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Jarod Greene doesn't know anything about love, but that didn't stop him from taking an IT intern from the FBI up against the wall in a moment of confusion and passion. It certainly didn't keep him from asking the wide-eyed intern to be his kept lover. And it's not like Chris Wilkinson's job or life was going anywhere. Why wouldn't he want to be the kept man of the most powerful mob boss in Los Angeles? But Chris Wilkinson is more than he appears, and so is Jarod Greene.
In the City of Angels, where every foundation is cemented in lies, two men whose first words to each other were false are about to find out how far they'll go to discover the truth—because nothing true comes without a price to be paid in blood, and that's especially true if you're the Godfather's lover.
CHRIS stood in front of the window, watching as yet another one of his friends left their home. Tim turned back once to look up at him, waving his small hand, smiling widely before getting into the car with the couple who had just adopted him. By the time Chris started to wave back, the car was already halfway down the driveway, moving swiftly past the gates. Chris suddenly felt the urge to run and catch up with the vehicle. He needed to say goodbye to Tim, one more time, one last time. Because for all the promises of those who left, those who promised to come back and visit… they never did in the end. And if this was possibly the last time Chris would see him, he needed Tim to know the latter was the younger brother he never had.
Chris ran out of the bedroom he had shared with Tim, skidding along the corridor, running down the wooden stairs, opening the door to continue running down the walkway to the main gates. The car was no longer in sight, but Chris kept on running and running. His lungs felt like they were going to burst, and his leg muscles ached like hell, but he kept on running and running, only stopping when he reached the gates. His sweaty palms grabbed the metal railings as he collapsed onto the ground. Chris felt wetness slip down his cheeks, not realizing he was crying. How could he cry if his heart was numb?
Chris didn't know how long he sat on the hard ground. His tears had dried up and his body was cold from the blustery wind. Not until he felt a warm hand on his shoulder did he notice that someone had been with him for awhile. He looked up to find Father Marcus squatting next to him, eyes filled with sympathy and understanding.
"He will be back, Chris," Father Marcus said quietly.
"No he won't, Father." Chris coughed, his voice a little hoarse. "And are priests supposed to lie?"
"I'm not lying," Father Marcus said, smiling his kind smile. "There is always hope that they will come back to visit us."
"They never come back, Father. Not Amy, Lucas, Dave, and now Tim…. No one comes back."
"Oh, Chris," Father Marcus said sadly before enfolding Chris into his arms. "One day, someone will come for you."
"Don't bullshit me, Father," Chris said.
"And what did I say about using profanities?" Father Marcus arched his eyebrow.
"Don't use them unless really necessary and not until I'm at least twelve," Chris repeated drily. That was one thing he liked about Father Marcus. The man wasn't stuffy like any other priests he had known. Not that he knew many.
"And are you twelve, Chris?"
"I will be in a year," Chris said stubbornly.
"Then wait a year more. It won't kill you," Father Marcus teased.
"I will still be here a year from now, won't I, Father?" Chris said knowingly.
"Oh, Chris—"
"You don't have to be sad for me…. I know no one wants me. They always pick someone else to go home with. I'm not young like Amy or cute like Tim or smart like—"
"You are special, Chris. And one day someone will see that. Trust me," Father Marcus said firmly. "One day you will have your own family."
Chris shrugged. He knew he would never leave the orphanage, not until he was able to take care of himself in the eyes of the law. There was something wrong with him that made people not want him. Maybe it was the sadness he had always felt, deep inside.
Chris started to pretend from that very day. His small, shy smile became wider, appearing more frequently. He talked more and made new friends. He pretended to be happy, even when he didn't feel that way inside. It was only Father Marcus who knew Chris was pretending. He looked sad every time he watched Chris try so hard to be someone else.
But acting happy still did not make Chris a choice candidate for adoption into a loving family. When another childless couple made their visit to the orphanage, they picked Suzie instead, with her golden curls and bright, cheery smile.
"Just be yourself, Chris," Father Marcus had said, patting him consolingly on the back. He walked away without hearing Chris's reply.
"What if being myself isn't good enough?" Chris half-whispered into thin air.
JAROD walked toward the open coffin to pay his last respects. He was wearing his best suit, the one his mother had bought for him, the one that his mother loved because she said it brought out the beautiful color of his eyes. As he looked into the serene face that greeted him from inside the coffin, he wondered whether his mother could still see him now, with her eyes closed like that. He felt a sob trying to escape from his chest and breathed in deeply before it did. His father had told him once that real men did not cry.
"Your mother is dead, Jarod," his father had told him, voice devoid of any emotion.
"W-what?" Jarod had whimpered out, half in shock and denial.
"Didn't you hear me? She is dead. She lasted longer than I expected her to, anyway. She was too weak for this world. At least she gave me you before she died."
Jarod had stood still as the news of his mother's death swamped him with emotions. He looked at his father, who looked more annoyed than anything at his wife's death. And suddenly he wanted to punch the half sneer off his father's face. But he didn't. He was too smart for that. Instead he clenched his fists and asked, "How?"
"Slit her wrists," his father replied brutally, not caring that he was saying this to his young son. "Weak, I tell you. You have to be stronger than that to survive in this world."
Jarod didn't know exactly why his parents married, and even if they did so out of love, the love had run out by the time Jarod came into the world. His mother had loved him with all her heart, tried to shelter him from the cruel world his father ruled. His father had hated that, hated her. And Jarod had always been between them. The two people he was supposed to love most in the world. Well, at least half of that was true. It stopped being true when he saw his father beat his mother bruised and blue for disobeying him. Jarod later found out that it was not the first time it had happened. It was certainly not the last, and all the abuse, physically, verbally, and mentally, that his father had thrown at her had finally reached its limit, resulting in her death.
Jarod was so angry with his father right then, but what dominated that emotion was the despair that the last person who loved him had died. Without realizing it, Jarod began to cry. His father yelled at him before striding toward him, smacking him hard in the face, shaking him like a pliant doll.
"Grown men don't fucking cry, Jarod! You remember that! No fucking Greene man ever cried. And you better not start that shit. You understand me, son? You stop fucking crying right now! Or are you weak, boy? Are you weak, just like your fucking bitch of a mother?" His father's saliva landed on his face as he towered over Jarod. "You stop crying. You hear me, boy? Stop fucking crying!"
Jarod's tears had stopped right then. He looked his father in the eye and nodded. One day his father would pay for all the things he had done to Jarod's mother. One day the man would pay for causing her death. Jarod kept quiet, biting his tongue on the harsh words that wanted to escape his mouth. Instead he willed back his tears and said, "May I go now, father?"
Ten-year-old Jarod never cried again. He didn't cry as he looked at his mother's stiff body lying on the creamy white satin sheets of the box that held her. He didn't cry as he watched his mother's coffin being lowered into the ground, six feet under. He didn't cry. Not that day. Or any day after that.
After all, real men didn't cry.
Chapter 1
JAROD held the sniveling man in a tight, punishing grip around his neck, against the brick wall. "Now, what did I tell you about betraying me, Carlos?" The man whimpered an answer. Jarod pulled him forward before slamming him hard into the wall again. "What did I fucking tell you, Carlos, or did you forget?" Jarod's voice went a notch quieter. His men around him shifted uncomfortably. They knew that with Jarod, louder was better. Screaming would have meant you had a chance to live. But when Jarod's voice became quiet like that, something pretty bad was about to happen. Jarod was like a cobra about to strike, and his men were grateful they were not the target of those steel-grey, flinty eyes.
Jarod smelled something acrid in the air and looked at the wet spot forming on the man's pants. "Fucking bitch. You better not get any of that pee on me. Or I'll make sure you die a painful death." The man started to shake harder, his eyes wide with fear. "You should have known not to fuck with me, Carlos. My turf, my rules. And you knew that. Now why would you want to screw with that, huh? Just for more money. Is that worth your life? Or any of the—"
Jarod heard the back door to the club slam open and then shut as a man stumbled out into the open air. He paused, signaling to his men to bring the man forward. It would be just his rotten luck to have to deal with a potential witness for the FBI. Not that he couldn't have settled it with bribery or death threats. But some wouldn't listen. And Jarod preferred to keep his hands clean these days. Killing people was not on top of his to-do list as a mafia boss.
