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2 men arrested in connection with drug lab following traffic stop
CRESTVIEW — Crestview police discovered a mobile methamphetamine laboratory during a traffic stop of a stolen vehicle on Monday afternoon, according to a press release from the department. READ MORE
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BIRTHDAY: James H. Philpott celebrates 90 years Dec. 23
CRESTVIEW — James H. Philpott, a Crestview resident since the 1940s, will celebrate his 90th birthday 2 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 23 at Joy Fellowship Church's fellowship hall, 5978 Old Bethel Road. The public is invited. READ MORE
7th Special Forces Christmas meal today
CRESTVIEW — 7th Special Forces members may attend a Christmas meal at 11 a.m. today at the 7SF dining facility. Meal card holders may eat free. READ MORE
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CRESTVIEW — Traffic has stabilized after a house fire near Twin Hills Park required altered routes. READ MORE
No garbage collection Dec. 25; other closures announced
CRESTVIEW — Waste Management will not collect household waste, recycling, yard waste or bulk on Christmas or New Year's Day. Pick-up resumes on the next regularly scheduled collection day. READ MORE
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CRESTVIEW — The Duke it Out American Cancer Society Relay for Life team will present a Boston butt fundraiser later this month. READ MORE
Laurel Hill School earns C; Career Institute North 'declining'
CRESTVIEW — Laurel Hill School Principal Susan Lowery-Sexton said she's dismayed after learning the K-12 school earned a C letter grade. READ MORE
North county letters to Santa Claus
Editor's note: Please see the AntiochElementary School the Dec. 19 and 22 editions of the Crestview News Bulletin for an Editor's Choice roundup of Santa letters. Below are all the letters we received by our stated deadline. We've placed all of them online for Santa Claus' convenience. He's online now, you know! READ MORE
One injury reported in Dec. 24 structure fire
CRESTVIEW — One injury was reported from a structure fire that occurred on December 24, according to a press release from the Crestview Fire Department. READ MORE


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CONCORD, N.C. – TS Racing has advised WKA of two changes to the Parilla X30 125cc TaG engine.
First, the clutch shoe assembly (Part Number X3015840) has been changed to a "leading edge" or push shoe design. This new design is intended to extend clutch life. Because it does not affect performance, it is approved for use upon availability. The current "trailing edge" clutch shoe assembly (Part Number X3015840) will continue to be approved for use in WKA-sanctioned events.
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By Vincent COUVERT and Bruno JOFRET, The Scilab Consortium
The incoming Scilab 6.0 release will offer many new capabilities simplifying its daily use (new syntaxes, new memory management...).
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John and Arden Schilb recently celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary with a family dinner at The Olde Edgefield Grill followed by cake and champagne at their home. The Schilbs were married at First Methodist Church in Downers Grove, IL on November 22, 1952. They have been residents of Aiken since 1974 where John worked for Allied General Nuclear Fuel Services and Arden taught in the Aiken County School System. After retirement the Schilbs spent months driving across the U.S. and still enjoy travel, gardening and reading. The Schilbs have four children, Robert Schilb (Pam), Katherine Cross (Barry), Susan Stewart (David) and Henry Schilb (Erika), special niece Cindy Burkhart (Scott), eight grandchildren and many other nieces and nephews.
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COLUMBIA — Compass Academy has severed itself from Jonathan "Jay" Brooks and his companies so the school can move forward with its vision to open the school in eight weeks.
At a hearing Tuesday, Brooks, Compass and the Securities Division of the Attorney General's office agreed for receivers to be placed in charge of all the assets frozen by the Attorney General's office as part of accusations that Brooks illegally sold illegal securities and converted some of these funds to his use.
The separation comes with Jay Brooks' former attorney Stan Jackson now only representing Compass Academy, while Brooks has retained North Augusta attorney James Huff.
"The TRO (temporary restraining order) currently in place will be continued with no set termination date," Huff said to the court. "Mr. Brooks has also agreed to remove himself from any dealings with Compass Academy."
Brooks, who has denied any wrongdoing in the case, and Huff said the split was made in order for the school to focus on opening its doors and remove any negativity Brooks may have brought to the educational enterprise.
"This school must go ahead, and must open," Brooks stated passionately after the hearing.
"With all the media coverage, there is a taint that we are trying to take away from the school so it can move forward," Huff said.
In the hearing, it was revealed that around 80 students have enrolled with partial tuition paid, and more than 100 are further interested in the facility.
"There are some disgruntled lenders, but the majority are not," said Gerald W. Rowe, co-chair of the Compass Academy Management Group and proposed receiver. "We've taken quite a hornet's nest of investors and explained what is to be done, what has been done, timetable. We are eight weeks away from being open ... and a ribbon cutting."
Rowe was very positive about the school and talked highly of the work being done and the prospects of the school.
