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Charleston, SC — Over the last year as a correspondent for CJR's United States Project covering four states in the Southeast, I examined how local media outlets covered stories ranging from small-town public corruption in West Virginia to the roots of the government shutdown in North Carolina. In Virginia, the governor is leaving under a cloud of ethics woes that I hope, moving forward, can be an opportunity for in-depth coverage of ethics reform. In South Carolina, the newspaper The State embarked on an ambitious series it's calling "State House for Sale." But those are just a few.
As we move into 2014, here's a look back at some of the issues we examined over the past year and an update on where they stand now.
Gambling and politics in North Carolina
Back in May, I interviewed Associated Press reporters Michael Biesecker and Mitch Weiss, who were churning out enterprising tales about dubious Internet gambling operators flexing their political muscle―and donating more campaign money than anyone else in North Carolina―in an attempt to shape public policy. The news settled down after the spring, but on Dec. 27 Biesecker was back with a piece that offered new details about efforts to influence state politicians.
From "Oklahoma AG: Checks to NC politicians came from illegal gambling," published in The Charlotte Observer:
A checking account used last year to make $235,000 in donations to the campaigns of dozens of North Carolina politicians contained the laundered proceeds of a criminal gambling enterprise, according to Oklahoma's top law enforcement official.
The political donations were drawn from one of several accounts tied to sweepstakes game provider Chase E. Burns of Anadarko, Okla., who in September pleaded no contest in Florida to two criminal counts of assisting in the operation of a lottery. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dropped 205 felony counts against Burns, including racketeering and money laundering charges. He is awaiting sentencing.
Biesecker further reported that Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt, last month finished up an agreement that will lead Burns to forfeit up $3.5 million from bank accounts seized as part of the investigation. "According to Pruitt, the money came directly from the 'laundered proceeds' of Burns' sweepstakes software company, International Internet Technologies," Biesecker wrote, adding that an AP review of court filings show "$1 million of that forfeited money came from a checking account in the name of the Chase Burns Trust - the same account used to send political donations to the campaigns of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, state House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate leader Phil Berger, among others."
Whatever happened in "Corruption County"?
Last spring I wrote about a small West Virginia newspaper's spat with a TV station in Charleston, the state capital, after the station used anonymous sources to report on an a pending indictment of a powerful local judge in rural Mingo County. An editorial in the Williamson Daily News called the TV report "irresponsible at best, defamation at worst."
Three months later, the TV station felt vindicated when the judge was indicted.
Where are the players now? Well, the indictment of judge Michael Thornsbury was just the beginning, as the saga unraveled throughout the summer into one of the most egregious examples of small-town public corruption in 2013. From an August story in The Charleston Gazette:
Prosecutors allege Thornsbury, the county's only circuit judge, put his business partner in charge of a Mingo grand jury as foreman, plotted to plant drugs on Robert Woodruff and tried to get the man sent to jail.
Thornsbury, a Democrat, "persecuted his secretary's husband, his romantic rival" and used the justice system for his own "nefarious purpose," Booth Goodwin, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, said in a Thursday news conference.
The story eventually caught national attention and led to a 1,300-word feature in Talking Points Memo by Hunter Walker, headlined "Murder, Moonshine and Hillbilly Heroin." From Walker's piece:
Corruption is something of a tradition in Mingo, a coal mining county that is home to less than 30,000 people and located along West Virginia's border with Kentucky. In the late 1980s, more than 50 Mingo residents who held government jobs were arrested for various illegal activities, including bribery, arson, and drug dealing. Because of this unique history, the locals have a special term for the corrupt political machinery there. It's a name investigators are using once again to describe Thornsbury and his associates—the "courthouse gang."
Federal investigators say Thornsbury is now cooperating with them "and giving them information concerning other elected officials"—according to a late December article in the Williamson Daily News.
How did the "State House for Sale" series pan out?


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Horrific history of the Holocaust on its 80th anniversary
- One of mankind's darkest hours happened 80 years ago as we remember the horror that was the Holocaust. Nazi Germany planned and carred through the mass execution of Jews. The Hebrew word for this is genocide Shoah. Photo: Getty Images
- In the 1920s and 1930s a violent nationalism and anti-Semiticis was born in post-World War I Germany. Within the country, laws were passed which limited the economic activities of Jews and instigated their expulsion from public life in countries where they were born and raised. They were branded as a lower race and dangerous. Photo: Getty Images
- With the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1933, the racial antisemitism became an instrument of state and the official ideology of the Third Reich. Photo: Getty Images
- The start of the worst events for Jews in Germany started in 1938. The Nazis launched a campaign of destruction of synagogues, mass arrests, destruction and looting of shops, and the systematic registration of Jewish property for the purpose of subsequent confiscation. Similarly, other ethnic and religious groups considered enemies of the Reich were persecuted Photo: Getty Images
- After Germany, the Holocaust spread throughout Europe from the beginning of World War II in 1939. After the occupation of Poland by the Nazi regime, Jews were concentrated in ghettos, while in Western Europe their population began to be recorded and forced to sell their goods. Photo: Getty Images
- In total, the Nazis erected over a thousand ghettos in Eastern Europe and a few in the center and south of the continent. Photo: Getty Images
- In the countries of southeastern Europe, Jews were herded up by regimes that collaborated with Nazi Germany as used as forced labor. Tens of thousands of recruits were killed. Photo: Getty Images
- After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, mass shootings of Jews began. Over 80% of Lithuanian Jews were killed by the end of that year. Photo: Getty Images
- In January 1942, a conference was summoned in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to coordinate the implementation methods of the "final solution of the Jewish problem." Photo: Getty Images
- At least 11 million Jews were targetted in the Nazi plan for the final solution. From that meeting, a network of camps where established where they were killed over three million Jews. Photo: Getty Images
- Auschwitz Birkenau was the largest concentration and extermination camp established in Poland, which worked both as a center for forced labor and mass murder. Photo: Getty Images
- In Auschwitz extermination was carried out in gas chambers using a highly lethal pesticide called Zyklon B. Photo: Getty Images
- In some camps they built permanent gas chambers. In the camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, all prisoners were executed. Immediately after the arrival of the trains, men, women and children were sent directly to their death. Photo: Getty Images
- In Auschwitz, they killed over a million Jews, 70,000 Poles, 25,000 gypsies and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war as well as many other members of different nationalities. Photo: Getty Images
- In late 1944 and early 1945, when Nazi Germany realized it was losing the war, it began mass evacuations of prisoners of concentration and extermination camps, known as death marches. Photo: Getty Images
- According to historians, it is estimated that around 200,000 people were forced to walk on the death marches and some 80,000 died on German soil, just a few weeks or a few days before the end of the war. Photo: Getty Images
- After the surrender of Germany in 1945, Holocaust survivors began a painful but necessary task of rebuilding their lives, socially, economically and religiously. (Sources: Yadvashem.org / Clarin / Agencies) Photo: Getty Images
One of mankind's darkest hours happened 80 years ago as we remember the horror that was the Holocaust. Nazi Germany planned and carred through the mass execution of Jews. The Hebrew word for this is genocide Shoah.
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Paterson, n.J., man sentenced to more than five years in prison for distribution of oxycodone
February 22, 2012 |
NEWARK, N.J. - Harun Arslan, 28, of Paterson, N.J., was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for his illegal sale of oxycodone pills, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Arslan previously pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with one count of possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone, which is a Schedule II controlled substance. Arslan entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares, who also imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
On Nov. 24, 2010, Arslan sold approximately 300 80-milligram oxycodone pills to an individual on the corner of Alps Road and Hamburg Turnpike in Wayne, N.J., in exchange for approximately $8,400. Oxycodone is a highly addictive prescription painkiller that can only be dispensed by a medical professional or pharmacist.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Linares sentenced Arslan to three years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael Ward in Newark, with the investigation leading to today's sentencing.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Shirley U. Emehelu of the Criminal Division in Newark.
Defense counsel: Thomas F.X. Dunn Esq., Glen Rock, N.J.


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text: Ditto with everyone. Dump this couple fast, they are not worth it. We haven't been doing this long, but I gotta tell ya, that's shady ! I try to make a point of getting to know the female of the other couple first at least a little bit. If I am not at ease with the female, than it's a no go, and visa vera, if my husband is sceptical about the other male it's also a no go. There shouldn't be any anamosity at all. You are considering sharing your wife with this man, he should have respect for you as well as her. All parties involved should relate to one another on some level, and your wife should understand this and cut him off. No secrets !


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Navarro Discount Pharmacy has announced the recipients of its first Vendor of the Year Awards.
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MIAMI – Navarro Discount Pharmacy has announced the recipients of its first Vendor of the Year Awards.
