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I was disappointed to see the recent editorial supporting a wolf hunt (Gray wolf hunt poses no threat to species' recovery, Dec. 24).
The bottom line is it's too soon to hunt wolves. These animals have been protected in our state for almost 50 years, and there's no reason to allow a sport hunting season for this valued species.
There are only 700 animals in the state. The population is now just starting to recover. We don't even have wolves established down here in West Michigan.
Our legislators rushed this bill through a lame duck session precisely because hunting animals just back from the brink of extinction runs counter to our values. It's just not right.
I urge Gov.Snyder to veto SB 1350 that allows wolves to be hunted.
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When Beethoven wrote one of his symphonies he may also/or not have conducted the orchestra to play it. This could be said to be unique, as it his original score and his interpretation of his score to performance. However, someone in the future may conduct a version of this symphony that most people consider better, but both versions come from the original score. This does not detract from the value of the writers original interpretation, but let us also remember that the original orchestrated by writer of the score, was also performed with the instruments and technology available at the time. Future technology may allow a better interpretation not available to Beethoven at the time.
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In a separate experiment, Antirrhinum, Gerbera, Osteospermum, Pelargonium, and Tagetes were grown in greenhouses to quantify how temperature and transplant size influenced flowering time and quality parameters. This information was then used to estimate the net profit per pot and per square meter week for each species. Flowering time decreased as average daily temperature increased in all five species. Antirrhinum, Pelargonium, and Tagetes flowered earlier when grown from a larger compared to a smaller transplant, whereas transplant size did not influence flowering time in Gerbera or Osteospermum. Inflorescence number and diameter was greater at 17 than 23 ºC in three and four species, respectively, whereas transplant size had little or no influence on these parameters. Estimated net profit per pot was greater at 23 ºC and with the smaller transplant size in all five species. Therefore, transplanting a larger transplant or lowering the greenhouse temperature to save on heating costs is not necessarily a profitable strategy.
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Tammy Cooke had her alter-ego all figured out. She and a colleague from the tasting room at Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards were going "mystery shopping" together, visiting neighboring wineries to surreptitiously figure out what the competition was doing right, and what they were doing oh, so wrong.
Her ruse: Cooke and her colleague were pretending to be a couple on their first date. As they arrived, they took in the winery's decadent scenery, and graciously accepted an offer to sit anywhere they liked.
And then, the awkward moment arrived.
"Do you want a blanket?" the staff asked the poser couple.
"I can't imagine," Cooke recalled thinking. "It's a tasting room, it was so off-the-wall beautiful, it's warm, there's a fireplace, it's gorgeous. And the blanket ... it just added a weird picture in your head.
"You might as well have Snuggies, or footie-pajamas," she said.
Cooke was part of a group at Gloria Ferrer that participated in a mystery shopping program led by the WISE Academy, which provides sales education to wine industry personnel.
"We tell them, &'Go see three wineries where you're not going to be known,'" said Lesley Berglund, co-founder and chairwoman of WISE Academy. "Don't tell them you're in the trade, don't tell them you live locally, because there's lots of prejudice, either positive or negative."
Mystery shoppers have long been used in retail to give establishments critical feedback on missed opportunities. Wineries are increasingly adopting the practice as a way to identify opportunities to drive more sales in the profitable direct-to-consumer channel, Berglund said. Shoppers are paid $40 for the visit, their tasting is comped, and sometimes bottle purchases are comped, depending on the winery.
"I was excited by it," said Becky Paun, assistant manager at Gloria Ferrer, about the winery's visit by mystery shoppers. "A lot of people were scared. I think everyone did embrace it, but they worry. Was it me who was secret shopped?"


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On Thursday, the Springfield News-Leader printed an interesting cross section of local voices. Before I respond with my observations, I would like to thank our local newspaper for allowing these diverse comments and this nation of laws for the freedom to express mine.
In "To The Point," David Pitts took it as a "personal insult" that our governor's office is searching for a holiday tree as opposed to a "Christmas tree." Pitts then went on to allude to "my Christian faith upon which this great nation was founded." That is a common misconception. Our Founding Fathers were secular humanists. Many of the earliest European settlers here fled religious persecution from folks who pounded a Bible of a particular stripe, hence the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Then we have two letters to the Editor re: Homosexuality. One titled "Christians on marriage: Same-sex union an abomination," the other "Gay rights: Christians take superior attitude." This may ruffle a few feathers locally, but it is nonetheless true. Christianity is not the only religion on this planet. There are good men and women of many faiths who live here. I do not want to see Sharia law imposed here any more than I want to burn in hell for eternity were I Buddhist. When I was a child, my church taught me that women were not my equal, blacks would not go to heaven, and the earth is only 6,800 years old.
I've learned since then. Some might say ... evolved.
All I'm asking y'all reading this is to please be a little more tolerant and open minded of other folk who live here who have different beliefs.
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In God's sovereign providence, our Creator has at times seen fit to allow fools to attain places of power. We know that this is ultimately for our greater good and His glory. Still, we rightly sense that something is wrong ...Read More
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God's omniscience is a scary attribute for those who do not also know His grace. All too often, our sin goes unnoticed by others, but the Lord is always aware of it. Thankfully, however, if we are covered with the ...Read More
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Coursework and exams are completed at home via the Internet using D2L, a course management software program, and mail correspondence. There is an on-campus component with the Advanced Clinical Practice course, to give students on opportunity to interact with faculty and their classmates. A computer with up-to-date specifications is required.
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Yes, E-Verify is currently available for CNMI employers.
From November 28, 2009 until November 27, 2011, employers hiring individuals in the CNMI used Form I-9 CNMI rather than the standard Form I-9 to verify the identity and employment authorization of their new hires. Form I-9 CNMI was the same as the standard Form I-9, with one exception: Form I-9 CNMI contained additional List A documents issued by the CNMI government that are not acceptable on the standard Form I-9. These additional documents were only acceptable until November 27, 2011. E-Verify was not available in the CNMI during this two-year period when employers were using Form I-9 CNMI.
