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A wonderful mix of familiar and not so well known songs from around the world. Sung in the language of the countries represented on this pleasing CD. Waltzing Matilda, La Cucaracha, and so many more singable folk songs sung by artists such as Dan Zanes, Angelique Kidjo, Asheba, Frances England, and Father Goose. All ages. Click here to hear a sample.
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Newest in the author's series of great composer's stories. Ratherthan telling the whole life story, each of the picture books concentrates on a famous composition by a composer. This tells about the Venetian orphanage where Vivaldi taught music to young girls. His fanciful stories did not please the governors and he was sent away. But he returned later with his most memorable composition, the Four Seasons. The author's notes indicate that it is not known for certain when his masterpiece was composed, though it is believed to have been in Mantua, she he worked after leaving the orphanage. Weaving stories to the great music will hopefully open the doors to new listening for another generation. 7 & up.
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Of Storks and Honesty—Avoid Shifting Reasons When Defending an Employment Decision
It's trite to say honesty is the best policy. But, when defending an employment case, honesty and consistency are essential. And, if you can't be honest because the honest reason is illegal, then maybe you should consider biting the bullet and settling.
"Norah doesn't want to have babies when she's older because she doesn't want them cut out of her belly." This is what my wife reports our six-year-old daughter told her a few weeks ago.
"I told her," my wife continues," that they don't always have to cut them out of your belly. Sometimes, babies come out through your private parts." Then she tells my daughter to leave it at that until she's older. Norah, curiosity apparently sated, hasn't brought it up since.
My response: "What's wrong with the stork?"
"I don't want to lie to her," my wife retorts.
"Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy … Stork. We lie to her all the time about these things. What's wrong with the stork?!"
As it turns out, my wife is right (don't let her read this; I'll never hear the end of it). When we are caught in a lie, we lose credibility. And when we lose credibility, we are not trusted on the important stuff.
Case in point—Jones & Carter, Inc., which the National Labor Relations Board decided earlier this month. In that case, the Board found that the charged employer had unlawfully fired an employee for discussing salaries with coworkers. In and of itself, this case is not newsworthy. As the November 26, 2012, opinion of the Administrative Law Judge in the same case [pdf] pointed out in ruling for the terminated employee:
The Board has long held that an employer cannot lawfully prohibit employees from discussing matters such as their pay raises, rates of pay, and perceived inequities. Accordingly, when an employer forbids employees from discussing their wages among themselves without establishing a substantial and legitimate business justification for its policy, the employer violates the Act.
Pay attention, however, to why the ALJ and the NLRB ruled in the employee's favor. They ruled for the employee because the employer lied about the reason for the termination:
Williams [the HR manager] and Cotton [the chief operating officer] gave markedly different testimony at the [unemployment] hearing as compared to their testimony in these proceedings. During the hearing before the Board, both Williams and Cotton maintained that Teare was terminated for harassing Janik rather than for discussing salary information. During the [unemployment] hearing, however, both Williams and Cotton asserted that Teare's discharge resulted from her violation of Respondent's confidentiality policy…. [A]n employer's shifting reasons for discharge may provide evidence of an unlawful motivation.
It's trite to say honesty is the best policy. But, when defending an employment case, honesty and consistency are essential. And, if you can't be honest because the honest reason is illegal, then maybe you should consider biting the bullet and settling.
Written by Jon Hyman, a partner in the Labor & Employment group of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. For more information, contact Jon at (216) 736-7226 or firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Separating church and state is all the rage, but three communities show that the American tradition of religious cities lives on
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Over the past century, a bizarre twist of legal misinterpretation has expanded the Constitution's Establishment Clause from merely separating church and state to scrubbing religion from public life. But in some small to midsize municipalities scattered throughout the United States, religious communities are proving that federal standards need not subvert local values.
These groups have not only thwarted the strict federal standard for church-state separation; they have secured state sponsorship of religious or spiritual activities, government support ranging from simple tax breaks to functional theocracies.
In Clearwater, Fla., Scientologists have bought up large sections of the city's downtown, flooded the boards of various civic groups, and become a major player in local politics-all part of the church's plan to "take control" of the city, according to secret documents seized decades ago during an FBI investigation.
In southeast Iowa, followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded Maharishi Vedic City six years ago, establishing an independent town governed and inhabited by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (TM).
And in a region straddling the northern border of the Arizona Strip, the sister towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., are home to thousands of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamy-supporting spinoff from mainstream Mormonism.
Each of these three communities has faced opposition from neighbors and surrounding authorities. But their continued existence testifies that, despite recent squeamishness over religion in the public square, parts of the country remain true to America's historical identity as a religious liberty theme park.
The concept of religious or spiritual-based cities is hardly foreign to the nation's history. Puritans founded Boston in 1630 as "a city on a hill" and later banished dissidents. Dozens of Unitarian, Shaker, and transcendentalist villages dotted the American landscape in the mid 19th century-none more prominent than Brook Farm, a socialist commune in the Massachusetts countryside that attracted such eminent idealists as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Subsequent religious cities sprang up throughout the 1890s, including the social-gospel-advocating Christian Commonwealth Colony in Georgia, the Methodist-based Society of the Burning Bush in eastern Texas, and John Alexander Dowie's Pentecostal Zion City, Ill., which grew to 8,000 residents and sparked the faith-healing movement of the early 20th century.
Such Christian iterations of isolationist living stood in contrast to the biblical charge to remain in the world. The very concept of a Christian commune does not square with Christ's call to salt and illuminate the earth.
But for Scientologists in Clearwater, TM practitioners in Iowa, and FLDS members on the Arizona Strip, such injunctions against isolationism do not apply.
When Timothy Brown, pastor of Countryside Baptist Church in Clearwater, recently sought permission to conduct evangelistic surveys at a local mall, the shopping center's officials turned him down. That verdict surprised the former Texas minister, who had faced little resistance to such practices elsewhere in the Bible Belt.
But as Brown soon discovered, Clearwater is a long way from Texas. Housed in the very same mall is a self-help kiosk operated by the Church of Scientology.
About 12,000 Scientologists live in this 110,000-person Gulf Coast city 20 miles west of Tampa. That percentage might seem less than overwhelming, but a high concentration of church members downtown dramatically raises both their visibility and influence.
The church owns dozens of properties in the city's urban core, many of them tax-exempt. Its new seven-story Flag Building fills an entire block, ample room to house Scientology's superpower program, which purports to endow high-level church members with supernatural abilities.
Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's founder, brought his new religion to Clearwater in 1975, secretly purchasing property downtown and hiding his intentions to rebirth the struggling city as the church's international headquarters. As local residents caught on to the scheme, they organized large protests and commissioned a special police task force to investigate the church's cult-like practices.
Scientologists believe higher consciousness is attainable through "auditing," an extremely expensive and intense counseling technique during which members are asked to relive their darkest memories. The personal information shared in these sessions is recorded and sometimes used against defecting members who speak ill of the church. As Scientologists pay the exorbitant prices necessary to reach subsequent levels of consciousness, they learn secret doctrines reminiscent of cheap science fiction novels.
