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The main gathering spot in the little town of Lake City will be transformed into the little town of Bethlehem for a three-night event that has been attended by 9,000 people over the last three years.
Walk Through Bethlehem begins today and continues through Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m., no matter the weather.
The Lake City Athletic Field is the site for the Biblical town where many believe Jesus Christ was born.
"But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting," reads Micah 5:2 in the Holy Bible, foretelling the birth.
Townspeople in Lake City from many churches, many denominations, have put up the buildings and dress and portray Bethlehem's residents, Roman soldiers and officials, shepherds, craftspeople, angels and the Holy Family. Visitors enter through the Lake City Community Center and are placed in groups that are led through Bethlehem by guides.
The inhabitants at many of the Bethlehem businesses explain or demonstrate their crafts or skills, perhaps offering a bite of bread or allowing visitors to examine their wares.
The event, spearheaded each year by Lake City resident Linda Dyer, takes many months to plan and days to put Bethlehem's buildings together.
There is no admission cost to Walk Through Bethlehem. Donations can be given at the event to the Jim Ed Lawson Basket Fund, which provides the town's needy residents with food baskets each Christmas.
The Lake City Athletic Field, also known as the "football field" is on Main Street.
Donna Smith can be contacted at (865) 220-5502.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Franklin was born on March 25,1942, in Memphis, Tennessee to the Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, and Barbara Siggers Franklin. Aretha's parents had a troubled relationship and separated when Aretha was six. Siggers died of a heart attack when Franklin was ten. The fourth of five siblings, Aretha's father's first pulpit after Memphis was in Buffalo, New York. The family subsequently moved to Detroit, Michigan where they grew up, Rev. Franklin assumed the pulpit of the New Bethel Baptist Church, and gained national fame as a preacher. Adept at the piano as well as having a gifted voice, Franklin became a child prodigy. By the age of fourteen, she signed a record deal with Battle Records, where her father recorded his sermons and gospel vocal recordings, and she issued Songs of Faith in 1956. Her earlier influences included Clara Ward and Mahalia Jackson, both of whom spent a lot of time in Aretha's home.
Teenage pregnancies derailed Franklin's gospel career when she gave birth to Clarence in 1956 (at age 14) and Edward in 1958 (at age 16). When she returned to singing, Aretha decided to secure herself a deal as a pop artist. After being offered contracts from Motown and RCA, Franklin signed with Columbia Records in 1960. Her recordings during that time reflected a jazz influence and moved away from her gospel roots. Franklin initially scored a few hits on Columbia including her version of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody)", which peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in 1961, and the Top 10 R&B hits, "Today I Sing The Blues", "Won't Be Long" and "Operation Heartbreak". However, by the end of 1966, with little commercial success in six years with Columbia and desperate for a sound of her own, she accepted an offer to sign with Atlantic Records. According to Franklin years later, "they made me sit down on the piano and the hits came".
"Queen of Soul"
By the end of the 1960s, Franklin's position as The Queen of Soul was firmly established. Her albums were also hot sellers; one in particular, 1972's Amazing Grace, eventually sold over two million US copies, becoming "the best-selling gospel album of all time".
Decline, Tragedy and Return to Prominence
Her most recent full studio release was 2003's critical and commercial failure So Damn Happy, which included the Grammy-winning track "Wonderful". Shortly after its release, Franklin left Arista Records after twenty-three years with the company. She has since started her own label, Aretha Records, and plans to issue her long-delayed new album, A Woman Falling Out Of Love in 2009. She is also coaching young actors during auditions for a musical based on her autobiography, From These Roots.
Aretha was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House.
In 2008, Franklin was honored as MusiCares "Person of the Year," two days prior to the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, where she was awarded her 18th career Grammy. Post-Grammy's, Miss Franklin enterted into a feud with both Beyonce and Tina Turner. This was due to the fact that Beyonce introduced Turner as 'The Queen' prior to their show-stealing duet of Proud Mary.
Franklin sang at the inauguration concerts for Bill Clinton in 1993 and at the inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama in 2009.
Personal Life
Twice divorced, Franklin is the mother of four grown sons. Two of them, Kecalf and Teddy, are active in the music business. Teddy is the musical director and guitarist of Franklin's touring band. From 1961 to 1969, Aretha was married to her manager and co-writer Ted White. In 1978 she married Cooley High actor Glynn Turman. While White had been a decade older than Aretha, Turman was four years younger. The marriage lasted until late 1982 when Franklin and her family returned permanently to Detroit. She and Turman divorced in early 1984.
She is the godmother of Whitney Houston, who also grew up to be a R&B star, rising to fame in the mid-1980s. A still image of Franklin was shown in the closing scene of Houston's 1985 video for the single "How Will I Know."
Grammy Awards
Franklin has won 21 Grammy Awards in total during her nearly half-century long career (she first charted in 1961), and holds the record for most Best Female R&B Vocal Performance award with 11 to her name (including eight consecutive awards from 1968 to 1975 - the first eight awarded in that category).
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Arcadia Elementary's Chuck Bagwell named SC Principal of the Year
Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 12:28 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 12:28 p.m.
Arcadia Elementary School was in full celebration mode on Tuesday.
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It was a surprise celebration honoring the school's leader, Principal Chuck Bagwell, who was announced as the state's 2013 Elementary School Principal of the Year by the S.C. Association of School Administrators.
Bagwell was greeted in the school auditorium by a bouquet of balloons and a room full of cheering students, teachers and administrators, representing the school, District 6 and the state.
Bagwell was nominated for the title by the school district and selected after a competitive application and interview process.
SCASA Executive Director Molly Spearman said Bagwell's dedication to the school and its students during his 10 years as principal was obvious.
"His passion and just the total commitment to this school came in loud and clear," Spearman said. "He goes far beyond what is required to be a great principal."