The Miami-area retailer, the nation's largest Hispanic-owned drug store chain with 28 stores, said Wednesday that the awards are aimed at honoring participating vendors and encouraging merchandising support, improved store promotions and collaboration on company initiatives.
Navarro's 2010 Vendors of the Year were Colgate-Palmolive, for National Vendor of the Year; MBR Industries, for Local Vendor of the Year; Advantage Sales and Marketing, for Broker of the Year; and PDX, for Pharmacy Vendor of the Year.
Criteria for the awards included the quality of merchandising support, reinvested dollars into Navarro in the form of product, promotions and advertising, the pharmacy chain said.
"We greatly value the relationships we have with vendors and suppliers, some of which have been in effect for decades," Navarro chief executive officer Steve Kacynski said in a statement.
The Vendor of the Year Awards were announced during Navarro's Vendor Summit in Miami earlier this month. At the event, vendors listened to a brief presentation about the drug chain's objectives and were urged to further engage their brands in the retailer's programs.
Also at the summit, vendors and suppliers received information on Navarro's new partnerships with SONA LLC, StoreBoard Media and Demonstration Marketing Co.
"We see our vendors as partners and look forward to collaborating with them and developing innovative ways of staying competitive," commented Cristy Leon-Rivero, Navarro's vice president of marketing.


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All Times EST |
Monday, Feb. 25 |
Sacred Heart at Bryant, 7 p.m.
Quinnipiac at CCSU, 7 p.m.
Villanova at Seton Hall, 9 p.m.
Savannah St. at Bethune-Cookman, 7:30 p.m.
Hampton at Delaware St., 7:30 p.m.
SC State at Florida A&M, 7:30 p.m.
Howard at Md.-Eastern Shore, 7:30 p.m.
Prairie View at Alabama A&M, 8:30 p.m.
Texas Southern at Alabama St., 8:30 p.m.
Grambling St. at MVSU, 8:30 p.m.
Texas Tech at Kansas St., 7 p.m.
Syracuse at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Kansas at Iowa St., 9 p.m.
New Orleans at Houston Baptist, 8:05 p.m.
Jackson St. at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 26 |
Auburn at Alabama, 7 p.m.
Towson at George Mason, 7 p.m.
VMI at Liberty, 7 p.m.
Ga. Southwestern at UCF, 7 p.m.
Wake Forest at Florida St., 9 p.m.
Florida at Tennessee, 9 p.m.
Indiana at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Memphis at Xavier, 7 p.m.
Loyola of Chicago at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
Wright St. at Ill.-Chicago, 8 p.m.
Utah Valley at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.
E. Illinois at Chicago St., 8:05 p.m.
Youngstown St. at Valparaiso, 8:05 p.m.
Nebraska at Wisconsin, 9 p.m.
Wyoming at Air Force, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 27 |
Michigan at Penn St., 6:30 p.m.
Holy Cross at Army, 7 p.m.
American U. at Bucknell, 7 p.m.
Lafayette at Colgate, 7 p.m.
Delaware at Hofstra, 7 p.m.
Navy at Lehigh, 7 p.m.
South Florida at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Georgetown at UConn, 7 p.m.
Baylor at West Virginia, 8 p.m.
Longwood at Campbell, 7 p.m.
Winthrop at Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m.
Davidson at Elon, 7 p.m.
Charleston Southern at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.
Northeastern at Georgia St., 7 p.m.
Radford at High Point, 7 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Miami, 7 p.m.
George Washington at Richmond, 7 p.m.
Presbyterian at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.
Georgia Southern at UNC Greensboro, 7 p.m.
William & Mary at UNC Wilmington, 7 p.m.
Dayton at Charlotte, 7:30 p.m.
Coppin St. at Morgan St., 7:30 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at Belmont, 8 p.m.
Maryland at Georgia Tech, 8 p.m.
Mississippi St. at Kentucky, 8 p.m.
Arkansas at LSU, 8 p.m.
Boston College at NC State, 8 p.m.
UAB at Tulane, 8 p.m.
Texas A&M at Mississippi, 9 p.m.
Georgia at Vanderbilt, 9 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at Ball St., 7 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Bowling Green, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Kent St., 7 p.m.
Akron at Ohio, 7 p.m.
W. Michigan at Toledo, 7 p.m.
Drake at Indiana St., 7:05 p.m.
E. Michigan at N. Illinois, 8 p.m.
N. Iowa at S. Illinois, 8 p.m.
Saint Joseph's at Saint Louis, 8 p.m.
Evansville at Wichita St., 8 p.m.
Creighton at Bradley, 8:05 p.m.
Missouri St. at Illinois St., 8:05 p.m.
Purdue at Iowa, 8:36 p.m.
Louisville at DePaul, 9 p.m.
Oklahoma St. at TCU, 7 p.m.
Rice at SMU, 8 p.m.
Oklahoma at Texas, 9 p.m.
Houston at UTEP, 9 p.m.
Nevada at Boise St., 8 p.m.
Fresno St. at Colorado St., 9 p.m.
Arizona at Southern Cal, 9:30 p.m.
San Diego St. at New Mexico, 10:15 p.m.
Saint Mary's (Cal) at Pepperdine, 11 p.m.
Colorado at Stanford, 11 p.m.
Arizona St. at UCLA, 11:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 28 |
New Hampshire at Albany (NY), 7 p.m.
Vermont at Binghamton, 7 p.m.
Stony Brook at Boston U., 7 p.m.
Robert Morris at Bryant, 7 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at CCSU, 7 p.m.
St. Peter's at Canisius, 7 p.m.
Wagner at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m.
UMBC at Hartford, 7 p.m.
Sacred Heart at LIU Brooklyn, 7 p.m.
Mount St. Mary's at Monmouth (NJ), 7 p.m.
Rider at Niagara, 7 p.m.
Quinnipiac at St. Francis (NY), 7 p.m.
Detroit at Temple, 7 p.m.
Samford at Appalachian St., 7 p.m.
North Carolina at Clemson, 7 p.m.
Drexel at Old Dominion, 7 p.m.
Morehead St. at Tennessee St., 7 p.m.
Chattanooga at W. Carolina, 7 p.m.
Furman at The Citadel, 7:05 p.m.
Kennesaw St. at Stetson, 7:15 p.m.
Wofford at Coll. of Charleston, 7:30 p.m.
Mercer at Florida Gulf Coast, 7:30 p.m.
North Florida at N. Kentucky, 7:30 p.m.
SE Missouri at Austin Peay, 8 p.m.
Utah St. at Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m.
UT-Martin at Murray St., 8 p.m.
South Alabama at W. Kentucky, 8 p.m.
Jacksonville at Lipscomb, 8:15 p.m.
Alabama A&M at Grambling St., 8:30 p.m.
Alabama St. at Jackson St., 8:30 p.m.
FIU at Louisiana-Monroe, 8:30 p.m.
Ark.-Pine Bluff at MVSU, 8:30 p.m.
Oral Roberts at McNeese St., 8:30 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Tennessee Tech, 8:30 p.m.
Middle Tennessee at Troy, 8:30 p.m.
Missouri at South Carolina, 9 p.m.
Duke at Virginia, 9 p.m.
Ohio St. at Northwestern, 7 p.m.
South Dakota at IUPUI, 7:30 p.m.
S. Dakota St. at Nebraska-Omaha, 8 p.m.
UMKC at W. Illinois, 8:30 p.m.
Arkansas St. at North Texas, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Texas St., 8 p.m.
San Jose St. at Texas-Arlington, 8 p.m.
Idaho at UTSA, 8 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas at Lamar, 8:30 p.m.
Alcorn St. at Prairie View, 8:30 p.m.
SE Louisiana at Texas A&M-CC, 8:30 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at UALR, 8:30 p.m.
Nicholls St. at Sam Houston St., 8:45 p.m.
Southern U. at Texas Southern, 9 p.m.
Idaho St. at N. Arizona, 8:35 p.m.
Utah at California, 9 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego, 9 p.m.
N. Colorado at E. Washington, 9:05 p.m.
Montana St. at S. Utah, 9:05 p.m.
Cal Poly at CS Northridge, 10:05 p.m.
Weber St. at Sacramento St., 10:05 p.m.
North Dakota at Portland St., 10:35 p.m.
Gonzaga at BYU, 11 p.m.
Oregon St. at Oregon, 11 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at Santa Clara, 11 p.m.
UC Davis at UC Riverside, 11 p.m.
Pacific at Cal St.-Fullerton, 11:05 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at Hawaii, Mid
Friday, March 1 |
Yale at Columbia, 7 p.m.
Brown at Cornell, 7 p.m.
Loyola (Md.) at Iona, 7 p.m.
Dartmouth at Penn, 7 p.m.
Harvard at Princeton, 7 p.m.
Marist at Siena, 7 p.m.
Fairfield at Manhattan, 9 p.m.
