text: Grado RS2i Stereo headphones Great sound for less: Save was $495 Zoom Front Photos Videos Item #: 786RS2I Review Summary 1 person says Low Stock $495.00 Was: -$50.00 : Price Break Free Crutchfield lifetime tech support Free Shipping Your price $445.00 Add to cart + Add to wishlist Email me alerts for this product Buy this item and earn up to 445 Rewards points See more offers and ways to save Special Financing Available x By buying this product you'll earn up to 445 Rewards points. When you sign up for a Crutchfield account, you'll be enrolled in Crutchfield Rewards. You'll earn one point for every dollar you spend on gear from us. You can turn your points into Rewards Cards that you can use toward future purchases. You can sign up for an account now, or after you complete your purchase (you'll get credit for the points either way). Sign up for a Crutchfield account Overview Details Staff Reviews Customer Reviews Q&A Articles & Videos Accessories Our take on the Grado RS2i by Dave Bar Natural, organic sound If you crave rich detailed sound with natural warmth, lifelike vocals, and explosive dynamics, Grado's RS2i headphones have your name on them. These mahogany wood beauties immerse you in a listening experience so involving you'll want to re-explore every track in your music library. Each earcup is hand-crafted by Grado in Brooklyn, New York from a particular species of mahogany. The wood is carefully cured between production steps to achieve optimum sound quality, and takes advantage of the wood's natural acoustic properties. These Grados can be driven using the headphone outputs on most home audio systems, or even a portable player or laptop using Grado's optional miniplug adapter. But they'll really sound their best with the addition of a headphone amplifier. Old-school looks with up-to-the-minute technology All Grado headphones use a vented "open-air" earcup design for powerful, extended low frequency response and a more spacious soundstage. Mahogany enclosures and air chambers give you smooth, relaxed highs, while ultra-high purity copper voice coils and a sturdy eight-conductor connecting cable deliver refined sound with a high degree of control and accuracy. The RS2i's extra-wide frequency range ensures you'll hear all your music. And the genuine leather headband can be adjusted for a comfortable fit. From the review Grado Reference Series RS2i Headphones: Mahogany earcups deliver on looks and sound "These headphones are designed for foreground listening, ideally when you have time to sit down and fully enjoy your music. Plugged into a nice audio system, the Grado RS2 headphones can deliver an engaging listening experience. And with those mahogany earcups, look good doing it, too. " Ralph, Crutchfield Blog Editor and A/V Writer See more info on this item Highlights:open-back, on-the-ear design with replaceable ear cushionsvented diaphragms (open-air) for spacious, low-distortion sound and extended bass responsemahogany wood enclosures and air chambers provide natural sonic warmth and smoothness in a lighter weight designspecial "de-stressed" diaphragms and an eight-conductor connecting cable enhance detaillarge ear cushions and increased air flow through improved rear metal screens deliver a large soundstage free from colorationadjustable leather headband for a custom fitdriver pairs matched to within 0.05 dB for better stereo imagingultra-high purity, long-crystal copper (UHPLC) voice coil wire67" ultra-high purity, long-crystal copper (UHPLC) headphone cable terminated with a 1/4" plug (optional Grado 1/8" miniplug adapter available)optional 15-foot Grado headphone extension cable availablefrequency response: 14-28,000 Hzsound pressure level (at 1mW): 98 dBimpedance: 32 ohmswarranty: 1 year (does not include earpads)Our 60-day money-back guarantee Hands-on research from the Crutchfield Labs (what are the Labs?) Features and specs chart | What's in the box? | In-depth notes Features and Specs General Fit Style Loading... On-ear Earcup Type Loading... Open Noise-canceling Loading... No Bluetooth Loading... No Frequency Response Loading... 14-28k Hz Sensitivity Loading... 98 dB Impedance Loading... 32 Ohms Weight Loading... Not Given Cord Length Loading... 67" Airline Adapter Included Loading... No iPod Control Loading... No Volume Control Loading... No Built-in Microphone Loading... No Parts Warranty Loading... 1 Year, earpads not incl Labor Warranty Loading... 1 Year, earpads not incl Product Research What's in the box? Download owner's manual On-ear headphones Headphone information/ Warranty information Our Product Research Team At Crutchfield, you'll get detailed, accurate information that's hard to find elsewhere. That's because we have our own in-house Product Research team — they open the box, verify contents, check the owner's manual, and record dimensions, features and specs. We stay on top of new products and technologies to help people make informed choices. Features Vented diaphragm: Grado headphones have a vented diaphragm design for a large, airy, three-dimensional sound. The wooden air chambers are hand-crafted at Grado's labs from a new specially selected species of mahogany. An intricate procedure of curing is done between production steps to achieve optimal sonic quality. Drivers: The diaphragm is made of a low mass polymer, developed with the compliance of the suspension in mind to achieve the desired low frequency response. The diaphragm's total mass is designed to provide a full 20 kHz bandwidth, while avoiding break-up at lower frequencies. High power neodymium magnets maximize efficiency and minimize weight. The left and right drivers are matched to within 0.05 dB for exact imaging. Voice Coil: The RS2i's voice-coils are wound from ultra-high purity, long crystal (UHPLC) oxygen free copper. This high conductivity copper yields a clear transmission and minimizes coloration, resulting in smooth, clean and dynamic sound output. Connecting Cord: Grado also uses UHPLC copper in the cable. The new 8-conductor cable design improves the control and stability in the upper and lower frequency range. Product reviews from the Crutchfield Labs (what are the Labs?) Grado GS1000i Stereo Headphones Grado GS1000i Stereo Headphones by Ralph Graves 8/25/2011 Some headphones just sound as beautiful as they look. And with their mahogany earcups, the Grado GS1000i headphones looked very beautiful, indeed. Review this product Submit a review and then enter to win a $500 rewards card Grado RS2i Reviews Average Customer Review: 1 people say: Review this product: Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences about this product. Please be sure to focus your comments on the product itself. Read our Review Guidelines for more information. Review title * Email Your email won't be visible. 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Warm yet dynamic.Very detailed.I also own a pair of Grado 60.Grado just sounds better than most any other brand.Other phones often sound weak and even mechanical. Pros: Dynamic.Replaceable ear pads. Cons: Restrict to home listening. 12 out of 15 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No Add accessories for the Grado RS2i Add Accessories Add a Warranty Get better sound from your headphones with a dedicated headphone amp. See all categories & accessories Get better sound from your headphones with a dedicated headphone amp. Headphone Amplifiers Keep your headphones right where you want them without taking up shelf space. Replace lost or damaged earpads with new cushions. Miscellaneous Audio Accessories Improve the sound from your digital audio sources. All DACs Use an extension cable for more room to move while you listen. Add a Y-adapter to share the music with a friend. 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text: Intro to the mp forum Well well this feels kind of odd. But i guess i have to blame myself for staying away from the forums. Anyway never been good at typing up intros so lets start. :wave: I am lone_wolf and i have been a member here since before the spf was created. I have vowed to never play this game again to many times to count and here i am again. Im playing 1.12a RCM with RWM softcore. I only play HC if i take part in one of the various tourneys that take place at the spf. I resently reinstalled and ressurected my old chars as well as took back atma stashes from backups. So im back at 89% of the grail according to flavie. Most of that is from my old stashes but since i am also doing my various projects quite a lot of items comes from that also. For those curious im doing 5k baal, 5k meph, 5k pit, atleast 5k LK and 5k pindle. When it comes to runewords i do own an enigma as well as Coh so if you see my windy or paladin teleporting around its because of that. (they share the enigma among other things). The coh sits on my dtalon/trap sin and will be used again when i find a lo to make grief for my planned zealot. So now those of you that dont know me know a bit more and those that do know me got a update of what im doing right now.