Despite such bizarre teachings, community angst in Clearwater has settled down in recent years. Many citizens remain wary of the uniformly dressed church members filling city sidewalks and public spaces, but active opposition is now rare.
Scientology officials at the Flag Service Organization did not return WORLD's request for comment, but spokesperson Pat Harney recently told the Associated Press that the church has "done some growing up; we've gotten to know people; we're better understood." Retired Clearwater police detective Ray Emmons, the chief investigator of local Scientologists in the 1980s and a longtime outspoken critic, is now resigned to let sleeping dogs lie, telling WORLD that Scientology is in his past.
Many local politicians and civic leaders have likewise ceased to criticize the church's presence. "They've become part of the community because they reached out and made an effort," county commissioner Susan Latvala told AP. "It's really changed in the last 10 or 12 years."
Maharishi Vedic City
In 1993, Rogers Badgett and his wife Candace opened the Raj Resort, a health spa and restaurant outside Fairfield, Iowa. Less than a decade later, they helped build a city around that business.
Maharishi Vedic City is an incorporated social experiment into the civic value of Transcendental Meditation, which purports to raise levels of consciousness through silent internal focus. Badgett has practiced TM for 30 years and swears by its effectiveness. He now sits on the town's city council, alongside four other TM practitioners.
The roughly 500 residents of Vedic City are encouraged to meditate for 20 minutes twice daily in citywide group sessions before and after each work day. The town's youth practice meditation in the local private school.
But unlike homogenized religious communities, Vedic City boasts residents from wide-ranging faith backgrounds. Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus are among the TM devotees.
The town's communications officer Steven Yellin told WORLD that TM is often mistaken for a religion but can, he claims, function alongside any particular faith or no faith at all: "If you're Jewish and you meditate, you become a better Jew. If you're Catholic and you meditate, you become a better Christian. If you have stress, if you have a weak mind, if you're overshadowed by things in life, how can you really be a good Christian? You have to be a good person first."
Yellin, himself Jewish, attends a local synagogue in Fairfield. No religious buildings have yet opened in Vedic City, where all structures face east, adhere to Sthapatya Vedic architectural principles, and are aligned along 10 concentric circles. The town's initial plans include two large golden domes at its center for the separate meditation of men and women.
TM Practitioners believe that if 10,000 people participate in the advanced meditative form of yogic flying, it will create peace and harmony throughout the world. Yogic flying amounts to cross-legged hopping, a practice Badgett says is scientifically proven to generate coherence of the mind and possibly even improve IQ.
"By taking your attention inward on a regular basis, you start to use more of your mental potential," Badgett explained. "The ultimate goal is to have everyone use as much of their own innate intelligence as possible and get over some of this war and hate. If people are more creative, then they're able to fulfill their own desires and don't have to go take somebody else's country or property."
Hildale/Colorado City
When Elaine Tyler moved from Denver to St. George, Utah, five years ago and began a remodeling project on her new home, something about the building crew her contractor hired struck her as odd. For one, they dressed in terribly outdated clothing that reminded her of Amish culture. And the crew included a 10-year-old boy.
"I'm thinking, 'Why is this child running one of these power nail tools? Why isn't this kid in school?'" Tyler recalled.
Her contractor explained that the crew hailed from Hildale, which meant nothing to Tyler at the time. A year later, it came to mean her life's work as she founded the Hope Organization to help women and children transition out of Hildale's polygamous culture. Her program currently works with 75 former residents of Hildale and Colorado City, many of them young teenage boys expelled from the towns to preserve a higher ratio of women to men.
For almost a century, FLDS members have practiced plural marriage in these remote twin cities of several thousand residents-with only occasional intervention from outside law enforcement. In 1953, Arizona governor John Howard Pyle sent troops to raid the area, setting off a drawn-out legal battle that effected little to no change.
Last month, a Utah court convicted the sect's religious leader Warren Jeffs of two counts of conspiracy to commit rape for his role in the forced marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old cousin. Jeffs also will stand trial in Arizona for alleged sexual conduct with a minor.
But such charges and convictions against the FLDS president and prophet have not stopped the community from practicing polygamy and isolating its people from contact with outsiders-though some families have now left the towns for church communes elsewhere. FLDS members rarely speak to media, and WORLD's efforts to contact local residents were unsuccessful.
Tyler has considered dropping leaflets from a helicopter into the towns with information about her organization, but she decided against it due to possible charges of littering or retaliation against the pilot.
Instead, she is helping establish a safe house in one of Hildale's old abandoned mansions-a rare refuge for defecting church members, given that local police and government officials are fellow members of the FLDS and have no interest in censuring church leaders. "They're running a theocracy," Tyler told WORLD. "And as long as they have their own city, they can do what they jolly well please."
Public square accommodations
Allowing some concessions to religious minorities does not a jihad make
Throughout the United States, local pockets of dense Muslim populations are pushing for special religious accommodations-and, in some spots, receiving them. The University of Michigan in Dearborn recently sparked controversy when it approved plans to install special footbaths for ritualistic Islamic washing. In San Diego, another Islamic community persuaded officials at Carver Elementary School to grant Muslim students a 15-minute break each afternoon for prayer.
Social and political commentators are often quick to cry foul over such accommodations, warning against a slippery slope to Shariah, the strict religious and legal code required in the Quran. These pundits point out the hidden agendas of many mainstream Islamic advocacy groups, which couch their mission for socio-religious control in terms of civil rights.
Indeed, recent U.S. prosecution against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development has exposed a number of prominent American Muslim charities as front groups for Islamism, the political movement seeking to impose a worldwide caliphate. Groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim American Society (MAS), and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) have all proven to maintain unsavory associations and relationships with terrorist organizations.
But such sinister motives are not shared throughout all Muslim-American communities. In fact, broad Muslim support for agencies like CAIR, MAS, and ISNA is waning in light of the recent revelations. M. Zhudi Jasser, founder and director of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, tells WORLD that most Muslims in America are unaware of the political aims driving many national Islamic groups.
Requests like footbaths or prayer breaks, therefore, do not necessarily come with radical intent. When the Indianapolis International Airport completes its new billion-dollar terminal in the fall of 2008, the floor-level sinks included in the bathrooms will not establish Shariah law, but simply spare the airport's high number of local Muslim cab drivers from awkwardly lifting their feet into sinks meant for hands.
Critics object to the idea of public money funding such an accommodation and argue that special treatment for Islam will trigger similar demands from scores of other religious sects. Of course, the idea of public institutions meeting the particular needs of specific local populations is nothing new. And Christians might welcome an increased acceptance of religious practice in the public square-provided it extends to Christianity.


