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For those of us to whom summer means hot dogs, apple pie, and baseball games, the recent Major League All-Star Game was a significant milestone. Marking the midway point of the season, the All-Star Game put baseball back in the national spotlight, a place where "America's Pastime" has only been a part-time player for many years. But while attendance and viewing numbers for Major League Baseball have been overtaken by rival sports like basketball and football, there is one world where baseball still hits a clear home run: its extended family of local baseball teams that make up the Minor Leagues.
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The former Chiefs coach -- now the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator -- says he's trying to treat Monday night's matchup between his former employer and his new one like just another game.
Haley was fired by the Chiefs with three weeks left in the 2011 season. He insists he's moved on and has no extra incentive to beat Kansas City. Haley joked he'll be excited if the Steelers win and depressed if they lose, just like always.
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Mineral Wells ISD faculty and staff will begin their 2013-14 school year Monday morning and they have something to look forward to.
The school board plans to start off the school year on what will likely be a very popular note, since approving, last Tuesday, pay raises and a new hiring salary schedule.
The board has been working much of the past month on the district's budget for the coming school year. As a result, it will give an average of 3-percent pay raises for teachers and administrators. However, maintenance, paraprofessionals and food-service staff will all received a 3 percent raise, according to MWISD Superintendent Gail Haterius.
For faculty and administrators, she said, "Its an average of a 3-percent pay raise, depending upon their pay-grade scale and whether they've topped out or not."
Along with the upgrade in pay comes new hiring salaries for teachers and staff.
"The hiring salary schedule increased the beginning teacher pay scale," Haterius explained. "We are now more competitive with other school districts."
She said filling positions this year provided some challenges based on the previous hiring salary structure.
"We had about nine prospective teachers who verbally signed on [with MWISD] and called back and said they found a job that pays more [elsewhere]," she said.
Now, new hires with a degree and certification, but no teaching experience will make $34,099 annually or $35,099 with a master's degree. The Texas Education Agency state minimum salary for the same individual is $27,320.
For a teacher with five year's experience the TEA minimum is $31,560. MWISD will start now at $37,338 and $38,338 for a teacher with a master's degree. These amounts are the new minimum salary for new employees and based on a 187-day contract. Non-exempt aides, clerks and food-service staff, likewise, also have a new, higher hiring salary schedule.
Current MWISD teachers always begin day one on a hearty note – with breakfast provided by the Mineral Wells Merchants' Association Monday morning. Now, they have a little extra, courtesy of the board.
Haterius said she was pleased that the MWISD board acted and approved a pay raise for faculty and staff, "because you can never pay a good teacher what they are truly worth."
"We appreciate our board for supporting our teachers and employees this way," she said. "We feel the teachers are the heart of our school and that every adult who works in the school is a teacher in some way."
The new hiring salary pay scales will be posted on the district's website, www.mwisd.net.
In other business the board:
• Approved calling for a bond election on Nov. 5 to raise interest-and-sinking taxes by 12 cents per $100 property valuation to support a $25 million bond, primarily for the construction of a new elementary school to replace Lamar. The funds will also go toward campus security upgrades throughout the district and replacing the high school track. The MWISD tax rate, if approved by voters, will increase from $1.29 per $100 taxable property value to $1.42 per $100.
• Heard from Chief Financial Officer Paul Hearn about the forthcoming budget schedule. The next budget workshop meeting is Aug. 22 at 6 p.m. and the district will host a public meeting on the budget, proposed tax rate and final amendment to the 2012-13 budget on Aug. 27 at 6 p.m.
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Customers entering the Raley's in Southampton Shopping Center on Wednesday, November 7 got a flyer and a pep talk from striking union members and non-striking store employees.
The union members were handing out literature telling why they were out on strike. The non-union employees were handing out flyers advertising free groceries for customers who spent at least $20.00 in the store and telling potential customers that Raley's in Benicia is not a non-union store.
When asked why union members were striking at a non-union Raley's Store Director Jose Roas said, "We're a non-union store with a union meat department."
Rosa said the strikers are being successful in steering regular customers to other food stores. "We have seen a small drop off," said Rosa when asked if business was at normal levels. "The main thing is I want to take care of my employees and take care of my customers."
He motioned toward both strikers walking the picket line and cashiers who were taking care of customers when he made the statement.
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By Beau Wicker Pharos-Tribune
---- — Logansport's girls golf team shot a 186 Thursday at the Vintage Nine at Chippendale Golf Course in Kokomo to defeat host Taylor (194).
The Berries improved to 7-4 with the win.
Freshman Kristina Kniesly led the way for LHS with a 9-over 44. She was followed by Haley Lopez (46), Megan Farris (47) and Alli Biggs (49).
"Megan bounced back tonight with a 47 and we needed it," Logansport coach Bob Bannon said. "We had four scores that counted and they were in the 40s."
Seven players from each team played in the match and the top four scores were counted. Also for the Berries, Chelsae Henn shot a 56, Grace Boyd had a 63 and Jenny Baar had a 64.
The Berries next compete at the North Central Conference meet at 9 a.m. Saturday at Edgewood Golf Course in Anderson.
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Logan 4, Huntington N. 1
Logansport improved to 8-2 and 2-1 in the NCC with the win at Huntington.