"There's going to be students walking in the door day one. Revenue will be generated from day one. And it's the only way we can get our money out of it," he said.
He added that the school needs about another $2 million to be finished.
Speaking after the hearing, Tracey Brooks, Jay's wife, said "people think I know everything Jay was doing. I don't."
Stan Jackson, who now will serve solely as the attorney for Compass Academy, added afterward that Tracey Brooks, head of administration at Compass, and her husband did not discuss business at home. He said this was not an admission of any knowledge of wrongdoing by Jay Brooks, just a statement that the couple separated work and private life.
Tracey Brooks sat at the defense table for the hearing, representing Compass.
The receiver being appointed will be formally discussed at another hearing next week, but Jackson presented two individuals as his preferred candidates on Tuesday.
Rowe, 67, originally of New York and now a resident of Aiken, was the first person whose qualifications were offered. Roe, who currently is the co-chair of the Compass Academy Management Group and has $115,000 invested in the project, spent his working life in all aspects of the construction industry. He stated that he was very confident in the school project and would be willing to invest $40,000 more of his own money in the school.
Secondly, Melanie L. Oldham, CPA, JD, was presented. Oldham said she had been a CPA with Kenneth Leventhal & Co., a prestigious California-based financial firm, before earning her law degree and going into practice. Oldham now resides in Aiken.
The Attorney General's office's representatives reserved cross-examining the pair until the formal hearing on the receivers.
Editor's note: This version of this story has been updated to correct the name of Gerald W. Rowe. The Aiken Standard regrets the error.
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'Coming Home' concert to benefit local veteransWritten by Danielle Stanton | | firstname.lastname@example.com
After more than a year of work geared toward housing the chronically homeless, Veterans Matter in Toledo announced it has housed its 200th veteran nationwide, said founder Ken Leslie.
To raise money for the organization, a "Coming Home" benefit concert will take place April 6 from 2-7 p.m. at Forrester's on the River in Toledo.
Veterans Matter has housed 65 veterans in Toledo, three in Michigan, nine in Indiana, nine in New England and 114 in Texas since its inception in February last year, Leslie said.
"It's pretty exciting for us," he said. "Two hundred veterans is a milestone for us and they were all done one at a time. … It's a powerful thing. We take care of our own and that's what we're trying to do."
More than $200,000 has been raised to date, Leslie said. What started as a local solution to a problem has grown to five regions and includes the support of Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, John Mellencamp and Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn.
Mitch Albom, a Detroit Free Press columnist and New York Times bestselling author, donated $15,000 in seed money to Veterans Matters' Operation Michigan. Albom will serve as the organization's Michigan co-chair. The goal in Michigan is to raise $75,000 and house 100 veterans, Leslie said.
"We view this more as a mission. … We're not going to build a million-dollar fundraising organization," Leslie said. "We have a target, then we move on to the next. … We're reaching out to Detroit-area corporations."
Kix Brooks will serve as Veterans Matter's co-chair in Tennessee. The musician, along with other artists and celebrities, will voice public radio service announcements that will air nationwide from Armed Forces Day on May 17 to Memorial Day, Leslie said.
Veterans Matter began when Leslie, with a worker from Veterans Affairs (VA), visited local homeless at their camps to help find them housing. He discovered two of his friends were living at the camp. They did not have enough money to put a deposit on VA-supported housing.
His partner with the VA said they weren't the only ones. Leslie discovered that about 35 people were in the same situation locally. Within days, he came up with the idea for Veterans Matter and 11 days later found financial support through ProMedica. Later, Lucas County Veterans Services Commission would come on board.
"I just wanted to get a couple guys houses," said Leslie, who also owns his own headhunting firm. "I didn't imagine … 200 veterans later — it's pretty amazing.
"We're really blessed."
The "Coming Home" benefit concert April 6 will showcase several musicians including The Good, The Bad & the Blues, The Joe Baker Band, The Reese Daily Band, The Grape Smugglers with special appearances by Ramona Collins, Candice Coleman, Pat Lewandowski and others.
Tickets are available at the door. To donate via text, send "vets" to 41444 and use a credit or debit card. For more information, go to www.veteransmatter.org or facebook.com/veteransmatter.
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Two weeks ago, I posted how to embed a YouTube and make it start from a certain point. Now you can do the same thing for YouTube's watch pages: just append #t=XXmYYs to a YouTube URL, where XX is the number of minutes and YY is the number of seconds. For example:
Google Video has a similar way to link within a video: add #XXmYYs to a URL. YouTube implemented another feature from Google Video: when you mention a time value in a comment, YouTube automatically creates a link that takes you to that sequence.
It seems that YouTube gradually adds all the features from Google Video: captions, MP4 downloads (not yet linked from the interface), theater view, but Google Video doesn't receive too much attention. I wonder if Google will disable the video uploading feature from Google Video and migrate all the existing videos to YouTube.