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Sixteen Los Angeles County Teachers of the Year were named this weekend at a ceremony celebrating education excellence, the L.A. County Superintendent of Schools announced Saturday.
The 16 were selected from a field of 71 teachers who participated in the 31st Annual L.A. County Teachers of the Year competition. All participants had been recently selected as teacher of the year by their respective school districts.
The winning educators come from a diversity of school locales, including Arcadia, Covina, Culver City, Glendora, Lakewood, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Santa Fe Springs, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Monrovia, Diamond Bar and South Pasadena.
The county competition, overseen by the county Office of Education, is the largest competition of its kind in the state and nation. County Superintendent of Schools Arturo Delgado said it is part of the oldest and most prestigious honors contest in the United States for public school teachers.
"These are dedicated women and men who everyday make the most of a precious opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of their students," Delgado said at a banquet Friday at Universal City.
Last year's national teacher of the year, Burbank teacher Rebecca Mieliwocki, called teachers "the center of the quiet hurricane of empowerment and possibility. Every moment that you spend in the service of educating another human being is an opportunity to change the world and make it a better world," she said.
In addition to being interviewed, contestants submitted essays, lesson plans and other materials to judging panels comprised of education peers.
The 16 L.A. County winners automatically advance with other county titlists from around the state to the California Teachers of the Year competition this fall. The state is scheduled to announce its five winners in November. One of them will be chosen to represent California in the National Teacher of the Year contest next spring.
The 16 L.A. County Teachers of the Year received a $1,000 cash prize courtesy of the California Credit Union, the program's main sponsor. The other sponsors of the Teachers of the Year program were DigitalEdgeLearning and Lakeshore Learning.
This year's L.A. County Teachers of the Year are (alphabetical by district):
-- Daniel Johns, Dana Middle, Arcadia Unified School District;
-- Jennifer Felter, Merwin, Covina-Valley USD;
-- Kari Fretham, Culver City Middle, Culver City USD;
-- Lynda Okerson, Cullen Elementary, Glendora USD;
-- Jennifer Valencia, Lake Center Middle, Little Lake City School District;
-- Erin Brady, Holmes Elementary, Long Beach USD;
-- Kenneth Fisher, Cabrillo High, Long Beach USD;
-- Jeffrey Austin, Social Justice Humanitas Academy, LAUSD;
-- Stacey Joy, Baldwin Hills Gifted Magnet Elementary, LAUSD;
-- Veronica Marquez, Harmony Elementary, LAUSD;
-- Julie Borsari, Jordan Elementary, Lowell Joint School District;
-- Linda Gesualdi, Mira Costa High, Manhattan Beach USD;
-- Kyle McClure, Clifton Middle, Monrovia USD;
-- Maryann Nielsen, South Pasadena High, South Pasadena USD;
-- Sandra Davis, Diamond Bar High, Walnut Valley USD; and
-- Sheila LaCour, Richard Henry Dana Middle, Wiseburn School District.


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What should I do if my community has various needs at the same time?
If you have detected various needs, first consider if those needs can be treated as different stages in the same project. You would need to develop those activities so that they meet the proposed goal. A way to test if an activity belongs to the same project is examining if its development would contribute to accomplishing the proposed project's planned objectives.
If these activities definitively belong to different projects, you should determine which is the priority for your community and apply for funds at the Subcommittee for only ONE project. Remember that the Subcommittee of Bishops can only distribute funds to an organization one time a year. The year begins after the date that the Subcommittee approves the funds.
What should I do once I have written my proposal?
Congratulations for completing the first phase of the process. You can send your application to the Subcommittee on the Church on Latin America in three ways, but remember that you should only utilize ONE
If we receive the same proposal various times the application can be nullified.
You can mail your written proposal by regular mail to the following address:
Church in Latin America
3211 4th Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20017-1194
You can also send your document by fax to: (1)(202) 541 3460
Who will respond to my application?
The USCCB works with an office called the Collection for the Church in Latin America, whose staff will manage the projects.
The staff of the Collection for the Church in Latin America will analyze your proposal once it has arrived in the mail, by fax or in electronic form and will determine if the proposal falls under one of the eight categories established by the Bishop's Subcommittee and if the amount that you have estimated is appropriate for the completion of the project.
If you desire more information about the project categories that the Bishop's Subcommittee has established, you can consult the link on categories.
If you proposal is pre-approved, we will mail you the official application form and a complete guide for your use.
Once you have the official form correctly filled out, you should consult the guide or our web page to find what support letters you will need to obtain. These letters will depend on the geographic area covered by the project in the proposal and the type of institution(whether or not it is ecclesiastical). Keep in mind it is very important to obtain these letters of support. Without these, your petition will be returned.
Can I send my official form by fax?
No. The staff will only accept the original form sent by regular mail accompanied by the letters previously referred to.
The Subcommittee on the Church on Latin America recommends that you keep a copy of the filled out form. Sometimes clarifications are required about specific aspects of the proposal. Also, you will need the form during the project in order to follow it's guidelines and suggestions.
Finally, we have noticed the tendency of certain organizations to send back the Project Manual with the application form. It is not necessary that you send this guide, it is something that can serve for future consultation if you decide to apply for a grant again either through our organization or another funding entity.
I have a blank copy of the application form from a previous project, would I be able to use it for a new project?
No. When an application is pre-approved by the staff it creates a file in the database for that specific application and automatically prints a form for that specific project. The form has the name of the person who applied, the date and a provisional project number. Additionally, the form specifically asks that "no photocopies be made of this form." We would sincerely appreciate it if you followed these instructions.
When the staff receives the form that has been created for a determined project, although the form is for a different project, the old project number produces the data about the old project and it is immediately rejected. We would appreciate if we could avoid this situation to prevent further confusion and the waste of the staff's time clarifying information.
What happens with my form once it arrives at the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America?
Once the staff at the Church in Latin America receives the application package, it will be reviewed to make sure that it contains the corresponding support letters according to the goal of the project and the origin of the organization which is applying for funds.
In the following phase, it will be analyzed to make sure that the project has an adequate justification, the goal is feasible and to ensure that the objectives and goals are coherent. In the case of an event, retreat, seminar, workshop and/or classes, it is important that this information be complete.