Bryan Zehner won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 singles, Nathaniel King won 6-4, 7-5 at No. 2 singles and Lucas Eastburn won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3 singles.
Dustin Clements and Kaleb Overway won 6-3, 6-4 at No. 1 doubles. Matt Jennings and Jared Cole lost 6-2, 6-1 at No. 2 doubles.
"Really good performances by Lucas Eastburn and Bryan Zehner," Logan coach Mike Montgomery said.
The Berries compete at the Lafayette Jeff Invite on Saturday.
Cass 3, Kokomo 1
The Kings turned back visiting Kokomo, 25-15, 21-25, 25-17, 25-23.
"It was a great match, lots of exciting rallies," Cass coach Gretchen Crum. "I am very proud and pleased with the team. They never doubted themselves on the court. They knew they could win and took care of business."
Gabi Hartley dished 18 assists for the Kings (4-7). Bailey Gremelspacher had 11 assists, six kills and two aces.
Trish Hartley floored eight kills and five blocks. Kassi Zeck collected 18 digs and Karley Arion added nine. Aubrey Young had six kills, Tori Powell posted seven kills and 10 digs and Claire Crum had three kills and 12 digs.
"Kokomo has a 'bero we didn't want to serve, and we tried to keep the play away from Tori Lauderbaugh and Brooke Smith, who are both nice players," Gretchen Crum said. "We did such a better job reading the hitters and had some great defense from everyone, especially the three seniors. Good defense fired us up and everyone contributed to the offense tonight. Our five sophomores just continue to play with confidence. This team really enjoys being together and we have had very good practices which has made a lot of the difference in our performance.
"We will take this momentum onto the weekend when we play Rossville, Seeger and Maconaquah in the pool play at the Rossville Tournament."
Pioneer 3, N. White 0
The Panthers opened Midwest Conference play with a 27-25, 25-11, 25-14 win over visiting North White.
Hannah Tevis had 14 kills and three blocks, and Sarah Dorris added 10 kills, six digs and six aces for the Panthers (6-3 overall). Riley Morris dished 19 assists to go with two aces. Megan Smith collected 21 digs. Kayte Miller had five kills and seven digs. Shelby Roller dished eight assists. Maddie Kiser added four kills and Lyndsey Stewart chipped in three.
"In that first set we were a little bit tight and a lot of that had to do with their play. They dig everything you throw at them. It's very nerve-racking," Pioneer coach Rod Nies said. "They have a couple of girls that are pretty good offensive players. Their setter is a nice setter. They've got a couple of girls that can hit the ball. But they're going to play defense and dig everything you've got and try to make you make a hitting error or something. It's a typical Teresa McIntire team.
"I told the girls you've got to keep pounding away and keep beating the ball. The percentage is in favor of the hitter.
"The girls responded very well in the first set and came back to win. Sarah Dorris got going with aces there and had four or five aces in the second set to start the game and we steamrolled them after that. The third game was the same way. We played really well, especially the last two sets."
The Panthers play at the Harrison Classic on Saturday. They'll start off with matches against Clinton Central and Lowell and the results will determine their other two matches.
Boys soccer
Winamac 3, O-D 0
Austen Brown recorded the shutout in goal for the Warriors (2-4-2) against visiting Oregon-Davis. Tyler Hintz had two goals and an assist to lead the offense. Clark Gudas opened the scoring with a goal.
"The kids really pulled themselves together and toughed out a kind of ugly win," Winamac coach Mark Eber said. "We were down two of our senior starters and with a couple injuries during the game, everyone got a chance to contribute. We are proud of them."
Girls XC
Northfield 15, Caston Inc., N. Miami Inc.
The Comets had some runners out with illness.
Jenna Showley led them with a fifth-place finish in 24:29, followed by Marli Leazenby (12th, 34:52), Krysta Schanlaub (13th, 34:58) and Hope Weaver (14th, 34:59).
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Northfield 17, N. Miami 53, Caston 68
Darin Chew led the Comets with a sixth-place finish in 19:19, followed by Andrew Smith (13th, 20:59), Dalton Daily (19th, 22:16), Brant Buczkowski (21st, 22:28) and Dawson Oliver (22nd, 22:29).