District 6 Superintendent Darryl Owings said it was Bagwell's true passion for the school and community that prompted his recommendation for the award. Owings pointed out Bagwell's emphasis on family involvement through weekly parenting classes that also provide opportunities for caregivers to improve their English skills. More than half of Arcadia's student population is Hispanic, and many take ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes.
"When you think of Dr. Bagwell, you think of total immersion into a school and into a community, a true love for the school and the children — not only the academic piece," Owings said. "The total care of the students and their families is evident when you walk into the school."
Bagwell said he was "dumbfounded" to hear the news and credited the support of teachers, other administrators and the community. He also praised Arcadia's students.
"I enjoy just being here and watching them grow," Bagwell said. "This is my mission field."
Students said that Bagwell's new title is well deserved. Many stopped to offer hugs or enthusiastic high-fives after the assembly.
Fifth-grader Geovanny Chavez said that Bagwell "is good to all students and teachers."
Yazmin Chavez, also a fifth-grader, said that her principal is lots of fun.
"He does lots of activities to support the school," said Yazmin, 10. "He encourages us to study, and I always see him with a smile. He deserves this and much more."
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Greece's Pre-Summit Homework
We're a day away from the kick-off of the European Union leaders' meeting to decide (or fail to decide) the gross sum and distribution of the bloc's budget for 2014-2021. All eyes will be on the big players — the U.K., Germany and France – but one little EU member state is coming well-prepared to fight its corner: Greece.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will carry with him a report prepared by consultancy Roland Berger and seen by Real Time Brussels, which works out how much slashing EU funding to Greece for the next seven-year period could cost in terms of economic output and jobs.
Mr. Samaras has warned that, because of the way EU funding allocation is calculated, Greece is set to lose about 30% of its financing compared to the previous seven-year period. Greece got €20.4 billion for 2007-2013 period, but as the budget discussions stand now, is likely to receive only around €14 billion in the new round.
According to Roland Berger, every euro invested in Greece through the EU's cohesion or other development programs will generate €1.45 to €2 in economic output, depending on whether Greece's economy starts growing again as expected.
Crucially, the consultancy firm estimates that if the country doesn't recover as expected over the next few years, official funding from the EU will actually have a bigger impact. Greece has been in a recession for six consecutive years and lost 6.3% of its gross domestic product in 2012 alone; more than a quarter of its workforce is unemployed.
The report says that, if Greece's funding was kept at €20.4 billion, it would add between €33 billion and €46 billion to the country's GDP and create 147,000 to 203,000 jobs over the seven-year period. The paper also claims this could reduce the country's debt load by 3.8 to 5.2 percentage points by 2020, helping restore debt sustainability.
Readers who have been following the Greek saga will remember the role similar calculations of future growth and debt levels — in that case from the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission — played in the country's bailout debates. With the Roland Berger report, appears to be a clever attempt to turn the tables.
Like the IMF and the commission, the consultancy based its calculation on so-called fiscal multipliers. Just instead of calculating the broader effect on growth of every euro in cuts to official spending, Roland Berger built a model to calculate the impact of every euro invested in Greece.
The authors don't present their econometric model in the report so it's impossible to ascertain how plausible their findings are, especially given the disagreements about fiscal multipliers among economists around the globe, not to mention between the IMF and the commission.
Roland Berger does point to one aspect of the budget discussions where Greece may be able to score. Countries receiving cohesion or social funds have to invest alongside the EU, in theory to ensure that the money isn't squandered. According to the consultancy, Athens on average has had to put up 22% of the financing for EU-supported projects — not small change for a country in Greece's situation.
In August 2011, the commission already promised to cut the cofinancing to as little as 5% under the current budget period for countries under bailout programs. When euro-zone finance ministers reached the latest aid deal for Greece in November, they already mentioned a lower cofinancing rate as one of the options for further reducing the country's debt — indicating that Mr. Samaras might have some sway over his EU counterparts on that idea.
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Artists can get financial support
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 11:30 a.m.
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Deadline to apply for grants from the Houma Regional Arts Council is April 19.
Any nonprofit in Terrebonne with an arts project may apply. Applicants may be awarded up t0 $1,500 to support public art programs.
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The Lauderdale County Fire Service is asking residents to not do any outdoor burning.
The dry conditions have raised the fire danger in Lauderdale and surrounding counties. While we are not at a critical level like locations in Colorado, firefighters have responded to several wildfire calls this week.
With the Fourth of July right around the corner, many people have already begun shooting off fireworks. The hot and dry weather we've had makes it easier for a firework to become a fire.
Those fires not only endanger lives and property, but the firefighters who respond to those fires as well.
"Keep in mind that if a fire happens, and our firefighters have to come to it, they're having to experience that triple digit heat, which increases the risk to them," said fire coordinator Allan Dover.
Dover says two heat related injuries have already happened to firefighters on the job. You can help by taking some extra precautions to make sure you don't accidentally start a fire.
"We're asking the public be very diligent in making sure they don't throw a cigarette out of a window; that if they're towing trailers, and different things of this nature, that their chains are not dragging," Dover said. "We've even seen here in the last week where we actually had a small grass fire, and it was actually caused by a lawnmower striking a rock."
In the last two weeks, Dover estimates firefighters have responded to about 15 wildfire calls. What you may not think about is that if it's dry outside, it's also dry inside.
"Something to keep in mind, that if the grass, the trees, and the shrubbery around a home are dry, the inside of the home is also dry," said Dover. "So it's very easy to ignite there, so they should be very diligent to what they normally do, making sure you don't leave when your dryer is running, your washing machine. There shouldn't be any appliances running. Don't leave your ceiling fan running all day long. That tends to heat up the metal. We see a number of structure fires do to ceiling fans or dryers."