The Project Manual that accompanies the application form is a useful guide that contains examples that illustrate the most frequently presented cases.
If in your project you will be developing an event, like a seminar, retreat, workshop, etc, please take extra care to count the number of participants, the total number of training hours, the number of program hours and include the budget. Again, the guide will help you correctly fill out the forms.
The Staff at the Collection for the Church in Latin America also takes care to ensure that the proposed grant total submitted to the Bishop's Subcommittee does not exceed 67% of the total budget of the project.
If the staff at the Collection for the Church in Latin America finds that the project is clearly outlined, contains all of the necessary information (including the corresponding support letters) and does not require clarifications, we will write the applicant a letter containing the date that the Subcommittee will evaluate the project.
Because the staff can not predetermine what the Subcommittee of Bishop's decision will be, we ask that no economic commitments be made with the possibility of receiving aid from us until after you have received notification on whether or not you will receive aid and if so, the amount of your grant.
The Subcommittee is composed of 7 Bishops that are appointed for a 3 year period.
The current chairman of the Subcommittee of Bishops is Most Rev. Jaime Soto, Auxiliary Bishop of Orange.
When will the Subcommittee meet during the year?
The Bishops meet 3 times during the year in March, June and November.
What type of decision should I expect from the Subcommittee?
The Subcommittee of Bishops evaluates the projects presented by the staff of the Collection for the Church in Latin America and can make 3 of the following decisions: finance the total request of the application, finance part of the requested amount, or decide not to finance the amount applied for.
How are the funds mailed from the staff to the applicant?
For those projects that have been approved either partially or in total, the staff will do a bank transfer. When this is not possible, a check will be delivered.
It is important that you fill out the information form very carefully and review it various times. The inter-bank transferring systems are so detailed that whatever inconsistency in the information can impede the success of the transaction.
The funds will be transferred inside of the month following the meeting at which they were approved.
What should my organization do once it receives the funds?
Congratulations! You have succeeded in obtaining funds to benefit your community. This is the result of your perseverance and patience for a noble cause.
The staff will send along with the funds and a packet of information that contains: i) The acknowledgment of receipt of the funds, ii)A form that should be filled out with the final report once the project has been executed, iii)A guide for the use of the funds.
The acknowledgment of receipt of funds is a formal certification that the economic resources were received by the applying organization. It is important that you verify that you have the grant in your bank account. It should be filled out and sent directly by fax and/or regular mail.
The final project form should be filled out once the project has been finished and all of the data has been gathered. Remember that the clarity, detail and promptness with which you send this report will determine what the Subcommittee and staff of the Collection for the Church in Latin America consider in future project funding for that organization.
If I already have an approved project, can I apply for funds again?
Keep in mind that the organizations that have applied for funds can NOT apply for funds during the time that the financed project is being executed. At least one year should pass from the date the Bishop's Subcommittee approved the funds. In other words, if the project was approved by the Subcommittee in March of 2001 and the project lasted for eight months, the organization should do the following: i)Mail the final report a month after the project is finished, ii) If you have a new project you should wait until March of 2002 to write to the staff about a new application.
Please do not forget that in order to present a new project you should have the approval of the final report from the previous project. This is a necessary requirement.
How much time is necessary for the processing of the application?
The time it takes to process an application from when it was received to the transfer of funds is very relative. It is subject to delays in mail, the clarity of the project proposal (whether or not clarifications are necessary) and receipt of all required documents. If a project meets all of the requirements and does not require clarifications, the funds will be transferred in about 5 months.
In what LANGUAGE may I fill out the grant application?
In Spanish, English, and Creole. No inquiries or applications will be accepted in Portuguese or French.
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Tuesday night in Charlotte, NC, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention about her and her husband's humble upbringings, about hard work, about being a mother and about why Americans should vote for her husband, President Barack Obama.
Just a week ago, Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took the stage in Tampa, FL and delivered a speech about about how her parents and Mitt's parents had humble beginnings and how she and Mitt lived like other college students did, about hard work, about being a mother, and about why Americans should give her husband a chance.
The themes were similar, but the subtle differences showed who each woman was hoping to reach. Some would say that Ann was hoping to reach mothers and Michelle was hoping to reach those who are working hard or are struggling financially.
Here are excerpts from Michelle's speech delivered Tuesday night:
We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make…that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters…that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules…and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean…and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Those are the values Barack and I – and so many of you – are trying to pass on to our own children.
That's who we are...
Because today, I know from experience that if I truly want to leave a better world for my daughters, and all our sons and daughters…if we want to give all our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities worthy of their promise…if we want to give them that sense of limitless possibility – that belief that here in America, there is always something better out there if you're willing to work for it…then we must work like never before…and we must once again come together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country forward…my husband, our President, President Barack Obama.
Michelle described the work ethic of her and Barack's parents just as Ann did. Michelle's father, diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, worked as a pump operator at the city water plant using a walker. Barack's grandmother helped raise him and climbed as far as she could before hitting a glass ceiling at a bank.
Ann's father, a Welsh immigrant who came to the U.S. at 15, built a business and became a mayor. Mitt's father was a carpenter, who became the head of a car company and later became a governor.
Ann remembered when Mitt was nervous dating her in high school and how in college, they used an ironing board as a dining room table. Michelle remembers meeting Barack at the law firm where they both worked and he picked her up in a car so rusted-out that she could see the ground below through a hole in the car floor. She talked about how they each had a great deal of debt from student loans.
Although each woman talked about how much she loved her husband, it was Ann who used love as the theme of her speech. Here are excerpts from her speech on Aug. 28:
Tonight I want to talk to you about love.
I want to talk to you about the deep and abiding love I have for a man I met at a dance many years ago. And the profound love I have, and I know we share, for this country.
I want to talk to you about that love so deep only a mother can fathom it — the love we have for our children and our children's children.
And I want us to think tonight about the love we all share for those Americans, our brothers and sisters, who are going through difficult times, whose days are never easy, nights are always long, and whose work never seems done.
It's the moms of this nation — single, married, widowed — who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters.
You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
You know what it's like to work a little harder during the day to earn the respect you deserve at work and then come home to help with that book report which just has to be done. You know what those late night phone calls with an elderly parent are like and the long weekend drives just to see how they're doing. You know the fastest route to the local emergency room and which doctors actually answer the phone when you call at night...
You are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you. Tonight, we salute you and sing your praises.
I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!...
You can trust Mitt.
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Meteorologists expect a wet and chilly Game 6 of the World Series Wednesday night. As of Thursday evening the forecast predicted a 60 percent chance of rain with temperatures around 50 degrees with 12 mph winds blowing in from left field toward first base.
Who's hot
NCAAF: Connecticut is riding a 9-0 run against the spread against teams with a losing record.
MLB: St. Louis is 13-3 in its last 16 games following a loss.
NHL: The over is 4-0 in Philadelphia's last four games.
Who's not
NCAAF: Pitt is 0-4 against the spread in its last four games as a favorite.
