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The San Francisco Giants will again honor their local house-band, The Grateful Dead, and Jerry Garcia on August 9th, 2011. August 9th will mark the 16th anniversary of Jerry's passing. Last year the annual Grateful Dead night ended up in a very exciting 11th inning win for the SF Giants, who eventually went on to win the World Series! Check out more details below.
Giants VS Pirates
National Anthem performed by Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, And Giants Own Tim Flannery
7th Inning Stretch by Mickey Hart and NBA Hall Of Famer Bill Walton
Special Ticket Package Includes:
•A seat in one of the "Dead Head" tribute section, spread through the park
•A very special limited-edition "Dancing Bears" collectible statue
•Pregame performance by Grateful Dead tribute bands
•Members of the Garcia family and the original band to throw out the first pitch and perform the National Anthem
•Ticket proceeds will be donated to the Furthur Foundation, Rex Foundation and the Unbroken Chain Foundation as well as other non-profits affiliated with the individual band members causes...
Get your tickets here. Please note you will be automatically directed to purchase tickets in the Special Events sections.
Pick up a Grateful Dead Giants hat and t-shirt here.
97.3 KBCO & Z2 Entertainment are proud to present DeVotchKa at the Boulder Theater for the annual Halloween show on Saturday, October 29th, 2011. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 22nd for $42.00 General Admission.
With the release of the band's fifth album, "100 Lovers" (Anti- Records, 2011), the band headed back to the romantic influences of the Arizona desert with producer Craig Schumacher (Calexico, Neko Case) to create a compendium of short stories inspired by the varied moments the band experienced since the release of A Mad & Faithful Telling.
Like many bands, DeVotchKa spent their early years traveling the highways and byways searching for gigs and a musical direction. As time went on, the band began to foster important musical collaborations with the unequivocal Calexico and the seminal gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
The band from Denver has now headlined large venues and performed at practically every major music festival, from Coachella to Lollapalooza. After years of toiling in obscurity, the band was selling out shows from the Fillmore in San Francisco to First Avenue in Minneapolis, with breakout performances at Bumbershoot and Austin City Limits Music Festival. The love spread to Europe and each year, DeVotchKa plays a number of European and American festivals, including Glastonbury and a return to Bonnaroo.
"100 Lovers" is the album DeVotchKa had always wanted to make. "How it Ends" was recorded and mixed in only nine days. On "A Mad and Faithful Telling," the band had more time and conducted complex arrangements and experimental recording techniques. For "100 Lovers", DeVotchKa spent over a year defining their sound, taking multiple trips to the desert studio to craft twelve new recordings. The final product is the bands strongest album to date, filled with songs fans will love, songs to draw in new listeners, and exciting numbers that fit nicely into their rousing live sets. With the new album, DeVotchKa have achieved success carving their own singular sound out of the worlds of rock, opera, theater, dance, and film.
Trampled by Turtles, the highly regarded Duluth, MN acoustic 5-piece, will be making their debut at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this summer. They'll be appearing Friday, June 17 at 4:30 pm (right after Jerry Douglas and before Emmylou Harris – great company to keep).
The band's incendiary sets at SxSW 2011 and Coachella showed up in countless best-of lists and fest recaps by NPR, Esquire.com, American Songwriter and the Boston Globe, to name just a few.
It's been a steady climb for the band since the April 2010 release of their breakthrough record, Palomino. The album is still holding in the Top 5 on the Billboard bluegrass charts, and critical acclaim has accompanied TBT's word-of-mouth reputation as a live band not to be missed. While it's the band's energy and quicksilver picking that has made them a favorite on the tour and festival scene, it's the songwriting that seals the deal. All the band members cut their teeth in rock, punk and metal bands but their original material draws from the same well of inspiration as Townes Van Zant, Dylan, Neil Young, Del McCoury and Ralph Stanley, putting their own unique spin on this classic genre.
Trampled by Turtles have been tapped to provide music for the Adult Swim cartoon Squidbillies, and will be releasing a split vinyl/digital single with fellow Minnesota band Motion City Soundtrack in June 2011. Stay tuned for further details
The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma (ACM@UCO) has a full calendar for the rockin' month of May. It all kicks off days before with its next master class featuring Mark Volman - AKA Flo - of 1960s band the Turtles on April 29. The Los Angeles native found fame with his band's 1967 hit single "Happy Together," and will engage students with an in-depth discussion of his career and performance. On April 30, The Turtles featuring Flo and & Eddie will perform at an ACM@UCO fundraiser.
On May 4, ACM@UCO will hold its inaugural graduation ceremonies, bidding farewell to its first class of students, including those who have landed high-profile jobs in the music industry. Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist and former master class speaker Steven Drozd is confirmed as the special guest speaker for the event.
In addition, on May 5, 60 ACM@UCO-affiliated bands will perform across 11 venues in Oklahoma City's historic district as part of ACM@UCO's Bricktown Takeover. On May 10, ACM@UCO will host a master class with guitar legend Robben Ford. On May 7, ACM@UCO's student-run Performance Lab will play host to a performance by Man Man, followed by The Black Angels on May 20.
Fresh off a sold-out run in California, Steve Kimock kicks off his NYC residency at Sullivan Hall this Wednesday, March 23rd. The weekly Wednesday performance runs through April 6th and features an array of special guest performers such as New Orleans legend Henry Butler, Marco Benevento, Adam Deitch, John Molo, Pete Sears, John Morgan Kimock, with other special and surprise guests. Regarded as a true "musician's musician," Kimock has been coined, "an unknown legend" in a recent CNN piece, and a master of his craft, it's no wonder that Jerry Garcia dubbed him one of his favorite unknown guitar players.
Kimock has gone out of his way to maintain an authentic relationship with his instrument and his sound. Many focus on music specifically, not dealing with sound as the main component. For Kimock, the sound is the reason that he plays and the music is the vessel. With excitingly stunning guitar explorations coupled with melodic mastery and remarkable improvisation, Kimock's distinctive ability to elevate sonically, creates indescribable moments of transcendence for his loyal audiences.
Blending genres from rock, jazz, blues, to middle-eastern and almost everything in between, Kimock has played with some "main" bands over the years, most notably Zero, KVHW, the Other Ones, and was part of the legendary Phil & Friends lineup in '99, a few incarnations of The Steve Kimock Band and most recently the electronica outfit PRAANG. With his keen ability to step onto any stage at any time, and constantly raise the bar with all sorts of bands through a wide-range of genres, Kimock's guitar playing is the stuff of legends.
The Sullivan Hall residency will kick off promptly at 9 PM for three consecutive Wednesday night performances beginning on March 23rd and will run through April 6th -- and in typical Kimock fashion, each night will have its own flavor, sure to bring some unexpected surprises.
Tickets $20 and available at www.kimock.com and http://www.sullivanhallnyc.com.
The Albertans, a quintet of Joel Bravo, Ian Everall, Curtis McLean, Krystin Monaghan, and Alison Yip, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, defects from Alberta, Saskatchewan and the U.S. They met as a collective, and piled into a propane-fueled, converted short bus to tour down to San Diego and back. They toured this way for the next two years, unglamorously, crossing the continent to record in New York, playing shows with bands they didn't know, for people that didn't know them. They traveled 50,000 miles, hopped borders, broke down, and slept on the road. In those two years together, The Albertans recorded an EP and full length with Ernest Jenning Records. They played shows at Sled Island, SXSW, and CMJ with bands such as Cuff the Duke, Hard Drugs, and Woods, and were named one of L Magazine's top NYC bands of 2009. Last Fall, The Albertans finally found a home back in Vancouver, and have been playing shows in BC until now, when they'll leave for SXSW and ultimately a full US tour.
The Albertans recorded their new single and forthcoming album New Age, at Chandelier Studios in Brooklyn, NY. Ernest Jenning Record Company (Cuff the Duke, O'Death, Takka Takka, Still Flyin) have released the full-length album today.
Watch the video 'Megan' here.