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It is important to recognize that CRP, similar to other markers of inflammation, can be elevated because of any inflammatory process or infection and, thus, its interpretation needs careful assessment of the entire clinical picture by the ordering physician. Other inflammatory processes, such as active arthritis, trauma, or infections, can raise the c-reactive protein level independently.
Because of the these variables and fluctuations, it is also recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to measure fasting and non-fasting c-reactive protein levels ideally two weeks apart, and to use the average of these two results for a more accurate interpretation if the CRP level is used as a screening tool for cardiovascular disease.
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Parents face choice after Issaquah Valley Elementary School falls short
August 27, 2010
By Laura Geggel
UPDATED — 3:40 p.m. Aug. 27, 2010
Issaquah Valley Elementary School fell just shy of meeting standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act and is being sanctioned for not meeting standards in low-income reading.
This is Issaquah Valley's second year in a row of not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress standards in low-income reading.
If a subgroup of students fails in reading or math, then the school or district does not meet AYP. Schools that do not meet AYP in a subgroup for two consecutive years face sanctions if they receive federal Title I dollars.
In the sanctions leveled against Issaquah Valley, the school will have to notify parents, give families the opportunity to send their children to another elementary school and pay for that transportation.
This is the first sanction that any school in the Issaquah School District has received since No Child Left Behind went into effect in 2003.
Schools are graded based on standardized test scores.
The state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction will release each school district's 2010 standardized testing scores Aug. 31, but district spokeswoman Sara Niegowski, who has already seen the scores, said Issaquah Valley met or far-exceeded its learning targets in all other subgroups.
Issaquah Valley is hardly the only school in the district not meeting AYP.
The other six Issaquah schools that did not meet AYP in 2010 are not being sanctioned, nor is the district, because they either do not receive federal Title I dollars or they did not miss AYP for the same subgroup two years in a row. Schools receive Title I money based on their percentages of low-income students.
The schools that did not meet AYP in 2010 include:
- Briarwood Elementary: low-income reading
- Grand Ridge Elementary: special-education reading and math
- Issaquah Valley: low-income reading
- Beaver Lake Middle: special-education math
- Issaquah Middle: low-income math
- Issaquah High: special-education math
- Liberty High: special-education and low-income math
The district also didn't meet standards in elementary low-income reading and math.
Issaquah Valley will be affected by the sanctions in five areas. First, school administrators notified parents of the school's status in letters mailed Aug. 25. Second, the school will receive technical assistance to improve performance from the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, and might be eligible to receive federal funds for school-improvement activities.
Third, the school must develop or revise its two-year school improvement plan within three months. Fourth, it must offer parents the opportunity to transfer their students to another designated school in the district. In this case, the district has identified Clark Elementary School, because of its location and capacity, as an alternate for Issaquah Valley.
Finally, the district must pay for student transportation to the alternate school.
Clark Principal May Pelto e-mailed parents Aug. 26, alerting them about the changes.
"While I cannot predict how many Issaquah Valley students — if any — will take the opportunity to switch schools, I do guarantee that the high-quality learning environment at Clark will be unchanged," she wrote. "The district suspects that the migration will not be dramatic. As a reminder, we are staffed on a prescribed student-teacher ratio, which means class sizes here will remain steady regardless of any student population growth."
Issaquah Valley Principal Diane Holt will talk about student test scores and AYP next week.
Issaquah Valley secretary Wendee Fowler said she had only received a few calls from parents asking about the issue.
"It seems like they're staying put," Fowler said. "Most seem to act like it's no big deal and they're going to wait until Monday" to hear more.
She added that since No Child Left Behind started in the 2002-03 school year, the only subcategory Issaquah Valley missed was low-income reading during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years.
"We're extremely proud of our school and our scores and achievements," Fowler said.
Testing and No Child Left Behind
Every year, Issaquah students take state standardized tests. This year, students in third through eighth grades took the Measurements of Student Progress, and sophomores took the High School Proficiency Exam.
Federal legislatures who passed No Child Left Behind set a high goal for students and school districts, asking more children in fourth, seventh and 10th grades to pass standardized testing in reading and math each year. By 2013-14, 100 percent of students are expected to pass the tests.
The standardized test scores are divided into 37 subgroups for schools and 111 subgroups for school districts. Subgroups include categories delineating race and ethnicity, students with disabilities, English language learners and low-income students.
To meet AYP, schools and districts must also meet a number of other factors, including a certain on-time graduation rate and unexcused absence rate.
Learn more
Issaquah Valley Principal Diane Holt will present about student Measurements of Student Progress scores and Adequate Yearly Progress, as well as answer questions at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday in the school's multipurpose room, 555 N.W. Holly St.
4 Responses to "Parents face choice after Issaquah Valley Elementary School falls short"
Damian on
August 27th, 2010 7:07 pm
Is this a joke? I am not getting the warm fuzzies about the Issaquah School system, and my child is just entering kindergarten. How can this even happen? The teachers, school board, and all members of the staff should be ashamed of themselves. If the Issaquah school district is failing our children at such a low level, how can we trust them with our childrens education at the higher level?
Such a shame and a huge black eye for a wonderful city.
peddler on
August 28th, 2010 12:00 am
I raised my 2 girls in issaquah and they have done very well. However they were not over run by illegal alien kids, slowing every class way down……our teachers are not to blame….too many admin people and not enough translators.
S on
August 31st, 2010 2:01 pm
My daughter attends IVE. I received the letter outlining the option to transfer to Clark and was appalled by the timeline offered. I received the letter on Thursday 8/26. Informational meetings were held 8/30. Your transfer must be in by 8/31! That's today, and the first day of school for the district! The letter further said that once your Clark transfer was received, you would receive further information by September 11th. The district's time-line on this is laughable, and discouraging to parents whose children could benefit from a transfer. Overall, IVE is an okay school. Their reading program IS a joke, unfortunately. My young daughter began the 2009/10 school year neutral on reading- within weeks she was angry and discouraged. I found out they'd had her trying to read from a library book…written in Spanish! No one NOTICED that the book wasn't in English. Blows your mind.
