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Hall cries foul
Nov. 9, 2009 in Sports on Page B5 Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall says he will file a complaint with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about what Hall says were cheap shots delivered by coaches on his former team during …
Colts edge Texans, now 8-0
Nov. 9, 2009 in Sports on Page B5 INDIANAPOLIS – The Colts have no problems with close games – as long as they keep winning them. Peyton Manning delivered a milestone performance, Joseph Addai produced a second straight …
The Slice: No fair roughing up anybody for inspiration
Nov. 9, 2009 in Features on Page C1 No need to mention names. But there are people in our midst who enjoy pulling up a pant leg or lifting a sweater to display bruises for family members and …
Parents blog: Pregnancy and work
Nov. 9, 2009 in Features on Page C1 When a friend of mine found out that she was pregnant, she wanted to tell everyone – friends, family, even strangers on the street. But despite all her excitement, she … 1
'Sesame Street' marks 40 years on air
Nov. 9, 2009 in Features on Page C1 Big Bird is leaving Sesame Street! That's what he decides on Tuesday's "Sesame Street" season opener. A rapping real-estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat ("habitat" being …
Annie's Mailbox: States should help ex-offenders
Nov. 9, 2009 in Features on Page C2 Dear Annie: Thank you for printing the letter from "Concerned Aunt," whose nephew is an ex-offender looking for work. The United States locks up a larger percent of its population …
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Carrying on in a new way
Nov. 9, 2009 in Features on Page C2 Pop-country has made superstars out of acts like Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift and more, but the term is not particularly endearing in Nashville, even to the artists who have come …
Things to do
Nov. 9, 2009 on Page C3 Today After-School Specials - "Color Explosion." Enjoy mixing, matching and playing with colors. A different science project will be presented each month. 4 p.m., North Spokane Library, 44 E. Hawthorne …
Mr. Dad: Give child more time than things
Nov. 9, 2009 in Features on Page C3 Dear Mr. Dad: My wife and I are relatively well off and can give our kids whatever they want. But how can we be generous without spoiling them rotten? A: …
Set sail for Thanksgiving fun
Nov. 9, 2009 in Features on Page C3 Let the children in your house help prepare for your Thanksgiving gathering by making pilgrim ship table favors from walnut shells. As guests arrive at your home on Thanksgiving Day, …
Miss Manners: To tell or not will make no difference
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Boracay unveils PBA All-Star show today
BORACAY—Coach Ato Agustin of San Miguel Beer still remembers his championship defeat to Chot Reyes and the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters in the Philippine Cup.
Agustin now gets a chance for redemption when his North stars face Reyes and the top players of the South in the PBA All-Star game today at the Boracay Convention Center.
"This is probably a good time for me to seek revenge after I lost to him in the all-Filipino conference," said Agustin with a grin.
Agustin is pinning his hopes on North starters Willie Miller of Ginebra, Rain Or Shine's Gabe Norwood, Kerby Raymundo and Marc Pingris of Derby Ace and Alaska's LA Tenorio, a first-time all-star who replaced Ginebra's Marc Caguioa.
"My players will avenge me. But seriously, we have to defend last year's victory," said Agustin, the 1992 season MVP and a six-time all-star himself.
Reyes's South squad, composed of starting five Kelly Williams of TNT, Alaska's Cyrus Baguio, Petron's Jay Washington, Eric Menk of Barangay Ginebra and reigning MVP James Yap of Derby Ace, also has an axe to grind.
The North team edged the South, 133-130, last season in Puerto Princesa for a 5-4 advantage in their head-to-head duel since the North versus South format was established in 1992.
While Agustin will be coaching in the all-star game for the first time, Reyes is looking for a third victory in four all-star games.
"The first three quarters is all about giving the fans a good show. But in the fourth, we have to buckle down, make some stops and win," said Washington.
North tries to duplicate its back-to-back victories during the 1993 and 1994 season when Allan Caidic and Benjie Paras won the All-Star game MVP, respectively.
National players Asi Taulava and Dondon Hontiveros are on their 11th appearance in the all-star game, the climax of the annual weeklong festivities supported by Smart, Accel, Molten, Maynilad, Meralco, Puma, Rain Or Shine and Alta Vista Hotel-Boracay.
In the Rookies versus Sophomores Blitz game held late Saturday evening, Rob Labagala of Ginebra and Powerade's Sean Anthony were named co-MVPs after leading the freshmen to a 114-109 win over the sophomores.
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – One of three Capistrano Unified coaches fired from teaching jobs after accusations of involvement in a money kickback scheme is asking the school district for a $79,559 bonus to retire this June, a program he's likely to qualify for as he waits for his appeals process to be completed.
