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Over the past 20 glorious years, the Fire Mountain has played a huge hand in converting non-mountain bikers into deeply passionate ones. We've seen it a thousand times and are sure to see it thousands more. All that…
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The Walt Disney Co. will begin out-sourcing the manufacturing of Audio Animatronics because of too much demand on staff time, according to an Imagineering memo sent to the Orange County Register.
Audio-Animatronics figures are basically moving and talking (or signing) robotic figures that were started by Walt Disneys company. Today, Audio-Animatronics can be seen in several Disneyland attractions, which include: its a small world, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones Adventure, Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! and the upcoming Toy Story Mania!.
The memo is dated June 12, 2008, and was sent to all Walt Disney Imagineering employees from Bruce Vaughn, chief creative executive, Craig Russell, chief development and delivery executive, and Kevin Eld, vice president of Disney Creative Production. The memo was sent to and received by the Orange County Register today. Imagineers is Disneys a word for designers and engineers.
The memo states that after review manufacturing all Audio-Animatronics figures in-house is not feasible in terms of cost and staffing. Instead, Imagineerings Manufacturing and Prototype Operations group based in North Hollywood will build some select, highly complex figures in-house.


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WERRINGTON and St Just will contest the Premier 50/50 Cup final on Sunday July 29 at Camborne. Both teams had comfortable home wins in Sunday's semi-finals.
Werrington beat Camborne by 99 runs after making 248 for six. Ben Smeeth hit 86 and Adam Hodgson 57.
Camborne were dismissed for 149 in the 36th over. Nick King made 40 with Sam Hockin and Hodgson taking three wickets each.
St Austell were dismissed for 176 with Taylor Williams making 65 and Gary Bone 57 not out. Gareth May took four for 27.
St Just lost Neil Curnow and David Roberts cheaply before May made 23 and Gavin Edwards 27. They were seen home with almost eight overs to spare by an unbeaten sixth wicket stand of 63 between Rob Cook (47no) and Adam Williams (23no).
Werrington 248-6 (B Smeeth 86, A Hodgson 57, P Smith 27, extras 38; M Jenkin 2-40), Camborne 149 (N King 40, D Stephens 24, C Johnson 22; A Hodgson 2-21, S Hockin 3-30, A Smeeth 2-9, M Humphries 2-36). Werrington beat Camborne by 99 runs.
St Austell 176 (T Williams 65, G Bone 57no; G May 4-27, N George 3-38), St Just 180-5 (R Cook 47no, G Thomas 34, G Edwards 27, G May 23, A Williams 23no; S Simon 2-25, S Raven 2-50). St Just beat St Austell by 5 wkts.


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In a recent book review published in Christian Century, BioLogos content manager Jim Stump endeavors to reclaim the word "design."
American thinking about religion and science before the Civil War was substantially informed by the powerful "concordist" metaphor of God as the "author" of two "books," nature and Scripture, which ultimately must agree.
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At BioLogos, we believe that a serious and faithful reading of Scripture doesn't call for a recent origin to the earth, and we are persuaded that God has shown us through the natural world he created that his creative work began much earlier.
Some people who brook no "god of the gaps" arguments anywhere else look to these three moments as more reasonable places to insert God into natural processes: God spoke matter/energy into existence, God made life out of lifeless matter, and God breathed a soul into human beings.
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Although committed to the principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have been written in terms its original recipients would have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo. But not just yet.
This ongoing series written by historian Ted Davis begins with a brief synopsis of his personal background, and then goes on to reveal his passion for debunking "the now-common view that the history of science and Christianity is one of ongoing, inevitable conflict."
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Many Christians believe that they face a painful choice-- either life was designed by God or it is an evolutionary product of natural selection. Charles Darwin himself believed in this dichotomy, and people ever since have felt the need to "choose sides". However, looking back at history, we find that one of Darwin's chief scientific colleagues, Asa Gray, did not share this perspective. In this three-part essay, part 1 charts the relationship of Asa Gray and Charles Darwin. Part 2 describes Darwin's struggle with the problem of natural evil and design in nature, and part 3 explores how Asa Gray was able to embrace evolution without rejecting the idea of design.
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I ask the question, "Why is the universe so special?" Now scientists don't like things to be special; we like things to be general, and our natural anticipation would have been that the universe is just a common specimen of what a universe might be like.
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A method and apparatus is offered of multiplexing control information into a user signal stream in a cellular communication system using code division multiple access. The method includes the steps of determining a temporal measure (101) of control information to be substituted for a corresponding measure of user information, substituting (102) the control information into the signal stream while buffering a corresponding temporal measure of user information, and resuming transmission (103) of user information beginning with the buffered user information.
1. In a base station controller of a cellular communication system using code division multiple access encoding, a method of multiplexing control information for a communication unit into a user signal stream, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at a transcoder of the base station from an interworking function of the cellular system, user information to be encoded and communicated to the communication unit in the user signal stream; receiving at the transcoder control information to be inserted in the user signal stream; determining a temporal measure of the received control information; inserting the control information into the user signal stream while buffering a corresponding temporal measure of user information; communicating the temporal measure to the interworking function by marking a corresponding temporal measure of information communicated from the transcoder to the interworking function on a reverse channel; generating, within the interworking function, a set of null characters temporally equal to the temporal measure; and substituting the buffered user information for the null characters.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of communicating the temporal measure of user information to the interworking function by marking a corresponding temporal measure of information on a reverse channel comprises setting a status bit in a plurality of communication frames being communicated on the reverse channel temporally equal to the corresponding temporal measure.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the step of generating, within the interworking function, a set of null characters temporally equal to the buffered user information comprises generating null frames in one-for-one correspondence to the plurality of communication frames having a set status bit.
4. An apparatus for multiplexing a control signal intended for a communication unit of a cellular communication system into a user signal stream at a base station controller, the apparatus comprising: a transcoder operably interconnected with the base station controller and an interworking function; a register within the transcoder for receiving the control signal from the base station controller; a first processor within the transcoder for determining a temporal length of the control signal; a second processor for inserting the control signal into the user signal stream while buffering a corresponding temporal length of user information received from the interworking function; a signal path associated with information being communicated on a reverse channel from the transcoder to the interworking function for communicating the temporal length of the buffered user information to the interworking function; a third processor within the interworking function for generating null characters within the user signal stream for a time period substantially equal to the temporal length of the buffered user information; and a fourth processor within the transcoder for substituting the buffered user information for the null characters.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the signal path comprises status bits associated with the information being communicated on the reverse channel for indicating the amount of null characters to be generated.