Richard on
August 31st, 2010 4:34 pm
I have two children that attended IVE during the past 15 years and they too have done very well. The teachers my children had were caring and committed to their education (with one exception). However, there was a revolving door for Principals almost every year or so. Most of them left to take a "newly created" position in the district administration or as Principal at a new, more desirable school in the district. IVE seemed like a stepping stone position for Principals to move up the administration ladder. This lack of continuity at IVE appeared to be of no concern to the district administration. I feel the district administration is bloated and not responsive to the students and teachers current needs.
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San Francisco Points of Interest
This Classical Revival firehouse was designed by Charles R. Wilson and built entirely of redwood. The ceilings are twenty feet high and the hose drying tower is over sixty feet high.
Located in Oceanview District, this firehouse was built to protect a woman's college which was never built. In 1896, this area was famous for its wild flowers and frog ponds. After the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, Oceanview began to develop as a residential neighborhood.
In 1896 there was a fire in a munitions factory in nearby Colma, and Engine 33 was dispatched to assist in fighting the blaze, the first instance of mutual aid by the SFFD to a neighboring fire department.
When the Department was converting to motorized apparatus between 1912 and 1921, Engine 33 was the last company to bid farewell to their horse drawn apparatus.
In 1977, the building was decommissioned as a firehouse and subsequently sold at public auction. It has been a private residence since.
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Vintage San Francisco Firehouses
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The European Central Bank has gotten itself so gnarled and twisty-tied over the communication of its new "forward guidance" policy that it evidently felt inspired to give lessons in the art of communicating. In a paper titled "Loose Lips Sinking...Read more »
Secrets and Lies in Luxembourg
Europe's most secrecy-minded politician may be forced from office because he can't keep a secret. Such is the lot of Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, whose 18 years in office make him the European Union's longest-serving leader and only remaining...Read more »
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Robert H. Austin received his B.A. in Physics from Hope College in Holland MI and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1976. He was a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry from 1976-1979 and has been at Princeton University in the Department from Physics from 1979 to the present, achieving the rank of Professor of Physics in 1989.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA. He has served as a President of the Division of Biological Physics of the American Physical Society, and is the present Chair of the U.S. Liaison Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. He has served as the biological physics editor for Physical Review Letters, serves on numerous review panels for NIH, NSF, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and NIST, and is the Editor of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics. He won the 2005 Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society.
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As a microbiologist, I am interested in understanding how unicellular organisms like bacteria strategize to cope with internal or environmental stresses. Combining quantitative fluorescence imaging with microfluidic techniques, my current research in the Austin lab focuses on determining how bacteria develop antibiotic resistance and how they can benefit from multicellular cooperation to optimize population survival.
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Liyu Liu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Liyu received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004. He later decided to a pursue a Ph.D. in Physics from Prof. Weijia Wen at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2006, he joined the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Program, where he primarily studied electrorheological fluids and their applications in microfluidic devices. After receiving his degrees in July 2008, he joined Prof. Robert Austin's group later in November, where he now focuses on cross-disciplinary studies on cancer metastasis and evolutions with in vitro micro/nano constructed 3-D landscapes.
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Amy Wu, Graduate Student
Amy Wu received her B.S. degrees in Physics and Atmospheric Sciences from National Taiwan University in 2007, analyzing air-polluted emissive chemicals in Taiwan under the supervision of Prof. Jen-Ping Chen, Cloud and Aerosol Research Group. From 2007 to 2009, Amy earned her M.S. (Electronic Engineering) from NTU, supervised by Prof. Chung-Chih Wu. Amy's thesis involved the photo-physical and charge-transport characterization of various organic semiconductors. From 2009, she becomes an Electrical Engineering PhD student in Princeton. Her current work focuses on physical sciences in oncology.
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OBAMA: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:
Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
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This DIY Oil Diffuser from Natalie Pirvey is a great way to reuse an old perfume bottle. Oil diffusers can fill a room with a beautiful scent without you having to do anything! And the best thing about this one is that you can reuse old perfume bottles, which always seem like a waste to throw away. Keep them in the bathroom or living room as a useful decor item.
- Empty Perfume Bottle
- Sharp Needle Nose Pliers
- Bamboo Skewers (found at supermarkets or craft stores)
- Black Acrylic Paint
- Decorative Paper (I repurposed mine from an old Bloomingdale's catalog)
- Foam Brush
- Double-Sided Tape or Tape Runner
- Diffuser Oil
- Pull off the spray nozzle from the bottle.
- With pliers, grip the round metal piece around the neck of the bottle and pull it off.
- You should now be left with another metal piece that's adjoined to the neck of the bottle. Insert the tip of your pliers under one section of the metal and gently begin to pry upward (tip: this step may take some more time for certain bottles. Try using an x-acto knife or scissors if your bottle is giving you trouble). Repeat this step around the entire neck of the bottle.
- Once the metal piece has loosened, use the pliers again to pull it out, removing it from the bottle.
- Paint the skewers with acrylic paint using a foam brush.
- Adhere a little bit of tape to the background paper you have chosen and attach it to the back of the bottle.
- To hide any logos on the bottle, simply add some more decorative paper to the front of the bottle.
- Add diffuser oil and arrange sticks.
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'Metal Cats': Hardcore Metal Musicians Pose with Their Cats in New Book
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Black leather, spikes and tattoos? Check.
Creepy and/or scary-sounding band name? Check.
Adorable little kitty cat on your shoulder? Check!
Photographer Alexandra Crockett's engaging new photo book, Metal Cats (powerHouse Books), features photo after photo of personalities from the hardcore metal scene — and their adorable kitties.