The Albertans Live!
March 19th Austin, TX @ FiveOneTwo (SXSW) w/ The Forms, Takka Takka, O'Death
April 1st Bowen Island, BC @ the Bowen Island Pub w/ Daniel Carter
April 2nd Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt w/ Wizzrds, The Killing Time Quartet and Bear Mountain
99.5 The Mountain & Westword are proud to announce that The Pink Floyd Experience will be performing Animals in its entirety, plus other classic Pink Floyd songs, at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, March 24th, 2011.
Without question, Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Their record-breaking status is legendary. The 1977 concept album Animals was a statement regarding the decline of society of the day. While making the album did set in motion the discord that would eventually destroy the band, the subsequent tour for this release planted the seeds for what would become The Wall. Now, get ready for THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE as they perform Animals live in its entirety! With an even more spectacular light show than before, full quadraphonic sound and six outstanding musicians dedicated to bringing you the most authentic Floyd experience possible, it's "a must-see for any Pink Floyd enthusiast!" (C-News, Northampton, MA).
Today, years since their last live performance, Pink Floyd's appeal continues and spans the generations. Their shows were described as theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. The show is not only onstage…it engulfs the audience! In keeping with this tradition, THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE is a full-on sensory assault – interpretive videos, plane crashes, flying pig, helicopter – it's all there, LIVE! This is the show for the ultimate Floyd Fan, and it gets closer to the true Pink Floyd concert experience every year!
In addition to Animals, all of Pink Floyd's greatest hits are performed live including such favorites as "Money," "Have A Cigar," "Time," "Comfortably Numb," "Run Like Hell" and many rarities not often heard live.
Some Floyd Facts: More than 200-million albums have been sold since 1967. Four Grammy nominations in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. They were one of the first bands to use pyrotechnics, video, and light shows in their stage acts. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. "Dark Side of the Moon" broke all chart records when it stayed on the Billboard Top 200 Album charts for 741 weeks. It stayed there from 1973 to 1988. Nearly 1,000,000 Pink Floyd catalog albums are sold each year worldwide.
Don't miss out! THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE.
Tickets are on sale at Boulder Theater Box Office. Call (303) 786-7030 for tickets by phone.
Tickets are also available through our website @ www.bouldertheater.com.
Tickets are On Sale Friday December 24th!
$30 adv / $35 dos
Without question, Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Their record-breaking status is legendary. Now, get ready for THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE! With an even more spectacular light show than before, full quadraphonic sound and six outstanding musicians dedicated to bringing you the most authentic Floyd experience possible, it's "a must-see for any Pink Floyd enthusiast!" (C-News, Northampton, MA).
Today, years since their last live performance, Pink Floyd's appeal continues and spans the generations. Their shows were described as theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. The show is not only onstage…it engulfs the audience! In keeping with this tradition, THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE is a full-on sensory assault – interpretive videos, plane crashes, flying pig, helicopter – it's all there, LIVE! This is the show for the ultimate Floyd Fan, and it gets closer to the true Pink Floyd concert experience every year!
All of Pink Floyd's greatest hits are performed live including such favorites as "Money," "Wish You Were Here," "Time," "Comfortably Numb," "Another Brick in the Wall" in addition to rarities not often heard live!
Some Floyd Facts: More than 200-million albums have been sold since 1967. Four Grammy nominations in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. They were one of the first bands to use pyrotechnics, video, and light shows in their stage acts. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. "Dark Side of the Moon" broke all chart records when it stayed on the Billboard Top 200 Album charts for 741 weeks. It stayed there from 1973 to 1988. Nearly 1,000,000 Pink Floyd catalog albums are sold each year worldwide.
Don't miss out! THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE.
Tickets are on sale at Boulder Theater Box Office. Call (303) 786-7030 for tickets by phone. | Tickets are also available through our website @ www.bouldertheater.com.
Tickets are On Sale Friday December 24th! -- $30 adv / $35 dos
"After I take over the world, I want to learn how to play the bass," says effervescent, long-time Kids of Widney High member Cain Fonseca. One of nine singer/songwriters, Cain is a young adult from East LA with developmental disabilities who—along with the rest of the Kids—writes, records, and performs his own unique brand of rock music.
Begun in 1988 at special-education high school Joseph P. Widney High, the Kids grew out of an adaptive songwriting class that is still in operation today and continues to churn out specialized musicians and singers, some of whom have formed their own permutation of "Kids of Widney High"-esque bands.
Having in the past been compared to the likes of: Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, Langley Schools Music Project, and Florence Foster Jenkins, the Kids of Widney High have been covered in both concert performances and on album recordings by such hot bands as: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Aquabats, and Osaka Popstar (comprised of members of: the Ramones, the Misfits, and Black Flag). They also boast a dedicated fanbase that includes everyone from Marilyn Manson and Fiona Apple to actor James Garner and filmmaker Spike Jonze. Playing the LA leg of the Warped Tour some years back, a prominent record producer handed to the Kids their first album—made by an earlier lineup of members—that had at one time been owned by Kurt Cobain.
In the past, the Kids have worked with musical luminaries Jackson Browne (who assisted them with the recording of the second of four albums they have out to date), Mr. Bungle/Faith No More frontman Mike Patton (who took them on their first tour along with Bungle, and who put out a Kids album on indie pioneering label Ipecac), and various producers/writers from South Park who worked with the Kids and a similar group, MTV's How's Your News, on a television pilot some years back. The Kids were also prominently featured in comedic hit film The Ringer starring Johnny Knoxville and Katherine Heigl.
Having now broadened their artistic endeavors to encapsulate: fine art, films, music videos, short documentaries of their own, creative writings, poetry, and fashion designs, the Kids decided upon taking their first headlining, full-length tour up the West Coast (from Los Angeles to Seattle and back) two summers ago. Along the way, the Kids played a number of gigs at high-profile venues, made time for local print/online media syndicates and radio shows, exhibited their artwork and short films, and read their writings (including one oration at Beat epicenter City Lights in San Francisco).
Sponsored in part by Sony PlayStation, this tour was also an opportunity for the majority of Kids members—all of whom come from financially challenged backgrounds—to see a world outside of the city of Los Angeles. But, as Kids member (and self-proclaimed "class clown") Peewee proudly intones, "We're not here to tell a sob story. No! We're having fun. Are you having fun?"
Act Your Age: The Kids of Widney High Story is a vibrant, life-affirming, funny, and wholly compassionate film that explores just what happens when a specialized group of artists such as the Kids of Widney High finally take to the road as they visit new cities and peoples, teaching their fans about the changing world of the disabled community at large. Along the way, the Kids fight, they love, they grow apart and together, they party—as do all raucous rock bands on such rapid-fire tours!—and come out the other end, as Kids frontman Shelly Goodhope says of himself, "A better man."
Supplemented by over ten years of footage from various venues, fans, groupies, and the Kids themselves, Act Your Age is also an incredibly intimate portrait of a subculture that has been for far too long misunderstood and, ultimately, disenfranchised in the eyes of the general mainstream public.
Comparable to such independent mainstay music documentaries as: Dig!, End of the Century, and Fugazi's Instrument, Act Your Age: The Kids of Widney High Story is a poignant and often funny look at a group of artists who are ready to challenge conventional notions about persons with disabilities and contemporary art in America today.
It's time for everyone to see the world through the eyes of a Kid!
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The definition of bluegrass is being challenged. Ever since the "O Brother" bubble burst, string-bands have developed into the mainstream redefining bluegrass and shifting the limiting paradigm of acoustic instruments. Divergent string-band worlds collide as thrash grassers Trampled by Turtles and virtuosic-jammers The Infamous Stringdusters team up to bring you the Fly Palomino Tour.