MLB: Texas is 1-4 in its last five games following a win.
NHL: Calgary is 0-5 in its last five meetings with Colorado.
Key stat
14-3-1 – The under is 14-3-1 in the last 18 games that Gary Cederstrom has worked behind home plate. Cederstrom is expected to be calling balls and strikes for Wednesday's Game 6 of the World Series.
Injury that shouldn't be overlooked
Chris Pronger, Philadelphia Flyers – The Flyers' captain is expected to be sidelined for at least two weeks after taking a stick to the right eye during Monday's 4-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Pronger was hit as Toronto's Mikhail Grabovski followed through on his shot during the first period. The 37-year-old defenseman, who does not wear a shield, immediately clutched at his face and skated to the bench before heading to the locker room.
Game of the day
Texas Rangers at St. Louis Cardinals (-120, 7.5)
Notable quotable
"I know fans are upset, and they should be -- I'm upset, I go home my wife is upset, my mom is upset and my brother is giving me input on who the quarterback should be. But they should be upset because the standard and expectations of Pitt football is to win championships, and we haven't played at that level." – Pitt coach Todd Graham ahead of Wednesday's home game against Connecticut. Pitt is set as a 10-point favorite.
Notes and tips
Army quarterback Trent Steelman will miss Saturday's game against Fordham with a high ankle sprain, snapping a streak of 32 consecutive starts. Steelman suffered the injury last week against Vanderbilt, with coach Rich Ellerson declaring that the quarterback is week-to-week. The junior, who has rushed for 576 yards and 11 scores, had started every game of his college career.
Pitt's best offensive lineman, senior Lucas Nix, is a game-time decision for Wednesday night's big game against Connecticut. The Panthers are expected to field their fifth different offensive line combination in their last six games due to multiple injuries.
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs questioned the team's offensive game plan following Monday night's 12-7 road loss to Jacksonville. The Ravens did not have a first down until deep into the third quarter and did not score until 2:02 remained in the game. They managed 11 first downs and 146 total yards. "I don't really know what the game plan was," Suggs told reporters. While Joe Flacco threw 38 passes - and averaged less than four yards per attempt - running back Ray Rice had just eight carries and receiver Anquan Boldin had four catches. Baltimore is set as a big 13-point favorite at home to Arizona.


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By Corbin Hosler and Michael Kinney
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NORMAN — After playing one of its best games of the year Friday to defeat Edmond Memorial and advance to the championship game of the East Central Oklahoma tournament, Norman North fell flat on Saturday.
Playing against Class 5A's top-ranked Shawnee, the T-Wolves didn't bring the same energy or aggressiveness they did on Friday, and it cost them in a 45-36 loss.
"We got beat by a better team today," North coach Jeff Blough said. "We weren't as aggressive as we've been. We stood and watched too much, which is uncharacteristic of us. We had no sense of urgency today."
Another problem for North was foul trouble. The T-Wolves were forced to sit too many players with fouls and gave up 26 free throws to Shawnee, while only shooting two of their own.
"I was just disappointed in our demeanor tonight," Blough said after the game. "But we've got a quick turnaround, so we've got to get back out there."
Norman High 58, Deer Creek 44: After a disappointing Day One, the Tigers rebounded to win their last two games at the Bishop McGuinness Classic, closing the weekend with a 58-44 victory over Deer Creek.
After playing even with Deer Creek early, NHS took control in the second quarter and went into halftime with a 29-18 lead.
But it was the third quarter where the Tigers put the game away. Led by Cooper Clark, who hit five straight three pointers to open the second half, the Tigers built a 20-point lead they would never relinquish
Clark finished with 21 points to lead the way for the Tigers and Sam Blodgett, who was named to the all-tournament team after the game, added eight for NHS.
"It was a complete team effort today," coach Matt Thornton said. "Of course, it makes you look like a much better coach when the ball goes in the hole, and Cooper had an amazing game today. And Sam was able to set up those shots by making the defense collapse inside."
Next up for NHS is a 7:45 p.m. game Friday at Moore.
Westmoore 43, Norman High girls 40: A narrow loss to Westmoore ended a disappointing weekend for NHS at the Westmoore Tournament.
NHS coach Nichole Copeland said that, while the Tigers had their chances, they weren't able to convert enough of them to pull ahead near the end.
Bethany Cox led NHS with 11 points and Albany Anderson has seven while being named to the All-Tournament team.
Next up for NHS is a 6:15 p.m. road game on Friday at Moore.
Anadarko 62, Southmoore 50: Facing the No. 1 team in 4A, the third ranked Lady SaberCats fought hard for three quarters, but were unable to keep pace in the final period of Saturday's Anadarko Warriors Classic title game.
With 6:15 left in the game and the SaberCats trailing by only three, the Beatty sisters took over for the Warriors. Ashley Beatty, drained a 3-pointer to push the lead to six. On their next trip down senior Lakota Beatty, who has signed to play at Oklahoma State, knocked down her own trey to give Anadarko a 47-38 advantage.
The two sisters led the Warriors on a 19-9 run to put the game away.
Serithia Hawkins paced the Cats with 14 points and seven rebounds and senior Kayla Tucker scored 12 points and four assists in the loss.
Southmoore drops to 9-3 on the season.
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The Danbury Animal Welfare Society (DAWS) will hold its 6th annual Making a Difference Ball on Saturday, March 9th from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the newly renovated Ethan Allen Hotel on 21 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury. The event will feature silent & live auctions, plentiful food and drink, and entertainment by Connecticut's premier event band, Higher & Higher. All proceeds will go to help the mission of Danbury Animal Welfare Society.
This black tie event will have over 70 live auction baskets full of fabulous items and an exciting live action featuring prizes such as a trip to New Orleans and a romantic getaway to Aruba.
This is DAWS' largest annual fundraiser, attended by over 300 people and supported by hundreds of others through sponsorships, journal advertisements, financial and in-kind donations. The revenue from the Making a Difference Ball goes directly to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond.
In 2012, DAWS provided medical care to over 1,200 animals and helped over 730 dogs and cats find their forever homes. In addition to adoptions, DAWS also aids the community through various programs such as low-cost spay/neuter services as well as Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), a program that spays and neuters feral cats and manages feral cat colonies that exist in our community.


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Pinched by a budget that won't allow its special operations team to meet national training recommendations, the Kirkland Police Department is on the verge of joining six other jurisdictions on the regional North Sound Metro SWAT team.
The City Council heard a proposal from KPD on Jan. 15 about an inter-local agreement that would allow the department to join those from Lynnwood, Edmonds, Monroe, Bothell, Mountlake Terrace and Lake Forest Park on the team, which formed last year.
The council had some questions about how any unspent money budgeted for KPD's participation in North Sound Metro SWAT would be handled, and a vote on the proposal was postponed. But the council is expected to take up the plan again next month.
The department says joining the team will give it the resources to better resolve safely dangerous situations such as hostage situations, armed barricaded suspects, school shootings and serving high risk warrants.
