and the scarcity of races this year, is why groups independently supporting each candidate have poured more than $700,000 into advertising and canvassing, more than ever before in a legislative race. Major corporations based elsewhere have contributed to the GOP side, while a California environmentalist, Thomas Steyer, has given to the Democrat-aligned groups in the race. Both candidates have raised hundreds of thousands on their own.
The winner gets to start raising money again soon. The seat is up for grabs again in 2014.
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by Jonathan Singer, Mon Nov 03, 2008 at 04:39:15 PM EST
Well, it's about that time again folks. I'm always a little reluctant to write down my electoral predictions, both out of a desire not to jinx anything and because posterity isn't always terribly kind to these things. Looking back, for instance, my picks from 2004 haven't really withstood the test of time (though my picks in 2006, 2007 and earlier this year were significantly more on the mark). But without further ado, this is what I'm seeing.
On the presidential level, I see Barack Obama taking home the popular vote by roughly a 52 percent to 46 percent margin. In the electoral college, I see a 357 to 181 split for Obama that works out as follows: Obama taking all of the Kerry states, plus the Gore states of Iowa and New Mexico; Obama picking up the traditional swing states of Ohio and Florida; Obama winning the emerging swing states of Virginia, North Carolina, Nevada and Colorado; Obama picking off a single electoral vote in Nebraska; and Obama gaining three more electoral votes by carrying either either North Dakota or Montana.
In the Senate, I see the Democrats coming up just short of their goal of 60 seats, picking up eight instead of nine this fall. Under this scenario, the first five seats picked up would be Virginia, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Alaska and Colorado, followed by Oregon and North Carolina. The eighth seat is a little less clear, either coming from a tough win for Al Franken in Minnesota or a December special election victory by Jim Martin in Georgia, where a runoff election is held in the event that no candidate receives 50 percent plus one of the vote.
On to the House, I see the Democrats gaining 39 seats to grow their majority to 274 -- or more than a 100-seat advantage over the Republicans. The Democrats won't be able to repeat their unprecedented feat from 2006, holding on to each of the seats they were holding coming into election day, but by and large the few Democrats in tough reelection campaigns will hold their seats.
In Governors races, which I haven't been watching as closely as I did in 2006, it appears to me that Jay Nixon (D) should win Missouri's governorship, the only party switch of the night. The Republicans should hold Indiana's governorship in a tough contest, and the Democrats should hold the governorships of North Carolina and Washington in very tight races. After tonight, then, the Democratic advantage in governorships would sit at 29 to 21 over the Republicans.
That's what I've got. Your thoughts?
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The cream of the high school baseball crop including several players from Observerland are ready to step onto the Comerica Park field for Thursdays annual all-star game.
Area players such as Canton High Schools Nick Hazergian, Plymouth Christian Academys Daniel Jipping and North Farmingtons David Lett are among 36 recent graduates who will take part in the 33rd annual East-West game.
The 7 p.m. contest is presented by the Detroit Tigers Foundation (an affiliate of Ilitch Charities) in conjunction with the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association. Tickets are $10 and will be available for purchase at the gates prior to the start of the game.
Meanwhile, all youth baseball players attending in uniform will get in free.
Hazergian, Jipping and Lett will suit up for the East All Stars along with a handful of other players from metro Detroit schools.
Also on the East squad are Dazon Cole (West Bloomfield H.S.), Grant Reuss (Cranbrook Kingswood Prep), Gordon Fisher (University of Detroit-Jesuit) and Will Salter (Orchard Lake St. Marys Prep).
Cole and Reuss recently were selected by the Atlanta Braves and Detroit Tigers, respectively, in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.
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Open house at Brandon's House
The public is invited to attend an open house for Brandon's House from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20 in the Fellowship Hall at DePauw Methodist Church — across from New Albany High School.
Brandon's House is celebrating 20 years of helping teens with counseling at no charge to families. The event is a thank you to the community that has supported the mission of Brandon's House since it opened in 1993.
Walk 'n' roll to raise funds
The Moving Forward Limb Loss Support Group will hold a Walk and Roll fundraiser at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at Sam Peden Community Park, New Albany.
Registration will begin at 10:30 a.m. Funds raised by the event will be used to make care packages for amputees in the community.
