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A suspect was taken in to custody in connection with the deadly bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, the Boston Globe reported early Friday, citing an unnamed official familiar with the investigation.
Prosecutors say that suspect was involved in a gun battle with police died at local hospital, according to the Globe's report and The Associated Press.
A second suspect in the bombing — who also reportedly exchanged gunfire with police — remains at large, according to the Globe's website. A manhunt was underway.
A scene of chaos descended on Cambridge and Watertown — both just outside Boston — late Thursday night and early Friday morning, the Globe reported. Authorities confirmed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot to death on the Cambridge campus, according to the paper's account.
Then an armed carjacking triggered a police chase into Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston, the paper reported.
Hundreds of police officers poured in to both Cambridge and Watertown, according to police.
Television outlets reported that gunfire and explosions had been heard in the Watertown area around 1 a.m. Friday — midnight in Chicago.
Authorities could be heard calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up. A loud thud was heard after someone shouted "fire in the hole."
State police spokesman David Procopio said later in the morning: "The incident in Watertown did involve what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being used against the police officers."
The incident that apparently unfolded in Watertown came hours after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed on the Cambridge campus.
No arrests had been made in the officer's fatal shooting, and a manhunt was on for the shooter.
The officer had been responding to report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple times, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney's office and Cambridge police. It said there were no other victims.
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At the March meeting of
town council, Police Chief Jim
Preacher said that violent crimes
are increasing and if you see or
hear anything that makes you feel
suspicious contact the Ehrhardt
Police Department at once at
803-245-3000 or call 911.
Preacher said that you can
help in the fight against crime by
taking away the opportunity for
criminals to steal from you by
securing your property, especially
items that could be easily
Preacher reported 2
Disorderly conduct charges, 2
vandalism (cut tires),
1 stolen vehicle (vehicle is
believed to be in Bronx, New
York), and 1 breach of peace common
law between husband
and wife.
Items for consideration on
the agenda at the March meeting
of town council were an update
on the status of the water system
project and the year to date financial
report given by Scott Neeley
and presented to the Mayor and
Council members.
Hallman Sease donated a
very nice dog trap to the town of
Ehrhardt and with the help of the
trap and local citizens, there were
no animal complaints in the
month of March.
Fire Chief Chad Dilling said
there were 4 calls on the Fire
Dept since last month and everything
was handled accordingly.
Dilling said that he resubmitted
the FEMA contract and is
waiting to hear from that and he
is working on a State Farm Grant
for $2000 that he hopes will
come through.
The Fire Dept is having a
yard sale on April 25th from 7 to
5 pm at the Fire Station. They are
accepting donations of items for
the yard sale so anyone who
wants to help them out, get in
touch with Chad.
The engineers for the water
project have received comments
from the tank supplier telling of
the site plan, the tank specifics,
and the foundation work.
They are presently working
on the final estimate of the price.
The numbers at this point are preliminary
and have not been
reviewed by Mr. Tom Bowles.
John Riggs, who prepared the
numbers, is waiting on cost projections
for the foundation of the
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The preliminary construction
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With engineering and other
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to a specific amount of time
that it will take now to complete
the specifications, drawings and
the cost estimates so the town can
submit the overall package to
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the town can go forward on this
Scott Neeley said he is working
on a JAG Grant and a COPS
Grant for the Police Department.
A credit card for the town
has been applied for and we are
still waiting to hear from that and
we have heard from the insurance
company about the claim the
town has on the vandalism of the
generator, said Neeley.
Mayor Stanley stated plans
to cut off the water supply of the
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- lonenewfwolf
- June 25, 2013 - 10:23
- Maybe Marjorie
- June 23, 2013 - 19:14
Oh Johnny Boy. If they put out a new TV Mini-Series, The Danny Williams Story. Who will you be playing? Steve Kent or Paul Lane? Come on By?