His men dragged the man forward into the dim light, and Jarod was able to see his face. Besides being obviously drunk, or on his way to it, the man was just his type. Smaller than him, with an attractive body and an equally gorgeous face. Large, glazed, doe-brown eyes gazed at him curiously, accompanied by a lush, pink mouth that begged to be fucked. Jarod's cock twitched in his pants. He sighed, knowing his business with Carlos was over. He had a new matter to attend to now.
"Deal with Carlos," Jarod directed his men, his eyes not leaving Chris.
"What about him, boss?" Joe asked, his eyes on the inebriated man whose arm he held.
"Leave him to me," Jarod said, reaching out to catch the man as he started to fall, face first onto the ground, when his men released him.
"We'll be taking Carlos then, boss," Mike said, waiting for Jarod's confirmation.
Jarod waved his free hand and waited for his men to leave. But Mike was still there, probably smirking. "Leave, Mike. And you better not be smirking."
Mike snorted. "He's just your type, ain't he, boss." It wasn't a question. Mike knew the man was exactly Jarod's type.
"Are you going to leave, or do you want to watch me fuck him through this wall? Because I'm fine with that." Jarod made a move to unzip his pants, chuckling when he heard Mike's footsteps fade away quickly into the distance.
"Y-you really gonna f-fuck me through the wall?" The voice came out slurred, but Jarod could see the man's eyes were not so glazed over now.
"Do you want me to?" Jarod asked instead as he leaned forward to taste the lips that had tempted him on sight. He licked the lower lip for a few seconds, making the man moan and writhe against him. "I haven't even kissed you yet," Jarod pointed out, laughing.
"Kiss me," the man said, biting on his lower lip seductively.
Jarod parted the lips, shiny with his saliva, pushing his tongue in, taking his time to explore the inside of the warm, wet cavity. The man tasted of beer with a slight hint of mint. There was no lingering taste of cigarettes, which was good because Jarod absolutely hated the smell and taste of men who smoked. But not enough not to fuck them if they were as cute as the one he held in his arms right now.
The man moaned louder as Jarod ground his throbbing dick against the man's hardening one. Jarod released the man's lips, only to suck on the patch of skin exposed above his collar.
"Fuck me… please, fuck me," the man pleaded as he bumped his hips forward.
Jarod gritted his teeth, wondering what was it about this man that made him lose control so fast. He searched his pockets for the sachets of lube and condom foil packets he knew would be there. Jarod was never a Boy Scout, but he was always prepared. He couldn't help it if he had a high libido.
"If you can stand by yourself, against the wall, then I will fuck you," Jarod said. He had a high libido, but he didn't fuck men who were too drunk to appreciate how large his cock was.
"I'm not that drunk, you know," the man said, releasing the arms that had latched on to Jarod's neck before stepping back from him, a breath away.
Jarod could see the outline of the man's hard penis stretching the pair of pants he was wearing. "Fuck, but you better want this."
"Oh, I want it," the man said as he licked his lips before palming his own cock in a slow, circling motion.
Jarod's penis grew even bigger, making it uncomfortable to be constrained in the pants that suddenly felt too damn tight. Unzipping, Jarod took his hard, pulsing cock out of his pants and the black briefs he wore. He tore the foil wrapper open with his teeth before smoothing the condom down his cock. Tearing open one sachet of lube, he squeezed the slick liquid on his swollen length before spreading it around.
The man reached for the sachet of lube in Jarod's hand even as his own hand moved to unzip his pants. Jarod watched as the man's exposed cock bobbed in the air. The man's pants and briefs were now around his knees as he inserted his lubed fingers into his hole. Jarod's throat went dry at the sight of the man arching his neck in pleasure as his penis continued to grow harder, straining toward his stomach.
"Fuck." Jarod pushed the man's pants all the way down to his ankles. "Lift your legs up a bit, baby, come on, need to get these pants off," Jarod coaxed. He lifted the man's legs, wrapping them around his waist before cupping the man's taut ass. "Can't wait… hurry," Jarod groaned. The man just stared at him, inserting another finger, stretching himself out. When the man nodded slightly, Jarod pushed his thick shaft into the tight, warm hole.
The man smacked him hard in the chest. "Slow down," he gritted out.
"Sorry," Jarod managed to mutter. He moved another inch into the channel and was rewarded by a needy moan from the man. Jarod moved in deeper again, letting his cock slide over the bundle of nerves.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck," the man cursed as Jarod thrust into him, again and again, faster and faster. His hands were now clawing at Jarod's back and would have left marks if not for the jacket Jarod was wearing.
The man made a keening sound, his hole clenching around Jarod's rigid shaft as he came, spilling his seed in hot, thick spurts. Jarod's balls tightened before he pumped out his release into the man, grunting loudly.
Jarod became aware of his surroundings and what he had done with a virtual stranger a few moments after. He hadn't lost control of his libido like that since he was a teenager. The man's sweaty forehead was resting on Jarod's shoulder, his legs now wrapped around Jarod's hips. His hands hung loosely around Jarod's neck. With the heavy weight of the pliant man in his arms, Jarod wondered how he could still stand, especially after an orgasm that made his knees weak. He shifted, letting his limp penis slide out of the man, who whimpered softly when it did. The man lifted his head, his face flushed from spent arousal, lips swollen red, and Jarod felt the urge to fuck him into the wall again. Jarod removed the man's legs from his waist before he was tempted to do so, allowing the man to adjust his bearings before taking his arms away from the man's waist.
"You—" Jarod coughed, clearing his rough voice. "Okay?"
The man nodded feebly in response. Before Jarod could ask for the man's name, he could hear one of his men clearing his throat a few feet away. It was probably Mike, indicating to him his men had waited long enough. Only Mike had the boldness to do that. Then again, Mike had known him from childhood, before he became the Godfather of Los Angeles. Or so Mike had named him.
Jarod took the man's flaccid shaft, still sticky from his release, and placed it inside his briefs. He glanced at the silent man who continued to stare at him, still naked from the waist down. The sight was too tempting. Jarod inwardly groaned when his cock twitched. Bending on one knee, he pulled up the man's briefs together with his pants, zipping it close in one quick movement.
"Boss, we have to leave!" Mike shouted.
"I will be right there!" Jarod growled back. "Fuck," Jarod muttered under his breath. He unrolled the condom, almost one-third full, tying it quickly before stuffing it into his pocket. The man arched an eyebrow at him.
"I will get rid of it later, or would you rather keep it?" Jarod asked defensively as he zipped up his pants, grimacing when he saw the cum stains on his shirt.
"You have to leave," the man said instead.
"Yes. But I will see you again," Jarod promised.
"Oh, definitely." The man smirked knowingly. "Most definitely."
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What is happening at Scott's Seafood site?
Original post made by Curious on Jan 12, 2007
Comments (6)
on Jan 12, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Another soccer field going in. Just joking!
on Jan 13, 2007 at 11:36 pm
New Opportunity Center/Homeless Shelter?
on Jan 13, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I think it's a bicycle/pedestrian tunnel under Hwy 101.
on Jan 14, 2007 at 7:47 am
It would of been a great location for a auto dealership. I think it is going to be more office space.
on Jan 14, 2007 at 2:48 pm
I think it's more than a ped/bike tunnel over 101. It looks like it's going to be an actual 2-3 story building - steel frame and everything is already there. A HUGE crane too. My kids love looking at it each time we drive by.
on Jan 16, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Perry/Arrilaga (yes,THAT Arrilaga of Stanford Stadium fame) Developers are building an
80,000 sq. ft office building. It was controversial from the start, with the size from 100K sq. ft. and the height scaled down to be more in keeping with the Baylands.
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As time passes and I think more and more about our majestic wilderness areas, I am convinced more than ever that Idahoans who know and love the Boulder-White Clouds need to get behind the effort to have the area designated a national monument. Given its current dysfunctional state, the chances of Congress passing legislation to protect this spectacular area grow more remote with each passing week.