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Within the last 8 months, there have been a number of diver rescues near and around La Jolla Shores and Scripps. Early this year, I rescued 2 divers while I was swimming outside the 1/2 mile bouys between Scripps Pier and The Cove. The divers should not have been anywhere near where I was. At approximately where I was, the shelf drops from 60' to over 2000'. I have been out swimming and seen numerous rescues by the lifeguards since then. I have had 4 friends(all surfers) this year, including one yesterday, rescue divers in the area. In my opinion, none of these people should be out there. In the case where I rescued the two, I found them at least 1/3rd mile from where their instructor and the rest of the group were at. I blame that one on the instructor, and the lifeguards let him know when he came in as I reported the incident. The other cases with my friends rescues were also basically people doing dumb stuff. Poor instruction.
I have been diving since 1962, continued in the navy and hold every certification and at 60++, continue to swim to stay in shape and dive regularly.
The physical conditioning for certification should be like it was when everyone was trained by current or retired UDT prior to SEALS.
I understand your job is to train as many people as possible and sell equipment for a profit, thats being a good business person, part of America.
Safety needs to be of higher importance than sales, go back to the basics, better conditioning, use the SEAL manual, available on line at navy.seal.gov then put more time on stressing the basics, not fancy gear, focus on the ability to escape from problems and not rely on technology and others. If people are trained correctly, there would be less problems, less diver droupout and you would not have to relie on citizens like my friends and I. I realize harder training will blow out some people, but you really don't want them. I see people suiting up at Kellog Park every day, and a good percentage should not be out there. If I looked like a lot of them, I wouldn't place myself at risk, but go on a diet, swim, work out and get in shape prior to diving.
Please take this as constructive criticism. Diving is a great Joy and should be enjoyed by as many as possible, but get rid of the 2 hour resort training, etc. Make people responsible for themselves.
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Loc: Irvine, CA
Scuba diving is a recreation that has evolved since the classes in the early 60s. The classes then are not the classes I took in the late 70s nor are they the classes we are offering today. But one thing that has remained a consistent theme through all scuba courses over the years is the emphasis on safety. I dont contend to know anything about the rescues you performed or have seen in or near the La Jolla Shores area, but I do know that in general todays scuba instructors are training divers with a strong emphasis on personal safety just as they always have. The instructors in scuba and our industry as a whole are quite proud of our record, and we commonly boast that our mortality rate is lower than that of the vast majority of recreations. For instance you stand a better chance of suffering an injury by a golf ball, than you do scuba diving. This is not an accident, but due to the diligence of the scuba industry and its instructors.
Before I go on, let me say this. Im not your average dive instructor. Im not some diver who thought being a scuba instructor would be a fun way to dive for free. Ive been an instructor for some years and have been certified as such by several training agencies finally attaining the Course Director rating. Ive experience teaching and training divers from entry level open water courses through preparing divers to spend extended time in Cenotes or dive the Andrea Doria. Ive also had experience as a teacher and instructor in recreations from alpine skiing, to ski racing, to mountaineering and winter outdoor survival. All of this isnt intended to impress a soul but rather offer up that that my thoughts arent a whim but based on many years of various experiences.
The area you contend divers should not be is one of a couple very popular sites for deep training in Southern California that is accessible from shore without the aid of a boat. It is also a very unique and interesting area to explore, offering an amazing variety of marine life to see and while it does require training to prepare the diver to safely enjoy being there, it is far from an unsuitable dive site. The water here is generally calm and due to the underwater terrain, navigation is quite easy. In a nutshell, if for what ever unknown reason 2 students surface 1/3 of a mile, as you state, from their instructor in that particular area, chances are quite strong they are certified divers taking a continuing education class and would/should have the knowledge to follow the waves to the beach.
Everything over time evolves. Physicians once called upon Holy Men to rid people of illness, until Antony Van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria. Leeches were a preferred method of removing bad bacteria or viruss until drugs were discovered to kill or control them. It wasnt until after all this that common hygiene was found to be an effect way to avoid the majority of it all. People moved about using dangerous versions of steam engines until the carbureted internal combustion engine became common, only to evolve into a fuel injected version which is just now evolving into hydrogen or battery operated versions. Scuba courses over time have undergone this same evolution. The old Navy UDT or current Seal Team manual is a wealth of information and is the perfect tool if your goal is to infiltrate a beach unseen or if you choose to destroy something and escape silently. The level of fitness that those courses require is necessary for the diver who is being dropped off ½ mile or more off shore and expected to swim to and from their submarine through surf conditions a defender would not expect a human to attempt. Many of the stringent standards for becoming a certified scuba diver from the early 60s were deemed unrealistic and unnecessary by the time I took my first course in the late 70s. From there the evolution of equipment and training techniques pared down again much of what was found to be unrealistic and at times even dangerous for the recreational scuba diver. Take for example the Navy Dive Tables. My first scuba course still used them. They are a marvel of mathematical engineering and science that even told you when to make decompression stops in order to lower the nitrogen levels in our system to safe levels. They were found to be too precise over a period of time, didnt take into account differences in human physiology and gave way too much credit for the average human being able to follow a precise set of guidelines and not push their limits. Over the past 20 years those tables have been made more conservative a number of times in an effort to maintain and help ensure safety in recreational divers.
Equipment of course has followed suit. What you dismiss as fancy I contend is more streamlined, more comfortable, more functional and in essence more safe than gear has ever been. Since you first learned to dive, for instance, buoyancy compensators have gone from something you make with directions found in the back of a Skin Diver magazine or a book (safe?) in the local library to a good idea, to a recommended piece of gear to a required piece of equipment. Why? 100% diver safety. Also, looking at that buoyancy compensator, and forgetting its evolution in styles and types, it originally did not have a power inflator, it had an emergency Co2 inflator. The best idea we had at that time to assist a diver in an emergency situation was deemed to be obsolete and unsafe and was replaced with the low pressure power inflator and diver training and education was amended to teach us that that same rapid ascent we kept that Co2 cartridge handy for would quite possibly kill us. Scuba equipment is engineered and manufactured with diver safety in mind first and foremost. It is the foundation that every single piece of gear starts with. Once the item, concept or innovation is found to be safe, then and only then is it made to appear fancy. And of course it is. You would no sooner walk onto the local car lot to purchase your brand new car and get excited over a Hudson or Nash even if it was filled with todays technology than you would any piece of scuba gear that looks like something Jacques Cousteau or Emile Gagnan engineered in 1943. In terms of sales, it is indeed quite important that the gear be eye catching to the consumer. But never for a second let that be mistaken for unsafe.
Scuba courses are designed to teach divers to dive within their limits. In the late 70s and early 80s a person could actually earn a PADI Basic Diver certification card with as few as 2 check out dives. The additional 2 dives were a recommended up-sell by the instructor to earn your Open Water Diver card. This was found to be not a great idea and courses today have in essence been made more thorough by the requirement of 4 dives under the supervision of an instructor to demonstrate all required skills comfortably. Scuba instruction starts with safety and it is an integral part of the course from start to finish. The need and necessity for continued and/or specialized education is stressed through out the course as not only a method of increasing the instructor or shops income but to predominately stress the need for experience and training in order to safely experience the type of diving that interests the student. 2 hour resort courses do not give a certification of any type. They are an introduction to scuba that is performed completely under the direct supervision of a qualified and trained scuba instructor. Their goal is to give a taste of the sport and excite the customer into taking a complete scuba course.
