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Why we shouldn't ignore the WBC protests
Several students have argued that the most effective way to counter the WBC would be to ignore them completely, rather than to give them attention by angrily responding to their hateful messages. I'd like to point out that the students organizing the silent counter-protests against the WBC have considered this option, but they do have legitimate reasoning for choosing not to ignore the WBC's visit to Cupertino High School.
By counter-protesting, we're not expecting the WBC to suddenly change their views and start campaigning for peace; whether we ignore them or not, they will continue on their mission to spread hate. But consider this: if we choose to ignore their protest at CHS, are they going to turn around and fly back to Kansas? No. By ignoring their 8am protest at CHS, we're simply giving them another hour to relax until their next appointment — their 9am picket against the "Celebration of Life" for Steve Jobs at Apple. Why should we give them this break? If they want to waste their time trying to share their hatred with us, it's their problem! All it means is that they will have less energy to spend in their protest against Steve Jobs.
Also, remember that this is a silent counter-protest. The WBC wants us to be offended by their hateful messages; they want us to feel worthless and to cry, to get angry and to insult them back, to attack them so they can sue us and get more money. Unfortunately for them, these are not the types of reactions they will receive from us. By being silent, we are sending them a stronger message. We're letting them know that we are unaffected by their protest, and their ignorant hateful messages are not enough to bring us down.
Silent counter-protesting is the perfect balance between completely ignoring them and angrily reacting to them. It shows them that we have the courage to withstand their offensive comments, yet we have the maturity to keep ourselves composed and indifferent towards their protesting. We are high school students, we are teenagers. They expect us to either hide in our homes and classrooms, or to lose our composure and try to fight them back. Let's prove to them that we're better than that.
On their picket schedule, they said that we, the children of Cupertino, "have no hope, no future, no heaven, no God, no peace!"
They are wrong.
Our hope is to come together as a community to prove that we are stronger than this closed-minded hate group, and our future is one without prejudice, one where the indoctrinated children of the WBC grow up to realize that better opportunities lie beyond the hateful teachings of their parents. We don't all agree on whether or not we have heaven or God, but the beauty of it is that we are tolerant enough to accept the diversity of religions practiced in this city.
We will have to give the WBC acknowledgement; they unknowingly gave our community the chance to become more united than ever. We will not ignore their protests on Wednesday — we will follow through with the silent counter-protests because we, the children of Cupertino, are here to bring peace.


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A lawyer for Chris Brown entered a plea of not guilty on the singer's behalf to a hit-and-run charge, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City attorney's office told KABC Television, OTRC.com's parent company, on Tuesday, July 23.
Two criminal charges were initially filed against Brown on June 25 in connection to a car accident in Toluca Lake on May 21.
According to The Associated Press, Brown rear-ended a car stopped at a red light and reportedly refused to give the other driver his license or insurance information.
The Los Angeles City Attorney's office dismissed the second charge, driving without a valid license, after Brown's attorney provided proof that Brown was licensed in Virginia.
The office also told KABC Television they dropped the failure to provide proof of insurance infraction after Brown's attorney proved the singer had insurance on the vehicle.
A hearing for the case is set for Aug. 15 at 8:30 a.m. PT.
The singer was on felony probation in connection to the 2009 beating of former girlfriend Rihanna. However, a judge revoked his probation last week and ordered a probation violation hearing after Brown was charged with the hit-and-run.

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"Pretty Boy Floyd, I'm the best. The creme de la creme; can't beat me, they better join me"
2005 was a transition year in boxing. As the Roy Jones era in the sport came to a sad end at the hands of Antonio Tarver in their third fight, Floyd Mayweather began his journey to the top of the pound for pound heap by outclassing and dismantling the late great Arturo Gatti. From that point on Floyd has established himself as the undisputed keeper of boxing's kingdom, royalties, conflict and all. He's served as his generation's most recognizable and bankable villain, its most accomplished fighter, and his generation's most naturally gifted boxing technician. Floyd Mayweather has been all things in boxing short of its most beloved iconic folk hero; that role had been played brilliantly by Manny Pacquiao who is now on the fast sliding slope of his hall of fame career.
There are those who love and support Money Mayweather to no end, a fault those same loyalists refuse to accept or to explain. Then there are those who feel the complete opposite of his fan base, although with equal passion and fever. He's the most polarizing fighter I I've ever had the opportunity of watching or studying, really.
I'm 25 years old and would classify myself as a student of the sport. I don't watch boxing as a fan but as someone hungry for the knowledge and fundamentals of this great art. I've followed the sport since 1996 so for me Floyd Mayweather is a fighter who has directly influenced and shaped my era in terms of those who began following the sport from the mid to late 90s until now.
I wouldn't call myself a hater, nor a fan of his, I'm more of the approach that Floyd is who he is and I never judge him for what he does outside the squared circle. For a lot of people the "Money Mayweather" persona is such that it has merged with the man, thus it gives people a reason for their sometimes unreasonable hatred toward him. From his brash personality, his obsessively materialistic lifestyle, to his run in with the law and his four year long tease with a potential fight with Manny Pacquiao, fans have grown tired of the shtick yet they always tune in for a Mayweather fight no matter how unappealingly arrogant and aloof he is to his own behavior.
But when a young, flashy, trash talking super featherweight from Cincinnati came on the scene I suddenly found myself moving closer and closer toward "fan" than simple observer. Floyd was something more than just an all time great defensive specialist, he was a fighter that demanded a greater appreciation. Adrien Broner made me realize just how much Floyd will be missed when he retires.
Everything Broner does Floyd's been doing since he staked his claim in the sport. From his rehearsed gibes, to his fighting style, all the way to how he sits on his stool between each round, it all looks, sounds, and reeks of Floyd Mayweather. I'm stating the obvious, I know but my point is the sudden rise of Adrien Broner as the next big thing in boxing, the sport's next box office pound for pound heir to the throne has prompted a sudden appreciation for Floyd Mayweather on my part.