Monument designation would bring a sense of completion to an effort started in 1972, when my husband, U.S. Sen. Frank Church, achieved passage of legislation creating the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Wilderness Area. The goal of that legislation was to protect one of Idahos iconic landscapes for current and future Idahoans. The Sawtooth NRA and Wilderness have kept the heart of the Sawtooth country in good shape.
But the passing years have demonstrated that additional steps should be taken to address issues and problems unforeseen when the Sawtooth was established. We know so much more about the Sawtooth country as a whole than we did in 1972, particularly in regards to the needs of fish and wildlife that depend upon these lands. The Sawtooths, Boulder-White Clouds, and East Fork Salmon River country contain some of Idahos best remaining salmon, steelhead and bull trout habitat, all species that have been listed under the Endangered Species Act since the Sawtooth NRA was established. One of the best hopes we have of recovering these Idaho natives is proactive, comprehensive stewardship of these mountain watersheds. And national monument designation is the most promising avenue to achieve that.
Monument designation would unite the Sawtooth NRA with critical wildlife country to its east not currently part of the recreation area, such as the East Fork Salmon River, Jerry Peak and Herd Peak. All of these areas together provide some of the finest elk country in Central Idaho.
The recent formation of Sportsmen for Boulder-White Clouds, made up of individuals with intimate knowledge of these backcountry lands, shows that sportsmen in Idaho understand that monument designation would be a giant step toward the long-term preservation of Idahos hunting heritage.
Lands in the Boulder-White Clouds are currently managed by two national forests and one Bureau of Land Management field office. With management split between responsible agencies, chances for a comprehensive approach to managing the lands are too often lost. Monument designation would bring coordinated stewardship to this landscape.
I have seen some missed opportunities for good, coordinated, common-sense management on the ground in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, which is split between several national forests. Lets take a lesson from that with a monument designation for the Boulder-White Clouds to unite the management agencies with a common goal of protecting this wild landscape. We can bring the existing Sawtooth NRA into a broader national monument designation that benefits the landscape as a whole.
Monument designation for the Boulder-White Clouds is an opportunity to finish the job started more than 40 years ago to provide the most comprehensive, long-term protection we can to one of Idahos classic landscapes. This part of Idaho is dear to my heart and deserves our best effort.
Bethine Church serves on the Governing Council of The Wilderness Society and founded the Sawtooth Society.


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Rick Ungar, Contributor
I write from the left on politics and policy.
Half of the progressive blogosphere is on fire today over Friday's DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision declaring President Obama's appointment of three members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during a pro forma session of the Senate to be unconstitutional—while the other half is freaking out over GOP plans to 'steal' elections by converting winner-take-all electoral college states to a proportional representation system that, had it been in place during the 2012 presidential election, would have given the presidency to Mitt Romney.
I, too, am unhappy with the Circuit Court's decision—one that may invalidate a year's worth of NLRB decisions not to mention causing the President no small measure of embarrassment. I am even more distressed by the myriad of plans circulating through various Red States that are intended to rig the presidential electoral system to benefit whomever the 2016 GOP candidate may be.
However, I am not going to pretend that the Republicans have cornered the market on taking the low road in these matters— particularly when I know that Democrats have not just behaved exactly as the Republicans, but have actually shown the GOP how it's done when it comes to playing the game with no eye towards fairness or the future.
It was in November of 2007 when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid first declared the Senate to be in pro-forma session for the two-week Thanksgiving break. Reid had been notified by the Bush administration that the President intended to exercise his recess appointment power to get a few people hired into his administration that the Senate, under control of the Democrats, had refused to confirm during regular session.
In order to prevent the appointments, Reid hatched the plan that sent a couple of Democratic Senators to the floor every three days during the Thanksgiving break where they would gavel in a session, hang around for a few minutes, gavel it out and then head home for turkey leftovers.
The clever plan worked.
While Congressional Republicans were furious with the tactic Reid chose to employ, they honored what they believed to be the law and never challenged Reid's interpretation of the Constitution—even as Reid would continue to use these pro-forma sessions to block Bush's recess appointments for the remainder of the Bush presidency.
So why should anyone who approved of Reid's diabolical plan to checkmate Bush be either surprised or offended when the Republicans did the exact same thing to block Obama appointments? And how can anyone who approved of Harry Reid's efforts be angered by the Court's affirmation of what Harry Reid hath wrought when it was Harry Reid who did the "wroughting" (yes, I made up this word)?
Reid's gambit was a dishonest tactic that subverted the true intent of the Constitutional power granted the executive to make recess appointments—just as the tactic in the hands of the Republican leadership in the Senate is a perversion of Constitutional intent.
However, it is simply impossible to rationally sympathize with the many indignant progressives who are decrying the decision of the DC Court of Appeals when the court has done nothing more than uphold the very tactic that Harry Reid used so effectively to stymie the Bush folks.
The same, unfortunately, is true of Republican efforts in various states to shift their presidential electoral system away from a winner-take-all electoral process to one of proportional representation whereby electors would be chosen either by congressional districts, with a few extra electors available to whomever takes the popular vote, or via proportional appointment of electors based on the split in the state's popular vote.
It is no great secret why these GOP dominated states would like to move in this direction.
As a result of the extensive use of gerrymandering made possible by the big wins accomplished by Republicans in 2010, Red States have effectively stuffed as many Democrats as possible into just a few congressional districts—creating the opportunity to send many more Republicans to fill Congressional seats that would have otherwise gone to Democrats were the districts to have been more fairly apportioned.
But this too is nothing new as Democrats have also perfected this practice in the years where Democrats have found themselves in control of state government at redistricting time.
Indeed, so effective would such a proportional representation plan have been in the 2012 election, we now know that—despite President Obama's significant popular vote lead over Governor Romney—Romney would have won the electoral college vote under such a system and would, today, be the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Yet, this nefarious GOP plan to 'steal' elections is not original to the Republicans.
It was in 2004 that Colorado Democrats recognized that they could take a major step towards locking in the state for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry if they could succeed in scraping their own winner-take-all system and bring proportional representation to the electoral vote in Colorado.
The reason for the sudden desire to usher in such a new voting system in Colorado?
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A half a century ago, as now, I heard how the US of A was the lighthouse of democracy for the world, and half a centery ago, I never considered that democracy was a threatened commodety here. The past decade has shown just how fragile our democracy is and how the processes to subvert democarcy continue foreward to every more disenfranchisement, by the very people voted in to protect it.
For the last decade we have had only one party approaching the "peoples work" while the other took up such irrelevent issues as to be called by one of its own the "party of stupid." The county needs at least 2 thoughtful parties. Currently, I think we just have 0.6.
Thank's to efforts by journalists like Mr Unger we don't have 0.
That's Mr UngAr (sorry of the typo).
Power corrupts. The only way to prevent politicians from making a career of elected office and doing everthing in their power to keep their job is term limits. The evidence is overwhelming that, given enough time, elected officials inevitably get captured by special interests. A further necessary change is to kill the Gerrymander, i.e., make Congressional districts representive of broad, rather than special interests and thereby require candidates for office more representative of a district in the usual sense. It's really a rather simple IT problem: minimize the length of the boundaries of districts containing roughly equal numbers of people.
I'm not holding my breath that our self-serving reprehensatives will allow either change.
Brought to mind by your post's discussion of proportional appointment, a tactic supported by both parties, I was wondering if you would share your thoughts on an instant-runoff voting system? Google-ing 'instant runoff voting' will give anyone not familiar with it a complete description, but the basic idea of it is that it would give people more credence to third parties.
Each person would rank the candidates 1 though however many they would vote for and to determine the winner of the election someone would need 50% of the vote. At first only #1 votes would be counted, if no one reached 50% then the last place finisher would be eliminated and whoever voted the last place person #1 would have their #2 vote counted while everyone else's number one vote was counted.
That would allow people who are more aligned with the Green party (for example) to vote a Green Candidate #1, a Constitutional Party Candidate #2 and the Democratic Candidate #3 and still have their vote counted if the election came down to a runoff between the Democrat and Republican candidates.
Mr. Ungar, something I have after decades finally grasped something which makes politics much easier to understand, if harder to stomach.
