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Monday, January 14, 2013
At the time he sank it Romelo Doctors haphazard buzzard beater from well beyond the three-point arc seemed inconsequential, but it turned out to be significant.
Doctor posted a game-high 22 points Tuesday to lead the Ashley Ridge boys to a 63-56 win over Bluffton in the teams first meeting on the hardwood.
The Swamp Foxes hit seven three-point shots in the first two periods to take a healthy lead in the Region 8-AAAA opener for both teams. Doctor hit four while Tray Jenkins, D.J. Stevens and Fred Weeks also sank the ball from behind the arc. The most exciting of the seven was Doctors last, which came at the conclusion of the second period.
Ashley Ridge took a 14-point lead on a Vernon Moree basket and then regained possession. Doctor took the point in hopes of setting up one last shot before the half.
Bluffton didnt yield an opening so in the closing seconds Doctor drove to the key and pulled up to shoot but a Bluffton player knocked the ball out of his hands. Doctor chased down the loose ball and slung a shot toward the goal, which went in for a 36-19 Swamp Fox lead at the half.
Doctor opened the third period with another 3 and Ashley Ridge was looking to cruise to victory. But with their backs against the wall, the Bobcats became feisty.
Bluffton outscored Ashley Ridge 12-7 in the third and posted 25 points in the fourth to cut the lead down to three points with 38 seconds remaining.
Fortunately for Ashley Ridge, Stevens and Mikey Goodwine both hit a pair of free throws in the final 30 seconds and a late Bluffton 3 bounced off the rim so the rally fell short.
Bluffton got scrappy and really got after us and we didnt handle it that well for a while, Ashley Ridge coach Brian Welch said. I had to burn some timeouts and talk to our guys. I had all seniors on the floor and they finally started acting like seniors and pulled it out. But I think that is indicative to our region; every night typically is just a war. It looks like we are going to see a lot of games like this in our league in January and February.
After Doctor sank his long-distance shot to open the third, the Bobcats held the guard to a mere two points the rest of the half. However, Stevens stepped up in the fourth to finish the game with 12 points while Weeks and Moree both finished with 7.
B.J. Hill led Bluffton with 16 points. Demetrius Smalls, who hit a pair of 3s, added 12 for the Bobcats while Marquis Webber added 10.
Ashley Ridge improved to 10-4 on the season with the victory but the Swamp Foxes face stiff competition in the next few weeks. The Swamp Foxes travel to Fort Dorchester Jan. 11 and to Beaufort Jan. 15 before returning home for another key region game against Summerville Jan. 18.
Welch is hoping Tuesdays region win paired with a victory on the road last week against Wando will give his team to momentum it will need for the tough stretch.
We need to do a good job of being us and I think we did that in the first half tonight, Welch said. We played Ashley Ridge defense and I like the way we moved the basketball the first two periods. Our second half wasnt what it shouldve been but our seniors stepped up and won the game. Teams are going to make runs but you have to handle that well so a 4-0 run doesnt turn into a 6-0 run that can then turn into an even bigger run.
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Friday, June 6, 2014
District 5 will have a two-man race for the Republican nomination June 10. District 5 is comprised of Crowfield, Goose Creek, College Park, and portions of Tall Pines. Councilman Dennis Fish is the incumbent.
Dennis Fish
Fish has served on Berkeley County Council since January 2003. He is a married father of two, and grandfather of five.
Why are you running?
I want to continue what weve accomplished the last two years since the conservative faction of council has taken over. I want to continue the work we have started for the people of Berkeley County.
Are you interested in mending the split on council?
I would try to get the new members of council up to speed and aware on how were doing the things we are with the budget as opposed than just doing it.
I will work with anybody coming in as long as we mutually work in the best interest of the county and not put a districts needs ahead of the countys needs as a whole. We also need to leave the politics out of council and do whats best for Berkeley County.
What would you like to tackle first if elected?
Im disappointed that most of our council wasnt aware of the jail problem. I want to get the jail staffed with proper personnel so we can open the additional floors and separate the more violent inmates from those requiring less supervision. It would be safer for deputies and a more effective means of managing the inmates.
How will you handle growth in your district and the county?
There is a minimal area to grow in my district so as a result Im able to focus most of my attention on the county. As far as the county goes, we need to continue to follow the comprehensive plan.
The MeadWestvaco park will be a gamechanger for Berkeley County. We need to continue with the One Cent Sales Tax to improve our roads. I dont like taxes but I think the penny sales tax is one we need to go with. The new one has a sunset clause just like this one so this tax is not indefinite.
How will you work with the City of Creek?
Ive been supportive of Goose Creek all along. I was instrumental in increasing the size of the Goose Creek Recreational District. I have worked well the mayor, the city council and the rest of the city administration.
Bud Thames
Thames is a married father of two and a native of Goose Creek. Thames currently is a battalion chief with Mount Pleasant Fire Department. This is his first bid at public office.
Why are you running?
Ive always wanted to give back to the community. On county council, there is controversy with infighting. I started going to some of the meetings and watching them on Youtube, and it seemed to me that the council members werent voting on whats important to the voters. It doesnt seem to me like were getting true representation.
Are you interested in mending the split on council?
You have to realize that if youre holding a political chair, its not about you. Its about the citizens you represent. Thats the key. If you vote on what your constituents want, you cant go wrong.
What would you like to tackle first if elected?
The impact fee schedule that they have now, its very prohibitive. We really need to make it more attractive for businesses to want to come to Berkeley County.
How will you handle the growth in your district and the county?
In Goose Creek, there is really a lot of room for growth but it has to be managed. We dont have any real activities for kids and teenagers. Growth is going to happen whether we want it or not, but we have to be proactive to where it benefits us and our kids.
How will you work with the City of Goose Creek?
The city definitely has an agenda, and the city needs to come first if youre a city leader. The only way to work together is that both entities need to bring their thoughts and plans to the table to come up with a compromise on whats best for everyone. Communication and give and take are the only things that are going to bring those two together.
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One way to make quick dinners is to wrap something – almost anything, really – in a tortilla. I keep tortillas on hand in the pantry, because they're great for nights when I'm wondering what I'm going to fix.
Oh yes. I have those nights too, where I stand in front of the pantry and fridge surveying the contents. Some of my best recipes come from those forced cooking sessions.
Here's how I create those recipes. I'm going to share my system so you can do the same thing. Some of you already cook this way, but for others it's a new experience.
Let's say you've got a pack of tortillas handy. Knowing a quick meal can be pulled together using those, we'll start there.
Next, check your fridge and freezer for any meat you may have. Leftover cooked chicken, ground beef or pork and even sausage can be used. For this meal, I chose Italian sausage. It doesn't have to be Mexican to be wrapped in a tortilla. No rules here!
You're also going to want cheese. Tortillas and cheese are like peanut butter and jelly. They belong together! For this recipe, I grabbed a block of Monterey Jack and started grating.
You could stop there if you wanted. Sausage and cheese would be filling all on it's own. But since I had half a jalapeño and some frozen corn, I decided to add those. You could also use red or green bell peppers, onion, garlic, zucchini…let your imagination and pantry guide you.
Now it's just a matter of deciding how to cook what you've got. This would make wonderful enchiladas. Just add a simple red sauce to the top and bake.
But I was in a hurry, so I chose to make quesadillas. Crispy on the outside and melty on the inside. Everyone loves these!
Here's the recipe, but keep reading for the giveaway!
Serves: 6 servings
- 1 lb. Italian sausage
- 1 cup corn
- ½ jalapeño, seeds removed and diced
- 8 oz Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
- 8 - 10 Azteca tortillas
- oil or cooking spray
- Cook sausage over medium heat in a skillet until done.