I spent about two months watching his fights when he campaigned at 130 and 135 pounds. Over and over again I would just study everything he did and it made me appreciate not only who he was as a person but his uncanny talent and ring intelligence. I also wanted to compare early versions of Floyd to the fighter we saw later on.
Will Adrien Broner ultimately fulfill the shoes left unattended by Floyd? Who knows. Will he make good on the hype and become boxing's next crossover star? Maybe, maybe not. I don't think you can replicate the same thing twice and have the duplicate come out exactly without some noticeable flaws. Broner isn't Floyd but someone merely showing respect for his predecessor by imitating them. I don't think he'll ever go undefeated for as long as Floyd Mayweather has. Lightning doesn't strike twice as they say and a Floyd Mayweather doesn't come around every time a new era begins in boxing. There's only one Muhammad Ali, Roy Jones, Mike Tyson, and there will only be one Floyd Mayweather.
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Harris serves as recruiting coordinator for the Utes. Her on-court responsibilities include perimeter player development, practice instruction, and scouting. She also works as the team's administrative liaison, in addition to managing marketing and community relations.
On the AAU circuit, Harris was the Program Director and coach of the Nike sponsored Portland Elite Basketball Organization (PEBO) for eight years, heading the selection and evaluation of players throughout Oregon and SW Washington. An overwhelming 80% of the seniors in her program went on to play college basketball.
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NTSB: Use ignition locks for all drunken driversBy JOAN LOWY
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Double-posted Do Not Enter and Wrong Way signs are shown on an exit ramp. Hundreds of people are killed each a year when drivers turn the wrong way into the face of oncoming traffic on high-speed highways.WASHINGTON Every state should require convicted drunken drivers, including first-time offenders, to use devices that prevent them from starting a cars engine if their breath tests positive for alcohol, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
The ignition interlock devices already required for all convicted drunken drivers in 17 states are currently the best available solution to reducing drunken driving deaths, which account for about a third of the nations more than 32,000 traffic deaths a year, the board said.
Drivers breathe into breathalyzers mounted on the vehicles dashboard. If their breath-alcohol concentration is greater than the devices programmed limit usually a blood alcohol concentration of .02 percent or .04 percent then the engine wont start.
The board also urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to speed up its research effort with automakers to develop systems that can determine a drivers blood alcohol concentration using infrared light when the driver presses an ignition button. The vehicle wont start if the alcohol concentration is too high.
The technology, which is sometimes breath-based rather than touch-activated, is already in use in some workplace drug-testing programs. If the technology were incorporated into all new vehicles, eventually all drivers would be alcohol-tested before driving. That could potentially prevent an estimated 7,000 drunken-driving deaths a year, the board said.
The five-member board made the unanimous recommendations after reviewing evidence that an average of 360 people a year are killed when drivers turn the wrong way into the face of oncoming traffic on high-speed highways.
The boards study analyzed data from 1,566 crashes from 2004 to 2009, as well as nine wrong-way collisions NTSB directly investigated. In 59 percent of the accidents, wrong-way drivers had blood alcohol levels more than twice the legal limit, researchers said. In another 10 percent of the crashes, drivers had alcohol levels between .08 and .14. The limit in most instances is .08.
In just the past week, 11 people were killed and 9 seriously injured in wrong-way driving accidents in eight states, the board was told.
Wrong-way crashes shatter lives and families, said NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman, calling the report and the recommendations a milestone for the board. The technologies hold great promise to be a game changer in highway safety, she said.
The boards recommendations are likely to be strongly opposed by the alcohol industry. The American Beverage Institute, which represents about 8,000 chain restaurants in the U.S., said mandatory ignition interlock devices should be reserved for hardcore drunken drivers and it opposes the new technology that government and industry are researching.
First-time drunk drivers with blood alcohol levels that are less than double the legal limit should be treated differently than drivers with higher alcohol levels and repeat offenders, Sarah Longwell, the institutes managing director, said.
You dont punish somebody going five miles over the speed limit the same way you do somebody going 50 miles over the speed limit, she said.
Also, the developing technology would effectively prevent any one with relatively small amounts of alcohol in their blood from driving, Longwell said.
This would eliminate peoples ability to have a glass of wine with dinner or to have a beer at a ballgame and then drive home, she said.
Older drivers also appear to be part of the wrong-way driving problem, researchers said. Drivers over age 70 were overrepresented in the accidents reviewed in the study, accounting for 15 percent of the wrong-way drivers compared with only 3 percent of the right-way drivers they collided with, researchers said.
Wrong-way driving crashes on interstates, expressways and other high-speed highways are especially deadly because over 80 percent involve head-on collisions in which vehicles close in on each other very rapidly, they said. A study in Michigan earlier this year found that 22 percent of wrong-way collisions were fatal, compared with 0.3 percent for all highway accidents over the same period.
Often the chain of events begins with drivers entering an exit ramp in the wrong direction, making a U-turn on the mainline of a highway or using an emergency turnaround through a median, investigators said.
Most wrong-way crashes including seven of the nine accidents directly investigated by NTSB take place in the fast lane of the highway, investigators said. The accidents also tend to happen at night and on weekends, the study found.
Reducing drunken driving is perhaps the most obvious way to reduce wrong-way driving fatalities and injuries. The board hosted a forum earlier this year on the problem of drivers impaired by alcohol and drugs.
Alcohol-impaired crashes overall accounted for nearly 31 percent motor vehicle fatalities 2010. And, that percentage has remained stuck between 30 and 32 percent of overall highway fatalities since 1995, board members said.