SC-Upstate at ETSU, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 2 |
Colgate at Holy Cross, Noon
American U. at Lafayette, Noon
Army at Lehigh, Noon
Old Dominion at Northeastern, Noon
Louisville at Syracuse, Noon
Rider at Canisius, 2 p.m.
George Mason at Delaware, 2 p.m.
Duquesne at La Salle, 2 p.m.
Rhode Island at Temple, 2 p.m.
St. Peter's at Niagara, 3 p.m.
Robert Morris at CCSU, 3:30 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at Bryant, 4 p.m.
Saint Louis at George Washington, 4 p.m.
Houston Baptist at NJIT, 4 p.m.
Hofstra at Towson, 4 p.m.
Quinnipiac at LIU Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.
Sacred Heart at St. Francis (NY), 4:30 p.m.
Akron at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
Harvard at Penn, 6 p.m.
Dartmouth at Princeton, 6 p.m.
Brown at Columbia, 7 p.m.
Yale at Cornell, 7 p.m.
UNC Wilmington at Drexel, 7 p.m.
Mount St. Mary's at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m.
Wagner at Monmouth (NJ), 7 p.m.
Bucknell at Navy, 7 p.m.
Fordham at Saint Joseph's, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at St. Bonaventure, 7 p.m.
St. John's at Providence, 8 p.m.
Rutgers at Georgetown, 9 p.m.
Alabama at Florida, Noon
Butler at VCU, Noon
Maryland at Wake Forest, Noon
Jacksonville St. at Belmont, 1 p.m.
Memphis at UCF, 1 p.m.
Longwood at VMI, 1 p.m.
Tennessee at Georgia, 1:45 p.m.
Chattanooga at Appalachian St., 2 p.m.
Georgia Southern at Davidson, 2 p.m.
SMU at UAB, 3 p.m.
Mercer at Stetson, 3:15 p.m.
Coll. of Charleston at Furman, 4 p.m.
Campbell at High Point, 4 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas at McNeese St., 4 p.m.
Md.-Eastern Shore at Morgan St., 4 p.m.
SC State at NC A&T, 4 p.m.
Savannah St. at NC Central, 4 p.m.
UNC Asheville at Winthrop, 4 p.m.
Coastal Carolina at Charleston Southern, 4:30 p.m.
Presbyterian at Gardner-Webb, 4:30 p.m.
Liberty at Radford, 4:30 p.m.
Samford at W. Carolina, 4:30 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at Louisiana-Monroe, 5 p.m.
Mississippi at Mississippi St., 5 p.m.
Kennesaw St. at Florida Gulf Coast, 5:15 p.m.
Miami at Duke, 6 p.m.
Alabama St. at Grambling St., 6 p.m.
Florida A&M at Hampton, 6 p.m.
Delaware St. at Howard, 6 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at Norfolk St., 6 p.m.
James Madison at William & Mary, 6 p.m.
Alabama A&M at Jackson St., 6:30 p.m.
UNC Greensboro at Elon, 7 p.m.
FIU at FAU, 7 p.m.
The Citadel at Wofford, 7 p.m.
North Florida at Lipscomb, 7:30 p.m.
San Jose St. at Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m.
Jacksonville at N. Kentucky, 8 p.m.
East Carolina at Southern Miss., 8 p.m.
Clemson at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m.
Middle Tennessee at W. Kentucky, 8 p.m.
UT-Martin at Austin Peay, 8:30 p.m.
SE Missouri at Murray St., 8:30 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Tennessee St., 8:30 p.m.
Morehead St. at Tennessee Tech, 8:30 p.m.
South Alabama at Troy, 8:30 p.m.
Vanderbilt at Auburn, 9 p.m.
Ohio at Bowling Green, 2 p.m.
UConn at Cincinnati, 2 p.m.
Wichita St. at Creighton, 2 p.m.
W. Michigan at E. Michigan, 2 p.m.
Detroit at Ill.-Chicago, 2 p.m.
West Virginia at Kansas, 2 p.m.
Notre Dame at Marquette, 2 p.m.
Ball St. at Toledo, 2 p.m.
Youngstown St. at Wright St., 2 p.m.
UMass at Xavier, 2 p.m.
Valparaiso at Green Bay, 3 p.m.
Cleveland St. at Loyola of Chicago, 3 p.m.
Kent St. at Miami (Ohio), 3 p.m.
Penn St. at Minnesota, 3 p.m.
Richmond at Dayton, 4 p.m.
LSU at Missouri, 4 p.m.
N. Dakota St. at Nebraska-Omaha, 4 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at E. Illinois, 5 p.m.
Indiana St. at Evansville, 5 p.m.
Nebraska at Illinois, 5:15 p.m.
IPFW at Oakland, 6 p.m.
UMKC at IUPUI, 7:30 p.m.
Iowa at Indiana, 7:30 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at N. Illinois, 8 p.m.
Illinois St. at N. Iowa, 8 p.m.
South Dakota at W. Illinois, 8 p.m.
S. Illinois at Drake, 8:05 p.m.
Bradley at Missouri St., 8:05 p.m.
Iowa St. at Oklahoma, 1:30 p.m.
Marshall at Houston, 2 p.m.
Idaho at Texas St., 3 p.m.
Kentucky at Arkansas, 4 p.m.
Texas at Oklahoma St., 4 p.m.
TCU at Texas Tech, 4 p.m.
Tulane at Tulsa, 4:05 p.m.
SE Louisiana at Sam Houston St., 4:45 p.m.
Southern U. at Prairie View, 6 p.m.
Kansas St. at Baylor, 7 p.m.
Oral Roberts at Lamar, 7 p.m.
Northwestern St. at Stephen F. Austin, 7 p.m.
South Carolina at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
Seattle at UTSA, 7 p.m.
UTEP at Rice, 8 p.m.
Utah St. at Texas-Arlington, 8 p.m.
Arkansas St. at UALR, 8 p.m.
Nicholls St. at Texas A&M-CC, 8:30 p.m.
Alcorn St. at Texas Southern, 9 p.m.
Pepperdine at San Diego, 3 p.m.
Arizona St. at Southern Cal, 3 p.m.
UNLV at Nevada, 4 p.m.
Weber St. at N. Arizona, 4:05 p.m.
Colorado at California, 5 p.m.
Portland at Gonzaga, 5 p.m.
Wyoming at New Mexico, 5 p.m.
North Dakota at E. Washington, 5:05 p.m.
New Mexico St. at Denver, 6 p.m.
Colorado St. at Boise St., 8 p.m.
Pacific at UC Riverside, 8 p.m.
Arizona at UCLA, 9 p.m.
UC Davis at Cal St.-Fullerton, 9:05 p.m.
Montana at Montana St., 9:05 p.m.
Chicago St. at Utah Valley, 9:05 p.m.
Air Force at Fresno St., 10 p.m.
Santa Clara at Saint Mary's (Cal), 10 p.m.
Long Beach St. at UC Irvine, 10 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at CS Northridge, 10:05 p.m.
Idaho St. at Sacramento St., 10:05 p.m.
N. Colorado at Portland St., 10:35 p.m.
BYU at Loyola Marymount, 11 p.m.
Cal Poly at Hawaii, 12:30 a.m.
Sunday, March 3 |
Manhattan at Loyola (Md.), Noon
Villanova at Pittsburgh, Noon
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"Bird priest" (lower figure on the right, with wings, beak-like nose and foots to shape of a bird's claws) in front of the Lord (taller figure on the left), on the motif of the presentation of the sacrificial blood of defeated and captive warriors, offered in a goblet. An Ulluchu fruit is at the feet of the Lord
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco
The elusive Ulluchu, War, Blood and Sacrifice among the Moche
The topics linked with the ritual use of the "Ulluchu" fruit among the Moche people of ancient Peru mostly speak of ritual combat, war, sacrificial practices, ritual bloodletting and – possibly – as we shall see, even of the shamanic, otherworldly, ecstatic visionary journeys of their warrior-priests.
The elusive Ulluchu has been previously associated to Carica candicans – a kind of wild papaya (Carica papaya L.) with anti-coagulant properties – by Italian archaeologist and anthropologist Mario Polia, and most recently convincingly identified by Rainer W. Bussman and Douglas Sharon as a group of species of the genus Guarea, belonging to the Meliacea family.
One of the first depictions of this rare fruit appears in the Moche culture [circa 1-750 CE] of Peru, in a banner associated to what has been called the "Ulluchu Man", a figurine about 50 cm tall representing an odd-looking half-crab half-anthropomorphic deity, found in level 1 of the burial site of the "Lord of Sipán". The Lord was a high-ranking shaman, or a priest, a warrior-priest, a spiritual leader, or a bit of this all, found in an impressive Moche burial ground, near Chiclayo, in Peru.