The course is approximately one mile long and is wheelchair accessible. A pitch-in picnic will follow the walk.
Registration fee is $10 for adults 14 and over. Children under 14 can walk free with an adult. For more information, call 812-620-3694.
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After a successful bicentennial vintage base ball event in August, New Albany's Living History Committee wants to keep the sport in New Albany.
It is hosting an organization meeting to form a women's and men's team at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the New Albany Floyd County Public Library, 180 W. Spring St. in the Strassweg Auditorium. The meeting should end around 1 p.m.
Anyone interested in playing vintage base ball or anyone interested in learning more about vintage base ball is encouraged to attend.
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Highway to Health ride set
Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services Foundation will host its fourth annual Highway To Health motorcycle ride on Saturday, Oct. 19.
Registration and breakfast will begin at 10 a.m. at the Floyd Memorial Cancer Center, 2210 Green Valley Road, New Albany. The 100-mile ride will stop at Floyd Memorial sites in Corydon, Salem and Charlestown. The ride departs at 11 a.m. and the cost is $20 for one rider or $30 for rider plus passenger.
After the riders return there will be lunch with entertainment by the KUKES. You can register on line at floydmemorial.com/events or call 1-800-4-SOURCE (1-800-476-8723). Proceeds from this event to benefit the Floyd Memorial Foundation.
Library group selling books
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, the Friends of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library will hold its book sale in the library's Annex Building, at the corner of Spring Street and Scribner Drive.
All books having to do with horror will be discounted by 50 percent.
Regular prices are $1 for hardbacks; 50 cents for videos, DVDs and paperbacks; 25 cents for audio book cassette tapes; and 10 cents for magazines and music cassette tapes. Children's books are available at prices of $1 or less.
Learn about rain gardens
The Clark/Floyd County Green Infrastructure Alliance is sponsoring a rain garden workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.. 23, at Cricket's Cafe, Sellersburg. Lunch will be catered by Cricket's and is included in the $30 cost of the workshop. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m.
The workshop will give participants an in-depth insight into the workings of rain gardens, from designing, to plant selection, to installation, and finally to maintenance.
For more information, call 812-256-4591.
Save Our School hosting benefit
Save Our School's stroll down memory lane benefit, sponsored by the Old Utica School Preservation group, will be held Saturday, Oct. 19, at 208 S. Fourth St., Utica.
The schedule is: food starts at noon; car show from 1 to 5 p.m.; live auction at 4 p.m.; 1950s sock hop dance from 5 to 10 p.m. ; live music from 5:30 p.m. Food will be priced at $6 for adults and $3 for kids.
Festival coming to Jacob's Well
The public is invited to a free Harvest of Hope Festival at Jacob's Well, 605 Old Salem Road, Utica, starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19.
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AUSTIN, Texas—Budget cuts have reduced the number of pharmacies in Texas whose compounded drugs are tested to ensure patient safety.
The Austin American-Statesman reports that the Texas State Board of Pharmacy warned four years ago that there needed to be more testing of such drugs. The request said problems with the products "could have dramatic and potentially life-threatening effects."
But since 2010, the number of pharmacies subjected to tests by the agency has dropped from 65 to 21, the newspaper says.
Compounded drugs are those mixed at individual pharmacies. They have come under scrutiny after federal regulators linked an injectable steroid prepared by a Massachusetts company to a deadly meningitis outbreak.
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RALEIGH — When our legislators want to move fast, by golly, they move fast.
Take Sen. Neal Hunts proposal to let drivers go 75 mph on some North Carolina highways. It would bump up the state speed ceiling established 17 years ago at 70 mph.
Hunt, a Republican from Raleigh, filed the legislation in early April. It zoomed through the Senate in nine days, passing in a 45-1 vote.
Dont look for protracted deliberations Tuesday when the House Transportation Committee takes up the 75 mph bill. Quick approval is expected, with minimal debate, in the committee and later the full House.
North Carolina would become the 17th state to let drivers go this fast on at least some rural freeways. There are 75 mph roads now in just two other eastern states (Maine and Louisiana), and in all but three states out west. A few Texas roads are posted at a sizzling 85 mph.