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Former Chattanooga Mocs Head Men's Basketball Coach Murray Arnold died last night in Florida. His memory shines bright in his former hometown where he built the DI foundation of the program.
Arnold had a six-year stint as the Mocs head man from the 1980 season through 1985. His teams went 122-46 winning 72.6 percent of their games.
He headed up five 20-win teams, including the 1982 squad that owns a school-record 27 victories and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. His Mocs topped an N.C. State team in the first round that won the 1983 NCAA Championship.
The 1983 edition went 26-4, losing a narrow 52-51 NCAA Mideast Regional game to Maryland. That team ended up ranked No. 15 in the nation by the Associated Press.
UTC won four Southern Conference Championships in his six seasons and advanced to three NCAA Tournaments and two NITs. His second visit to the NIT in 1985 resulted in an Elite 8 run, just missing a trip to New York City and Madison Square Garden.
He brought the likes of Willie White (1981-84), Gerald Wilkins (1982-85), Russ Schoene (1981-82), Nick Morken (1981-82) and Stanford Strickland (1981-84) to Chattanooga. His 1980 recruiting class included three NBA Draft picks (White, Schoene & Morken) and Strickland, who are all in the UTC Athletics Hall of Fame.
Arnold was born March 4, 1938. His impact on the Chattanooga Mocs basketball program will not be forgotten. He left the Mocs in 1985 to join the Chicago Bulls organization as an assistant to Stan Albeck. He later served as head coach at Western Kentucky and Stetson.
"He elevated Chattanooga basketball in the DI era, not with a bang, but with an explosion. All of us who have followed have to try to live up to his standard. We talk to our kids about leaving a legacy. Murray Arnold left his legacy in a huge way. He will always go down as the father of Chattanooga basketball. He was very well-respected nationally for his knowledge of the game. That knowledge and his passion for young people were evident every time you talked to him. Even after he retired, he loved talking basketball. He visited with our '05 team before the SoCon Tournament and told them we would win it. He knew what he was talking about. Chattanooga was always near to his heart and he will always be dear to our hearts in Chattanooga."
"Basketball lost one of its great ambassadors. He had two great passions in his life. He loved his wife Ann Conn and he loved basketball. If he had a third thing I don't what it is. He always called her the head coach and himself the varsity coach. He put UTC on the Division I map and his teams in the early '80s will always be among the greatest teams in school history. He said when the Roundhouse opened in 1982 it was the 'biggest thing to happen to Chattanooga since the Civil War'."
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Quick App: Flickr for iPhone
Yahoo! has (finally!) released an official Flickr app (free - iTunes link) for the iPhone and iPod touch, and... Dunno. I'm not a big Flicker user. So, I haven't really formed much of an opinion about the official Flickr app. Leanna, who does use Flickr, liked the homepage (it has a nice Ken Burns-style pan and zoom animation) but felt the rest was underdeveloped and was surprise to see it didn't add "taken with iPhone" (or other, proper, device attribution).
Note: the app, of course, is rated 17+ because, also of course, someone might accitentionally type "nudie pics" in the search bar. (Likely violence abounds as well, as do lego vikings!).
If anyone else has had a chance to test drive it and has an opinion to share, let us know in the comments. Despite -- in spite? -- of Yahoo's travails of late, Flickr is still a monster of a site and it's nice to see it show up and represent on the iPhone -- given the iPhone is its most popular camera and all...
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Quick App: Flickr for iPhone
The app is great. In regards to the lack of EXIF data being uploaded (including that the picture was taken with an iPhone), I have yet to find an app that doesn't strip out this important data, which is why I copy the JPGs to my PC before uploading. However, the Flickr app is exactly what I have been looking for to show off my photos. I basically have my entire photo collection in my pocket, and the presentation is fantastic. Also, any videos previously uploaded to Flickr are playable on the iPhone, a feat that even the Facebook 3.0 app couldn't pull of. Kudos to Yahoo for providing this great app. I've been waiting for it!
Looks like a decent app so far, inline with other apps built for Flickr like Darkslide (including video upload).
@Leanna Mobile Fotos doesn't strip out any data, but the iPhone does.
basically here's what happens. Mobile Fotos gets the photo from the iphone to upload it. this photo is stripped of EXIF data before the app sees it. then Mobile Fotos actually ADDS "Taken By" EXIF back into the file it uploads. it also "geotags" the photo on flickr.
so Jeffry is correct. all apps, including Mobile Fotos, strip out a bunch of EXIF data. or, more accurately, the iphone doesn't make that information available to any apps. Mobile Fotos just does the best job of adding as much information back to the file as it can, but it isn't all the EXIF, only a small portion of it.
the flickr app geotags, but doesn't add "taken by" information.
As of right now, the rating it 12+ in the US app store
D'oh, fixed. Thanks. "infrequent/mild nudity" on Flickr remains hilarious, however.