"Level 1″ was the level actually occupied by the burial of the "Old Lord of Sipán", which predates the "Lord of Sipán" proper (found on level 6 of the same burial site) of about 200 years.
Iconographic representations of the Ulluchu fruit are also known from the Deity of the "Ulluchus" raffiguration, found on a quadrangular banner of golden copper where the Ulluchu motif frames all sides of the sacred image. Along with this, other depictions of the Ulluchu are found in one of the golden copper banners that come out as well from the first layer of the Lord of Sipan tomb.
Some scholars are prone to believe that the Moche people of ancient Peru maintained the idea of warfare to perform rituals and sacrifices. And, conversely, their sacrificial and ritual practices appeared to have been part of their idea of war: the final stages of a conflict – with the capture and parade of the prisoners – often appear to have ended with human sacrifices.
Iconographic representation of Moche ritual sacrifice. On the upper scene are the personages of higher investitures: the Lord or a high rank warrior priest (third from the left), a "bird priest" finally offering the cup with the sacrificial blood, a priestess and other figures. Ulluchu fruits are also shown at the feet of the taller figure on the right. Many of the ornaments of the Lord correspond to those encountered in the Tomb of the Lord of Sipán. In the lower scene (centre and right), ceremonial slaughter of two naked war prisoners (or warriors defeated in ritual combat).
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco
Ritual Combat, Not Warfare
However, as for most recent approaches, other scholars are now prone to believe that rather than ordinary warfare, where the vanquished were ritually sacrificed, their throats slit and their blood collected and drank by a high priest-warrior or divine ruler, it was more the case of ritual combats which concluded with the actual human sacrifice. After examining a collection of bones originating from a major Moche Huaca, archaeologist Steve Bourget discovered that all their bodies were systematically dismembered and bore a mark on the neck vertebrae, showing that their throats had effectively been slit. A clear proof that these weren't only mythological representations, but actual ritual practices amid the Moche.
Propitiatory Sacrifices and Ulluchu
The most interesting discover was however, that many of these skeletons were deeply covered with mud, which pointed at the fact that the burials took place in the rain. Since this area of Peru is almost desertic, he supposed that there must have been a link between the ritual combat and the burials on one side, and the rain on the other. The conclusion he reached is that these were propitiatory sacrifices to either celebrate or encourage rain.
The importance of human sacrifices – whether war prisoners, warriors or either of them defeated in ritual combats – in Moche culture seems to lend credit to the interpretation for which the Ulluchu fruit must have played an essential part in these ceremonies. The Ulluchu prevented the formation of clotting before a captive's blood was consumed and the fruit often appears associated to a cup full of sacrificial blood to be offered to the Lord. Ritual drinking of the blood of vanquished warriors, the spreading of their blood on an altar, the motif of their capture and sacrifice, and the presence of the Ulluchu seem to point at a close relationship among these elements. The fruit would have granted the necessary fluidity to the blood from the moment of its collection during the sacrifice, to the moment of the final offering to the Lord.
Ritual use of the Ulluchu-Guarea seeds as inebriant/psychotropic substance in sacrifices
Bussman and Sharon, upon examining some Moche iconographic evidence contend that the grounded seeds of the Guarea, when inhaled, may have generated psychotropic effects. Specifically, a personage with dilated nostrils, carrying a gourd and a pestle, in one instance and winged runners and messengers – a possible metaphor for the ecstatic flight – are associated at times with floating Ulluchu seeds in other instances.
The inhaling of the powdered Ulluchu seeds, as recently hypothesised by these authors, may have induced in the Moche priests a psychotropic experience which – albeit mild in intensity and short in duration – would have been perfectly in tune with a possible religious and/or ritual requirement of communicating with their deity in a trance-like status. The warrior-priests may have been interceding (for instance) for a drought – or other similar phenomenon, affecting their harsh, coastal, desertic area – to end, and to favour and promote fertility. Ithyphallic sacrificial victims (whether prisoners of war – as they are seen by some scholars – or warriors defeated in ritual combat, as others contend) on Moche iconographic representations may point at the fact that we might be in presence of fertility rites. Conversely, we know (Bussman and Sharon) that the Guarea seeds when ingested in concentrated fashion may cause dilatation of the blood vessels and high blood pressure (which in turn may facilitate the extraction of sacrificial blood) and also produce erections. So, the Ulluchu-Guarea seeds might have played a multiple role in Moche ritual practices: being possibly at the same time a sacred vehicle of intoxication for the priests performing human sacrifices, a mean to facilitate blood collection from sacrificial victims and perhaps playing an important role in fertility rites (favouring ithyphallism in vanquished/sacrificial warriors defeated in either ritual combat or in warfare, and sacrificed during rainy days). The magical propitiation of rain through sacrificial practices must have played an extremely important role among the Moche people, when we consider the environmental devastation and terrible effects triggered by the El Niño phenomenon in the Moche and Lambayeque Valleys, which caused droughts lasting up to thirty years (562-594 CE; Otterbein, 140).
The Ulluchu fruit outside of the Moche culture
The Ulluchu has also been found outside of the context of the Moche culture. In the province of Huancabamba, the "Italian Archaeological Mission" led by Mario Polia has found the ancient indigenous temple of the Huancapampas people, together with the ruins of the later Inka buildings. At the top of Cerro Tsaquir, nearby the "Templo de los Jaguares", Prof. Polia discovered an archaic funerary complex, where were found a "rainmaker" burial, two human sacrifices and a vast subterranean stone temple, with several offerings of rare Spondylus shells. Among the ritual offerings there was necklace made of hundreds of stone pearls and shells, with three representations of the Ulluchu fruit, in lapislazzuli. Testimonial – for the first time – of the fact that the ancient use of this mysterious fruit in ritual sacrifices spread outside the traditional boundaries of the Moche culture.
1) Carica candicans A. Gray (Family: Caricaceae; Genus: Carica), synonymous of Vasconcellea candicans (A. Gray) A. DC. , a plant common in Peru.
2) Cerro Tsaquir: note the similitude with the word Tzakiir which – in Jibaro tongue – means literally "where water springs". See MISSIONE "ANDE DEL NORD", led by Prof. Polia: http://www.lifeland.it/articles.asp?id=18
Bourget, Steve: Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2006
Bourget, Steve, Kimberly L. Jones : The Art and Archaeology of the Moche: An Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast (Editor)
Bussmann, Rainer W. and Sharon, Douglas: Naming a phantom – the quest to find the identity of Ulluchu, an unidentified ceremonial plant of the Moche culture in Northern Peru, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Vol. 5, 31 Mar 2009 http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/5/1/8
Harder, Ben: Ancient Peru Torture Deaths: Sacrifices or War Crimes? National Geographic News, April 29, 2002
Otterbein, Keith F. How war began, Texas A&M University Press, 30 Nov 2004
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Simply put... any box that can run the newcamd protocol can be used for iks.
More are coming out all the time
Currently testing an iLINK 9500HD and a SonicView 8000HD and I'm looking for another FTA HD receiver that will work with IKS on a Private paid service. If we can get testers to help confirm what's available and working, hopefully by creating this list will help out others as well and clear up any confusion. I found the following FTA HD receivers listed on the net and I need to know the following for each one.
1) Will it work on IKS Private Paid Service.
2) Is there a 8PSK Module available.
3) Does it require a computer to function.
4) Is there currently a working bin file available.
Receiver List:
iLINK 9500HD
LIMESAT HD Wifi PVR
Simply put... any box that can run the newcamd protocol can be used for iks.
More are coming out all the time
homer_ (07-27-2011),redneckyankee (07-27-2011),valdarez (11-05-2012)
AXBOX BRAVO HD--Not DN or bev HD
CAPTAIN 8000HD-----no
CAPTIVE WORKS 4000HD---yes
COOLSAT 8000HD----no
DREAM BOX----Not DN or bev HD
iLINK 9500HD---yes
KBOX K2 HD----no
LIMESAT HD Wifi PVR---yes
LIMESAT HD MAX PVR---not out yet but yes
NFUSION HD---yes
PANSAT 9000HD--no
PANSAT 9200HD---no
PROBOX 930HD---no
SONICVIEW 8000HD---yes
SATZEN Z500HD--- not an HD box
VIEWSAT 9000HD ---yes
VS Max---yes
Openbox--Not DN or bev HD
Last edited by homer_; 07-27-2011 at 10:54 PM. Reason: changed sonicview to yes
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The problem is most manufactures don't list all of the details of it's capabilities like having the newcamd protocol not to mention some of the older models that have been disconnected. The other problem I'm finding is, the receiver might be capable of running the newcamd protocol but in standard definition and not HD because there is no 8psk module available. I thought by posting this question in a forum full of FTA testers would have helped me and possibly others looking for the same answers but I guess I was wrong.