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text: As the events of our Pesach Seders become fond memories, students in the 6th grade Design-Based Learning program are rapidly progressing in their study of ancient empires. We have moved from the investigation of whether or not Sumer was an advanced civilization to an in-depth look at the daily lives of ancient Egyptians. Through the creation of charts, small skits, and open-ended questions, students will discover key details that distinguish the ancient Egyptians from other empires of the time. From there, students will continue their study through civilization's evolutionary line, setting their sights towards parallel ancient civilizations, Greece and Rome. Throughout this learning, students have the opportunity to engage in many styles of writing, including short response, reflection, and formal expository essay. Additionally, they are afforded the opportunity to yet again incorporate aspects of Judaic studies with the social studies curriculum. As we know, enslaved Hebrews in Egypt marked a major Judaic Period in history. From there, we will follow Moses' path out of Egypt, onto continued perseverance through hardships that shaped the Jewish people. This time of year takes the universal theme "Change" to a new level in the 6th grade science curriculum. Teacher-centered instruction gives way to total student-led investigation, marking the onset of science fair projects. 34 pairs of students, through online surveys and discussion, have selected 34 unique experiments, ranging from "chromo-ology" of candy, the science behind optical illusions, and the physics of basketball. In this science fair process, students will engage in research, experimentation, data collection, and the entire progression of the scientific process. Pictures, graphs, charts, and written reflection will showcase the fruits of their personal inquiries in about a month from now, at Open House. In Guided Reading, the highlighted literature is becoming more aligned with upcoming social studies content. In one class, Julius Caesar is coming to a close, and will be followed by another novel of similar historical significance. With the conclusion of The Outsiders, other classes have continued the theme of internal conflicts; they have began the end-of-the-year study of mythical creatures and origins of legends with Greek Myths, a collection of tales and stories that will deepen our study of ancient Greek culture. In another class, Report to the Principal's Office proved a low-stress, highly entertaining way to hone inference skills, summarize, and build a larger vocabulary repertoire. In Hebrew, the 6th grade students are singing Yom Ha'atzmaut songs, learning facts about Israel, and discussing the importance of Israel to all Jews. In Mrs. Miodovsky's class, the Ulpan students are working in Chaverim B'Ivrit book 1. They are reading stories about birthday parties and are connecting it to Israel's 64th birthday. The enrichment class students are getting ready to read a book about the rescue in Entebbe. In Mrs. Fridman's class, the students are learning about Theodor Herzl; they have also started Chaverim Be'ivrit book 6 and are reading about food, and are about ready to practice ordering food in a restaurant. In Mrs. Hadad's class, students are "going on a trip and are discussing things that are forbidden and allowed to do on the bus." In Mrs. Ben Ami's class, students are learning about afterschool activities; they are currently learning about how to play a musical instrument. In Mrs. Orevi's class, the students continue to learn about unique and special objects. In addition, they are discovering a tale about Elijah the prophet and "his Passover visit" with a kind rich family who lost everything materialistic in a fire.


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- Place the flour on a rimmed plate, and season with salt and pepper. Toss the shrimp in the flour, and shake off excess. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook the shrimp until pink, about 2 minutes per side. Remove shrimp from skillet, and reserve.
- Discard all but 1 tablespoon oil from the skillet. Cook the shallots and garlic in the oil until soft, about 2 minutes. Pour in the wine, 1/2 cup chicken broth, and the lemon juice. Simmer for about 5 minutes, or until reduced to about 3/4 cup. Stir in the remaining 1/2 cup of chicken broth and the cream, and simmer until sauce is reduced and thickened slightly, approximately 10 minutes more. Add the butter, and stir until melted.
- Return the shrimp to the skillet; simmer until heated through, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle with the parsley and Romano cheese before serving.
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I substituted half and half for heavy cream. Green onions for shallots. Pinot Grigio for Chardonnay. Grated Parmesan for Romano cheese. Added just about 8-10 tiny cubes of mozzarella and about 2 tbs of crumbled Feta cheese just before serving. Substitutes were for on hand availability/savings. It was absolutely fantastic. I approximated all measures and adjusted for taste, I ended up adding more half and half to reduce the excessive lemon juice I had over squeezed from a half of lemon. I hope I can duplicate it next time, All four of us really enjoyed it and I will do this again soon. My compliments to the contributor of this recipe. I also made a bruscietta brushed with EVOO, using some of the pan fried shrimp, mozzarella, sliced baked/dried tomato slices, red peppers and garlic to go along with it.
I doubled this recipe and I'm so glad I did because we like a lot of sauce on our pasta. I also omitted the shallots, used half/half instead of heavy cream, and only used half the butter and it's still fabulous! I like the zip that the lemon adds.
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In one election after another, American voters have shown that they are sharply divided along partisan lines. Now, Americans have a new way to demonstrate whether they lean red or blue: through their choice of a mutual fund.
Two funds started recently by Blue Investment Management, a New York fund company that is less than a year old, will limit their holdings to companies that donate the majority of their political contributions to Democrats.
On the other side of the aisle, Action Fund Management, based in Potomac, Md., created the Free Enterprise Action fund in 2005. This may be the closest thing to a Republican-red mutual fund. The managers intend to lobby the companies in the portfolio whenever they think shareholders' money is being wasted on social causes.
The Blue site says the funds will invest only in companies that both "act blue" and "give blue."
The Free Enterprise Action fund website says the managers want to wage shareholder proxy campaigns to "promote the American system of free enterprise."
The Free Enterprise Action fund does not exclude stocks based on social or political criteria. It now includes the 450 largest stocks in the S&P 500. The managers view the fund as a platform from which to start shareholder proxy battles - so all the better if bad apples are included. "The corporation has become an extension of the cultural battle in our society," said Steven Milloy, co-manager of the fund. "Thirty or 40 years ago, before all of this social investing started, companies were just in business to make money. Now corporations are being hijacked by various activist groups."
Milloy has decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. For example, he opposes the decision by FedEx, the package delivery company to buy hybrid trucks.
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The NYT says Blue Investment Management's pro-Democrat mutual funds "operate much the way traditional socially screened funds do, eliminating companies they regard as having poor environmental records, for example."
But what really sets the Blue funds apart is their exclusion of companies that make less than 51 percent of their political donations to Democrats. Although the funds do not have any official connections to the Democratic Party, the funds' managers, Daniel de Faro Adamson and Joseph J. Andrew (a former Democratic national chairman) plan to meet with finance chiefs of Democratic political campaigns and union pension funds to ask them to become Blue fund investors.
