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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- So Kyle Wiltjer is thinking about following Zach Price who followed Remy Abell who followed … I guess Abell followed more than 400 Division I basketball players out the door to another gymnasium since the conclusion of last season.
Kentucky, Louisville, Indiana. It can happen in any Zip Code.
Coaches see this as a problem.
Players see this as an opportunity.
I see this as inevitable.
It's primarily a big deal today because Monday was a slow news day. The Southeastern Conference scheduled a summer teleconference for its coaches so writers could gather material to use in stories for the pre-season college basketball magazines. There is a news vacuum created by the gap between the end of LeBron's Parade and the start of Blocking and Tackling.
Then Wiltjer upgraded the story by saying he was considering leaving the University of Kentucky after two seasons. His dilemma is not complicated:
Stay at UK, accept less playing time and try to win a second NCAA title with John Calipari's latest five of 5-stars or leave, pursue more clock and hope to be a factor on a team that does something in March. Wiltjer's chances of becoming a professional will be the same either way. Teams have had a file on him for four years.
Yes, there are too many transfers in Division I college basketball, more than 400 at last count. No, I do not consider it a problem shaking the foundation of the game.
College basketball has a familiarity problem. Even committed fans must labor to stay familiar with the rosters of their favorite teams. Keeping track of the players of their favorite opponents? Hopeless.
Transfers do not cause that. This is created by the stream of guys headed to pro basketball after one or two dribbles. Guys are saying goodbye just when fans are learning how to say hello.
Try naming the Top 10 returning players in the nation next season. I said returning. No freshmen allowed.
Russ Smith. Doug McDermott. Mitch McGary. Gary Harris. Marcus Smart.
Stuck? Me, too.
Continuity has taken a beating. Guys who score a lot leave. Guys who score a little leave, too. Senior Night has become a lonely time in many programs.
But I don't blame the players. Not when they've seen coaches bolt for the next opportunity as soon as they can win one NCAA Tournament game. Not when they've been conditioned to jump to another team or school as soon as they hit a patch of turbulence during the AAU or high school careers.
Welcome to 2013. This isn't news. This is the way it is, players looking out for their best interests and families, too.
The days are nearly over of guys sitting patiently on the bench, accepting the truth that their recruiting ranking was overblown and that they're not going to play as much as they suspected.
I say nearly over because Jon Hood persevered through injuries at Kentucky. Stephen Van Treese could have bolted Louisville. He was actually pushed out for a few weeks. But he stayed, knowing he'd likely be exactly what he was – an 11 minutes per night guy.
I'm certain Derek Elston or Tom Pritchard could have left Indiana in pursuit of minutes. Instead they stayed at IU in pursuit of something more important – their degrees.
So when coaches such as Anthony Grant of Alabama say the transfer situation in college basketball is an "alarming trend," or Mike Anderson of Arkansas howls that it's something "that's got to be dealt with," I understand why they say it.
Each has been stung by losing a player expected to be part of his playing rotation next season. For Alabama, that's Trevor Lacey, who bolted for North Carolina State (and former Alabama coach Mark Gottfried). For Arkansas, Hunter Mickelson departed for Kansas, a school that had recruited him in high school.
But players see the game the way coaches see it. Grant left VCU for Alabama as quickly as the Crimson Tide called. He was at VCU three years. Anderson has changed jobs twice since 2006. He gave UAB four seasons and Missouri five.
Is that something that's got to be dealt with, too, coaches?
I didn't think so. Neither is the current trend of players changing schools.
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Max lives at home with his parents and it will be down to dad Geoff to find out whether he's a chip off the old block. Geoff is looking forward to the chance to relive his days as a holiday rep, but there's one thing he definitely doesn't want to see his son come back with, and that's any unwanted tattoos that he might regret for next 50 years.
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Larry Sanders injured thumb in bar fight, underwent surgery, out for six weeks
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(Updated 7:13 PM CT) Larry Sanders underwent surgery to repair a ligament in his right thumb Monday afternoon. His recovery time is estimated at six weeks. The surgery was performed at the Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin by Dr. Curt Crimmins, a hand specialist.
Worse, the team revealed that the injury was a result of an off-court altercation.
Sanders originally stated that the injury occurred in a November 2nd home game against the Toronto Raptors. After the game, Sanders vented about a lack of playing time. A few hours later, Sanders injured his hand in the incident at the Apartment 720 night club.
A six-week absence would keep Sanders off the court until about Christmas, and if he doesn't play until then, he would miss 23 games in addition to the two that he has already missed.