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LOWELL-About 30 residents were in attendance at a town hall meeting held at the Lowell-Adams Volunteer Fire Department Monday to discuss the village of Lowell's financial issues and the 2-mill levy that will be on the Nov. 6 ballot.
"This is an overview of the last several years and how we have gotten here," said Rick Coley, village council member.
Coley called attention to a handout that offered four reasons to support the upcoming 2-mill levy-keeping the village's historical status, the village within local control and possession, and the street lights on, and maintaining the village's appearance via Buell Island Park, the pool, and village streets and buildings.
If the village of Lowell were to declare bankruptcy, "It would get absorbed into the township and Washington County takes control," Coley said.
"It's something we don't want to explore," said David Pitzer, Lowell mayor.
Lowell's general fund has been negatively impacted by an overpayment the Washington County Auditor's Office made to the village, plus a change in the methodology the auditor's office now uses for property tax allocation, noted Coley.
When the auditor's office found the error, the village of Lowell was told "We paid you too much money and we want it back," said Coley.
"How many (towns in Washington County) are having to pay that back?" asked David Chichester, 52, of Lowell.
"We are one of the hardest hit," said Pitzer. Other hard hit communities include New Matamoras, Macksburg and Lower Salem.
Chichester suggested getting a group of the communities affected by the overpayment error together and going to talk to the Washington County Auditor's Office.
Due to cuts to the local government funds Washington County will receive in 2013, the village of Lowell anticipates receiving $11,686.74 in those funds after repayment deductions, compared to the $45,709.47 it received in 2011.
To balance Lowell's general fund budget for 2013 would require an additional $44,873.63, Coley told the group of residents gathered for the meeting.
Lowell officials began addressing budget shortfalls this year, as the mayor and village clerk gave up their salaries from March 14 to year end and council members also contributed their salaries.
In addition, the police department and park budgets were cut and the village's one full-time employee was shared with the village's board of public affairs.
"The entire village is running on only $53,790.65 this year," Coley said.
Without further cost cutting and revenue generating measures, the village of Lowell will have a "cash balance going into 2014 of $394.81," said Coley. That figure compares to a $13,391.64 cash balance going into 2013.
Possible options for covering Lowell's 2013 budget shortfall were presented to town hall meeting attendees. Village clerk Taten Ayers called this combination of options a "reasonable, balanced approach."
First is a 2-mill levy on the approximately 325 homes in Lowell that, if passed on the Nov. 6 ballot, would bring in about $9,437.96 for the village. The Washington County Auditor's Office would take 3 percent of those levy monies for administrative fees, Coley said.
Chichester saw an advantage to the 2-mill levy.
"With the levy we can control 97 percent of our investment," he said.
Sharon Galati, 59, of Lowell also liked the fact that the village's "absentee landlords would have to pay" to help the village's budget shortfalls.
The village's balanced approach also includes seeking additional donations from community organizations and residents, as well as a review of all the general fund's line items to look for additional savings or cuts.
Oil and gas leases on town owned property could be sought too, said Coley.
The village might also pursue a change to the local government allocation methodology for municipalities.
A possible income tax ordinance was also presented to those at the town hall meeting.
"That would be a hit to the 10 working people in town," Galati said.
"Probably half the town is on some kind of assistance," she added.
John Paul, 72, of Lowell said he favored passage of the 2-mill levy over the idea of an income tax ordinance.
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Highlanders Stay Perfect in SLIAC Play with 93-61 win at Principia College
December 7, 2013
The MacMurray College men's basketball team streaked out to an early ten-point lead and never looked back Saturday afternoon in a 93-61 win at Principia College. The Highlanders shot 55% from the field and were 50% behind the 3-point line to cruise to a SLIAC win over the Panthers.
Coach Todd Creal's club had five players score in double-figures and were led by Clayton Whitlock's sixteen points. Brady Slagle had a solid all-around game with fifteen points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Paul Crowder had twelve points, Spencer Pratt added eleven and Dylan Burton chipped in with ten points and seven rebounds.
Damon Wilgus led the host Panthers with a game-high seventeen points; but the Highlanders held Kenny Sydness (who came into the game as the leading scorer in the SLIAC at over 25 points per game) to eleven points.
MacMurray College improves to 4-1 overall and 2-0 in conference play; while Principia falls to 1-5 overall and 0-2 in SLIAC play.
The Highlanders head to Warrensburg, Mo., tomorrow to face NCAA Division II University of Central Missouri in a 2PM tip against the 7-1 Mules.


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If you missed it, more nice work by WolverineHistorian�freshly updated below. But first several notes:
Longtime Michigan fans know that back in the day U-M had a very tough time connecting on game-winning or game-sealing kicks. Dr. Sap and I recently took a roadtrip down to Oxford (more on that later) where we listened to several old classic games..a few of which involve painstaking missed kicks that would have altered the course of U-M football history. And speaking of those misses, it�s one of the reason Bob Bergeron�s kick against Iowa 30 years ago this season was such a freaking big deal. From my interview in this year�s edition of HTTV Bergeron noted that fact saying, �So fortunately for me I was one of the first to make a game winning kick for a Michigan football team. We had a lot of troubles with special teams over the years…� I�ll never stop reminding people that I caught Gibbons� brunette girls kick off the Superdome net [6:49] in New Orleans. Trust me..or come to my house where I still have it queued up on the DVR in HD.
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30 June 2005
Susie Bright Presents: Three Kinds of Asking for It
Susie Bright Presents: Three Kinds of Asking for It
Reviewed by Torger Vedeler
"Be careful what you wish for." We've all heard these words, have all had them told to us at one time or another. They form the basis of cautionary tales, of warnings, a healthy counterpoint to fantasy stories where there is a happily ever after, a reminder to us all that in the real world few stories end like Cinderella. Fantasies, of course, particularly sexual ones, desire a happy ending, an orgasm, true love. They are based ultimately on the desire to get what you wish for, to have that thing you cannot actually have.