Safety advocates have been lobbying states to pass more laws requiring ignition interlock devices for first-time offenders. According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, states that already have such laws on the books are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Missouris law does take effect until next fall. Also, four California counties including Los Angeles have ignition interlock laws.
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- is well-known by locals for a big children's play area and family-friendly wait staff. This is the place where moms and dads come to have a nice Guinness on tap with some English home-style fare, while their kids don soldier hats and and enjoy the toys in the play area.
- is a no-brainer for wide booths and extensive customizable menus. The El Cerrito Denny's bumps the service up a notch with local wait staff who and seem always to have smiles on their faces. Come often enough and they'll know you by face if not by name.
- is a local treat, still unknown to some locals. Did you know that the owners, who have owned and run this restaurant for a few decades now, came out of recent retirement to cook everything themselves for their customers from scratch? They bring it out to you fresh as it's cooked. There are plenty of tables here to spread out into, and they have a great lunch menu as well.
- is a part of a chain. This local outlet is involved in projects that help West Contra Costa County, such as the Bay Area Rescue Mission. They have large tables and a children's menu. The staff are friendly. There are a number of great deals on food here, from $3.99 breakfast plates to the mile-high sandwich clubs.
- opened in El Cerrito in 1993. Owned by the Wong family, the restaurant has a friendly, family atmosphere and is off the beaten track. There are plenty of large tables, and it is a very popular dinnertime spot. The portions are large, so you get a lot of bang for your buck.


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Rocky Mount, NC's Old Textile Mill Village
When Rocky Mount Mills closed in 1996' the owners didn't know what to do with the vast property overlooking the Tar River. Instead of managing a working textile mill' they found themselves with the task of selling a complex of empty industrial buildings and a village of 62 homes built between 1885 and 1940 as housing for workers.
Fortunately a buyer didn't materialize' and today' the former rental houses within Rocky Mount Mills Historic Mill Village are part of a friendly neighborhood that is being transformed' as houses are being rehabilitated and lots sold for new homes.
"I always had an interest in preservation but never imagined being involved on this level'" says John Mebane' a native of Rocky Mount and a sixth-generation manager of the mill' which was founded in 1818 as one of the first textile plants in the South.
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The ongoing turnaround from sleepy village to active historic neighborhood is being led by a devoted group of people who believe in the area and are willing to invest in the historic houses that range from 850-1'600 square feet.
"It's like an old neighborhood was when I was growing up'" says homeowner Mary Tharrington' who bought and rehabilitated a circa-1908 cottage with beautiful hardwood floors. "Here' everybody knows everybody."
Tharrington is no stranger to the historic neighborhood – she grew up in the village' and her parents worked at the mill. Years later' she worked there' too. After her husband passed away' she found herself wanting to live closer to town.
Around the same time' the cottage where she now lives came on the market' and she "couldn't wait to get it'" she says' noting the ease of being near shopping and health care' and even being able to have pizza delivered. She was also able to move a lot of her beloved plants to her new garden.
"I'm very interested in old houses'" says Tharrington' who adds that her neighbors range from young people to retired mill workers who are all drawn to the charming' historic homes. "I can see the potential' and it's just remarkable."
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After the mill closed' the statewide group Preservation North Carolina saw the potential' too' and brought architects together for a charrette – or brainstorming session – to look at redeveloping the historic site rather than bulldozing it.
The charrette identified possibilities for conversion of the mill buildings for non industrial uses. The rehabilitation of the houses was a critical component of the plan.
A special aspect of Mill Village is its written covenants' which encourage proper preservation techniques and appropriate new construction on the empty lots. The idea came from the renovation of the Edenton Cotton Mill' which was led by Preservation North Carolina.
"We had continued to monitor the progress of the Edenton project and as we saw it working' we began to ask 'why wouldn't this work in Rocky Mount?' " Mebane says.
The protective covenants' which are typically only seen in upscale' new subdivisions' are proving successful in maintaining the character of Mill Village' which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
With 15 lots already sold' residents are looking forward to seeing new construction soon' and also to the completion of a nearby greenway' which will connect Mill Village with scenic walkways along the river extending from City Lake to MLK Park.
"We could never have succeeded without the help of our local preservationist friends as well as those on the state level'" says Mebane' noting that the mill is located on the first area settled in Rocky Mount. "Our local history begins at this site."
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If you clicked on this hoping for an impassioned diatribe about the nature of modern journalism and its effect on athletes, especially NBA athletes who have been conditioned into carefully sculpting their personal brands for public consumption... well, sorry. I have that post in me somewhere, but not today.
Today, I have a simple request.
Someone, at some point during the next year or two, needs to do a video mashup, taking footage from actual CJ McCollum press conferences, and intercutting them with press briefing scenes from The West Wing, which featured the wonderful acting skills of Allison Janney playing White House press secretary CJ Cregg. Not for footage of Janney herself, but i just think it would be hilarious to see all of the reporters in the briefing room yelling out, "CJ! CJ! CJ!!!" followed by some question about foreign policy or economics or some random non-NBA-related topic, and then cut to CJ McCollum giving some well-thought-out answer that sounds articulate and vaguely political. He's such a smooth talker, I bet he'll be into politics in 20 years anyway.
So that's my challenge, Blazer fans. With so many in the Portland metro area creative class, someone with Final Cut Pro and an ear for interesting dialogue should be able to make this happen. Maybe if you do this well enough, the Trail Blazers would feature it on their official site! Maybe this is just the opportunity that could vault some young visual auteur into prominence and onto the path toward stardom. Maybe you could end up guest directing an episode of the 8th season of Portlandia.
I would do it myself, but I'm too lazy.
Here's an example of a typical CJ Cregg scene to give you an idea of what I'm talking about:
I demand five minutes of the kind of light inanity that we're known for. Our national reputation is at stake.