- Add corn and jalapeño and heat through.
- Spread sausage/corn mix on one half of tortilla.
- Top with cheese and fold tortilla over.
- Cook over medium heat in large skillet or griddle until toasted on the outside.
Azteca Tortilla Giveaway!
I love Azteca tortillas. They have no preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup and no artificial flavors or colors. Quick meals can be healthy! Since I often shop at Walmart, I like that I can find Azteca products there.
Azteca is giving away a Back to School Prize Pack to one lucky winner. The prize pack includes:
· $50 Walmart Gift Card
· Azteca Free Product Coupon
· Meal Planning Notepad
· Tupperware Container
· Dry Erase Wall Decal Calendar
To enter:
Leave a comment telling me how long you usually spend cooking a weeknight dinner. Winner will be chosen randomly on 8/28 and notified by email.
Disclosure: I have been compensated by Azteca for my time, but all opinions are my own.


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Quote from: glongstaff on March 06, 2013, 08:54:22 AMLoch Katrine - Scotland 2010That is beautiful! What a treat!
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Note: All of these recipes can be prepared gluten-free by substituting wheat flour for a rice flour baking mix. Combine 3 cups rice flour, 1 cup potato starch and � cup tapioca flour with 5 teaspoons xantham gum and whisk well. Use 1 cup minus 1 tablespoon of rice flour mix for 1 cup of wheat flour.
Servings: 8
1/3 cup plus � cup sugar, divided
� cup water
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 cups fresh blueberries
1 cup flour
1� teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
� cup whole milk
� pound butter, melted and cooled slightly
1� teaspoons vanilla
Butter a 9-by-9-inch baking pan and preheat oven to 375 F.
Stir together 1/3 cup sugar with water, lemon juice and cornstarch in a small saucepan, then add blueberries. Bring to a simmer, simmer and stir occasionally for three minutes. Remove from heat.
Whisk together dry ingredients, including remaining � cup sugar, in a medium bowl. Whisk together egg, milk, butter and vanilla in a large bowl and add flour mixture, whisking until just blended.
Spoon batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly, then pour blueberry mixture evenly over batter (they will sink.)
Bake 20-30 minutes, until a sharp knife inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool for five minutes before serving.
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Dorothy Irene Brauns
Jan. 16, 1915-Dec. 26, 2012
Age: 97
Residence: Greeley/Evans
Dorothy Irene Brauns, 97, a longtime resident of Greeley, and formerly of Wapello, Iowa, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Wednesday morning, Dec. 26, 2012, at the Gray Cara West Assisted Living Center in Evans, Colo. The daughter of Benjamin Harrison and Effie Robinson Boyd, she was born on Jan. 16, 1915, in Lone Tree, Iowa.
She married William D. Brauns Jr. on March 21, 1932, in Wapello. He died on March 2, 1992. Dorothy had attended schools in Lone Tree and Riverside and Wapello High School. She was a homemaker for her family and had been a school bus driver in Wapello, was a waitress and hostess at the Geneva Country Club in Muscatine, had worked in the school lunch program in Colorado, and had done childcare in her home.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Wapello. She enjoyed reading, gardening, raising chickens, feeding the squirrels and caring for her pets, and was an avid sports fan, especially of the Denver Broncos.
Her family includes four daughters, Lila Mae Menke of Dubuque, Iowa, Donna Jean and Wendell Wilson of Wapello, Norma Lee "Teddy" and Jack Reeman of Pierce, Colo., and Beverly Ann and Wayne Lincoln of Durant, Iowa; a son, William Daniel and Jean Brauns III of Wapello; a special granddaughter, Jo and Brad Gies and sons, Mike Schott, Sam Schott and Jake Schott, who she cared for very much; 12 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two sisters, Dochie Aubrecht and Geneva Sheckler; and three brothers, Ira, Johnny and Robert Boyd.
The funeral service for Dorothy will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home in Wapello with the Rev. Dr. Chris Brauns officiating. Burial will follow at the Wapello Cemetery, followed by a lunch gathering for family and friends at the Grandview Community Bible Church Fellowship Hall.
The family will meet friends from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Weld County Humane Society in care of Adamson Funeral & Cremation Services, 2000 47th Ave., Greeley, CO 80634. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.adamsonchapels.com.
Kenneth B. Durgin
Sept. 18, 1925-Dec. 23, 2012
Age: 87
Residence: Sanbornton, N.H.
Kenneth B. Durgin was born on Sept. 18, 1925, in Laconia, N.H., and died suddenly on Dec. 23, 2012, in Hannover, N.H. Ken served as a pilot and auditor in the Air Force for 21 years, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He then worked as an auditor for DCAA for 20 years.
He married Helen Brodhead in 1950, and they had two daughters, Nancy in 1954 and Elaine in 1957. Helen died in 1990. Ken married Cherrie Allen in 1998. Ken enjoyed traveling, flying, reading, gardening, musical theater and joking and teasing people.
He was an active member of First Baptist Church, Sanbornton, N.H.
Kenneth is survived by his wife, Cherrie; daughters, Nancy Durgin (Jonathan Farr) Sanbornton, N.H., and Elaine (Lainy) Hoff (Joseph Hoff), Greeley; grandson, Eric Hoff, Milnor, N.D.; granddaughters, Kelly Hoff, Hastings, Neb., and Tasha Durgin, Belmont, N.H.; three stepchildren; seven step-grandchildren; and two sisters.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Helen; three brothers; and one sister.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Arrangements handled by Wilkinson-Beane Funeral & Cremation Services of Laconia, N.H. Memorial gifts may be made to First Baptist Church of Sanbornton, 17 Church Lane, Sanbornton, NH 03269.
Emily Ann Gervais
May 5, 1931-Dec. 21, 2012
Age: 81
Residence: Mesquite, Nev.
Emily Ann Gervais, 81, of Minnesota and Nevada, died Dec. 21, 2012, surrounded by people who love her. She was born May 5, 1931, to Ovid and Lucille Plumb near Greeley.
She married Donald Gervais in September 1953. Emily was loved by family and friends and will be missed.
Emily is survived by her husband of nearly 60 years, Donald; children, Donald Jr. and Charlene; grandchildren, Sandra, Salome and Jessica; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her granddaughter, Rachelle.
Services are planned for May 5, 2013, in McGregor, Minn.
Condolences can be sent to Don at 154 Navajo St., Mesquite, NV 89027.
Andrea Frances Lundly
Feb. 25, 1952-Dec. 21, 2012
Age: 60
Residence: Greeley
Andrea Frances Lundly, 60, passed away at her home in Greeley on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. She was born to Clarence and Sylvia Schommer on Feb. 25, 1952, in Milwaukee, Wis.
Andrea married Ole Lundly on July 4, 1978, in Estes Park. She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, her family and her two dogs, Sapphire and Chewy.
Andrea is survived by her husband, Ole Lundly of Greeley; her son, Shawn Haskins of Burleson, Texas; her daughter, Heidi Romero of Greeley; her grandchildren, who were her pride and joy, Connor, Aidan and Kaelyn Haskins, and Isabelle and Isaac Romero; two sisters, Terry Palin of Minneapolis, Minn., and Candace of Fond Du Lac, Wis.; and her extended family.
A celebration of Andrea's life will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at Northern Colorado Crematory's Reflectory, 700 8th St., Greeley, Colo.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to Hospice of Northern Colorado, www.hpcnc.org.