Crockett photographed the quadrupeds (and their bipedal owners) in and around the dark abodes of metal musicians, fans and promoters.
Bands represented in the book include Black Goat, Thrones, Isis, Lightning Swords of Death, Book of Black Earth, Skarp, Harassor, Akimbo, Aldebaran, Atriarch, Oak, Ghoul, Ludicra, Holy Grail, Xasthur, Cattle Decapitation, Murder Construct, Exhumed, Morbid Angel, Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Gypsyhawk, Nausea, Phobia and Napalm Death.
Best of all, the musicians aren't merely putting their faces and tattoos behind the cause. They're also hosting a series of benefit concerts that will take place along the West Coast; proceeds from the shows — along with a portion of the book's proceeds — will benefit no-kill animal shelters at the four cities visited by the benefit shows.
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Finally someone to give a home to all those black "jinx" cats :)
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As a lover of cats and the owner of one, it's nice to see this book and the reasons behind it. I fully support 'no-kill' shelters and do what I can to spread the word about them.
I will be looking for this book the next time I'm out. Excellent reason to spend the money.
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- Decision on proposed RV park sewage lagoon discharge permit delayed again in Aztec
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AZTEC — After more than a year of public meetings and legal testimony, a hearing officer for the state Environment Department's Ground Water Quality Bureau last week recommended approving a discharge permit for a proposed sewage lagoon seven miles northeast of Aztec.
The 43-page report was released on Wednesday. In it, Felicia Orth, who presided over a public hearing on the permit application in April, wrote that "the application, the plans and all additional information provided by the applicant satisfy all requirements of the act and rules related to the proposed construction, operation, sampling, monitoring and closure of the facility."
The permit applicant is Tom Payne, who lives at 16747 U.S. Highway 550 and plans to open an RV park there. He applied for the permit in May 2013 to construct an evaporative lagoon that would receive up to 2,240 gallons of wastewater from as many as 64 recreational vehicle spaces at his planned home business.
Payne could not be reached for comment on Friday.
On Friday morning, members of the Animas River Water Quality Coalition — a group of residents who live near the Payne residence and have fought the permit's approval — stood along Highway 550 facing the property to show Aztec Mayor Sally Burbridge and Mayor Pro-tem Sherri Sipe the lagoon site.
Coalition founding members Jim Dahlberg and Mary Girardi handed Burbridge and Sipe a summary of their complaints against Orth's report, titled "Not in My Backyard!" The document addressed concerns raised during testimony in April over the lagoon, which Orth's report did not consider as compelling evidence to deny the permit.
"(The coalition) is opposed to allowing the construction of the Bar 7 Ranch RV Park in a highly environmentally sensitive residential neighborhood," Dahlberg wrote in the summary. "We were very disappointed that more conditions were not required, such as aeration, pre-treatment, financial assurance and odor mitigation."
Dahlberg said he was satisfied, though, that his group affected certain specifications over the lagoon, including its size, location on Payne's property and the addition of a retaining wall to protect the lagoon from overflowing in a flood.
Dahlberg said the coalition plans to write a formal letter with its concerns over Orth's report to Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn and the state's Water Quality Control Commission.
Public comments can be sent to the Environment Department by the Aug. 14. Thirty days from then, Flynn is expected to issue a final order over the permit.
Next week, Dahlberg said the coalition members will share their concerns over the lagoon with San Juan County Commissioners.
"The NMED's scope of their authority on the lagoon is so limited — all they care about is groundwater, nothing about potential problems like odor and liability issues if these folks walk away," Dahlberg told Burbridge and Sipe on Friday.
Burbridge told Dahlberg she would share the coalition's concerns with fellow city commissioners and ask the city attorney whether there was anything the city would need to approve or consider over the permit or planned RV park.
Sipe said county commissioners would be an appropriate group to ask about business licensing and other possible regulatory matters.
"We'll tell (city commissioners) that we met and took a look today," Sipe told Dahlberg and Girardi.
Jim Winchester, a spokesman for the Environment Department, said Orth's report is a recommendation of approval, not an approval of the permit application.
"The Hearing Officer writes a report and drafts an order but the Secretary (Flynn) has the ultimate decision to approve or deny the permit ... so the answer is that the permit has not been approved at this time," Winchester wrote in an email on Friday.
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Published: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
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Saluda, NC -- Margaret White Moffat was born on September 2, 1916 in Dayton, OH.
Her father, Mack White, worked on the local newspaper but had volunteered to be an Infantry Captain under General Blackjack Pershing in the Mexican American War at the time of her birth. During her formative years she lived in Springfield, Cincinnati, Hillsboro and Toledo, OH, graduating from high school in 1924. She came south to attend the University of South Carolina in 1925 and met her husband, Banjo Smith, who was the sports editor for the Columbia Record newspaper. They had two children, Mikey and Jimmy, and lived in Columbia, SC until Margaret moved to Lake Sheila subsequent to Banjo's death in 1975. She built her house on Lake Sheila in 1977 and lived out her life there. She was active in the Saluda Presbyterian Church, DAR, Colonial Dames, Saluda Garden Club, Saluda Women's Club and the N.C. Homemakers Assn. She was a lover of books, opera and gardens.
She is survived by her two sons, Mikey and Jimmy Smith, her stepdaughter Dotty Eargle, and grandchildren and great grandchildren, too many to name.
Memorial service will be held 2:00pm Thursday, October 18, 2012 in the Saluda Presbyterian Church, Saluda, NC with Rev. Jack Presseau officiating.
Instead of flowers that will eventually wilt and die, please make any donations in her name to the Saluda Senior Center that won't wilt and die at 64 Greenville Street Saluda, NC 28773.
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Sebastian Vettel says he was happy to read Lewis Hamilton's positive comments about the German driver on Twitter earlier this week.
Hamilton had indicated that F1 was getting boring with Vettel winning all the time, as was the case with Michael Schumacher.