And Safari should be 17+ given Apple's standards.
@Wayne You are so right it's ridiculous how it seems every app that has anything to do with the web Apple rates 17+. Apples ratings and approval are really a joke. camera should be 17+ too and maybe they should have a warning when you open it letting you know it can contain inappropriate content (depending on what you take a picture of) LOL.
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Vaughn Gene Appling, 59, was arrested July 2 and charged with violation of the Georgia Controlled Substance Act, namely the cultivation of marijuana.
Investigator Gerry Nelson with the Jones County Sheriff's Department said the department received information from officer Tom Payne with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that at least five plants were visible on Appling's property, which borders Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge.
"He said the plants were in plain sight. He saw them while walking the boundary of the federal land and Appling's property," Nelson explained.
The investigator went to the residence and knocked on the door. He said no one answered, so he walked around the house and encountered Appling coming from of one of the out-buildings.
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I bought this rug in white and wow so amazing! It's very soft, thick,fluffy and beautiful! NO SHEDDING AT ALL!!! The white color is very accurate. It brightens my family room! I will be purchasing another one in cream for my living room! Very satisfied with this purchase! thank you Overstock!Read More
good for price
The rug is beautiful, but it's not as luxurious and thick as others I have seen. However, it is also much less expensive than other shag rugs elsewhere. The smell is terrible, but am hoping that it goes away soon. Also, the edges are very "raw" and look old and shattered. The rug is on the thin side and is definitely not white--more of an antique/ivory white. I bought it for my daughter's nursery and am satifsfied vis a vis the price I paid.Read More
misleading color
this rug would have gotten 5 stars if the color displayed online were the color of the actual rug. i ordered the glacier blue, which appears to be a light blue/silver tone in the picture. this rug is more teal than anything. not at all as expected. this is the 3rd time i have received a rug from overstock where this was the case. the first 2 i sent back. this one i am keeping and trying to make it work simply because i am tired of losing out on the cost of return shipping. again-the rug itself is great and a bargain, but the unexpected color is a true bummer.Read More
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Hello badonkadonk, this lovely rug is recommended to be spot cleaned or professional cleaned for tougher hard to clean spots. Thank you for shopping with us.
I am interested in buying the nuLOOM Alexa 'My Soft and Plush' Shag Rug (8' x 10'). the photo of all the rugs shows a pure white one and a cream colored one. I want a cream colored (or off white) rug--definitely not pure white. What color is the cream one, or do you have a cream one available?
Hello ruffincrew, the cream color is the gold option. Thanks for shopping with us!
I want to buy this rug, but I am concerned that when I get it home, it will be off white or cream and not true white. I guess the question for me is, how many have returned this rug for the color not being white? Thanks!
Hello BethHarris, we can assure you that the White one is pure White. Unfortunately we don't know how many have returned this due to color. I attached below the link to our return policy. Please let us know if you have any further questions. https://help.overstock.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1
Is the color Thyme the green color pictured?
Hello jenleeellis, the color "Thyme" is the green rug shown in the display picture. Thanks for shopping with us!
Would you consider the red to be a brighter red or a deeper red as it appears in the photo?
Hello gannanc, the color appears to be more of a brighter red in my opinion. Please let us know if you have additional questions. Thanks for shopping with us.
Does this rug work okay on a concrete floor? Also, I cannot tell the difference in some of the colors? The three darker colors - I don't know where they are labeled in the pictures. Thank you.
Hello Laura, it should work fine on a concrete floor, especially with a rug pad. Unfortunately, we do have some constraints on labeling the pictures that we are working around, so we apologize for the confusion. The three darkest colors are Black, Black with the silver or light grey and then there is just grey. We hope this helps. Thank you for shopping with us.
Is the grey color the darker one in the pictures or lighter one? Ere are 2 greys in thr picture
Hello Stef, the grey is featured in the second photo, we do apologize for the confusion. Thank you for shopping with us.
I am interested in the rug color that is beige. It is pictured in the top left corner. However, I only see an option for gold. When I scroll through the rug colors, I see one that looks beige and another that looks gold. I want to make sure I get the rug that is beige and not gold.
Hello akuaod, the beige nuLOOM Alexa 'My Soft and Plush' Shag Rug (8' x 10') is sold out. We are sorry, please check back. Have a great day.
I don't know how much shipping and handling is on a 8x10 rug is.....
Hello Bees and buzz, this item ships FREE to most areas. Please add this item to your cart to verify for your location. Thank you for shopping with us.
Hi. Am interested in the light beigey one but didn't want to order the wrong color. What are you calling that light one? Thanks in advance for your help.
Hello Nanax7, the third photo is the ivory option, the last photo is the gold option. Thanks for shopping with us!
I finally ordered the red 8x10 after much hesitation and comparing to a Costco rug. I am concerned that this red is too "fire engine" and not a deeper red. If I do not like the color, what is the return policy on it?