- Ed Power
- June 23, 2013 - 11:15
"The Truth Is Out There", Mr. Pseudonymous Smith, unfortunately we will never learn of it. "Sorry, your information request has been denied under Bill 29. Cabinet discussions and proprietary information, don't you know."
- John Smith
- June 23, 2013 - 07:49
ooohhh...cue music from the X-files...LOL...Yes by's it's all a big conspiracy. First of all SNC Lavalin is involved in hundreds of projects across Canada, and they do excellent, world class work. Nalcor is 100% owned by the taxpayers of this province...lock stock and barrel. Do you really think that there could be secrets at Nalcor? With hundreds of employess coming home every evening, in this tiny province? Really?Every single penny, and every single contract that was ever touched by Nalcor will eventually be made public. That is a fact. There are reasons why they can't be made public now, financial, contractual etc... but they will all come out.Perhaps the NDP, or the liberals will form the next gov....the employees at Nalcor will be the same people that are there now. I think it's shamefull to make accusations about a very good, well run entity like Nalcor without an iota of fact or proof, says a lot about the author in my opinion...
- Tony Rockel
- June 23, 2013 - 19:36
If there's no conspiracy, then why were we hit with Bill 29? Yes, the information will be made public--after the damage has been done. Nalcor, "a well run entity"? If their projections of this province's energy needs are any indication, Nalcor is either totally incompetent or totally corrupt. Take your pick.
- Tony Rockel
- June 22, 2013 - 11:20
Yes, I was intrigued, too, by Nalcor's statement about taking steps to keep spending in line. Does that mean they weren't bothering to do that until now? That would certainly explain their incessant demands for rate increases.
- abby
- June 22, 2013 - 09:51
WELL SAID MR. NORMAN. When i read articles like this i have a better understanding of most things concerning govt.
- Foghorn Leghorn
- June 22, 2013 - 08:50
Great letter! I get this sinking feeling that we will be watching this unfold on a future episode of W5 or The Fifth Estate especially since we are dealing with such a morally bankrupt company as SNC-Lavalin.


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The prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) has increased over the past several decades and is expected to continue to increase. Although the individual components of MetS have previously been associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD), until recently there were few data on the relationship between MetS itself and incident CKD and ESRD. A recent meta-analysis demonstrated an association between MetS and CKD. When pooling 10 prospective cohort studies, MetS was associated with an increased odds ratio for an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) less than 60 mL/ min per 1.73 m(2) (OR, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.34-1.80). Additionally, published data suggest an association between MetS and albuminuria. Evidence suggests that lifestyle modifications such as weight reduction, reduced dietary fat intake and cholesterol, and pharmacologic treatments may reduce the burden of MetS and thus the risk for CKD, albuminuria, and ESRD.
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I'm White, European American, Caucasian—whatever you want to call my
socially-constructed "racial identity." Because I am committed to help
end the absurd oppression and scapegoating of my fellow Americans who
don't look like me, I was obliged to answer the call put out by several
the major U.S. civil rights organizations to come to Jena, Louisiana if
all possible and stand in solidarity with people of color against the
racial injustices perpetrated by the White community and institutions
there. It took me two planes to get from the DC area to New Orleans,
then a five-hour bus ride to in the middle of the night to Jena, and
although it cost me money that I don't have a lot of right now, I came,
because I could.
That's one of my three main responsibilities as a white "anti-racist"
ally (anti-racist means one who takes a stand against racist activities
and systems; we are not personal bigotry cops as some new to the term
think it means).
But, what I am wondering is—Where were my fellow white allies? The
Caucasian turn-out was nothing short of pitiful. Out of the varying
attendance reports of 30,000 to 100,000 people who also overcame a range
of challenges to attend, there was at best only 1 White out of every 100
people there—maybe as little as 1 in 150. I estimated that from
repeated scanning, and then polling some of the other Whites and people
color there.