KPD's proposal notes that Kirkland would lend the North Sound Metro team expertise it does not have now in crisis negotiations. At the same time, the team will provide resources that Kirkland does not now have, such as a tactical robot and an armored car.
"The concept is good. You pool resources for this stuff, which is highly technical," said City Councilman Dave Asher, a member of the council's Public Safety Committee. "It's spreads the cost and capability. This is one way we can strive for regional efficiency."
The Kirkland Police Department currently maintains a part-time special ops team that includes a special response unit and a crisis negotiation team. Members of the teams are trained and equipped, but the department's budget does not allow it to meet the recommendations of national and state tactical associations, which include higher training and deployment standards. The two most difficult standards to achieve include one 40-hour continuous training week and 24 individual days of training a year as well as staffing a minimum of 24 officers.
Joining the North Sound Metro team would allow the department to meet its training mandates immediately. Kirkland members would have the opportunity to take on supervisory roles on the team, and Kirkland Police Chief Eric Olsen would serve on the North Sound Metro board.
For details, see the attached PDF file of the proposal to the City Council.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson went two years without a title and suddenly became an afterthought at the Daytona 500.
All the attention went to Danica Patrick and a handful of other drivers.
Not that it mattered Sunday, because look who pulled into Victory Lane.
Five-time is back. Not that he ever went away.
Johnson won his second Daytona 500 on Sunday, a year after he completed just one lap in the race and three months after falling short in his bid for a sixth Sprint Cup title. That so-called drought had made him something of a no-name during Speedweeks.
"In my mind, I didn't feel like I was under the radar," he said. "I felt like we were working hard to put the best product on the track. I guess I was quiet in the overall spectrum of things from the media side. I think people in the garage, people knew we were sitting on a lot of speed and had a very good race car."
But in winning the biggest race of the year, the No. 48 team wasn't sending a message to the competitors.
"I don't think we went anywhere; anybody in the garage area, they're wise to all that," Johnson said.
Johnson's win came on the same day that Patrick, who became the first woman in history to start a Sprint Cup race from the pole, again made history as the first woman to lead laps in the Daytona 500.
She ran inside the top 10 almost the entire race, kept pace with the field and never panicked on the track.
Her only mistakes were on pit road, where she got beat on the race back to the track, and on the final lap, when she was running third but got snookered by the veterans and faded to eighth. That's going to stick with Patrick for some time.


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"Little things" have cost chef Karol Hatton a perfect score.
"You can get two points taken off easily because the temperature of the freezer has little bit of frost on," she said. "You get points taken off for little things. In general, if you keep the place and kitchen maintained properly, there are usually no problems."
As the head chef at GC Cuisine & Crystal Garden at 1230 University Drive in Edwardsville, Hatton has received her share of near-perfect inspections. Then in June, when the Madison County Health Department returned to the Edwardsville banquet hall and catering service for its most recent inspection, GC Cuisine & Crystal Garden achieved a 100.
"There have been times when we got a couple points taken off merely because they couldn't see the thermometer in the freezer or the oven door was a little dirty," Hatton said. "Anytime you score around 95 or 98, that's almost perfect. They will take two points off if they can't see the temperature gauge in the freezer. It's in there, but they didn't see it. They will take off two points."
In Belleville, Rachel's Garden at 3917 Frank Scott Parkway West received a perfect score from the St. Clair County Health Department after its inspection in March. Co-owner Gladys Boisseau said the restaurant has scored perfect inspections in the past. But in times when the restaurant has not, it was over minor citations.
"I think that one time we got a little bit lower score than what we wanted and we got a 96, but most of the time we're at 100," Boisseau said. "And occasionally they will say that we need to take care of one or two points, but mostly over the last few years we're at 100."
Public health officials from both counties as well as the East Side Health District make unannounced inspections to each restaurant two to three times a year, depending on past violations.
St. Clair County posts restaurant inspection scores at health.co.st-clair.il.us/Restaurant+Scores while East Side posts inspections at www.eshd.org.
Madison County posted the scores online for the past five years at www.madisonchd.org. In 2010, the county began posting information from each inspection.
"I think this is really helpful when we put violations on there," said Mary Cooper, the department's environmental health services manager. She noted restaurant owners and visitors can see whether a cleaning violation is either one or two points off the score.
Officials in Madison and St. Clair use a checklist that has 45 total different points of inspection. All violations are "weighted," or given a point value of one, two, four or five points calculated out of a total 100 points. Cooper said these include temperature of food during refrigeration, cooking or reheating.
"The violations inspectors take into consideration are what they are observing in inspections," Cooper said. "If they see violations, it's marked and written down. If it's a critical violation and they can correct it on site, they will return to check it until the critical violation is corrected.
Like Madison County Health Department, the St. Clair County Health Department will force a restaurant to close if the violations are deemed an immediate health risk to the public and will not allow the establishment to reopen until the violation has been rectified.
"Basically, what we do is if there is an imminent public health risk, then the facility will have to close until the items have been fixed and repaired before we will allow them to continue to go into operation," said St. Clair County Health Department Environmental Health Manager Sharon Valentine. "If it's something like they don't have proper refrigeration, we will have them remove all of the food from the unit and put it into a unit that is working. We will go back and check it until these items are corrected."
The East Side Health District provides health inspections in Canteen, Centreville, East St. Louis and Stites townships since 1937. Doug King, the district's environmental health director, said there are occasional inspections that are near perfect, which means all food is maintained at cooked at proper temperatures and all points of the food preparation area is clean.
However, King said there are times when a small spill on the floor that occurred minutes before the inspection come into play and inspectors have to make a "professional decision."
"Do you mark them off or reward them?" King asked. "You may already have a rapport with them and you may decide to tell them to just clean this up. Things like that are minor, so we may do that and they make get a 100. They are not technically perfect, but close to it. We are not there just to be hammering them on points. We want to get people to think about food safety."
The Retail Food Sanitary Inspection Report conducted by the East Side Health District in East St. Louis has 15 categories: food; food protection; personnel; food equipment and utensils; water; sewage; plumbing; toilet and hand-washing facilities; garbage and refuse disposal; insect, rodent and animal control; floors, walls and ceilings; lighting; ventilation; dressing rooms, and other operations. There are 46 total different points of inspection. All violations carry a point value of one, two, four or five points.
For example, garbage stored outside a restaurant that is not enclosed or clean is a one-point deduction. Trash containers anywhere inside not covered, clean or if there are not an adequate number of them is a two-point penalty. Restaurants are deducted four points if food is not properly wrapped and preserved, and five points if food that requires refrigeration is not kept at the right temperature during storage or preparation.
Boisseau said the best advice she has for restaurateurs is to keep their eyes open and make sure their employees are up to par with health and safety regulations.
"We ask them to keep things clean," she said. "Other than that, we just work at it. It's not always easy. You put in extra hours to make sure things are clean. It's a real team effort."