The field of the invention relates to communication systems and, more particularly, to a method of multiplexing control information into a user signal stream of a code division multiple access (CDMA) system.
Cellular systems using spread spectrum encoding are known. Direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) and frequency hopping (FH) are the two most well known of the spread spectrum technologies in which an information signal is distributed over a relatively wide spectral area for purposes of reducing the impact of interference. Frequency hopping achieves the benefits of spread spectrum transmission by hopping through a number of conventional narrowband channels, thereby reducing the average impact of interference in any one channel or group of channels.
DS-CDMA spreads an information signal over a designated spectrum by modulating the information signal with a spreading code which has properties similar to that of a random number. The spreading code used is typically the output of a pseudorandom number generator which provides a number sequence that repeats over a relatively long time interval.
At a receiver the DS-CDMA spread spectrum signal must be de-spread through use of a de-spreading code that has the same characteristics as the spreading code. De-spreading is accomplished by the correlation of the received spread signal with a synchronized replica of the spreading code used to spread the transmitted information.
The use of a spreading code that has the characteristics of a random number ensures that the transmitted signal will be randomly spread throughout a transmission spectrum. The requirement for a duplicate of the spreading code at a receiver (for de-spreading), on the other hand, requires that the spreading (and de-spreading) code be a repeating sequence known to both transmitter and receiver. The use of identical spreading and de-spreading codes at both transmitter and receiver provides the basis for communication between multiple pairs of communicating parties within the same spectrum with minimal mutual interference.
Within a CDMA cellular system, separate control channels are maintained for system access through a list of spreading codes known to both mobile communication units and base sites. Upon desiring access a communication unit transmits a request for system access. The access request may contain such control information as a user identifier and a called number. The base site may respond with control information identifying a spreading code of a traffic channel and a transmit power level.
Upon receipt of the traffic channel information, the communication unit synchronizes to the traffic channel and begins exchanging information with another user at the called number. Control information between the base site and the communication unit during maintenance of the traffic channel is exchanged through the use of "blank and burst" or "dim and burst" techniques.
During "blank and burst" or "dim and burst" an audio signal is muted or encoded at a lower bit rate, respectively, while control information is exchanged between base site and communication unit. Since the exchange of control information occurs very rapidly the disruption in audio signals between users is slight. Audio information that would have been exchanged during "blank and burst" or "dim and burst" is simply discarded. The use of variable rate vocoding and muting techniques means that this "stealing" of bits of speech is undetectable by users.
While "blank and burst" and "dim and burst" are effective during exchanges of audio information, the impact upon data exchanges is far more serious. For transparent services, data information will be lost with the sending terminal equipment being unaware of the loss and the receiving terminal equipment being unable to recover the lost data. Recovery is impossible within transparent services because, by the very nature of transparent services, no provision is made to provide for error protection and re-transmission upon the detection of errors.
For non-transparent services, the use of end-to-end protocols provides a means through which terminal equipment will be able to recover by re-transmission handshaking. The result, on the other hand, is a loss in throughput when the receiving terminal detects an error and request re-transmission of missing frames. Because of the importance of data transmission, a need exists for a means of exchanging control information between base sites and communication units in CDMA systems that does not result in a loss of user information.
FIG. 1 comprises a block diagram of a cellular communication system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2A through FIG. 2D depict operation of a transcoder with a buffer in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of transcoder buffering and recovery in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
The solution to the problem of data loss during control transmissions in a CDMA cellular system lies, conceptually, in the short-term buffering of user information within a transcoder of a base site controller during periods of control transmissions, and resumption of processing of buffered user data following completion of control transmission on a first-in-first-out basis. The backlog of buffered information is eliminated by communicating a request for null frames to be inserted into the signal stream to an interworking function (IWF) within the cellular infrastructure and in the substitution of buffered information for null frames.
The IWF provides flow control (IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control) between a public switch telephone network (PSTN) subscriber transmitting terminal and the cellular system. IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control is a technique used in data transmission systems as a means of matching a data transmission link to local receiving conditions. IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control is often used where a transmission link operates much faster than a local receiver. Under IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control when a buffer at a receiver is full an X-off command is sent to a transmitting terminal to halt transmission of data. As the receiving buffer empties an X-on command is sent. IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control operates open-loop in that no hand-shaking occurs between transmitting terminal and receiving buffer. Hand-shaking, as is known, involves the exchange of acknowledgement messages between sending and receiving terminals acknowledging such activities as data transmission, control commands, etc.
The use of IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control would not be effective for directly accommodating control transmissions because of the short-term nature of control transmissions and because of the open-loop nature of IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control. Following a determination that control information was to be transmitted and an X-off command transmitted by the IWF to a transmitting terminal, a delay would still be experienced between transmission of the X-off command and cessation of data received at the IWF. Following transmission of the control information, and transmission of the X-on command, another delay would be experienced before data reaches the IWF. Further, because of the open-loop naure of IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control, the transmission of additional X-on and X-off commands could result in further delays where such commands do not reach the transmitting terminal.
Inclusion of a buffer in the transcoder, on the other hand in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, allows for the transmission of control information without interrupting normal IWF functions. Where the transcoder operates at a higher processing speed than the IWF, buffering of information in the transcoder may eliminate the need for immediate IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control following transmission of control information. Where the transcoder operates at the same or a slower rate than the IWF, the buffering of user information in the transcoder allows for the more efficient use of IWF-to-transmitting-terminal flow control.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of transcoder buffering and recovery in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Reference shall be made to the flow chart as appropriate in an understanding of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a CDMA cellular communication system 10 in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Within such a system 10, calls received from, and directed to, a mobile communication unit 20 are exchanged through a base transceiver station (BTS) 11 and mobile channel card (MCC) within the BTS 11. A signal received from the communication unit 20 is transferred to a transcoder (XCDR) 14 for decoding. Information to be transmitted to the communication unit is first encoded within the XCDR 14 before transmission through the BTS 11.