Sanders' absence likely means more minutes for John Henson, Ekpe Udoh and Zaza Pachulia. Recently Henson has been the Bucks' starter at power forward in place of the injured Ersan Ilyasova. Udoh returned this week following knee surgery. Pachulia had played well to start the season, but he struggled against Dallas and missed practice Monday. The Bucks also have center Miroslav Raduljica on the roster, but he has yet to appear in an NBA game.
It remains to be seen if and how the team will respond to the revelation that an injury occurred away from the court, especially since the recovery time will cost the Bucks their starting center and star player for at least a third of their season.
Sanders apologized for his role in the incident Friday without acknowledging it as the cause of his injury. "I want to start by saying I put myself in a bad situation over the weekend. I didn't make the best decisions down the stretch, but I would like to apologize to my fans here and Sen. Kohl, who I will talk to directly. I've talked to the team and apologized to them, just for shedding a negative light on our team and our organization."
Sanders is averaging 2.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per game this season, while shooting 25% from the field.
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7 words you can't say on the internet comment section on blogs. I want to say them all. The underperforming start was bad enough, now this… Talk about a swing in public opinion. First favorite bench player, then actual favorite and media darling, to overpaid whiner of minutes/bar brawl guy. What the heck Sando? We all thought you was cool man. Turn it around bro. Focus and wife and kids and work. Get hungry again.
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Larry Sanders.
Maybe it's just not meant to be…
I am disgusted with his behavior. I hope there's a clause in his contract that keeps him from getting paid during this period.
Secondly, what a flippin' hypocrite. To endow himself as the leader of the team in the offseason, calling out Jennings, then signing the big contract. Only to INSTANTLY start whining about playing time THEN get in a bar fight? Then to LIE about it? Now to miss 25 games?
What a joke.
The only upside is we'll lose a bunch of games, get some more PT for Henson and Greek Freak and add a ping pong ball or two in the process.
What Grade A, A-Hole series of moves, Larry.
Yolo, not a big deal with the injuries imo. Better for lottery picks honestly lol. Of the preseason rankings that stated they would be higher they were including Delfino and Larry as being bigger parts of their team overall. Call me stupid but I think if they're getting close to the trade deadline, there are some lingering injuries and they look like garbage I think they should trade Ersan if there's a good offer out there (this includes a 1st round pick).
This does seem to be a very serious matter, especially if there was a lie involved; a serious punishment may be warranted; but I'm very hopeful that Larry will bounce back from all of this. Making mistakes in one's early twenties is not a huge surprise — if only I could be that age again and know what I know now — but it's important to get back on the right track right away.
It might be unfair, but high-profile athletes have to be very careful about where they hang out. Considering the benefits of their jobs, it's not all that terrible of a price to pay.
Larry, we're still with you, but, please, turn it around fast, for your good as well as ours. Use the time off to get it together. Don't hesitate to get outside help. God bless!
Last year was a revelation for Larry. Unfortunately, it was also probably an aberration. The poor, poor Bucks organization is once again stuck with another bad contract. I'm hoping for playing time for Henson and Giannis, a large collection of ping pong balls leading to a very high pick in next years unusually talent-rich draft. I know that there are no guarantees with draft picks, but the Bucks need to strike gold…and fast. Or else. The fact that the team was selling Larry as their future "star" and best player was and is embarrassing from the word go. They need a real star who can be dynamic on the floor and one who can drum up excitement among the fan base. Guys like Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, etc. at least give you POTENTIAL for that. I, for one, am hoping for lottery luck, and the organization making the correct decision on who to draft. ***Watch Wiggins and Parker battle it out tonight on ESPN
Jeez people sure are turning on Sanders quick…he's done alot of good for the community. I dont think he deserves to be completely written off for this incident
He'll be doing a lot more for the community if he keeps up this trend. Be that, I mean community service.
One time offense is hardly a trend…not sure if we can even call it an offense as no one was charged in this incident.
First of all, I got a good laugh from JABShocker… good one!
However, got to go with Ted on this one… jeez, how quick people turn on someone.
I'm sticking with Larry!
hello there! , I enjoy your current producing and so a good deal! proportion all of us communicate further close to this page for Google? We will need a professional during this method to address this trouble. May very well be that may be you! Waiting for see you.
I too am very disappointed by this event… not so much the bar scuffle,but the dishonesty ! I can only imagine the problems that may come with $44 million at a young age. Not to mention the FACE OF FRANCHISE label dropped onto Larry…. no pressure right?? LOL
I'm not, I repeat…N O T giving up on the Blocktopus, he has to get things right….maybe a professional sports counselor might help? Do the right thing LARRY !!!