Just when things weren't looking to good, someone came up with what I was looking for. Thanks Homer!
homer_ (07-27-2011)
That's correct, it must be just a typo, SonicView 8000HD is one that I'm currently testing and it does work. Can someone please confirm if the ViewSat 9000HD and Max will work without a PC.
Im useing max hd with a x fta router works perfect
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Can you tell me if the Viewsat MAX HD has up scaling on SD channels and does it offer OSD in 1080. Also, I found there are 3-different dongles available for the MAX. Weather Forcaster, Viewsat V-link and the XFTA. Is there one better then the other in terms of reliability. Thanks
Noit dose not up convert to 1080 osd i dont no what that means so i cant tell u i have used the wf but its for public so i sold it an got xfta and homer and canuck help me hudge to get it to work an now its good the v link i have never talked to any one useing one u can also hook a cpu up to it but i dont no about that system hope that helps
You have a pretty good combination going as is really.
The only two that stick out in the list that I see are the CW4000HD which is much much more than just a satilite reciever and the Limesat HD unit.
By the time you get a viewsat and the module and an xfta router your looking at the same thing as these two inboard P$ units.
I will caution you on the limesat option however, because there are two recievers out there, as you know. One version requires a rare module and the other has a standard module and server access.
There may be some out there trying to sell one as the other and ripping people off.
If I were you I would wait a month or two before getting anything else HD
who knows... there may be something else available by then.
Btw I almost forgot the Nfusion HD which does require a computer but it works in the backround and doesn't interfer with regular PC activity, the pc must be on at all times
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I need another HD receiver for a 3rd room and wanted to try something different as long as it's a decent unit. I just happen to have a spare SK200 module and I believe it should work in the Viewsat MAX but I'm trying to find more info on which dongle to use. Because I want to use it on a Private service, I guess it's down to the XFTA or Viewsat V-Link. I know the XFTA is a wireless solution but which one would be best for reliability. Also, do you know if Viewsat suffers from the channel change error. If I did look at the limsat receivers, is the MAX HD unit the one to look for and is there a way to tell the difference between the two. Thanks
Iv never had a channel change error with x fta or wf iv bin useing the max for 1,5 years i had an sv elite an got it alot


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The Malice at the Palace
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March 20, 2012
Ben. There was a foul at one end, another foul, and then a borderline foul and problems beyond the foul. The game was out of hand. I was hoping the officials were going to kick both players out.
Mark Boyle (radio play-by-play, Pacers): There was no reason for those guys to be out there. I was surprised. It was an intense game — a bitter rivalry. But that game had been decided.
Larry Brown (head coach, Pistons): I don't think the game was so far out of hand that you're going to embarrass a player by putting him in for 45 seconds.
Montieth: Reggie Miller did not play. Anthony Johnson did not play. Scot Pollard did not play. Those guys were all in street clothes. Give Carlisle a pass — they had a short bench that night.
Jackson: Ben was the wrong person [to foul] because, if I'm not mistaken, his brother had just passed and he was going through some issues. I was guarding Ben, I let him score. I was trying to let the clock run out. And Ron just came from out of nowhere and just clobbered him. I'm like, "What the hell is going on?" I had no clue that was about to happen. When that happened, everything just happened so fast, man.
Boyle: Ronnie fouled Ben under the basket and then Ben shoved Ronnie and then Ronnie backed away and the thing kind of drifted over to the press table.
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The Scorer's Table
Multiple players from both teams kept pulling an enraged Wallace away from Artest, who eventually (and inexplicably) decided to lie on the scorer's table as everything settled down. The slowness of the response — Wallace looming, teammates shoving, and referees debating — allowed the incident to escalate.
Donnie Walsh (CEO and president, Pacers): Ronnie did try to get away from it because he had been told, "If you see yourself getting too excited, disengage and get yourself out of it and get your thoughts together." That's why he went down and laid down on the table. It was so he wouldn't get all excited and do something wrong.
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Montieth: In a way, he provoked it passively by lying down on that table. He picked up a set of radio headphones like he was going to talk to people back home. He was clowning around a bit too much. In his mind, he was saying, "Look, I'm not doing anything here. I'm trying to be good." It didn't work out that way.
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Wilson: It was almost like an "I'm so cool" thing to sort of disassociate yourself and act above everything. Which I think is how the crowd took it.
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Montieth: Artest would put on the headphones and Reggie [Miller] would take them off and put them down. Reggie did a really good job of trying to keep the situation under control and stay after Artest.
Boyle: We had guys on that team that were jaw-jackers. Stephen Jackson was looking for somebody to fight. He was jacking it up. Ronnie was lying on the table. Ben's not one to back away. It was just the wrong mix of guys.
Mike Brown: Nobody was holding the Piston players back. The one guy that I did know and had a pretty good relationship with was Ben. I went over and I tried to grab him and talk to him. His nickname was Debo, so I tried to pull a nickname from the past out. I was like, "Debo, Debo, it's not worth it. Go back. Debo. Come on." He kind of slowed down and I finally got him to a point where he stopped.
Jackson: The biggest thing that upset me — after we were trying to break up Ben and Ron, a lot of [Ben's] teammates were still talking. I'm over trying to help and break it up and I'm standing next to Rick Carlisle and I see Rip Hamilton and Lindsey Hunter, I hear them talking and I'm thinking, OK. They ain't trying to break it up. They're still talking. Let me try and go see what they want to do.
Hunter: I was trying to stop Rip because Rip was like 140 pounds and that's my guy, my little brother. Like, "Rip, sit down. Get out the way before you get hurt out here." And Derrick Coleman is like, "Come on, let's get these guys out [of here]." So I walk out there and that's when Stephen walked up and started saying stuff. And, listen, I box. I'm too old to be fighting or whatever, and I'm like, "I'm not fitting to fight out here in front of all these people." But I've been boxing for nine, 10 years, so it wasn't a big deal to me.
Jackson: I was in fight mode at the time. I'm like, "Y'all being real disrespectful, man. We're trying to break this up. So if y'all wanna fight, I'll give you what you're looking for." It was just a whole bunch of noise, just trash talk.
Hunter: In a situation like that, you want to protect your teammates and yourself. I'm looking to make sure nobody's going to hit anybody from behind. I just remember kind of smirking, like, "Jacko, you know you don't want to fight in front of all these people." And we kind of squared off and looked at each other and it didn't escalate into anything. People don't know that Rip is a fierce competitor and Rip just goes over the top, man. He was real emotional.
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by Qasim Sharif: As more and more revelations are surfacing about the Lamont Peterson drug scandal and the concrete fact that the fight dubbed No Doubt has been officially called off, what can we expect in the next couple of days. One thing for sure is that Khan as he did after the fight will not let this rest easily. As all fight fans are aware he was adamant he had been robbed by the referee, he then established another element which was not quite cleared up about " the man in the hat". And now we have learned that Lamont failed sample A and B of his tests, the script looks like its come straight out of a movie scene. Ultimately Khan either gets his belts back and the Washington commission rule the previous monumental clash between the two a no contest,or the belts get vacated and a new opponent is selected for Khan. But the question is who? Now we all know that irrelevant of perception Khan trains hard, often away from the comfort of family and close ones, in a complete different country even. I'm sure Amir will still want to put on a show for all the fans that have been let down.. Does he go for Marcos Maidana again or Zab Judah, both who have expressed the desire for a rematch? Or does he go for the newly crowned WBC champion Danny Garcia and have a mega unification clash? A unification bout would still generate interest if this was to go ahead as both are regarded as the best light welterweights in the division. He could also go for morales who will crave an opportunity for another chance at the big time. Peterson on the the other hand earned himself a new army of fans and also a great deal of respect for the rags to riches story of his life. He earned more respect in one night than his whole career. Now all that appears to be in tatters as does his career. In my personal opinion he has lost all credibility and will find it hard to regain any recognition in his career. All we can now do is wait and see what the next chapter brings us.
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My brother recently upgraded his Ford Focus hatchback to a super sweet charcoal grey Mini Cooper. In his love for his new car, ok, obsession, he found a great group of Mini Cooper owners who get together on occasion to indulge in their shared passion (sound familiar?).
His first meet with the group was breakfast in Malibu then a trip to see the Steve McQueen exhibit at the Peterson Automotive Museum.