All in all, scuba today from instruction to equipment is as safe as it has ever been, and while we cannot account for the personal actions of those divers who choose to push themselves and resist seeking out the proper training for their interests that in no way means their instructors failed to stress the importance of it upon them or cut corners in order to increase profit nor has the industry lowered their standards in a way that sacrifices diver safety for profit. The continued evolution of our sport will be driven by innovation and education, both of which will always revolve around safety.
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There are many safety rules has been made for safety of marine drivers. But the adoption
of these rules is major problem. As many drivers are unaware of these rules and regulation
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I love this recipe. The only thing I do different is use 2 cans of refried black beans and 1 can of the whole beans. That way I don't have to mash any beans. This is just fabulous and so easy!
We had this for lunch today and it was great! I added another can of beans, which I pureed like the first two. My husband & I both loved; my 11 year old son enjoyed the flavor, but said the soup was "mushy" and decided he didn't like it. I will definitely make again for hubby and I! Hopefully my son will learn to like it a little more. Love that it's healthy with lots of protein and fiber. Great for a cold day!
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WHEELING - Save for a couple special teams touchdowns, there wasn't a whole lot Wheeling Park did wrong Friday night against rival John Marshall at Wheeling Island Stadium. A stifling defense led by super outings from sophomores Theo Blackston and Chalmer Moffett forced seven turnovers, and the offense did the rest in a 62-14 Patriots (4-2) rout of the Monarchs (2-4).
Blackston came up with perhaps the team's defensive play of the year when he swarmed JM quarterback Jeremiah Fromhart and batted an attempted screen into the air. Blackston dove forward to cradle the ball in before it hit the ground as Park started one of its six possessions in Monarchs territory.
''I said to our two sophomores that played, you make sure that people go down through the program and say 'wow, they are only sophomores,' '' Daugherty said. ''I thought both of those kids played that way. This is Game 6 now, and I don't want to hear about them being sophomores because to me, they are juniors now.
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''Both of those kids, I think, can be really special.''
They're were a lot of special ones Friday night. The Patriots ran up 281 yards on the ground and had five players account for six touchdowns.
Josh Dent (39 yards) scored on runs of 5 and 30. Geremy Paige bulled in from 2. Blackston broke away for a 46-yarder. Bryce Ingram (seven carries, 63 yards) cashed in from 9 and Nick Wolfe (six carries, 52 yards) scored from the 2.
Simply put, John Marshall didn't have any answers and saw its two-game winning streak snapped.
''It's not a knock on our kids, they just have more athletes,'' Monarchs coach Rick Goodrich said. ''I want to congratulate Park on a great game and tip my hat to 'Doc' for subbing as early as he did. That was a class act on his part.
''We got beat on offense, we got beat on defense and we got beat in coaching. It was just a total team loss.''
That Wheeling Park defense harassed John Marshall quarterback Jeremiah Fromhart from start to finish. The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register Offensive Player of the Week last week, Fromhart completed 5 of 17 for 60 yards and was intercepted five times, including by Ingram who took the ball back 86 yards to give the Patriots a 20-0 lead after the first quarter.
''I think the last two weeks our defense has played really, really well,'' Daugherty said. ''You go all the way back to University and we feel like we saw something and made a fix. We'd like to go back and play that University game again. We made a couple very slight adjustments that have made a world of difference, and it's kind of freed some of our kids up to play a little bit faster.''
Patriots quarterback Zach Phillips completed half of his 12 passes for 83 yards including touchdowns of 16 yards to Quashad Pugh and 35 to Eric Banks. Wheeling Park went for it early and often on fourth down, converting all four of its chances.
''We want to stress them out and put them in situations where you say 'OK, we expect you to execute right now,' '' Daugherty said of the attitude. ''Every time we kind of demanded of them, I thought they did it.''
The Monarchs broke the shutout when Evan Magers took a second-quarter kickoff 70 yards to paydirt. R.J. Kibert returned a kick back 85 yards in the third for the other score.
''They were disappointed obviously, because it's a big game playing a rival like Park,'' said Goodrich, whose team is off next week. ''We'll see how mature we are.
''We handled success, now let's see if we can handle adversity.''


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I have been running the FOSS edition of ZCS since late March of 2010. Since then I have migrated over 400 accounts from another Sendmail server.
This weekend I successfully installed ZCS network over the FOSS version of 6.0.9. Here are my server specs.
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6 x 2TB drives in a Linux software RAID1(all 6 drives) for a 100GB / partition. Linux software RAID10 with near 3 for a 3.4TB /opt partition. I can lose two drives from each stripe and /opt will still be fine. 2GB swap file under /.
We are only using about 380GB for the mail store. My largest user has 15GB of email/attachments.


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I bought a work car when I was 14 but here is what I bought (with a little help) when I turned 16. What did you have? Is it still your favorite?
Sorry for the quality, the picture is 23 years old.
I obtained an '87 Dodge Colt hatchback, via a roofing job... Basically an over-sized go-kart lol..
Sorry, didn't keep a photo
1991 Pontiac Grand Am.
The best thing about that car was "Low Rider" coming on the radio as I drove it to the dealership to trade it in.
You can spend a lot of time and money picking out the perfect floral bouquet for your date ... but you're probably better off checking if you have bad breath and taking the porn out of the glove compartment.
The moral: you gain more by not being stupid, than you do by being smart. Smart gets neutralized by other smart people. Stupid does not.
1989 Buick Regal. Had a cassette tape stuck in the tape player so I had to press rewind or fast forward to listen to the radio.
1977 Buick lesabre. thing was like a tank. burnt orange color
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Sky Blue 1989 Pontiac Firebird 350 with chrome mags and flowmaster exhaust. Miss it, but sold it for more than what I paid for it. Winning!
My first car was a copper colored 1972 Mercury Capri -- bought with the help of a summer job with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) building an electrical transmission line between Po Station and Fults, IL.
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Red 1982 Camaro.... loved that car.
1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee. That thing was a beast. Great in the snow or for going muddin'.
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I bought a work car when I was 14 but here is what I bought (with a little help) when I turned 16. What did you have? Is it still your favorite?
Sorry for the quality, the picture is 23 years old.
This picture is not of my first car but mine was identical except dark grey where the orange is. That was one hot running car!
A storm is brewing.
'76 Nova, light blue and white. Couldn't get out of it's own way
First car. Well I drove my dad's 1960 VW Beetle - heater didn't work, no gas gauge (I don't mean the gas gauge didn't work, it came without a gas gage. If it sputtered when you were low you switched to the reserve tank like a motorcycle.) With more than one person inside on a cold winter day you had to scrape the frost off of the inside of the windshield due to condensation and freezing from your breath. The brakes were weak. Top speed was about 65 MPH going down a bit of a grade, slower if heading into the wind. All in all, a bit of a death trap. My younger brother rolled it and came out with a few scratches but nothing serious. It was replaced with a '63. By then they had included an actual gas gage right there on the dash! It still had the reserve tank, though. It wasn't really as nice as the '60 though. It generally would not start by cranking the starter but was easy to start by bumping. I was working at Hy Vee and used to park on the lot on the only slightly sloping area, come out after work and turn the key on, give it a bit of a push, hope in, pop it into second, then pop the clutch to take off.