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For the past week my twitter feed and blogroll have been full of responses to The Summit, a series of discussions led by Washington Post reviewer Peter Marks and hosted by Arena Stage in DC this week. The Summit put the AD's of five of DC's largest theatres on a stage together for a candid conversation about the state of theatre. For a great summary of the event, check out this article from DCTheatreScene.com or this response from 2amTheatre.
They discussed many subjects that evening including attendance figures, ticket prices, season programming & subscribers, and many other relevant topics, but the one that sparked a fire was when they discussed including female playwrights. Twitter exploded on #TheSummit when one of the AD's in attendance made comments that there are not enough plays by females produced in New York or London and that as AD's they needed the name recognition in order to sell a show. Other ADs made comments about there not being female-penned classics and about how many "feminist" plays are now too dated to produce.
Out of this has come a new twitter/tumblr account called LadyPlaywrights which introduces a handful of, you guessed it, Lady Playwrights every day because ignorance is not an excuse.
But all of this conversation on my timeline and blog reading got me thinking: How does Vancouver measure up? DC stats show that females make up 27% of playwrights on DC stages and 33% of directors. I was certain that our stats were better than that. I mean, we have wonderful playwrights like Lucia Frangione, Michelle Riml, Lisa Ravensbergen, and Deb Williams. We have directors like Sarah Rodgers, Mindy Parfitt, Kim Collier, Anita Rochon, Carole Higgins, Chelsea Haberlin, Angela Konrad, Genevieve Flemming, Rachel Peake, Renee Iaci, Katrina Dunn, Rachel Ditor, and Lois Anderson. Surely our numbers would be higher than DC's.
I decided to do some quick research. I looked at the 2014/2015 Season so far (beginning May 1) for all Jessie registered shows.
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Comparatively, we have even less female playwrights and barely more female directors being produced in our city. I perceived Vancouver to have a wealth of female talent – which I still believe it does – but the numbers suggest that equal representation is still a long way off. In DC they are tackling this head on: in fall of 2015 49 companies will participate in the first ever Women's Voices Festival. Maybe Vancouver needs to follow suit?


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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted seven people that prosecutors say are leaders of a violent street gang based in Newport News.
An indictment unsealed this week says the men are members of a gang known as the Black P-Stones. The indictment says the group committed murders, robberies, drug trafficking and obstructed justice. Among other things, the men face racketeering and conspiracy charges.
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A Columbia man was killed when the Jeep he was driving collided with a school bus Thursday morning in Williamson County.
Jesus Diaz de Leon, 42, died in the wreck about 7 a.m. on Columbia Pike near Kittrell Road involving a bus that was heading to Independence High School.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol said the Jeep was traveling eastbound on Kittrell Road when it either failed to stop or pulled out in front of the bus, which was traveling southbound on Columbia Pike.
The bus struck the driver's side door of the Jeep, causing the Jeep to flip one time and trapping the driver inside.
De Leon was pronounced dead at the scene, and the driver of the bus had minor injuries.
A trooper investigating at the scene said alcohol was present in the Jeep, but it is unknown if the driver had been drinking. A blood-alcohol test has been requested, THP said.
The bus driver was not cited, and charges are not expected, THP said.
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(Frankfort, Ky.) -- Preliminary statistics* indicate that ten people died in nine separate crashes on Kentucky roadways from Monday, September 26 through Sunday, October 4, 2009.
Eight of the crashes involved motor vehicles and 6 of those victims were not wearing seat belts. Single-fatality crashes occurred in Barren, Daviess, Harlan, Oldham, Pulaski, Scott and Simpson counties. One double-fatality crash occurred in Madison county.
One fatal bicycle crash occurred in Jefferson county and the suspected use of alcohol was a factor in that crash.
Through October 4, preliminary statistics* indicate that 598 people have lost their lives on Kentucky roadways during 2009. This is 4 more fatalities than reported for the same time period in 2008. There were 479 motor vehicle fatalities and 259 of those victims were not wearing seat belts. Twenty-nine pedestrians and 5 bicyclists have been killed. Seventy fatalities involved a motorcycle and fifteen fatalities involved an ATV. Sixty-three crashes involved a commercial motor vehicle. A total of 132 fatalities have resulted from crashes involving the suspected use of alcohol.
Citizens can contribute to highway safety by reporting erratic drivers to the Kentucky State Police toll-free at 1-800-222-5555 (in the state of Kentucky only, does not work out of state). Callers will remain anonymous and should give a description of the vehicle, location, direction of travel and license number if possible.
*These statistics are still preliminary as KSP waits for all local law enforcement agencies throughout the state to report any crashes and fatalities that may have occurred in their areas.