I was ashamed. Not only was I greatly disappointed that more of my
self-identified white anti-racist allies weren't there, but I was also
embarrassed and pained that the people of color there were left, once
again, to face down overt Jim Crow racism on their own.
And how can we think we will ever build effective multi-racial coalitions
on any of the urgent issues facing us today, when people of color can see
that, once again, we are not there to watch their backs when we are
Now, could the shameful white turnout be in part due to the fact that 17
year old Mychal Bell, [the first of the six black youth tried so far and
facing a possible 22 years in prison] had a prior rap sheet? I listened
to an editorial on public radio yesterday that pointed out that it was
easy for Whites to rally around Rosa Parks who was hand-selected and
trained for her role in history in large part due to the fact that she
uncontroversial—Married, a seamstress, no skeletons in her closet, no
prior arrests, etc. The commentator contrasted Ms. Parks to a man like
Rodney King who was so high on crack when several Los Angeles police
nearly beat him to death—that would-be allies find it more difficult
care and confront such acts, when these are perpetrated on the likes of
Mr. King.
So, is this why we Whites are not more outraged about the nooses hung
the Jena high school sanctioned "Whites Only" tree, and the slew of
anti-Black incidents ensuing there, and the Jena's across this land of
""Justice for All"?—Because Mychal, after all, has been no angel?
Well, to those for whom this is the case—Please consider this: The
widespread perception among various peoples of color in this country is
that we Whites are perpetually, albeit often unconsciously, patronizing.
Is there perhaps some condescension at work here among those who may
chosen to judge Mychal and his friends over speaking out against the
hate-filled and unjust actions of Whites in Jena?
As a white person concerned about ending systemic/institutionalized
and xenophobia in my country, it is not my job to second guess the calls
of the NAACP, the Color of Change, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the
People's Institute for Survival & Beyond, and other nationally respected
civil rights and anti-racism organizations.
As white anti-racist allies we say we're ready to take direction from
people of color led organizations. The directives were put forth:
show up. And we didn't.
And, as was made clear to me by a few white citizens of Jena sitting
outside a barbershop (one of the young women bragging that she was a law
student) was that the lack of white presence at the rally "confirmed"
them that this protest was just the ridiculous acting out of uppity
and the few "N-lovers" like me who were there. I care little about
called such names, but what these people didn't see and hear from us was
that the majority of Americans of all racial identities find their
ignorant, soulless bigotry as unacceptable, and that they need to repent
their ways and join what is good about the human race. (Consider that
most of them are likely allowed by their preachers to consider
even now, to be "good Christians.")
And now the hate waves have been busy at work. The home addresses of
these six Jena youth have been widely distributed among hate groups,
with the encouragement for these teens and their families to be "taken
care of."
The work of Whites is not to sit around and talk endlessly about our
about our privilege and raising our cultural awareness, though one of
tasks is to 1) Continue to do our own re-education and self-examination
the course of the rest of our lives. Where we are letting people of
down at this very moment is that we are not 2) Educating and correcting
other Whites who are sorely in need of being confronted by us—other
Whites, and 3) Following the lead of people of color regarding actions
can assist with.
These six young men and their families [and likely more] in Jena are in
immanent danger—And what are we White allies doing about it? We
certainly can't think that Jena's racist law enforcement system is going
to go out of its way to protect them.
Please, get on the websites of some of the organizations involved and
out what you can do now to support these families in Jena. Request
anti-hate group resource materials and start training yourselves on
effective interventions and get to work confronting these prolific
in your own communities. If your time is limited, postpone some of your
racial diversity discussions for the time being—and be of service to
families in Jena and other people of color across the country who need
help now in getting these hate-filled Whites off their backs.
Written by Veronica F. Adams, M.Div., Charlottesville, Virginia.