Nancy L. Scheiding
Aug. 10, 1937-Dec. 25, 2012
Age: 75
Residence: Greeley
Nancy L. Scheiding, 75, of Greeley, died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, at Kenton Manor. Nancy was born Aug. 10, 1937, in Deweese, Neb., to Leander D. and Agnes (Burshosky) Fry.
Nancy attended Edgar High School in Edgar, Neb., where she graduated in 1955. She married Gerhard H. Scheiding on Aug. 12, 1955, in Clay Center, Neb. In 1960, they moved to Greeley, where she attended Aims Community College for accounting. Nancy worked for Bonell Nursing Home, North Colorado Medical Center and had an at-home day care. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Nancy loved to polka dance, sew and enjoyed eating out.
Nancy is survived by sons, Ronald Scheiding (D'Ann) of Hastings, Neb., and Rodney Scheiding (Colleen McMurray) of Carpenter, Wyo.; sisters, Judy Gerald and Bonnie McKay; brother, Robert Pofahl; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerhard Scheiding; and grandchild, Shawn Scheiding.
Friends may visit from 4-7 p.m. Friday at Stoddard Funeral Home. Funeral service is at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Interment Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity Lutheran School in care of Stoddard Funeral Home, 3205 28th St., Greeley, CO 80634.
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A strange political year has translated into an unusual legislative session. Although expected to adjourn in early October, Congress could not reach agreement on various appropriations bills and decided to postpone action until a post-Election Day lame-duck session.Ê
Because of the conflict in the presidential election, it was still questionable at the time of this report if Congress would meet on December 5 to finish the work of the 107th Congress. In the interim, funding for federal departments for which funding legislation has not passed is being maintained by temporary bills that maintain funding at the previous year's levels.
The bad news for the cancer community is that new research projects at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) may be temporarily slowed. The good news is that cancer research is not one of the issues holding up passage of the Labor, HHS, and Education appropriations bill, which contains NCI funding.
Prior to adjourning for a lame-duck session, congressional and administration negotiators agreed on the following funding levels for cancer research funding priorities of interest to the myeloma community:
The proposed funding for NCI is an increase of $500 million over the previous year, but remains $300 million below the amount recommend in the bypass budget. The NCI bypass budget is a congressionally mandated report that the institute is required to produce to determine ideal funding levels to maintain the federal mission of cancer research. Although NCI funding has increased steadily over the past few years, it has never reached the bypass recommendation. NCI recently released the 2002 bypass budget and recommended funding of $5.03 billion, or $1.23 billion more than is expected to be appropriated this year.
The 15% NIH increase fulfills the third year of a five-year commitment by congressional leaders to double the NIH budget. Also, the funding for the cancer registries includes $15 million that were added through the joint efforts of Senators Schumer (D-NY) and Helms (R-NC). These new funds should allow existing registries to continue and expand their data gathering activities, something vitally needed by the myeloma community.
The IMF is currently working with coalitions in Washington, DC to plan for the 108th Congress, which will convene in January 2001.


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The King of Navarre as a Youth
The King of Navarre
Love's Labours Lost, RSC 1995: Philip Quast as Ferdinand King of Navarre.
Loves Labours Lost, RSC 1995
Love's Labour's Lost, American Repertory Theatre, 1985.
Charles de Gontault, duc de Biron.
Chateau de Biron
William Smith (1730-1819) as Berowne
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois.
La Reine Margot (initially Princess Marguerite de Valois, then Queen Marguerite de Navarre). 1572.
The Princess of France (Laura Maxwell), in Love's Labours Lost at UCB, 1977.
Love's Labours Lost, UCB 1977: the King of Navarre and the Princess with her Ladies.
King Henry of Navarre and his first wife "la Reine Margot" 1572
Love's Labours Lost, UCB 1977: the King of Navarre and the Princess.
The Park of La Garenne at Nérac
Love's Labours Lost Set: RSC 1973.
A Scene from Act V of Love's Labor's Lost, possibly at Drury Lane Theatre, circa 1744.
The river-side Palace of the King of Navarre at Nérac.
Remains of the Palace of the King of Navarre at Nérac: one side of the courtyard.
Love's Labours Lost at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Elizabethan Theatre, 2005.


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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Everyone is trying to think green these days, but have you ever thought about where your clothes end up after you are finished with them? Do you donate? Give them to a friend? Throw them away? What about the pieces you paid a lot of money for? Sometimes letting go of those expensive Prada shoes you never wear because they hurt your feet can be difficult. Or maybe you lost or gained a few more pounds and that custom-fit Canali sport coat just doesn't look the same on you as it once did. Then you need to take your old clothes to Worn Consignment for Men in Mount Pleasant, where you can think green and put some green in your pocket. Worn consigns all of your designer-label, gently worn clothes, and you receive 40 percent of their sale price. Think about how much potential extra cash could be hanging in your closet right now. Now, they do not accept everything – only the best. Some of your old dress shirts and khakis may need to head directly to the nearest thrift store, but others may be perfect for a second life in someone else's closet.
All pieces are priced 50-75 percent below original retail price. Worn is located in the Harris Teeter Shopping Center on Houston Northcutt Boulevard, and they are open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visit www.wornincharletson.com or call 843-606-2450.
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Statesman Journal
March 15, 2007
Willamette University's fifth annual Social Powwow will bring together members of tribes from Umatilla to Grand Ronde this weekend for a powwow that is both social and sacred.
The Salem event's master of ceremonies, Bob Tom, is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.
Tom said powwows are a chance for tribal members to visit and practice dancing, drumming and singing.
It's a bit like a big family reunion, he said. There are powwows every weekend all over the West.
"This is a continuous way of life for us," he said. Tom estimates he has attended more than 20 powwows per year for the past 35 years.
Saturday's event also is a chance for newcomers to experience a powwow.
People of all cultures are encouraged to come to the gathering, said Gordy Toyama, director of multicultural affairs at Willamette.
The school's Native American Enlightenment Association puts on the event, which has attracted more than 1,000 visitors in past years.
"People who have never been to a powwow before are sometimes worried about doing something wrong," he said. "This is a great opportunity for non-natives to come, see and experience a powwow."
Powwows feature traditional dancing, songs, drumming and vendors, who sell artwork and foods such as fry bread.
The main event, however, is the dancing: The men's fancy dance, women's traditional dance, owl dance and blanket dance all will be performed. Each dance has its own regalia, drumbeats and history. At a powwow, you'll see skilled dancers as well as little kids just starting out, Tom said.
"It's one of the oldest instructions: We were instructed to continue dancing, to continue singing, and to bring our kids up to know about the dances," he said.
As host, Tom's job is to announce the dances and keep the audience informed.
He will be helped by David West, who serves as an arena director. He's a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, with Miami and Kickapoo heritage.
West must be available to make sure the dances are going as they should and to organize mid-powwow ceremonies.
If an eagle feather is dropped, the arena director decides whether to do the Plains or Northwest style ceremony to pick it up.
In addition to watching dancing, listening to drumming and admiring dancers' regalia (costume is not the proper word), this powwow offers opportunities for everyone to participate.
Respecting rules and traditions of the powwow is important, Toyama said, but people should feel welcomed to participate at appropriate times. One opportunity is the popular round dance, in which attendees gather in a circle.
"When we say it is an intertribal dance, we really want people to come down," Tom said.
One powwow element not to be missed is the opening grand entry. It will be at 4 p.m. Saturday
"The grand entry is always so special," Tom said of the moment when the tribal's elders, veterans, flags and dancers in regalia enter the gymnasium.
Tom said a powwow is best appreciated by a respectful, inquisitive mind.