The Infamous Stringdusters are at the forefront of a new movement in bluegrass music and touring in support of their Sugar Hill release Things That Fly. Their unmatched virtuosity has enabled them to take acoustic music to a completely new level. They wield an expansive repertoire touching on masters from Jimmy Martin to John Hartford, but their strength lies in their original compositions. Dedication to arrangements sets them apart and extended improvisation makes every performance completely unique. The live Stringdusters experience is anti-formulaic, groove friendly, and mind-expanding - not your granddaddy's bluegrass. Unless your granddaddy was Jerry Garcia.
11/04/10 Chicago, IL @ Double Door 11/05/10 Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig 11/06/10 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom 11/08/10 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall 11/09/10 South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 11/10/10 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East 11/11/10 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom 11/12/10 Falls Church, VA @ State Theatre 11/13/10 Baltimore, MD @ 8×10 11/14/10 Charleston, WV @ Mountain Stage 11/16/10 Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle 11/17/10 Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 11/18/10 Wilmington, NC @ Soap Box Laundro Lounge 11/19/10 Charlotte, NC @ Visulite Theatre 11/20/10 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse


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KALW's Key to Station Greatness (on a Shoestring)
Emily posted on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 | Blog, PRX
I didn't need to know about News Director Holly Kernan's Murrow or Sigma Delta Chi to understand that there is something special going on at KALW News. Week after week, KALW is churning out (and uploading to PRX) oodles of well-crafted stories — stories that may take place in San Francisco, but are captivating no matter where you are. As a curator of Public Radio Remix, I can't get enough of them. Yet, KALW's newsroom has a tiny budget and a staff of only nine: Holly, her cohost, two engineers and five producer/editors.
In the following interview, KALW News Director Holly Kernan told me how KALW does (and doesn't) make it all work.
How are you pulling it all off?
Oh man, it's not easy. We are all overworked and underpaid. But it's just that we've put together this stunningly creative team here.
We started this newsroom from scratch in 2004 to try to fill the void in local media left by shrinking commercial outlets. A couple premises were at the center of it. One was that arts and creativity would be at the center of our news coverage. Another was that we would strive to have the highest possible quality reporting and production, even though we had no staff — I think we started with me as a half-staff. So our formula was to have professional editors and a newsroom with community volunteers and student reporters in our training program. We try to help them skate the creative edge and do really high quality work; and our newsroom ends up looking like the community we serve.
What are you prioritizing in your newsroom? How do you decide what to cover?
"Don't give me an issue.
Tell me a story."
Stories, stories, stories! We prioritize those delight and discovery stories that connect us. We don't cover all the beats that we'd like to just because of money, but we prioritize stories and topics that other places might be reluctant to cover, like criminal justice and education — because we think that's part of the mission of public radio. And because we're local, we're trying to tap into the 'what's your neighbor doing,' How can I meet that neighbor through this connective tissue of radio?
One thing that stands out for me is how easy it is to take your stories and rebroadcast them for a national audience. How are you balancing or framing local vs. national storytelling?
I'm doing the happy dance from what you just said!
My sense is that usually a good local story is a good national story, but frankly we decided not to give a damn about national, because our mission is to report on this local community. But we are looking for great stories, right! That's one of the things that we constantly drum into people's heads: don't give me an issue. Tell me a story. Maybe it's a story that will help me understand an issue or a topic, but I want a story. And stories are about people doing things, not about issues. So maybe that's it.
You guys are doing so much on such a small budget. Can you talk about how you make your budget work?
"I buy lottery tickets.
I really do buy lottery tickets."
We don't! When we started this in 2004, I thought that if we could be successful — and from all of the things you're telling me and all the awards we've gotten, we have been successful — somebody would just drop 5 million bucks on us. I was so naive. That didn't happen yet. I buy lottery tickets. I really do buy lottery tickets.
But really, my priority is paying people.
You must save money by working with students and volunteers, though?
"Our experience is that when you
hold people to high standards,
they meet them."
Yes. We have about 20 community volunteers who are rotating through all the time. We don't have our volunteers making photocopies and transcribing things, we have them producing for us. We've created this environment that is so fun to be in and it's such a creative place. People keep coming and coming and wanting to work with us. A lot of them eventually go on to other places like NPR, KQED (one of the other San Francisco public radio stations), and KPBS (the major public radio station in San Diego).
How do you make sure that what you're going to get from all of these volunteers is good quality?
Well, we train them for a long time. We teach them how to get hot tape, and we do heavy, heavy editing. The quality varies somewhat but our standards are very high — and our experience is that when you hold people to high standards, they meet them. Some people look at student work as less than professional, and our expectation is that you can do professional quality work. We do triple sourcing, and we fact check everything. And we guarantee broadcast, which also forces us to really be rigorous.
What kind of programming or projects do you dream about doing, regardless of funding, say 5 or 10 years down the road?
You know I'd love to map the cultural and artistic geography of this place: something interactive with an iPhone app, with stories that could pop up anywhere you were. Where you could touch a screen and hear a story about your local bookstore, or upload your stories. I'd love to be able to collect stories better and then produce them.
And then, to be able to cover public education in a sustained way, with young people leading that coverage.
I could keep going! If someone has that 5 million, I have some ideas!
What's brewing at KALW now that we should be looking out for?
We just started a partnership with Youth Radio that we're really excited about. We're hoping to expand our daily show Crosscurrents from a half-hour to an hour, using more local youth radio content. Also, we're located inside of a high school and we're going to start a training program for high school students, having them produce new stories from new perspectives for us.
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June 8, 2011
[...] well-crafted stories get picked for our station Public Radio Remix quite often. PRX talks with KALW News Director Holly Kernan about her special approach to local news and getting the right [...]
[...] KALW in San Francisco uploads tons of stories that are great for Remix and for second-run broadcast on stations across the country. PRX's Emily Corwin spoke to KALW News Director Holly Kernan about their priorities and process. "…we are looking for great stories…That's one of the things that we constantly drum into people's heads: don't give me an issue. Tell me a story." -Holly Kernan | read the full interview [...]
June 13, 2013
[...] But with a small staff and a tiny budget, how is KALW pulling it all off? I interviewed Holly Kernan, KALW's News Director, for a PRX blogpost. Check it out. [...]
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There are lots to see and do at Cragside House. Each Wednesday our volunteer cooks are in costume recreating authentic Victorian recipes in our magnificent kitchen for our Victorian Baking Days. On the same day you can also watch volunteers carry out conservation cleaning on items from the collection in the Gallery as well.
Our collection
As the house grew, Armstrong's collection grew with it. His enthusiasm for collecting included contemporary British art, furniture, ceramics & natural history as well as items of scientific curiosity and experimentation.
Meet our conservation housekeepers
Ever wondered what our team love the most about Cragside? Which is their favourite room in the House and what do they really get up to when the house is closed over winter? We met Philip and Alex, our conservation housekeepers and found out what goes on behind the doors.
Our slave girl heads to America
Our beloved Slave Girl sculpture has been shipped off to feature in an exhibition called Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention at Yale Center of British Art, Connecticut, USA. She will be on display until November and then will travel to Tate Britain, London from late February to May 2015.


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The [independent] City of Richmond adopted a policy many years ago of ONLY hiring "outsiders" for top administrative jobe (like CHIEFS) We have been payoing a price for this ever since. Chiefs come & go rapidly, and establish NO CONTINUITY. Experience, especially lLOCAL experience, is not a plus. Tha City Council's attitude is that if an Officer is a Staff Supervicor here, he or she must be an incompetent nincompoop incapable of ever leading anything, and certainly NOT chief material. Yet MANY of our high-ups - NON-CHIEFS HERE - went on to become excellent Chiefs elsewhere, and held their jobs there for years on end. Makes me really believe in promoting from within ONLY. Now many of our Preachers are expressing theeir dissatisfaction with our Mayor's firing the most recent Chief. Usually our preachers are glad enough to see a chief go; this one was a taxpaying voter's delight. He's replaced by a FORMER Deputy Chief NOT SO POPUL:AR WITH ANYBODY HERE.


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Entertainment industry lawyer, a former Napster exec, is killed in bike crash with cop car
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By Debra Cassens Weiss
An entertainment industry lawyer who was formerly chief operating officer for Napster was struck and killed while riding his bicycle on Sunday.