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Doves (band)
|Handforth, Cheshire, England
|Alternative rock, indie rock, new prog, post-Britpop, space rock, experimental rock
|Years active
|1998 - present
(on hiatus since 2010)
|Associated acts
|Sub Sub
|Jez Williams
Jimi Goodwin
Andy Williams
Doves are an English indie rock band, originating from Cheshire.[1] The band is composed of twin brothers Jez Williams (guitar, vocals) and Andy Williams (drums, vocals), and Jimi Goodwin (bass, vocals, guitar). The members started working seriously together after meeting at The Haçienda in Manchester.[2] Doves' unofficial fourth member is Martin Rebelski, who plays keyboards. The band have released four studio albums, two of which have reached Number One on the UK album charts.[3][4][5][6] Their first career-spanning compilation album The Places Between: The Best of Doves was released in April 2010.[7]
Formation: 1985–1991[edit]
The formation of Doves can be traced back to when the Williams brothers and Goodwin met at Wilmslow High School at age 15. At the time, Jimi Goodwin was playing lead guitar in a band called The Risk whilst spining plates; the other members were Joe Roberts (vocals and Rhodes keyboard), Steve Green (rhythm guitar), Dermot Ahern (bass guitar), Jimi's cousin Pat Goodwin (drums; after Simon Pitt, the original drummer, left the band) and managed by Tim Mulryan, who was said to have also managed the infamous "Macc Lads." The Risk used to practice at Handforth Youth Club and met with some moderate success, mainly playing in Manchester pubs and at The Gallery (Peter Street), The Boardwalk (Little Peter Street), and The International (Anson Road in Rusholme). They also played at The Tunnel Club, Greenwich and at SoapAid. A 5-song demo entitled Take Five was recorded at Spirit studios in Manchester.[8]
Meanwhile, back in 1981, Andy and Jez Williams formed a band with schoolmate and bass player Tim Whiteley, recording and gigging from the age of 12 onwards. Various line-ups followed, as well as a brief TV appearance in 1986. Then, in 1988, Jez Williams and Whiteley became members of Metro Trinity, a Manchester indie band, with Jonny Male (latterly of Republica), and released a Debris flexi disc (Manchester indie fanzine) with the Inspiral Carpets. Managed by Warwick Embery, Donavan and the Bay City Rover's manager, Metro Trinity played a number of gigs including The Boardwalk and The Haçienda. They also released an EP called Die Young on Cafeteria Records, whose cover accidentally read "Die Yoing" by mistake, which was recorded in Brixton with drummer Colin Rocks, who was eventually replaced by Andy Williams due to Rocks' other commitments. Jimi Goodwin, Joe Roberts and Whiteley also played together in another band until Joe Roberts signed to London Records.
Sub Sub: 1991–1998[edit]
After meeting again at The Haçienda in 1989, the Williams brothers and Jimi Goodwin formed Sub Sub, releasing their first single "Space Face" in 1991, and then in 1993 they released "Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)," which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.[9] On the Williams twins' birthday in February 1996, the band's Ancoats studio caught fire and burned down, leading the band members to abandon their previous dance-oriented style and start afresh as alternative rock band Doves in 1998.[9]
Of the threesome's change of direction, Jez Williams has said: "We were faced with a really black and white decision: throw the towel in or carry on. And if you're going to carry on, you've got to put everything into it to justify it, because before that you've lost everything. That was quite a liberating feeling, actually."[10]
Commercial success: 1998–2003[edit]
The band released three EPs in 1998 and 1999 on Casino Records, a subsidiary of Rob Gretton's Rob's Records, which established the group's new sound and met with a warm critical response. Their debut album Lost Souls in April 2000 was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, which they lost to fellow Mancunian and former collaborator Badly Drawn Boy.[11]
Doves' second album The Last Broadcast was released two years later, reaching No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, and was again nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. The album's first single "There Goes the Fear" became the band's highest-charting single to date, reaching No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart[12] despite only being released for one day before it was deleted. The album's second single "Pounding" reached No. 21 on the Singles Chart[12] and was used in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics With Glowing Hearts/Des Plus Brillants Exploits advertisement campaign and in pre-event intros.
In 2003, the band released a B-sides compilation, Lost Sides, and a DVD entitled Where We're Calling From. The DVD included all of their music videos to date, as well as incidental videos played before the start of their Lost Souls and The Last Broadcast tours. Also on the DVD was a live concert video of the band's gig at Cornwall's Eden Project, recorded in Summer 2002, as well as documentary videos about Doves as well as Sub Sub.