Within the XCDR 14 control information of a received signal is stripped off and forwarded to layer 3 (12) of the cellular control system (see EIA/TIA standards IS-88, 89, and 90). Likewise, control information to be directed to the communication unit 20 passes from Layer 3 (12) for encoding within the XCDR 14 for transmission to the communication unit 20. Layer 3 (12) of the cellular system 10, as is well known to those in the art, provides call management (not shown), mobility management 15 and radio resource management (not shown). Layer 3 is responsible for allocating specific messages to the appropriate CDMA channel. The appropriate CDMA channel is accessed via Layer 2 (13) and collectively supports all signalling requirements through BTSs of a cellular system.
User information between the communication unit 20 and a target (not shown) within the public service telephone network (PSTN) 18, is transceived through the BTS 11, rate adapted in the XCDR 14, and routed through a mobile switching center (MSC) 16 for translation within an interworking function (IWF) 17. The IWF 17 acts to convert PCM voice band signals of the PSTN 18 to protocols (e.g., V.110 or V.120) used within the cellular system 10. The IWF 17 also provides IWF to transmitting terminal flow control for data transfers between the PSTN 18 and the cellular system 10.
In accordance with an embodiment of the invention a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer 19 (FIG. 2A) is included within the XCDR 14. The FIFO 19 is included within the forward signal path (PSTN subscriber to mobile 20). Following call set-up, signal flow on the forward channel is as shown in FIG. 2A (forward channel signal flow is shown on the bottom of FIG. 2A as flowing from right to left). Signals entering the XCDR 14 are rate adapted and forwarded to the BTS 11 without delay. As shown (FIG. 2A) under normal operating conditions the FIFO buffer remains empty.
During the course of an exchange between a communication unit 20 and a PSTN subscriber, the need, upon occasion, will arise to transmit control information to the communciation unit 20 (e.g., power adjustments). In such a case the control information is communicated from Layer 3 12 to the XCDR 14. Upon receipt 100 of the control information, the XCDR 14 first determines 101 a measure of time (temporal measure) necessary for transmission of the control information. Upon determining the time (e.g., in frames) required to transmit the information, XCDR 14 inserts 102 the information into the user signal stream while buffering an equal amount of user information (FIG. 2B). In this example there are two blocks of control information to be sent. Therefore, user information B and C contained in blocks 21 and 22 are stored in FIFO 19. The control information is then inserted in place of the user information in blocks 21 and 22. Buffered user information (blocks C and D) is shown in FIG. 2B as a vertical column within the buffer 19 with information entering, from the right, placed at the top of the column and information leaving shown at the bottom of the column.
Buffering the user information creates a small time delay within the XCDR 14 due to the buffering. As a result of the buffering and upon resumption 103 of the transmission of user information, the processed user information now passes through the FIFO buffer 19 with the additional time required for passing through the XCDR 14 equal to the time necessary for the user information to pass through the FIFO 19 (e.g., two additional frames).
As the XCDR 14 begins substituting information into the user signal stream, XCDR 14 begins requesting null frames from the IWF 17. Under an embodiment of the invention the XCDR 14 requests null frames by setting a bit in each frame on the reverse channel (FIG. 2B), where the number of reverse frames with set bits corresponds to the requested number of null frames. The frames with set bits are shown in the reverse channel at the top of FIG. 2B with black boxes in the upper left corner of the requesting frames (e.g., blocks 2 and 3). Until the blank blocks arrive, the user information is sent in and out of FIFO 19 as shown in FIG. 2C. Here, user information D is removed from block 23 and user information B is inserted. This FIFO process continues until the arrival of the null frames.
In response to the request for null frames the IWF 17 transmits the requested number of null frames (FIG 2C). As the XCDR 14 processes frames on the forward channel the XCDR 14 tests for null frames. Where the XCDR 14 detects a null frame, the XCDR 14 discards the null information and replaces the null information with buffered information (e.g., user information E and F in blocks 26 and 27). The discarding of null frames reduces the number of buffered frames within the FIFO buffer 19 until the FIFO buffer 19 is empty (FIG. 2D).
By way of example, communication unit 20 may wish to exchange data with a target (not shown). The target may be a PSTN subscriber or another communication unit in another cellular system. In support of such a transaction the communication unit 20 transmits an access request to the BTS 11. The access request is received by the BTS 11 and transferred to Layer 3 12 of the cellular control system. Upon verification of the call request, a resource allocation is forwarded from Layer 3 12 to the XCDR 14 for transmission to the requesting communciation unit 20. Routing commands are also transmitted to the MSC 16 and IWF 17. Following channel set-up, data exchange may begin on the traffic channel. User information may flow from the target as shown in FIG. 2 and in the reverse direction (from the communication unit 20 to the target). Where the user information flows from the communication unit 20 to the target then a buffer in the forward channel would not be used (absent the forward flow of user information). Where user information in the form of data is transferred in the forward direction then such transfer concurrent with a need to transmit control information would occur as described above.
The use of the buffer in the forward direction of a cellular traffic channel, in accordance with the invention, beneficially allows for transfer of data through a serving transcoder without loss during control transmissions. The transmission of requests for null frames in the reverse direction allows the transcoder to recover from control transmissions without disruption of system operation.
The many features and advantages of this invention are apparent from the detailed specification and thus it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such features and advantages of the system which fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art (e.g., use of the invention between buffers within the same cellular system), it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation illustrated and described, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention.
It is, of course, to be understood that the present invention is, by no means, limited to the specific showing in the drawing, but also comprises any modification within the scope of the appended claims.
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Monkey bread is a yummy, gooey, sticky treat that children love. Try out this easy monkey bread recipe using prepackaged biscuits.See Transcript
Transcript:Easy Monkey BreadHey Cliff Wildman here with About.com Food. Today I'm going to show you how to make monkey bread. It's an ooey, gooey, delicious dessert that will have your guests coming back to see if there's more.
Monkey Bread IngredientsFor ingredients we're going to need:
- 4 cans of prepackaged biscuits, that's about 40 biscuits
- 1 cup of brown sugar - packed
- one cup of sugar
- 1/2 cup of unsalted butter (or two sticks)
- 1 tablespoon and a half of cinnamon
- and this is optional - 1 cup of pecans and raisins mixed as desired
Prep the Monkey Bread BiscuitsThe first thing we're going to do is quarter the biscuits, get a knife cut into quarters. When that's done, we're going to take a large ziploc bag, take the sugar and the cinnamon and mix it up very well together. Once that is mixed, take the biscuit quarters, put them into the bag and like shake and bake, we're going to coat the quarter. Once they're well coated thoroughly you go ahead and pull them out, set them aside and repeat with the rest of the quarters until they are all covered well with the sugar and cinnamon mix.