It is, roughly, that to the political class, consistency does not matter and hypocrisy is useful.
I think this will clarify what it was that drove you to write this article.
I wish the foregoing was written tongue-in-cheek, but it wasn't – that's the point.
I totally agree. Politics on both sides is dirty. If you can't beat em go around them.
But you end up with a divided Country in more ways then one. Right now we have liberal bias in the media and a lack of remembering the past. Its good what Reid did with Bush was given some press. We all need to realize that our solution to better government is giving equal fault to all. Obama to me is nothing more then another politician bent on making history. I would think he would want to serve the Constitution and the people but I guess that's second to making a noble name for himself. A great man does not try and get around the law just because its easier. You work to solve problems together. A President should lead and allow our government's three branches work together. Unfortunately because of a lot of bad politics. That is not happening. Obama, Reid, Boehner and the rest should be ashamed for not working for America.
"I am not going to pretend that the Republicans have cornered the market on taking the low road in these matters— particularly when I know that Democrats have not just behaved exactly as the Republicans, but have actually shown the GOP how it's done when it comes to playing the game with no eye towards fairness or the future."
Rick, when you are right, you're right, and I will always congratulate you on those rare occasions. On most items of "dirty politics," Democrats have "shown the way" and set the new "rules"—-and then are shocked when their strategies and " rules" come back to bite them.
I think it is safe to acknowledge that both parties have 'taught' each other quite a bit in this area…nothing to be proud of.
Gerrymandering is a perfect of example of why elections matter: to the victor go the spoils. When elections are close — and they are closer more of the time than people think — the rules and how votes are counted matter significantly. I don't think Republicans are doing anything unusual in gerrymandering districts to enhance their outcome. Maximizing positive outcomes, from one's particular viewpoint, is a reasonable goal.
The difference with the never-ending sessions is, however, distinctly quantifiable. While Democrats used the maneuver to prevent recess appointments, they did typically eventually allow up and down votes on the Republican nominees of Republican presidents. Republicans, on the other hand, not only block recess appointments, they refuse to allow votes on nominees. Had the Democrats behaved as Republicans, Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, and Alito would not be on the Supreme Court (I admit not a strong argument against such behavior). Republicans are perfectly willing to spite the national face by cutting off its nose. They do not believe in American government.
Worse, the filibuster favors the Republican do-nothing agenda. It disfavors the Democratic agenda of an active, engaged government. Thus, this recent compromise is disastrous for the Democrats, who actually want to pass legislation, and great for Republicans, who, even when they regain power, are not particularly interested in addressing national problems with national solutions. As long as they can keep the military funded at absurdly high levels so their corporate masters thrive and keep taxes absurdly low, they are happy.
Dang Rick, you just busted a bunch of big Demmie bubbles with all that fairness stuff. I've observed the same problem, and I know others have, in all these frufras that erupt constantly when some poor fool politician says something that the other side can turn into something bad, dishonest insulting and so on.
It is a constant interruption to trying to determine a candidates' views on issues. And just about every one of them is a herculean effort by the opponents PR folks to make the person who said it look better. Both sides should have to pay fines everytime they take something and blow it out of control
Alas, Rick, the role of elected officials and government (of any colour, in any country) in a democracy is NOT to maximise the wealth, welfare and health of the population and the country.
It is the role of elected officials and government (again, of whatever political persuasion in any country – including the U.S.) in a democracy to stay in power and therefore maximise votes.
Policies which will (short term) make people happy are a much better choice than those policies which will not impact on the voting patterns of the population.
Alas, alternatives to democracy are not as effective either…
I agree with you in principle, for the most part. Every time the GOP does something corrupt, my friends are always shocked that I'm not as upset as I should be, but it's because I know Democrats are far from perfect.
But a few differences exist between Reid/Obama and McConnell/Bush. First, many in the Senate GOP refuse to even allow Obama's picks to come to a vote, leaving nominees stuck in limbo until they withdraw. When did the Democrats do that to Bush without even allowing a vote?
Building on that, the Senate during W's last two years was not hell-bent on crippling the Executive in any possible way, whereas the modern Republicans have denied President Obama the ability to fill several vital positions, even denying them a vote on many occasions, through anonymous holds and obstructionist filibusters. Their attitude is that if they can't win, then the game won't even be played. What they don't realize (or don't care about) is that they aren't hurting President Obama or the Democrats, but only the American people.
President Bush was also far more aggressive in expanding executive power than President Obama, even if President Obama has preserved much of Bush's expansions. Even given this difference, President Bush did not see nearly as many of his nominees denied so much as a vote.
We can acknowledge that Democrats aren't perfect without building a false equivalency.
I applaud your efforts to be politically neutral, even though I think you are far from ideologically neutral. Unfortunately, analyses like these are not welcome in a world which is only interested in information which supports whichever "team" one is on.
I have grown tired in recent years of railing against the corrupt media and the total disintegration of journalistic standards in this country. I think, in the end, we get the media we deserve, just as we get the government we deserve.
What do you mean you don't have a great deal of use for ideology? Don't you have a set of beliefs? Aren't these beliefs strong enough that you are ready and willing to share them with the world and defend them against all who might believe otherwise? It seems to me that the entire reason you have this platform and others likel it is precisely because you have a particular ideology and are willing and able to espouse it.


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Carol A. Griffin, 76, of Niagara Falls, NY, died on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at N.F. Memorial Medical Center. Born in Niagara Falls, NY, she was the daughter of the late William E. and Bernice D. Griffin.
Carol was a lifelong resident of Niagara Falls, NY and attended local schools. She was a resident of Niagara Rehabilitation and Nursing Center where she enjoyed participating in their activities, particularly watching movies and attending monthly parties to celebrate residents' birthdays. Carol especially enjoyed spending time with her daughter, Sally and Ron.
Carol is survived by three children, Leeann Hummel of West Seneca, NY; Peggy Hummel of Lockport, NY, and Sally McClinsey (Ron Wolf) of Niagara Falls, NY; and her son-in-law, James McClinsey.
Visitation will be on Friday, March 8th from 2-4 PM at the M.J. COLUCCI & SON FUNERAL CHAPEL, 468-19th Street, Niagara Falls, NY.
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Professor Pat Parenteau, "To Frack or Not to Frack?"
The development of hydro-fracturing technology—aka "fracking"—has led to a boom in the production of natural gas from ancient shale deposits in the Marcellus formation of the Northeast and other parts of the country. Compared to coal natural gas is a vastly preferable fuel source for electricity generation. For starters, it emits less than half the CO2 of coal during combustion and you don't have to blow the tops off of mountains to get it. The gas industry touts fracking as the bridge to a clean energy future. But the issue is not so simple. Gas is basically methane, a greenhouse gas that is 20 times more potent than CO2. Fugitive emissions of methane are a major problem with fracking although there is much debate over the exact amount that escapes from the thousands of wells and pumps and pipelines. EPA has proposed rules to capture these emissions but it is not all clear when the rules will become law or even whether they will survive the presidential election. Methane does not last as long in the atmosphere as carbon but scientists are concerned about its potential for accelerating climate change through positive feedback loops such as melting Arctic ice and permafrost. Proponents of solar and wind are concerned that the heavy investment in unconventional gas will impede the development of these even greener technologies. Then there are all those YouTube videos of people's tapwater catching on fire; and the periodic blowouts, explosions and earthquakes linked to fracking. So, here we go with another energy and environment conundrum: Can fracking be done safely? Is it a bridge to the future or a bridge to nowhere?]]>


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9:00am Monday 20th February 2012 in News By Ian Craig
A YOUNG textile designer is set for the big time after being named one of the country's most promising craftsmen.
Former Cirencester Deer Park school student Stephanie Cole, 24, has been named as one of the top ten textile designers to watch out for in 2012 by Channel Four.
After graduating from Swansea University in 2010 with a degree in Surface Pattern Design, Stephanie decided to set up her own business from her home in South Cerney.
Working with a number of local companies Her work, which includes art prints, cushions and tea towels, is made entirely with British materials and contains a strong local theme, with many of her designs sporting images of iconic Cotswold locations.