Hello 22denise22, this item can be returned within 30 days of delivery, in new and unused condition. Please see the link listed at the bottom of this page, Standard Return Policy, for full details. Thank you for shopping with us.
Is the back of the rug cotton or at least soft? We just had our wood floors refinished so we need something soft.
Hello Pat, the backing is soft, but we recommend a non skip padding to put down underneath for extra padding. Thank you for shopping with us!
Is the green color more of a moss green color, or bright green? Below you say bright, and that has me concerned. Please advise. Is there free shipping for returns if I do not line the color?
Hello lynnc, this looks to be more of a bright moss green. We try to represent the colors of our products accurately. Unfortunately, due to the difference in monitor colors we cannot guarantee that the color will match exactly what you see on your screen. Thank you for shopping with us.
What color is the beige one? you listed gold and cocoa?
Hello duybui, we appreciate your inquiry. The ivory (beige) color is the gold option, and the light brown is the cocoa option. We hope this information has been helpful. Thank you for shopping with us!
How is the rug shipped and how heavy is it? I'd like to take it to my house oversees and would like to know if it will fit in a checked suitcase.
Hello Cattinl, this item arrives in a package that weighs approximately 70 pounds and has an approximate ship size of 10 inches high x 10 inches wide x 84 inches deep. Please note, this item will be shipped in a wrapped roll. Thank you for shopping with us!
I would like to order the green rug. Would that be considered the thyme rug?
Hello cpilliner, yes, the green nuLOOM Alexa 'My Soft and Plush' Shag Rug (8' x 10'), would be the thyme rug. Have a great day.
I would like to know about the formaldehyde also? Is it in the rug? cherry
Hello miapnigrelli, there is no formaldehyde in this rug. Thank you for shopping with us!
Do you have a sample piece of the gree rug. Is it a green gray or a bright green?
Hello runthecape, unfortunately we are unable to provide samples. The color is more of a bright green in my opinion. Please let us know if you have additional questions. Thanks for shopping with us.
is there formydahyde in carpet and if yes are the levels within govt guidlines?
Hello lola, there is no formaldehyde in this rug. Thank you for shopping with us!
Has anyone ordered the "gold" color? Is it more like an ivory or off white?
Hello kjackson, we appreciate your inquiry. The gold is more of an ivory. We hope this information has been helpful. Thank you for shopping with us!
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer team held off Western Carolina in regulation, but fell 1-0 in overtime to the Catamounts at Finley Stadium Sunday afternoon.
Western Carolina's Kimberly Sullivan headed in her first goal of the season off a corner kick from Madison Lee in the 99th minute for the Golden Goal and the win in Southern Conference action. Chattanooga falls to 4-9 on the year and 0-6 in league action while the Catamounts are 7-6-1 on the season and 2-4 in SoCon play.
The Catamounts Kelly Pannell had eight shots on the day with WCU outshooting the Mocs 27-3. Senior keeper Taylor Mangrum (Franklin, Tenn.) snared nine saves while Chattanooga's defense deflected several shots inside the box.
"Of our four players in the backfield, two are freshmen and one didn't play much in the last year," UTC Head Coach J.D. Kyzer said. "They are starting to know each other out there and starting to play together. They did a good job out there today."
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For the past 47 years, athletics at Northern Virginia Community College have been exercises rooted in recreation.
The two-year college�s best athletes always have competed at the club level, where players aim at winning games here and there rather than looking toward postseason tournaments or national championships.
That all changes this fall, when the school�s athletic program takes on official intercollegiate status as a newfound member of the National Junior College Athletic Association, the governing body of two-year college athletics.
For the first time, NOVA student-athletes will be eligible to receive academic and athletic All-American distinction.
Moreover, they will be eligible to participate in postseason play, where they can compete against hundreds of other NJCAA schools around the country for a national championship. NOVA will gain intercollegiate membership in men�s and women�s basketball, men�s soccer, women�s volleyball and men�s lacrosse; women�s soccer likely will be added in the near future. The school�s ice hockey team will retain membership in the American Collegiate Hockey Association at the club level.
�We�ve had sports, and I think everybody thought it was going OK, but at the same time our student-athletes really did want to play at the next level,� said Brian Anweiler, NOVA�s College-wide Student Activities coordinator. �It was more viewed as a student activity than it was an intercollegiate one. We were doing some good things in sports, but this legitimizes what we were doing.�
NJCAA membership will help NOVA achieve its mission of being a comprehensive community college by requiring more out of athletes in the classroom. Whereas they only needed six credit hours at the club level, athletes now will have to take at least 12 credit hours and maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average to retain NJCAA eligibility. Sophomores hoping to play this fall will need at least 24 credit hours under their belt.