Safety experts worry that more speed will cause more crashes and more deaths. Going faster gives drivers less time to react to hazards, and it multiplies the destructive force of every accident.
This is just not a good idea, says David L. Harkey, director of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center in Chapel Hill. When youre traveling at a faster speed, youre more likely to be involved in a crash. And the higher speed is going to result in more likelihood of injuries occurring.
States speed limits have clicked higher and higher across the country since 1995, when Congress repealed a law that had set a national limit of 55 mph. A 2009 study published in the American Journal of Public Health blamed the increased speed limits for 12,545 deaths nationwide between 1995 and 2005.
Some legislatures have mandated wholesale speed increases on many roadways, but North Carolina is taking a more cautious route.
Hunts bill sticks with the approach chosen by the General Assembly in 1996 when it approved speeds of 70 mph. It authorizes the state Department of Transportation to allow the higher speed only where it determines that 75 mph is reasonable and safe.
Kevin Lacy, DOTs chief state traffic engineer, said traffic studies and crash histories will help determine where its OK to drive faster.
Were not going to run out and start changing signs the day the General Assembly passes the law, Lacy said. The roads we bumped up to 70 mph were among the safest roads in our state before we did it, and after we did it. They continue to perform very safe.
Where you have an expectation of a lot of wrecks and higher speeds would tend to create more problems, those are the roadways were not likely to select. Other states that did make blanket decisions saw 35 (percent) and 40 percent increases in fatalities on their highways. Well be very cautious, Lacy said.
The legislation carries the momentum of political support from senators with proven predilections for pushing that gas pedal.
Court records show that Hunt racked up five speeding convictions between 1988 and 1998. Four of his seven co-sponsors also have speeding records, including Sen. Bill Cook, a Republican from Chocowinity in Beaufort County, who collected five tickets between 1995 and 2011.
Hunt acknowledged his speeding record in April, and he pointed out that his slate has been clean for more than 14 years. Cook did not respond to a request last week for comment.
Some of the early candidates for 75 mph speeds are the multi-lane, divided roads now posted at 70 mph. They include parts of U.S. 64 and 264 in eastern Wake County and parts of U.S. 70 and Interstates 40 and 95 in Eastern North Carolina.
If we can safely travel on certain freeway segments at higher speeds, then that can reduce travel time and bring communities closer together, said Joe Milazzo II, executive director of the Regional Transportation Alliance, a business group that lobbies for transportation improvements.
In the past year, at the regional groups request, DOT has raised the speed limit to 70 mph on parts of the 540 Outer Loop in northern Wake and U.S. 1 in southern Wake. DOT also is considering a similar proposal for the Triangle Expressway toll road in western Wake.
Milazzo sees TriEx and these other roads as plausible candidates for eventual upgrade to 75 mph. It does make sense to consider it, because these freeways have good design standards, Milazzo said.
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The Philadelphia Flyers have taken many swings that have all resulted in misses in landing some of the marquee free agents this offseason, with Shea Weber being just the latest. The Flyers were a bit taken back when the Nashville Predators matched the 14 year/$110 million offer sheet that the Flyers gave to Weber last week.
And with the aftermath of missing out on yet another big name to add to their team, the Flyers have said that they will no longer be going after any of the top remaining free agents, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. It is unknown as to whether Holmgren just means on the blue line, which would eliminate players such as P.K. Subban, or if he means top free agents at any position, which would mean not going after Shane Doan or Alexander Semin or any of the top goal scorers available.


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Billie Jane Kovach, 83, of Benton, died at 10:32 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mt. Vernon.
Mrs. Kovach was born on Nov. 5, 1929, in Hazel Park, Mich., the daughter of Talbert Wall and Bonnie (Rich) Wall. She married William Kovach on Dec. 11, 1948, and he survives.
Billie was a telephone operator in Christopher prior to marrying her husband William. After marrying William, she and her husband purchased and operated the Southside Market on South Main Street in Benton for ten years during the 1950's.
Soon after they sold the store, they purchased a laundry mat on North Madison Street which became Kovach Koin Laundry, which they operated for about thirty years.
Billie enjoyed traveling, fishing, wood carving, painting and stained glass. She was a member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Benton and the Road Runners Camping Group in Mt. Vernon.