Bake the Monkey BreadTake a Bundt pan, coat with non-stick cooking spray. Now we can start layering in the biscuits into the pan. once the bottom is well covered, start layering in the pecans and raisins with more biscuits until the pan is nearly full, set this aside.
At this point, pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees, take a small sauce pan and put the butter and brown sugar in, we want to cook this on high and bring it to a boil. Once it is boiling, turn off the heat and let cool for 10 minutes. Once the 10 minutes is done, pour the butter/brown sugar mix over the biscuits. put this in the oven for forty-five minutes. Here's what it looks like at 45 minutes. Let this cool for 15 minutes and then you can take a plate and flip it over and it is ready to eat.
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Good morning, I hope this Tuesday finds you happy, healthy, and most importantly, that those in your life are doing well.
Nine years ago today my father, William Arthur Gregor, passed away at the young age of 56. The morning of his funeral I couldn't sleep and decided to write an e-mail to my friends to release my feelings, and since then I type an e-mail in his honour each year, and hope that it somehow lessens the void in my heart and the hearts of my family.
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And so the preseason that saw the return of Mike Comrie, the continued fall of Rob Schremp and the dehydration of Nikolai Khabibulin draws to a close with tonight's tilt against the Canucks. And about time if you ask us – although an uninspired preseason could lead to a brick of a start to the regular season too.
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Powerful and determined Santorum takes no prisoners during Evansville stop
Abortion opponents face a powerful, determined and ruthless foe who seeks total victory at all costs, never gives up and never takes prisoners, former Sen. Rick Santorum told an Evansville audience Thursday.
So, Santorum told nearly 2,000 people at the Right to Life of Southwest Indiana's annual banquet, they must match the opposition's intensity.
"Higher education, business, Hollywood, the media," the 2012 Republican presidential candidate said, identifying what he characterized as a liberal elite waging war to sustain legal abortion. "What's left? You. You're left."
Citizen activists, churches, local nonprofits and others can prevail just as American colonists did against a seemingly impregnable British military and its legions of sycophantic loyalists in 1776, Santorum said.
But it will take more courage, more persistence and more guts, he said.
"How did we beat the most well-equipped, best-generaled fighting force in the world? Because we wanted it more," Santorum said. "We were willing to make more sacrifices."
"America is being transformed today because a small cadre of people, one of whom is the president of the United States, wants to transform America into something fundamentally different from what America has been. And the reason they are winning is because — every single day — they fight."
Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, made a strong but unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination last year. The Right to Life of Southwest Indiana banquet marked his first visit to Evansville.
The annual event, billed by the organization as "the largest pro-life banquet in the country," brought Sarah Palin to Evansville four years ago. It is Right to Life of Southwest Indiana's signature fundraiser.
During his speech Thursday night, Santorum drew a bead on what he called a biased national media's coverage of abortion-related issues.
He said reporters have virtually ignored the multi-murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell because the case, with its gruesome and lurid allegations, doesn't comport with their support of abortion rights.
"The media just pumps it out there, and then hides the Kermit Gosnells of the world, hoping to protect their sacred cows," Santorum declared, pausing for effect.
"Destroys good, decent people running for political office for a slight misstatement and then shills for a vice president (Joe Biden) who malaprops every day."
The remarks, which drew applause, were an apparent reference to Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, a Vanderburgh County resident who drew the high-profile assignment of introducing Santorum Thursday night. Mourdock's 2012 U.S. Senate candidacy foundered when he said God intended life to flourish even "in that horrible situation of rape," remarks for which he was widely criticized.
Mourdock said afterward that his remarks were being purposefully mischaracterized.
Santorum, who left the Senate after his 2006 defeat in Pennsylvania, accepts speaking engagements all over the country and maintains a Twitter account which he frequently uses to weigh in on the issues of the day.
He told the Courier & Press before Thursday's banquet that he is pursuing several other endeavors, "a couple of which are not public yet."
Santorum has not closed the door on a possible repeat bid for the presidency in 2016, when Democratic incumbent Barack Obama will be barred from seeking a third term.
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Jessica Brown-Findlay is enjoying a rare day off from cramped corsets and aristocratic airs. For the past six months she's been filming the second series of Downton Abbey, in which she plays the free-spirited Lady Sybil, youngest and most bohemian of the Crawley sisters, complete with avant-garde silk pantaloons. Lady Sybil was a plum first television role for the 21-year-old actress from Berkshire who had longed to be a prima ballerina. Up until three years ago, she was training as a ballet dancer at the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, or 'Hogwarts for ballet' as she puts it, having appeared with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House aged 15. But an ankle injury in her final year shattered her dreams and she enrolled instead at Central Saint Martins to study fine art. While there she joined the acting classes and spent most of her time watching Sofia Coppola films. 'The thing I missed most about ballet was the performance and becoming a different character. I couldn't live without that,' she says in a clipped voice that would be very Lady Sybil were it not for a viscous, husky finish.
As an unknown, Jessica auditioned for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. She made it to the final two, narrowly missing out to Mia Wasikowska: 'But I have no regrets because it meant that I found an agent and got to read the script for Albatross.' Director Niall MacCormick's big-screen debut (his television work includes the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Long Walk to Finchley, Albatross is a coming-of-age Brit flick set in a coastal town in Sussex. Niall knew exactly the sort of personality he wanted for the central character, Emelia, a 17-year-old wild child who ends up having an affair with her best friend's father. 'I was looking for a girl who could tell someone to f*** off and die and for the audience to still feel they were actually quite charming,' he explains.
Jessica fitted the bill. 'I adored the part from day one and thought, "No one else can have it." I decided to be Emelia both inside and outside the audition room.' It came as a shock to Niall when the cast began filming in 2009 that Jessica is actually nothing like her character, who rips around the small town in thigh-skimming skirts and pink sparkly platforms, swigging from a bottle of wine: 'I was so shy when I was 17, I didn't smoke or drink. I was completely focused and I loved school' – there's a flash in her eyes – 'but, gosh, I wish someone had shaken me a little and told me that mistakes are cool, too. Even now I sometimes think, "What would Emelia do?" She's brave, brash and exciting.'