Milton Everett Olin Jr. of Woodland Hills, Calif., was pronounced dead at the scene, report the Los Angeles Daily News and the Los Angeles Times. He was 65 years old and had been practicing law since 1975.
Olin was a partner at Altschul & Olin, based in Encino, a firm he co-founded after leaving Napster. He was president of business and legal affairs for A&M Records before joining Napster in 2000. A&M had sued Napster, a file-sharing service, for contributory infringement, winning a favorable ruling in 2001, according to this New York Times story.
Lt. Ronald Williams of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Civil Litigation Unit told the Daily News he could not comment on "the positioning of the bicycle or vehicle" while the investigation is continuing. The story cites a report by KCAL TV that Olin was in the bike lane at the time of the crash.
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Board of Education Adds Technololgy Requirements to Teacher Prep Guidelines
Posted: June 14, 2007
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -Reading, writing and instructional technology are on the lesson plan for future teachers. The West Virginia Board of Education has updated its policies outlining how colleges and universities prepare prospective teachers for the classroom as well as the requirements for licensure.
Policy 5100: Approval of Education Personnel Preparation Programs updates include requiring teacher and administrator preparation programs to contain a minimum of three semester hours of instructional technology coursework. The updates also requires candidates for licensure to complete field-based experience in the areas in which they will be certified and requires programs approved by the West Virginia Board to employ full-time faculty with a degree, expertise or certification in the areas in which they are teaching.
�If we expect our children to learn 21st century skills, we must make sure we help West Virginia teachers stay up to date so they can bring the world into their classroom and take their students out into the real world,� said state Superintendent Steve Paine. �These changes will help us on this journey.�
The revisions also allow up to 40 hours of experience outside of the public school to be considers toward the 125-hour field-based experience requirement and reduces the period that higher education institutions can be placed on conditional approval from two years to 18 months.
In addition, changes extend the time an applicant can apply for licensure from three months to a year, consolidates two reporting requirements and adds Chinese and instructional technology as areas to be recognize on the professional teaching certificate.
The Board also approved changes to Policy 5202: Minimum requirements for the Licensure of Professional/Paraprofessional Personnel and Advanced Salary Classifications.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2008, teachers renewing their certification must have three of six hours of coursework in instructional technology. The revisions also create an advanced credential to recognize and reward educators for completing coursework, professional development and testing requirements outside the requirements for professional licensure.
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Hello, Toronto fans. My name is Cory Spiers, I am a contributor at Canes Country.
I know that when there is a new player on your team, first-hand accounts from people who have written about and watched that player can go a lot farther than YouTube highlight packages and scouting reports.
With that said, I put this together for you all regarding Gleason and some things you may have not known about him.
Congratulations on your Winter Classic showing, be safe in 2014.
Warm regards from myself and Canes Country.
On the surface, the deal between the Maple Leafs and Hurricanes that sends defenseman John-Michael Liles and the rights to Dennis Robertson to Carolina for defenseman Tim Gleason seems like little more than a shot at changing the scenery of two struggling defensemen with similarly structured contracts.
And while that is true, Toronto is perhaps gaining far more in Gleason than some connected with the organization realize.
A quick glance at Gleason's statistics this season leaves a lot to be desired.
Never touted as an offensive force, Gleason has only one assist and no goals in the 17 games he has appeared in this season.
Also, his -7 +/- rating places him easily in the bottom fourth of the team in that regard.
What, then, makes Gleason a valuable commodity?
From someone who has watched him play since he was acquired by Carolina in 2006 from the Kings, I would contest you can sum up the former first round pick's style of play in two words- warrior-like.
A glance back at Gleason's stats during the shortened 2012-13 season don't exactly do him justice, either.
That season, Gleason suited up for 42 games, collecting nine assists and finishing with a -3 +/- rating for the season.
To understand fully how a healthy Gleason can impact a lineup, the best season to study is the 2008-09 campaign- coincidentally the last time Carolina qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
That season, Gleason, mostly healthy, appeared in 70 games and amassed 12 assists.
Gleason and Dennis Seidenberg were touted that year as being the quintessential "shutdown defenders" often being entrusted with the coverage of some of the finest players Carolina met in the classic run to the Eastern Conference Finals that year.
As the Hurricanes knocked off the Devils in the quarterfinals, Gleason helped to hold Zach Parise to three goals in the seven-game series.
In the second round matchup with Boston, Gleason and Seidenberg played a part in holding Patrice Bergeron goal-less.
Gleason and the Hurricanes would end up being swept by the Penguins, with Gleason finishing the playoffs with one goal and four assists and a -2 rating, appearing in all 18 games against top-line talent.
Despite the fact that Gleason has tasted the postseason only once in his NHL career, the defenseman has served as an alternate captain and even during long stretches of losses, Gleason can be counted on to take accountability.
Last season, after Carolina dropped their seventh game in a row and franchise-record eighth-straight at home, Gleason stayed stoic and strong after another loss.
"The old saying is that it's not over until it's over," Gleason said in an interview with Hurricanes.com. "Everyone in here has a job to do, and you have to do it to the best of your ability. From a personal standpoint, I think that's what you look at."
That fighter's attitude is appropriate, as Gleason has been known to drop the gloves under the right circumstances, too.
In 491 games for Carolina, Gleason has 493 penalty minutes.
The penalties are typically not what most would consider ill-advised, either. His career high in PIMs while in Carolina came in 2010-11 when he totaled 85.
His archive of fight footage on Hockey Fights.com and YouTube, while perhaps not as extensive as the George Parros' of the league, will show you a few five minute penalties that have inflated his totals over the years.
Indeed, Gleason plays like a warrior.
A silver medalist with team USA in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, some fans were clamoring for Gleason to be the fifth captain of the Hurricanes when former-captain Rod Brind'Amour was bumped down to alternate captain that same year.
Once Eric Staal was instead named to the role, Gleason has donned the "A" on his sweater for many games in the meantime.
What has contributed to the downfall of Gleason's play could largely be due to injuries.
Some analyzing his play say he seems like he has "lost a step" which is entirely possible considering he has had a tough time staying healthy for Carolina recently.
Since signing a 4-year, $16 million contract extension with the Hurricanes in 2012, Gleason has found his way to the injured reserve list with a lower-body injury as well as a concussion.
Looking at the 28 games missed with various injuries during the 2013 calendar year, and it would seem that perhaps Gleason has slowed down because injuries have mounted up.
Gleason has been praised for being active in the community, as well.
He is known for being enthusiastic about the 24-hour bike challenge held at the Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic. The charity event raises money for the Kids'N Community Foundation.
"There's nothing better when we get a chance to do this, you'd do it any time you can," Gleason said in an interview with WRAL. "To give back, and then get some exercise at the same time is even better."
A change of scenery coupled with the time the 30-year old needs to get healthy could yield promising results for Toronto.
If there was ever one series of events that sums up Gleason when he is at his best, it came in December of 2009.
Late in the first period of a matchup against the Capitals, Gleason deflected an Alex Ovechkin shot with his own stick, causing the puck to ricochet upward and glance off his face.
He did return -the beneficiary of 30 stitches and a full face shield.
As if poetically scripted, he jumped on a loose puck in the neutral zone while on the penalty kill in the third period and rocketed a slapshot that tied the game at three.
The Hurricanes went on to lose in overtime, but Gleason's heroics were a large part of the extra point in the standings.
"He's unbelievable", Brandon Sutter said in an interview with Canes Country. "He's one of those guys who always shows a lot of character and he's been doing that for us all year."
Gleason, with his signature in-game scowl, may not be the most-searched player on NHL.com.
More than likely, a lot of what he has done on and off the ice with Carolina has gone under the radar, and he probably prefers it that way.
Dave Nonis has been on record as saying Gleason will have to earn his ice time, and that's good.
Gleason seems to play better with a chip on his shoulder.