The first car I actually co-owned with my brother (the one who rolled the VW). It was a 1957 Ford 2 door sedan that had belonged to our grandparents. Inspired by the whole American Graffiti car culture in the mid 70s we got a cheap paint job (black) and rebuilt the engine and thought we were pretty cool with our Craig 8 Track player and the speakers on the package tray. This was my college car for two or three years. I sold it to my younger brother who still owns it today after rebuilding it the last few years. Been in the family since new in 1957.
After that I latched on to 1964 Ford Custom 4 door. The exterior was "rough" but the interior was in perfect condition. A nice 289 engine but there was no weather stripping on the door windows so if it rained then froze the doors would not latch closed when they were opened for the first time. I remember driving back to Ames on I80 with the passenger door held shut by stringing the passenger seat belt through the door handle and latching it. The driver door I held closed with my left hand. It was probably 10 below Zero. I stopped at several rest areas to blow the hand dryer to warm up my hands. Oh, the heater didn't work in it. Also, it would not start if the temperature dropped below 10 degrees. 10-20 was iffy. I remember a little game I used to play - coming out of a store with my buddies I would say, "I will trade my car for any vehicle in the lot - sight unseen".
One of my goals in life when I was going to graduate was to one day own a car less than 10 years old. I achieved that goal 6 months after graduation.
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No matter what, I could NEVER cheer for Dirt and Urine.
Just like this, had factory air conditioning that would shoot ice particles at the occupants when it was really humid. Paid 1,500 dollars for it with 30 some thousand miles on it in 1975. I had lots of hair then. Falstaff with riddles on the inside of the caps. 99 cents a six pack when it was on sale. put over 100 k more miles on it before I was done with it. Craig powerplay tape deck in front and powerplay speakers in the rear. A cassette player that all my friends said " where are you going to find cassette tape to play in it.
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"To run this drill, Everyone line up in a circle, pair up in rows of three, alphabetically"
1993 Ford Tempo
1978 Chrylser LeBaron, it was quite the chick magnet let me tell you
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The Black Diamond Men's Prodigy Glove is the type of glove you want in the gnarliest conditions at the ski resort. A Gore-Tex XCR insert gives this glove guaranteed waterproof protection while PrimaLoft One insulation keeps your hand nice and toasty all winter long. The woven nylon shell provides a four-way stretch for excellent dexterity, and the fleece lining stays soft next to your skin for multiple seasons. Black Diamond reinforced the goat leather palm with Kevlar stitching for longevity, and EVA foam padded protects your knuckles from icy landings and tree branches. The drawcord closure seals the gauntlet around your forearm to prevent any snow from touching your hand.
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Introducing the Triton command-line tool, complete with usage examples, configuration instructions, and rainbows.
Docker client applications can launch and control Docker containers across an entire Triton data center as a single Docker host. Learn how to get started in three steps.
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At the beginning of the year, I laid down a few predictions. While I refuse on principle to engage in Stephen O'Grady-style self-flagellation, I do think it's worth revisiting the headliner prediction, namely that 2015 is the year of the container.
Hashicorp's Terraform is a powerful tool to create, manage, and version reproducible infrastructure, including compute resources and upstack services. Today we're introducing a preview release of Terraform to manage Triton infrastructure containers, hardware virtual machines, and Docker containers.
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In a container-native project, we need to balance the desire for ephemeral infrastructure with the requirement to provide a predictable load-balanced interface with the outside world. By updating DNS records for a domain based on changes in the discovery service, we can make sure our users can reach the load-balancer for our project at all times.
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Heading west on Cunningham Street, building after building is tagged with fresh graffiti. Initials, phrases and images cover the facades of businesses and homes.
"There's probably 14 to 17 properties in which I've noticed graffiti and all within a 10-block radius," said Linda McNeely, 13th Ward.
City leaders say the graffiti paints a negative picture of the community and deters economic development in an area of the city that desperately needs it.
"The graffiti gives the impression that the area is a slum area or unmaintained or undesirable area and that's quite the contrary," McNeely said.
Many believe gang members are responsible for the graffiti and say it could be a sign of other problems. Aldermen have a strong message for whomever is doing the vandalism.
"If people want to own turf, they need to buy it. You don't own turf by painting paint on other people's buildings. I'm very confident. We're going to find the person and take serious action against them," said Alderman Victory Bell, 5th Ward.
Vandals hit two of Carmelo Barone's buildings this week. He says the graffiti comes in waves and turns away customers.
"I'm trying to get older people to come in here instead of all the kids in the summer time and they are scared. When they see that, they just pull away. They definitely need to patrol this area little more," Barone said.
Aldermen McNeely and Bell have requested more police patrols in the area and the city's graffiti cleanup patrol was out in the neighborhood Thursday, but vandals will likely strike again soon.
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I'm currently trying to sync a shared address book with Android (specifically stock 4.3). Zimbra Version is 8.0.3 Network Edition.
Adding the account as Exchange account only syncs the default address book. I also tried CardDAV sync which allows me to sync all MY address books but it seems that I can't sync shared address books with this either.
The shared address book should work with the default android contacts app, if a contact calls it should display the picture, phone type etc. (this works default on iPhone...)
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The Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast is located on the beach opposite Bandon's historic lighthouse at the mouth of the Coquille River in beautiful Bandon, Oregon.
Whether it be horseback riding on the beach, whale watching, simply relaxing in your whirlpool tub, or testing out your swing at Bandon Dunes golf course, you will find plenty of fun and romantic things to do during your stay at the Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast.
The Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast is located on the beach opposite Bandon's historic lighthouse at the mouth of the Coquille River. Our panoramic view includes the Pacific ocean and the river estuary, complete with shorebirds, marine wildlife, fishing boats, sport fishermen, and an occasional sailboarder.
A short walk to the ocean provides a glimpse of ancient sea stacks jutting from breakers just off shore. Bandon's spectacular pristine beaches are perfect for beachcombing, photography, jogging, kite-flying, or romantic strolls. We are your perfect weekend and romantic getaway spot! If travel to Bandon, Oregon is in your vacation plans, let the Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast provide all your lodging needs.
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Moisturizing is one of the most important steps in a basic skin care program. Every skin type requires hydration in order to function at its highest level and defend itself against the elements. The Cellex-C Enhancers line was developed in order to provide proper moisture to all skin types. When the skin becomes dry and dehydrated, it can appear dull and lifeless. Wrinkles and lines become more apparent and the health of the dermis is compromised and left vulnerable to more serious issues. Even oily skin requires hydration since an imbalance can lead to increased sebum production. Cellex-C Enhancers deliver high quality moisture deep with the layers of skin, plumping up and smoothing out the surface.