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Michael Phelps' New GF Has A Sex Tape And Has Apparently Fucked Every Guy In Hollywood
SportsGrid – Retired Michael Phelps does not care what you think. Retired Michael Phelps does not have to live up to your expectations. He will smoke and gamble and crowd surf poorly because Michael Phelps has more gold medals than 82 countries. So if Michael Phelps wants to sex it up all over Hollywood, Michael Phelps will sex it up all over Hollywood. The folks over at With Leather pass along this Scandalous Piece Of News from gossip merchant Hollyscoop, that Phelps is dating notorious Hollywood-famous-person-sexer Jasmine Waltz. Who? That girl up there, who kind of looks like Megan Fox. Hollyscoop generously describes her as "notorious Hollywood star f*cker Jasmine Waltz." Well, then. Anyway, more on Waltz. Here's her website (extremely NSFW). On it is her very own sex tape, which "leaked" onto her site after a $60,000 deal to produce a sex tape fell through. Phelps is apparently just in it (the relationship, not the video) for the sex, and Waltz for the fame – she's been linked to a number of other famous celebrities, including David Arquette, Zac Efron, Chris Pine, Ryan Seacrest, Jesse McCartney, Doug Reinhardt and Vinny from "The Jersey Shore," despite only being a waitress.
So apparently Michael Phelps is dating the slut of all sluts right now. A "waitress" who has banged like every dude in Hollywood and has her own website on which she sells a sex tape. Hey the girl is hot, no question about that. Something about a sex tape that she sells herself though…kinda not sitting right with me. It's weird. Like I'd be so much more comfortable with a girl if she was just honest and said she's a porn star. Hey, I'm a porn star, I have sex on camera for cash, that's what I do. A perfectly noble line of work, I have no problems with that. But doesn't sneaky being a porn star kinda seem really scummy? Clearly she's making money from being filmed with cocks inside her, but she does it under the guise of a "leaked" tape. I say if you wanna get cash for porn then just go ahead, be open about it, start getting cash for porn. No big thing.
This girl been had some celeb fuck buddies though huh? Not really sure what good can come from dating this chick. Fucking, sure. But dating? Watch out Mike. She's a gold digger. And I mean that in the most literal sense. She's only with you because of you have gold.


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Spinach with onions & pine nuts
By Jane Hornby
Cooking time
Prep: 5 mins Cook: 20 minsSkill level
Serves 6 - 8Jazz up a bag of spinach with caramelised onions and the crunch of pine nuts
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- Vegetarian
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- kcalories
- 203
- protein
- 7g
- carbs
- 9g
- fat
- 16g
- saturates
- 6g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 7g
- salt
- 0.73g
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 large onions, thinly sliced
- 50g butter
- 50g pine nuts
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- grating of nutmeg
- 1 tbsp sherry vinegar
- 2 x 500g bags spinach
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- Heat the oil in a large, deep pan. Add the onions, cover, then gently fry for 15 mins until soft and almost transparent. Add the butter and pine nuts, turn up the heat, then fry for 5 mins more or until the onions are dark golden. Stir in the garlic, grate in a little nutmeg, then fry for 1 min. Splash in vinegar.
- Meanwhile, heat the largest pan you have until very hot. Throw in half the spinach, cover for 20 secs, then stir until just wilted. Tip into a colander set over a bowl, then repeat with the second bag of spinach.
- To serve, toss the cooked spinach into onion mix and season generously.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2009
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Made this for lunch today. Was relatively straight forward and quick and reminded me just what a nice accompanyment it can be. I made a half quantity as there were only two of us for lunch a part from halfing all the ingredients followed the recipe and we really enjoyed it with our grilled Turkey steaks and boiled new potatoes. I'll definitly do it again.


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As with karate, Scott with his dark brown hair, brown eyes, and muscular build gravitated toward teaching. On weekends he would take students to Dutch Springs, a freshwater lake in nearby Pennsylvania, to dive. In 1992 he helped cofound Treasure Cove, a dive shop in Westfield, a town of 30,000 just 25 minutes southwest of New York City. The small store catered to wealthy weekend warriors who had enough money to spend on $5000 regulators. Scott when he wasn't diving, teaching, or taking his 140-pound English mastiff, Lucy, to the dog park on Sundays would spend his free time behind the counter, selling equipment or filling tanks.
One day he came home from the shop and rushed up to Marianne. "Guess who I met today?" he said breathlessly. "Richie Kohler."
Kohler, who worked as a glass salesman by day, was already a legend at the time, known for diving dangerous wrecks in his spare time. He was also on the verge of discovering a previously unknown German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. Soon the two were friends. Kohler, a lifelong diver, was impressed with Scott's love of the sport, his patience with students, and his levelheadedness.
"I would trust my children to be trained by Scott Stanley," Kohler says. "Scott was a very good diver. He was an excellent instructor. Competent. Thorough. He knew his limits. He didn't have a macho attitude." The two went on occasional expeditions together, setting anchor lines and diving wrecks.
Scott also made dozens of other dive friends at Treasure Cove. Jonathan Walsweer was a 38-year-old financial analyst who had been diving since he was a boy. Scott and Walsweer often took dive trips with their wives to Mexico and other Caribbean locales.
Marianne said that Scott loved to read up on wrecks he had amassed a small library of dive volumes in the basement of their 100-year-old colonial home and was excited about the Spiegel Grove. He first dove the wreck in 2002 and loved it so much that he brought David back the next year.
Another dive buddy was a local judge and lawyer named Howard Spialter. Like Scott, Spialter was a passionate diver and instructor. Though Spialter was three years younger, he looked a bit older with his shaggy beard and wire-rimmed glasses. Spialter who declined to speak with New Times despite two phone calls and a letter sent to his home also liked wrecks and cave diving and occasionally took chances, according to two men who called themselves acquaintances of Spialter but declined to give their names.
Scott and Spialter were best friends, and they dove together often, making pilgrimages to the Andrea Doria and the Spiegel Grove. They were very different outings, one in cold, dark water, the other in warm turquoise seas. Spialter would realize this during one South Florida dive in 2006, according to one of the two unnamed sources, who recounted the tale on scubaboard.com. Spialter penetrated the Spiegel Grove with a buddy and found himself inside the pump room, deep in the ship's bowels. He had scattered strobe lights around the ship like a trail of breadcrumbs so he could find his way out.
When he reached the room, Spialter was completely relaxed in the pitch black, one unnamed friend says. But then he became anxious. He was worried about running out of air and was having a bit of difficulty finding a way out. He described the water as being "like black pea soup."
Spialter hadn't run a line a reel of thick rope that allows divers to follow it to safety outside the wreck into the pump room, the friend continues. So he had to feel his way out. Finally, though, the judge escaped with barely enough air in his tank to survive, the friend says. "I was stunned when I heard the story," adds the friend. "I asked him why he hadn't run a line.
"He just kind of shrugged. There was no excuse given."
At the beginning of 2007 Scott Stanley, Howard Spialter, Jonathan Walsweer, and another friend from the Westfield dive shop 51-year-old Kevin Coughlin decided make a spring pilgrimage to the warm waters of Key Largo. Scott's 23-year-old-son, Dave, was scheduled to go, but changed plans at the last minute.
Walsweer, who had also visited the Spiegel Grove before, had a wife and two little boys. He had been diving since he was eight years old and was an instructor. Coughlin's story was a little different: He was a single real estate investor. He had battled alcoholism and homelessness and blossomed into a success story. He had logged 300 dives around the world. Not as many as Scott, perhaps, but a respectable number nonetheless.
On March 14 the four arrived in South Florida. Scott called Marianne when their plane touched down in Miami; he wanted her to know that he was safe.
They had booked rooms at the Key Largo Suites Hotel, a two-story, beige stucco building that overlooks a marina. They didn't make much of an impression checking in; the manager was so busy that he never laid eyes on them. The four were just more divers who had come south for some fun.


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There`s a simple formula, yarco. It goes like this (a bit): Goal deficit x4min, then +2min increments until MUFC equalise, up to total of +8min. If no natural equaliser, award a penalty. Then, if there have been fewer than 11 minutes added carry on until there`s an opportunity to award another penalty. This may be retaken as many times as is necessary to register a score. Blow for full time immediately this happens. Should Norwich "score" at any time during this phase, it will be disallowed. Match Officials publicly apologise to Fergie for allowing City`s opening goal to stand in the first place. You know it makes sense!
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From our humble beginnings, Meltwater was built from scratch, brick by brick. The company was founded in 2001 with just $15,000, a trusty coffee machine, used furniture and a borrowed office space in Oslo at an aptly named address, Shack 15.
Armed with experience from a two-year computer science research program in cooperation with the Norwegian Computing Center and funded by the Norwegian Science Foundation, Meltwater's CEO, Jorn Lyseggen, and his business partner set out to introduce game-changing technology for the traditional press clipping market. The duo's previous work in the field of Internet agents and search technologies provided a strong foundation for the development of Meltwater's initial product: Meltwater News.
The timing of our start in 2001—just after the dot-com bubble burst—was a nuclear winter for Internet companies. Meltwater took on the challenge of growing without external funding, focusing on creating a cost-conscious, down-to-earth culture that would be instrumental in making us the unique company we are today.