Hatton said that as long as restaurant owners and workers keep their kitchens clean and appliances and stoves fixed and working properly, health inspections should not be an issue.
Boisseau said Rachel's Garden, which is named after her granddaughter, is owned and operated by her family and staffed by long-term employees who carry a strong sense of pride about the business. She said everyone who works there treats the restaurant as if it were their own kitchen at home.
"I tell everybody that I eat here, so I want this place to be clean," she said. "All of our employees are long-term employees and most all of them have been here over 10 years, and some have been here for just about 10 years and they take pride in the restaurant, too. It's kind of like it's their restaurant as well as it is ours.
"We try to keep it looking the same way the inspectors see it all year long. If the inspector comes in and they have suggestions for us, something that would do to make it better, by the time they come back, we've incorporated them. We don't look at and say they are just picky. This is our business. I keep my kitchen at home clean, so I definitely keep the kitchen here clean."
Contact reporter Will Buss at email@example.com or 239-2526.


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Pittsburgh Dad is going to the Monroeville Mall!
"Pittsburgh Dad" is a YouTube series of short films featuring the observations of a yinzer dad. It was created by Chris Preksta and stars Curt Wootton.
The 'burgh's favorite dad has taken on Kennywood, Black Friday and the Steelers. On Saturday, Dec. 15, at 11 a.m., he'll be at the Monroeville Mall for a meet and greet.
Posters and DVDs will be on sale, and they can be autographed. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/pittsburghdad.


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---- — NEWBURYPORT — The ocean's vigorous pummeling of Plum Island yesterday was an event that might have been expected by a growing organization concerned about the rising of the sea.
The group is so new it does not yet have a name
But about 70 people have been involved in early meetings, the last of which was Feb. 21 at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island.
A third meeting is planned for late March but the time and place have not been decided.
As the sea rises and storm intensity increases, we will see more events (like damage on Plum Island) on our coasts," said Elizabeth Marcus of Newburyport, an early joiner.
We need to start a community conversation about how we are going to deal with that in the future."
Joe Teixeira, who chairs the Conservation Commission here, said he believes sea-level rise (abetted by environmental factors) is connected to recent storm surges on North Shore beaches.
"SLR is a function of the atmosphere heating up," said Teixeira, who said he was speaking as a private citizen, not as a board chairman.
"And seawater does expand when heated. Also, due to the added heat, there is more energy in the atmosphere driving more frequent and more violent storms."
Local and state officials have been committed to attempting to protect local beaches from storms.
Numerous governmental representatives worked to obtain federal funds to strengthen and heighten the south jetty at the intersection of the Merrimack River and the ocean.
They believe the work, for which they have obtained about $8 million in federal funds, will help to control erosion that threatens dozens of houses in Newburyport and Newbury.
The Merrimack River Beach Alliance meets regularly to discuss methods to protect homes. Its next session is Monday (March 11) at 11 a.m. at the Plum Island Taxpayers and Associates building at 8 Plum Island Turnpike on the island.
Representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have launched an off-site study to determine exactly how the ocean is reacting to the shore, the river and the jetties - and what can be done.
But that analysis could take up to two years, federal spokesmen say.
While studies are under way, scores of local residents appear to be interested in discussing what can be done to react to the churning sea.
Ron Martino of Newburyport, an organizer of the new group, said that much can be learned by observing the reactions of other communities.
"We've had strong response, from people in Salisbury, Newburyport, Newbury and also Ipswich, Essex and Rowley," said Martino.
Martino said that there are at least three kinds of response: defend, retreat or absorb.
"The Dutch defend, with seawalls and other tools," he said. "Some retreat. In New York, Gov. (Andrew) Cuomo has suggested buying (damaged) houses in low-lying (storm-hit) residential areas on Long Island, paying the home owners market price to leave, and letting the land return to its natural state."
Martino said that those interested in "absorbing" can consider new local regulations that govern planning, zoning and criteria for construction.
He added that communities might consider overlooking their town boundaries so that coastal problems can be considered in the whole, rather than town by town.
Commenting about the nascent group of sea-rise watchers, Martino said, "We not late but we're not early. Others, including a group in Portsmouth, have been talking about the rising sea in the future.
"I do think it's useful that we begin discussing how we react to this."


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Are ghosts the new zombies? That's just one of the questions I put to writer-producer David Allison when I spoke with him yesterday about his new supernatural drama Bedlam. Bedlam concerns a group of sexy British twentysomethings who live in an apartment building that used to be a mental asylum -- and is now haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants. The show's six first-season episodes were a hit in the UK, and a second season appears likely. You can see what all the fuss is about tomorrow, October 1st, when the first season begins airing on BBC America at 10pm/9c. Check out my chat with Allison after the jump.
Can you talk about the genesis of Bedlam? What did you want to bring to a twenty-first century ghost story?
Sure. It's co-created and co-written by three of us – Neil Jones, Chris Parker and myself. We've known each other for over a decade. The show was in development for five years before it even got made, as is the way in television sometimes. Basically we wanted to co-write something. By American standards we're barely a team, but actually in Britain a lot of shows are written by one writer or maybe comedy-writing duos, but team-written things are quite rare. We wanted to write a genre show. We wanted to write something that was in our genre. What dawned on us was we didn't think there was any TV that was really scary. There's plenty of supernatural and sci-fi shows. There's obviously a huge amount out there. But I think we were interested in the idea of a ghost story and what a ghost story does in terms of making you feel frightened and scared. So we just got into a bit of a discussion about that. Bedlam is what came out basically.
Do you find it difficult to generate scares in a weekly TV show? Does the level of difficulty vary between cable and commercial TV?
We're on a cable channel in the UK, and I think a similar thing is happening in the landscape. Obviously the BBC is huge. I don't think America has a BBC. I think that's a different thing in the landscape. But there are a lot more cable channels. The cable channel on which we're aired in the UK, this was their first drama commission. So it was very exciting for us. We felt like we were part of something, part of the changing landscape. That channel showed Supernatural and Ghost Whisperer, so they had an audience and knew what they wanted to do. They knew who their audience was. I think we were quite influenced by some American shows, in terms of the storytelling. We kind of wanted to get in really early, hit the audience hard. We wanted a pre-title sequence. We didn't want to be polite. We didn't want to be too British about it. [Laughs.] I mean it's certainly a British show, and hopefully it's British horror. But we wanted it to be a ride kind of a thrill.
But it is definitely hard to produce scares every week. That's the challenge of the show. They're very hard to write. We all pitched in to help each other, and I think that's what's great about there being three of us, as well as the production company. We can all help bring those stories to life. It's something that's very hard to do on your own. It's great when someone can go, "How about doing it this way around?" We learned a lot on the show as well, and I think if we go into a second [season] we can do even better. It's a really exciting thing to do. I love it. I love writing it.
Since there are three of you writing the scripts, does each of you find yourself identifying with a particular character?