I suggest that Emelia is not that different from Lady Sybil, give or take a hundred years. 'They're both going to grow into strong women. They're finding out who they are and what they're going to be,' says Jessica. The second series of Downton Abbey will hit our screens next month and opens two years into the First World War. An idealist, Sybil spurns romance for the Red Cross, which she joins as a nurse: 'There are so many other things on her mind, like the fighting abroad and the war effort at home. That is where her focus lies and that's what carries her through the war years.'
Her friendship with her on-screen sisters, Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael, helps Jessica through the long days of filming: 'We have so much fun together. We've recently been dancing around like fools to Beyoncé, which is not my kind of music but it's so good you can't turn it off.' Outside the acting world most of her friends are artists from North London where she lives, including her boyfriend who's an oil painter.
Another close friend is her Albatross co-star Felicity Jones. They first met at auditions. 'We supported each other. For Jess it was a big responsibility as it was her first role but she pulled it off with such ease,' says Felicity, exhausted at the end of her critically acclaimed run as the lead in the Donmar's Luise Miller. 'It's slowly killing me but we're in our last week now,' she sighs.
Since graduating from Oxford with a 2:1 in English and appearing alongside Carey Mulligan in ITV's Northanger Abbey, Felicity has been in constant demand. She was cast by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in last year's film Cemetery Junction and made her Hollywood debut as Ed Westwick's love interest in Chalet Girl earlier this year. She turned down the title role in the blockbuster remake of Snow White (starring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen) in order to stay in London for Luise Miller. 'You have to take parts you care about,' she explains.
Before she made it on screen, Felicity was a household voice, playing teenage terror Emma Carter (later Grundy) in The Archers. She tries to recreate the rural accent on demand but gives up, giggling: 'I've got too many other characters in my head. I think I've let her go.' She sometimes still listens to The Archers at home in Worcestershire with her mother, who worked in advertising and brought her and her brother up single-handed after splitting with their father when Felicity was three. I ask whether it was her mother who put her forward for her first television role, aged 11, in The Treasure Seekers, an E Nesbit adaptation, but she insists it was all her own doing: 'I was deeply passionate about acting from a young age. I loved dressing up and inventing characters. As an actor I guess I haven't really grown up.'
In Albatross, she plays 17-year-old Beth, bookish and introverted compared to the rampaging Emelia. 'I should probably say I was very different to her aged 17. I would sound a lot cooler. But I like the way Beth is an observer.' At 27, Felicity makes a very convincing teenager and it is this youthful quality that has been the key to her success. As David Hare, who directed Felicity in his upcoming spy thriller Page Eight, alongside Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, puts it: 'She has a little nimbus around her when she acts. I've never seen it in anyone before where youth is such a magical quality.'
She has also just shot Burberry's autumn/winter campaign with Mario Testino. 'He was sublime, telling us lots of anecdotes about Kate Moss, who has been such an amazing figure in my and my girlfriends' lives. I think modelling can be quite similar to acting; it allows you to show a different side to yourself.'
After she's slept off the role of Luise Miller, Felicity will be heading to America where she's already created a storm with her performance in Drake Doremus's romantic drama Like Crazy, which won her a Special Jury Prize for best actress at the Sundance Film Festival. She'll be spending a month in New York this autumn making another Drake Doremus film, so will miss her boyfriend, Ed Fornieles, an artist who's just graduated from the Royal College of Art, and her East London flat, which she's decorated with window boxes. 'I've become very domesticated,' she says.
As the two actresses totter off to the helipad for the photo shoot, they lark about in their designer gear. 'You look like a little girl in her mum's clothes,' quips Felicity. 'Totes,' agrees Jessica. 'I'm just going to hang on my helipad.'
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This summer, 11 UK student-athletes went on a service trip to Ethiopia. In the video above, they reflect on the ways their time in Africa is still affecting their lives.
For more on the trip, check out the following Cat Scratches stories from this summer.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The solution offered by the North Carolina House to retool teacher tenure rules has cleared a policy panel with little debate.
The House Education Committee voted Tuesday in favor of a measure sponsors say will make it easier to fire poorly-performing teachers.
The bipartisan measure differs from a proposal backed by Senate leader Phil Berger that would phase out job-protecting tenure over five years and replace it with teacher contracts of one to four years.
House members instead want to label teachers as having "non-probationary status" after four years of highly effective work. Teachers could lose that status – and possibly their jobs – if they receive poor evaluations two years in a row and don't improve within the next two.
The bill's next scheduled stop is the House floor.
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Police detective to compete in Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon
By Jessica Belasco : June 1, 2012 : Updated: June 5, 2012 12:12pm
Photo By Jerry Lara/Staff
San Antonio Police Department Detective Carlos Ortiz swims at the Northside Natatorium, Monday, May 28, 2012. Ortiz is training to compete in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon on June 10. The race consists o a 1.5 swim from Alcatraz Island to the shore followed by an 18-mile bike ride and ends with an 8 mile run.
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San Antonio police dDetective and Ironman Carlos Ortiz will compete this Sunday in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon..
For Carlos Ortiz, training for triathlons is also a stealth weapon in his job as a police officer.
A few years ago, Ortiz spotted a teenager he suspected was smoking marijuana. The boy began to run, but Ortiz chased him for about three blocks, grabbing him before he could scale a fence.
The boy seemed stunned the police officer could keep up.
"It was his rotten luck," Ortiz, 46, says. "He had no idea what training I had gone through, that I was an Ironman."
Compared to completing an Ironman triathlon — a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a marathon-length, 26.2-mile run — chasing down a kid is a piece of cake, Ortiz says.
Ortiz, an 18-year veteran of the San Antonio Police Department who recently was promoted to detective, has finished three Ironman races. His next event, the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon on Sunday in San Francisco, is shorter than an Ironman, but he considers it more challenging.
During the race, athletes swim 1.5 miles in the San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz Island to the city's shoreline. The water is 55 degrees and has a strong current. Several inmates drowned fleeing from Alcatraz when it operated as a prison.