And so it is with more than a touch of irony that the three novellas in Susie Bright's erotica collection Three Kinds of Asking for Itdeal not with the satisfaction of sexual fantasies but rather with their limitations, with the collision between the real world and the fantasy one. In this way they cannot be considered pornography, as it is an essential feature of porn that the audience (or more to the point the intended audience) achieve satisfaction by having their desires met, their fetish or fantasy, whatever it is, played out as the most amazing and perfect thing ever, with no consequences.
But in the real world, getting what you want does have consequences, and this is one of the main things that separates literary erotica from porn. This is what makes the three offerings here more than simply something to turn you on.
Eric Albert begins with Charmed, I'm Sure, the tale of David, a man who wants simple sex, easy sex, sex without risk or effort. He wants the fantasy of it, and one day he gets his chance: magic, of course, will grant him this, for a price. Here the price is monetary, a swipe of David's credit card and anyone will do anything sexual that he wants them to. And so, a few thousand dollars poorer, he launches into an ever more complicated spiral of sex with anyone and everyone, graphic and ongoing.
But the price goes up too, because David's acts have consequences. To be able to command sex brings up questions of consent, of rape, and he must pay to make those he has sex with forget what he has done to them, must pay to erase the reality of his own uncontrolled desires. He must pay to prevent pregnancy and disease. And on and on he pays, until he discovers that the one thing he most needs is a thing he cannot buy.
In Greta Christina's Bending we see a different sort of desire, a fetish. To Dallas, sex is about bending over, about being bent over, about her bottom and things her partners do to and with her bottom. Fetishes, however they manifest themselves, are a common feature of human sexuality, far more common than most people or psychologists are willing to admit, appearing in everything from panties to cars to feet to knives. And so even if we do not share Dallas' predilection, a part of us cannot help but understand it, and the dilemma of it.
For the key to a fetish is that it can never be entirely fulfilled, just as actually living our deepest fantasies usually serves in the end only to cheapen them. Dallas tries nonetheless, with the help of lovers and friends. She becomes her fetish, and only her fetish, again in graphic detail. The result are consequences, both for her and those around her. The real world intrudes. The fetish is fun, but in the end it is a finite thing.
Jodi K, by Jill Soloway, is in some ways the most ambitious of the three works in this collection. The protagonist, Jodi, is fourteen, at that awkward age when sex is real but society denies that it is, when anxiety and vulnerability are so very close to the surface, when there is so much yet to discover about ourselves. Jodi is remarkably real, speaking in the language of a fourteen-year-old, issues of friends and school and boys being very large to her, when she discovers herself fantasizing about her best friend's father. Like many fantasies, this one has no reason behind it, no clear and logical cause; it simply is, and like all fantasies it exerts tremendous power over her.
The reality, of course, is very different, as she discovers. The reality is that if she seeks out her fantasy it will impact those around her. It will have (there's that word again) consequences.
What is most interesting is that despite the skill of each of these writers at writing sex, these stories are less arousing than we might think. David and Jodi quickly become unsympathetic as they pursue their desires with little thought of the people they are using, and Dallas, by becoming only her fetish, her bottom, is far less interesting as that fetish than she is when she discovers its limitations. While unsympathetic characters are usually seen as a bad thing in any story (especially one meant to arouse us), here the effect is positive, as these stories provide us with insight into the real world of sex, the one that inevitably intrudes on our fantasies.
And that's the key to this collection: reality intrudes. Stories about sex are commonplace these days, especially with the rise of the internet; a big erotica/porn site like Literotica.com (adults only, please!) has literally tens of thousands of erotic tales to suit almost any predilection. But the majority of such stories end there, with the orgasm or other satisfaction, and we must ask: could they and would they have been written for reasons other than simple arousal? Do we learn something about ourselves from them? Charmed, I'm Sure, Bending, and Jodi K give us more than just sex; they give us complexity and show us that sex, even sexual fantasy, exists in the context of our broader lives. None of these novellas argue against having fantasies, even naughty ones, but they do remind us that fantasy, sexual or otherwise, needs to be kept in context. These stories remind us that to be human is to be sexual, and that to be sexual requires taking responsibility for it, neither to suppress our feelings completely nor to give in to them completely. What we do with sex and what we do to get sex have consequences, like anything else in life.
Be careful what you wish for.
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That is one of the paradoxes of erotic fiction. by making eroticism and pleasure the ostensible subject, you unmask the artifice (that is one of the themes of my own erotic fiction project--see my not safe for work URL).ReplyDelete
erotic fiction--like other genres-- is about inventing a scenario and set of characters and being creative within a formula (while trying to subvert it). People who do it for a long time may find that the fantasy-reality question becomes more interesting than the question of titillation (although maybe their readers will disagree!)
Susan Sontag's essay on the pornographic imagination treated arousal as a sufficient aesthetic response to literature, and I don't think erotica needs to be anything more. However, banality sets in. Much online erotica is serial in nature (after all, how do you develop characters if they're always having sex without guilt or reluctance?). Also, short forms predominate. This is completely at odds with what's going on in the publishing market.
There are many reasons to be alienated from erotic fiction, but I would argue that online erotic fiction has been doing a lot of things that go beyond fantasy/titillation. (And this is not a criticism of Ms. Bright's fiction, but story forms via the Internet have gone way beyond that of the deadtree novel).
1)Journal fiction/erotic blogging allows for an unprecedented amount of interaction between audience and reader. The effect of this is not always good, although it is fun and thrilling. People do erotic blogs to show off and (for females at least) to gain virtual adulation, (not necessarily of the literary sort). While reading these things, we're never quite sure of how close to reality these erotica personas are.