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Other big names in the Blue's large-cap fund top-25 holdings: Apple, Google, CBS (shocking! but true!) Costco, Nike and Starbucks. The fund's entire portfolio as of September 2006 also included The Gap, retailer Bed Bath & Beyond, homebuilder KB Homes, and The New York Times Company.
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Something we haven't heard about before that you may be seeing on a BlackBerry in the near future? Wireless Media Server. While details are still pretty minimal, BGR has posted up some leaked slides, one of which shows off BlackBerry Wireless Media Sync. The feature looks to allow you to share your media (music, photos, videos, podcasts and voice notes) with computers, game systems and more. The process will work over Wifi and you'll have a few options to set on your device, but this is something that looks to be very cool. Just think about having all your videos and photos on your device and being able to play them on other devices whenever, wherever.
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Superfly_FR Jan 26, 2012 at 11:03 am
Hummmm ... smells like DLNA !
... and I like it !
sk8er_tor Jan 26, 2012 at 11:13 am
Great! Looking forward to it!
The BGR slides also show the new PlayBook as being a 7" device with 1.5 GHz dual core processor, NFC, HSPA+.
southlander Jan 26, 2012 at 11:06 am
Nice feature.
Detective M Downs Jan 26, 2012 at 11:07 am
Dedicated BBM convenience key... interesting!
WillieLee Jan 26, 2012 at 11:13 am
Why hasn't RIM stopped these leaks? It's damaging to the company.
Searzy Jan 26, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Completely agree.
Apple is like'lockedown'.
I find RIM has too many "conferences". The fewer offered, the greater the importance will be.
Like "field of dreams" ;P
hispanola Jan 26, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Agreed. Kills a lot of potential buzz as people already know what to look forward to being released.
cbcastle Jan 26, 2012 at 11:15 am
Can't wait for this... It's something I've always thought a smartphone needed, especially when stats show that most pics / movies taken on a smartphone never make it to a pc for viewing. This would've been huge in my house this christmas with allthe family visiting from out of town...
FrankDLR1972 Jan 26, 2012 at 11:26 am
You would think BGR should be citing news from Crackberry. Instead, they're the ones breaking most of the news.
auditman Jan 26, 2012 at 11:31 am
pretty cool.
StormMan1988 Jan 26, 2012 at 11:34 am
Do you think that this will allow playbook users to access a network drive on the same wifi network and stream compatible videos to the playbook over wifi? If so this would be awesome
MikeFromCanada Jan 26, 2012 at 11:41 am
To be honest, that sounds exactly like what this will allow us to do! Looking forward to it. Will certainly help those who bought the 16GB Playbook and have access to their media files. I have a 32GB and I use Orb currently, but that interface can be very slow and laggy.
fanatical Jan 26, 2012 at 11:56 am
I certainly hope so. Using my phone/playbook as a media server would be handy, but having my playbook seamlessly connect to the GB's of music, pics and video already shared on my Windows Media Center would be amazing. If it's a full DLNA implementation it should be possible, hopefully we see it in 2.0 *crosses fingers*
Barefoot_Kevin Jan 26, 2012 at 4:56 pm
This is cool. It is like what I am able to do with 500GB Seagate wireless HD.
2high4u Jan 26, 2012 at 11:47 am
Pretty interesting. This is pretty much like cloud from Apple. This feature might be awesome to sync all my songs to my blackberry and playbook !!!
Angelo_Campher Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16 pm
This is nothing like iCloud but more like AirPlay. Although AirPlay is much more comprehensive.
I'm assuming the handset becomes the server/content provider here and it is unable of playing a video from let's say your PlayBook or PC.
A little disappointed that the PlayBook 3G and all the OS 7 devices still haven't adopted Bluetooth 3 + HS. It would have done wonders for the Bridge connection.
gramz007 Jan 26, 2012 at 12:09 pm
What a Nice surprise :) Something I would use all the time. This makes me happy
andrewmcwhirter Jan 26, 2012 at 12:13 pm
GREAT feature. I want this now!
Can they make it DLNA and somemore (since DLNA alone suck!)
mpatchez Jan 26, 2012 at 12:59 pm
hmmm, this sounds pretty great, but, I think there is a reason we have not heard about this before. I dont think BGR can even be taken seriously theses days and is NOT a reliable source of BlackBerry news. With that being said I'd like to take another look at that 4th slide in their series. Hmmm, why would anyone, including someone trying to spread rumors, use a leaked device picture from like a year ago? There are actual published photos now and real devices. That slide makes this seem a bit odd to me. I'm not even gonna take this as a grain of salt, because its rumors that set us up for disappointment. Personally, I'm happy with my 64GB PlayBook. I look forward to all the greatness that is BlackBerry, and wouldnt mind a little surprise
BBPandy Jan 26, 2012 at 1:03 pm
yea & if you go to slide 18, you see them talking about the yet to be launched Bold 9790 & Curve 9380 (both of which have already been released)
IF this is real, it's a really old internal slide. BGR's "exclusive" inside contacts at RIM seem to be lower level non-loyal RIM employees.
whenever Jan 26, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Hahaha - thats what I found - I Posted this on Nov 21, 2011 you can see the link to the forum item below my quote. The media server is there and you can enable it with shortcut me and you can turn it off be simply toggling your wifi network off and on
You can see the forum post if you search crackberr with the title in qotes below
"ShortCutMe surprise bonus app on Bold 9900 with OS 18.104.22.1680".