Subsequent releases: 2003–2010[edit]
Doves recorded Some Cities, their third studio album, away from urban influences, and in cottages tucked away in the countryside of Snowdonia, Darlington, and around Loch Ness. "Lyrically, the theme of cities and towns and change started cropping up a lot... which was strange because we were recording and writing in the countryside, but it started taking this real urban shape," said Jimi Goodwin.[13] Some Cities was released in February 2005 and went straight to No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, aided by some of the strongest reviews they had received to date. The album was preceded by the single "Black and White Town," which reached No. 6 on the Singles Chart.[12] On 18 June 2005, the band opened for U2 at Twickenham Stadium in London. They also supported Oasis at the City of Manchester Stadium on their triumphant return to Manchester, and Coldplay at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton, both during their respective 2005 tours.
The band's fourth album, Kingdom of Rust, was released in April 2009. Prior to the new release, Doves offered a free download of the album's lead track "Jetstream" on their website.[14] On 27 January 2009 the band announced a week's worth of tour dates from 12–19 March, in which new album tracks made their debuts. The eleven songs on the album were described by Jez Williams as "schizophrenic, but... also strangely cohesive."[15] Worldwide tours, including multiple tours of the United Kingdom, United States and Canada, followed the album's release. On 12 July 2009 the band appeared on the Radio 1 stage at T in the Park and the festival Latitude in Southwold. They also appeared with the London Bulgarian Choir as part of the BBC Electric Proms series in October 2009.[16]
The band's first career-spanning best-of compilation, entitled The Places Between: The Best of Doves was released on 5 April 2010.[17][18]
An interview with the band regarding their history and Jodrell Bank performance was posted on The Guardian's website on 4 April 2010.[19] Doves toured the UK throughout May 2010,[20] and performed at the Isle of Wight Festival 2010.[21]
Break and other activities: 2010–present[edit]
The band is on a break from recording, according to an interview with The Daily Record.[22][23] Jimi Goodwin stated: "It's nice just to have a bit of breathing space... We just wanted to get off that whole album-tour-album-tour treadmill. None of us are ready to face going into the studio for another two years. This is wiping the slate clean, we have nothing else in the vaults now. That is it. Whatever we do from now on will be a new start."
On 2 October 2012, EMI International released a Doves anthology titled 5 Album Set featuring all four studio albums from Lost Souls to Kingdom of Rust and the 2003 re-issue of Lost Sides.[24]
It has been announced that Jimi Goodwin will support British band Elbow on their Spring 2014 tour of the United Kingdom.
On 24 July 2014, Jez and Andy Williams announced they formed a new band, Black Rivers.[25]
Studio Albums
- Lost Souls (2000)
- The Last Broadcast (2002)
- Some Cities (2005)
- Kingdom of Rust (2009)
- Lost Sides (2001, reissued 2003)
- The Places Between: The Best of Doves (2010)
Live Albums
- Where We're Calling From (DVD) (2003)
- Live At Eden (EP) (2005)
- Live At The Eden Sessions 2nd July 2010 (2010)
- ^ Review The Guardian 15 March 2009
- ^ Wilmslow Express article
- ^ "Doves: The Last Broadcast (2002): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^ "Doves: Some Cities (2005): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^ "Doves: Kingdom of Rust (2009): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^ "BPI Searchable database - Gold and Platinum". BPI. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^ The Places Between: The Best of Doves: Amazon.co.uk
- ^ "Doves Interview".
- ^ a b Petridis, Alexis (17 April 2002). "Where did it all go right?". The Guardian (London: guardian.co.uk). Retrieved 7 April 2007.
- ^ Doves interview on Clash Music
- ^ "Badly Drawn Boy interview". CNN.
- ^ a b c Doves - Chart Stats
- ^ "Doves talk to Ukula".
- ^ Doves - Home Page
- ^ Doves announce comeback tour - NME.com, 27 January 2009
- ^ BBC Electric Proms
- ^ Doves - News (retrieved 23 February 2010)
- ^ Doves Music Blog - The Places Between (retrieved 23 February 2010)
- ^ Bainbridge, Luke (4 April 2010). "Doves: "The band are splitting up? Nobody told me!"". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^ Doves - Gigography 2010
- ^ Isle of Wight Festival Line-up 2010
- ^ Cadden, Avril (28 April 2010). "Doves plan to fly again following post-RockNess break". Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ "Doves set for 'two-year break from recording'". 28 April 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ "Amazon.com item listing". Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ "Pleased to finally announce Black Rivers". Doves (band). 24 July 2014.


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A Malden man is facing charges of raping an underage and mentally disabled family friend.