Stephanie said she had not expected to set up her own business, but "With the lack of jobs and funding available when I graduated, I decided I had to pursue something creative rather than work any old job – this was my chance," she said.
"With the current economic climate, I think a lot more people are being brave and creating their own way of getting by.
"It was initially scary but I may have never even tried if jobs were easier to come by."
Stephanie's work is available at a range of outlets including Cirencester's New Brewery Arts, as well as her website at the link below.
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The Gwinnett County school board approved an updated anti-bullying policy Thursday night that includes guidelines against cyberbullying.
Meeting at GCPS headquarters in Suwanee, the five-member board voted after hearing a report from Executive Director Dr. Jim Taylor at a work session. The report showed that the system's proactive efforts have resulted in a decrease in out-of-school suspensions (by 841) for the current school year.
Also, the board formally OK'd the $1.7 billion spending plan for the coming school year.
The new anti-bullying policy adds language that defines bullying as "any intentional written, verbal or physical act, which a reasonable person would perceive as being intended to threaten, harass or intimidate."
The guidelines have consequences for retaliation and false reporting, and specify that an offender will be assigned to an alternative school after the third offense in a school year.
"The message we got from parents," Taylor said, "was that if you try to publicly humiliate someone, it's bullying. They were encouraging our administration to make a determination."
On cyberbullying, prohibited behaviors include:
-- using websites to circulate gossip and rumors to other students (added in new policy), and social networking sites are included;
-- use of cameras or cell phones to take embarrassing photographs;
-- sending abusive or threatening text messages or instant messages.
"I think it's a sound policy," board Chairman Dr. Robert McClure of Lilburn said.
The estimated number of out of school suspensions in GCPS was 40.8 students per 1,000 in 2010-11, down from 46.4 the previous school year.
Students in all grades are included in the policy, which will take effect Aug. 1. It brings GCPS in line with state guidelines.
$1.7 billion budget approved: Gwinnett County schools will operate on 6 percent less money in the coming school year. The system overcame a shortfall of $104 million to balance the budget, including the loss of stimulus funds. The board tenatively kept the millage rate at 20.55.
Rick Cost, the school system's chief financial officer, noted that GCPS is spending $515 per student less than the state average of $8,761. The county's revenue decline is not expected to end until FY 2015. "These are hard times," Board Chairman Dr. Robert McClure of Lilburn said.
Site acquisition policy vote delayed: Board members opted to hold for further review a revised policy on acquiring land for new schools. The policy is being reworked because of controversy over some recent GCPS land purchases. The June meeting is the soonest that the board could vote on a new policy.


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Du Plessis, Meryl Candice (2007) Compensating employees who suffer work-related psychiatric harm in the course and scope of their employment. Masters thesis, Rhodes University.
This study aims to ascertain the legal redress available to employees who suffer psychological harm as a result of workplace stress. On a general level, it identifies and assesses some of the available policy options, particularly as they relate to the interaction of statutory workers' compensation schemes and the common law. On a more specific level, it examines and analyses various issues: the nature and extent of compensable psychiatric harm; the legal duty on employers to protect employees' health and well being; the role of negligence; requirements specific to the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act 130 of 1993 (COIDA); and the causal nexus necessary to sustain a claim. The conclusion is reached that employees should utilise the workers' compensation system as the primary vehicle to obtain redress if they suffer from occupational psychiatric harm. However, due to the law's generally conservative approach to psychiatric harm and intimations that the Department of Labour intends setting strict requirements for claims for psychiatric harm in terms of COIDA, the common law of delict might continue to play an important role in claims for occupational psychiatric harm. The writer recommends that a hybrid system for compensation for stress-related psychiatric harm suffered in the course and scope of employment be adopted, with the statutory compensation scheme providing relatively limited benefits and the common law providing general damages if the claimant can prove negligence on the part of the employer; that the requirement of a recognised psychiatric illness be maintained for both statutory compensation and compensation in terms of the common law; that all parties' interests are carefully balanced in delineating the employer's legal duty to employers and that undue weight not be accorded to the terms of the contract of employment; that more attention be paid to factual causation and the development of lternatives/complements to the traditional conditio sine qua non test; that the validity of the circular instruction on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) be tested on administrative-law grounds; and that the stringent prescription requirements set by the circular instruction on PTSD be reviewed.
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The Swearer Center develops and teaches courses that offer students the chance to explore their interest in social change both in and outside of the classroom.
Spring Courses
Community, Language and Literacy: An Education Practicum
ETHN1900B * Janet Isserlis
This course examines adult language and literacy learning and approaches to teaching in community settings. It is designed to support students' work teaching language and literacy to immigrant adults. Working with the Swearer Center and its community partners, students will explore theories informing educational practice, and will gain skills and practice in providing language and literacy instruction to adult learners in the community. This practicum specifically addresses issues of language acquisition, acculturation, and broader contexts framing adult education. We especially welcome students who are currently teaching in community programs as well as those who would like to learn more about this work. For more information, email Janet at email@example.com.
From Theory to Practice in Engaged Scholarship: Creating Community Based Learning Courses
EDUC1290 * Kerrissa Heffernan
This course will explore theories of community-based learning and engaged scholarship within the context of higher education. The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the possibilities in the teaching and learning exchange to address significant social concerns. Email Kerri at firstname.lastname@example.com with questions or concerns.
Social Entrepreneurship
PPAI1910, formerly ENGN1930Q * Bill Allen & Alan Harlam
This course introduces students to social innovation and social entrepreneurship and engages then in identifying significant issues, problems and solutions that drive social change. It helps students understand the competencies that are needed to be a transformative social entrepreneur and proven tools and strategies to create high performance, high impact entrepreneurial enterprises that offer bold solutions to complex contemporary problems. It highlights unique models of social enterprise from strictly non-profit, through those developing products or services that produce revenue in support of a social goal, to socially responsible for-profit companies. It emphasizes how enterprises are created and sustained. Email Alan at email@example.com with questions.
Leading Social Ventures: Social Entrepreneurship in Action
PPAI1701Q * M.J. Kaplan and Alan Harlam
Intractable social problems demand new, innovative solutions. Social entrepreneurs, driven by passion to change the world, fuse social missions and savvy business practices to create enterprises that solve these complex challenges. Leading Social Ventures is designed for students who are leading aspire to lead social ventures. The course uses "action learning" meaning students will apply educational content to a specific venture in the early stage of development. Students will work on a venture that they have created or select an existing early-stage venture among provided choices. Enrollment is by application only. Email Alan at email@example.com for more information.
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Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine
Through collective and
individual ministries, working alone or in
St. Mary Parish
- Elyria, OH - Parish Catechetical Leader
Catholic Worker Community of Akron - Akron, OH
Sr. Catherine Walsh, CSA
CSA and community members supported the opening of a Catholic Worker House of Peace in 1997 to provide shelter for women and women with children in need. A second house, Casa Maria Jose, was opened in the Spring 2000 for Spanish-speaking women and children. A home for men, Matthew 25 House, opened in the Fall of 2000.
Following the Catholic Worker Movement philosophy, volunteers and residents
take full
responsibility for the houses with no formal leadership.
Sr. Carol Kandiko, CSA
Interfaith Wellness Ministry - Irvine, KY
Sr. Loretta Spotila, CSA, R.N., MSN - Director
churches in this rural Appalachian community are linked in an effort to
promote healthy lifestyles and the role of faith in healthy living. Established
in 1997, the program offers educational and resource information,
prevention tips, health-related support groups and one-to-one
health counseling.
Joseph's Home
- Cleveland, OH
Ohio's first transitional facility for recuperating homeless adults opened
in May, 2000 following a $400,000 building renovation that was funded
with a $200,000 HUD Supportive Housing Program grant and matching
funds from CSA St. Vincent Charity Ministries Corporation. Private rooms
are available for nine homeless adults with temporary or chronic illnesses
referred from social service agencies, shelters or healthcare facilities.
Residents participate in activities of daily living while recuperating, as well
as in programs designed to foster self-esteem, life skills and ongoing recovery.
Center of Hope, Ravenna, OH
Sr. Denise Stiles
The Center of Hope provides nutritious hot meals and food pantry
assistance, Monday through Friday, to help families in all areas of
Portage County meet their basic needs for food and personal care items.