She is survived by her husband, William Kovach, Benton; two sons, Paul William Kovach, Dallas and Glenn Allen Kovach and wife Regenia, Benton; one grandchild, Travis Allen Kovach, Benton; three sisters, Linda Connors and husband Sonny, Grand Prairie, Texas, Wanda Kirkpatrick, Christopher and Barbara Gulley and husband Nolen, Valier; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Mrs. Kovach was preceded in death by her parents.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Hobbs-Johnson Funeral Home & Crematory in Benton with a prayer service at 7:30 p.m.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Benton with Father Joseph Trapp officiating. Burial will be in the St. Andrews Catholic Cemetery in Christopher.
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Law enforcement officers all over Virginia are keeping an eye out for a convicted double murderer on the run.
Zachary Byron Cobb is the primary suspect in the attempted abduction, robbery and sexual assault of an 18-year-old Georgia man.
Cobb has been in trouble with the law before, spending nearly 30 years in prison for two murders.
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Given the continued rise in student debt (including six-figure student loan debt), a question the Student Loan Ranger hears a lot is, "Will my student debt have a negative impact on my credit score?"
The answer is no. In fact, it can even positively impact your score if you handle it responsibly.
It's helpful, as a starting point, to understand how FICO scores work. Back in 1956, Fair Isaac and Company (hence, FICO) developed an algorithm to determine how risky it is to lend a person money. While the exact nature of the algorithm is proprietary, it is based on five categories in roughly these proportions: payment history (35 percent), amounts owed (30 percent), length of credit history (15 percent), types of credit in use (10 percent) and new credit (10 percent).
The three major credit bureaus (Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax) use software developed by Fair Isaac and Company and information they keep on file about you to develop your FICO scores. Your scores will change (for better or for worse) as your financial history changes. The scores range from 300 to 850; higher scores are better.
[Find out what it takes to have a perfect credit score.]
When you apply for credit, most lenders ask the credit bureaus for your FICO scores as part of assessing the risk of lending to you and therefore to determine how much and on what terms they will lend to you. Improving your FICO scores can help you get better terms, including better interest rates, from lenders.
With this in mind, let's look at an August post from the FICO Banking Analytics Blog, "Is Growing Student Loan Debt Impacting FICO® Scores?," which addressed the question of the impact of student loans on FICO scores. The post concludes that, despite a continued rise in student loan debt that outpaces the growth of other types of debt, large amounts of student debt do not result in lowered FICO scores.
In fact, borrowers with more than $50,000 in student loan debt tended to have higher FICO scores than average consumers in the 500 to 749 FICO score range. Although their scores tended to be lower in the bottom (300 to 499) and higher (750 to 850) FICO score range, approximately 7 percent of consumers with at least $50,000 in student loan debt have FICO scores in the 800s. The blog also notes that student debt is considered like any other installment credit and that deferring a student loan will not necessarily have a negative impact.
[Find out how to avoid student loan default.]
Once you understand the basic algorithm behind FICO scores, you can see how responsibly managing your student loans can potentially have a positive impact on your FICO scores. It can be a positive, for example, to have a longer credit history and add a different type of credit to your financial history.
What has the biggest impact, however, is making your payments on time and building up an excellent payment history. Remember, that accounts for roughly 35 percent of your FICO score.
In order to do that, the Student Loan Ranger recommends relying on federal loans as much as possible to finance your education and taking advantage of protective provisions like income-driven repayment plans, including President Obama's new Pay As You Earn plan, as well as deferment and forbearance, if you need them.
[Explore other ways to boost your credit score.]
There are a few other things you should be aware of regarding your FICO scores and student loans. As FinAid.org notes, although federal Stafford and Perkins loans are available entirely without regard to credit history, you cannot have an adverse credit history—including being more than 90 days late on any debt—and be eligible for a PLUS loan. Most private lenders will rely in part on FICO scores to determine your eligibility for student loans and the interest rate you will receive.
Shopping for student loans may negatively impact your credit score, but as long as you do it in a brief time period, the impact should be minimal. The National Consumer Law Center also has helpful information on how going into default or discharging your loan in bankruptcy can impact on your credit score.