"Be friendly," Tom said. "It seems like the more we know about each other, the more we're able to appreciate each other."
mtheriault@statesman journal.com or (503) 399-6743
Theriault, Michelle. "Annual Social Powwow is Saturday." Statesman Journal 15 Mar. 2007. 22 Mar. 2007 http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703150339


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As if being co-hosts and nominees at the Golden Globes weren't enough, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler amusingly added fake nominees to their job duties on Sunday.
The former Saturday Night Live castmates – nominated for best actress in a TV comedy, which was won by Lena Dunham of HBO's Girls – crashed the categories of best actor and actress in a TV movie or miniseries, putting on loony disguises and sneaking in as nominees for a fairly bizarre-sounding film called Dog President.
Poehler, sporting red hair and buck teeth, was introduced as actress Darcy St. Fudge, "a psychic who solves her own murder." Fey popped up in the actor category as Damian Francisco, "a professional volleyball player battling restless-leg syndrome."
Fey, with big glasses and a pencil-thin mustache, seemed to be channeling Johnny Depp. Poehler's inspiration was less clear. Let us know below who you thought she was supposed to be. (A deranged version of Merida from Brave?)
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I can't keep from remembering the first time I pulled her squishy, chubby, baby body into my arms. I can't stop thinking about how she is the cutest thing there ever was. I can't stop kissing her and hugging her and I can't stop. I just can't stop.
Noah trudged up the stairs in a huff because I wouldn't let him wear flip flops on the last day of school. He gets his own breakfast in the mornings and has his own sense of style. He has secret sayings with friends.
And when the school bus rounded the corner he hurried back down those stairs and sweetly put his face right next to mine. Gave me a kiss goodbye. And was out the door.
It's a blur, and I can't make it stop.
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A 90's hairpiece. Formaly worn by EVERYONE, and is now an embaressment to society.
The girl wore a scrunchie to school, then got chased out by everyone, due to lack of stylish hairpieces
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"eurghh, she is such a scrunchie"
από rofl686 21 Οκτώβριος 2009
Hot chicks - usually with fur boots, big sunglasses and furry hooded jackets
"Damn look at those hot scrunchies"
από djstatus 3 Απρίλιος 2008
1.Young chicks
2.freshly shaved snatch
2.freshly shaved snatch
Hey you sexy momma, show me your scrunchie.
από status 7 Ιούλιος 2006
a gay man or a female who stuffs a sock down her pants and pretends to be a man who is a part of a larger group of homosexual body guards. The most common use of this definition is found in eastern Kentucky
skittles is a scrunchie.
από Andi the magnificent 19 Οκτώβριος 2008
1. A young, freshly shaved snatch
2. A good afternoon snack
3. Hopefully clean
2. A good afternoon snack
3. Hopefully clean
Hey you sexy momma, show me your scrunchie.
I'd like to have a good clean scrunchie for lunch.
I'd like to have a good clean scrunchie for lunch.
από status 6 Ιούλιος 2006
The ring of poo around the base of ones cock after they get done having anal sex.
After Austin got done having hot anal love he relized he had a scrunchie.
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A silly insult used for someone who says something stupid, a person who is really ditsy, or someone with an abnormally sized/shaped head. It's used between friends and not taken seriously.
O'Reilly thinks that Sophia, Nicole, and Felicia are whopperheads, but he still loves them.
Travis thinks that Sean has a whopperhead, because it's big and square.
Travis thinks that Sean has a whopperhead, because it's big and square.
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"Don't order the chicken sandwich, Be a Whopper-Head" or "I cant believe you wrecked your car you Whopper-Head"
dari Chronic2001 Rabu, 03 Desember 2008
someone that is acting silly or dorky
When you do that dance, you look like such a whopperhead
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"everytime I take a hit I eat a bite of my whopper"
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The 5 Most Badass Man vs. Nature Showdowns Ever Photographed
#2. Truck-Hurling Tornado
I sincerely hope "Don't fuck with tornadoes" is not new and helpful information to any of you readers. We've all seen Twister, and though we know that they were exaggerating a little bit with the special effects -- whole, intact houses and boats don't really whirl about cartoonishly thousands of feet in the air -- it's still a pretty scary phenomenon. As it turns out, however, Twister was actually a tastefully understated flick. Here's an actual tornado in Dallas, Texas, whipping full-size big rigs thousands of feet in the air like a giant invisible toddler throwing a tantrum.
That just doesn't look real. It looks like a physics glitch in a video game. It's like the cosmos turned on Hacks; like somebody forgot to CGI in Godzilla.
But this is an article about people braving the fury of the natural world -- tiny little Davids spitting in the eye of Mother Nature's Goliath. So where's the human element here? Well, you have to look closely at that video again, at about 1:25, on the lower right:
And you'll see a little white car cruising by -- not even speeding, mind you -- just moseying along Main Street. Now turn your gaze a few inches up and to the left, and observe a goddamn semi hurtling through the air. Sure, there are other cars later in the clip, but they're much farther out and might not be aware that traffic conditions are currently "in the sky." Really look at the angles of that screencap with the white car again; this isn't somebody caught unaware. They can clearly see the 18-wheeler that just took these broken wings and learned to fly again ... and they do not care. They do not give one lonely shit that somebody just up and reversed gravity on them. They're going to goddamn Blockbuster, come hell or high trailer.
Holy shit, did they just ... did they just signal?
#1. A Fall from Space
For anybody who's ever stopped to really consider it, the mere existence of space -- with its fathomless depths and incomprehensible scale -- is enough to trigger a fire hose of existential fear vomit. I once saw a diagram of the actual distance between Earth and the moon and spent an hour hiding beneath my bed. In contrast, here's Joseph Kittinger, gleefully jumping the bitch:
Kittinger was part of Project Excelsior, an experiment to study extreme high altitude bailouts. The project involved an open gondola suspended by helium balloons that brought Kittinger up over 100,000 (not a typo; one hundred thousand) feet in the air. That's 19 miles, straight up. In a previous, lower altitude jump, his limbs generated G-forces more than 20 times that of Earth's gravity. Once he left the gondola, it took him nearly 15 minutes to hit the ground. He broke the speed of sound ... with his torso. That image of the distant curve of the Earth up there at the start of this entry? That's not taken from the space station. That was Joseph Kittinger's helmet cam.
Source."Haha, I'ma git you, Earth!"
I went skydiving once. They had me crawl out onto the wing of a shaky little prop plane, wind howling and ripping at my clothes, and when I was far enough out, the instructor said: "Now, let go." To which I answered: "Fuck you." Joseph Kittinger went up in a tiny balloon, and when he reached space, somebody said, "Now, step out there and try to aim for the planet." And he said, "Sure thing!"
I've actually pinpointed it: The bravest nanosecond in human history. Those are his white boots up top, just leaving the platform.
It takes enormous balls to even get on that vehicle -- what is, essentially, a rickety little basket with no handrails, tied to a bunch of balloons. It takes even bigger balls to voluntarily ride that son of a bitch higher than air goes. It takes balls of incomprehensible proportions -- balls whose non-Euclidean geometry simply cannot exist on our earthly plane -- to look down at a planet so far below you that you can actually make out the shape of continents, then step outside for a stroll.
Those kinds of balls do exist, but only in an alternate dimension, parallel to ours but wholly separate, of which we mere mortals can comprehend only the smallest piece. The avatar of that vast dimension comprised entirely of great and majestic testicles has a name, but it cannot be pronounced by the human tongue. So you can just call him "Joe."
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A car rolled over on Highway 101 and into a ditch, trapping two people in Montecito.
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Great bag! Many people (as seen in comments) would love to see this bag come back. I would buy several as many people have commented on mine. Please reconsider and bring it back!!!!