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FORT MYERS, Fla – Senior Richard Stempnowski lost his quarterfinal singles match of the ITA National Small College Championships held at the FGCU Tennis Complex on Thursday. Stempnowski fell to Joe Epkey of Southern Indiana in a three-set, 2-½ hour match. Epkey won the first set 6-1, but Stempnowski rallied to win the second 7-5 before dropping the deciding third set 7-6 with the tiebreaker at 7-3. It was the first loss in five matches this fall for Stempnowski, who had won 13 straight dating back to last spring. His career record at FGCU now stands at 46-13. Epkey improved to 12-2 this fall and advanced into the Division II semi-finals against No.2 seed Eduardo Rincon of Valdosta State. Stempnowski will face Peter Veselosky of Dowling in a consolation bracket match on Friday morning at 8 a.m. The winners of the Division II, Division III, NAIA and Junior College finals on Saturday will face off in the Super Bowl on Sunday. The tournament continues through Sunday at the FGCU Tennis Complex. The matches are free and open to the public.
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There's a trend in current pop-culture criticism toward "consumer reviews," which amount to little more than recitations of a few key details and two or three descriptive phrases, often lifted verbatim from a press kit, to give the "average" reader an idea of whether or not he or she might like to spend his or her hard-earned money on the product. No one wants to read analyses of form or content or broader context; they want a star rating that validates their own tastes. It's the reason Roger Ebert and Rolling Stone give three stars or better to fully three-quarters of what they review; it's not that the products in question really merit such praise, it's that in trying to validate everyone else's opinions, you can't really have one of your own. It's a reductive and ugly line of unthinking, really, but buried in it is the idea that there's a certain value to critical objectivity. Since any fanboy can set up a website, it's important to establish some distance, right?
In the interest of doing just that, I've waited a full month since the release of the Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way to go on the record as to why it's a complete failure of an album and as hatefully sold a product as I've ever encountered. It's been deemed an "important" album in the popular press, presumably because it's one of the first times that a recording artist, in marketing a new record, has done little more than throw a vitriolic, bile-spewing public temper-tantrum and been championed for the bravery of doing so.
But I'll get to that soon enough. I'll begin with the last thing that Taking the Long Way is actually about: the music. In looking to make their break from Nashville, the Dixie Chicks teamed up with producer Rick Rubin, the man behind the best country album of the 1990s, Johnny Cash's American Recordings. On first impression, that seemed like a smart decision, but the release of Cash's Personal File (serendipitously, on the same day as the Dixie Chicks' album) and the overall sonic goo of Taking the Long Way cast significant doubt on how well-prepared Rubin actually is to turn a country star into a rock star. Cash pulled it off because he's Johnny Cash and, as Personal File reveals, he'd already figured out, long before working with Rubin, the right production gimmick to launch the second half of his career. The Dixie Chicks, in contrast, have said that their mantra in recording Taking the Long Way was, "What would Bruce Springsteen do?" To hear Taking the Long Way, it seems that the answer to that question, per the Dixie Chicks and Rubin, is, "Try to sound like Train."
From their breakthrough in Nashville (and, moreover, from their origins as a cowgirl band performing on street corners in central Texas), what's always been most striking about the Dixie Chicks is that they're truly accomplished, first-rate musicians, and they figured out a compelling way to incorporate their skills with traditional country instruments—Martie Maguire on fiddle, her sister Emily Robison on banjo and several others—into a take on modern pop-country that was as distinctive for their actual artistic credibility as it was for their girl-group gimmick and kicking-ass-and-taking-names attitude. With the exception of Natalie Maines's long-range missile launcher of a voice, which is placed front-and-center on every track, Taking the Long Way robs the Dixie Chicks of everything that made them distinctive, entirely losing the vitality of their sound. As bird-named bands who play hybrids of rock and country music go, they aimed for "Lyin' Eyes"-era Eagles and came up with "Hole in the World"-era Eagles: drippy adult contemporary pap that's non-threatening enough that it could play over the closing credits of a Disney cartoon.
As great a singer as Maines might be, that Robison and Maguire are given next to nothing to do for the bulk of the album is one of its most significant flaws. When they do turn up, it's as Maines's backup singers (singing campy doo-wop chants on "I Like It" or leading into orchestral swells that eventually drown them out on "Baby Hold On") or to provide accents, such as Maguire's don't-call-it-a-fiddle on "Bitter End." Bogged down as it is with guest contributors (Bonnie Raitt, Semisonic's Dan Wilson, Keb' Mo', John Mayer, and, of course, Linda Perry), not one of the songs is founded on the fact that the Dixie Chicks are a band. Taking the Long Way could have been recorded by uncredited session musicians without making the Dixie Chicks seem any less involved in its creation. The Wreckers' Stand Still, Look Pretty is more effective in establishing a sound.
It's not just Rubin's production choices that fail, though—it's the songwriting. Looking at their impressive catalogue of hit singles, it's telling that there are just two ("You Were Mine" and "Sin Wagon") on which at least two-thirds of the trio share a writing credit. Their biggest hits were either written by someone else ("Wide Open Spaces," "There's Your Trouble," "Long Time Gone," "Travelin' Soldier") or by one of the Chicks writing with a collaborator ("Ready to Run," "Without You"). On their first three albums, the Dixie Chicks irrefutably demonstrated that they're better at choosing material than at writing it as a group. That's not a knock against them, but an assessment of where, at this juncture in their career, the Dixie Chicks still had some growing room.
Taking the Long Way, in that sense, finds the Dixie Chicks treading water. Too many of the songs lack a melodic hook altogether ("Silent House" and "Baby Hold On" simply let Maines go for whatever high note might strike her fancy, while "Everybody Knows" and "Favorite Year" are interchangeable in their monotony) or take entirely too long to get there ("Easy Silence" drags on forever and ostensible gospel number "I Hope" plays more like a dirge). But for "Bitter End," a Celtic-leaning toast song that has the album's one standout melody, "I Like It," which unfavorably recalls their cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" from the Runaway Bride soundtrack, and the harder rock of "Lubbock or Leave It," the songs are of a nearly uniform midtempo shuffle. It's all so very restrained and so very tasteful and so very safe and so very predictable. Or to mince fewer words, so very conservative.