The center also provides holiday meals for families through
distribution of Thanksgiving and Christmas food baskets. Toys are
collected and provided for children at the center's Christmas Shop.
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Early Childhood Resource Center - Canton, OH
Geri Ash Grove - Executive Director
Canton worked to develop the Early Childhood Resource Center (ECRC) for
the professional development and education of childcare providers. Opened in
1999, the Center has begun to attract funding from other sources, demonstrating
its viability as an important community service. ECRC provides training,
mentoring programs and key information and education in an effort to standardize
quality in the field of childcare.
Pauling-Jones - Executive Director
Thomas E. Cecconi - President & CEO
Representing more than 500,000 members, Ohio Health Choice creates and
provider organizations (PPO) in the State.
Sisters expanded their ministry to open Providence Hospital in 1938.
Widely respected for maternity care, the hospital shifted focus in 1974 to
establish Providence Heart Institute, a nationally recognized referral center
for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Noted for
excellence in ophthalmology and general surgery, Providence Hospital
(247 licensed beds) offers many additional quality health services including
family medicine, gastroenterology, neurodiagnostics, sleep sciences and
orthopedics. LifeReach, one of the first hospital-based air ambulances in the
flies critically ill and injured patients within the Carolinas and
Columbia's second Catholic hospital opened in March 1999 in one
of the city's fastest growing neighborhoods. The 64-bed hospital
features all private rooms and an adjoining medical office building. Services
include 24-hour emergency care, general inpatient and outpatient surgery,
primary, intensive and skilled nursing care and obstetrics. Physical
rehabilitation and community
education programs are also offered on site.
Brian J. Flannery - Executive Director
Mt. Augustine, the CSA Motherhouse, was built in 1957 for the formation of young sisters and care of the retired sisters.
Nestled on 375 acres of rural land and forests, Mt. Augustine was the private home to the Sisters of Charity for many years. In 1971, the sisters opened their doors to the Richfield
community and other organizations and offered them the use of meeting rooms where they could hold their religious, cultural and educational activities.
Responding to the needs of aging religious from other orders for extended nursing care, CSA undertook a $7.5 million renovation of the motherhouse. Completed in 1993 it established Regina Health Center a 155-bed facility that provides a full range of geriatric services including assisted living, intermediate care and skilled nursing units to retired
members of 22 religious congregations,
clergy and lay men and women throughout northern Ohio.
Cliff Coker - President & CEO
Originally developed as a joint venture
between St. John Hospital (now closed) and the West Shore Osteopathic
Association, St. John West Shore Hospital (200 registered beds) opened
in 1981 in Cleveland's far west suburbs.
Joni Close - President
proceeds made available from the formation of healthcare partnerships
with Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation (now HCA-The Healthcare
Company). The Foundations share a common goal to develop effective,
self-sustaining programs that will help to alleviate root causes of poverty.
Through its Quality Child Care Initiative, the Canton Foundation has
made more than $10 million in grants to date, focusing on improving
childcare in centers and in homes. The Foundation developed the
Early Childhood Resource Center in 1999 to encourage the professional
development and education of childcare
Thomas C. Keith - President
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Bad Science on the completely bogus claims of charlatan Danie Krugel which were swallowed by some serious newspapers desperate for a story about Maddy McCann. Please, editors, get some people with a science background – or just some common sense.
TUAW takes a look at the original iPod promo video, and man it's fun. I got mine the day they were first released, and yes, it changed the way I listen to music. Thanks Apple! And btw can we have standard connectors back on iPods?
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The South Brunswick High School girls lacrosse team is undefeated this season in the state of New Jersey. According to Coach John Coppolla, part of the credit for that goes to Virginia and South Carolina.
South Brunswick lost its first three games of the season while playing at Hilton Head, S.C. The Vikings fell to two teams from Virginia on the trip. SBHS lost to Oakton, 22-7 and lost twice to James Madison by scores of 18-12 and 17-10.
"It was a great trip for us," Coppolla said. "Obviously, we're not happy losing three games, but the trip made us a better lacrosse team."
Two years ago, South Brunswick made a similar trip to Florida to play at the Disney sports complex.
"It's nice because it's such a good bonding experience for the girls," Coppolla said. "It also gives you a chance to play teams from around the country that you would otherwise never see."
Once back in New Jersey, South Brunswick started an 8-game winning streak. South Brunswick has defeated Monroe (15-9 and 11-3), South Plainfield (17-2 and 22-6), Old Bridge (15-5 and 19-3), East Brunswick (13-4) and North Brunswick (19-2).
Leading what has been a great offensive season for the Vikings is Elle Hvozdovic, a junior that plays midfield. She has 36 goals and 24 assists.
"She is just a very skilled lacrosse player that has been playing the sport for a long time," Coppolla said. "She's tall and athletic. She also has a great shot."
Cara Bagley, a senior, has 24 goals working out of the attack position.
"We've also gotten offense from a lot of other girls," Coppolla noted.
Marissa Cavett, Julie Curcio, Alex Datri, Kelly O'Brien, Emily Ryan, Eileen Rolwood, Anne Marie Rolwood, Amanda Cipriano, Emily Broxmeyer, Kelly Ciabattone, Danielle St. Vincent, Nicole Deinzer, Samantha Haveson, Nikiru Izzuka, Anya Singh-Varma and Olivia Kaczowski have also contributed to what has been a power offense.
According to Coppolla, South Brunswick also has an outstanding defense, featuring the likes of Shaffer (a senior), Kelly O'Laughlin (senior) and O'Brien (senior).
"When you look at her ability to play offense and defense, Kelly O'Brien might be our best overall player," Coppolla said.
Liz Ruedemann, just a freshman, has earned the starting spot in goal.
"She's really come on and is playing with a lot more confidence," Coppolla said.
The same could be said of the entire team. It shook off a slow start in South Carolina and had grown into something special by the time it returned to the Garden State.
South Brunswick will be trying to stay perfect in the state when it hosts JP Stevens on Senior Night on May 1 at Rowland Park at 6 p.m.
"The season is starting to wind down, but we still have some big games left," Coppolla said. "The county tournament starts the second week of May. We are shooting for our fourth title in a row."


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It wasn't quite a home meet for Cold Springs on Friday, but the Eagles' results told a different story.
Cold Springs finished second to Class 5A Arab in both the girls' and boys' divisions at the annual Cold Springs March Invitational. The meet, however, was held at Corner High due to ongoing track renovations on the Eagles' campus.
The girls finished with 126 points, just 1.5 shy of the first-place Knights.
Katie Self was big for Cold Springs, finishing first in shot put with a throwing distance of 29'8". She also took home third-place finishes in the discus and javelin.
Teammate Christian Wilson leaped to first in the high jump with a 4'10" result.
Kramer Crider won the 1,600-meter run for the second time in as many meets with an impressive time of 4:55.08. He also claimed second in the 3,200-meter run.
Vince Stewart (triple jump), Logan Campbell (pole vault) and Justin Jones (javelin) also helped the Eagles with respective individual victories throughout the day.
Other local schools that participated included Good Hope and Holly Pond.
The Lady Broncos earned a fifth-place finish due to strong performances from Megan Barksdale and Mykenzie Heaton.
Barksdale claimed second and third in the 200- and 400-meter dashes, respectively, while Heaton placed third in the long jump.
Chris Whitehead was the top contributor for Holly Pond on the boys' side, securing second in shot put and third in javelin.
For the Raiders, Luke Taylor placed first for the boys in the shot put, while Kami Calvert was second in the same event for the girls.