Veronica is a diversity and racial equity trainer, and is currently
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CULVER CITY, Calif. — It's 4:30 p.m. on a warm November Monday in a nondescript building in Culver City. Trey Parker is pacing around the writers room at the so-called South Park Studios — which, once you're inside, feels like a cross between a frenetic, high-tech work space and a deluxe rec room with toys, couches and candy — as his best friend and creative partner, Matt Stone, leans back in his chair, ever the relaxed, ruminative, inquisitive counterweight to Parker's perpetually coiled spring.
Parker and Stone are working on the finale of Season 16 of their outrageously successful and long-lived animated "South Park" series, which is all about the exploits of a bunch of big-headed little boys (Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick) who attend elementary school in central Colorado, where Parker and Stone grew up, to some extent. Along with Robert Lopez, they are also the creators of a little Broadway musical about to open in Chicago called "The Book of Mormon," the secret to the success of which is surely to be found in this room.
On a whiteboard in the rear of the room are scrawled a bunch of bizarre non sequiturs and the name of the week's episode: "Obama Wins!"
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There are a couple of unusual things about this moment.
The episode is slated to air on Comedy Central the following Wednesday. There is an outline of a beginning, middle and end, but "Obama Wins!" is not even close to finished. Yet this is already Monday afternoon. More incredibly, none of the executives at Comedy Central, the cable network whose name "South Park" made, has seen even a word of the script of "Obama Wins!" even though "South Park" has courted controversy with a constancy that would turn most network suits into the kinds of nervous Nellies who would be prowling these very halls.
And there's a wild card: Obama has not yet won anything. The presidential election is still one day away. Indeed, at this juncture, it feels quite likely that the election will be hung up in recounts, producing no winner by the time the roughly 2.5 million viewers who tune in to a new "South Park" episode will be craving their weekly fix.
"We're not worried," says Parker, sounding not the slightest bit worried. "We're not worried," says Stone, sounding quite worried.
Stone starts to mumble about how the part of the episode that has been finished could be reanimated in the middle of the night Tuesday to reflect the election of America's first Mormon president, thus putting a former Mormon missionary in the White House and imbuing Parker and Stone, who have made a bucket load of cash from Mormons and their book and their missionary zeal, with a delicious new four-year trove of material.
When that prospect is brought up, Parker and Stone briefly salivate (their actual politics have long been the subject of international speculation), but Parker waves off the very notion of a Mitt Romney victory. He is more interested in figuring out how to fuse Disney's recently announced purchase of the George Lucas empire into the season finale. And he likes his main idea for the episode, which is that Cartman, the show's pint-sized Archie Bunker, has hijacked the entire election, anyway.
"Obama Wins!" not yet written, already is bulletproof in Parker's head. It won't matter which presidential candidate is victorious the following day or whether the contest will drag on for weeks. "South Park" will win either way.
"We never actually finish or feel like we're done," Stone says. "Finally, we just run up against a deadline."
This is the way Parker and Stone work, the way they have worked for 16 years, the way they have made their fortunes. It hasn't mattered whether it has been their TV show, their 1999 movie ("South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut") or their colossally successful "Book of Mormon," a massive, money-spinning hit on Broadway despite initial worries about the outrageousness of its content.
As of Dec. 11, the musical is poised to have a massive economic impact on Chicago. A dedicated company (which will become the second national tour) is poised to take up residence at the Bank of America Theatre for a year or maybe longer, likely raking in close to $2 million per week at the box office (sales records are likely to fall) and testing the tolerance of Midwesterners for the deeply, profoundly profane.
One crucial test, though, Midwesterners already have passed. "The Book of Mormon" is sold out in Chicago for the first three months of its run, despite some eye-popping ticket prices ($115 and higher).
Weekly all-nighters in Culver City
There is a dinner menu at the South Park Studios reception desk. There is headache medicine on a counter. Nobody is leaving the building as the sun sets. Everyone knows a pair of all-nighters likely await, just as they do every week when South Park is in production here. Many on the staff of roughly 70 have been with the show almost since its beginnings. This the way the whole darn place likes to work.