Membership also brings greater visibility to athletes hoping to carry their collegiate careers to four-year universities. Recruiters look favorably at schools from the NJCAA, whose 60,000 student-athletes in 43 different states make it the second-largest intercollegiate athletic organization in the U.S.
�It�s going to make that jump a whole lot easier now that we�re a part of this association,� Anweiler said. �The NJCAA has been around for 75 years, and they partner with the NCAA to make sure that their rules are compliant with those of the NCAA so that when our student-athletes do graduate or earn enough hours, they�re eligible to participate at the next level.�
Anweiler, who currently acts as the college�s athletic director among other duties, was brought to NOVA in 2009 largely because of his familiarity with NJCAA athletics. He previously served as the athletic director of Tallahassee Community College, a longstanding member school of the NJCAA. Upon seeing that NOVA already had teams playing 20-game schedules, Anweiler knew incorporating those teams into the NJCAA — which requires a $2,000 entrance fee — was financially viable.
Being a part of the NJCAA also makes it easier for coaches to schedule games. Although NJCAA competition is relatively new to Virginia — where all seven member colleges have been admitted within the past four years — several schools around Washington, D.C. and Maryland have been participating in the NJCAA for a long time. Schools such as Prince George�s Community College and Montgomery Community College now will find little reason to avoid scheduling games against NOVA, something that wasn�t always the case in the past.
�We were trying to play intercollegiate sports and yet we were clubs,� Anweiler said. �So we were kind of in no-man�s land.�
NOVA already is reaping the benefits of its new status with some recruiting of its own.
In May, women�s volleyball coach Marcus Robinson inked four student-athletes to national letters of intent, marking NOVA�s first-ever signing class as an NJCAA member. Two high school seniors committed to the men�s lacrosse team during that month, including Hayfield Secondary standout Terry Yarbrough, who turned down NCAA Division I school Mercer in favor of NOVA.
�It does help when you can tell them we can go to regionals, and if we do well we can go to nationals,� Robinson said. �We can be as good as we want to be with the talent of volleyball players in Northern Virginia.�
Recruiting should be further aided by the fact that a shaky economy has been pushing plenty of high school seniors away from four-year schools in favor of more affordable community colleges. Now that they have the added draw of NJCAA membership, NOVA athletes can raise their expectations in the coming years.
�Other community colleges are very, very competitive in volleyball, especially out west,� said Alanah Jones, a returning middle hitter on the volleyball team. �Girls will come here now that there�s a better chance of getting into a four-year school. And now that we�re in the NJCAA, we�re playing better schools and we�ll be more competitive. We�ll actually be working for something.�


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Until last weekend, I don't think I had spent a total of 60 minutes of my life thinking about Amy Winehouse. I liked her music OK, but I found her brand of uglifying herself and her life unappealing. When, immediately after her death was announced, her parents and handlers said they didn't see it coming (an opinion that they amended in subsequent days), my thought was only that how didn't they see the train sliding off the rails. YouTube videos of some of her final concerts (Amy Winehouse's Onstage Meltdown – YouTube http://bit.ly/oTQiZt) show an out-of-it performer stumble onstage and even drag a backup singer to take over the vocals. She became more famous for her mishaps than her music.
Then I started thinking about her parents. Her father has stepped forward to announce that he will start a foundation in her name for people with addictions. (His assessment of the British National Health's facilities for treatment is likely incorrect, however. The National Treatment Agency disputed Mitch Winehouse's claim that there is a two-year waiting list. They say 94% of people who request treatment receive it within three weeks.) In some way this gesture must be therapeutic for him. But there's still the undeniable fact that his daughter is dead, forever and ever.
I'm not sure at all how parents deal with seeing their adult children self-destruct. Even many of us with absolutely normal kids spend a lot of time agonizing over their happiness. My friends and readers have been aware that my main focus this week (besides the debt ceiling) has been my kids, their significant others, and the bar exam. They have been studying all summer, and on Tuesday they got up very early and sat down to six hours of testing. They completed another six-hour round today. Tomorrow my son and his girlfriend take the New Jersey Bar (which I maintain must have questions about the Jersey Shore, Pineys, and the New Jersey Devil). Yes, my children have done things that are dangerous (most of which I probably don't know about), and they have at times given me due cause for worry. But they are alive, in Brooklyn, and I think that they'll get over the hurdles of finding jobs and places to live. They are alive. They drive me crazy. They are alive and functioning.
I also spent time this weekend thinking about Charlene Spierer, the mother of the missing 20-year-old from Indiana University, a woman I knew when the family lived nearby and our daughters were besties in elementary school. As the search for Lauren has passed out of the news cycle, Charlene and Robert remain in Bloomington, waiting for answers. All the volunteers and the press have noted their graciousness, a perfect word to describe their composure during this trying time, their generosity to the community, their earnest wish—belief, rather—that someone who knows something will step forward.