See below for local top-10 individual and top-three relay results from Friday's meet:
Cold Springs girls
Katie Self, first in shot put, 29'8"; third in discus, 69'6.5"; and third in javelin, 72'
Christian Wilson, first in high jump, 4'10"
Dakota Lott, second in 300-meter hurdles, 55.15; third in 100-meter hurdles, 19.08; and seventh in triple jump, 26'6"
Cassi Still, second in 1,600-meter run, 6:05.16; and fourth in 3,200-meter run, 13:16.99
Courtney Dean, third in high jump, 4'6"; and T-third in pole vault, 6'6"
Emily Campbell, third in 1,600-meter run, 6:17.58; and fifth in 3,200-meter run, 13:44.69
Alexis Smith, T-third in pole vault, 6'6"
Payton Strawbridge, fourth in javelin, 68'4"
Kaleigh Merring, fifth in 200-meter dash, 29.92; and sixth in 100-meter dash, 14.68
Katie Huffstutler, fifth in long jump, 12'8.5"; eighth in 800-meter run, 2:59.55; and 10th in 1,600-meter run, 6:37.09
Josie Stanley, fifth in 400-meter dash, 1:08.74; and eighth in 200-meter dash, 30.46
Kaitlyn Pate, fifth in high jump, 4'2"
Rachel Haynes, sixth in 100-meter hurdles, 20.98; and seventh in 300-meter hurdles, 1:01.96
Mackenzie Dunn, sixth in discus, 61'
Destiny Campbell, seventh in discus, 58'3"; eighth in javelin, 56'8"; and ninth in shot put, 21'5"
Victoria Goodnight, ninth in discus, 56'06"
Reilly Hood, T-10th in shot put, 20'7"
Hannah Harbison, Merring, Stanley and Lott, third in 4x400-meter relay, 4:50.12
Cold Springs boys
Kramer Crider, first in 1,600-meter run, 4:55.08; and second in 3,200-meter run, 10:58.14
Vince Stewart, first in triple jump, 41'2"; and second in long lump, 19'9.75"
Logan Campbell, first in pole vault, 11'6"; and eighth in shot put, 34'6"
Justin Jones, first in javelin, 123'8"
Terry Campbell, second in discus, 100'
Drew Mcclendon, third in 200-meter dash, 25.61; and sixth in pole vault, 8'
Austin Richard, fourth in pole vault, 9'6"; fifth in high jump, 5'2"; and fifth in discus, 90'5.5"
Lucas Gay, T-seventh in pole vault, 7'6"
Austin Burwell, T-seventh in pole vault, 7'6"
Eli Hamby, T-ninth in pole vault, 7'
Good Hope girls
Kami Calvert, second in shot put, 24'10"; and 10th in discus, 56'2"
Heather Middleton, sixth in 200-meter dash, 30.35; and T-seventh in 100-meter dash, 14.69
Good Hope boys
Luke Taylor, first in shot put, 38'11"; and ninth in long jump, 17'7.75
Justin Turner, second in 300-meter hurdles, 46.75; second in high jump, 5'6"; and fourth in long jump, 18'9.25"
Wyatt Petrimoulx, fifth in 3,200-meter run, 11:12.54
Luke Calvert, second in javelin, 120'6"; and ninth in triple jump, 34'4"
Holly Pond girls
Megan Barksdale, second in 200-meter dash, 29.15; and third in 400-meter dash, 1:04.89
Mykenzie Heaton, third in long jump, 13'6.5"; and sixth in 800-meter run, 2:50.18
Nikki Christie, fifth in 1,600-meter run, 6:26.64; and seventh in 3,200-meter run, 13:56.60
Melissa Clingman, fifth in 100-meter hurdles, 19.94; and 10th in 100-meter dash, 14.76
Haley Higginbotham, fifth in 300-meter hurdles, 1:01.27
Lily Frost, sixth in high jump, 4'; and T-ninth in long jump, 11'2.5"
Demi Alvarez, eighth in long jump, 11'3"; and 10th in javelin, 52'9"
Catelyn Haynes, T-10th in shot put, 20'7"
Starsha Trimble, Jaycee Chaney, Barksdale and Heaton, second in 4x100-meter relay, 57.22
Holly Pond boys
Chris Whitehead, second in shot put, 36'8"; and third in javelin, 119'6"
Cameron Cox, third in 110-meter hurdles, 21.19
Matt Cahoon, fourth in high jump, 5'2"
Austin Hammonds, seventh in 800-meter run, 2:28.87
Dauriel Harwood, T-eighth in high jump, 5'
M.J. Ford, ninth in 200-meter dash, 26.09
Prep Soccer
% St. Bernard 2, Whiteburg Christian 0: The Saints picked up two goals from junior Jacob Mynatt to earn a victory over the Warriors last Tuesday.
% St. Bernard 2, Athens Bible 2: Logan Ayers and Savanna Glover picked up a goal apiece, but the Lady Saints were unable to to add a third to avoid a tie on Tuesday.
% Crossville 2, St. Bernard 1: The Saints trailed 1-0 at the half, but a goal by Abbie Mescher tied the game early in the second.
Unfortunately, St. Bernard ran out of gas, yielding a goal to the Lions with four minutes left to take the loss on Thursday.
The boys also fell 2-0.
% St. Bernard 1, Crossville 0: The Saints didn't stay down long, as they played good team defense and received a clutch goal from Greer Cauthen to defeat the Lions on Friday.
The boys fell 5-0.
Blast from the Past
Hanceville High graduate Diamond Simmons had a productive day for the Purple team during the University of North Alabama's spring game on Saturday.
The speedy running back was the leading rusher for Purple, which bested White by a 17-7 final. Simmons racked up 60 yards on 11 carries.
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PERRY -- The Houston County school board approved a schedule Wednesday for appointing the districts new superintendent.
The board plans to pick a new school leader by April 8, when the superintendent selection will be announced at the regular school board meeting.
Superintendent Robin Hines, who has held the job for the past four years, announced his retirement Friday. He will retire at the end of May.
The board will only accept candidates from within the Houston County school system.
We as a board and as a school system feel very confident about the personnel we have within our system, said Marianne Melnick, the board chairwoman.
The position will be posted Friday, and the application window will close March 6. The board will interview candidates March 14 and will announce the new superintendent April 8.
Board members unanimously approved the schedule during a school board retreat.
The board also plans to reach out to some school employees to gather feedback about qualities the new leader should have. Principals, counselors and other administrators will receive surveys next week, and their responses will be considered when picking a new superintendent, board members said.
This is probably the most important job we have as a board of education, Melnick said.
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I feel really good about this, Hines said. I think employees are going to be happy.
Prekindergarten registration
Prekindergarten registration begins Monday for Houston County students, and officials expect about 1,000 students to register.
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Cumberland Times-News
Fans buses set for Alco away games
CUMBERLAND — Buses will be chartered to take spectators to Allegany High School football away games. The bus going to Ridgeway on Friday, Oct. 4, leaves the big parking lot at Allegany at 1:30 p.m.; and to Calvert on Friday, Oct. 11, 1:30 p.m.
For information, contact Tammy Shook at 240-727-0926.
Times-News requesting football statistics
CUMBERLAND — The Cumberland Times-News is requesting football statistics from the head coaches or statisticians of the area's high school football teams. A list of area leaders will run in Friday's Scoreboard Page if enough teams report.
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Butler sweeps ACM volleyball
CUMBERLAND — Morgan Ruppenkamp went 19-for-19 on attacks in a loss as Allegany College of Maryland was swept 25-20, 25-20, 25-21 by Butler Community College at Bob Kirk Arena on Friday.
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Allegany College (3-5) plays again today at home against Essex at 1 p.m.
MR girls top Washington 5-3 in a shootout
FROSTBURG — Mountain Ridge won 5-3 in a shootout after a 0-0 tie in regulation against Washington at the Mountain Ridge Shootout Friday.
The Miners managed just six shots on goal to Washington's 12. Chelsea Muir saved nine for Mountain Ridge and Melody Hayes stopped five for Washington.
Anna Broadwater, Erica Wilson, Jenna Miller, Niven Hegeman and Samantha Sines scored in the shootout.
In the junior varsity game, Blair Willey's second half goal was enough for Mountain Ridge in a 1-0 win over Washington.
The score came with 25:46 remaining on a long throw-in by Lilly Hewitt, deflected by Kamryn Logsdon, to Willey.
The squads combined for just eight shots on goal. Emily Harden had three saves to record her third shutout in four games. Melody Hayes stopped four in the loss.
Mountain Ridge (3-1) plays Northern today at 2 p.m. in the Mountain Ridge Shootout.