No show in the history of television has been more notoriously obscene (in one famous 2001 episode, "It Hits the Fan," a popular epithet was referenced, sans beeps, 200 times, or about once every eight seconds). No show has lambasted Christianity (and Jesus Christ and his mother, Mary) with more frequency or satirical severity. There were the Season 14 episodes that satirized the controversy over the depiction of Muhammad, which resulted in death threats being made against Parker and Stone. In the very early days, there was Mr. Hankey, a talking piece of poop. There was the horror of British schoolteachers when their charges voted that boorish youth Cartman their favorite personality in 1999, an event the British tabloids saw as roughly akin to the fall of Western civilization.
"We used to get story notes from our executive," laughs Anne Garefino, the warm and friendly longtime co-executive producer of "South Park" and (along with the New York producer Scott Rudin) a lead producer of "The Book of Mormon," as she stands with a guest watching the audition of sweet, blond-haired little kid who has to say the incongruous line "I don't want to be a Republican" while wearing headphones about six sizes too large. Garefino, the coach, cop, administrator and den mother of the entire "South Park" empire, is talking like a pro baseball star recalling Little League days. "Script notes would be unheard of now," she says. "We've been doing this for 16 years. I think they can trust us."
Even as her guest is distracted by his amazement that "South Park" is, at this eleventh-hour moment, still auditioning talent, child talent at that (Broadway types would be in a panic by now), Garefino chats wistfully about the very early years of "South Park," when there were battles to be fought and barriers to be broken. Now, all she does each week is have a quick chat with a friendly lawyer, mostly to make sure that the episode passes the parody test when it comes to the intellectual property of others (this particular week, the use of the "Star Wars" brand was an issue), and then she uploads the episode directly to Comedy Central, via the satellite dish on the other side of the front studio door.
The network receives the episode in its complete packaged form right before the show airs. Heck, some weeks the script is only finished, let alone animated, a matter of hours before the show airs. Comedy Central gets what it pays handsomely for right when there will be no time whatsoever for the network to do anything about anything. Like the Mormons, it just has to operate on faith. And it does.


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William "Spook" Spann got an inauspicious start in life. He was born on Halloween night, and upon the boy's emergence from the womb, his doctor quipped, "Looks like we've got ourselves a little spook, a healthy boy." The moniker stuck, and to this day Spann relishes his unique nickname. Perhaps it's because it matches how he hunts whitetails — never risking spooking them, never cutting corners, always going the extra mile, always having backups for backups.
Spann's life seems to defy odds, especially the law of averages. For example, twice he fell out of a treestand. The first time he landed on his back with his gun jamming into his side and cracked a rib. The other time he landed on his throat against a barbed wire fence. "At first I thought I was going to choke to death," he recalled. "I could hardly breathe. Then I tasted blood in my mouth and thought I might have lacerated my [carotid] artery. But in a few minutes, I started feeling better and was able to shake it off."
However, the time Spann really cheated death was during a hunt for world-class Marco Polo sheep in snow-capped Kyrgyzstan. Spann and his father got stranded about 60 miles from the China border in a severe blizzard. It took three days before a rescue helicopter could reach them. At liftoff, the helicopter crashed, killing the pilot and co-pilot, leaving Spann and his father with broken bones and lacerations. Another 24 hours lapsed before a second rescue effort could be made. On his brushes with death, Spann shrugs and says, "I guess God has some important plans for me."
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In 2006, Spann began thinking about acquiring his own land in the Midwest. "I needed a place where I could film and hunt and work the land during the off-season," he said. Spann's friend, Tom McMillan, told him about a 160-acre tract in Kansas that butted up against some property that wasn't being hunted. "When I checked it out, I couldn't believe the buck sign, especially how big the rubs were," he said.