"Talking about it right now makes my palms sweaty," says Ortiz. "I've been taking cold showers and swimming in Boerne Lake when the water is choppy, so I can learn to swim when the water is in your face. You're going to swallow saltwater, no matter how hard you try not to."
Rumors of man-eating sharks in the bay are myths, he says. Sharks swim in the waters, but they're small bottom feeders.
"As long as I'm faster than the swimmer next to me, I'll be OK," Ortiz jokes.
The swim is just the beginning, however. The race continues with an 18-mile bike ride followed by an eight-mile run through the hills of San Francisco, including 400 steps up a cliff. The average race time for last year's event was about three hours, 15 minutes.
Ortiz landed a spot in the 32nd annual event through a lottery after years of entering the draw. He'll be one of 2,000 triathletes competing on Sunday.
In preparation, he's been training five or six days a week. He swims at Northside Independent School District's natatorium and Boerne Lake, runs seven to 15 miles around his neighborhood and cycles the hilly Scenic Loop Road.
A longtime runner, Ortiz entered his first marathon in 2002 on a dare from a fellow police officer, who didn't show up for the race. In 2005, the same friend dared him to do a triathlon. Again, the friend was a no-show, but Ortiz finished the race and began competing in races of increasing distance.
"You get hooked," he says. "The camaraderie, the competition, the challenge."
Ortiz participates in three or four triathlons a year and never has failed to finish. He completed his first Ironman in Florida in 2007. When he went back to work, his fellow officers had a dispatcher send him to a supposed crime at a park. When Ortiz arrived, they had a cake waiting for him.
He set a personal record at an Ironman in Arizona last year, finishing in 13 hours, 35 minutes.
No matter his time, he says, he's always happy to finish a race.
"Usually by the run, the last part, your body starts to say, 'Hey stupid, what are you doing?'" he says. "But then afterward it's just complete euphoria."


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Westminster, Md., —An outdoor production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" will be held at Carroll Community College this summer. Performances will be held on June 27 at 8 p.m., June 28 at 8 p.m. and June 29 at 8 p.m in the Rotary Amphitheatre. Music and lyrics are by William Finn and the book is by Rachel Sheinkin. Performances are directed by Bill Gillett.
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Might as well get used to pulling out a $10 bill to pay for fresh local shrimp because the days of $5 per pound shrimp off the boat might well be over.
The delayed opening of the spring shrimp season this year gave shrimpers only a few days before the catch started playing out - likely a consequence of cooler waters. Shrimp also have been harder to find the farther north the nets are dropped along the South Carolina coast.
Meanwhile, a lot more than an Asian farm crop disease was at play in the "historic record" market prices for the catch that shrimpers earned in Southeastern states, an industry executive said.
"Even with the Asian disease, we were still importing a huge amount of shrimp," said John Williams, Southern Shrimp Alliance director. "The price will continue to fluctuate. (But) I don't think it will go as low as it was 10 years ago."
The shrimp crop normally hits a summer lull as part of the spawning cycle between the spring and fall crop. The catch is still out there but not as abundant and will gradually fall off until the spawn reaches size, usually in August or September.
The spring season usually opens mid- to late May. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources delayed it this year into June to give more shrimp time to spawn after a slow start in cool, early spring waters. DNR occasionally delays the season to maintain the overall shrimp crop.
Shrimpers finally hit the state waters June 10 and had only a few days of good catch before the spring crop began playing out. The catch, good in southern waters toward Georgia, wasn't so good from Charleston north. Shem Creek shrimper Tommy Edwards brought back 700 pounds the first few days - a decent catch - but then the numbers dropped as moon tides and winds moved in.
"Maybe on the backside of this full moon we might get a few more days before it falls off," he said.
"There's not a whole lot in our area, and the spring catch is dropping off pretty fast," said Rutledge Leland, of Carolina Seafood in McClellanville, north of Charleston. "The farther south the boats went the better they did. But there were some here, and there were plenty to make a (spring) season."
As the season got underway along the Southeast coast, Lowcountry retail customers were surprised by seldom-seen prices of more than $10 per pound for larger local shrimp. The conventional explanation was a disease had depleted the Asian farm crop. Companies import that crop to the United States to sell as cheaper frozen product: Fewer imports drove up wild-catch prices.
But that explanation really doesn't hold much weight, Williams said. The diseased crop quickly was replaced by farm crops from other countries and the overall import numbers didn't drop significantly. Williams said he couldn't readily explain the record prices shrimpers were given this year. Better "eat local/buy local" marketing certainly might have helped.
Any number of factors including higher costs play into domestic prices, Williams and Larry DeLancey, of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources said. Prices could drop again with factors such as import prices dropping far enough, or a market glut if there were a bumper Gulf of Mexico crop.
As far as $5 per pound shrimp, watching the ups and downs of prices since 1984 has taught DeLancey that anything is possible, he said.
"I don't think anyone can predict the future of the price of anything, much less shrimp," Williams said. But he doesn't see the cost getting too much lower or higher.
"I think the prices are certainly good for the fishermen, but I don't know at what point they price themselves out of the market," he said.
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Regarding Gregg Williams, if you can't get excited about him being the Saints DC after years of Venturi and Gibbs, you might want to think again. When you factor in his experience and success as a DC I contend that you will NOT find a more qualified candidate available to get excited about. The idea of a guy like McDermott (no experience coordinating a d), McGinnis (terrible as a head coach)... well, neither would upset me. But there's a chink in everyone of their armors, including Williams' if you buy into the Jaguars' fall this past season being at least partly his fault.
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That Jason David made this team and Orien Harris was cut is beyond me. Of course I think the final 53 is going to change over the next few days as other team's cuts are announced. I expect some tweaking.
Why they kept David and cut Orien Harris is beyond me. Disappointed in that one. However, as other team's cuts are announced I think the final 53 is going to change a bit by kickoff vs Tampa.
Senge, at what point is a grown man held accountable for his actions? Perrilloux may in fact have had a tough upbringing, but he has so many people trying to point him in the right direction, giving him guidance and a roadmap as to what he had to do to be successful. Not many teenage kids have as many responsible adults leading the way as Ryan Perrilloux did, giving them a specific list of dos and don'ts as RP had at his fingertips. Yet time and time again he failed to be responsible for his actions and to live up to being what he himself bragged he would be. Point the fingers at those who raised him, coddled him... but don't point it at Ryan, right? At which point is it no longer a "mistake" and instead a "pattern" of rebellion and disregard for rules and authority?