The Mountain Ridge varsity (4-0-1) plays Altoona today at 6 p.m.
Calvary defeats Heritage, 5-1
HAGERSTOWN — Zack Nelson and Josh Snyder each scored two goals for Calvary in a 5-1 victory at Heritage on Friday.
Nelson scored two goals in the first 12 minutes with one being assisted by Tyler Heavner. Caleb Snyder's unassisted goal at 21:00 made it 3-0 Eagles at halftime.
Josh Snyder scored unassisted goals at 24:00 and 14:00 in the second half to put Calvary up 5-0. Heritage's score came on a penalty kick by Milan Tino with 11:00 remaining.
Calvary attempted 29 shots. Matt Dillow saved two and Atticus Steif stopped one in goal for the Eagles. Noah Kerns halted 10 in the loss.
Calvary (5-3) hosts New Life Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.


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Figment is the beloved purple dragon that is featured in all the various versions of the Epcot attraction Journey Into Imagination. Created by Dreamfinder from "two tiny wings, eyes big and yellow, horns of a steer, royal purple pigment and a dash of childish delight" in addition to (according to press material and Birnbaum's guide) a lizard's body and a crocodile's nose.
He also appeared in several of EPCOT Educational Films made for schools, including:
- Would You Eat a Blue Potato?
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- How Does it feel to Fly?
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- Reading Magic with Figment and Peter Pan
- Reading Magic with Figment and Alice in Wonderland
In the original version of the ride, he acts as a young and curious student of the imagination to Dreamfinder. In the current version, he is well aware of what imagination is and is mostly a prankster, pulling tricks on Dr. Nigel Channing (Eric Idle) until he is willing to listen to him and his lesson that imagination works best when set free.
Behind the Scenes
The Journey Into Imagination pavilion, was one of the last of the original Epcot pavilions to be designed. Looking for host characters, inspiration was taken from the mothballed Discovery Bay project for Disneyland. An attraction called "Professor Marvel's House of Illusions" was to have been hosted by the titular eccentric scientist, who among his other endeavors, bred dragons as a hobby. The Professor and one of his smaller dragons would soon evolve into Dreamfinder and Figment. Figment was also inspired by a line in an episode of Magnum PI. In the episode, Higgins' garden was being destroyed by a goat Magnum hid in his backyard. When Magnum tells Higgins it's only a Figment of his Imagination, he replies that "Figments don't eat grass!". Realizing that a Figment of the imagination had never really been visualized, the dragon was given his name. During most of the development, Figment was green rather than his familiar purple pigment. At the insistence of Kodak, who thought the green was too reminiscent of business rival FujiFilm, the color was changed to how he is seen today.


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I thought the entire metro area of NOLA was wi-fi enabled. If so, you could go sit in Jackson Square or on the moonwalk and post.
comment on a post LA-2: Cornucopia of Links and Open Thread over 7 years ago
comment on a post LA-2: Race in the race over 7 years ago
FYI: The Southern idiom is "white folk", not "white folks"
As for Nagin's support for Jefferson, it isn't hard to figure given Nagin's and Jefferson's shared constituencies.
What's also going on behind the scenes in New Orleans is old fashioned machine politics, although in NOLA the machines are legion albeit shadowy.
comment on a post MyDD Announcement: Tagaris to LA-02 over 7 years ago
Speaking of unfulfilled Bush and republican promises, maybe after Karen (hopefully) wins the runoff, Time might take a tour of Katrina's ground zero, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, from Pearlington to Pascagoula. Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian (where I live), Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Gautier and Moss Point are the cities and towns in between which suffered the heaviest and most catastrophic damage from the storm.
Not to minimize the damage to New Orleans and environs or the suffering of its citizens, but we here in Mississippi are the forgotten victims.
comment on a post Senate Forecast Update: Thirteen Days Left over 7 years ago
Yo! Chris!
I just re-read your post. You need to take a day or two off, get away from your computer and politics and either sleep or do something fun not related to your blog. Recharge your batteries/psyche. It's going to be a looong twelve days and your health is more important than adhereing to any self-imposed forecast update schedule.
We'll all be here when you get back.
comment on a post Senate Forecast Update: Thirteen Days Left over 7 years ago
I heard on MSNBC that the LATimes/Bloomberg poll had Webb ahead of Allen in VA.
comment on a post More On The Netroots Difference over 7 years ago
It is important not to forget that relatively few voters read blogs. Activists do and much of the time they are speaking to each other in a sort of giant echo chamber. A few voices in an echo chamber can give the impression of a vast choir. Don't fall for the impression.
The vast majority of voters get their information from local media, newspapers and television, and friends and neighbors. To some degree local media is a weak reflection of national media. For instance, here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast the local ABC affiliate airs almost no news about l'affaire Foley and very little about Iraq. Part of the dearth of political news is due to the lack of competitive races (Lott {R-MS} and Gene Taylor {D-MS 04}) and continuing Katrina woes but other than in so-called battleground states I would venture a guess that the situation is not much different.
I love the netroots movement and its stalwart activists here and at FDL, DKos, Eschaton, TPM, C&L, Americablog, Political Animal and all the rest, but lets not kid ourselves, activists comprise an insubstantial voting block.
Wars are won (or lost) by the strength of the boots on the ground. In elections that means actual voters in voting booths on election day. If we don't canvass, phone bank, walk precincts or ferry voters who need transportation to their polling place on election day but rather sit on our collective asses and read or post to our own small community on election day, we don't deserve to win.
A fable:
Boudreaux went to mass every Sunday and prayed for God to let him win the lottery. He made his visits and said his prayers religiously but was always disappointed. He never won the lottery. Boudreaux redoubled his efforts. He started going to mass on Sundays and Wednesdays and fervently prayed for God to let him win the lottery. He prayed until it hurt but he never won the lottery. Finally, near despair, Boudreaux stayed after mass opne Sunday and prayed on his knees so hard tears were rolling down his cheeks. All of a sudden God spoke to Boudreaux in a soft but clear voice, "Boudrreaux, meet me halfway. Buy a damn lottery ticket!"
Moral: You can only win if you play.
Don't just sit there, do someting!
comment on a post Lamont Regains Some Momentum, Trails Lieberman 46-39 over 7 years ago
Lieberman is a wolf in independent clothing.
His campaign is run by republican operatives, funded by republican money, staffed by republican sympathizers and his policy positions are more and more aligned with republican policies.
Why doesn't Lamont, the DSCC or a third party group come right out and call him on it in advertisments?
Vote for a sheep and get a wolf. Vote for Lieberman and get a republican.
comment on a post Gallup Polls Five Key Senate Races over 7 years ago
Hope is not a plan.
Unscrupulous republicans close strong while mealy-mouthed, timid democrats have found innovative ways of turning apparent victories into last-minute defeats.
Double down folks and enough with the premature triumphfulism.
comment on a post The Burden of Power over 7 years ago
Oversight, Oversight, Oversight!
comment on a post PA-Sen: New Poll, New Adwatch over 7 years ago
Must be my earwax problem but I didn't hear or see the word Democrat anywhere.
comment on a post Then You Win over 7 years ago
Is there any way to determine the total amounts both candidates spent on the primary?
Lieberman always says Lamont outspent him (implying he "bought" his victory). How would one go about compiling the spending reports to determine if Joe's characterization is accurate or not?
Sorry for being off topic but the posters here are, in my opinion, the most likely source for a definitive answer to this question.
Aaron Adams
comment on a post US House prediction thread over 9 years agoHouse:
Toughest Call!
In the surprise of the election, Kerry's coattails and a huge democratic turnout surge give dems back the house, albeit by a razor thin margin.
comment on a post US Senate prediction thread over 9 years agoSenate:
Democrats pick up 2 seats
(Lincoln Chaffee switches to independent within months of Kerry's swearing in also)
comment on a post Presidential prediction thread over 9 years agoNot Even Close
Out on a limb:
Popular Vote:
Kerry 51.3%
Bush 46.9%
Other 1.8%
Electoral Vote:
Kerry 316
Bush 222
Other 0
on a comment on BlogPac.org's IraqDraft ad over 9 years agoDoh!
My adblocker was on. Carry on.