The lyrics fare little better, with mixed metaphors ("We all rode the wave/Of that crazy parade" on "Bitter End"), clichéd images ("I can change like colors on a wall" on "Everybody Knows"), sloppy internal repetition (the overuse of "I'm mad as hell" on lead single "Not Ready to Make Nice"), non sequiturs ("Sunday morning, heard the preacher say/Thou Shall Not Kill/I don't wanna hear nothing else/About killing and that it's God's will" is the logic-defying opening stanza of "I Hope"), and grade school rhymes ("The words that you said/They still ring in my head," also from "Bitter End") marring nearly every song. "I Hope" is the worst, though, with its "It's okay for us to disagree/We can work it out lovingly" refrain at odds with the remainder of the album's tone and its laughable, decidedly un-Wu-Tang "for the children" attitude entirely hypocritical unless the Dixie Chicks plan to drop signature songs like "Goodbye Earl," "Sin Wagon," and "White Trash Wedding" from their concert set lists. At this point, it wouldn't be a surprising move, since it could self-serve as yet another nail in the crosses they've been hauling on their promotional rounds.
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The charging call will fade. The shot will live forever.
Ryan Click saw his high school basketball career come full circle Tuesday night. The Maryville High School guard was called for charging with 24 seconds remaining in a Region 2AAA semifinal game with Oak Ridge at West High. The Rebels were clinging to a one-point lead at the time.
With 1.3 seconds remaining, Maryville now down by two, Click was whistled for charging yet again, effectively sending the Wildcats on to the region championship game with a 58-54 win. The loss ended the season for the Rebels, the last Blount County team, boys or girls, left standing.
It was a tough way to end things for a Rebel team who only two years ago brought home one of the most miraculous state titles in county history. Click, who finished with a team-high 23 points on five 3-pointers Tuesday, was a member of that team as was fellow senior Jay Reynolds, who battled early foul trouble against the Wildcats en route to finishing with 11 points.
Maryville knocked off three ranked opponents at the 2007 state tournament to collect the school's lone basketball championship. At the end of double overtime in the title game, Click faded away to bury the only shot he would hit in the tournament, his 3-pointer as the horn sounded, stunning Clarksville, 69-66, to secure for the Rebels the title.
That memorable trip to Murfreesboro came during Mark Eldridge's first season as Maryville coach.
"I would love for them to have gotten back down there because they're such good kids," he said. "We just didn't get it done."
The Rebels struggled for much of the game Tuesday. The 10- and 15-foot medium range shots they routinely buried bounced timidly off the iron, Eldridge said. Reynolds was limited with foul trouble and would foul out in the final minute. Click and Reynolds would be the only Rebels to reach double figures, with guard Alex Tipton adding six points on a pair of 3-pointers.
Maryville scrapped through it all to make a game of it in the closing minutes. Back-to-back 3s from Tipton and Click and a slashing drive to the basket from Cameron Langley put the Rebels out front, 48-47, with four minutes left. Click's final trey a minute later answered one from the Wildcats to maintain the one-point edge.
Maryville could not have asked for a better scenario in the closing seconds, Eldridge said. The Rebels had the lead, however slim, and the ball in the hands of their best player. Oak Ridge was on the ropes. Click saw an opening to the basket and made his move.
Should he take the shot?
Should he pull the ball out?
"That's always a tough position," Eldridge said.
Two years ago, as he did on Tuesday, Click decided the best course of action was to put the ball up and have a go. It isn't making the big shot that defines a clutch player. It's the willingness to take the shot in the first place.
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Located in southern Illinois, Carbondale has natural beauty, educational resources and cultural attractions. The town's largest employer, Southern Illinois University, is also one of America's Top Colleges by Forbes. Neighborhoods are lively near campus, and historic districts offer other diverse housing options. The region's four golf courses, Little Grand Canyon and access to lakes make Carbondale a great place to be outdoors.


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In a stunning turn of events, Chokwe defeated Jackson's three-term incumbent and first African American mayor, Harvey Johnson, the white Republican-financed young Black businessman Jonathan Lee, and others to win leadership of the city with the second highest percentage of Black people in the United States.
March 22, 2013
Pacifica invented public radio; since the beginning, Pacifica stations have been sponsored by listeners, with no corporate sponsorship or underwriting and thus no censorship. But the network faces many dire issues that its listeners need to know and that WBAI programmer Don Debar can knowledgeably talk about. Check out what Pacifica has not been telling its listener supporters …
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We've been "white maled!" Thank God for the '60s and '70s Black Power and Pride movements and for artists like James Brown who exorcized centuries of shame from our race with one song, "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud." Be Black, buy Black, think Black and support the future Gabby Douglases of the world by voting every day with your dollars. Buy Black Wednesdays business of the month is True Vibe Records.
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The Black community is in a world of trouble. And President Obama alone cannot fix it. This is where real leadership is needed: real, un-bought, unbiased leadership. Black America's biggest challenge, truth be told, is itself. And Black pastors are at the center of the issue. If we can get our leaders to the table – political, business, academic and community – we could create our own salvation.


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(Let's hope new 49er Anquan Boldin doesn't fall victim to the No. 81 curse like Rashaun Woods and Antonio Bryant did)
Seriously, are the 49ers cursed at the WR position? We've talked about the curse of 49ers players that wear the number 81 (e.g. Braylon Edwards) but how many have we lost over the years to injury? Think back to Josh Morgan, Mario Manningham, Kyle Williams, Ted Ginn Jr., and now we lose Michael Crabtree to a torn achilles?