Ex-San Clemente High School head football coach and English teacher Eric Patton remains on the district's payroll pending a final decision before the state's Office of Administrative Hearings; he should be eligible for the district's retirement bonus because his appeal likely won't be decided before June 30, said officials with the school district and the state teachers union.
Patton's hearing has not been scheduled.
"If you understood the process, you understand there's still a hearing," Patton said in a Register interview. "Until that time, I'm a member in good standing of the Capistrano Unified School District."
Patton is awaiting a hearing before a three-member state panel composed of an administrative-law judge, a district-appointed representative and a teachers union-appointed representative. Although Patton was fired Feb. 27, Capistrano's school board only has the authority to initiate termination proceedings; the final decision lies with the state panel.
"Any employee has due-process rights outlined by state law that would allow them to go through an appeals process before being separated from the district," said district spokesman Marcus Walton. "You cannot exclude employees who would otherwise qualify."
Bribes, theft, fraud alleged
Patton and former Capistrano coaches Brent Melbon and Charles "Chi Chi" Biehn are accused in termination reports of accepting bribes from a sporting equipment company, knowingly defrauding and stealing thousands of dollars from the school district, and violating at least nine state and federal laws.
Patton, in a Register interview last fall, emphatically denied wrongdoing, saying he believed the spending credits that the district characterized as stolen funds did not contain any taxpayer money and that he never benefitted personally from them.
Such a case probably will take six months to a year to be heard by the state Office of Administrative Hearings, said Orange County Department of Education attorney Ronald Wenkart.
The delays are primarily due to the time it takes for the teacher, the panelists and attorneys for both sides to agree to a hearing date, state officials say.
California Teachers Association spokesman Bill Guy noted that a more accurate way to describe a teacher like Patton is that he's been "recommended for termination," as opposed to fired.
"They're on paid leave, and until the hearing takes place, they are still entitled to pay and benefits," Guy said. "Once the hearing takes place, if they're terminated, at that point they would no longer be on paid status."
Savings from retirement program
Capistrano Unified's new retirement-incentive program, called the Supplementary Retirement Plan for Certificated Non-Management Employees, is designed to take some of the district's highest-compensated teachers off the payroll. The district faces up to a $51 million deficit in 2012-13 in a worst-case budget scenario.


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The Sea of Grass is a 1936 novel by Conrad Richter. It is set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, and concerns the clash between rich ranchers, whose cattle range freely through the vast sea of grass, and the farmers, or "nesters," who build fences and turn the sod. It is an epic depiction of the end of the cowboy era in the American Southwest. Against this background is set the triangle of rancher Jim Brewton, his unstable Eastern wife Lutie Cameron, and ambitious Brice Chamberlain. Richter casts the story in Homeric terms, with the children caught up in the conflicts of their parents. The novel is narrated through the eyes of Hal, Colonel Brewton's nephew.
The novel was adapted into a 1947 film of the same name directed by Elia Kazan and starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Despite the talent involved, Kazan was embarrassed of the project and encouraged others not to see it.


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Hamster Cup: Twin victory for Tiki and Taka
There's always a natural connection between young girls and cute, furry animals. But when that collides with one of the greatest sporting events in the world, it might be a new history in the making.
Published on Jul 12, 2014 12:55 PM
Twin sisters Victoria and Olivia Soh have never been interested in the World Cup, but everything changed when they came across our very own hamster duo Tiki and Taka.
After all, who can resist our little clairvoyant pair who are always ready to ruffle up their coats to play the likes of Messi, Rooney, and Mueller?
The 12-year-old sisters' love for the star hamsters has led them to participate in and win The Straits Times Hamster Cup T-shirt contest. The twins and 18 others walked away with a limited edition Hamster Cup T-shirt each.
Their father, 45-year-old retiree Soh Cheow Guan, told us that his daughters had become hooked on the furry pundits when they chanced upon the video on The Straits Times website. It was Tiki and Taka's public debut, and they were representing the clash between England and Uruguay.
"They found it more entertaining than the World Cup itself, and kept watching the same video over and over again," he said.
"In the next Hamster Cup match between US and Portugal, when Taka channelled Cristiano Ronaldo, the girls picked up on the link to his KFC advertisement. This kept their interest in watching subsequent videos."
Thanks to the cuddly rodents and their chubby cheeks, Victoria and Olivia now follow the World Cup scores by reading the newspapers and looking out for World Cup related headlines. Names like Neymar and Suarez pop up now and then as well.
Mr Soh added that they even calculated the percentage of Tiki and Taka's correct predictions: five out of seven so far (that's 71.4 per cent).