Andie Jean, 23, is pleading not guilty to charges including rape of a child with force and indecent assault and battery on a person with an intellectual disability, WCVB reports.
According to a relative of the victim, Jean had been left on the home's porch while the relative stepped away for a moment to speak with friends. When he returned from his conversation, Jean was found partially undressed in the teenager's bedroom. He was hiding in the closet and pulling up his pants.
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As he has done in campaigns since Eisenhower beat Stevenson the first time, Rep. Dan Lungren is walking with a slight limp.
"Lot of dogs. They're relatively friendly," the Republican said as he knocked on the first door on Briggs Ranch Drive in Folsom.
Lungren was 6 when he walked the first time for a congressional candidate in Long Beach, where he grew up. He ran for that same seat in 1976 when he was 29, and lost, he said, by 2,866 votes.
"I never think about that," he said, clearly thinking about 1976 as he walks in 2012 across the district that includes Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova and Folsom.
Lungren is the former California attorney general who lost his run for governor in 1998 and came back in 2004 by winning a Republican-leaning congressional seat in suburban Sacramento.
Now, he faces Ami Bera, a well-funded physician in a rematch of his 2010 race. No serious prognosticator predicts Democrats will take back the House on Tuesday. But they all say Lungren is among the most vulnerable Republican incumbents.
This is the year of the super PAC, and the Lungren-Bera race is one of the nation's most costly and ad-saturated congressional races. Conservative political action committees attract most attention.
But PACs using money from labor, environmentalists, physicians and others have spent $4.6 million to dislodge Lungren, more than has been spent to defeat any other congressional incumbent except for a one-term Ohio Republican, the Center for Responsive Politics reports.
This also is the year when "transvaginal ultrasound" entered the lexicon, when a Republican Senate candidate theorized about "legitimate rape," and another Republican Senate candidate opined that "even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
This, too, is the year of Sandra Fluke.
Bera gathered his campaign workers, many of them young women, last week in his cluttered Elk Grove headquarters to meet the 31-year-old Georgetown law school graduate who has been stumping for Democrats while awaiting her bar exam results.
Bera ought to thank Rep. Darrell Issa and the four other aging Republican congressmen, who, through chauvinism and arrogance, gave Fluke far more than 15 minutes of fame by barring her from testifying about whether health plans should cover contraceptives.
"There is such an extreme, incredible difference between Dr. Bera and his stand for women's health, and Rep. Lungren's absolutely dismal record," Fluke said, firing up the workers. "Shameful," DeAnn McEwen, co-president of the California Nurses Association, interjected, there to lend labor support for Bera.
"Yes, it is shameful," Fluke said, proceeding to list Lungren's votes, including ones to strip funding from Planned Parenthood, whose political arm is helping Bera.
"At this late date, I'm going to talk about the economy," Lungren said, deflecting my question about Fluke as he walked down Briggs Ranch Drive.
Lungren doesn't hide his conservatism. But aware that his opposition to abortion wins him no votes, he focuses on bread and butter. Bera pivots to social and health issues, as he seeks to tie Lungren to extremists in the GOP.
"I don't want politicians in my exam room," Bera said, and neither do his patients.
On the evening before Fluke stopped by Bera's headquarters, Lungren mingled with 20 members of the Slavic American Chamber of Commerce, who had gathered at the Rancho Cordova showroom of Quality Construction by VM, Vadim Zyubanov, proprietor.
"I live in a country that gives me a lot of opportunity," said Zyubanov, who moved here 15 years ago from Ukraine, became a citizen this year and will vote for the first time Tuesday, Republican.
Lungren opened by apologizing for his lack of coat and tie, explaining he had come from walking door to door. He talked of the need to lower taxes and loosen regulations, and said nothing about social issues.
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Slavic American Chamber president Sergey Terebkov made a point of telling me that Bera is a good man. But he listed reasons for leaning toward Lungren: He has been accessible. He has come to Slavic churches. He has helped with immigration issues. Importantly, Lungren focuses on economic issues.
"Funny you mention it. I don't even know what his position on abortion is," Terebkov said.
Judy Meade does know his stand, and doesn't like it. Meade, a kindergarten teacher, was eating an avocado, cream cheese and sprouts sandwich with her teaching partner, Kristin Mullard, at a deli in an Elk Grove strip mall when Bera bounded up to shake hands.
"Oh my God, Ami Bera," she said, telling him she posted "Educators for Ami Bera" on her Facebook page the other day.
"All these ads have boosted my profile," Bera said with a grin, though he's not sure that's a good thing.