Charlene wrote an open letter on their blog (http://newsonlaurens.blogspot.com) six days ago describing what it is like to wake each morning hoping that today is the day they "find" her. How they in their hearts are defining "find" I cannot know. I can feel their pain, though, their anxiety. I think about how they "don't know" and I get a headache, a heartache. I joke about a nightmare I had of being in the Apple Store and of the geniuses not being able to fix "it" (unspecified in the dream). It was a dream about my anxiety about my kids, though, and when I awoke, I felt I had a nightmare. Charlene, Robert, their lovely daughter Rebecca, their nieces Emily and Ariel, all the family, are in a living nightmare.
When she was 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, the years she was so close to Rebecca, my daughter used to say, "isn't Charlene the nicest person you know?" Yes, the answer is yes.
Our kids do dangerous things. We worry. But some people have a lot more to worry about than others. Terrible things happen; some of them can be prevented, some of them can't. Our job as parents is to be there for our kids, even when they're adults. I called my son tonight and said, "It's your cheerleader. I'm carrying pom-poms, making a pyramid. You go!" I called my daughter and said, "Wow. It's over. What are you doing to celebrate?"
I plead with the parents of Lauren's friends: Talk to your kids. Support them as they come forward and do the right thing. Think about Charlene's nightmare. Your kids will be fine. They are alive.
The picture of Lauren is blurry because it was taken with a surveillance camera and is the last known image of her.
I know I always end with bullet points, but only two tonight:
- Even something small could be big. The telephone number for the Bloomington Police Department is 812-339-4477. "America's Most Wanted" is also taking calls: 800-Crime-TV (800-274-6388). For more information, check the website http://findlauren.com.
- We are also facing a financial crisis in this country. Call your congress people. We live in a democracy; what we say counts. If you need your congress person's telephone, check http://house.gov and http://senate.gov. You can also find many of them on Facebook—like their pages to leave comments. Or if you're on Twitter, tweet at them.
As always, I love your comments, even ones from nuclear physicists. You can find me on Facebook at either www.facebook.com/Linda.Bernstein or www.facebook.com/LindaBernsteinPhD. My Twitter handle is @wordwhacker, and on Google+ I'm gplus.to/lindabernstein.


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Here's what's happening, musically, in Central Oregon over the next seven days.
— The famous South African singing group Ladysmith Black Mambazo returns to Bend's Tower Theatre on Sunday night. My colleague David Jasper spoke to Albert Mazibuko about his four decades as a member of the group.
— In my Feedback column, I get out and about for the first time after a couple months of paternity leave and hit the lovable M&J Tavern for local bands Blackflowers Blacksun and Shade 13 before running out of steam and missing Harley Bourbon. NOTE: Blackflowers Blacksun will celebrate the release of two new albums with a show tonight at The Horned Hand. 9 p.m. $5. Silvero opens.
— Over in Sisters, promising new venue The Belfry will kick off its fundraising campaign Saturday night with a show by The JZ Band. Owner Angeline Rhett hopes to raise $34,500 via Kickstarter to make improvements to the 100-year-old building.
Elsewhere in this week's music section: Todd Clouser's A Love Electric jazz-rocks The Horned Hand, DJ/producer Eliot Lipp returns to town after police made him turn down the volume in December, Left Coast Country and Kory Quinn team up for a night of roots music and Eight Dollar Mountain gets bluegrassy at Silver Moon, plus Cody Beebe & The Crooks, the fifth annual Jim Jam and more.
Tags: Blackflowers Blacksun, Cody Beebe & The Crooks, Eight Dollar Mountain, Eliot Lipp, Jim Jam, Kory Quinn, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Left Coast Country, Shade 13, The Belfry, The JZ Band, Todd Clouser's A Love Electric


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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
A funeral parlor; a home for wayward girls; a halfway house; a bed and breakfast; a trailer park. Speculation over the future of a six-acre piece of property on Longstreet Street in Kingstree has been the topic of conversation since the first camellia was ripped from the overgrown yard. The answer however isn't as clear-cut as the bulldozer's blade.
When the Kingstree Federal Savings and Loan purchased the property known as the McCullough home the first goal was to clear what basically had turned into a jungle of overgrown, tangled camellias and azaleas. The vegetation was so thick that it completely camouflaged a beautiful two-story antebellum style home.
Crediting their banking practices that earned them a Five-Star rating they have the ability to invest their own capital that they have earned - not depositor's funds - into such things as multi-family housing. However, bank president, Rudy Matthews said when they decided to invest in something for the bank they chose the McCullough property. Matthews said planning strategies differ from other institutions. "We're not like a normal business that plans on next year," said Matthews who became president in 2009. "Our plans are based on minimum, five years."