He was one of my favorites, as a fan and reporter.
It's bittersweet because of his injury struggles and subsequent drop-off in on-ice production, but in the business of hockey, such moves are inevitable.
Gleason may surpass your expectations, or he may not. But either way, I think you will, as I have, grow to appreciate his demeanor and work ethic.


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Supreme Court bans student-led prayer at football games
By Tony Mauro
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In its most significant school prayer ruling in years, the Supreme Court today ruled that Texas public schools may not begin football games with organized prayer, even when recited by a student.
The decision marked a turning point in the Supreme Court's 40-year struggle to draw the line between church and state in the public school setting. After sending signals that it was ready to allow greater religious involvement in schools, the conservative court today tacked back toward a more separationist approach.
The 6-3 decision was a blow to the religious right that is likely to reinject the high court into presidential politics. Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the presumed Republican candidate, actively supported the Santa Fe, Texas, school district in its fight to foster football prayer.
Late today, Bush said of the decision, "I support the constitutionally guaranteed right of all students to express their faith freely and participate in voluntary student-led prayer."
But the Supreme Court majority cast the football prayer as a school-endorsed prayer, rather than a voluntary expression of religious views.
Justice John Paul Stevens objected most of all to the district's "majoritarian process" of allowing students to elect one of their own to give a season's worth of football-game messages. That, said Stevens for the majority, "guarantees … that minority candidates will never prevail and that their views will effectively be silenced."
Stevens added, "School sponsorship of a religious message is impermissible because it sends the ancillary message to members of the audience who are nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community."
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in an angry dissent joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, said the majority opinion "bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life."
The ruling in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe suggests a recommitment by the Court to the strict "Lemon test" for evaluating church-state cases, following a 15-year-long flirtation by conservative justices with adoption of a standard that would be more accommodating to religious practices. Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor, who had both expressed doubts about the 1971 Lemon v. Kurtzman decision, appear now to be reconciled to it.
Rehnquist lamented that the majority in Santa Fe had applied "the most rigid version" of the Lemon test, which uses factors of secular purpose, entanglement and advancement of religion in evaluating whether a state action violates the Establishment clause of the First Amendment.
In a separate action today, the Court declined to review a case involving a Louisiana school district's creationism policy. The same three justices who dissented in the Texas prayer case wrote that they would have heard the creationism case, Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education v. Freiler. Scalia, noting that a majority of the Court had expressed doubts about Lemon, said he would have taken up the case "to inter the Lemon test once and for all."
The Santa Fe decision also closes off one of the most promising routes pursued by advocates of school prayer: framing their fight in terms of student free speech, rather than officially sanctioned prayer.
"The court has drawn the line," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, and chief architect of the strategy. "I'm disappointed at the hostility the court showed toward student speech."
Sekulow said it is possible that if a school were to adopt a "totally neutral" method of selecting a student speaker such as selecting the student with the highest grade-point average instead of a majoritarian election, the prayer that the speaker chose to give might have a better chance of passing constitutional muster.
Language in the majority opinion written by Justice Stevens will probably bolster church-state separationists in a broad range of disputes. Cases involving prayer at graduations in Alabama and Florida are pending before the high court and could be sent back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit as soon as next week in light of the Santa Fe decision. Other disputes over state "moment-of-silence" statutes could also be affected by Monday's ruling.
"This effectively puts an end to student votes on prayer," said Steve Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The same logic applies to graduation prayer."
Said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said, "The court has reaffirmed the principle that prayer cannot be imposed on young people against their will. Mob rule on religion has no place in our public schools."
Philip Baum of the American Jewish Congress said he hoped the decision would bring to an end the "massive resistance," especially in the south, to the constitutional demand for religious neutrality.
First Amendment Ombudsman Paul McMasters said the decision was a good one, but noted "two unfortunate aspects: It doesn't clear up the legal muddle over prayer at graduation ceremonies, and it probably will add fuel to efforts to get the school prayer amendment off the back burner in Congress."
The Texas district's policy was challenged by two families one Mormon and one Catholic whose real names were not used in the litigation because they feared reprisal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the families and struck the policy down.
Fundamental to the Supreme Court's ruling in the case was Stevens' assertion that by devising a policy to allow pregame prayer, the Texas school district had not created a public forum in which the student's speech freedoms would be given greater protection.
Instead, the school policy allowed only for "appropriate" messages and imposed other guidelines that give the student's message "the imprint of the state."
Jan LaRue of the conservative Family Research Council was critical of this aspect of the decision. "The court has made a high school student an agent of the state and then censored her prayer."
The prayer takes place on school property and is broadcast over the school's public address system, Stevens noted. And even though attendance at football games is not required, Stevens said, students feel "immense social pressure" to be present.
"Even if we regard every high school student's decision to attend a home football game as purely voluntary," Stevens said, "we are nonetheless persuaded that the delivery of a pregame prayer has the improper effect of coercing those present to participate in an act of religious worship."
Stevens' only concession to student religious practices came late in his opinion: "Nothing in the Constitution as interpreted by this Court prohibits any public school student from voluntarily praying at any time before, during, or after the schoolday. But the religious liberty protected by the Constitution is abridged when the State affirmatively sponsors the particular religious practice of prayer."
Rehnquist expressed concern that the majority's logic could be used against a school that sponsors the singing of the national anthem at a football game, because the anthem's concluding verse is "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'"
Tony Mauro covers the Supreme Court for American Lawyer Media and is a legal correspondent for the First Amendment Center.


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Le Bonheur Children's Hospital is seeing an uptick in the number of children being admitted with the flu. The hospital says 200 children tested positive for the flu so far this flu season.
Between 250 and 300 children have gone through Le Bonehur's doors every day for the last three days; the hospital's emergency room says approximately 20 to 25 percent are coming in with flu-like symptoms.
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"The other thing that we are seeing is that the children coming in previous years haven't been quite as sick. This year, they're a little bit sicker and we're seeing a higher percentage being admitted," says Crile Crisoer, Administrative Director of Emergency Services at Le Bonheur.
Le Bonheur says they're admitting nearly ten children with the flu each day, and the number continues to grow.
Doctor's at the children's hospital say to keep children from getting sick, make sure they receive the flu vaccine - available in a shot or mist - and have them wash their hands frequently. Crisoer also says, "When children are sick, they (parents) should keep them out of school. When they have a fever, don't send them to school. That really spreads the virus."
The hospital says this flu season does not compare to the large number of H1N1 flu cases they saw in 2009, but emphasize that this flu season they're seeing a larger amount of flu cases than normal.
Le Bonheur's doctors have tested the current flu strain against this year's flu vaccine; they say the vaccine does cover the flu virus that's spreading.
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April is all about conference play, and as it heats up Mark Dixon gives his Takeaways about the last few week of March and what we can take away heading into April.
What Happened: Towson knocks off Hofstra, 7-6
Takeaway: The Tigers started the campaign 0-3, including a season-opening setback to a new program in High Point. The season looked as if it was going to be disastrous. With the win over the Pride, Towson has now won six of eight, improving its record to 6-5. They are 2-0 in the always tough CAA and are in good position for a spot in the conference tournament. Goalie Andrew Wascavage and attackman Thomas DeNapoli have been stellar all year for coach Shawn Nadelen. Wascavage made a season-high 19 saves against Hofstra and is stopping 61% of the shots he has faced in 2013. DeNapoli finished with a goal and two assists vs. the Pride and has 38 total points (28, 10). Their play has kept the Tigers in many games and has put the team in a position to make some noise in the CAA.
What Happened: Duke escapes Harvard, 12-11
Takeaway: The Blue Devils have now won six straight, including victories over Loyola and North Carolina during that stretch. The win over the Crimson was their first one-goal win since downing the Greyhounds on March 8. Minus injured attackman Daniel Eipp (torn ACL, out for season) and coming off a lopsided loss to Albany, Harvard gave Duke all it could handle. Down 10-8 with 7:38 left in the game, the Blue Devils scored three times in one minute to take a lead they would never give up. Will Haus was a difference-maker as Harvard tried to isolate an attackman against the SSDM. Not only did he win the matchup, but also Haus scored two goals, the second tying the game at 10. The play of Haus is a huge plus for the Blue Devils.