2)lots of "tell your own stories" sites ensure that amateurs are posting their stuff online, and that everybody is getting to read about everyone's proclivities. (paralleling DIY porn videos, another mixed blessing). In an age where so much free adult content exists, people need intelligent and interesting approaches to the subject.
3)fan fiction/slash fiction, as far as I know, started in erotica, and I would argue that the emergence of this type of story has good effects: it challenges the right of media companies to control derivative works, and it provides a contemporary set of mythological figures (and we need our mythologies to transcend ourselves).
Finally one thing about erotica is that despite complaints of a decline in reading habits, people are still reading erotica in record numbers. ASSTR, my webhost, usually brings 5 or 6000 unique visitors to my site a month. That's more than I could ever get with a mainstream fiction site.
Very good points, Hapax. Sexuality is an ever-evolving thing, both in each of us and in the societies we inhabit. That's why erotic art (however it manifests itself) always somehow manages to remain vibrant.ReplyDelete
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thank you so much for such a detailed and thoughtful review.... this is susie writing. I'm going to forward your link to the authors, and I'm sure they'll be very interested. It is such a treat to have someone be so thoughtful in their review...ReplyDelete
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Police Searching for Bank Robbery Suspect Who Threw Smoke Grenade
Published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 9:53 a.m.
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AUBURNDALE | Police said they are searching for a man who robbed an Auburndale bank branch and threw a smoke grenade, blanketing the bank's lobby in smoke Tuesday.
The man was armed with a small handgun and disguised in a doctor's surgical mask and black wrap-around sunglasses. He is white or Hispanic with curly dark hair, Auburndale police said.
Police were dispatched to the TD Bank at 2093 U.S. 92 at 9:16 a.m., but the man made it away by foot before officers arrived. As he fled, he threw the smoke grenade in the lobby.
No one was injured.
Police searched for the man near Thornhill Road, south of the bank, but called off the search about 2 p.m. The only sign of the robber was a pile of money police say he dropped about one-quarter mile from the bank.
In addition to the surgical mask and sunglasses, the man wore a brown hoodie, blue jeans and black gloves.
Anyone with information can call the Auburndale Police Detective Unit at 863-965-5555.
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The Denver production, "Shakespeare and Me," comes to Breckenridge this weekend, tonight through Sunday. Produced last April at the Byers-Evans House in Denver to coincide with the probable birth date of Shakespeare, as well as the April anniversary of his death, the show is a collection of scenes and experiences from playwright and actor Joey Wishnia.
Originally from South Africa, Wishnia has performed in 19 of Shakespeare's plays and directed five in South Africa, England and the U.S. In that time, he made the acquaintance of "the greatest Shakespearean actor of the last century," Sir Laurence Olivier, as well as David Frost and Noel Coward.
In one amusing anecdote, Wishnia and his friend Zoe met Coward backstage after a performance. "How droll," Coward said, as reported by the Westword. "Joey and Zoe. It sounds like a vaudeville team."
In another, Wishnia describes an early experience in a high school production: "The 14-year-old playing Sir Toby Belch had a large false military moustache and was constantly quaffing ale (actually Pepsi Cola). He drank so much from his large mug that huge drops were dripping off the end of his moustache. When he turned to me rather quickly, he slung a bead of Pepsi into my eye, and I burst out laughing and broke the scene. I disgraced myself in the eyes of my Cape Town High School English teacher - and William Shakespeare himself. I was not allowed in the next production."
Colorful stories like these, along with a collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, comprise the septuagenarian's one-man show, which evolved from Shakespeare readings at the Denver Vic and the Grant-Humphries Mansion into "Shakespeare and Me," created for the Byers-Evans House at the urging of Maggie Stillman, the Westword reports.
The storyteller weaves Shakespeare's words into his own stage experiences for a dramatic and comedic recollection of his career relationship with the Bard.
Wishnia studied at Rhodes University and received a teaching diploma in speech and drama from Trinity College in London. He is a recipient of a Henry Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre from the Colorado Theatre Guild and has experience as an actor, director and teacher, with appearances in opera, music hall, cabaret, revues, movies, television and radio.
"Shakespeare and Me" runs three days at the Breckenridge Theatre. The show is performed without intermission; all seats are $15.
Next up after that is "The Belle of Amherst," which comes to Breckenridge on Sept. 28-29 and Oct. 4-6 from the Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden.


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How the Oracle Linux Update Channels are Structured
By Lenz Grimmer on Apr 17, 2013
"Beer Taps" by Jamie C2009 (CC BY 2.0).
Oracle Linux distribution releases are identified by a major version like "Oracle Linux 6" or "Oracle Linux 5", followed by an update release number, e.g. "Oracle Linux 6 Update 3" or "Oracle Linux 6.3" in short. Every Oracle Linux distribution release is freely available as ISO installation images from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud (formerly known as E-Delivery), as well as individual RPM packages, broken up by update releases. These are published via "channels" (or "yum repositories") from the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and our public yum repository
Security patches and critical bug fixes (errata) for individual packages that are being released in between update releases are published immediately via the corresponding _latest yum repositories and ULN channels at the same time. If you want to ensure that your system is always up to date and fully patched, make sure to have it subscribed to the _latest channel (e.g. ol6_latest). And you don't even need to purchase a support subscription for that, if you use the public yum repositories!
Update releases of a major distribution version are primarily "checkpoints", an accumulation of all patches that have been published since the last update release has been made available. They help to reduce lengthy patch/update procedures that would have to be performed if you would always have to start a new installation from the very first release of a new major version. Update releases within a major version are binary compatible. An application that was installed and tested on Oracle Linux 6.1 will still run on Oracle Linux 6.4.
In addition to the _latest channel, ULN also provides so-called _patch channels, one per update release (e.g. ol6_u4_x86_64_patch for Oracle Linux 6.4 on x86_64). These _patch channels contain all RPM updates that have been published after a new update release (e.g. 6.4) has been released. They are kept up to date with each new update package that is made available. So they allow you to keep a certain update level of the distribution up to date without risking rolling forward to a new update release version automatically (which is what happens when your system is subscribed to the _latest repository).