When browsing the shortcutme list of apps I found one I did not recognize "MediaServer". Being a curious fellow, I choose it and lauched it using the SCM shortcut. Nothing opened but an little icon that looks like a monitor symbol appeared up by the Battery meter on the home screen.
Could not find anythin about by searching the web, but my running apps program showed me it was a rim app.
On a hunch, I went to my media program on my computer (Logitech media server(Squeezebox) with UPnP turned on) that would find available music servers and there it was my little BB had become a music server that I could stream from. Works perfectly
Must a be a "to be released" app, when I connected to it from my computer my blackberry asked if i wanted to allow the connection and that I could change my settings from the media options. The options are not there and the only way I can turn off the media server is by rebooting, but it may still be handy
lifeinbmajor Jan 26, 2012 at 1:54 pm
For a company that is supposedly 'dead in the water' by many analysts, they seem to be further developing their ecosystem as they move to a more mobile software oriented company.
Anyhow, Go RIM - lets just hope this implementation is sooner rather than later
1magine Jan 26, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Media Server? They don't even have theme studio ready to go.
PostMortem Jan 26, 2012 at 4:14 pm
These posts today are from BGR? No thanks! If it happens I will be glad, but I'm not going to get excited or worked up over them.
CDM76 Jan 26, 2012 at 10:08 pm
As soon as I read "BGR has posted" I stopped reading .....


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BROWN, Wilma Jean, 70, homemaker, died Sunday. Services 1 p.m. Thursday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Bradley Funeral Service of Muskogee.
DICKMANN, Bob, 87, co-owner of Dickmann Glass, died Sunday. Services 11:30 a.m. today, Fosters' Ivory Chapel, Foster-Petering Funeral Home.
DUNN, Dora "Nina," 84, homemaker, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Keefeton Trinity Baptist Church, Foster-Petering Funeral Home.
EVANS, Kenneth Louis, 77, retired from U.S. Air Force, died Saturday. Services 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Fosters' Ivory Chapel, Foster-Petering Funeral Home.
JENNINGS, Louis John, 67, died Thursday. Service pending, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home.
McCULLON, Virginia, 93, died Saturday. Service pending, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home.
MORRIS, Mary Jane, 81, died Sunday. Service 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Memorial Park Mausoleum, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Service.
SHAW, Rocky D., 28, USAF, died Saturday. Services 11:30 a.m. Friday, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Bradley Funeral Service of Fort Gibson.
SMITH, Frances, 73, cook, died Sunday. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, East Shawnee Church of God, Muskogee, Millsap Funeral Service, Fort Gibson.
BRAGGS — McLAUGHLIN, Betty Joe, 87, homemaker, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, South Bethel Cemetery, Braggs, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home, Muskogee.
CHECOTAH — WILSON, Donnah Sue, 72, retired motor vehicle operator/Tinker Air Force Base, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Hampton Memorial Chapel, Checotah, Hampton Mortuary, Checotah.
EUFAULA — TRUMAN, Mildred Ruth, 86, homemaker, died Monday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, Kelley Memorial Chapel, Hunn Black and Merritt Funeral Home and Crematory.
FORT GIBSON — KING, Rena (Valandry), 71, realty officer, died Friday. Service 11 a.m. Friday, Grace Episcopal Church, Muskogee, Millsap Funeral Service.
GORE — SUMMERS, Charles, 97, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Feb. 15, Round Mountain Cemetery, Vian, Millsap Funeral Service, Webbers Falls.
OKAY — CHILDRESS, Weldon H., 79, teacher, died Friday. Service 10 a.m. Friday, Lighthouse Free Will Baptist Church, Haskell, Wright Funeral Home, Coweta.
PARK HILL — CLARK, Sharron J., 65, teacher, died Saturday. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, Tallahassee Church, Okmulgee, Hart Funeral Home of Tahlequah.
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San Francisco Opera on KQED 9
Get your front row seat at one of the leading opera companies in the world! Shot in brilliant HD, the fourth season of this acclaimed series, co-produced by KQED and San Francisco Opera, brings you four spectacular productions performed by world-class singers. Hosted by celebrated mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. Learn more about the productions on sfopera.com
Support for Opera on KQED is provided by a generous gift from Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem.
Read an Interview with David Gockley, general director of the San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera's Porgy and Bess
Premieres Thu, Sep 12, 2013 - 8pm on KQED 9
George and Ira Gershwin's quintessentially American masterpiece features their most beloved songs, including "Summertime." Francesca Zambello's production, with Eric Owens and Laquita Mitchell in the title roles, brings to life the turbulent story of love found and lost.
San Francisco Opera's Aida
Premieres Thu, Sep 19, 2013 - 8pm on KQED 9
Verdi's masterpiece receives the grand-opera treatment in a production designed by the fashion icon Zandra Rhodes. San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts an all-star cast featuring Italian soprano Micaela Carosi as Aida, a signature role that she has sung around the world to great acclaim.