I think this is the very type of thinking that tells a kid he can mess up and always have someone to defend him, to make excuses for him. Sure, maybe TimS is a little harder on RP than some, but I think a lot of folks share his frustration - not because RP won't contribute on the field at LSU, but because he wasn't man enough to take advantage of an opportunity given to him that most of us would die for.
What do you think about the Vilma move? I like it. But for some reason I expected a bigger splash at the start of FA. I think we could have gotten Briggs, but with Vilma's contract up and Shanle and Fujita under long term, more-than-minimum contracts, maybe the Saints felt they can't afford all that money for one position.
Anyway, how do you think this impacts the draft? I guess Keith Rivers is probably out of the equation. Hopefully Ellis or Dorsey drops to 10 or we can move up to get a DT. Otherwise, maybe we should try to move down and get Balmer or one of the cornerbacks. I don't think any of the CBs in this draft are worthy of the #10 pick.
What would you give for Shockey? I'd give a #3 and a backup, but nothing more. Definitely not a 2, definitely not a starter.
Ohhh, I see. So you must have some inside "source", or it's just how you "feel"?
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For now though, let's assume only five of the lovely ladies performing tonight in the American Idol semi-finals for Season 12 will be going on to the Top 10 finalists. Here's the list of who will performing for their life tonight:
Adriana Latonio
Amber Holcomb
Angela Miller
Aubrey Cleland
Breanna Steer
Candice Glover
Janelle Arthur
Kree Harrison
Tenna Torres
Zoanette Johnson
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American Idol 2013: Zoanette Johnson - "What's Love Got To Do With It" by Tina Turner
Keith Urban says he loves Zoanette's fierceness, but he isn't sure about this performance. He thinks it was maybe too over the top. Nicki Minaj says this "wasn't it" and while she can watch Zoanette perform all day long, you have to have the vocals for this kind of song. Randy Jackson says he still loves Zoanette, but it was not a good performance. Mariah Carey says she can't keep her eyes off Zoanette even while other contestants are performing. However, this was not her best performance.
American Idol 2013: Breanna Steer - "Flaws and All" by Beyonce
Keith Urban says he loves Breanna's song choices. "You find the right songs that show who you are as a singer." He says he thinks she will go through, but he wants to see her find songs that will bring her to her own place so he can see more of who she is an artist. Nicki Minaj says she totally disagrees with everything Keith said. "You sounded like you were straining throughout the entire performance." Nicki thinks she should not be comfortable with thinking she is going to get through, despite what Keith said. Randy Jackson says he is "agreeing with my own self." He likes the song choice, but thinks it was safe and there "weren't enough moments in it." He wants more big moments because he thinks she has them in her. Mariah Carey says "it was a unique song choice" because "it's lyrically very raw and very simplistic." There weren't a lot of vocal gymnastic moments, but her whole package says "star quality."
American Idol 2013: Aubrey Cleland - "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie
Keith Urban says he felt the melody restricted her, but her vibratto is so beautiful, he doesn't care. Nicki Minaj says she loves the song choice for her and just loves her overall. Randy Jackson says all the judges love her and she gives off a little bit of a Rihanna vibe. "There is something really current and really infectious about you. I'm a fan." Mariah Carey thinks Aubrey looks fabulous and she has great versatility and spirit. "You so obviously have multi-platinum potential." She thinks there is no way the audience can't see how huge she could be in the industry.
American Idol 2013: Janelle Arthur - "If I Can Dream" by Elvis Presley
Keith Urban really likes Janelle's "classic country" vocals, which is something all the judges really seem to be into. Nicki Minaj thinks Janelle has really come back from a not-so great performance in the previous round. She would love to see what a big country producer could do with Janelle. She says she wants to eat Janelle up like a marshmallow. (Oh Nicki.) Randy Jackson says he really likes the "old throwback" sound of her voice and that's something really missing in country music right now. "You could give them that." Mariah Carey says she is so glad Janelle really brought her own vibe tonight and she's a real "America's sweetheart."
American Idol 2013: Tenna Torres - "Lost" by Faith Hill
Keith Urban says he loves that Tenna did a Faith Hill song and she did a really good job with it. He says she needs to be careful not to let the camera pull her out of the emotion of the song. He thinks America is going to vote to keep her around. Nicki Minaj says she likes Tenna's hair and her "boobs too." Oh Nicki, just loving on that bisexual vibe aren't you? She says she doesn't know if Tenna's personality really jumps out, but she loves hearing her sing. Randy Jackson is a bit flustered by the "boobs" comment but manages to push through it and says she likes Tenna's restraint in the song. "The beginning of that was so beautiful, so amazing." He says she could sing just about anything with her voice and it was very nicely done. Mariah Carey says Tenna looks gorgeous. She loves the song choice and thought Tenna made it her own. "I love you and I hope America loves you too."
American Idol 2013: Angie Miller - "Never Gone" by Colton Dixon
Keith Urban says everyone was standing because they were witnessing a true artist on stage tonight. He says it is just amazing how American Idol produced someone like Colton Dixon that could write a song like this. "The trumpets should sound when you walk in the room, little girl," Nicki Minaj says. Nicki wants to know if she can just get her album right now. They should just let her off Idol and go make an album she can buy. She says Angela should not change for anyone. Randy Jackson says "America, a star is born on this stage" and she is "going places." Now calling her Angie, rather than Angela, Randy says he just loves the honesty of her delivery and the effortlessness of her vocals. Mariah Carey says she is so happy to hear Angie back at the piano and she loved the song choice. All of them are just blown away, she says.
American Idol 2013: Amber Holcomb - "I Believe in You and Me" by Whitney Houston
Keith Urban says he thinks it was the perfect song for her. He wishes she could hold some notes a bit longer because her tone is exquisite. Nicki Minaj says she is just going to call her "ber" from now on. She is so happy Amber is showing her personality and she isn't "only legs" anymore. "When people do Whitney Houston, normally they look like they're having a hard time" but Amber didn't at all. Randy Jackson says Amber is "in it to win it right now!" Mariah Carey says Amber can "sing your behind off" and she's so happy she is in the competition and America gets to vote as we go.