The Student Loan Ranger advises getting a free copy of your credit report and correcting any inaccurate information. This is the information provided by the consumer reporting company to lenders, so it can have a real impact on your creditworthiness. If you have further questions about how to manage your student debt—and thereby ensure your continued creditworthiness— you can visit the Student Loan Ranger's website and utilize comprehensive resources like our free webinars and our new eBook.
Isaac Bowers is a senior program manager in the Communications and Outreach unit, responsible for Equal Justice Works' educational debt relief initiatives. An expert on educational debt relief, Bowers conducts monthly webinars for a wide range of audiences; advises employers, law schools, and professional organizations; and works with Congress and the Department of Education on federal legislation and regulations. Prior to joining Equal Justice Works, he was a fellow at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP in San Francisco. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law.


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I wrote about a dozen articles for Patch prior to last week's article on "," and never had more than a comment or two in response (including my own response to a respondent). Last week's post, on the other hand, triggered a comparative avalanche. I want to pause from my initial plan ("Male Compassion" has therefore been postponed until next week) and try to understand what happened: both the quantity and the content of the responses to last week's post.
I anticipated getting more responses because I think there is a lot of energy around the whole question of men and women in relationship. It's been called a lot of things over the years, such as "the battle of the sexes." Often times it is a battle, though I prefer to think of it as a creative tension that occurs when two different entities try to meet. Yes, sparks fly, but we also grow and develop, we make babies and build families and communities, and we learn, through our struggles, how to love someone or some thing which doesn't look or sound like us. It is not easy, and that's why I have spent so much time focusing on the struggle aspect, because love songs and movies portray the easier parts quite nicely. I believe all of us are made better by the struggle, even those of us who think we've failed.
Then there's the content from last week's response thread. If we're going to be honest, the more fringe comments appeared to come from men. The easy reaction would be to say "these Neanderthals are just proving the point of men's problems in relating."
I would like to challenge us all to think a little more deeply about it.
The first thing I want to say is that we all share those same aggressive impulses which were evident in some of the postings. There is no honest way to say "I'm not like that." Psychologist Carl Jung cautioned us not to focus only on our light but also to recognize the shadow side of our personalities, the dark impulses we don't like to let out into the light. If we don't acknowledge that these exist within us, the darkness we deny in ourselves erupts onto other people or we bring it into our lives in other ways.
I believe what makes online forums so potentially dangerous is their combination of ease and anonymity. The ease is an artifact of electronic communication: the speed with which we can hit "send" or "post" and have it appear moments later on a screen for all to see. There is little time or need for reflection and our darker impulses can find easy outlet.
I am certain there were angry letters to the editor when snail mail was the only way to communicate, but I bet there were fewer of them because it required putting a piece of paper in a typewriter or writing it out by hand, finding an envelope, locating the address, putting a stamp on it, and putting it in the mailbox. All of those hurdles slowed down the initial aggressive impulse, and only the more determined angry person would follow all the way through. There also was built-in gate keeping because an editor simply had to see it before it could be put into print. For (largely) better and (somewhat) worse, this is no longer the case with online publishing.
The anonymity is the more relevant issue here, in the sense that it touches more directly on the question of relationships. By definition, anonymity means you and I don't know each other. There is no mutuality, no reciprocity, no overt repercussions for how we behave toward each other. This is similar to the situations in large cities and on the freeways, with their accompanying alienation and road rage.
So to my brothers who responded last week with more aggression and less thought for how it landed on the other side, I would ask you this: how does it feel to you when you engage in this way? Does it feel the same way as when you hold your child in your lap, when you confide in your best friend, when someone does you a favor? It's really the same relational message I was trying to convey last week. If you learn to pay attention to how your behavior makes others and you feel, you will be getting a valuable feedback mechanism for how to live your life more successfully, whether it be with your wives, your bosses, your children, or your neighbors. You can blow this off if you like, but communal reality is stronger than individual stubborn opinions. Dr. Phil does have one line I love: "How's that working for you?"
What I have to say in closing might not be politic and might make some more reactive. I want to suggest this: for some of you the degree to which you are reactive and angry and don't care about how others feel is the degree to which you have been wounded in relationship. Someplace along the way some of you learned it is not safe to let someone get close to you or for you to get close to someone else. Frankly, I was once very much this way myself and I still have my moments. So I have some compassion for those who act this way. But it still doesn't free you from the responsibility of looking at your impact on the world around you. If you really want to push people away or have them avoid you, why venture forth at all?