San Francisco Opera's Boris Godunov
Premieres Thu, Sep 26, 2013 - 8pm on KQED 9
World-renowned bass Samuel Ramey sings his signature role as the Russian Czar haunted by a horrible act from his past. Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece, presented here in its original seven-scene version, is a theatrical experience of searing intensity.
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Premieres Thu, Oct 3, 2013 - 8pm on KQED 9
Renée Fleming, one of the most acclaimed artists of our time, sings the title role of Donizetti's bel canto masterpiece — the notorious femme fatale from Renaissance Italy, renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power.
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Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan spoke glowingly about how new technologies – from bigger screens to video-on-demand services – are changing television when he appeared at the Consumer Electronics Show today. He joined Sony president and CEO Kazuo Hirai's keynote address, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
"When I grew up, TV series were framed and cut to a smaller screen size, which led to a lot of talking heads," said Gilligan, who also name-checked Sony's immersive – though still in-development – head-mounted display. "With giant, wide TVs, you get to frame and emulate John Ford or Sergio Leone and, in the case of Breaking Bad, you can place characters in an endless expanse of Mexico prairie which gets to look very painterly and cinematic. That's a wonderful development."
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Gilligan's excitement extended to the aesthetic freedom offered by smaller, digital mini-cameras, which were used on Breaking Bad to great effect. With Sony planning to launch its own cloud-based TV service in the next year, Gilligan discussed how such services have changed both viewing habits and TV writers' approaches to storytelling.
"When I started out on shows like The X-Files, the conventional wisdom was that serialized storytelling was to be avoided, that one episode completes the story," he said. "SVOD [subscription video on demand] allows a hyper-serialized form of storytelling and gives people the freedom to access content when they feel like it."
As he proved with Breaking Bad's potent blend of cinematic camerawork and intense storytelling, Gilligan is already way ahead of this curve. Next up for him: Battle Creek, a detective series he penned for CBS back in 2002 that's been revived and is set to air on the network next fall, and Better Call Saul, a Breaking Bad spinoff centered around Bob Odenkirk's hilariously shady criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman.
Gilligan has said that Saul will be a prequel to Breaking Bad, and there will be some overlap with the characters who were involved in the saga of Walter White – including possible cameos from Jonathan Banks' Mike Ehrmantraut, or even Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman. "It will be Saul Goodman's world; it won't be Walter White's, and it will have a different feel, even though there will be some overlap on the venn diagram that exists between Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul," Gilligan said. "But it will have to succeed on its own terms as its own show. If it doesn't, it won't be satisfying, and satisfaction is the key word. We want to satisfy."
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Apple Walnut Crumble
Heat oven to 170C.
Peel and chop the apples and soak them in the lemon juice
Put all the dry ingredients into a food processor and blast them for ten seconds.
Add the melted butter and blast again until the mixture is a rough crumble.
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Creatinine is the byproduct of muscle in body and normally it should be filtered out by kidneys. However, when kidneys can not work adequately, dangerous levels of toxins will build up in body. With progressive renal function decline, the creatinine level will increasing ceaselessly. If it reaches a high level(generally 5mg/dl), dialysis will have to be required to remove wastes from body.
However, if effective and timely treatment is adopted, the disease will stop progressing and creatinine level will not increase. If so, dialysis will be avoided completely. In clinic, herbal medicine has showed an extraordinary function in lowering creatine level.
We all know that no matter what disease you have, if you can find its root cause and then treat its root cause primarily, the symptoms of the disease will disappear naturally. So let's see what is the causes of high creatinine firstly.
Each kidney contains 1 million nephrons. In right condition, these nephrons can filter blood to remove the metabolic wastes and excessive fluids from body. However, some conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, infection, etc can impair these nephrons and make them lose the normal structure and function. Once the nephrons are damaged, they will lose the normal filtering ability, thus resulting in high creatinine. Therefore, to lower creatinine level, the treatment goal should be restoring the impaired nephrons and recovering renal function. Herbal medicine can lower creatinine level in the following ways.
Herbal medicine mainly include plants from the nature and each prescription consists of various types of herbs in certain dose.
In repairing impaired nephrons, herbal medicine can provide rich micronutrients for self-renewing of the kidney tissues and cells. Also it can speed up the replication of the renal functional cells to promote renal function recovery.
Additionally, herbal medicine can dilate renal arteries to increase renal blood perfusion. Thereby, it can promote the excretion of creatinine.
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Lexington, Virginia Cuts Symbolic Ties with Confederacy
There are other ways to show state pride and heritage.
Last week, I suggested that Gov. Rick Perry's politics incline favorably toward the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
This week brings interesting news on a related front: Lexington, Va.—home of Virginia Military Institute as well as Washington and Lee University—will no longer fly the Stars 'n' Bars on city-owned flagpoles.
Some Virginians, of course, are livid. [Read: Why Romney Could Still Win in the Conservative South]
The Associated Press reports:
Before the rally, ordinance opponents rallied in the city park, then marched to the hearing under a parade of Confederate flags.
"I am a firm believer in the freedom to express our individual rights, which include flying the flag that we decide to fly," said Philip Way, a Civil War re-enactor dressed in a Confederate wool uniform despite the summer temperatures. "That's freedom to me."
Mimi Knight, watching from a wrought iron fence as the flags passed, said she thought the city ordinance seemed too restrictive ...