The dynamic duo have accurately picked the winner of each match at full-time, only falling short on Germany's win over France in the quarter-final and Argentina's close semi-final triumph over Holland on penalties after a goalless draw. They were even good enough to predict a full-time draw between Switzerland and Argentina, remember that?
Speaking about triumph, Mr Soh revealed that our dearest Tiki has won the favour of both sisters. It might be a female bonding kind of thing, but we'll keep the news from Taka for the time being, just in case.
As the World Cup draws to its climactic final on July 14 (Singapore time) between European giants Germany and South-American Messi-led Argentina, our hamster athletes play their last crucial match.
Will Joachim and his team pull out another merciless victory with traditional German efficiency, or will the Argentinians upset the hosts by bringing the trophy home on Brazilian soil?
Olivia is putting her hopes in Argentina, while Victoria is watching what Tiki and Taka have to say.
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Sons of Confederate Veterans Back in Extremist Hands, Many Leave Group
The Sons of Confederate Veterans back in extremist hands
By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok
That wasn't all. Now that moderate voting power on the GEC had been undermined — technically, Sweeney hadn't suspended GEC members but instead had eliminated their ex officio positions in the SCV constitution — Sweeney led a move that same day to eject Hodges as SCV lieutenant commander. Sweeney replaced Hodges with an ally, Chris Sullivan, editor of neo-Confederate Southern Partisan.
Also stripped of their elected posts were key moderates including Thomas Tarry Beasley, commander of the Army of Tennessee (one of the SCV's three geographic divisions), Beasley deputy John French, and Beau Cantrell, commander of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. Beasley and Cantrell lost their posts on the GEC as a result, leaving only staunch Sweeneyites on the governing board.
New elections to these posts are to be held at the SCV national convention this July in Nashville. Already, several hate group members have said they will run.
Sweeney's purged GEC also voted to negotiate a formal break with the MOSB. It removed Louisiana leader Ed Cailleteau and Beau Cantrell, whose GEC membership had just been stripped, as co-chairs of the July convention. At the same time, the GEC donated $10,000 in SCV funds to Lyons' law firm, the Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC). The SLRC is tied tightly to the SCV radicals — a tie illustrated by the fact that Ron Wilson's daughter, Allison Schaum, has worked for SLRC for years. And Lyons has known Sweeney since the 1990s, when he helped him fight the removal of Confederate plaques from the Texas Supreme Court.
Tempers flared frequently during the day. Toward the end, ex-GEC member Beau Cantrell made a profane hand gesture after being taunted by Jim Pierce, a key SCV radical who has circulated racist caricatures of blacks and has taken lately to signing his E-mails "Uncle Remus." Another SCV member asked a deputy sheriff to arrest Cantrell, and he was taken in. He was later released without charges.
The events of April 23 left moderates throughout the SCV furious, and key leaders denounced what they saw as Sweeney's devious tactics. "In the Missouri division," state commander John Christensen wrote in an e-mail addressed to Sweeney, "we believe we can disagree on an issue without being vile. ... We believe that with free speech and assembly, discussion affords protection against the spread of noxious doctrine. ... The personal vendettas, purges, recriminations and rancor sown by your administration are not good for any organization and may become the seeds of destruction for our beloved Sons of Confederate Veterans."
The battle within the SCV has already cost the organization — which recently had some 36,000 members — "several thousand members," according to Faggert's affidavit. Many have started new groups, including several "Robert E. Lee societies" in North Carolina, that are meant to be non-racist history clubs. In April, a new group called the United Sons of Confederate Veterans also was chartered by Robert Murphree in Mississippi. In the weeks that followed, it appeared that John French — one of those stripped of their elected SCV posts — was taking a leadership role.
French had a warning for those who remain behind, saying in a farewell message that they "will awaken one morning to [find] nothing left of the SCV. All assets will be gone and the once proud organization left to rot." French signed his e-mail, "Mississippi Commander, United Sons of Confederate Veterans."
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"Where is China's Mandela?" was, briefly, among the most discussed topics on a popular Twitter-like microblogging website, Tencent Weibo, before the thread appeared to be removed.
A wide cross-section of Chinese society, from the ruling Communist Party's leaders to scholars and activists pushing for political change, has mourned the passing of Nelson Mandela, an event which has triggered debate – and difficult questions – in China about the sensitive issue of political transitions and the role of dissidents in effecting change under authoritarian rule.
"Where is China's Mandela?" was, briefly, among the most discussed topics on a popular Twitter-like microblogging website, Tencent Weibo, before the thread appeared to be removed.
On Saturday morning, tributes, in the form of wreaths and bouquets, continued to come in outside the South African Embassy in Beijing. A young man in his twenties laid a bouquet in front of a banner of Mandela placed in front of the Embassy building, as he bowed three times to show his respect.