Yeah, I think when we first divided up the characters we even wrote a biography each. I definitely wrote Ryan. I remember that. So I think maybe you do have a sense of ownership a little bit about different things. I suppose the kinds of stories you tell are the kinds of characters you're interested in. In episode 3, which I wrote, the ghost character is quite an interesting, damaged person. I'm interested in people like that. That's just a personal thing… The joy of it is you can pitch your own stories, but you can all help bring them to life. That's what really helps.
Each episode can stand alone, but there's an ongoing background story. Can you describe that overall arc for the first season?
[Laughs.] Yeah, it's been a while since I wrote it. It's about the building really. And the family that ran the building when it was an asylum. The son of the guy who ran the building is back; and he's now redeveloped it. It's his daughter Kate who's one of our main characters, who's helping sell or rent these apartments out. We always think of the building as a character. I think it's one of the main characters. It's about what happened in that building. Kate, the daughter, she doesn't really understand what goes on in this building. She doesn't understand what her family did. But she has a kind of malevolent side herself, that she doesn't really understand. I suppose it's a journey for her to understand what went on. She has this adopted cousin, Jed, and it's his journey too. I don't want to give any spoilers away. But he is inextricably linked to that building as well. So it's really about exploring what happened in that building and why this is a bad place. And why renovating it and turning it into luxury apartments was a bad idea. [Laughs.] In a nutshell, it's about the building.
Turning a haunted mental asylum into an apartment complex does seem like the worst idea since building a suburban neighborhood atop a Native American burial ground. [Laughs.]
I've been asked quite a few times, "Who would do such a thing?" There was a particular former asylum, a huge place… we did a lot of research of stories of people in asylums throughout different centuries. Some pretty gruesome stories. There was one place that had an online archive, so we were able to look at different stories, and some of the ghost stories really came from that archive. We actually went to look at the building, and this was after the show had been commissioned and we were writing it… We went out to look at the building, and they were turning it into luxury flats. They were doing it. It was completely Bedlam. It was crazy. We talked to a security guard who worked there, and he was like, "Yeah, I don't like this place at night." [Laughs.] And I was thinking, "Well I wouldn't live there…" So I guess this sort of thing does happen. We have a lot of old buildings, and a lot of them get reused in different places. It happens with churches a lot in this country. They'll become other things. So I guess it makes sense that a building can have a different use; it's just in this case the building has some very dark secrets in it.
How much inspiration did you draw from the Bedlam, the actual London mental hospital from which the word sprung.
That was part of our research. The name has come to mean all kinds of things, and it was based on a real hospital… I think what we were interested in, in Bedlam Hospital and many other asylums… There was obviously a time when the physicians and doctors who ran these places had just unlimited power. It was also a place on the margins of society, and people could be incarcerated there for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes people would be locked up and there was nothing wrong with them. They just flirted with the wrong person. And those physicians, they saw themselves as being at the forefront of medical science. So they were able to carry out the most untried and untested experiments. They were essentially experimenting on human beings in a way that was not acceptable in the rest of society. That's what's so interesting about these places. Of course it's not true of all asylums and not true of all patients. But if you think about lobotomies that went on until the 1980s, in the UK and in the US, people didn't understand fully what happens, and they're now being largely discredited. But that sort of stuff went on a lot, because there were people who wanted to try stuff out; and in asylums you could do that. Obviously that could also lead to disturbing and tragic consequences… We wanted the ghosts to have real backstories. To have a real resonance, like a real person who had something happen to them. You can't stand and talk to them now, but they are based on real stories.
Aside from the real history of such asylums, can you talk about the ghost stories that influenced you guys?
Yeah, there were a lot of things. Obviously as a horror fan, you're going to be influenced by the classics, like The Shining and stuff like that. But the one thing we all found we were interested in was the Japanese horror of the late '90s and 2000s, like The Ring and Audition and Dark Water. Often they have a great sense of suspense, but there's not a lot of gore in there. I mean, there is in Audition. But often it's about the fear of what's behind the door, or what's on the other side. I think they do it so well. They're so beautifully told. We were so influenced by that. We didn't want it to be gory. We wanted to have people in the palm of our hands, going, "What's going to happen next?" I think Japanese horror does that so well.
Can you talk about what's next for the show? You've apparently begun writing the second season, but have you been officially picked up yet?
[Laughs.] What can I say here… We are working on a second [season], and we're not able to confirm things, but we can let you know it's looking pretty good. Let's say that.
Good to hear. Is there a new direction you'd like the show to take in its second season?
Yeah. What we were all interested in was the ghost of the week, but we love the idea of clues and paying things off. There's plenty of stuff in the first season that we can run with. Part of what's in the building and some of the secrets that the building yields; we've had lots of ideas that we have not explored in the first season, that we want to take on further, definitely. We want people to have that enjoyment where they can turn up and watch the ghost story of the week and they don't need to know anything else, but if they want to invest in clues and, through repeated viewings, little things they might have missed the first time around, it's all there. We're really excited about doing more of that in the second season.
With American Horror Story and the new Daniel Craig movie Dream House, as well as the buzz generated by the Locke & Key pilot, it seems ghosts are making a comeback in pop culture. Are ghosts the new zombies? Or the new vampires? And if so, do you guys take some pride in knowing you were at the front of this latest wave?
For all writers it's a really weird thing when you tap into a zeitgeist. Because as I said, we were working on it for five years. So when you're coming up with an idea or working on it, you have no idea of why you were influenced by something or why you came up with it. But it's really fascinating when you start seeing other stuff. It's really exciting and really interesting. Of course we do feel that satisfaction. But why that is, why ghosts are so prevalent in stories now? I don't know. I love ghost stories, so I'm delighted. The more the merrier. But why that is I don't know. In Britain, we have such an enormously rich history of ghost stories, from literature and onwards. We have so much to draw on that I've always been surprised that we don't have more ghost stories on TV, and more supernatural television. But that is changing, and obviously the success of Doctor Who and Being Human and various other shows… That is changing. But what we've tapped into, who knows why that is? It's very interesting.
With Shakespeare and everyone who influenced him, ghosts have been present since the beginning of English storytelling.
Most great British writers have had a ghost story appear in their work somewhere. It's just something we're fascinated by. We've got the climate for it maybe. [Laughs.]
True. [Laughs.] And also the history. Since you've been around so much longer than we have, you have more centuries of ghosts to draw on.
I think that could be it. And I think old buildings are spooky. That's a fact. Old buildings and dark nights, all of that stuff adds together very nicely.
Thank you very much for your time today, David.
My pleasure.


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Although many had stopped by with their families earlier in the week to find lockers or have school photos taken, this was their first time venturing to junior high alone.
But when it was at last time to enter, the students weren't greeted by a ringing school bell. They were greeted by upbeat music and the cheers of clapping ninth graders wearing neon green T-shirts.
Friday's entrance kicked off a junior high program called "Where Everybody Belongs (WEB)" that helps seventh graders with the transition into junior high. The program started at four years ago and launched at West Junior High this year.
In WEB, ninth graders familiar with the ins and outs of junior high serve as mentors to seventh graders just learning the ropes—starting with a warm welcome to kick off the school year.