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I use it to store a lot of my athletic equipment. The quality is great, a very sturdy bag which even has space for a lock.
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Love this bag! It is very sturdy and even if you don't know anything about the Boston Public Library, it evokes a certain style that speaks to any age. Please bring this back, I want to get more as gifts for all of my kids and friends who stop me and ask, where can I get one?
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Love this bag! Originally planned to use this as a laundry bag but it is such a well made, versatile and good looking bag that I think I need a few more!!
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I use this commodious, study, yet stylish bag for travel and shopping. I throw in shoes, and any number of oddly shaped items I am positive I can't do without, for easy storage and transport to my destination. It also serves when I go to the grocery store. I plop in the myriad of plastic bags with never a worry that a ripped seam will deposit my purchases on the ground. A friend who goes camping followed my recommendation and she's pleased as punch.
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Thought this looked like a perfect gift for two writer friends. Once I'd examined it, I went back and ordered myself a couple. A huge hit with all recipients. I'm using one to store books for my Little Free Library.
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When your underwear rides up, so you've gotta drop it low real quick. You may think that the added theatrics of this move distract from the fact that your package is getting mummy-wrapped by your 100%-cotton christmas cat boxers. But really, it just looks like you're trying to lay an egg.
This is the third time since Memorial Day that he's blown out the crotch in his white chinos. Dude's gotta lay off with the ball drop.
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A rare condition that occurs when you have bigcockitus, causing your phone to lose signal strength when placed anywhere near your testicular region, and completely drop reception when placed beside your gonads.
Did you hear that Jim was diagnosed with Balldrop? Any time a phone goes near his dick, it instantly loses reception!
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An official ball drop takes place when a girl first gets your dick hard. You then pour champagne over the head so that it trickles down your balls. Your partner licks your ass with a cupped tongue taking in the champagne. A favorite New Year's Eve tradition that has also been called the "New Year's Luge."
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A new toxicology report says the man who killed six people before killing himself at the Sikh Temple in August had alcohol in his heart.
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The weather finally cooperated for me this weekend, beautiful sunny and warm days were given to us both Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday I rode with Mom and Dad, AJones, and Snake. �I had planned out a 55 mile route that was about half hills and half flat. �We left at 7AM and enjoyed a slight tailwind was we rode East. �This was Snake's first real ride since returning to the bike. �He's put 1700 miles this year on a trainer riding an hour a day 7 days a week, but he found out that riding the trainer and riding hills don't�correlate� �He did very well though on a ride that was really too difficult for someone�coming�off of years not riding. �I'm sure his baggy sweatpants weren't helping his cause much in the strong wind. �He made it up all the hills and fought a ferocious headwind back to Harrisburg. �I forgot to take my camera on this ride.
Sunday morning it was warm and windy and I was able to get out and skate on my rollerblades with new wheels. �I felt pretty awkward and my feet hurt, but after a few miles and tightening the skates a couple times it started to feel better. �I did about 7 miles with an average of 9.5 mph which pretty much what I was doing when I quit 4 months ago. �Told my mountain bike pals about rollerblading and they said they'd like to do that but people would see them. �I explained I went at 5:30 when people are still asleep.
Sunday afternoon took me out to the Ruby for a mountain bike ride with some of my shawnee mountain bike association friends. �The Ruby is one of the best trails in the Shawnee, it contains some blazing fast smooth flowy sections that you can rail, and it has some super rugged rocky areas that are hard to get over.
A bit of twist was thrown in Sunday; the forest service was burning a section of trail we call the "Back Nine." �Spring burning is very common practice in the Shawnee and I've rode through an area being burned one other time. �This must have been a much larger burn and weather conditions were keeping the smoke near the ground. �It was filling the hollows and appeared like fog. �Fortunately it wasn't thick enough to really cause us any problems, but riding the back nine was out of the question. �I was the only person who tried and it was like something from a movie. �The ground and deadfall were burning everywhere except for the trail.
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5 Terrible Situations for the Socially Awkward Man
Getting a Haircut
Every haircut starts with the hairdresser saying "So what are we doing today," and everyone knows how to answer that question better than you do. Maybe every haircut has a specific name, but no one told you, so the only clear direction you can articulate is "shorter than this." When I was younger, my answer used to be "Just, a boy's haircut? Like, a regular- just the kind of haircut that boys get, the one that you see all the people getting. Or, do you see what my hair shape is now? I would like that, but less of it, please." Then they'll ask you what kind of buzzer you'd like them to use, and you have no idea what that means, so you just say "Boy's haircut" again, and then they'll give you a terrible haircut because the information you gave them was impossible to follow, and you'll leave as fast as you can, saying "Thanks very much this has been great," because you want them to think everything went well. Nowadays, I shave my own head just so I don't have to handle these delicate, impossible-in-the-eyes-of-the-awkward-man questions every few weeks. When I was in high school, I had an entirely different approach to cutting out the middle man.
I just never went.
Dear Everyone In My Life When I Was 17: It was irresponsible of you to let me do this.
Additionally, going to a hairdresser is similar to going to a massage parlor, in that you're often being touched by someone of the opposite sex in a distinctly sexual way, but you're not allowed to think it's at all sexual. Getting your hair professionally shampooed and cut involves a whole lot of head-massaging and personal-space-invading. You're often being straddled by the hairdresser, and she's so comfortable that she barely realizes that, in many instances, her breasts are directly on your face, and there's literally nothing else you can think about. You don't want to do anything that might be misconstrued as sexual harassment while her boobs are at mouth level, so you stop breathing and completely freeze your face. She asks you how your day is going, and you want to answer, but at the same time you don't think she'll accept your complex series of motorboats as a valid response.
"Now lean forward while I rest my tits on your neck, please."
Spending Any Amount of Time With Someone Else's Baby
In life, some messages are impossible to communicate. You'll make a very straightforward claim, like "I don't enjoy being tickled, or I hate pie, or I hate going to clubs," and people just won't accept it. They'll assume you're just being coy about the tickling, and they'll convince themselves that you only hate pie because you haven't tried their favorite pie yet, and they'll assure you that you just haven't been to the right club with the right people, and they swear, if you go to this club in Silver Lake, you'll love it, it's real chill and they've got this one room that has dancing and a couch. You've never explicitly said that you don't like clubs because there aren't enough couches, but that doesn't matter. Everyone thinks they know what you really mean, much better than you do.
This is especially true of babies, especially if you're a guy. People, for reasons that aren't clear to me, love watching other people hold babies. Passing newborn babies around from person to person is a longstanding tradition that a lot of folks seem to really love, but the awkward man fears. If you don't want to hold one, I promise you, there is not a single combination of words you can string together to communicate this point to anyone.
You:"Oh, no, I really- Please, I'm sure I would drop it. Just everywhere."
Them:"Oh, nonsense, you're just nervous, you'll be fine, here it's easy!"
You:"No, thank you, I'm just not at all fond of babies."
Them:"Oh, you're so funny. Here just hold her, she won't bite."
You:"You don't know that!"
You:"Actually my whole family was killed by babies, and I swear to God if you hand me that child I will-"
Them:"Look, he likes you! He wikes his Uncle Danny, doesn't he?"
You:"For reasons that aren't clear but are probably related to my general life awkwardness, I am very uncomfortable in this situation, do not hand me your baby."
Them:"You're just shy, you'll be great at it"
"Look, he seems nice, but can I just put him somewhere? Does he have... like a drawer, or basket?"
Everyone always assumes you're shy, or embarrassed, or nervous, even though deep down you really want to hold that baby. But here's the truth: the socially awkward man genuinely has no affection for your child. Further, he is terrified that there are several unspoken baby rules and that he will break every single one of them. He'll hold its head in a way that makes babies blind, or it'll start crying because he accidentally pinched a nerve that only babies have, or he'll make a face that scars her for the rest of her life.