What Happened: St. John's knocks off Notre Dame
Takeaway: This Red Storm team is really good. After losing to Syracuse in early March, St. John's has now won four straight. The latest was an impressive Big East road win against the No. 1 team in the nation, 12-10. The win marked the first victory over a No. 1 ranked team in program history. I took some heat for not putting attackman Kieran McArdle as a first-team All-American at midseason. The smooth junior did all he could to prove me wrong as he put up five points against the Irish, giving him 62 on the season. McArdle has a nose for the goal and incredible instincts. One player that has really come on as of late is LSM Dillon Ayers. Ayers had 24 groundballs and six caused turnovers in this four-game run, controlling the middle of the field in a dominating fashion. Ayers has taken his play to another level.
Bonus Takeaway: After two impressive wins over Denver and Ohio State, the Irish have been lackluster in their last two games. Notre Dame struggled to top Rutgers, 7-6, before falling to St. John's. The offense looked impatient and hasty against the Red Storm. While this team has shown the ability to play faster, rushed lacrosse is not the Notre Dame way. Notre Dame has lived dangerously in 2013, coming from behind to win games in the fourth quarter four times this season. They are pushing the luck of the Irish with this type of pattern, as they were not able to dig out of a 10-6 deficit on Saturday.
What Happened: Bellarmine over Fairfield, 8-7
Takeaway: The Knights took what could prove to be a critical ECAC game. With the win Bellarmine moves to 3-2 in conference put themselves on a strong track to make the conference tournament. This is pretty impressive for a program that has gone a combined 0-12 the last two seasons in ECAC play. Goalie Dillon Ward stayed hot with 17 saves against the Stags, keeping his unreal 71% save rate going. LSM Bobby Schmitt limited outstanding Fairfield middie Sam Snow to one assist and registered two helpers of his own. With the loss, Fairfield now faces tough, virtually must-win games against Air Force, at Loyola, at Denver, and at Ohio State in order to stay in contention for postseason play.
What Happened: Penn State wins two last week
Takeaway: A few weeks ago the Nittany Lions were in the midst of a three-game skid. Penn State turned things around against UMass and now own a five-game win streak. The latest victories came against Bucknell (11-3) and Villanova (7-6). Goaltender Austin Kaut was brilliant in both, stopping 14 against the Bison and 17 vs. the Wildcats. His play has really picked up after a so-so start to the season. Perhaps the best news here is that the midfield is starting to chip in more in the goal scoring category. Tom LaCrosse had hat tricks in both games, while Kyle VanThof and Gavin Ahern also tickled the twine. The Penn State attack line can play with anyone in the country but needs some scoring support. Now that that trio of Forster, Sanders, and Sturgis are getting that help this team is more balanced and dangerous than they have been all season.
What Happened: Army throttles Colgate, 10-4
Takeaway: This contest had all the makings of a Colgate afternoon. The Raiders were at home, owned a four-game win streak, and were looking to stay tied atop the Patriot League standings. Army had none of it. The Black Knights scored less than 20 seconds into the contest and never looked back. The marker was tallied by John Glesener, the first of five he would notch on the afternoon. Glesener now has 23 goals and 19 assists on the season and is playing at a first-team All-America level. He is a great complement to Garrett Thul down low on the attack. The defense for Army has been stout most of the season and played very well on Sunday. Defenseman Brendan Buckley shut down Colgate's Peter Baum, holding him without a point for the first time in 54 games. Netminder Sam Somers continued his great play between the pipes with 13 stops and is now stopping 62% of the shots he has faced. While Lehigh and Bucknell are still considered to be the front runners in the Patriot League, this Army team has the ability to score on and defend the best the league has to offer.
What Happened: Lyle Thompson has another big game
Takeaway: The Albany Great Dane has been fabulous all season. In nine games he has registered 25 goals and an amazing 39 assists. His 64 points is almost double the second leading scorer, his brother Miles (33). Last week Lyle poured in eight goals and dished out nine assists as the Danes knocked off Harvard and Binghamton. His play and the offensive firepower of Albany are the main reasons why he is a leading candidate for player of the year and the Danes are the heavy favorites to win the America East.
What Happened: UNC rolls on with two more wins
Takeaway: The Tar Heels have won four straight since dropping a decision to Duke on March 13. The latest victims were Brown (18-12) and Johns Hopkins (11-10, OT). With two big wins last week it appears this team has turned the corner, finding a rhythm and playing consistent lacrosse. The mainstay for production all season has been the attack, led by Marcus Holman and Joey Sankey. In the wins last week another face emerged to help the cause. Davey Emala stepped up with a pair of hat tricks, doubling his season goal total in the process. The Heels seem to have settled down on the defensive end, in the net, and continue to score a lot of goals on offense.
Bonus Takeaway: It was a tough week for Brown and Hopkins. Both the Bears and Blue Jays came to Chapel Hill with decent momentum. Brown was on a five-game win streak but ended up surrendering more goals than they have all season to Carolina, then fell to Princeton 15-8 a few days later. Hopkins was coming off a big win over Virginia but could not hold a late lead and ultimately fell in overtime to the Tar Heels. Both have plenty of opportunities to get back on track, but their best wins are quickly losing their shine. Brown owns a win over Umass; Hopkins over Virginia. As long as those teams continue to struggle both Brown and JHU need to secure more quality wins down the stretch to stay in the hunt for an NCAA bid.
What Happened: Ivy League play continues
Takeaway: I leave the Ivy League out for one week in this space and all I heard was belly-aching from the fans of the conference. Sorry folks, had nothing new to say about the league last week since I pretty much mention the Ivies every time out. Yale over Penn this past weekend surprised me a little. The Bulldogs will always be in games as long as Dylan Levings is around. The Quakers have now lost two straight after beating Princeton a couple of weeks back. Cornell is still the class of the league until proven otherwise, but this may be the deepest and strongest Ivy league lineup of the last five years.
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If I could get a sig of my Hunter (Daieon on Stormrage US) in Hunter T11 with a a nice looking green background that includes my mastiff (Jubbles) that would be amazing. I don't want to get too specific because it seems sigs turn out a lot nicer when the creator can do as they like and come up with ideas. Thanks a bunch!
Isilrien, thanks a lot for putting effort into the sig, it turned out very nice. Keep up the good work=)!
Great sigs being made guys would appreciate it if I could get one for myself. I'll give you a few details.
Character is Hejiin on Azuremyst EU.
Would like it to be Frost-spec-themed-ish.
Will be a Worgen for sure, maybe a upper body shot with the Blue T11. No helm.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello, I'm Delaisa and I am a new member at MMO-Champion. I would like to request a signature to represent me and my guild.
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A Green Cross (represents healing)
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Thanks in advance. =D
Name: Yamice
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Race: Orc
Gender: Male
Gear: Full mage tier 11(the red one) On this page at the top, Ferous has done one I like - especially the one above the death knight. I would also like some colours which contrast the gear well
Additions - Please could I have the title herald of the titans on the sig as well.
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Looking for anybody willing to make awesome happen:
Name - Phantoms
Server - Sen'jin
Race - Draenei
Armor - Tier 10 Heroic, if possible.
Pose - Head and shoulders, maybe a little torso if possible, the floating objects on paladin gear would be awesome if they were the most significant, again, if at all possible. (Check the 'background' info for the feeling I'm looking for.)
Size - As long as it fits according to the rules.
Background - I'm a rather somber person, but I do not prefer complete darkness, and I play a paladin, harbinger of the light. :S Sooo, if someone is able to embody that in an epic background of a signature in whatever color scheme you think fits, I'd be most pleased.
If it can be done, I'd love to see it, and I appreciate any work anybody is willing to put into this. Thanks a lot.