However, one thing to keep in mind is that these channels actually stop receiving updates once a new update release (e.g. 6.4) has been made available. At this point you need to "go with the flow" and plan your update to the next update release (and its associated _patch channel), if you don't want to risk running an un-patched system.
I'd like to give you an alternative explanation of this channel structure, using software development and source code version control as an analogy. In revision control terms, you could consider the _latest channel the "trunk" of the distribution, a stream of packages that is always up to date and also rolls forward the distribution's update version in regular intervals. The _base channels could be considered "tags" or "snapshots" of the _latest package stream. They represent the state of a major distribution version (e.g. Oracle Linux 6) at a certain point in time, identified by a minor version number (e.g. 6.3). They are being packaged and released in the form of an ISO image as well. The _patch channels could be considered "branches" that are branched off a certain tag and are being kept up to date with the "trunk" until a new update release has been tagged.
I hope this explanation helps understanding the various channels and their purposes!
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This list was very difficult in composing as many a great college football and NFL star from Notre Dame were excluded. It easily could have been expanded to the top 20 or 30 players. The selection was based solely on players' Fighting Irish resumes and not their professional ones.
I now humbly present to you the top ten Notre Dame Fighting Irish offensive layers of All-Time.
1. Paul Hornung (QB) (1954-1956)
The "Golden Bear" played for Notre Dame for three seasons from 1954-1956. He was extremely versatile as he also served a fullback. From 1955-56 Hornung was selected as an All-American. He won the Heisman trophy in 1956 in a year which saw him place second in the nation in total offense, second in kickoff returns, 15th in passing and 16th in scoring. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1985 and Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986. Each year the Paul Hornung award is given to the most versatile player in college football.
2. Wayne Milner (End) (1933-1935)
Milner is remembered for two memorable plays in his Notre Dame career. Against an unbeaten Army squad in 1933 Milner blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown to give The Fighting Irish a 13-12 win. He also appeared in what was widely considered the game of the century against Ohio State in 1935 in a battle of the unbeatens. In the final seconds of the game Milner caught TD pass to seal a 18-13 win for Notre Dame. He was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968 and the enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990. He was such a popular and well-liked player that the whole Washington Redskins organization attended Milner's funeral in 1976.
3. Johnny Lujack (QB) (1943, 1946-47)
Lujack was an incredible athlete lettering in basketball, baseball, track and football in 1943-1944 season. He was the first to do so at Notre Dame since 1912. He wasn't too shabby at QB either especially from 1946-1947. Over that span he led the team to two national championships and a 17-0-1 record and garnered two All-American honors and a Heisman trophy along the way. Lujack also starred at defensive halfback. He became a member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960.
4. George Gipp (Halfback) (1917-1920)
Besides being an inspiration for Knute Rockne's uplifting speech to his team on Nov. 10, 1928 and people everywhere forever enshrined in the phrase "Win one for the Gipper!" Lets not forget the Gipper was a terrific player. He played on two consecutive undefeated Fighting Irish teams in his final seasons. For his career the Gipper tallied 2,341 rushing yards (a record that stood for 50 years) and 1,769 passing yards. He scored 156 points as well. The Gipper was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
5. Johnny Lattner (Halfback) (1951-53)
Lattner was the jack of all trades excelling as a running back, receiver, punter, and defender. He leads the Fighting Irish in many statistical categories including the all purpose yardage mark. Lattner was awarded the Heisman for all around excellence in 1953 and recognized as an All-American for 2 years. Lattner became enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979.
6. Joe Montana (QB)
In spite of his prolific Pro Football career Joe was an unheralded college football player. He is responsible however for engineering some of the greatest comebacks in Notre Dame history including a come from behind victory over Houston in the 1979 Cotton Bowl. "Joe Cool" was the starting QB for the 1977 Notre Dame national championship team.
7. Red Sitko (Halfback/Fulback) (1946-1949)
Sitko was a member of the football class that never lost a game over the four year span going 36-0-2. One of the most prolific backs in Fighting Irish history Red Sitko earned his nickname "Six-Yard" by averaging 6 yards a carry to lead his team in rushing over four years and kick returns with an average over 22 per. He made the All-America teams of 1948 and 1949. Sitko was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984.


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SONOMA -- Courtney Force outdueled her legendary father to make NHRA Funny Car history Sunday at Sonoma Raceway.
The 26-year-old was treated with a champagne drenching after she beat John Force, a 16-time world champion, in the finals of the NHRA Sonoma Nationals.
Not only does Courtney now own a 2-1 advantage over her dad in finals matchups, she also earned her fifth career win, the most ever for a female Funny Car driver and one more than her older sister, Ashley.
Talk about family bragging rights.
"I had my eyes set on Ashley for a while," Courtney Force said. "A big group of (women) had four wins, and I kind of became obsessed with going for number five. ... She's just done so well, and I look up to her. I feel like I've done a pretty good job if I can do half as well as my sister did."
Ashley stepped away from racing in 2010 after a four-year career to raise a family.
Sunday was the first time this season that Courtney and John have gone head-to-head in the finals. Courtney won with an elapsed time of 4.253 seconds at 296.24 mph over the 1,000-foot track. John had a time of 4.405 seconds at 237.05 mph.
In Top Fuel, Khalid alBalooshi celebrated his 35th birthday with his second win of the season. He beat Shawn Langdon, his Al-Anabi teammate and last year's champion at Sonoma, with a time of 3.912 seconds and speed of 309.42 mph.
AlBalooshi, the first Middle Eastern driver to compete in a major U.S. motor sports series, won for the fourth time overall in his three-year career and gave the Al-Anabi team its fifth straight win in California races. But this birthday victory was one of the sweetest.