"These are the things that make Lexington what it is," said Knight, who didn't participate in the rally. "The Confederate flag is part of our heritage."
Granted, I'm not a native Southerner. Still, I don't get this. Robert E. Lee didn't choose slavery over the Union, we're frequently told by sympathizers; he chose Virginia over the Union. Okay, fine. Taking pride in a state as lovely and rich in history as Virginia is a good and defensible thing. [Vote: Has Martin Luther King's Dream Been Realized?]
But Lexington's new ordinance specifically allows the state flag of Virginia to fly alongside the U.S. flag. If it's truly about "heritage, not hate," why isn't that enough?
What need does Virginia have for Dixie?
- Read about the Texas showdown between Ron Paul and Rick Perry
- Read Jessica Rettig: Romney May Be Cutting Losses in South Carolina 'Snub'
- Read Jamie Stiehm: What Obama Can Learn at the Martin Luther King Memorial


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Secretary Rice's "Foundation for History's Judgment"
by Charles Lemos, Sun Dec 28, 2008 at 06:52:33 PM EST
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave an end-of-term interview this morning to Rita Braver of CBS Sunday Morning. There's a lot to chew on given the far-reaching nature of the interview that covered the image of the US abroad, the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Sino-American relationship, North Korea and the Six-Party Talks, AIDS relief in Africa, the rise of authoritarianism in Russia and more. But early in the interview is a very telling exchange:
QUESTION: Looking at the big picture of what's the whole foreign policy of this Administration - you come out of the academic tradition so I think it's fair to ask, what kind of grade do you give yourself and this Administration on foreign policy?
SECRETARY RICE: Oh, I don't know. It depends on the subject. I'm sure that there are some that deserve an A-plus and some that deserve a lot less. But what I think this Administration has done is, in the most complicated circumstances after September 11th, to put the country on a course where we have built a different foundation for a different kind of Middle East, where Saddam Hussein is out of power, where that will bring -- where there's an Iraq that is multi-ethnic and multi-confessional democracy and a friend of the United States, rather than an Iraq that is invading its neighbors and using weapons of mass destruction and seeking weapons of mass destruction. We've left a lot of good foundations.
QUESTION: You know, you say that, but the Pew Global Attitudes Project released a new report very recently. On the very first page it says, "The U.S. image abroad is suffering almost everywhere." The most recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows that only 26 percent of Americans approve of the President's foreign policy. It has to be more than just a perception problem.
SECRETARY RICE: No. Rita, first of all, it depends on where you're talking about. In two of the most populous countries, China and India, the United States is not just well regarded for its policies, but well regarded. And -
QUESTION: This report says the only place the U.S. is really - you know, people are happy about the U.S. is in some of the southern African countries, but --
SECRETARY RICE: Well, that's no small fact either, that in Africa, the policies of AIDS relief and so forth have been so regarded. But you know, this isn't a popularity contest. I'm sorry, it isn't. What the Administration is responsible to do is to make good choices about Americans' interests and values in the long run, not for today's headlines, but for history's judgment.
And I am quite certain that when the final chapters are written and it's clear that Saddam Hussein's Iraq is gone in favor of an Iraq that is favorable to the future of the Middle East, when the history is written of a U.S.-China relationship that is better than it's ever been, an India relationship that is deeper and better than it's ever been, a relationship with Brazil and other countries of the left of Latin America better than it's ever been, a relationship that has given an umbrella to anti-terrorist activities so that this country is not yet safe, but clearly much, much safer. When one looks at what we've been able to do in terms of changing the conversation in the Middle East about democracy and values, this Administration will be judged well, and I'll wait for history's judgment and not today's headlines.
QUESTION: So you think that people are just short-sighted and they - that the pain that maybe we're going through now because of what's still going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places, is causing people to say, look, you know, we just don't think this Administration has done a very good job. I mean --
SECRETARY RICE: Rita, it's not a popularity contest. It is to lay a foundation for where this will all come out. Do you really think that in 1947 or 1948 or 1949, anybody thought we were going to win the Cold War, flat out, that Germany would unify on Western terms, that the Soviet Union would collapse, that Eastern Europe would be fully integrated, and that this President would welcome nine countries into NATO that are former captive nations? I know that your business is to report today's headlines, and I respect that, but my business is to lay a foundation for history's judgment.
Well she was always a popular professor winning the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and she was an easy-grader at Stanford. Not sure if these two are correlated, but to be fair Professor Rice was a remarkable and engaging professor. It would be hard to describe her tenure as Secretary of State in such terms.
I won't dispute that there have been diplomatic successes for the Bush Administration. There clearly have been. What we are doing in Mindanao is what we should be doing Afghanistan on a grander scale. Since coming to office, the Bush Administration tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to Africa and recently pushed to double it to nearly $9 billion. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a bright spot providing anti-retrovirals to 800,000 across Africa. But here again, the Bush Administration's insistence on abstinence programs have limited PEPFAR's reach and effectiveness. Fully two-thirds of the money for the prevention of the sexual spread of HIV goes to abstinence programs. One critic called it "Save the Virgins." Another success was the US-India Nuclear Agreement which provides US assistance to India's civilian nuclear energy program and expands US-India cooperation in energy and satellite technology. The agreement ends a 30 year ban on nuclear trade with India but critics suggest that the deal lacks "sufficient safeguards to prevent New Delhi from continuing to produce nuclear weapons." It seems many of the Administration's foreign policy successes warrant an incomplete grade. But it is the failures that are proving so costly.