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- Kurtis "Beetle" Beidleman of The Team 1340 stopped by to talk Week 3 of the high school football season.
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I appreciate the Record-Eagle for bringing stories to the front page about this land we live in and the water that is our lifeblood. I am referring to the July 30 article about micro-plastic pollution in the Great Lakes and also its link to the article about fracking on Page 3A. And, more appreciation for "Our View" in the paper Aug. 2 about the micro-plastics pollution.
We human beings need this information so that we can change our minds and hearts. We can no longer base our decisions, about anything, on convenience, comfort or cheapness. We share this planet with all of life, and it is far past time for us to grow up and deal with everything based on the Precautionary Principle — First do no harm. Thank you for doing your part, Record-Eagle.
Laura Franseen
Suttons Bay
Inference reprehensible
Twice recently the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has tried to entice us into believing that hydraulic fracking "has been used in about 12,000 Michigan wells over the past 50 years without harming the environment." The statement is disingenuous.
While hydraulic fracking has been in use in vertically-fracked wells for decades, it wasn't until about 2000 that advances in drilling techniques made horizontal fracking economically feasible. Today, while the amount of water typically used in a traditional vertical well is about 50,000 gallons, the amount used in a horizontal well is five million gallons - 10 times as much; moreover, it uses twice as much frack fluid as the total water in a vertical well. Also, a significant fraction of the frack fluid, usually toxic, remains in the ground after fracking or, alternatively, is hauled away and dumped on local country roads, as residents of Benzie and Kalkaska counties are now experiencing.
There's little question but that the development of horizontal hydraulic fracking was a game-changer. For the DEQ, charged with the duty to protect the environment, to infer that there's been no change and that fracking in northern Michigan is unquestionably safe, is reprehensible.
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By BRADEN LAMMERS
Jeffersonville's Sewer Board looked to clear the purchase of several properties Thursday.
Settlement agreements were sought on a few remaining properties required to be purchased to be able to install the city's combined sewer overflow interceptor and another project sought to release sewer liens in order for the state to purchase property near Interstate 65.
The Indiana Department of Transportation is still working on securing its last pieces of property in order to move forward on construction of the Ohio River Bridges Project.
In order for the state to purchase a portion of four properties near where the new I-65 bridge will come through, a request was submitted to the sewer board to release sewer liens on the properties. All four liens are on businesses in the same development near the McCauley Nicolas building.
City officials explained that the state needs to have the liens resolved in order to purchase the portion of the properties sought.
But with the small amount of money owed on the liens, Sewer Board Attorney Scott Lewis said the city should try and recover what is owed to them.
"They're all businesses," he said. "If they're not bankrupt businesses ... I don't know why the businesses can't pay it."
The lien amounts owed range from $385 to $260.
The sewer board agreed 2-0, with Sewer Board Member Bill Saegesser absent, to table a decision on absolving the money owed and to try and contact the businesses to pay their bills.
Two acquisitions related to the city's interceptor project were also approved by the sewer board, but some hurdles exist before one deal is finalized.
An offer for two properties — 217 and 219 W. Maple Street — was made after an appraiser investigated there were two allowable structures on the site.
Attorney Amy Burnette explained that a special zoning designation would allow for two structures to be built on the narrow lots, which increased the appraisal amount from $25,900 to $38,000.
The property owner had agreed to accept $34,000 plus the transfer of a property on Meigs Avenue that was appraised for $2,800.
"We can't do anything with it," said Mayor Mike Moore of the property on Meigs Avenue. "[It's] $4,000 under appraisal and we give him a piece of property we can't do anything with ... so we're still saving $1,200."
However, another hurdle is that the sewer board does not currently own the property on Meigs Avenue. It is owned by the city. In order to transfer the title, the city entities must pass a matching resolution, deeding it to the sewer board in order to finalize the settlement.
The sewer board passed the resolution contingent upon the Jeffersonville City Council passing a matching resolution transferring the title at its next meeting, which is Tuesday.
The other property secured was at 214 W. Maple St. at a settlement amount of $25,000.