"This is very special for me," alBalooshi said. "Getting this trophy, maybe this is one of the best gifts I've been given in my life."
Jason Line (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were also division winners.
Courtney Force entered the final day of racing as the top qualifier in Funny Car but got off to a rocky start. She smoked her tires in the first round but moved on because opponent Peter Russo's car had a battery pack problem and didn't make it to the starting line.
"Pure luck we were actually able to get a win by smoking the tires," Force said. "You definitely have to look at it and say we got lucky."
Force went on to beat Bob Tasca III in the quarterfinals and Matt Hagan in the semifinals to reach the finals for the 11th time in her three-year career.
And racing her dad never gets old, especially when a trophy is on the line.
"I think about way too many things when I'm pulling up there against dad," Courtney said. "Normally, I'm calm and collected, but I was so wanting this win."
Though John Force took the loss to his youngest daughter, he still clinched a spot in the Countdown and guaranteed a spot in the top 10 for the 30th straight year.
Brittany Force, John's middle daughter, was the top qualifier in Top Fuel but was upset in the first round of eliminations. She's still seeking her first career win in the division.


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The Aiken Department of Public Safety wants you to know what they do on a daily basis. (WRDW-TV / Aug. 14, 2012)
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012
AIKEN, S.C. -- "What most people believe a police department can and cannot do is based off of television shows, such as 'CSI,'" said Lt. Ben Harm with the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
That's the reason Harm is heading up a new initiative. Members of the public will learn police skills, firefighting tips and even how to investigate a crime scene. It's all part of Aiken Public Safety's new Citizen's Public Safety Academy.
"We're showing them how we work, how we operate, hopefully to bring a greater understanding of why we do things -- both from a legal aspect, as well as from a procedural aspect," Harm said.
Classes will start Sept. 13. The students will attend class each Thursday night for nine weeks from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
They'll also learn how officers patrol communities, enforce traffic law and use force -- both lethal and less lethal.
However, Harm says the goal isn't to create a militia of citizen police officers.
"We're not training people to be police officers or firefighters. We're really exposing what we do," he said.
But Harm says the program will help stomp out crime.
"They'll receive a lot of in-depth knowledge about what we're looking for when we get a report of a crime, and the idea behind that is we can have extra sets of eyes," he said.
He says the initiative will create a stronger relationship with the community, too. It's another initiative by Aiken Public Safety emphasizing community policing.
"You can't effectively do a job such as police work or firefighting without the assistance of our community," Harm said.
Class information and details from the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
The Aiken Department of Public Safety will be holding a Citizen's Public Safety Academy starting Sept. 13. This will be a nine-week program consisting of one class each Thursday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. All instructors are members of the public safety profession and will present material on the following topics:
The Citizen's Public Safety Academy is intended to be an overview of the Aiken Department of Public Safety's functions and operations. Participants will not be trained as police officers or firefighters. Class size is limited and will be filled on a first-come basis. Applications must be received no later than Sept. 6. Participants must attend at least eight classes to pass the Citizen's Public Safety Academy. A background check will be performed on ALL applicants. Applicants with felony convictions or extensive criminal backgrounds will not be accepted. The application deadline is Sept. 6. Applications are available at Aiken Public Safety headquarters located at 251 Laurens Street NW, Aiken, SC or on the City of Aiken website here.
Applicants can submit their applications via email to email@example.com or send completed applications to:
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In the wildest race and most harrowing moment of the 34th America's Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand came within a whisper of capsizing -- its 72-foot catamaran teetering on one pontoon for an agonizing five seconds -- giving Oracle Team USA the lead in Race 8 and a crucial win.
As Kiwi journalist Duncan Johnstone put it, "the whole of New Zealand was leaning with the boat."
Race 9, the second race of the day that started with New Zealand taking the lead, was canceled midway through because of high winds. Races 9 and 10 are scheduled for Sunday. The regatta could end Tuesday in Races 11 and 12 of the best-of-17 series if the Kiwis, who have won six races, win three of four. Defending champion Oracle, which has won two races but started with a two-race penalty, needs nine more victories to retain the cup that it won in 2010.
Kiwi tactician Ray Davies told reporters Saturday afternoon that the Americans were so close on his heels on the upwind leg that he was forced to call for a quick tack, which didn't give the crew enough time to properly execute the maneuver. That meant that while the boat tacked, the wing sail didn't.
The image of one of the twin hulls lifted high in the sky while the towering wing sail nearly hit the water was so dramatic, it is already destined for the America's Cup highlight reels.
"We were about as close as you can possibly get before the thing would have ended up on its side," New Zealand skipper Dean Barker told reporters after the races. "We made one mistake. It cost us the race, but also came very, very close to costing a lot more than that."
Conditions on the bay Saturday were already dangerous. Not only was the wind strong, close to 23 mph, but an ebb tide was pulling the water out of the bay, causing rough waves. Similar conditions a year ago caused Oracle to capsize during a training exercise, nearly destroying its boat as it was dragged under the Golden Gate Bridge.
During Saturday's race, the Kiwi catamaran finally came crashing down, hard but safely, on both hulls. But not before Oracle Team USA had to take quick, evasive measures.
The Americans were just about to duck the Kiwis and might have crashed right into the side of the boat if they had not done a quick "crash tack" to avoid it. "Tack! Tack! Tack!" Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill was heard yelling from on board. The Americans avoided the distressed Kiwi boat and sailed ahead for two more legs to the finish line, winning by 52 seconds.
Although New Zealand had started the race strongly and led by three seconds at the first mark and eight seconds at the second, the Americans finally started to make gains on the cursed third leg, which has caused most of the team's frustrations in previous races.