"Obviously it's very nice to hear something like that," said Vettel on Thursday. "I think I can only give it back, I think. There is respect amongst the drivers. Obviously, there's a lot of stuff that gets written and said but I think that the most important thing is when you go up to another driver, whether you feel respected or not, and I think that is the case. I think Lewis is one of the best drivers currently in Formula One. I get along quite well with him lately, so I can only say, 'Thank you very much,' and give it back."
Meanwhile, Vettel played down talk of comparisons with the Schumacher era.
"Well, that's a compliment, first of all," he said. "I think it's very different. I think there's probably one race which was a bit of an exception. If you take Singapore, the gaps we had and were able to build up were incredible, to lap two seconds quicker than the cars behind us, but obviously it depends on who was behind us at the time and which tires [they had] and so on.
"But anyways, what I want to say is that if you take Korea, which I think is more similar to Spa, the gap was something between three and six seconds for the whole race. If you look at 10 years ago, it was more like 30 to 60 seconds, which is a big difference. Don't get me wrong; it's a nice cushion to have in the car, when you see that you're three seconds down the road, but equally you know that if you make one stupid mistake … in Korea, for example, a lock-up which was very likely, and three seconds is nothing compared to 30 or 60."
Regarding the upswing in form after the summer break, he said: "I think it's right to say that we had a very strong car from the beginning of the season, strong enough to always finish in a very, very strong position on Sunday afternoon. Lately, I think we've been very strong in qualifying, as well, whereas at the beginning of the year Mercedes definitely seemed to have the upper hand.
"I think there's no real explanation from our side. There's not one part that went on the car and all of a sudden it was that much quicker. I think we were able to improve the car so that arriving at Spa the car was better than it was in Hungary. Since then, we've just tried again to improve. There's new bits coming every race weekend, even though sometimes it's a very small package, but even so, we're pushing very hard, trying to improve the car.
"I'm sure the others do the same but it seems that we've had lots of good parts coming lately and making the car quicker. Also, I think there's a factor of you understanding the car more than at the beginning of the season so you are able to react quicker, change the setup in the right manner. Obviously, there's not so much time available. If you look on Friday, you have one chance overnight to make a change, and I think we got better as a team in that regard to get closer to 100 percent on Saturday morning already, and then benefit throughout the weekend."Formula 1, Lewis Hamilton, Red Bull Racing, Sebastian Vettel


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The board that runs Kentucky's largest private child care agency has voted against a proposal to hire gay employees.
A statement from Sunrise Children's Services on Friday says the board of directors voted to maintain its current hiring practice, which informs job applicants that the agency does not hire gays.
Sunrise President Bill Smithwick had pushed for a change to the policy, saying the organization's state and federal funding could someday be put in jeopardy. The agency gets about $1 million a year from Baptist churches, but the vast majority of funding comes from government sources.
Joyce Smith, the chair of Sunrise's board, says the vote "will not affect the everyday care Sunrise provides to families and children."
Sunrise annually serves about 2,000 abused and neglected children around the state.
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Joyce Smith, the chair of Sunrise's board, says the vote "will not affect the everyday care Sunrise provides to families and children."
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Las Vegas Barometer
The Las Vegas Tourism Barometer developed at Arizona State University is an aggregate measure of the health of the travel and tourism industry in the Las Vegas megapolitan region. A Sun Corridor Tourism Barometer for the Arizona megapolitan region was the first of this kind. Northern California and Southern California Tourism Barometers followed. Barometers for 17 other United States megapolitan regions are being developed.
The Las Vegas Tourism Barometer showed consistent growth from an average of 86.0 in 1990 to a value of 123.6 in January 2001. The index dropped to a five-year low point of 110.6 in October 2001. After this drop the index grew to its historic high of 134.4 in December 2007. The index declined to 126.6 in April 2009.
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The Las Vegas Megapolitan Area
The Las Vegas megapolitan region is one of twenty megapolitan areas in the United States defined as areas that combine several metropolitan areas and expected to be the predominant geographic units for region planning in the future. These areas tie together cities, towns and counties with broader relationships among them, such as goods movement, business linkages, cultural commonality, and physical environments. Megapolitan regions are a growing force in globalization and drive the integration of continental economies into the increasingly integrated world economy. Travel and tourism is fundamental to this integration and barometers that capture the monthly trends in this industry will be important measurement tools.
The Las Vegas megapolitan region includes two Nevada counties: Clark and Nye and one Arizona County: Mohave.
This and all Megapolitan regions were defined by researchers at Virginia Tech in collaboration with Brookings Institute
The Las Vegas Tourism Barometer was developed at Arizona State University in the Megapolitan Tourism Research Center. It is the fourth tourism Barometer, the first being a barometer for the "Sun Corridor" in Arizona. The methodologies are the same for all barometers. They are meant to give a current, deseasonalized monthly picture of the status of the industry. They each provide an index derived from four equally weighted, seasonally adjusted indicators that capture different aspects of tourism activity. Together these indicators capture trends in four very diverse tourism-related components: jobs, transportation capacity, outdoor recreational activity, and international visitation. The reference point of 100 is set at June 1994 is reported on a monthly basis. The four indicators are:
These four variables were chosen because they each give a different perspective of the tourism industry, they are reported promptly, they are available monthly and they are available for most if not all counties is the megapolitan regions. Recreational visits to Lake Mead, Grand Canyon and Pipe Spring are included in the regional counts. Hospitality and leisure employment is added for three counties in the region. Commercial aircraft landings are added for two airports: LAS and IFP.
Each of the four monthly series is deseasonalized using an X-12, ARIMA seasonal adjustment procedure that includes special treatment for outliers such as the dramatic changes in September 2001. Seasonal adjustment of the data eliminates the annual calendar patterns due to climate, vacations and business cycles. The entire data series are re-adjusted each time new data points are added (or old data points are corrected) to ensure that any new trends and patterns are fully-captured in the seasonal adjustment process. This means that the series of values may change slightly each month. The entire revised series is posted as an Excel file.