Few hunters would appreciate the parcel. Less than 15 acres was wooded, but Spann knew big buck habitat when he saw it. "It was classic," he said, his eyes lighting up. "If I were to describe the kind of place older bucks really like, this would be it — thick switch grass, clumps of cedars, scattered plumb thickets, even an old homestead where deer can dawdle and never get disturbed."
That fall, a neighbor got pictures of an impressive buck with unique split brow tines on a trail camera. Spann and his hunting buddy and cameraman L.J. Planer estimated the buck at about 190 inches, assuming an 18-inch spread. The following July, Jerry McMillan, Tom's father, got a good, long look at the same buck, this time on video. "When the phone rang and my wife said it was Jerry, I just knew something was up," Spann said. "Turns out, he saw a buck of a lifetime. Instantly I knew I had to take this hunt a lot more seriously!"
Spann and Planer spent the rest of the spring and summer of 2007 plotting. First, Spann designed a layout for a series of food plots that might attract and hold does throughout the year. Then, throughout the summer, he made trips to Kansas from his home in Nashville, Tenn., to inspect the progress of his food plots. He knew they would be pivotal for predicting the whereabouts of the huge buck.
"Each time I'd spray some Fat Factor at key intersections," he said. "I believe in this product and I've seen the results. Deer crave and love fat, and this is the best way to give it to them. I believe it ended up [helping us] get so close to the buck."
Next, Spann hung some tower stands. There were so few trees that self-contained units were a must. In addition, they had to be set out plenty early for the deer to get used to them. In early October, Spann got word from Tom McMillan that, according to some timely trail camera photos, the buck had really filled out. Its rack had more mass, more kickers, some new stickers and a noticeable drop tine.
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November 14, 2007, found the duo changing into their hunting clothes at a nearby abandoned farmhouse. The plan was to inspect field edges for fresh rubs and scrapes on the way to a couple of setups that needed some last minute fine-tuning. Spook wondered aloud if he should bring his bow.
"Hey man, it's the rut!" Planer exclaimed. Spann didn't need much coaxing, even though his mind was preoccupied with having as many options as possible. Killing that buck on that day was the farthest thing from his mind.
"So we headed out in the Bad Boy [Buggy] with my bow in hand and our scouting gear in tow," Spann said. "I happened to glance toward the middle of the field where there was a slight rise in elevation, and there was the buck! It was about 400 yards away, and I could easily make out the whole rack. When I got my binoculars in focus, it turned as if on cue to show off its signature drop tine and all of the mass it had grown. 'That's him,' I remember whispering to L.J."
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Cameraman L.J. Planer is a trained sniper. You already know Spook Spann is a deadly predator. Combine the two, and you have the makings of a Top Gun commando. Without saying a word, the bowhunter and his trusty cameraman sprinted straight for the buck as fast as their legs would carry them. "We used that little knoll to block the view," Spann continued. "I could make out a cedar thicket down below, which happened to be the only cover between us and a little depression. That's where I thought the buck might have gone."
"The wind was stiff, about 25 miles an hour, and blowing right in our faces," Planer added. "It was just us, a CRP field, a clump of cedars and scattered thick stuff. The buck could have been just about anywhere."
It soon became evident that the duo had to get to those cedars to have a fighting chance. The only option was belly-crawling, so Spann and Planer used a common sniper tactic. First, Spann slid his bow forward, careful not to disturb any vegetation, then he gripped a handful of grass to help pull himself toward his bow. Planer, meanwhile, carefully surveyed the landscape, alternating his binocular with sharp eyesight. To avoid getting separated and losing communication, Planer belly-crawled forward while Spann returned the favor of constantly keeping watch.
"Crawling in that field seemed to take an eternity," Planer continued. "With only a couple of hours of daylight left, we knew that getting to those cedars would make or break this stalk. When we finally got there, we realized it was a natural ambush."
"There was a large cedar behind a smaller one, with a little pocket inside where we could just tuck ourselves in," Spann explained. "First I tried clearing some cedar boughs so I could see in front of me as well as off to both sides. But, thanks to the fact that we were going scouting and not hunting, I found a pair of garden clippers hidden in my pack. I was really in business then."