None of this goes away when the children get older, either. Being around someone else's child at any age is confusing, because there is always a different set of rules and the lingering fear that you will have an impact on this child's life, which is terrifying because you are so, so dumb. The socially awkward can barely navigate their own life, and suddenly they're face-to-face with a four-year-old that's peed itself and there's no one else around. The child complains about pants-wetting and all you can think to say is "Look, this is clearly a situation but I'm not- I don't really know what my jurisdiction is, legally, when it comes to, like, your pants. You're not my property and I have no interest in your future. Please go somewhere until this issue resolves itself."
"Just keep your head down, and believe in yourself, and be far away from me."
Little children recognize no boundaries and feel no shame, and those two things define the socially awkward human.
Socially awkward guys don't want anything to do with a baby or child based on the very understandable fear that they will somehow do it wrong, (and also because babies aren't interesting). Not everyone sees a baby and thinks "That's so precious I need to hold it now, but how do I ask?" Some guys just see a baby and think "You are a baby."
Please don't make him hold your baby. Just let him sit quietly in the corner, mentally complaining about his haircut and wondering how everyone else learned how to dance when he didn't.
Check out Dan's look at 5 Things They Never Told Us from last week or The 8 Most Awkward Sexual Moments in Comic Book History.


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Let's go to the party at ASU this weekend!
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A great animated sitcom premiering in late 1989 as a spin off from The Tracy Ullman Show, it is still in production, shown on Network Ten, Australia twice or more a day and shown on FOX in the USA, a movie based on the series will be released in 2007. The show is about Homer Simpson and his family's misadventures in there fictional misfit city Springfield. The actors who voice multiple characters are brilliant, also Phil Hartman who voiced Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz sadly wrote out of the show due to Hartman's homicide.
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автор: P Redeckis 12 мая 2006
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1.) The absolute greatest television show ever created.
2.) A show so great, movie stars literally BEG to be cast into an epsiode.
3.) Matt Groening's greatest achievement.
2.) A show so great, movie stars literally BEG to be cast into an epsiode.
3.) Matt Groening's greatest achievement.
The Simpsons will now and forever be, the greatest thing to ever happen to television.
автор: JDD4 17 апреля 2003
The Best Show EVER! Nuff' said.
The Simpsons has been on longer than almost any other show in history, and they're still the shiznit!
автор: G-Union 19 мая 2003
perhaps the greatest thing ever to happen to weekdays and sunday nights at 8. Seasons 4-12 were the golden years. THe early ones were kinda stupid, and the later ones aren't as witty and clever, but i must love it to the end.
Haha, i have seen every single simpsons episode ever made multiple times
автор: Frost 16 октября 2004
1. A highly influential, oft aped, animated television sitcom. First aired in late 1989; originated as a recurring animated skit on the Tracey Ullman show, created by Matt Groening.
2. The family depicted on the show of the same name.
2. The family depicted on the show of the same name.
I like The Simpsons, they are an interesting family. Their trials and tribulations make for excellent television watchin'!
автор: Zach Block 11 июня 2004
one of the funniest shows ever
the funniest ones (I think) are the one where Homer keeps that rotten sandwich/sub and it turns different colors, the one where Homer keeps screaming because of a childhood memory(finding a corpse in the river)theres alot of funny ones too many to name
автор: why you little!...... aaaaaackkkkhh 16 августа 2003
The best ever show that was ever made I may have seen every eposode of it but whenever I watch a old episode I still laugh even if I've seen it a thousand times
If you like the simpsons watch futurama not as good but its another great show
автор: ????? 31 декабря 2003
A hilarious television show on FOX @ 5:00 PM and 5:30 PM.
Did you see The Simpsons yesterday?
автор: Anonymous 21 мая 2003


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Don't remove God from the public arena.
Freedom of religion, or freedom from religion?
This is the matter before the Supreme Court involving prayer before board meetings in the town of Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. The First Amendment's free exercise and establishment clauses provide guidance. They act like bumpers on a bowling alley.
OUR VIEW: A tricky case
On one side, free exercise means everyone should be free to believe what they want about God. On the other, the establishment clause means that government should not establish a state religion or show religious preference. The town leadership has maintained this balance in allowing prayer.
Discontinuing prayer in response to legal threats is an attempt to create an America free from religion. This is not a provision in any of our founding documents or laws. To prohibit prayer undermines the freedom of religion that our laws were designed to protect.
The overwhelming majority of the town's residents believe in God. Shouldn't they have the freedom to have that expressed? Prayers led by people of faith occur nationally in both houses of Congress as well as in inaugural ceremonies.
Why? Our nation was profoundly influenced by Judeo-Christian beliefs, though not all Founders were Christians. They shaped our country while holding different views on God, yet prayed regularly at meetings, acknowledging the creator who grants us "inalienable rights" in the Declaration of Independence. This has continued, explaining why we still see prayer in these venues today.
Religion has also been expressed in the fabric of our country — in symbols and slogans displayed in government and public environments referencing The Ten Commandments, God, Moses and the like. Even our money says, "In God we trust."
But this has been under assault recently because some people really demand freedom from religion. The endgame appears to be the removal of God from the public arena altogether. But that's not what America has ever promised, nor is it consistent with our history. Freedom of religion allows for prayers to take place before town meetings, and it should represent the fabric of that particular religious community.
The town board doesn't agree with all my beliefs or those of others who've prayed. The same could be said among the clergy who've prayed. But that's the beauty of plurality without the establishment of religion; it can handle it all. And so should "we the people."
Vince DiPaola is the senior pastor at Lakeshore Community Church in Rochester, N.Y.


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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Stratford boys basketball coach Troy Johnson has his first Division I player.
Senior wing player Demetre Rivers has committed to Mercer University after averaging 18 points and 8 rebounds last winter for the Knights. Rivers will clearly be the cornerstone for Stratford this upcoming season.
"The sky is the limit for him," Johnson said. "He doesn't know how great he could be. He's capable of scoring 30 points per game. He's a better person than a basketball player and some times that hinders him as a player."
But the potential is there for Rivers (6-7, 190) if he can take his aggression to a new level, Johnson added. Rivers can already score from distance and to take the next step he needs to get more physical going to the basket. Johnson said the Knights will ride Rivers as far as he can take them.
"He means everything to us on the court and off the court," Johnson said. "The kids look up to him. He knows that's his role. We're going to give him the ball and he can make plays. He doesn't have to worry about sharing the shot opportunities this year."
Rivers is the sixth former Knights player under Johnson to play at the next level, but the first to land at the highest college level.
"It's a great opportunity to coach a Division I player," Johnson said. "Most high school coaches don't get that many opportunities to coach guys like that."
While Mercer may not stand out as a household name in college basketball, the Bears have a lot of bite and have posted some notable victories.
Last season, they won 24 games and captured the Atlantic Sun regular season championship before advancing to the National Invitation Tournament.
"That team Florida-Gulf Coast that went to the Sweet 16 last year was from the Atlantic Sun," Johnson said. "Mercer split with them in the regular season and then lost to them in the (Atlantic Sun) tournament championship. A kid going to Mercer has just as much of a chance to play in the Division I tournament as anywhere else. They have 65 wins the last three years. Last year they beat Florida State, Alabama and Tennessee. They are one of the top-10 mid-major programs in the country."
They beat Georgia Tech the season before that and won the CollegeInsiders.com postseason tournament.
Johnson said Rivers wants to be a mechanical engineer and that played into his decision to attend Mercer.