American Idol 2013: Kree Harrison - "Stronger" by Faith Hill
Keith Urban says he just loves to hear her sing. He says she was effortless as she always is and she fits right in with all the female superstars of country music. Nicki Minaj says Kree should already know she is her "wife" and she notched the sexy up even more. Kree says she is "just trying to do my wife proud." (LOL!) Nicki says she is obsessed with her and there is nothing she can do to change that. "It's my favorite tone out of all the girls... it's always nice and smooth." Randy Jackson says they've got "another one that's in it to win it right here!" He says she's kind of sneaky with her voice and it just goes up and up and he had no idea her range was so big. "It's country and then some," he says, adding that she could probably sing anything. Mariah Carey says jokingly that she's married, so she can't go into all that, but Kree gives her a true experience. "There is an undeniable thing that you have... everyone is going to love you." She thinks Kree could just go to a record company and sing, and a record deal would fall in her lap.
American Idol 2013: Adriana Latonio - "Stand Up For Love" by Destiny's Child
Keith Urban says he's a little nervous about this song choice for her tonight. "You've got a really big powerful voice... but it took too long to get to it at the end." Nicki Minaj compliments her for being pretty, but after the past three contestants, it didn't stand out. She thinks she should work at it and come back next year.
American Idol 2013: Candice Glover - "Ordinary People" by John Legend
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EUNA FAYE ADKINS, 61, of Sidney, Ky., died Jan. 7 at home. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Salem Old Regular Baptist Church; burial at Peter Cave Memorial Gardens, Pigeonroost, Ky. Visitation after 6 p.m. Tuesday, Rogers Funeral Home, Belfry, Ky., and 6 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
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CAROL JEAN AUVIL, 83 of South Point, Ohio. widow of Leo Otis Auvil, died Jan. 6 in Ashland Community Hospice. She was a retired bookkeeper. Celebration of Life will be 3 p.m. Thursday, at the Ridgelawn Memorial Park, Abbey of Devotion. Visitation 30 minutes before service at the Abbey. Arrangements by Reger Funeral Home, Huntington.
DORIS ANN BLANKENSHIP, 70, of Williamson, W.Va., formerly of Sprigg, W.Va., died Jan. 6 in Williamson Memorial Hospital. Funeral service will be 1 p.m. Thursday, Chambers Funeral Services Chapel, Matewan, W.Va.; burial at Murphy Cemetery, Merrimac, W.Va., Visitation one hour before service.
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ALICE JEANNINE PARKER COOK, 84, of Pineville, W.Va., died Jan. 3 in Hubbard Hospice House, Charleston, W.Va. She was a homemaker. She requested no memorial services but asked for a party to be scheduled later, reflecting her strong desire to reunite family and celebrate life. Arrangements by Elk Funeral Home, Charleston.
HELEN JEAN COOKSEY of Ashland, Ky., widow of Jeffrey Cooksey, died Jan. 6 in Ashland Community Hospice Care Center. She was an RN in the Endoscopy Department at King's Daughters Medical Center. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Steen Funeral Home Central Avenue Chapel, Ashland; burial at Rose Hill Burial Park, Ashland. Visitation from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. www.steenfunerealhome.com. Memorials may be made to AARF c<o Dave Gillum, 131 New Hampshire Dr., Ashladn, KY 41101.
MARY JOHNETTA OWENS HENDRICKS, 59, of Huntington, W.Va., wife of Ronald Hendricks, died Jan. 4 at St. Mary's Medical Center. She was a retired Cabell County school teacher. Memorial service 8 p.m. Wednesday at Reger Funeral Chapel. Visitation three hours prior to service at the funeral home. www.regerfh.com.
TIMOTHY McCOY, 57, of Kenova, W.Va., died Jan. 6 in Cabell Huntington Hospital. Rollins Funeral Home, Kenova is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.
R. DARREN MIDKIFF, 47, formerly of Milton, W.Va., died Jan. 5 in Palm Springs, Calif. Arrangements incomplete at Heck Funeral Home, Milton.
Betty Jean Myers, 80, of Lexington, Ky., formerly of Huntington, W.Va., widow of Donald Myers, died Jan. 4. Private family services are planned at a later date. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements by Clark Legacy Center, Nicholasville, Ky.
JASON MICHAEL PRATT, 30, of Huntington, W.Va., son of Jay Michael Pratt and Elizabeth Journall Pratt, both of Huntington, died Jan. 4 in St. Mary's Medical Center. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, Hall Funeral Home, Proctorville, Ohio. www.timeformemory.com/hall. Contributions may be made to the family.
ASSAF SALIBA, 94, of Huntington, W.Va., widower of Fraezza Saliba, died Jan. 3 at Heartland of Riverview, South Point, Ohio. He was a tailor. Funeral service 11 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Spirit Orthodox Church, Huntington. Burial at Woodmere Memorial Park, Huntington. Visitation from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Reger Funeral Home, with a Trisagion Service at 7:30 p.m.
HOWARD McCLELLAN SAUNDERS, SR., 86, of Huntington, W.Va., widower of Frances May Saltzer Saunders, died Jan. 7 in Chateau Grove Assisted Living, Barboursville. He was the owner/operator of Saunders Barbershop. Funeral services will be noon Thursday, Chapman's Mortuary; burial will follow in Ridgelawn Memorial Park. Visitation from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. www.chapmans-mortuary.com.
RUBY SCHEID, 85, of Huntington, W.Va., died Jan. 7 in Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House. Johnson Tiller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.
MOLVERINE JEAN SIMPSON, 75, of Russell, Ky., widow of Rev. Russell Simpson, died Jan. 5 at home. She was a homemaker. Funeral services will be noon Wednesday, Phillips Funeral Home, Ironton, Ohio; burial follows at Catlettsburg (Ky.) Cemetery. Visitation one hour before service. www.phillipsfuneralhome.net.
LILLIAN ELIZABETH HATFIELD TOPPINS, 89, of Mt. Gay W.Va., widow of Okey Toppins, died Jan. 6 in Logan (W.Va.) Regional Medical Center. She retired from Logan Manufacturing. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Thursday, Honaker Funeral Home, Logan; burial follows in Highland Memory Gardens, Godby, W.Va. Visitation from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. www.honakerfuneralhome.org.
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