Meade's top issue is education funding. She wants enough to lower the class size down to 20, as it was when she started teaching 14 years ago. She's also appalled that politicians try to interfere in women's health issues.
"It's not like I'm pro-abortion," she said. "But I don't think anyone should tell a woman, or a man, what they can and can't do. That rape thing fries me. Are you kidding me?"
There are ways to guess who will win a tossup race. History and registration inform the guess. Bera ran against Lungren in 2010 and lost by 18,000 votes, not particularly close.
District lines drawn by the Citizens Redistricting Commission gave Democrats a slim registration edge. Barack Obama won in the area in 2008, and Jerry Brown carried it in 2010. Giving Democrats greater cause for optimism, 22,743 additional voters have registered in Congressional District 7 since the commission drew the lines. Forty-one percent of them are Democrats, and a mere 29 percent are Republicans, according to Political Data Inc., which compiled the numbers.
Bera has raised $3.1 million to Lungren's $2.3 million, plus whatever House Speaker John Boehner generated last week when he slipped into Folsom for a fundraiser. Lungren issued no public notice of the visit, an indication of the dim view voters have of Congress.
Outside groups have spent $8.2 million for and against them. The combined $13.6 million makes the Lungren-Bera race the third most costly congressional race behind ones in Pennsylvania and Ohio, federal election records show.
For all that is spent on ads and mailers, election victories can turn on how many hands candidates shake, and how they sell themselves and their issues to voters. After losing in 1976, Lungren told himself he'd never get outworked again.
Like Bera, Lungren didn't stop running after that loss. He won the seat on his second try in 1978, when he was 31, the same age as Fluke, the young woman who has become a powerful symbol of Republicans' stumbles. Lungren has to hope that Republican missteps don't trip him up, and that he'll be walking door-to-door again two years from now.
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STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) - It appears there may be another joint effort soon involving the City of Stevens Point and Portage County. A few weeks ago, it was emergency dispatching operations. This time, it's special needs transportation.
Point Transit's Director Susan Lemke and Portage County Aging & Disability Resource Center Director Janet Zander are proposing a unified effort to coordinate the county's fixed route buses that serve mostly rural areas and some parts of the city, the volunteer driver program, and Point Transit's paratransit buses known as Point Plus, which operate within close proximity to city bus routes.
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I live in a bubble, it's called San Francisco / Silicon Valley / technology geek addicts world. This week I traveled outside the bubble to my hometown of Omaha, NE to celebrate my father's life. He passed away after 83 years of living large. Robert H. Matt had 14 kids, was a successful entrepreneur, and joined the Peace Corps in his 60's. I miss him.
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In 1860, thousands watched as Charles Blondin walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls for the third time. Midway, he paused to cook an omelette on a portable grill, and then had a marksman shoot a hole through his hat from the Maid of the Mist boat, fifty metres below. As attested by Blondin – and the innumerable lunatics and publicity seekers who have gone over the Falls in every craft imaginable – the Falls simply can't be beat as a theatrical setting. Yet, in truth, the stupendous first impression doesn't last long and to prevent the thirteen million visitors who arrive each year from getting bored by the sight of a load of water crashing over a 52m cliff, the Niagarans have ensured that the Falls can be seen from every angle imaginable – from boats, viewing towers, helicopters, cable cars and even tunnels in the rock face behind the cascade. The tunnels and the boats are the most exciting, with the entrance to the former right next to the Falls at Table Rock House and the latter leaving from the foot of the cliff at the end of Clifton Hill, 1100m downriver. Both give a real sense of the extraordinary force of the waterfall, a perpetual white-crested thundering pile-up that had Mahler bawling "At last, fortissimo" over the din. After the Falls themselves, be sure to allow enough time to explore the Niagara River along either the Niagara Parkway road or the Niagara River Recreation Trail, an easy-to-follow jogging and cycle path. Both road and trail stretch the length of the Niagara River from Fort Erie, 32km upstream from the Falls, to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
A day is more than enough time to see the Falls and its immediate surroundings, but if you do decide to spend the night hereabouts, quaint Niagara-on-the-Lake, 26km downstream beside Lake Ontario, is a much better option than the crassly commercialized town of Niagara Falls itself. That said, Niagara-on-the-Lake gets very crowded in high season, so try to book at least a couple of days in advance.Read More
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Until the 1980s, Canadian wine was something of a joke. The industry's most popular product was a sticky, fizzy concoction called "Baby Duck", and other varieties were commonly called "block-and-tackle" wines, after a widely reported witticism of a member of the Ontario legislature: "If you drink a bottle and walk a block, you can tackle anyone." This sorry state of affairs was transformed by the Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA; w vqaontario.com), who have, since 1989, come to exercise tight control over wine production in Ontario, which produces around eighty percent of Canadian wine. The VQA's appellation system distinguishes between – and supervises the quality control of – two broad types of wine. Those wines carrying the Provincial Designation on their labels must be made from one hundred percent Ontario-grown grapes from an approved list of European grape varieties and selected hybrids; those bearing the Geographic Designation (eg Niagara Peninsula, Pelee Island) can only use Vitis vinifera, the classic European grape varieties, such as Riesling, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. As you might expect from a developing wine area, the results are rather inconsistent, but the Rieslings have a refreshingly crisp, almost tart flavour with a mellow, warming aftertaste – and are perhaps the best of the present range, white or red.