Within minutes of Spann's delicate window-dressing, he saw a doe about a football field away. A few seconds later, another doe joined her. "That buck has to be around here somewhere," he whispered to Planer. "How can he ignore those does?"
The tension was building for the bowhunter and the cameraman. While Spann could easily see in front of him and could probably draw his bow without getting busted, Planer's restricted view only gave him a few seconds to react. If the monster buck was going down, the pair would have to wait until the last instant to time their move. And it would have to be done with pinpoint accuracy. Anything short of perfection would result in either spooking the buck or not getting quality footage.
They were trying to figure out where the buck was most likely to be, and whether they should focus to the right or to the left. "That's when Spook saw a basket 8-pointer chasing a doe about 85 yards away," Planer recalled. "Now what should we do? Should we try grunting, or should we try a bleat? Should we try to get a little closer or just sit tight? Well, Spook decided we were in about the best spot we could be. Plus, time was still on our side. So we decided to let the hunt come to us rather than trying to force it."
They didn't have to wait long. Suddenly, another doe materialized, and then the big buck. Instead of dogging the doe, the buck angled in the opposite direction. "She passed within 6 yards of us and eventually got directly downwind," Spann said. "I held my breath, praying she wouldn't blow. Thankfully, she just bolted and disappeared behind us."
Spann quickly switched gears and focused on where he'd last seen the big buck. "I saw it right away; he was working a scrape and nosing a licking branch. When he finished, he looked around and noticed his girlfriend was AWOL. He seemed to push the panic button and headed right for us. In spite of the stiff wind, we could hear him grunting every step of the way. L.J. still couldn't see the buck, so I had to give him a blow-by-blow description of what was happening.
"He's getting closer," I whispered. "Thirty-five yards, 25 yards, 15. At that point, I had no clue if the buck would continue in or hang up, much less which side of the cedar tree he'd pass. In fact, as it drew nearer I felt like it would circle to my left, even though the doe circled to my right. So I had to wait until the last second to draw."
The instant the buck's chest turned, Spann committed to the shot and drew his bow. The buck passed at the exact distance of the doe, about six paces away. "I didn't dare try stopping him," Spann said. I held my pin in the opening and timed the shot as the buck passed through. It reacted by jumping and sort of looking around. I tried to nock another arrow, just in case, as the buck took a few steps toward us. It was as if he couldn't believe his eyes and needed a better look to make us out. But before I could shoot again, the buck looped around and tipped over."
If you ask Spook Spann what happened next, he'll refer to L.J. Planer's scintillating video footage. Spann, you see, was in a cosmic zone. A rush of adrenaline had been held in check for too long, and it was time for it to be released. Over and over, he shouted, "We did it, we did it, we did it!" Then he gave thanks and said the obvious: "Oh Lord, what a buck! What a hunt!"
Editor's note: With so many cameras out in the woods today, it's impossible to say for sure, but Spann's buck is the biggest free-ranging buck harvest ever captured on film that we know of.
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The notion of authenticity has in it the idea of a pure, genuine original, a sort of Platonic ideal – 'this is an authentic 1952 Tops Mickey Mantle Rookie card, all others are copies, replicas, or fakes'. A thing's authenticity is a measure of its faithfulness to the original; and its value is measured by the degree to which it approximates the original. The authentic rookie baseball card is a far greater prize than the re-issued anniversary edition.
Applying this model of authenticity to the built environment sheds light on a notion of authenticity that enables us to assess the building's value. If an exact replica of the Eiffel tower were erected today in Buenos Aires, it is doubtful that it would become the same symbol of national identity and pride for Argentinians that it has for Parisians.
If the London bridge was removed from its original location and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, Arizona –then it would be an abhorrent grafting that stripped a historic structure of any meaningful contextual significance.