Chinese leaders and State media mourned the loss of "a world renowned statesman". President Xi Jinping said he expressed "deep grief" as he saluted Mandela for his "arduous struggles to anti-apartheid victory". The Chinese people, he said, would "always remember Mandela's extraordinary contributions" to both "the cause of human progress" and to South Africa's ties with China, where Mandela visited twice. The Foreign Ministry here described Mandela as "an old friend" of the Chinese people.
Qiao Mu, an outspoken academic and professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University who has been an advocate for faster political reforms, said he was struck by the outpouring of messages condoling Mandela's death.
"In China, when a foreign leader dies, usually there are different reactions from officials and ordinary people," he said, citing the example of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who was, also, hailed by the government as "an old friend", even if there were less warm responses outside official circles. "But today," he said, "when Mandela died, the whole country mourned for him".
For him, the three striking aspects of Mandela's political legacy were the transitions from "violent revolution to peaceful resistance"; from imprisonment to reconciliation; and from the office of President, which he gave up after one term "without reluctance", to that of a citizen.
"Are the three transitions," he asked, "meaningful for us to look back into the past, and look forward to future transformations?"
By Friday evening, there were 4.5 lakh messages about Mandela on another Twitter-like website, Sina Weibo.
"Mandela's braveness not only lies in his fighting, but also lies in his forgiveness," wrote a blogger who uses the name Hanshuai0524. "South Africa is so lucky to have such a father of a nation".
A few others wondered "if China's Mandelas" were, like the great South African leader once was, being held in prison. "It is not that we don't have a Chinese Mandela, it is just that they are all in prison," wrote Ziwenfengyang, adding, "What we need is a de Klerk".


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Brigitte Nielsen Net Worth: Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish actress, model and television personality who has a net worth of $400 thousand. Brigitte Nielsen was born July 15, 1963 in Rødovre, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is probably just as well known for her marriage to actor Sylvester (Sly) Stallone as she is for her modeling and acting credits. Nielsen began her modeling career working for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton and several years later she made her acting debut in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV. She later starred with then-husband Sylvester Stallone in the 1986 film Cobra. She played Karla Fry on Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), co-starring Eddie Murphy, and played the Dark Witch in the Italian TV Series Cave of the Golden Rose between 1992–1996. She appeared in Michael Jackson's Liberian Girl and Austrian Rock Star Falco's Body Next To Body music videos. Her exploits were well-covered in the entertainment media in the '80s, and the world press took to calling her "Amazon" because of her tall stature. Nielsen later built a career appearing in B-movies, and in the 2000s for appearing on reality show Flavor of Love. In 2008, she appeared on the reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which depicted her and several other celebrities dealing with recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Brigitte Nielsen also released several albums between 1987–2002 (Every Body Tells a Story, I'm the One… Nobody Else and other singles). Recently, she performed (as Gitte Nielsen) on the song Misery with Spleen United, from the album School of Euphoria (2012).
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National parks are great places to see wildlife. However, that has not always been the case. In the early 1900's many animal populations were nearing extinction because of habitat destruction or hunting pressures. You could not see them in the wild or in national parks.
At one time, more than 60 million bison roamed this continent. By the early 1900's fewer than 1,000 were left. Some were in zoos, a scattering on private ranches and a few were still wild in places like Yellowstone but most wild bison had been killed.
People noticed what was happening and took action. Ranchers started private herds and zoos began protecting species at risk. Conservationists and hunters realized that action must also be taken to protect the animals' habitats or we might never see them in the wild again.
In 1911, the American Bison Society looked for places to establish free roaming bison herds. They selected Wind Cave National Park as one of the first areas where these animals would be returned to the wild. The rolling mixed grass prairie is excellent habitat for bison.
Other animals, like pronghorn and elk, were reintroduced to the park at the same time. Because of this effort, we can see elk, bison, pronghorn, turkeys and even prairie dogs. And, just as important, we can see the habitat that supports them.
Click here to view the YouTube video Restoring the Thunder: Bison Conservation in the Great Plains National Parks about the restoration of the American bison to the Great Plains.
Explore the Time Line of the American Bison created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Click here for more information about reintroducing wildlife to Wind Cave National Park.
Click here (8 MB) for the 2011/2010 status report on the wildlife of the park.
For the 2009 wildlife report click here (2.19 MB).


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FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy
In this volume Rozell and Peterson bring together a collection of new essays exploring the unparalleled impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the modern presidency. Of all the modern presidents, FDR looms largest. Indeed, most scholars date the origins of the modern presidency to FDR, and many assert that no one since has achieved his level of greatness in office.
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