And just when Crabtree was coming off a career year with over 1,000+ yards receiving, the first 49er to do so in nearly a decade! Maybe this is the red & gold version of the Curse of the Bambino, except it's the curse of Jerry Rice. We all know how a then messy front office showed him the door back in 2000 even though he was still a top notch receiver and the GOAT!
Maybe you think this is all just bad luck, coincidence, or whatever, but for a team that's been mostly a 'running' team for the past 10 years, it's incredibly unusual to have this many injuries at the wide-receiver position.
Anyways, I'm ticked because it's taken this team forever to develop a legitimate No. 1 receiver, and I really thought Crabtree was going to be that guy after this past season ...UGH!!!


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Good Times Restaurants Inc. announced its same store sales increased 10.2 percent for the month of January on top of January 2012's 8 percent increase and an increase of 6.4 percent for the first four months of its fiscal year.
The company also reported that sales for its new breakfast daypart featuring $2 Hatch Valley green chile breakfast burritos continue to grow and have recently exceeded 8 percent of total sales mix.
"We are thrilled with our continued sales gains and especially with how quickly our breakfast burrito program has gained traction, given the challenge of establishing a new daypart in the QSR segment. Our promotional activity is beginning to taper off with sales holding nicely, and it does not appear we are having any cannibalization of sales in other dayparts," said Boyd Hoback, president and CEO.
Hoback added that the company is planning a marketwide, multilayered cable television advertising and promotional campaign for its new hand-breaded, all-natural Springer Mountain Farms chicken tenders to keep the momentum going.
The company is finalizing a new creative platform for the ad campaign which will tell the story of both the new Springer Mountain Farms all-natural chicken tenderloin introduction and its Meyer Natural Angus all-natural Angus beef.
"We continue to move the Good Times brand toward an all-natural, handcrafted position and we have what we believe is a compelling new approach to our advertising that we feel will support that position in a unique and creative way. It has been several years since we've used television advertising, so we're excited to augment all of our store-level and trade-area activity with marketwide, brand-building communications," Hoback said.
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iPad 2 -- update to IOS 7 or stay on 6?
I bought my girlfriend an iPad 2 right around the time the 3rd gen came out. She has resisted downloading IOS 7 because she heard how terrible it is on iPad, and given her aging hardware, she doesn't want to take a step back in functionality. She uses it everyday, and really could not care less about what the UI looks like or fancy animations -- but shes starting to complain that it's been a bit slow lately, it hangs up on certain tasks, and she occasionally has to reboot it to get it back up and running.
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Google: Hanover Heights in KCK first neighborhood to get Fiber
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Google announced a tentative schedule Thursday afternoon on the rollout of its fiber optic cable project in Kansas City.
The first neighborhood that will get Google Fiber is Hanover Heights in Kansas City, Kan. According to the schedule, it will receive Fiber in October 2012.
In a blog post Thursday, Google said that Hanover Heights was the first "fiberhood" to qualify for the high-speed Internet service, doing so less than two hours into the pre-registration period.
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The deadline to register for Google Fiber has passed, with at least 180 of the potential 202 "fiberhoods" qualifying for the service in Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City, Kan. Google has indicated there will be another chance in 2013 for more neighborhoods to qualify.
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Trail Blazers director of NBA scouting Mike Born tells Benjamin Golliver of BlazersEdge about Wesley Matthews: "He has a chance to be a really good defender. You look at how he played in college and how he played this last year in Utah, we think he can be a really good defensive piece. Offensively, he's pretty solid there too. He averaged about 9 points during the regular season and then during the playoffs he was about 12.5 or 13 points total over the two series against Denver and the Lakers. I think he's just got a chance to be a piece to help us win a championship and ultimately that's why we decided to get after him. ... We do a lot of work on the guys that we're working out for the draft, free agency. We do intel work on those guys -- Andre Miller, Marcus Camby -- he's going to be a terrific fit for us. He's everything we're about. He's a great kid, a great worker, a great teammate. Really well liked. Obviously for him playing for the two coaches he's played for -- at Marquette and then playing for Coach Sloan -- that says a lot about him as a player and as a person. We think he's got a chance to be a really good player for us and to be a really good fit for our culture. I think people will really like him as a person as well."


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Preparation time: 15 to 30 minutes
- Preparation time: 15 to 30 minutes
- The kids love it and it is easy.
3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
½ cup milk
1 cup self-raising flour
2 tablespoons cocoa
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
- Place all ingredients, except the butter, into a bowl.
- Pour in melted butter and beat with electric beater on high for 3 minutes.
- Pour mixture into a prepared tin and bake at 180°C until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Recipe notes
Try adding a little coconut.
Easy and versatile
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Whip it up in no time at all
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Lovely with lashings of icing
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Quick, efficient and tasty
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Clady was flat-out who we wanted and the best choice for us. I've got three browsers open in adjacent virtual desktops with SN's analyses of Jake Long, Ryan Clady, and Chris Williams, the order in which most experts ranked them, although SN actually has it Clady, Williams, Long. Even if Long is the best of the three he's not the best for Denver's system. His strength is straight-ahead drive blocking, his weakness mobility and pass protection. In run blocking SN grades him at 8.0, Williams at 8.0, Clady at 7.5, but both Williams and Clady are better at the kind of blocking Denver's system demands. In pass blocking Clady ranks 1st, Williams 2nd, Long 3rd, but their grades are Clady and Williams 8.5, Long 7.0. Since the next person down, Otah, is also 7.0, it suggests that Clady and Williams are head and shoulders above the other OTs in pass blocking. In strength Long grades out at 8.5, ranking 1st, Williams 7.5, ranking 4th, and Clady 7.5, ranking 10th, so Long has a clear edge and Williams and Clady are about even. In mobility Clady is 8.5, ranking 2nd, Williams is 7.5, ranking 3rd, and Long is 6.0, ranking 9th and suggesting how relatively unsuited he is for Denver's system. I'ved saved initial quickness for last because I think it might be especially significant. Clady is 9.0 and ranks 1st, Williams is 7.5 and 2nd, Long is 7.5 and 7th, suggesting Clady is head and shoulders above all other OTs. For reasons given in my post Information Processing Speed I suspect that this category suggests how well a player will adapt to the next level. Even if Clady was middle of the pack in the other categories this ranking might have tabbed him as a potential mid-round sleeper. But he's not middle of the pack in the other categories. In my opinion he's the best tackle in this year's draft. Period.