Cellex-C Enhancers can be combined with treatment products from Cellex-C. These hydrators are highly compatible with all Vitamin C topicals and can boost the performance of all active ingredients. Plump and supple skin tissues are better able to absorb treatment products and function more efficiently for better overall health. After cleansing, apply your treatment cream or serum and then follow with one of the Cellex-C Enhancers available.
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I'd like to replace Horde/Squirrelmail as the webmail clients for customers at my hosting company, and zimbra was brought to my attention. All the information I've been able to see have suggested that it's intrinsically tied to the server software.
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Recently my company change the domain name.
I have zimbra now, with 1200+ accounts.
I've @domain1.com and added a VirtualDomain @domain2.com with the option zimbraMailCatchAllAddress so that every email sent to the new domain domain2.com will go into the email@example.com.
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There is an odd problem we're having with the HTML (non-Ajax) version of the web client. When an e-mail is composed and sent from the web client, and a '$' is included (like in '$32.56'), the '$' appears as escaped - that is, what is seen on the received message is '\$'. This does not happen with the Ajax web client, nor Outlook or Thunderbird. I haven't tried Zimbra Desktop yet, but no one at our site is using Desktop.
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|Saturday afternoon collision claims life of 26-year-old dad
|Written by Brenda Johnson Brandt
Mark Adams, 26, of rural Haxtun, died Saturday afternoon, June 8, when his car and a pickup collided at an uncontrolled intersection six miles south and one mile east of Paoli, according to Colorado State Patrol Trooper Ben Simpson.
A funeral service for Adams has been set for Saturday, June 15 at 10:30 a.m. at Gerk Funeral Home in Holyoke.
Well-known as a family man, Adams worked hard to provide for his family including his wife Alana and daughters Hailey, age 3, and Lindsey, 7 months. He was a great supporter of all three of his girls.
Originally from Peetz, Adams attended Northwest Kansas Technical College in Goodland, Kan., for diesel mechanics. Brandon Sparks, his boss and personal friend at MV Equipment in Holyoke, said Adams had worked hard to better his family's life.
Sparks said the MV Equipment family appreciated Adams and will certainly miss him. Having worked as a parts salesperson at MV for 20 months, Adams was a responsible team member.
"He was an all-around great person," said Sparks. "He was very intelligent, polite and an all-around great role model."
Returning home from work Saturday afternoon, Adams was westbound on County Road 14, driving his 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt.
The Holyoke Volunteer Fire Department was summoned at 1:40 p.m. to the accident at the intersection of County Roads 14 and 21, approximately seven miles east of Adams' home.
Josh Larson, 23, of Haxtun, was northbound on County Road 21 in a Ford F-250 pickup. Simpson reported both vehicles entered the intersection, with Adams having the lawful right-of-way.
The front of the pickup collided into the left side of Adams' car, according to the CSP report.
Both vehicles traveled off the northwest edge of the intersection.
The pickup rotated counter-clockwise a half-turn, then traveled down a soft dirt embankment, where its left-rear corner dug into the ground. The pickup continued to rotate another half-turn before coming to final rest on its wheels, facing north.
The car rotated approximately 45 degrees in a counter-clockwise motion as it traveled off the road. It overturned, passenger side leading, one and a quarter times before coming to final rest on its right side, facing mainly west.
Extrication was required to remove Adams from the wreckage.
Simpson reported drugs, alcohol excessive speed are not suspected as contributing factors in the crash, which remains under investigation. The accident report by Simpson also noted both drivers were wearing seat belts.
Both Adams and Larson were transported to Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke.
Adams was pronounced dead by Dr. Dennis Jelden, coroner, at 2:45 p.m. Larson was released immediately with no significant injuries.
Contributions are being accepted for the Mark Adams Memorial Fund, 14426 County Road 7, Haxtun, CO 80731.
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Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 15, replace the tire on equipment while supporting Regional Command Southwest. NMCB 15 is currently mobilized in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and is an expeditionary element of U.S. Naval Forces that support various units worldwide through national force readiness, civil engineering, humanitarian assistance, and building and maintaining infrastructure. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Daniel Garas)
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Chances are at some point today you'll be stuck in traffic or waiting on a bus or train wishing you could just get to your destination.
Saturday, you will have a chance to do something about the congestion and bad streets.
For the first time, DDOT is asking real drivers and passengers to make a wish list of improvements at the "Move DC Idea Exchange." Everyone is welcome to attend. You'll be able to give your ideas directly to the people who are involved with making changes.
The fair is Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the MLK, Jr. Library in Northwest. It's free with fun activities for the kids, too. For more information, go to wemovedc.org.


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Search warrants obtained by WITN show a teenager now charged with shooting and killing his father and stepmother in Nash County says he found them dead.
17-year-old Jacob Whitfield is charged in the deaths of his father Brian Whitfield and his wife Charisma. They were shot and killed at their Whitakers home in Nash County over the weekend where Jacob was visiting. The search warrants say he found them dead upstairs when he came home and that they were shot in the head.
The teen's friend, 17-year-old Joshua Powers is also charged with murder in the case.
A second teenager has been charged with the murders of a Nash County couple that happened late Saturday night.
Joshua Powers and Jacob Whitfield have been charged with two counts of first degree murder. Both are 17-years-old and police arrested Whitfield Saturday night. Powers, who they say is a friend of Whitfield, was arrested Monday afternoon.
Whitakers police say the two are accused of killing Whitfield's father and step-mother, Brian and Charisma Whitfield. The shooting happened at the couple's West Taylor Street home after they had celebrated the woman's birthday.
Neither Whitfield or Powers has a prior record and neighbors describe them as quiet teens who kept to themselves.
The two are being held without bond and will have their first court appearance Tuesday.
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A teen is charged with double murder after police say he fatally shot his father and stepmother in Nash County Saturday night.
Investigators said Brian Anthony Whitfield, and his wife, Charisma Whitfield, were the victims of a double homicide in Nash County.
Around 11:30 p.m. police responded to a call of a shooting at 503 West Taylor Street in Whitakers. There they found two people shot to death.
Early Sunday morning 17-year-old Jacob Whitfield was charged in the murders. He is now in jail under no bond.
Police say Whitfield lived with his mother in Virginia, but visited his Father in Nash County.
The bodies will be sent to Vidant Medical Center for autopsies.
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Wayne excelled in basketball for the Bulldogs, finishing his career second all-time in scoring. An All Conference player multiple years, he was named Conference Player of the Year as a senior. The Bulldog Captain also currently stands seventh all-time in career assists. Selected as a member of the 1970's All Decade Team for Butler, Wayne also showed his strength in the classroom, being named Butler's Top Male Student in 1977.


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Excellent map Schwarzkreuz. Congrats on the Commission!
Hi, here is the commissioned Map for Mike Raynolds upcomming Novel set in western Novotera, a far outskirt of an old empire. The imperial Duchy of Caspin and the vast reach of Anurakh are central to the focus of this map, displaying the political and geographical surroundings of the Story. 6x9" 300 DPI
Excellent map Schwarzkreuz. Congrats on the Commission!