Iraq, on one level is a success (Hussein is gone), but at what cost? Containment was working even if it exacted a horrible price on a helpless population but the US-led invasion can hardly be claimed as improving the lot of Iraqi lives with over 4 million displaced or exile and the dead numbering over 100,000. Nor it is clear that Iraq's political security is ensured at this point. The country may yet cease to exist.
China is likely satisfied with the Sino-American relationship because we have largely been too distracted elsewhere to pay them much heed nor have we been excessively critical of the Chinese role in propping up some of the world's most barbaric regimes from Myanmar to Sudan and Zimbabwe. If the measure of success is that Chinese have had few complaints, then yes, Sino-American relations generally enjoyed a good moment and really more due to Treasury Secretary Paulson who has spend the last two years smooching with our generous benefactors in Beijing making sure our funds aren't cut off. From the US perspective, we are now more dependent on China than they are on us. Not sure if that's a good thing.
And since the onset of the global recession, Sino-American friction is on the rise. The head of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus (D-MT), is planning to introduce legislation raising tariffs on dumped imports from China. Furthermore, American companies are preparing trade complaints that could lead to increased tariffs. And as the New York Times notes just today "American businesses, unions and lawmakers are already gearing up to force Mr. Obama's hand. Unions and lawmakers plan to push measures to force China to raise the value of its currency." But from my perspective the damning part is that under Bush, China has become our largest lender now holding 10% of our nearly $11 trillion dollar national debt. I fail to see how this has enhanced our national security.
It's also not clear to me how the US relationship with Latin America can be described as "better than it's ever been." President Bush was all but ignored at his diplomatic farewell at the Lima APEC conference and the United States wasn't even invited as an observer to the recent Bahia Grupo de Rio conference. And it isn't as if Latin American leaders aren't critical of the United States. Never mind Chavez, Correa, Morales or Ortega. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva back in September as the global financial crisis gained steam noted emerging economies had done their best to have "good fiscal policy" and "can't be turned into victims of the casino erected by the American economy" adding that "it's not fair for Latin American, African and Asian countries to pay for the irresponsibility of sectors of the American financial system." And to top it off at the moment, we don't have an ambassador in La Paz or Caracas. Even Colombia views the US with some suspicion declining to countenance a military base on Colombian soil. Increasingly, Latin America has rejected what the US has been preaching.
On Afghanistan, there has been nothing short of a dereliction of duty. Our unwillingness to commit the sufficient number of ground troops and the dollars to rebuild the country's infrastructure has had dire results. In a few short years, Karzai has gone from being the President of Afghanistan to being the Mayor of Kabul. The latest figures from the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, taken a month ago, suggest that about 750 civilians have been killed by NATO forces this year. Most were killed in air strikes. We are trying to fight the Afghan war on the cheap and in the process not only bombing a country of rubble into further rubble, we are also in danger of turning the population of Afghanistan wholly against us. We are fighting this war largely from the air, after all, the Taliban doesn't have a air force. We do this in part because we want to minimize our own level of casualties. But it's wrong both morally and tactically. We also need to fight this war with roads, schools and clinics. We need to rebuild this country because it is the morally right thing to do. But this aspect of American diplomacy is largely absent outside Kabul and perhaps Kandahar. If we succeed in Afghanistan, it will because of Obama, not because of Bush.
That Pakistan is a failed state shouldn't be pinned on the Bush Administration but as Secretary Rice notes in the interview "part of the problem there is that nobody has been able to deal with the sanctuary across the border in that ungoverned part of Pakistan. And this is where the links between Pakistan and Afghanistan are very important. The Pakistanis have got to get a better handle on what's going on in the northwest frontier, because that is the place from which the Taliban is resurgent." That nobody includes the Bush Administration.
On Russia, the Secretary's area of expertise, she is disappointed that " Russia's internal development has turned a more authoritarian way, which means that I think the hope for confluence of values, not just of interests, doesn't seem to be coming into place. But we did the right thing to make that path open to Russia. And I still believe, you know, that that Russia, a Russia that is more oriented toward the rule of law, greater freedom for its people, is - it's not a foregone conclusion that that Russia can't come back into being, because Russians have come to expect a different life than they expected in the Soviet Union. They expect to travel. They expect to have consumer goods. They expect to have their government deliver for them. And ultimately, Russia's leaders can't do that from a position of isolation." Perhaps not but the US under Bush didn't have a Russian policy, it had a Putin policy that was effectively let's not anger Vladimir because we need his cooperation on North Korea and Iran. Telling in the Bush Administration's approach was cutting the budget for Freedom Support Act from $148 million to $73 million. Strengthening democracy, governance, and a free media in Russia all but disappeared from the Administration's rhetoric and in budget.
And then there are issues from Iran to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to North Korea where we find ourselves in a weaker position than we found ourselves in 2001 largely because US policy under Bush had one hallmark, it was inconsistent. In sum if it was Secretary Rice's "business is to lay a foundation for history's judgment," it's hard not to give her and the Bush Administration a failing grade even at this early date because the edifice constructed looks awfully wobbly.


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