More than twenty wineries are clustered in the vicinity of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Most of them have showrooms, others offer guided tours and just about all of them have tastings. The town's tourist office carries a full list with opening times and prices.
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Peller Estates Winery 290 John St East, 2.5km from Queen St 905 468 4678, peller.com. With a vineyard and a large modern showroom on the edge of town, Peller has produced a clutch of much-praised vintages. They also do a good line in one of Canada's specialities, ice wine, a sweet dessert wine made from grapes that are left on the vine till December or January, when they are hand-picked at night while frozen. The picking and the crushing of the frozen grapes is a time-consuming business and this is reflected in the price – from about $50 per 375ml bottle of either sparkling or regular. Daily 10am–9pm.
Stratus winery 2059 Niagara Stone Rd, just southwest of town 905 468 1806, stratuswines.com. Handily located not far from the centre of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Stratus winery has pioneered a more environmentally friendly approach to wine production. May–Dec daily 11am–5pm; Jan–April Wed–Sun noon–5pm.
Wine Country Vintners 27 Queen St 905 468 1881, niagaraonthelake.com. The best wine shop in town, specializing in premium Niagara vintages and offering shuttle tours to the Peller winery as well. Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 11am–6pm.


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Sadly, it's common in modern America to think Christianity is primarily about personal salvation and prosperity, as if "The Way" Jesus taught is to just breathe God in to primarily better the believer.
There are many who seem to pitch this popular notion that Jesus' way is about just breathing in God and basking in the delight and the glory the Spirit brings. And the Spirit does bring us all that good stuff, delight and glory and personal salvation and types of prosperity; but, to stop our faith at the intake of God into our lives, at getting things for ourselves, is to remain a child in the faith.
Mature Christians breathe out. That is to say, fully engaged followers of Jesus do not live in faith by focusing primarily on their own salvation and prosperity. We live and breathe in faith for the salvation and the prosperity of all creation; because, as the Christmas story (that we will soon be remembering) frames it, Jesus came to bring "peace on earth, good will to all"
We sometimes forget that breath is an important part of our tradition. In Genesis, we are told that human life begins with God's breath. Chapter 2 (7) tells us that "the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being."
There is a wonderful Jewish tradition that God's name, Yahweh, is in our breath. If you stop and listen you can indeed hear "Yahweh" in each breath you take. Breathe in, and listen for the "Yah."¯ And as you breathe out, listen for the "Weh."¯ Try to just listen to the in and the out-ness, the "Yah" and the "Weh." It won't hurt. It's just breathing. Hear it? Yah-weh. The name of God is in our every breath! That fits right in with Paul's teaching that we live and move and have our being in God. We are so soaked in God that our every breath names the Divine. Yah-weh.
It's a merry coincidence that for English-speaking Christians, God's name includes "Weh,"¯ a sound that can be heard (for us) as a pun on "The Way" Jesus taught us. Metaphorically we breathe in, take in the Holy Spirit, God - "Yah." And we breathe out, give back to the world the Spirit, God - "Weh."¯ We take God in and we breathe God out.
"Breathe in God's Spirit, breathe out God's Love"¯ is a metaphor for how we act with the Spirit, the wind of God as it were, in the world.
On Jesus' Way, Christians are to be God's instruments in the world. The "Way"¯ Jesus taught is the "Weh"¯ we breathe the Spirit out into the world in our words and actions. The "Way" is the Weh - the breath of God - the active moving of Love into the world.
This week, take time to listen to God in your breath. Breathe in the "Yah,â" breathe out the "Weh."¯ And consider how God calls you to breathe the Holy Spirit's action into the world. And then breathe in God and make sure to breathe out God into the world.
The Rev. Scott Elliott is the pastor at Riviera United Church of Christ in Palm Bay. Visit Riviera UCC's website at rivieraucc.org and his vlog at http://www.youtube.com/user/AGodVlog?feature=guide.
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