With the launch of Meltwater News in Norway, there were more than 10 competitors—all of which were well funded—offering online media monitoring in the market. But with our focus on hard work and creating great value for our clients, our consultative approach, and our uncompromising belief in hiring the best people, Meltwater News quickly became the top online media monitoring solution in Norway. By the end of 2006, Meltwater News was the number one solution in Europe, and just two years later in 2008, the company grew to be one of the largest online media monitoring firms in the world.
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Our name represents our mission and culture. Meltwater—the transformation of ice and snow to crystal clear, flowing water—is a symbol of renewal and change. Water is also dual in nature. It can be calming and soothing, as well as a powerful and transformative force that can dramatically alter the existing landscape. These qualities are very much associated with our company. Through our industry-leading SaaS solutions, we are a powerful force transforming global markets, yet we have a compassionate work culture in which we focus on supporting and developing our employees.


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High pressure will strengthen over the Pacific Northwest, as a significant storm (with the remnants of Typhoon Wipha) producing a major Gulf of Alaska Storm and deep low pressure in the Central Pacific.
Strong low pressure is also entrenched over the Eastern United States, with storms producing snow in Denver and over Kansas and severe weather eastward into Missouri and the Ohio Valley this weekend. This is a very stable pattern, so no change is expected in the ridge of high pressure over Southern Oregon and Northern California all weekend and much of next week.


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Media day: Five surefire storylines
Fans can expect to hear questions about Denard, Devin, freshmen
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan's media day is Sunday, the one time throughout the season where the majority of the Wolverines' assistant coaches and players -- sorry, no freshmen -- will be able to chat about their season, their scholarship and themselves.
Still, many of the storylines will be familiar with second-year coach Brady Hoke and his team. Michigan, coming off an 11-2 season which rejuvenated the program, has issues at many spots on the field.
Here are five things you should expect to hear something about or will almost definitively be asked during media day Sunday.
Five likely storylines
1. Devin Gardnerwill finally speak about playing WR
Easily the most interesting storyline of the early part of Michigan's preseason practice, Hoke's acknowledgement that Gardner will work at wide receiver and quarterback this fall has created consistent conversation. None, though, from Gardner himself.
That will change Sunday, when Gardner is made available to the media for the first time since there was open locker room access following last season's Allstate Sugar Bowl. Gardner will be asked how long he contemplated looking into playing receiver and whether he would ever consider making the switch full time.
On a team still hunting for reliable options at wide receiver, Gardner's 6-foot-4, 203-pound frame makes him an intriguing possibility.
2. Can Thomas Rawls carry the load?
MR: I might end up being very, very wrong here but I'm going to say ... no. Rawls has been a main storyline since Fitzgerald Toussaint's arrest on suspicion of drunken driving last month. Now that offensive coordinator Al Borges indicated Rawls would be the next man in during Toussaint's suspension, it means the Wolverines could go into Sept. 1 against defending national champion Alabama with an inexperienced running back.
Rawls has impressed teammates and coaches -- he's universally described as a player who is difficult to tackle and a hard runner -- but has little experience after 12 carries for 77 yards as a freshman. Should Toussaint not be available against the Crimson Tide, he could have that many carries in the first half.
Can he deal with that?
3. Brady Hoke and the players repeatedly will say the goal is the Big Ten title
Ever since Hoke arrived in Ann Arbor, the message has been exactly the same -- Big Ten title or bust. Rose Bowl or bust. Otherwise, Hoke has said publicly, he feels like he and his staff didn't do enough as coaches. That is a message that has permeated to the Michigan players, who at least say publicly they were not satisfied with an 11-2 season and Sugar Bowl win over Virginia Tech because they didn't win a Big Ten title.
Hoke will almost assuredly be asked about his expectations for his second season at some point Sunday. And that answer will almost assuredly be the same, consistent thought process he has had since he arrived -- win the Big Ten championship.
4. How much can Denard Robinson improve?
While Robinson is much beloved by the majority of people surrounding the Michigan program, the senior quarterback still has a bunch to prove on the field. His accuracy has long been an issue, and while he won't be throwing any passes Sunday in front of the media -- practices throughout fall camp have been and will be closed -- he'll certainly discuss his improved accuracy. So, too, will his receivers, the same ones who often were put in unenviable situations last season by some of Robinson's errant passes. Robinson has also focused on improving his vocal leadership, something that has already been on display.
One thing Robinson knows will be there -- his rushing ability. Robinson is in 13th place among quarterbacks with 3,229 rushing yards. He is 1,251 yards behind the all-time leader, former West Virginia quarterback Pat White.
5. A bunch of questions about freshmen
They are the new group in town and since none of them is available, it's a lock almost every player who is interviewed will be asked about someone in the freshman class in some capacity. Considering a multitude of freshmen have a chance to play this season -- including some in prominent roles -- there is a lot of natural curiosity.
Among the most intriguing rookies are wide receivers Amara Darboh and Jehu Chesson, linebacker Joe Bolden, safety Jarrod Wilson, offensive lineman Kyle Kalis, defensive end Mario Ojemudia and defensive tackle Ondre Pipkins.
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Man pleads guilty to fatal drunk driving accident
BLOOMSBURG – A Columbia County man has pleaded guilty to being intoxicated when he struck and killed a pedestrian on September 16th of last year. 19-year-old Joseph Rish is charged with hitting 50-year-old Robert Mohr with his pickup truck along Ridge Road in North Centre Township.
The Press Enterprise reports Mohr was pushing his bicycle home from work along a berm when he was struck by Rish. Police say Rish never stopped to offer help and he was found hiding in a bedroom at his sister's home. Mohr was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
Rish was also driving with a suspended license at the time and his blood alcohol level was .13 percent. Rish remains behind bars in the Columbia County Prison awaiting sentencing. (Ali Stevens)
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A Heavenly Stay: Puri Nirwana
Published 01 June 2012
Text by Thomas Jones
Way out of Seminyak and halfway to the isolated and serene east Bali coast is not the place most people associate with the luxury villa trade. Well, it's time for some re-education. The colonial-style, six-bedroom Puri Nirwana has it all in spades with no expense having been spared on getting this grand old dame of a beachside villa as close as possible to its heavenly namesake – Nirwana.
One of the only villas in Bali designed to be wheelchair/disabled friendly (with easy to negotiate bathrooms and an elevator between floors) it has it's own professional onsite spa, a children's playground, a pool table, a full compliment of staff, a private pool, can sleep up to 22 guests, and is surrounded in lush tropical gardens, with an absolute beachfront location to boot.
Puri Nirwana has it all in spades with no expense having been spared on getting this grand old dame of a beachside villa as close as possible to its heavenly namesake.
Guests enter through a large gate into an impressive reception area that leads off in all directions to the various TV, living and dining rooms, the three downstairs bedrooms and out into the gardens. Up the stairs, or by the elevator, are the last three bedrooms and the bar/lounge area, which has plantation style louvres all around, which open up to amazing views of the gardens, lawns and the bright blue sea.
The villa is fully staffed and includes a chef, housekeepers, gardeners and a manager who is on hand to ensure smooth sailing every day. A dedicated security team is also on-site to provide complete peace of mind.
Being up in the wilds of east Bali will not be a problem at all with the villa's inclusive nine-seat car with driver – a man who will be happy to take you out to see the beautiful and unpopulated beaches, mountains and rice fields of the untouched heart of Bali's beautiful northeast.
The villa also has it's own professionally-trained gourmet chef who can whip up anything that you may desire either from their extensive menu or from whatever your imagination can conjure up. All you need to do is inform the staff of your evening's requirements and they will head off to the market to get the ingredients fresh for your dining pleasure that very day.
And finally, in the garden you can't help but notice the beautifully ornate Javanese building that houses the on-site spa. If you think the outside is something to rave about (and it is) just wait until you step inside.


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Legacy's Luster Lost As a follow-on to my last blog, where I shared information about Harry Foster speaking live about the research he has been reporting on the last year and where I noted legacy might hold some back, I was going to finish on some of the work we have done at Mentor Graphics to move forward while trying to keep some of those held back by legacy, whole. Buy why this title? For some, … Read More


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Why Do Kids Drive Badly? They're Kids!
This seems like a bit of science discovering the obvious.
By most physical measures, teenagers should be the world's best drivers. Their muscles are supple, their reflexes quick, their senses at a lifetime peak. Yet car crashes kill more of them than any other cause — a problem, some researchers believe, that is rooted in the adolescent brain.
Yep, and when I was young, adults called it "immaturity".
A National Institutes of Health study suggests that the region of the brain that inhibits risky behavior is not fully formed until age 25, a finding with implications for a host of policies, including the nation's driving laws.
That would surprise me is any policies changed because of this finding. We knew this years ago. Heck, insurance companies know it now – that's why young males pay sky-high insurance rates until they hit the age of 25. That we find that maybe it has to do with the physiology of the brain is certainly interesting, but not a huge shock.