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
Good map overall though the forests shade makes them floating a bit (a small neatpick : a part of the glacier lake seems to be erased -bottom right corner)
This is the kind of map I want to make
Or have made, if I fail miserably, lol
Anyway, it's a lovely map, and I can't even find the flaws pointed out in the last post, even though I'm looking.
It's beautiful
Oh, nice one! I see you used your new mountains for this - they look great.
It's a very lovely map.
Cool style! I really like the way that the title looks. Do you mind sharing how you did that?
Copy the fontlayer, use gaussian blur on it and use colorburn Layer setup in 75% flow/density
As always, very nice mountains! I also like the forests and the overall color choice.
I am not that fond of the landshapes but i guess that you can not influence that very much as it was a commission.
I hope we will start to see more maps out of you again, SK, you are missed.
I'm trapped in Darkness,
Still I reach out for the Stars
Wow, excellent map! Love the colors and your mountains are astonishing!
In fact, everything is fine . I would just have a bit less of those coastal lines (but it's just to my taste).


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Wrapping Up The 2012 AMSOIL Great American CT TourWritten by on September 11, 2013 A look back at year number three of our ground- breaking cross-country adventure
Not only are we back home, I can report, but we are just about to embark on our 2013 Tour leaving in just one week from this writing. Our 2012 Tour was fantastic and we learned a lot in many different areas connected with short track racing in America. This is a compilation of some of the major points and discoveries that we came across.
The 2012 Tour was unique in several different ways. First, it was extremely hot in the first couple of months, mostly in Wisconsin. There were races that were cancelled due to the heat, but fortunately not any on our schedule. It would soon get much cooler to the west.
We had to stay in Wisconsin for five weeks due to the sheer number of racetracks there and to adequately visit the significant ones, most being significant. We often attended multiple tracks in a weekend and even went to four different tracks in a row from Thursday through Sunday criss-crossing the state.
We endured and finally said goodbye to Wisconsin and were off to Montana. In order to fulfill all of our territories and get in 25 races in four months, we had to skip North and South Dakota. It is what it is. And let's face it, there are not that many tracks in those two states. Still we would have like to have been able to make it up there. Who knows? Perhaps some time in the not so distant future.
Next stop was Montana and we hit Montana Raceway Park for a big event and then Gallatin Speedway. In between were some of the most beautiful mountains you'll see anywhere. We traveled through the Glacier National Park in our Jeep Wrangler one day and I would recommend that trip to anyone to do just once in your life.
Once we left Montana, our next stop was Wyoming and we visited Yellowstone Park, Gillette Speedway, and Casper Speedway dirt tracks. These two tracks were out there as far as location. The view from the pits was mostly vast expanses of nothing but tan dirt and rocks.
We would see this again when we went to New Mexico and strangely enough, there was a certain unique beauty in all of that "nothing." I can't really describe it, but the feeling was there.
On down I-25 toward Denver we went, staying in the Lakeside KOA in Fort Collins, Colorado, for about three weeks while we hit area tracks and took in the Rocky Mountains from places like Estes Park and Frisco. We needed a few days off after all of that traveling and this provided the perfect setting for us.
Once we recuperated, we headed out again south to stay in Raton, New Mexico, for a few days before continuing on to Albuquerque. We visited the I-25 Speedway and then NAPA Speedway, two asphalt tracks. I was surprised that NAPA didn't draw more teams because the large city of Albuquerque was nearby.
Once we finished our duties in New Mexico, it was on up the road to the north and east through Kansas to our stopping point near Topeka. From our camp site at the KOA, we were in range of three dirt tracks.
Lakeside Speedway, outside Kansas City, overcame a huge flood in 2011 to return to service and continue the tradition of racing there. While we were there they put on a large Modified event and we attended the Friday night portion before leaving the next morning for Heartland Park.
The dirt track at the Heartland Park facility drew good numbers of racers and fans. There is also a large road course and dragstrip there. For our part, we enjoyed the great racing action involving many different classes.
Our last race event of the 2012 Tour was a surprise in that Salina Speedway was a revived track that had been "dead" for a few years, long enough for trees to grow in the pits and infield of the track.
Tommy Hendrickson took over as promoter two years ago as an act of passion and was determined to make it work. His plan worked very well indeed. For the show we attended, more than 100 cars were in attendance and the completion could not have been better.
Time and time again this past year we were amazed at some of the innovation and effort put into the promotion of racetracks. If you thought every promoter was just sitting back and not moving forward, that simply is not true.
We have shown and explained so many new promotional ideas we have come across over these past three years. If you own or promote a racetrack, read these stories, and aren't able to make your track better because of them, you might be a redneck.
We have traveled over an entire year so far before the final 2013 Tour even begins. The Tour bus now has about 50,000 Tour miles on it and my Jeep has more than that. We expect to find more and varied tricks of the trade that we can share.
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With our first stops of the year at Michigan's Berlin Speedway and Kalamazoo Speedway, huge crowds came out for the start of the racing season. For this race, a bunch of Super Late Models were participating in a special race that included Kyle Bush. He won, but only because he was the better driver and smartly saved his tires for the end.The absolute best Victory Lane setup we have seen at any track in the U.S. This one at Dells Raceway Park, owned and managed by Wayne Lensing, is set up outside the oval track and inside the grandstand area so the fans can get up close and take photos of each division's winners.At Madison, we see a Camaro bodied car running the Sportsman class. This is the track where Bobby Wilberg first ran a Dodge Challenger body that was so popular a few years back and the car was featured on the cover of CT.At Hawkeye Downs Speedway they had a ride around program where the younger fans could ride with the drivers on the track before the show got underway. This was a thrill for not only the youngsters, but the parents as well. Every track should try to do this. It was great to watch.Elko Speedway was one of the most modern and cleanest facilities we have been to. There was plenty of seating, lots of things for kids and adults to do, and the racing was fantastic. This is a NASCAR–sanctioned track that runs in the Weekly Racing series.We were on and crossed famous Route 66 several times during our 2012 Tour. This is the heartland of America and it did us well to meet and get acquainted with such great people.After many weeks (five in all) in Wisconsin, we finally were able to head west to the mountains of Montana where we visited Gallatin Speedway seen here with the dark dirt and mountains in the background. This was the wide open spaces, or as they say, Big Sky Country, for good reason.Viking Speedway put on a promotion sponsored by the corn growers association that allowed all of the fans to attend the races for free that night. It was very strange to see all of the gates wide open and people coming and going freely throughout the night. Every track should have a night like this that would attract new fans. They filled the stands.I had wanted to come to Colorado National Speedway for some time. Jim Nordhougen, the track owner/manager/promoter has done a fantastic job of organizing, managing and development of the racing program at this track just north of Denver. We had lots to report in our review of the track in the Aug. '12 issue.