"For him, it was as much about academic as it was athletics," he added.
Practice begins on Nov. 4 and Stratford's first game is Dec. 2.
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November 12, 2010 - Volume 13 No. 48
At its fall Council meeting, the AICPA held a panel discussion with several members of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Private Company Financial Reporting. Watch highlights of the discussion here. A video of the full discussion is available on AICPA TV.
The Auditing Standards Board finalized additional clarified Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs), including Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit and Quality Control for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards. The clarified SASs are effective for audits of financial statements for periods ending on or after December 15, 2012. The entire list of clarified SASs is available on AICPA.org.
On November 8, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) presented the Sempier Award to Robert Mednick, CPA, a former AICPA Chairman of the Board of Directors (1996-97). Read the press release for more information. Additionally, IFAC announced that Göran Tidström of Sweden would assume the role of president of IFAC for a two-year term ending in November 2012, replacing Robert Bunting, CPA. Bunting served as AICPA Chairman 2004-05. Finally, AICPA Chairman Emeritus, Robert R. Harris, CPA/CFF, was elected to the IFAC Board and former AICPA chair (1998-99), Olivia F. Kirtley, CPA, was re-elected to a four-year term.
The AICPA Investment Companies Expert Panel and staff recently updated non-authoritative Technical Practice Aid (TPA) TIS section 6910.18, "Disclosure of an Investment in an Issuer When One or More Securities and/or One or More Derivative Contracts Are Held - Nonregistered Investment Partnerships," to clarify the existing guidance about aggregating securities and derivative contracts based on whether they are in a gross asset or liability position; emphasize that in situations where an investment partnership has both a long and a short exposure to the same derivative without closing out either position; and include minor technical amendments to conform existing guidance to the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification™. The TPA is available on AICPA.org.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This Q-and-A originally was published Monday in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly, the Bonanza's sister publication based in Reno, as part of the newspaper's weekly feature on Northern Nevada business figures.
Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Tell us about your company and the duties of your position.
Terry Jones: Kayak.com is the leading travel search site. We are not a travel agency (like Expedia or Travelocity). We search all the travel supplier sites and then give you a choice on where to buy. We took the company public in the fall of 2012 and sold it to Priceline late in the year. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter. I'm non-executive chairman of the board, so I am not involved in day-to-day decisions, but I lead the board discussions on strategy and governance. I'm very busy outside of Kayak.
NNBW: Where did you get the idea for Travelocity?
Jones: I was working at the SABRE division of American Airlines, where our job was to automate travel agents with the SABRE system. For about eight years we had a very simple reservations product on Compuserve and AOL. Eventually (even though it sent all the reservations to travel agents for ticketing) the agents saw the future threat of online travel and wanted us to shut it down. Instead the boss gave it to me. I was chief information officer and a former travel agent. He thought we'd sort of "hide it" in IT. Instead, I put in on the Internet and it took off like a rocket.
NNBW: What were the main challenges you overcame as the business ramped up?
Jones: Creating a startup inside a large corporation is very hard. I had to move out of the building, shed much of their culture and systems to compete with traditional startups like Expedia and Priceline. Also, the airlines made things very difficult by cutting ticket commissions from 10 percent to 5 percent to zero as they tried to kill us. They failed.
NNBW: Tell us about Kayak.com -where did the idea for that venture come from?
Jones: I was working with a venture capitalist looking for ideas in travel. We had a dinner one night with the co-founder of Orbitz and the founder of Expedia, and the three of us began talking about one of the problems we'd all had: Hundreds of thousands of people came to our sites to shop and then went directly to the airlines and hotels to buy. We thought, why not build a site where they can do just that. And Kayak.com was born ... a site where you can search everything and then have a choice of where to buy.
NNBW: Tell me about the creative process - at what point did you know you were onto solid business ventures?
Jones: That's always a tough call. At Kayak it was the point when the airlines, car and hotel suppliers decided we were bringing them so much business they had to pay for it and stay in the system. At Travelocity we knew almost at once as the business took off so fast.
NNBW: What was your first job?
Jones: I was a receptionist and visa officer at a travel agency in Chicago. I was the only person in the office who spoke English as a native language.
NNBW: Have any hard-earned advice for entrepreneurs?
Jones: I've written a book on the topic, "ON Innovation," which is just out on Amazon. After the idea it is all about the team. It is about hiring the best people you can get and surrounding yourself with people who complement your skills, people who can help you make an invention into an innovation.
NNBW: As a resident of Incline Village, do you sometimes find the work environment difficult since you are far removed from Kayak.com's corporate headquarters in Connecticut?
Jones: Not really. First, I'm chairman of the board, so I'm not involved in the day-to-day. Second, as I'm on five boards and give 45 speeches a year, I'm on the road about 140 days each year - I get there a lot! Finally, in the Internet age, you are always connected.
NNBW: What drives you to keep working rather than retire?
Jones: Work keeps my mind busy. These days I'm serving on public, private and non-profit boards, consulting, speaking, serving as an expert witness and writing books. All of this keeps my mind active. My dad retired at 55 and in the end was retired longer than he worked. I don't think I could do that.
NNBW: What's next - what new ventures will you tackle in coming years?
Jones: I'm enjoying writing, and I just completed my second book. My brother, who also lives at Lake Tahoe, and I are working on a training film. He's a former National Geographic photographer. I will probably join another board after the Kayak deal closes and I'm free to do so.
NNBW: How do you spend your free time away from work?
Jones: I love to travel, and by combining work and play Ginny and I went to South Africa, India, France and Mexico last year. I read both fiction and non-fiction every day. I do like cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. I had to quit downhill skiing when I was 16 when I injured my back. But now after back surgery I'm taking it up again.
NNBW: If you could live your life over again, what one thing would you change?
Jones: I've been battling being overweight since I was a teenager. I guess I wish somehow I could have avoided starting out that way.
NNBW: What did you dream of becoming when you were a kid?
Jones: I actually wanted to own and run the boys canoeing camp in Canada where I'd spent 13 summers. I came very close to acquiring it but in the end the deal fell apart and I ended up in travel.
NNBW: What can you do that someone else can't?
Jones: I'm sure others do this well, but my strength is bringing technology and business together to create value.
NNBW: What's the last concert or sporting event you attended?
Jones: Went to see the Cubs play in Chicago with my daughter (I grew up in Chicago) and of course I always spend time at Sand Harbor seeing the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and our Monday events (I just retired as chairman of the festival after a three year term).
NNBW: Where's your perfect vacation spot?
Jones: I really like the south of France. But usually we are off investigating somewhere new - I'm on my way to Dubai in March.
NNBW: You could live anywhere - why did you choose Lake Tahoe?
Jones: My brother has had a home here for many years, and when I left Travelocity and Dallas there was only one place I wanted to be. Traveling as much as I do, it can be a pain to drive over the mountain and always have to connect to get anywhere, but as soon as I see the lake on my way home I remember why I moved here.


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Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand is introducing legislation intended to boost advanced manufacturing in the state and plans to discuss her "Made in America Manufacturing Act" with elected and business officials this morning at a Village of Lancaster industrial firm.
The New York Democrat will meet with Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz, Buffalo Niagara Partnership Vice President Craig W. Turner and other officials at Harper International, a maker of industrial furnaces.
"She is promoting legislation that will help keep jobs here, and help American families, and [Poloncarz] supports that legislation," Peter Anderson, a spokesman for the county executive, said Sunday night.
A highlight of Gillibrand's proposal is the creation of a federal funding competition meant to encourage regional public-private partnerships to come up with growth strategies for high-tech and clean-tech manufacturing, as well as other industries, according to the senator's office.