Non MMO-Champ request:
My requests are still very closed, and I won't be answering PMs about requests.
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Hi, im kinda new to the forum but i like it and would love to costumize myself a bit, so i was hoping you could help me with a nice signature ^^
the thing is i have an idea i think is really nice but i kinda suck at photoshopping and such tools and faild at doing something on my own.
here some background: I started as horde and love my shaman. but for the sake of playing with my friends i play now alliance but dont stand to it bye any stretch of the imagination ^^
My main char is a female draenei hunter and i grew to like her. still im a horde in the heart so i had the idea of a draenai with the horde symbol as the "gift of the naruu" symbol =D you know the blue floating thing ^^
My hunter has the standart t10 look and it doesnt really matter if that comes through, but for the head: wavelike backgoing horns, a mid blue skin and a brown ponytail.
hope that enough information for you and maybe someone likes the concept of horde draenei as much as i do ^^
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Colorado Provides Additional $3 Million to State AIDS Drug Assistance Program to Cover Patients on Waiting List
July 20, 2004
Colorado officials have given the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program approximately $3 million to cover the 315 people currently on a waiting list for treatment, the Denver Post reports (Auge, Denver Post, 7/16). Colorado's ADAP, which is funded with state and federal money, since April was among 13 states nationwide that had implemented cost-containment measures, according to a report released in May by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors and the AIDS Treatment Data Network. It also provided only 18 drugs under its coverage program -- the lowest among all ADAP programs in the United States; did not provide any of the 14 drugs highly recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service/Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines to prevent opportunistic infections; and had a net decrease in its ADAP budget (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 5/20). The additional $3 million, which is enough to provide drugs for all of the people on the waiting list, is a one-time contribution drawn from the state's tobacco settlement money, according to Colorado ADAP Director Scott Barnette. In addition, the state will use the funding to increase the number of medications covered under ADAP. State legislators will revisit the funding issue next year, Barnette said (Associated Press, 7/16). One thousand patients will be covered under Colorado's ADAP when everyone on the waiting list begins to receive medications, according to Barnette. He added that 20 to 25 people apply monthly for the program because of increases in unemployment and loss of health insurance (Denver Post, 7/16).
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Washington, D.C., Officials, Health Workers Criticize City's TB Surveillance, Care, Especially Among HIV-Positive People
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Not surprisingly, the internet soccer community has been abuzz over Luis Suarez's handball that prevented a certain goal for Ghana and allowed the match to proceed to a penalty shootout from which Uruguay ultimately emerged victorious. Some believe that Suarez did the only thing he could have done. By handling to ball he was aware that he would award Ghana a penalty, be sent off and be forced to miss the semi-final should Uruguay advance, but seeing as how the alternative was almost certain defeat, he was left with little choice. Others believe that once the ball was headed towards goal that Suarez has an ethical responsibility to adhere to the rules of the game and that by knowingly handling the ball he was being disrespectful towards not only the game but the very concept of sportsmanship in general. To those opposed to Suarez's actions Uruguay's victory is tainted and to a not-insignificant number of them Suarez will most likely be thought of as a cheater for the duration of his career.
With that being said, I find the opposite side of the argument interesting. In my view the only unethical actions that can take place on the field are those that are reckless enough that the chance of inflicting injury on one's opponent is implicit and those that attempt to dramatically alter the course of the game through deception. I find Fernando Torres' dive against Chile several orders of magnitude more deplorable than Suarez's handball. Likewise Felipe Melo's rash tackle and spiking of Arjen Robben. I don't see Suarez's actions as unethical; it was blatant, he was punished and it ended up being a worthwhile gamble. Others disagree.And while there is always a risk in attempting to summarize an opposing argument, my interpretation of their opinion would be that knowingly violating the rules in a desperate attempt to stave off defeat is desperate, cynical and the very definition of poor sportsmanship. I wouldn't disagree that it's at least one of those, and I could probably be convinced that it's at least two.
In the end though, if the goal of the game is to win, I think you are within your rights to do whatever is in your power to achieve that goal so long as you are not doing so through deception or the use of dangerous force. I would not be opposed to a rule change in that situation that allows the referee the power to grant the attacking team a goal, but considering that we are speaking of FIFA such a radical step seems unlikely. That being the case, I would want players on the teams that I support to make the exact same decision that Suarez made and I would not begrudge an opponent for doing the same.
In the end, it's a shame it had to happen. Even before the controversial ending this was the most exciting match of this World Cup and it's a shame that it is sullied in the eyes of some. I would have preferred the ball find the back of the net (for several reasons) and, failing that, I would have preferred Gyan convert the penalty (for similar reasons.) It wouldn't be the World Cup without a bit of controversy though, and given the choice I'd prefer something like this to yet another reminder of the insanity of FIFA's opposition to technology as refereeing aids.


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Many viruses and bacteria infect humans through mucosal surfaces, such as those in the lungs, gastrointestinal tract and reproductive tract. To help fight these pathogens, scientists are working on vaccines that can establish a front line of defense at mucosal surfaces.
Scientists have found why a certain type of bacteria, harmless in healthy people, is so deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis. The bacterium, Burkholderia cenocepacia, causes a severe and persistent lung infection in patients with CF and is resistant to nearly all known antibiotics. Cystic fibrosis is a chronic disorder characterized by a buildup of mucus in the lungs and other parts of the body, and various types of lung infection are responsible for about 85 percent of deaths in these patients.
Experts from Bristol and Nottingham are leading a major new national study to investigate whether intravenous antibiotics are effective in killing a common germ that causes dangerous complications in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.
Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until it's too late for medical treatment.


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Citrus-Baked Chicken
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dried mint
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 1/2 pounds chicken breast halves, cut in half, or chicken thighs
- 1 orange, quartered and sliced
- 1 lemon, quartered and sliced
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1/2 cup imported green olives, pitted
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
1. Combine salt, pepper, mint and allspice in cup. Rub garlic over chicken, then sprinkle with salt mixture. Place chicken in large plastic storage bag. Add orange and lemon slices to bag and squeeze slightly to release juices. Add wine. Seal and marinate in refrigerator overnight.
2. Heat oven to 425 degrees F. Arrange onion slices in jelly-roll pan. Top with chicken mixture and olives. Bake 40 minutes or until browned and cooked through.
3. Transfer chicken and citrus pieces to heated serving platter; keep warm. Pour pan drippings into a glass measure; skim off fat. Combine drippings and broth in small saucepan; boil over medium-high heat, 5 minutes. Pour over chicken. Makes 6 servings.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe 6
- cal.(kcal)295,
- Fat, total(g)12,
- chol.(mg)108,
- sat. fat(g)3,
- carb.(g)9,
- pro.(g)40,
- sodium(mg)645,
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet


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Local performers Lauren and Leanna Price travelled all over the country this summer with parents Tim and Rhonda Price to perform at bluegrass festivals and other music events. Part of their travels this September took them to the "Cumberland Highlanders" stage in Rosine, Kentucky. The girls performed several songs which were filmed for the show. The show runs every Saturday night at 9:30 p.m. on RFD-TV which can be seen on Dish Network channel 241 or DirecTv channel 345. The girls' first scheduled performance will be seen either this Saturday, Nov. 17 or next Saturday, Nov. 24, depending on RFD-TV scheduling. Pictured above, on the stage are Lauren (left), Leanna (right), their dad Tim (back) and camera man Campbell "Doc" Mercer. Lauren and Leanna were the first to play on the show's new stage. Tune in to see these talented Monroe County girls on national television.
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The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Ms Sonia Gandhi will today visit strife-torn Kokrajhar district in Assam to take stock of the situation.
Large-scale violence, which has rocked the State, particularly Kokrajhar and Chirang districts, has claimed 50 lives so far.
Immediately after their arrival, the Prime Minister and the UPA Chairperson will go to Kokrajhar by a special chopper, official sources said.