Approval of increased capacity
The sewer board approved accepting 7,750 gallons-per-day of increased capacity to allow for the third phase of a subdivision development to connect to the city's sewer system.
Kevin Taft, with Blankenbeker and Sons Inc., was on-hand to make the request for Premier Homes, the developer of the subdivision. Woods of Northaven off Snyder Drive in Jeffersonville is preparing to develop phase three of the subdivision, which will consist of 25 new lots, with about 12 new homes expected to be constructed per year.
The request to add the capacity to the sewer system the new homes will need in order to be constructed was unanimously approved.
Water concerns
Ann Graham said issues with a pumping station on Church Street has led to the flooding of her basement and asked the sewer board to help her resolve the problem.
A natural drainage next to the pumping station was redirected more than a year ago and when heavy rains occur, Graham said overflow is pumped onto her property.
She said it is not normally a problem that the water has been diverted onto her fields, but during especially heavy rains water comes into her basement.
The sewer board agreed to work with Graham to help find a solution.


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New supply chain Trading Execution System targets the ever-growing need to transact business at top speed, reliability and efficiency beyond the traditional confines of offices, plants and warehouses.
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Geoprise Technologies today announced the general availability of GM-X Version 5, its robust supply chain Trading Execution System for manufacturers, distributors and retailers. In a related development, Geoprise Technologies also announced the formation of its subsidiary Geoprise Technologies Licensing, a joint venture partnership with Radicore Software of the United Kingdom, through which Geoprise will market and implement the GM-X application suite worldwide.
A key issue confronting manufacturers, distributors and retailers is the urgent and growing need to integrate marketing and sales, logistics and delivery, after-sales service and supply chain management processes within an overall e-business strategy; however, accounting and enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems must run behind internal firewalls because they contain highly sensitive data, said Nelson Nones, Geoprise Chairman and CEO. Exposing such systems to external users, like customers or suppliers, introduces security risks. Consequently, most information technology (IT) security policies forbid running these systems in front of the internal firewall. Organizations must make substantial systems integration investments, or buy expensive software licenses from major software vendors, before they can exchange electronic requests, orders and invoices across networks of collaborative trading relationships. These solutions eventually work, but the cost and complexity are big obstacles that are preventing many enterprises from realizing the full benefits of collaboration.
GM-X Version 5 overcomes this limitation because the application can run in a demilitarized zone (DMZ) or classified military zone (CMZ), together with an organizations other front-end Web sites, and connects securely to external Web sites and services as well as an organizations internal systems using standard Web services and protocols. The GM-X database, meanwhile, resides securely within the internal firewall. In this respect GM-X Version 5 is analogous to full-fledged customer-facing Web applications, like online banking, that end users can see and which connect to the core accounting systems running securely behind an internal firewall by way of middleware, the plumbing that end users cannot see. You could think of GM-X as outerware and not middleware for supply chain trading execution situations, Nones said.
Originally developed by Radicore Software, the GM-X package has been successfully deployed by several European and American online retailers as the backbone to their front-end Web sites since 2008. It is a Web application, which means it can be used on the Internet, an extranet as well as a corporate intranet or wide area network (WAN). It can run as a stand-alone application, or in tandem with separate front-end Web sites such as business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), supplier portals and electronic data interchange (EDI) services that handle e-commerce, e-procurement, or track-and-trace of products and shipments.
GM-X Version 5 consists of 14 subsystems: a foundation subsystem providing secure sign-on and role-based access controls; Product, Content management and Inventory Subsystems for product data management and inventory tracking; the Party Subsystem for managing collaborative trading relationships; Request, Order, Shipment and Invoice Subsystems for end-to-end supply chain trading execution including requisitions, requests for proposals and quotes (RFPs and RFQs), quotations, purchase and sales orders, shipment tracking, invoicing and delivery; Work Effort, Project and Alert Subsystems for work execution, timesheets, expense reporting and document management; a configurable Workflow Subsystem that instantly routes work to the right users; and an Audit Subsystem that automatically tracks all database changes and document views. The application meets the needs of individual companies as well as multi-company enterprises, and delivers advanced multi-language and multi-currency capabilities that far surpass those of comparable software offerings.
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