We were welcomed everywhere we went and this team even produced its own version of our logo and displayed it on the night we attended the I-25 Speedway events. This very remote track located south of Denver by about 100 miles and near Pueblo attracts a decent amount of competitors each week despite its remoteness.Sandia Raceway Park as it has been known in the past is now named NAPA Speedway, or at least the oval track is. There was much going on here besides just the stock car racing. We counted at least seven different motorsports activities that could be going on here at the same time including these MotoXers.Lakeside, Heartland Park, and Salina Speedways were our last three events for 2012. They were all dirt and gave us a great perspective of the popularity and class structure for dirt racing in the deep Midwest. The grandstands at Lakeside Speedway were great and reminded me of some of the larger asphalt track facilities we have seen across the U.S.


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Could it be because their driving force as a Party is to dictate to others, condemn AND OBSTRUCT certain people for being who they are, and try to prevent them from their American right to vote, THEY TRY TO prevent certain segments of our society from accressing their constitutional rights to make their own personal, private decisions.
What is it about Republicans that makes them so racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, and generally un-American in their views, their mistaken belief that they have a right to dictate to all others what they may or may not do in their personal, private lives?
Republicans block women's rights to equal pay for equal work. Block women from accessing birth control and their right to control their own bodies. Block the rights of the disabled. Block what is surely a failure of the Military Industrial Complex, to protect our soldiers from rape, discriminating against those rape victime, and awarding the rapists.
Rep-upblicans BLOCK LEGISLATION WHICH MAKES OUR COUNTRY SAFER FOR ALL AMERICANS, BY REGULATING GUNS AND MUNITIONS WHICH ARE DESTROYING THE PEACE AND SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS.
They try to throw elections with more lelgislation to Block Americans from their right to vote.
Republicans demonize people of color, and entire groups of ethnic and religious circumstances, ie. they hate ALL Muslims, ALL Homosexuals, ALL liberated women and ALL African Americans and Asians.
I often wonder why they don't go to Communist countries to live, since that seems to be the method of government which would most fit with their inhumane lack of values, and their failure to grasp the FACT that we are a Democratic Country, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the Proposition that ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE CREATED EQUAL.
No wonder they don't "Get It" that America is a Democracy, with a Separation of Church and State, somce organized religious is the breeding ground for discrimination against many groups of people, women, people of color, LGBT's.
I am glad the SCOTUS struck down the latest Republican attempts at destroying our Democracy, our right as Americans, to vote, without the Republican Party blocking people of color from the voting booth, and continuing to throw elections, which they are known for doing.
The only legislation they take part in is multi-million dollar witch hunts, discriminatory misogyny, racism and homophobia, and awarding theives and polluters.
The only thing they do is waste money on pointless wars, and political witch hunts, and efforts to discriminate against other Americans.
Glad the SCOTUS struck down the laltest Republican attempt to block Americans from the voting booths. Seven to two, and who were the two?


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U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph Berry, assigned to Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment (PFAR), Task Force 4-25, is awarded the Army Commendation Medal by Lt. Col. Frank Stanco, 377th PFAR battalion commander, on Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khost province, Afghanistan, Sept. 23, 2012. Berry was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for exceptionally meritorious service while deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Barcelona, Spain (Sports Network) - Two-time reigning and seven-time overall
champion Rafael Nadal was an easy winner, while top-seeded David Ferrer
suffered a second-round upset Wednesday at the $2.23 million Barcelona Open
tennis event.
The second-seeded former world No. 1 Nadal cruised past Argentine Carlos
Berlocq 6-4, 6-2, while oft-injured resurgent Russian Dmitry Tursunov, a
qualifier this week, toppled the world No. 4 and four-time Barcelona runner-
up Ferrer 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 on the red clay on a sunny, but windy day at Real Club
de Tenis Barcelona.
Nadal, who has now won his last 35 matches in Barcelona, beat Ferrer in the
last two all-Spanish finals here and also defeated Ferrer in the 2008 and 2009
title tilts.
The French Open champion Nadal lost to Novak Djokovic in the Monte Carlo
Masters final last week.
Nadal's third-round opponent on Thursday will be rising Frenchman Benoit
Meanwhile, fourth-seeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro eased into the third round
with a 6-1, 7-5 decision against Croat Ivan Dodig on Day 3, fifth-seeded
Canadian slugger Milos Raonic cruised past Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin
6-4, 6-2, and seventh-seeded Argentine Juan Monaco mauled Aussie Bernard Tomic
6-0, 6-2.
In other second-round action, 11th-seeded Slovak Martin Klizan beat Spanish
wild card Albert Montanes 6-3, 6-4; a 13th-seeded Paire snuck past Spain's
Pablo Andujar 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; former top-five Spanish favorite Tommy Robredo
doused 14th-seeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 6-1; and 15th-seeded
Spaniard Marcel Granollers blitzed Slovenian Blaz Kavcic 6-3, 6-1. Robredo
captured this event in 2004 before his fellow countryman Nadal embarked on a
string of five straight championships. Robredo lost to Nadal in the 2006
Barcelona finale.
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May 24, 2016
It happened about 6:00 AM at Mile Marker-68 near Niceville.
The Florida Highway Patrol say 21-year-old Devin Brent Ellis Ferrante of Mossy Head was driving west on the interstate, when 49-year old Gregory Leon Curtis' tractor trailer rig hit Ferrante's pick-up from behind.
Both vehicles wound-up in the trees off the shoulder of the interstate.
A witness told troopers Ferrante was driving very slowly with his emergency flashers on, and that Curtis did not brake before the collision.
Paramedics life-flighted Ferrante to Sacred Heart in Pensacola where he is reported in very critical condition.
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Firefighter hurt in 2-alarm blaze
ARNOLD, Md. (AP) -
Fire officials say a firefighter has been injured in a two-alarm blaze at an Arnold house.
Anne Arundel County Fire Department Division Chief Keith Swindle tells The Capital of Annapolis that the fire was reported at the two-story home about 12:30 a.m. Monday.
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Lawrenceville, NJ (Sports Network) - Daniel Stewart posted a double-double
with 13 points and 10 rebounds as the Rider Broncs knocked off the Iona Gaels,
67-62, in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference battle at Alumni Gymnasium.
Tommy Pereira scored a team-high 14 points for Rider (11-9, 6-2 MAAC) which
has won five straight. Also in double figures for the Broncs were Jonathon
Thompson (13) and Anthony Myles (12).
Lamont Jones scored 20 points but missed all five of his shots from beyond the
arc while turning the ball over five times for Iona (12-7, 6-2). Sean Armand
netted 15 points, Tavon Sledge contributed 14 and David Laury finished with a
double-double of 10 points and 17 rebounds as the Gaels' six-game winning
streak came to an end.
Both teams shot below 40 percent in the first half. Iona hit on just 31
percent of its field goal attempts while Rider was a bit better at 37.1. The
Broncs hit 6-of-12 shots from 3-point range in the period to take a 35-30
lead at the break.
Rider rallied from a five-point deficit midway through the second half to take
a 59-57 lead with 5:30 remaining. The Broncs were then able to hold on for the
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down the stretch.
The Broncs had a sizable 46-32 edge on the boards and outscored Iona 17-8 in
second chance points.
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