They are scheduled to visit a relief camp at Falakati and review the situation with Chief Minister Mr Tarun Gogoi and Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) leaders at Kokrajhar.
Both the leaders are scheduled to address a high-level review meeting with Mr Gogoi, State Cabinet Ministers and top police and army officials.


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FORMER England batsman Mike Gatting will roll up his sleeves and get stuck in to some DIY during a visit to Pedmore Cricket Club on Sunday (April 6).
The club is taking part in NatWest CricketForce, an annual initiative that encourages communities to chip in and prepare the country's cricket grounds for the season ahead.
This year, Pedmore has been chosen as one of the showcase clubs that will benefit from a helping hand from the well-known cricket personality.
Club chairman, Roger Price, said: "There's a whole host of jobs that he can get involved in. We are putting up new fencing, which will need painting and we will need to clean around the outskirts of the grounds, cut the hedges and erect safety nets."
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HHS Hits Insurer for $1.5 Million
On March 13, 2012 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it settled its first enforcement action resulting from a reported HITECH breach. In the settlement, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee agreed to pay One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollar ($1,500,000.00) to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. Additionally, Blue Cross agreed to a corrective action plan to prevent further breaches.
The settlement was the result of with Blue Cross' reporting the theft of 57 unencrypted computer hard drives from one of its facilities. The drives contained PHI for over one million members including names, social security numbers, diagnosis codes, dates of birth, and health plan identification numbers. According to OCR, Blue Cross failed to implement appropriate administrative safeguards to protect the information at the leased facilities. Notability, it failed to perform a required security evaluation in response to operational changes at the facility.
The settlement demonstrates the need to consistently evaluate security procedures to make sure that they still work. We have seen frequent instances where a security policy is out dated because of administrative and/or technological changes which make the plan obsolete. Readers may recall that OIG previously released an audit of security policies at hospitals and found that for those hospitals subject to the audit, security policies were grossly inadequate. We can expect further audits in this regard as OCR ramps up security enforcement.
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Interstate 57 southbound is back open after it was shut down at mile post 82 around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday due to several crashes.There were still patches of snow and ice in the area. Troopers say a semi tractor trailer rolled onto its side due to weather conditions. Barrington D. Wilson, 22, of Stroudsburg, Penn. was driving a 2013 Volvo semi with a box trailer. It was southbound at mile post 81.5 when Barrington lost control, slide into the median and overturned. He was not injured. He was charged with driving too fast for conditions. Also, a second semi hit the rear of a Ina Police Squad car. The officer was not in the police car and was not injured. The officer had been providing traffic control. The semi was driven by Mirsad Hadzallc, 53, of Holland, Michigan. The semi came to rest in the median. the squad car stayed in the southbound lanes. Hadzallc was charged with driving too fast for conditions and failure to yield to stationary emergency vehicle. Hadzallc was not injured. After these two crashes, vehicles were backed up on the interstate. Patricio Melendez Arrieta, 52, of El Paso, Texas was driving a 1996 Volvo semi pulling a car hauling trailer. Zacharia A. Kofski, 27, of Richmond, Indiana was driving a 2007 Mack semi 5 axle combination. Kofski slowed down for the traffic back up. Arrieta lost control and hit Kofski's semi in the rear. Kofski's vehicle went into the median. Arrieta was charged with driving too fast for conditions. Kofski was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Arrieta and a passenger in his semi were not injured. Copyright 2014 KFVS. All rights reserved.
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Mario Jumps Atop JP Sales Charts
Posted on Wednesday, November 9 @ 18:10:36 Eastern by Heath_Hindman
1. (3DS) Super Mario 3D LandConsidering the install base of the 3DS at this point, its initial report of 343 thousand units sold represents an extremely good debut for Mario 3D Land. That's more than Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and both Mario Galaxy games saw in their respective launch weeks.
Mario's new game didn't just sell a lot of software, the little jumping plumber was also clearly a factor in selling some hardware, as shown by these system sales:
3DS – 145,271Any time a system gets more than, say, 45k in Japan, it can be said that it had a very big week. If it's been out for a few years, then make that 30k. Nintendo's 3DS walked in and pretty much backhand slapped everyone this week.
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It's like déja vu all over again...
The Oakland A's have put Rich Harden back on the DL, per espn.com, with a strained ligament in his right elbow.
Stop me if you've heard this before. Like, say, a week ago.
Scroll down a bit for my comment.
Sucks for them, but it's yet another example of why the A's aren't going to suddenly run away with the division. This thing is still wide open.


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During just the first two months of 2014, the state of Colorado has pulled in more than $6 million in tax revenue from the sale of marijuana.
On Jan. 1, Colorado became the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Any resident of the state 21 years old and up can buy marijuana and marijuana derived products.
And business is booming.
Business at Medicine Man Denver, one the state's largest marijuana dispensaries, has tripled since January, according to employee Elan Nelson.
"We have a serious case of plant overload right now," Nelson said. "We're actually expanding onto the other side of this building to an additional 20,000 square feet."
Nelson said a lot of benefits have come from the legalization of marijuana in Colorado like tax revenues, job creation and insularly businesses.
But it is not a free-for-all. The state government has put strict rules into effect that go along with the growing and selling of marijuana. The law requires extensive tracking of each plant grown.
In Medicine Man Denver's vegetative grow room, each plant is tagged and tracked by the state. Plants are even color coded to indicate whether it is to be used for recreational or medicinal purposes.
Taylor West with the National Cannabis Industry Association said marijuana shouldn't be openly sold to just anyone.
"What we're saying is that it is a product that can be and should be regulated and taxed in a way similar to how we handle alcohol," West said.
To West, the legalization of marijuana makes sense.
"We're talking billions and billions of dollars that are currently on an underground market with nobody checking IDs, nobody verifying the product purity, or that it's free of contaminants," West said.
In North Carolina, Ignacio Almazan, Raleigh chapter coordinator of N.C. Normal, said the Tar Heel State is missing out on $250 million in tax revenue a year.
"Just look at Colorado. They're pulling in money left and right," Almazan said.
Some North Carolina lawmakers believe the legalization of marijuana is too dangerous.
"Just because people are doing it and violating the law, doesn't mean we should make something legal," said Rep. Tim Moore (R-Cleveland).
Moore believes marijuana is a gateway drug that will lead to other addictions.
"If we're really trying to deal with the issue of substance abuse, the answer is probably not in expanding the drugs that are available," Moore said.
In the past, a handful of lawmakers have tried passing bills that would legalize recreational or medical marijuana but have been voted down every time.
But that may change in the short session that began May 14. Rep. Pat McElraft (R-Carteret, Jones) will soon introduce a bill that would allow CBD oil in North Carolina for children.
CBD oil is an extract from the marijuana plant that's low on THC and high on CBD, and it's believed to reduce seizures in epileptic children. Several Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Tim Moore (R-Cleveland), are on board.
Moore said this bill is not a broad medical marijuana bill but rather one that will help children.
As for Rep. Kelly Alexander (D-Mecklenburg), Rep. Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford) and Rep. David R. Lewis (R-Harnett), in the past they have introduced bills to reconfigure North Carolina's medical marijuana laws.
Most recently on April 11, 2013, the representatives introduced bill H941 that would require the Legislative Research Commission to study medical marijuana related issues such as distribution and possible revenue.
Alexander said he plans on reintroducing a similar bill, in the short session that started May 14, that would allow for a broader medical marijuana bill.
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Ossining's Bravest responded to a fire in a two-family Victorian home at 32 St. Mark's Place in Mount Kisco that displaced 10 people Sunday morning.
The fire was reported at approximately 11 a.m. and was declared under control about 45 minutes later. Ossining was among the departments that responded to assist Mount Kisco firefighters. They were also assisted by companies from Bedford Hills, Chappaqua, Millwood and Yorktown.
"We have 10 people displaced from two families who are being tended to by the Red Cross," said Mount Kisco Fire Chief Tom Jackson. "There were no injuries and the County Cause and Origin Team are investigating the cause."