"What you're looking at are some of the best, strongest leaders in our building, but they're not—what?—better than anyone else," social studies teacher Kim Campbell told the new students.
Campbell, like a camp counselor extraordinaire, kicked off Friday's assembly by leading seventh graders and ninth graders in songs and games. In one game, students had to clap when she signaled them with a dramatic arm motion. After several false starts from the overeager crowd, she compared the game to their upcoming junior high experience.
"It's all about figuring out the pattern," Campbell said.
The new patterns are what had the seventh graders most nervous.
"You have to go to your classes," said Evelyn Alcantal, who attended Alice Smith Elementary before moving up to West Junior High.
But the WEB leaders weren't just there to help with logistics. They shared their successes and failures with the younger students—even periods when they got bad grades—to emphasize the importance of bouncing back from mistakes.
Ninth grader Rose Griggs, who remembers moving up to West Junior High from Eisenhower Elementary, said her advice is for the new students to just be themselves and not let other students tell them who to be.
The students celebrated those differences at the orientation. At one point, the WEB leaders sat in the stands in front of the seventh graders. Campbell had them stand up whenever a trait or experience applied to them. When she asked which of the students don't do any sports, just one of the WEB leaders stood up.
The whole room applauded, emphasizing a point Campbell made earlier: "See, we're all different here at West. That's what makes us special."
Nicholas Garder said WEB had him more excited about school—particularly his metal shop class and meeting new friends.
"There's so many more people," he said. "It's been pretty cool."
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Casa Munras Hotel & Spa is located in downtown Monterey, within 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) of Cannery Row, Fisherman's Wharf, and Monterey State Beach. The restaurant is open for breakfast daily, serving a cooked-to-order breakfast for a surcharge. Also open for dinner, the restaurant specializes in dishes made from local, seasonal, and often organic, ingredients.
In addition to a heated outdoor pool, the hotel offers a fitness center. Sano Spa, the hotel's day spa, offers aromatherapy, stone massages, wraps and other body treatments, botanical facials, manicures, and pedicures.
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By Susan Wilke
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Tonawanda News — In response to the recent editorials concerning our need to go into Syria, I offer some different viewpoints. This is history repeating itself starting with another country in a civil war in the '60s and '70s, Vietnam.
We were convinced that it was the Chinese who were aiding the North Vietnamese and would eventually take over the rest of Southeast Asia. It turned out it was not true but we stayed in this protracted conflict for years continuing to kill tens of thousands of civilians and our own troops.
We also introduced our own chemical weapons in this war. Napalm burns skin on contact, and Agent Orange, a defoliate used to destroy food crops, that also contained dioxins that caused cancer in the civilian population as well horrendous birth defects that are still being seen today three generations later. Agent Orange has also affected our troops and some of their children as well.
Agent Orange was made by a chemical company, Monsanto, just one partner in a group of military contractors of the military industrial complex.
Fast forward after the tragedy of 9/11 in 2001. Who was to blame? Instead of treating the bombing of the World Trade Center as a criminal conspiracy and using stealth and intelligence information to locate and capture Osama Bin Laden to bring him to justice, we end up bombing Afghanistan killing innocent civilians. In addition, we are now using drones that supposedly only kill Taliban and not innocent civilians, pure hubris.
If that was not enough, George W. Bush wanted to finish what his father couldn't finish, part two of the war with Iraq. The excuse was made that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraqi territory even after UN inspectors went into the country and found none. We invaded anyways. The people and entities who made out big time, again at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers and the misery of the Iraqi civilians, were the military contractors.
The real reason to go into Iraq was to take over the second largest oil reserves in the world and denationalize the oil industry which belonged to the people of Iraq and privatize it so as to lower the price to sell it to the world's largest oil companies, like Exxon Mobile, Chevron and British Petroleum. The military industrial complex is one of the biggest consumers of oil.
In this war, the military contractors introduced something as deadly as chemical weapons to Iraq's civilian population called depleted uranium ammunition for tanks and artillery.
So why are we taking the high moral ground about Syria using poison gas when we have been pushed by military contractors to violate the same laws that forbid the use of chemical agents? As for Bashal Al-Assad, he is cruel to his own people but no more a threat on the international scene as Saddam Hussein. Neither of them had or have the power to threaten the world that Adolph Hitler had during World War II. Why kill more Syrians with bullets to stop Al-Assad and add more pain to misery?
It is just another excuse to get into another war and give our money to the military contractors while our own needs are ignored here at home. I leave you with the words of wisdom of a WWII career soldier, general and later U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower who said, "When people speak to you about preventive war, you tell them to fight it themselves. I have come to hate war. War settles nothing." Most Americans would agree with this statement.Susan Wilke is a North Tonawanda resident.


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Funeral services for William Ray Jackson, 87, of Jeffersonville, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 3, at Scott Funeral Home, Jeffersonville, with burial to follow in Walnut Ridge Cemetery. He died Sunday, March 31, 2013.
He was born in Ashland, Ky., a veteran of the United States Army and a longtime member of Oak Park Baptist Church in Jeffersonville.
He is survived by his wife, Edella "Jackie" Jackson; three children, Jimmy R. Jackson and his wife Linda, Jerry R. Jackson and his wife Lynda and Linda Carol Driver and her husband Steven; brother, Paul L. Jackson; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Lillian Jackson; son, Kenneth P. Jackson; grandson, Aaron T. Jackson; and brother, Harry Jackson.
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The defense for a man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade is hinting a trial can be avoided with a plea if he escapes the death penalty. Defense attorney Craig Weintraub addressed the death penalty issue today after Ariel Castro pleaded not guilty to hundreds of charges, including rape and kidnapping. Weintraub says the defense is working to avoid an "unnecessary trial" involving the death penalty.
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Diane Kruger Gets Uber-Sexy For Manhattan Magazine's March Issue
February 27th, 2013 10:03pm EST
Diane Kruger opens up about how her early dreams of becoming a ballerina, landing a top modeling gig, and her struggle to win the role of Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds in the new issue of Modern Luxury Manhattan Magazine.
"By 11, I realized I didn't have the talent to be a prima ballerina; I was getting curvier, and it was getting harder for me to keep up with the other girls, no matter how hard I worked," the 36-year-old German star says. "That's a pretty sucky thing to find out."
Shortly after her realization she began modeling, winning the Elite Look of the Year in Germany and landing in Paris at age 15 on the advice of a scout in the US.
The move paid off, and in less than three years fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld discovered her.
"Before then I had never been called pretty," Diane says. "It was huge to be financially independent, and I loved the travel."
But her biggest struggle came while trying to land the role of von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-nominated film -- a role she desperately wanted.
"What's especially frustrating is when a script comes along that you love, with a part you feel was written for you, and the director won't even see you," she says. "Then [Tarantino] made me wait two weeks before he called."
The actress stars in the upcoming sci-fi/horror flick The Host, opening March 29.
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