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WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- A bitterly divided Supreme Court effectively killed a key section of
the landmark Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, declaring that "our country
has changed," and that the law cannot be enforced unless Congress
updates it to take account of a half-century of civil rights advances.
court's 5-4 ruling in the case from Alabama frees - at least for the
moment -- states and municipalities with a history of racial
discrimination from having to clear changes in voting procedures with
the federal government. That restriction, part of the Voting Rights Act
of 1965, has applied to nine states and parts of six others, mostly in
the South.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 5-4 decision in
Shelby County v. Holder for the court's conservative majority. The four
more liberal justices dissented.
The decision came in the second
of two major cases involving race to come before the high court this
term. In the other, decided Monday, the court reaffirmed that
affirmative action is constitutional but instructed lower-court judges
to look far more critically at whether schools can prove their use of
racial preferences is the only way to achieve a diverse student body.
opinion did not invalidate the Voting Rights Act's "preclearance"
requirement outright. Instead, Roberts said Congress failed to account
for broad changes in the nation's civil rights landscape since it first
laid out its method for determining which states and counties would be
covered by the requirement. That failure, Roberts wrote, left the court
"with no choice" but to invalidate Section 4 of the law, which spells
out which states face that additional scrutiny.
"Coverage today is
based on decades-old data and eradicated practices," Roberts wrote.
"Our country has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting
is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to
remedy that problem speaks to current conditions," he wrote.
decision leaves Congress an opening to reinstate federal oversight:
Lawmakers are free to come up with a new formula "based on current
conditions" to salvage the federal oversight requirement, Roberts
Congressional Democrats quickly said they would do
exactly that. "I intend to take immediate action to ensure that we will
have a strong and reconstituted Voting Rights Act that protects against
racial discrimination in voting," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It is unclear, though,
how quickly Congress - itself divided and frequently stalemated over
issues ranging from taxes to immigration - could reenact the law, or
whether it would be able to do so at all.
"Congress now has the
duty to upgrade this key protection and ensure our elections remain
free, fair, and accessible for all Americans," said Michael Waldman,
president of the Brennan Center for Justice.
Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, in a long dissenting opinion that traced a history of recent
voting discrimination, said Congress already had more than enough
justification for singling out some states and not others. "Recognizing
that large progress has been made, Congress determined, based on a
voluminous record, that the scourge of discrimination was not yet
extirpated," she wrote. "In my judgment, the Court errs egregiously by
overriding Congress' decision," she wrote.
The decision met with
swift condemnation from civil rights advocates, who accused the court's
conservatives of destroying a law that has been responsible for helping
to stamp out discrimination at the ballot box.
"The Supreme Court
has effectively gutted one of the nation's most important and effective
civil rights laws," said John Greenbaum, chief counsel for the Lawyers'
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. "Minority voters in places with a
record of discrimination are now at greater risk of being
disenfranchised than they have been in decades. Today's decision is a
blow to democracy."
Roberts, joined by justices Antonin Scalia,
Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy, said federal election
oversight is a deep and unusual intrusion into states' normal ability
to manage their own affairs, one he wrote was justified by pervasive
voting discrimination when the law was enacted. But he said that
Congress had not adequately justified singling out the same states for
extra scrutiny.
"This is a victory for all voters as all states
can now act equally without some having to ask for permission or being
required to jump through the extraordinary hoops demanded by federal
bureaucracy," South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said.
Clarence Thomas, the court's lone African-American, wrote in a separate
opinion that he was willing to go farther and invalidate the Voting
Rights Act's preclearance requirement, known as Section 5, altogether.
The court's narrower decision Tuesday, he said, "needlessly prolongs the
demise of that provision."
The Voting Rights Act was passed by
Congress and signed by President Lyndon Johnson -- with the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. standing near -- in the wake of the violence and
bloodshed that marked the 1950s and 1960s throughout the South.
outlawed the types of voting practices that were common in many states,
such as poll taxes and literacy tests, and set up legal and regulatory
processes to overturn them.
The steel spine of the law was Section
5, which required certain states and municipalities to get federal
permission before making changes in voting practices. Before it was
invalidated on Tuesday, Section 4 of the law laid out which parts of the
country would be subject to that requirement.
Under a formula
devised to capture those states, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia, along with Arizona and
Alaska, emerged with what they now consider a scarlet letter. The law
was reauthorized in 1970, 1975, 1982 and 2006 with only minor changes.
But the Supreme Court's majority finally lost patience with
lawmakers who had refused to update the list of states and
municipalities deemed discriminatory, despite wholesale gains in the
South by blacks and other minority voters and elected officials.
The ruling tosses the ball back to Congress, which could try
to update a coverage formula based on 1972 data. Few observers, however,
expect lawmakers to pick and choose among states and municipalities,
even if they could overcome political inertia.
The court's
conservatives, led by Roberts, had signaled their intentions during
oral arguments in February. They expressed disdain for a geographic
formula last updated in 1972 that forces most of the Deep South -- but
also certain municipalities from Florida to Alaska -- to check even the
relocation of polling places with the Department of Justice.
Anthony Kennedy, the court's perennial swing vote, likened the states'
plight to being "under the trusteeship of the United States government."
Justice Antonin Scalia drew gasps inside the courtroom when he referred
disdainfully to "racial entitlements."
And Roberts had long ago
signaled his impatience with laws that give minorities a leg up on
whites. In a 2007 decision on public school integration, he famously
declared: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to
stop discriminating on the basis of race."
Roberts and the court
had punted on the issue four years ago, ruling that a Texas water
district - and any municipality, for that matter - could get out from
under Section 5 by demonstrating 10 years of good behavior. More than
200 municipalities have done so since the law's inception.
then, however, Roberts had warned that "things have changed in the
South" and the pre-clearance requirements and coverage formula "raise
serious constitutional questions."