It's been noted that we got not only a good returner in Royal but also stocked up on STers. This is encouraging but what is even more encouraging is that our coverage improved fairly dramatically from beginning to end last season, notwithstanding the Chicago debacle. The O'Brien experiment, unlike the Bates experiment, was a success, as noted here. He did this without an upgrade in personnel. If in addition to the upgrade in coaching we get better STers we're going to be uncharacteristically solid. Question: I know it's customary to protect key starters by exempting them from ST duty, but do we protect all of them? Koutouvides was Seattle's best STer.
In grading the draft, however prematurely, it occurs to me a distinction should be made between how well a team drafts and how good a draft that team has. The first indicates how well a team did with the picks they had. A team with few picks or a lot of late-round picks might do a better job and still not have as good a draft as a bad team with lots of early picks (KC) that doesn't obviously screw up. Trades for draft picks also have to be taken into account. Even if one of the extra picks (the ones they already had don't count) the Chiefs got for Jared Allen becomes an all-pro, not a certainty or even a probability, it'll be several years before he plays at that level. The trade hurt them short term, it might or might not help them in the long run. The Broncos appear to have drafted well, given that a lot of our picks were in the later rounds. If enough of those late picks pan out, it might turn out to have been a great draft.
Speaking of great drafts, one or two of them can set a team up for a decade of dominance. (Any draft that lands a Montana or Brady, even if no one else, is also a great one.) Pittsburgh's 1974 draft is the classic example. With four potential all-pros, one of them that all-important franchise QB, 2006 might turn out to have been that kind of draft for the Broncos. If in addition the 2007 and 2008 drafts turn out to have been solid we might be headed for our own period of dominance.
One aspect of a dominant team is character and the ability to play one's best in big games and at key moments, not just with one or two superstars but from top to bottom. That's been the nature of recent New England teams, and Shanahan now seems to be looking for those kinds of players. If 2006 was a turning point in landing us a nucleus of future stars, 2008 was a turning point in the Broncos' philosophy on building a team. Use the draft to find your future elite players, use free agency to shore up your weaknesses, and look for high-character, high-motor, clutch players at all levels of ability. If that's the case, given that the other key ingredient (the one the Chargers have been missing), an elite coach, is already on board, the next decade might be a storied one for this franchise.


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More than two dozen people gathered in a KOTA Territory park Sunday night to honor a friend.
They were supposed to be lighting candles on his birthday cake, but instead they lit candles he'd never get the chance to blow out.
"He's actually the person the person that got me and my husband together," said Angel Britton of Spearfish.
"He was my high school crush," added Jamie Kennedy, also of Spearfish. "He meant everything to me."
Jerry Krejci: A ray of light, blown out too soon.
"I was shocked," said Britton, a friend of Krejci's since their freshman year at Spearfish High School. "I cried immediately when I found out" about his death.
The 23-year-old was found dead last Saturday morning. His car got stuck in a ditch off near Tinton Road in Lawrence County, and he tried to go get help.
"I kept wanting to think he was going to call me up and be like, 'Haha, I got you,'" Kennedy said.
He didn't make it far from his car.
"I'm still waiting for that to happen," said Kennedy, who dated Krejci for four years until they broke about two and a half years ago.
A group of Jerry's friends met in the Spearfish City Park to remember the man who touched all their lives.
"He was always really playful," Britton remembered. "He liked to run around and chase everybody with his wheelchair. ... He was kind of a goofy guy."
"He knew how to make me smile when I was having a crappy day," added Kennedy. "He was my protector. He was always there for me."
It was an emotional gathering, but you couldn't find tears.
"He'd just want it to be a big, giant celebration," Kennedy said. "Not a crying thing. That was just him."
A celebration of his life on the day he was to turn 24.
"We were going to go to Lead and go gamble, possibly," Britton said of the plans they had made for Krejci's birthday. "But, yeah, that kind of changed."
"I was going to call up one of my friends and be like, 'Hey, where's he going to be?'" said Kennedy. "And I was going to surprise him" for his birthday.
"Now I can't. But I can still do this for him"
The Lawrence County Sheriff's Office is still investigating Krejci's death.
Initial autopsy results show signs consistent with hypothermia. The wind chill last weekend dipped past 20 degrees below zero.


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This man has no clue the horrors I went through. Complaints to the Coprp office go ignored.
So, I get screwed up, do as I am suppsed to and get laughed at? for protecting this creep and taking one in the back? Good thing they are in MI, and I have no money. Vets in MI hear me- credit accept is bias towards us!
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It is your service that has allowed "Jim" here the freedom to respond to every single complaint made against his beloved company, Credit Acceptance Corporation.
Jim, while I appreciate your loyalty and devotion to them - because that is rare to find in an employee these days - I am curious why you feel the need to defend them to the point of annoyance. Some of your comments go back 2+ years. Do you need a companion? Or does CAC pay you to bash consumers who want to complain? Granted, most probably don't tell the truth, but I know for a fact that your company isn't quite honest themselves. Google "Credit Acceptance lawsuits" and read.