He emphasized, "the bank's plan is - there are no plans." However, he said if the future continues to hold good things financially for the bank then at some point they will be able to develop the property - over time. "This is on a plan of 5 to 10 to 15 years. This is not next year, or year after next or five years from now." He added that down the road, they might locate an ATM or a loan mortgage office building on the grounds but he pointed out that the existing bank on Mill Street is about to undergo major renovations. "If we were going to fix this office up, would we be building something over there?"
There has been progress. The property is currently being cleared: Unfortunately dozens of heirloom camellias and azaleas were dug up in the process. Equally unfortunate are several oaks that towered above the landscape. More speculation surrounds the disappearance of the majestic trees; however, Matthews says their destruction was not of their doing. "Our plans were - we had it all worked out, with those beautiful oak trees and those dogwoods," said Matthews. "Well, those 100-foot, 50-ton gum trees fell on a bunch of our oak trees. That set us back."
The bones of the house are also under scrutiny. Matthews said there are several serious issues such as the roof and mold: problems that arise when a home is unoccupied for years. Matthews said the board has arranged to meet at the property to discuss what they will do next. "We'd love to be able to go in there with a million dollars and just say this is all we're going to do - we're going to fix it all up. That's not possible. But we can make it look really nice and make it look really pretty."
The future of the home may be uncertain but for the time being passersby can enjoy the unobscured view. "Our best day will be for tourists to come through Kingstree and instead of stopping at McDonald's and then heading to the beach or to Charleston, they would drive through and they would look and say, "Look at that beautiful old home. Look how much they fixed it up. Isn't it nice that Kingstree is finally doing something to make their town look good."
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Several hundred people received free haircuts, flu shots, food, clothes and other items during Holiday Haircuts 4 Humanity, a recent event hosted by Franklin Park Lincoln and Word of Faith Ministries.
Organizers estimated between 240 and 300 people showed up to the Dec. 18 event.
"It was the most beautiful thing you ever want to see," said Mike Colbert, a salesman at Franklin Park Lincoln. "It was helping people that didn't have nothing: People out of work, people who just lost jobs, some with no income, a few of them homeless. People with disabilities. A few came from assisted living homes who just wanted to get a haircut for when their families were coming to visit. It was a wonderful day. I enjoyed every minute of it."
Pastor Terry Sutton of Word of Faith Ministries agreed.
"We were very pleased with it," Sutton said. "We serviced a lot of people and it was just wonderful to see that people were happy about it."
Colbert said the idea came after his son, a barber, told him about clients who were in need.
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"It was amazing to see people who really needed help and we were there to help them," Colbert said. "That's the loving part about it all. That's what thrills your heart, when someone really needs help and you can reach out and help them. That's what it's all about."
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Votes have been cast, and the wait is over.
The Monetta Drive-In Theatre – also known as the Big Mo – was declared a winner on Monday in the second round of Honda's Project Drive-In contest.
Across the nation, drive-in theaters have been upgrading their 35 mm film equipment to digital projectors.
Digital projectors can cost around $70,000 to $80,000, said Monetta Drive-In co-owner Lisa Boaz.
Due to being a winner in Honda's contest, the Monetta Drive-In is now one of nine theaters that will receive digital projector.
The Big Mo got this win through votes via text and online.
"We would like to say thank you to everyone who voted for us," Boaz said. "It means a lot to us that people care, (and) it's very exciting."
More than two million votes were cast for the nine winning theaters, according to a press release from Honda.
The contest occurred in two waves – one that ran until Sept. 9 and awarded projectors to five theaters and this wave that awarded projectors to four theaters.
The Monetta Drive-In Theatre has three screens that need converting.
Boaz said she and her husband Richard had saved money before the contest to prepare for this conversion.
"If we won one projector, we would have some money left over to put back into improvements that will benefit the customers," Boaz said to the Aiken Standard in late August.
In addition to converting the screens, the owners would have to upgrade the rooms in which the projectors would go.
"The old projectors could take the extreme heat and extreme cold," Boaz said, in regards to one way the rooms would have to be changed.
Lately, the Big Mo has opened up only two fields to the public.
Part of this is due to the fact the theater is still using 35 mm film.
"A lot of theaters have converted," Boaz said.
And Project Drive-In is not done.
"This fundraising effort will continue through the end of the year in hopes of raising further money to support more digital conversions," as stated in the Honda release.
As for the Big Mo, the Boazs plan on keeping at least one 35 mm projector around on which to show old commercials and trailers.
"It would add to the retro feel of the drive-in," Lisa said.
For more information on the project, visit www.projectdrivein.com.
For more information on the Big Mo, visit www.thebigmo.com.
Aiken Standard file photo Richard Boaz inside one of the screening rooms at the Big Mo. Converting to digital projectors will mean these rooms will have to be upgraded, too.×
Aiken Standard file photo Richard Boaz announces the night's films from the Main Screen booth. Beside him is a 35 mm film reel. The Big Mo was declared a winner on Monday in the second round of Honda's Project Drive-In contest.×
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