The new case came to the court
with two lower court strikes against Shelby County's challenge. In the
most recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
ruled last year that the coverage formula "is not perfect, but the fit
was hardly perfect in 1965."
The Obama administration warned the
court not to mess with Congress' legislative authority. "Invidious
racial discrimination is the most pernicious form of governmental
discrimination prohibited by the Constitution," the government's brief
said. That puts Congress "at the zenith of its constitutional
Civil rights advocates and the court's left-leaning
justices noted that the provision was used as recently as last year to
beat back photo ID laws, redistricting plans and restrictions on early
voting. Without it, they said, states could resume discriminatory
But opponents of the law argued that the types of state
and local election laws that continue to draw fire today "exist to a
greater degree outside those covered jurisdictions than they do inside
the jurisdictions," said Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair
Representation, who helped initiate Shelby County's lawsuit.
sides agree that progress has been made: Black voter turnout topped
white turnout in last year's presidential election and was strongest in
some of the Southern states subjected to the strictest oversight under
the Voting Rights Act.
Minorities also have been elected to local
offices in record numbers, thanks to the creation of so-called
"majority-minority" districts. In 1965, the 11 states of the Old
Confederacy, stretching from Virginia to Texas, had a total of three
black state legislators. By 2009, the number had grown to 321, or 18% of
the total, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
over the same period, Southern legislatures that were overwhelmingly
Democratic in 1965 have turned Republican. Today, the GOP controls both
houses of the legislatures in all 11 states.
In recent years, the
number of objections by the Justice Department to states' voting changes
has declined dramatically. In 1976, there were 64 objections, including
30 in Texas alone. In recent years, the number dropped to five or less.
While there were 10 objections last year, this year has produced only
Meanwhile, the number of municipalities that have "bailed
out" of Section 5 by maintaining a clean record on voting rights for 10
years has risen. From 1998 to 2008, only Virginia municipalities were
excused from federal oversight. In the last three years, they were
joined by several in California, Texas, Alabama, and the entire state of
New Hampshire.
The law's defenders say Section 5 prevented Texas,
Florida and South Carolina from enacting new voting restrictions in
2012. This year, they say, it stands as a bulwark against similar
discrimination. In Beaumont, Texas, a school board election was canceled
to prevent white candidates from running unopposed in three
majority-black districts. In North Carolina, lawmakers have proposed new
restrictions on voter identification, registration and early voting.
The remainder of the Voting Rights Act wasn't challenged in the case.
The law still will provide for legal challenges to voting changes
deemed discriminatory in any state. But those after-the-fact challenges
can be costly and time-consuming.
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Joe, foreground, and Ed Garland had Nike, Adidas, New Balance and other brands on display on a row of folding tables at the Cove football camp. Behind the tables, the brothers had dozens of large cardboard boxes with even more selections. (Brad Mosher/The Observer)
Brothers with Eastern Oregon ties travel to football and sports camps throughout the Northwest selling high-quality, surplus athletic shoes to student-athletes for $40 a pair
COVE — Joe Garland and his brother, Ed, definitely made a big impression at the recent Cove football camp.
Size 14 — to be exact, for one player. Another player was focused intently on finding just the right shoe and checking out several while never letting a pair he really liked out of his sight — or grasp.
During a lunch break at the football camp for small schools from Washington, Idaho and Eastern Oregon, the Cove gym became a makeshift shoe store with very simple pricing.
All pairs of shoes were $40.
Not $80 or $120 like some sports shoes might cost, Joe Garland said. "A lot of the parents are spending more than $130."
At a small town, small school football camp, players from small rural schools were shopping for shoes — and enjoying it.
Originally, the idea the brothers had was to buy surplus shoes from local colleges and professional teams and sell them to area high schools.
It has become much more than that, with a website where parents can buy a large assortment of shoes online, as well as creating a summer circuit of football and sports camps throughout the Northwest. The brothers, both raised in Eastern Oregon, travel with a large trailer of shoes.
In the Cove gym, players from Washington state's Sunnyside Christian and White Swan schools were among those examining the shoes, alongside players from Echo and Cove.
For the budding prep football players from small towns in three states at the football camp, it was a chance to have a big shoe store come to them.
But for the Garland brothers, it was more than just business.
Both have been involved in sports all their lives. Ed used to work for the University of Oregon's equipment department. He was a student manager at the university for seven years, before moving on to be an assistant equipment manager. He also was the head equipment manager at the University of California, Berkeley for seven years, until 2011.
But the brothers were looking for something new to do and be able to work together.
Then they got the idea about reselling surplus shoes.
It hasn't quite turned out the way the La Grande native and his brother had planned. "We were just going to buy the shoes and sell them online," Joe Garland said.
Now, there is a lot more travel involved in the business.
Shoe U deals in surplus athletic footwear online, selling shoes that college and professional teams had purchased, but never used.
To the colleges and teams, the shoes are just overstock. They are also still new in the boxes.
But the brothers now spend a lot of their time on the road during the summer months.
"From May through Labor Day we are extremely busy," Joe Garland said. "We take our trailer loaded with shoes to high schools and small colleges around the Northwest and attend numerous football camps and clinics. It keeps us very busy and on our toes."
For the Garland brothers, the shoes have created a new business that keeps them still involved in sports. "We saw an opportunity to help schools and athletes purchase new shoes at a discounted price," the brothers explained on the company website. "These are brand-new shoes that are still in the box, and are a year removed from the current line of shoes the manufacturer requires major college players to wear on game day."
Since colleges were restricted from donating shoes to high schools or players because of possible recruiting violations, the shoes were usually warehoused. Sometimes, that could mean as many as 500 pairs of shoes were not being used, Joe Garland said during a quiet moment in the Cove gym.
Behind him, his brother, Ed, was still looking for a size 14 pair of shoes for a quarterback/defensive lineman from Council, Idaho.
The Garlands had Nike, Adidas, New Balance and other brands on display on a row of folding tables. Behind the tables, the brothers had dozens of large cardboard boxes with even more selections.