The legislation also would aid workforce-development efforts and provide improved market intelligence for companies. "The workforce training is key to everything," said Turner, who said the federal government must take the lead role.
Gillibrand's office touted the potential value of the high-tech industry. Local employment in this sector has grown by 3,400 jobs – or 7 percent – since 2004, at a time when thousands of manufacturing jobs were lost in this area.
Today's news conference highlights the work of Harper International, whose origins date from 1924. The maker of industrial materials furnaces evolved in the 1990s to a company specializing in thermal processing solutions.
An employee stock ownership plan began in 2011, and the company has grown in recent years to the point that it plans to move from its longtime Lancaster location to space in the former Quad/Graphics building in Depew.
Harper works with a number of local vendors and has an international customer base, with at least 50 percent of its annual sales coming from overseas, said Diana M. Robbins, the company's marketing manager.
The company's new director of export compliance and government relations, Nina Hsu, has worked to boost the company's profile in Washington, D.C., Robbins said, and the Gillibrand event fits with those efforts. Hsu and Harper President Charles W. Miller are among the company officials attending today's event.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. _ At the age of 13, my best friend's brother fell off the roof of his house. When they took him to the hospital for an x-ray, instead of finding a fracture in his spine, they found a very rare form of cancer. I remember his sister telling me it was called "hide and go seek cancer." Two years later, on March 16 at the age of 14, Michael passed away. Michael was my first introduction to the "C" word. I now know many others, some friends, some family and some clients.
Around the time that Michael passed, I had my first introduction to Reiki, a modality that moves energy in the body using the hands. In my first experience with Reiki as a teen, I knew this was something I wanted to know how to do. They say, "when the student is ready, the teacher appears." This occurred for me in 2003 in Pennsylvania. I continued my studies here in Lake Tahoe through many additional teachers and hands-on study, receiving my Masters Reiki attunement in 2006.
Two years ago with the help of Dr. Ann Sura, I was able to open my own practice Reiki Tahoe at NaturaMed Natural Family Medicine in Kings Beach. Dr. Sura's vast knowledge of Naturopathic medicine has been an important complement to my energy work. I have been fortunate to help many clients now, including oncology patients.
This holiday season, from Nov. 20-Dec. 20 I will donate $5 of every full price Reiki session and $10 of every full price Raindrop Reiki session to one of two charities. The client will be able to choose between the Tahoe Forest Cancer Center and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
Why should you experience Reiki? Reiki can help on all levels, emotional, physical and mental. It can help the mind to stop running in circles and create a space for clarity and positive thinking. It can help release and ease physical pain. Reiki can help relieve the overwhelming emotions that can accompany sickness or illness and allow you to create a healing space in your life. You don't need to have aliments to experience Reiki, it can be a rejuvenating and relaxing experience as well.
If you can think about how energy works in the world, how we are made up of energy and how even though we may not be conscious of it, we all feel energy on a daily basis through our emotions, then you can understand how moving old energy out of the body and putting new energy in can help us heal.
I invite you to help me help others this holiday season. Allow yourself to receive the gift of Reiki and know that you are doing it for a great cause.
Reiki Tahoe is located at NaturaMed Natural Family Medicine in Kings Beach. For more information on Reiki, Raindrop Reiki or Marianne Klemm, please visit www.reikitahoe.com. For an appointment please call 530-546-0400.


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David Sneed attended Allendale-Fairfax High School in the 1980s, graduating in 1989 near the top of his class. His future wife graduated as class valedictorian.
Both went on to Ivy League universities, he to Yale and Cornell, she to Princeton.
Now, both work as lawyers in Savannah, just a 90-minute drive from Allendale down arrow-straight U.S. Highway 278 to I-95. Many in Allendale still blame construction of that interstate in the 1960s and '70s for the county's long economic fall as north-south traffic veered from U.S. 301 through Allendale to the faster interstate.
The ghosts of once lively motels and restaurants still linger along Allendale stretches of U.S. 301.
Sneed and his wife were not the only Allendale-Fairfax grads in the late 1980s and early '90s to attend top-notch national universities. Sneed ticked off a list of a half dozen others who went to Dartmouth, Duke, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Princeton and West Point.
He describes those high school years as a special era, before Allendale's public schools began failing. He recalls it as a time when the school administration remained stable and a corps of good teachers pushed and inspired students.
"I am very thankful for the education I got in Allendale from fantastic people who believed in kids," he said.
Sneed and some of those students enjoyed another advantage: Joe Siren, a teacher who doubled as the coach of the high school's debate team.
Sneed remembers how Siren took the team to competitions everywhere, including out of state, even to Harvard, so they could see a bigger world and learn that they could compete with, and beat, anyone.
The team won several state championships and placed in the top 10 in one national competition at Harvard.
Sims Floyd, Sneed's debate partner in 1988 and now executive vice president of the South Carolina Automobile Dealers Association, credits Siren with guiding him and numerous Allendale kids to prestigious universities they never would have dreamed of attending. Many came from poor homes and likely wouldn't have gone to college without Siren, he said.
He remembers when Siren named the debate team "the Possums," because most of the teams they debated didn't expect much from Allendale kids. "People always got fooled," he said.
At debates the team wore sweatshirts with an ugly, green possum emblazed on the front, Floyd said. "It was like a badge of honor to have one of those sweatshirts."
Floyd said he went on to Auburn University, because that was where Siren studied.
Sneed said he, Floyd and other Allendale students directly benefited from what Siren exposed them to and from his faith in them.
Sneed also credited the Governor's School at the College of Charleston. He and several others from Allendale-Fairfax High attended the college's four-week summer program designed to provide special opportunities for rising high school seniors with exceptional academic achievement and intellectual potential.
"Admissions officers came down from Ivy League schools, and that had a big impact on me and the other kids," Sneed recalls. It made him and the other Allendale kids realize, "Well, this is not a far-fetched dream. I can potentially go to one of these schools."
A recent study by a Stanford University economist showed that academically gifted low-income high school students, especially those from rural areas, don't apply to Ivy League and other high-quality universities without peer support and active encouragement, even when the education is offered virtually free.
Siren, 69, left Allendale-Fairfax High in 2006 after 32 years. Now he teaches history at the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie campus in Allendale, just a few miles from the high school.
So much has changed since David Sneed attended the high school, Siren says. Then, many of the students, black and white, were middle class and teachers' kids.
Today, just a handful of white kids attend the county schools, choosing instead private schools or enrollment in other districts; 98 percent of the students are poor, and almost all the teachers live in other counties.
Asked about Gov. Nikki Haley's efforts to help raise donations to build a track for the county's high school, Siren replied, "That's nice, but we don't need people's presents to the school, we need their presence in the school."
Still, Siren said, if Haley is going to raise money for the school, he would rather see it go to math and science instruction than to a track.
"David was lucky," he said, "In his era it was cool to be smart in school. ... We need those kids, the David Sneeds. We need them pretty badly."
The Governor's School at the College of Charleston that inspired Sneed to go to Yale no longer exists either.
It closed in 2008, a victim of state cutbacks to higher education.


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an exclaimation shouted when in an elated state.
Chris Chan: "I must say I am quite partial to Terra Patrick."
IBI: "Dollaz!"
IBI: "Dollaz!"
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Often found in the plural form, dollaz, a way of life which embraces money, sex, and anything else associated with elegance.
An exclamtion usually said in celebration.
An exclamtion usually said in celebration.
Dollaz has changed my life! Check out my stretch Escalade filled with hott bitches drinking Dom Perignon from diamond glasses!
af Grat M 4. januar 2004