Is your money aka paycheck riding on people paying their car loans on time? Sounds like, from all the late fees and crazy percent interest these consumers are paying, this company isn't in dire straits.
I think you've made it abundantly clear that you are an upstanding, law-abiding, pay-your-bills-on-time guy. How fortunate for you that you have not faced any obstacles in life that prohibit you from being one day late on a loan, or to get yourself a crappy credit score that has to resort to making you "subprime", as you so lovingly like to call people. Things happen...even to people like yourself, who could use a bit of humbling. You claim no one forced them into signing these contracts...yet, when someone NEEDS a car to get back and forth to work (or would you rather them sit on their butts and collect welfare?)...dealerships don't offer another type of bank.
You can't deny that your company has taken advantage of "subprime" consumers. And you have the audacity to get mad because they pay their loan late? What did you expect?? LOL
I think this website is fantastic for letting consumers know what companies are worth their time, and what aren't. The complaints about CAC are phenomenal. And "Jim" here has pushed CAC's reputation even further down the drain by making them appear to be just the monsters that they are described.
Here's a suggestion, Jim. The next time you feel the need to mock someone...get up from your chair, take a deep breath, and wonder if any of this will matter when you're long gone and forgotten.
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Not what I expected. They tout themselves as all about the environment and don't even support basic water refills for their guests. They send you to the gas station down the block to purchase a new bottle each time. Their advo is all hype. The only enviro things they support are those that same them money. Small lockers in a crowded dorm. Priced high for what you get. Many other hostel in town are better in all ways.
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Rescuers have given up hope of finding any more survivors from a cargo ship that sank in the North Sea off the Dutch coast, saying they are searching for the bodies of six crewmen still missing, according to the Associated Press.
The presumed death toll has now reached 11, after four bodies were found yesterday and 13 survivors were rescued. Peter Westenburg, of the Dutch Coast Guard, said:
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I feel like I'm having an out of body experience. I'm floating above myself and looking down at someone else's life. I wish.
Over the past 4 weeks I've written many blog posts that have sat in the 'draft' folder. I wrote because I needed to get the words out, but I didn't want to share them. Because that makes it real. I'm still undecided as to whether I'll hit the 'publish' button this time. Do you know why? People who blog will get this. They'll GET it. There's something cathartic about blogging, typing out your feelings and knowing that someone, somewhere in cyberspace is reading and they GET it. Others will think "why is she sharing these intimate moments with a bunch of strangers?". It helps, that's why.
My son has been limping for about 4 weeks now. We've had some initial tests done and today we're having more. I've never felt so alone in my life. I want answers. I want fucking answers today. Someone tell me why they're doing an ultrasound on his left hip?! Someone DO something. Tell me I'm being neurotic and he's ok…because I feel sick to my stomach. My eyes keep leaking.
I'm living in a crowded space of people and activities but I feel so lonely it's crippling.
The news came through at 10:30 that we needed to arrange further testing and I was due to go and see a client at 11. I couldn't let her down. I dried my tears and walked into her business to burst into tears again. She was incredibly understanding and I left with the promise to re-schedule our appointment. Work can wait. Work has to wait.
I define myself as a working mum, but really, the 'mum' part comes first. 'Mum working' just doesn't have the same flow. This is a working women's blog, but ultimately, the work part has to come second to more important things. Things like this.
So this afternoon I'll scoop my little man up and take him for further testing and hope that they simply label me a neurotic mum and tell me there's nothing wrong.
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This is the fourth climb (from the top) on the right wall in Hostess gully. Begins with some easy slab for only about 7 feet to a small bulge/roof with the first bolt just over the bulge. Do not confuse with "Heaven & Earth" climb to its left.
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By Karen Cohilas - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Here's a warning for anyone with a debit card: Make sure you don't make it easy for thieves to steal from you.
That's a lesson Devanna Osborne learned the hard way. A visitor to her home, stole her Direct Express Debit card--one that's issued by the government. It's the card her disability money is loaded onto.
Not only did that visitor steal the card, he figured out that she used some obvious numbers as her pin, and took out $400 at an ATM. She now knows that was a bad idea and is having to go through lots of red tape to get reimbursed.
Osborne said, "Do not use any numbers that are easy for a person to figure out. Don't use your social, or your address or anything of that nature. Use something that maybe no one would ever even think about."
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Former Eagle Reggie Jackson logged 30 minutes in today's loss to the Pacers in the Summer League, recording 13 points on 33% shooting, including this nice jam. He also had 4 assists, 2 rebounds, 3 turnovers, and one steal. After observing the majority of the Thunder's postseason run from the bench in his rookie year, Jackson looks to take a more prominent role in Oklahoma City's rotation this upcoming season.
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The very catchy Step Right Up was Jaki Graham's last song to break into the UK Top 40 and peaked at #15 during 1986. The song features on the English singer's most successful studio album Breaking Away.
The album features a mix of ballads and S/A/W style 80s production by Derek Bramble. Lots of synths and drum machines are used to good effect to create some pretty catchy pop songs, although this isn't an album that will set the world alight with originality.
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Zach Arnold has a story over at FightOpinion.com that sources Bluff Magazine regarding the potential that UltimateBet has ousted Full Tilt Poker as one of the high profile sponsors of the UFC:
"We're mega excited to have our logo associated with Kampmann, a master of his craft and one of UFC's world class fighters," said an UltimateBet spokesperson. "Our collaboration with 'The Hitman' continues our inroads into some of the highest rating pay-per-view sports shows on air, and we're pulling no punches when it comes to any opportunity to get involved with UFC."
Obviously, if UltimateBet is beginning to sponsor fighters within the UFC and the UFC preceded this move with the banning of Full Tilt Poker from their events, it looks as if UltimateBet did, in fact, outbid Full Tilt Poker for the sponsorship deal.
All we need now is some official confirmation from the UFC.