The business isn't completely focused on the football shoes. The company website also has listings for shoes designed for lacrosse, basketball, rugby, softball, soccer, golf, track and field, tennis, volleyball and wrestling. They all have the same pricing, according to Joe Garland. The shoes are no more than $40, with a few priced even less.
The company is based in Salem, but on weekends the brothers may be on the road, traveling to different high school sports camps.
"A lot of these coaches said if we wanted to come over and set up tables at the camps for the kids," Joe Garland said. "This was the second year we attended the Cove 8-man football camp and we have already made plans with Camp Director Jason Gorman to return again next year."
The two brothers will be back in La Grande July 22 when they will be at Eastern Oregon University for another football camp.
According to Tim Camp, the head football coach at EOU and the instructor at the Cove camp, having the shoe company there made the camp that much better. "It was a win-win. It is great for the camp. It is great for the kids, coming here and buying good football shoes for just $40," he said.
Joe Garland said he enjoys the trip out to Eastern Oregon. He was born in La Grande and graduated from Vale High School in the late 1970s. His brother graduated from Ontario High School in 1981. He still has strong ties to the Grande Ronde Valley. "My dad coached Bill Burns years ago," Joe Garland said. Burns is now the athletic director at La Grande High School.
Garland's father also played football at EOU for Archie Dunsmoor, he added. Dunsmoor is still the only football coach at EOU to have won a conference title in the sport. He did it in 1956, when he guided the then Eastern Oregon College Mountaineers to a win over Southern Oregon College in Ashland to claim the crown.


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The Atlanta Falcons will be featured on HBO Sports' award-winning documentary series "Hard Knocks," the club announced Thursday.
The Falcons, HBO Sports and NFL Films will team up for an all-access, behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make it in the NFL when "Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Atlanta Falcons" debuts.
The sports-based reality series kicks off its ninth season on Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 10 p.m. on HBO. The weekly Tuesday series runs through Sept. 2.
The Cleveland Browns opted not to participate in the series, using a league clause that teams with first-year coaches can say no.
In 2012, HBO and the NFL offered the Falcons the opportunity to be the focal point of the series, but the team turned it down.
"We are excited about the opportunity to give our fans a behind the scenes look at what it takes to prepare an NFL team for the rigors of a 16-game regular season and beyond," Falcons owner Arthur Blank said in a statement. "This marks the first time that our franchise will be featured on 'Hard Knocks' and we look forward to showcasing our great players and coaches to football fans all across America."
The documentary will focus on the daily lives and routines of Falcons players and coaches.
"We are thrilled that the ninth edition of the 'Hard Knocks' series will spotlight the Atlanta Falcons," said Ken Hershman, president of HBO Sports. "It's exciting to feature a team, a franchise and a city for the first time on 'Hard Knocks.' We are grateful to head coach Mike Smith and the entire organization for agreeing to participate and look forward to what we expect to be one of the few summertime programs that is truly appointment TV and we can't wait for the premiere on Aug. 5."
HBO will chronicle some of the Falcons' high-profile veterans, including quarterback Matt Ryan, wide receiver Roddy White, wide receiver Julio Jones and safety William Moore, along with free agents and rookie hopefuls throughout training camp and the preseason.
"We are looking forward to connecting with our fans across the country as the program chronicles our 2014 training camp," Falcons coach Mike Smith said in a statement. "The series will give fans a behind the scenes look at the competition between players as we build our roster and prepare for the season. We are looking forward to the start of camp in late July."
A 30-person NFL Films crew will be at the Falcons' training camp at team headquarters in Flowery Branch shooting more than 1,500 hours of video over the course of the five-week series.
The Falcons begin the regular season at home at the Georgia Dome on Sept. 7 when they face the New Orleans Saints.
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Legendary Dance DJ Judge Jules Talks To ZOO About His Team: Arsenal!
Why Arsenal?
I was born in Crouch End, North London, which is about two miles from Highbury. Fortunately it was an easy choice. I feel sorry for people born close to really bad teams – they're faced with a bit more of a moral dilemma!
Highbury or Emirates?
Emirates. I'm a big believer in user- friendliness, and while Highbury was an iconic building, it was old and smelly. Emirates is nearly double the capacity and, in my opinion, the atmosphere is better. It's more acoustically appropriate for a football stadium. I suppose that's a DJ's point of view!
Where do you sit?
I've moved about quite a bit over the past 15 years, but I'm now in the loudest area I've ever sat in – very near to where the TV cameras are. It's a nice spot, but I've had to pay for my pain. And it has been very painful at times over the past few seasons!
Funniest memory?
I've DJed at a few end-of-season parties and, while they're a good crop of players, they're certainly not the grooviest bunch in the world. Let's just say there aren't any shapes cut on the dancefloor, but I have some great photos!
Best awayday?
I'd have to say the Millennium Stadium. There was a period during the early noughties when I pre-emptively tried to organise gigs in the Cardiff area hoping we'd get to a Cup Final there! It just so happened it always worked! That's what you get for having faith in your team.
Favourite player?
Patrick Vieira. Big and graceful are two adjectives that don't generally apply to the same player, but he was definitely both.
Sh*ttest player?
Perry Groves wasn't great and never more than a super sub. However, he's gone on to be a successful author and blogger, so it's nice to see he's eventually found his niche!
Best thing about being an Arsenal fan?
Neutrals tend not to like Wenger but apart from Spurs, Manchester United and Chelsea, they tend to like Arsenal, which is good. Unlike having to buy a season ticket each year – they're the most expensive in Britain.
Fondest memory as a gooner?
Winning the first of two doubles under Arsene Wenger in 1998. Bar the Champions League, that's the holy grail of club football and we rarely see it happen now. I don't think I'd be as happy if England won the World Cup – the feeling was that good!
Player you'd happily swap your missus for?
Man Utd's Wayne Rooney!
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