While society and tradition have placed the point of intellectual maturity, the "age of reason," years earlier, the study — an international effort led by NIH's Institute of Mental Health and UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging — shows it comes at about age 25.
I'd be careful about changing that "age of reason" now – because the study's not talking about that. The reporter is mixing up two distinct things. The Age of Reason is when we have decided, though observational experiences and our own societal requirements, a human being is capable of bearing legal responsibility for his actions. Reaching that age does not automatically embue a person with the ability to render flawless judgements. That's not what the study is talking about. The study is talking about the point at which most adults "mature" – reach a point where they're not so inclined to engage in risky behavior and such.
The article concentrates on traffic accidents and the relatively high number of fatalities that occur among young people.
Really, though, the answer isn't in new laws. It's in – say it with me everyone – parents! Parents indulge their kids by getting them the fastest and smallest little sports car, tricking it out with all the latest gewgaws and then letting their kids drive around with five or six other kids int he car, each of them going a mile a minute on their cell phones to each other and all their other friends. No wonder these kids are getting into serious accidents. I couldn't drive with that many distractions going on and I sure as hell couldn't have done it when I was 18 either.
Then again, when I was 18, I was driving an old Chevy Monza with a Chevy Vega engine in it. It might have gotten up to 70 MPH going downhill, with a tailwind, but only if I opened the door and kick-pedaled a little. I had an AM/FM radio with the same stock speakers in the dashboard. No bass kicker in the trunk, no high-end CD/DVD player. I had what I had and it got me where I needed to go when I needed to get there.
Who was I to complain? I paid the insurance on the car, which was high enough, but that's all I paid.
Why did my parents make me suffer in this hooptie-driven (hah!) misery? Well, first, because they couldn't afford a brand-new car for me. But the real reason was that, even if they could have bought me a new car, they wouldn't have because they new that I wasn't ready to handle the responsibility. They knew that when I wanted a new car, I'd work hard and save a few bucks and find a good deal and get the car I wanted. And they knew that when that happened, I'd take care of the car, because it was mine.
Perhaps we'd have fewer problems if our parents gave their kids fewer opportunities to be that publicly and dangerously irresponsible. Baby steps, right?
Still, misgivings aside, the study would be interesting, if for no other reason than to give the "nature vs. nurture" argument another little kick in the pants. As we delve deeper into what makes our brains tick we find that nature plays a bigger part than perhaps we thought.
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Describing the sheer beauty and spectacular layout of Stone Canyon's golf course is quite a challenge because there simply isn't anything like it for comparison. One round of golf at Stone Canyon will make you a believer and show you why it is continually ranked among the best in the country. The course is so stunning that even non-golfers will enjoy an entire round of golf just to absorb all the scenery and wildlife present.
The golf course itself encompasses 18 holes of magnificent desert, stretching to over 7,300 yards from the championship tees, that will challenge even the most accomplished players. Utilizing a water-conserving 78 acres of turf the course places a premium on accurate shots and also requires players to use nearly every shot at their disposal. Undulating greens and a variety of slopes, grass heights, and vast bunkers will put your short game to the test. Stone Canyon even features a very unique 19th hole, nicknamed "Double or Nothin'", which is ideal for settling bets or practicing wedge shots. The entire golf course and accompanying facilities are quite simply breathtaking. Enjoy the many stunning images available on the website, but know that there is no substitute for viewing this gem with your own eyes.
Recent Recognition for Stone Canyon
- 2010 Golf Digest America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses – #68
- 2010 Golf Digest Best in State Rankings – #2
- 2010 Golf Digest Best Practice Facilities – #70
- 2010 Golfweek Top 100 Modern Courses – #85
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On Monday, Stan Van Gundy was "relieved of his duties as head coach" according to an Orlando Magic press release. In other words, he was fired.
For those who follow the Magic closely, this piece of news should have come as no surprise. On April 5, during Orlando's shootaround before their game against the New York Knicks that night, Van Gundy let it be known that Dwight Howard wanted him fired. The kicker is that Van Gundy knew all season long. And now here we are.
But how did it all start?
Questions about Van Gundy's future intensified around the trade deadline in mid-March when an ESPN report surfaced that the Magic would allow Dwight to decide the future of Van Gundy and Otis Smith if he would agree to sign an extension. Orlando released a statement, denying the report, but that didn't stop Van Gundy — when asked about the rumor — from making it clear that he didn't care if he was fired. At that point, it was only a matter of time before things would come to a head between the Magic, Van Gundy, and Dwight.
Van Gundy, known for being one of the most honest voices in the NBA, eventually let the truth out on that fateful day in early April.
So with Orlando doing everything in their power to convince Dwight to commit long-term with them, Van Gundy was fired and Smith mutually agreed to part ways with the Magic shortly thereafter. Perhaps the rumor was true?
The writers at Magic Basketball, alongside Evan Dunlap of Orlando Pinstriped Post, take a look at the aftermath of Van Gundy's dismissal and Smith's departure. Consider it a special 4-on-3 roundtable.
Did the Magic do the right thing by firing Van Gundy and parting ways with Smith?
Nate Drexler, Magic Basketball: No. The Magic look desperate as can be right now and to make matters worse, they are not likely to land a long-term deal with Dwight. Let's just say it sucks when you let an All-Star run a great coach out of town and then you don't get to keep the All-Star. Doing "the right thing" is a lose-lose situation for Orlando, unfortunately.
Danny Nowell, Magic Basketball: Yes and no. Otis yes, Stan no. I understand the organization felt like they needed to cross this Rubicon to have any shot of keeping Dwight, so it makes sense. But Stan — Dwight's petulance not withstanding — was always more solution than problem.
Matt Scribbins, Magic Basketball: Yes and no. The Magic would have been better off by keeping the Stan Van Gundy era going, but it was probably time for a change in the position Otis held. They won't get a better coach than SVG, but they may be able to improve at general manager.
Evan Dunlap, Orlando Pinstriped Post: Yes and no. Otis needed to go, as his most recent moves have proven ill-conceived and he'd sunk the team's chances to upgrade the roster; Orlando doesn't have any great trade assets besides Dwight Howard. Getting rid of Stan makes less sense to me, given the great success to which he guided the Magic in his five seasons. But if he was ready to move on, then it's hard to argue either choice.
Who should be the next head coach for the Magic?
Drexler: Filling Stan Van Gundy's shoes is about as hard as filling Dwight Howard's, but how about Bill Cartwright? It might go a long way to have a quasi-legend at the helm and Cartwright coached under the Zen Master for a little while.
Nowell: I guess I don't have any idea. I'd think that since the organization is starting over, they'd want to hire a younger coach that will, in theory, grow with and around Dwight Howard. That'd be the pitch I would make him, anyway.
Scribbins: If the Magic can keep Dwight Howard and get him to buy into the plan, then I think the team should pursue Jerry Sloan. Please take a minute to check out his career stats. He makes the playoffs nearly every year and I see no reason that trend would not continue under his direction in Orlando.
Dunlap: I'm a fan of either Brian Shaw or Mike Malone. I like the idea of bringing in a younger guy, even if he doesn't have coaching experience. The Magic need some youthfulness and if they can't get it on the court, they can at least have it roaming the sidelines. I prefer either of those options to a guy like Nate McMillan or Mike D'Antoni. They're good coaches with solid track records, but I think a fresher voice is what's needed in that locker room.
Who should be the next general manager for the Magic?
Drexler: In my fantasy world? Find a way to seduce Donnie Walsh to become president of the Magic, with Kevin Pritchard operating under him as the general manager.
Nowell: Adonal Foyle, so that the entrance to Amway becomes a gallery showing traveling exhibitions of French Impressionists and the P.A. is replaced with a symphony. General managers do that stuff, right?
Scribbins: Shaq. Just kidding.
Dunlap: In contrast with my approach to head-coaching, I prefer a front-office vet who knows the proverbial ropes. Donnie Walsh is the right man for a team president job: a well-respected guy with decades of experience. For the so-called day-to-day tasks, I like a guy like Jeff Bower: proven and hard-working. Investing in another assistant GM, like Tony Ronzone — he who brokered Ricky Rubio's deal with the Timberwolves –could diversify the front-office.


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Stealing from West Milton Little Leaguer's
WEST MILTON – The West Milton Little League is out just a few hundred dollars from the items stolen from their concession stand, but the value of the loot likely much higher. Trophies were among the items stolen in a burglary about a week ago. State police at Milton say the stand was broken sometime around Tuesday a week ago.
The thief, or thieves, pried open the local and stole trophies, a baseball and the cash register. Total loss less than $300 but police say they would like to who stole from the young men and women playing little league in West Milton. Call state troopers, 570-524-2662 if you might have information on this crime.
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