What is clear from the above examples is that the measure of a building's authenticity is inseparably wed to its time, its place, its people, its cultural milieu. It is not so much the degree of faithfulness to the original that matters, but, rather, the degree to which a building is faithful to the environment in which it exists. It is this notion of "rootedness" that provides us with a meaningful tool for assessing the value of authenticity for a built work.
Perhaps no living architect embodies this notion of "rootedness" better than the Australian architect Glenn Murcutt. When asked what idea he is most concerned with communicating to his students, Mercut replied:
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Almost all of Mercutt's work has been done in his native geographic region. He does not have a single high rise, flashy concert hall or show piece museum on his resume, yet he has received the two highest professional honors that can be bestowed upon an architect – the AIA Gold Medal and the Pritzker Prize. What he has left is a trail of thoughtful, progressive, sustainable 'gifts' to his clients and fellow Australians. I offer his Marie Short House, built in Kempsey in 1975, as a model of an authentic building rooted in its environment. A May 2007 New York Times article entitled "The Native Builder" features the building.
Our challenge as designers will be two-fold. First, we must study, comprehend and recognize what is unique to our culture, our area, our people. Second, we must share and celebrate these findings in the public forum that is our local built environment. Beauty will have no choice but to follow; and we will all have reason to smile. I will be listening with open eyes and mind.
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But somebody told me I was special.The opposite of I Just Want to Be Normal, this is a character who is completely ordinary and unexceptional. And they desperately wish that they weren't. Either that or they have a very ordinary, uneventful life that they wish was fun and exciting. They would have Jumped at the Call, but the call never came. Very often, they are more than a little jealous of their friends who ''did'' get cool powers (as in the opening quote) or get to go on exciting adventures. If they're lucky enough, they may get to be the Badass Normal in their group of magical friends. Anyone who is Cursed with Awesome can expect precious little sympathy from this character. Anyone who is Blessed with Suck has every right to argue with this character. If they finally get what they want, they may become the Ascended Fanboy. Otherwise, they either Ascend and get slammed by the Sidekick Glass Ceiling or wind up Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life. Like the other I Just Want To... tropes, this is frequently used to the audience's own desires. If the character gets what he wants, he serves as a surrogate for the audience who want to be able to do the same at least in their imagination. If he does not, it's usually meant as encouragement for the viewers: "See, you should just be happy with the boring life that you have! And being special is overrated anyway!" May lead to a Be Careful What You Wish For situation. Compare I Wish It Were Real, Changeling Fantasy, I Just Want to Be Badass, The Call Put Me On Hold, I Just Want to Be Beautiful, The Team Wannabe. Contrast I Just Want to Be Normal.
Somebody told me that I could be
anything I wanted to be.
How could they have known the dreams I had
were not the dreams they had for me?
They said I could be what I wanted—
they had no idea what I wanted.
— Ookla The Mok, My Secret Origin
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Categories Food, Groceries Cocoa ( Cacao ), Chocolate
NuNaturals, Pure Liquid, Cocoa Bean Extract, 2 fl oz (59 ml)
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 lbs (0.23kg)
- Product Code: NNS-00048
- UPC Code: 739223000480
- Package Quantity: 2 fl oz (59 ml)
- Dimensions: 1.5 x 1.5 x 4.6 in, 0.3 lbs (0.14kg)
- Expiration Date: Jul 2019
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NuNaturals uses a highly concentrated extract and should not be confused with less potent powered herbs or extracts. NuStevia brand Stevia is a natural plant extract. Our cocoa extract is higher in levels of total phenolics and flavonoids than green tea, black tea and red wine. Now you have all the benefits of chocolate without the high fat and sugar of chocolate candy.
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|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 20 drops (1 ml) (approx. 1 dropperful)
|Servings Per Container: 59
|Amount Per Milliliter
|% Daily Value
|Cocoa Extract (Theobroma cacao) (Bean)
|100 mg
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