After two crushing losses Thursday, the Oracle shore crew made a number of modifications to the boat to make it go faster upwind. Spithill wouldn't divulge the changes, but the bowsprit at the front of the boat was obviously shorter, making the boat lighter.
It helped. This time, on the third upwind tack, Oracle Team USA actually crossed ahead of New Zealand. It was on the next beat, when Oracle was getting close again, that the Kiwis called for the rushed tack, the boat started to tip and the crew held on, as Davies said, "for dear life."
Spithill said Saturday's win gives the team a confidence boost.
"Everybody's motivated and hungry," Spithill said. "We don't want to let these guys take the cup. We don't. We're obsessed with keeping it here."
Emirates Team New Zealand 6 points,
Oracle Team USA 0 points
Best-of-17 series or first team to 9 points
Sunday: Races 9 and 10, 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. 12:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network and 1 p.m. on COZI-TV
Tuesday: Races 11 and 12*, 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. on KNTV
Wednesday: Races 13* and 14*, 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. on KNTV
Thursday: Races 15* and 16*, 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. 1 p.m. on KNTV
Sept. 21: Race 17*, 1:15 p.m. 12:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network
* -- if necessary
NOTE: Because of penalties, Oracle Team USA began the America's Cup with minus-2 points, meaning it would need to win 11 races to retain the America's Cup. New Zealand needs to win nine. If necessary, Races 18 and 19 will be added to the schedule.
COZI-TV can be found on Comcast Channel 186 and over the air on Digital Channel 11.2.


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Why the Supreme Court Put the Utah Gay Marriage Ruling on Hold
By ordering a temporary stop to same-sex marriages in Utah, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent to a message to lower federal courts around the nation hearing similar challenges to gay marriage bans: slow down.
From Monday's 58-word order, we know that at least five justices supported putting on hold last month's Utah ruling in favor of gay marriage. The justices disagreed with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused leave Utah's prohibition in force.
University of Minnesota law professor Dale Carpenter, a constitutional scholar and expert on same-sex marriage law, said Monday's order will likely have the effect of slowing down the legalization of gay marriage by judicial fiat until the Supreme Court decides to revisit the issue.
"It's a signal to the other district courts and circuit courts across the country that we're not going to rush into this," Mr. Carpenter told Law Blog. "We're not going to allow anybody to game the system and make same-sex marriage legal nationwide before the Supreme Court gets to speak to the issue."
U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby last month ruled that Utah's marriage restrictions violated the equal-protection and due-process guarantees of the U.S Constitution. He also refused to postpone the effect of his ruling, allowing hundreds of Utah same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses.
The justices also may have wanted to contain the confusion and legal consequences for married gay couples in Utah should the high court ultimately refuse to declare gay marriage a right, says Mr. Carpenter.
"My hunch is that the Supreme Court wanted to preserve the status quo to preserve all of its options for the future," he said.
University of California-Irvine law professor Rick Hasen echoes a similar point on his blog.
"This is no surprise. Recognizing a constitutional right to same sex marriage is a big deal, which requires thought, consideration and preparation in the public if this is going to happen through the courts," Mr. Hasen wrote. "In Utah, one of the most conservative states in the union, we went all of a sudden overnight from no gay marriage to gay marriage."
The court struck down a 1996 federal law that denied federal benefits to lawfully wedded same-sex couples. But in a second case from California, the court declined to rule on that state's ban on same-sex marriages.
Mr. Carpenter said it's highly likely that the Supreme Court will return to the issue in the next year or so. He cautioned against reading too much into Monday's order. "Nobody knows whether there are five votes on the Supreme Court for same-sex marriage," he said.
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Emigration statistics for 2013 showed that 243 people left Ireland every day. That is one person leaving Ireland every six minutes.
The figures compiled by the Central Statistics Office covered the 12-month period up until April 2013 and show that a total of 89,000 people left the country.
While much of this emigration was forced, with heartbreaking scenes playing out in airports around Ireland, there is a new wave of emigration amongst the 'twenty something' college graduates.
These graduates are the ones who grew up in a flourishing Celtic Tiger Ireland. A generation that thrived on the power of having no limitations. We were labeled the 'Celtic Tiger cubs' and this was an apt description; we were cubs of Ireland's sucuess and then the casulties in it's spectalular fall from grace.
As emigration levels reach record highs in Ireland, it's easy to forget that not all emigration if of the heart-wrenching variety we have become accustomed to hearing about.
The new wave of emigration is something I have come to call the Celtic Cubs' 'choice' to leave. Choice is a very important word to remember in this scenario. For many young adults in Ireland, the thoughts of escaping Ireland for a few years and going traveling is one of the most appealing aspects to final year in college.
It's not about having to weigh morally on the responsibility of a mortgage, family commitments or huge personal debt from college fee's. Unlike American counterparts at the same age, Irish students for most part escape huge debts in acquiring a top class education.
In Ireland, we are lucky to have such a high class third level education, one that turns out the finest graduates year after year. Granted that there are not enough jobs available at present to meet graduate needs at home, but many recent college graduates are taking the plunge to pack up their Irish lives for a year or two and emigrate by choice, not by force.
It's not like it was thirty or forty years ago, when people had no choices. Past emigrants were not as lucky as us 'Celtic Tiger Cubs.' They settled on a life in America by force. For most recent graduates moving to the U.S, it's about being cutting edge in their chosen sector and choosing to seek out sucess in corporate America. And we have to thank those Irish emigrants who left thirty odd years ago as they were the foundations to the Irish American lives we now lead.
For the typical Irish graduate moving to the U.S it's about getting experience from the good old American work system and experiencing corporate America. While many may argue that so many young people are being forced to emigrate to lands far away, we have to realize that there is also a large percentage of the young, educated Irish who have no problem in going exploring, seeing different parts of the world between the ages of 24 and 26. They are taking up leading roles in the financial, legal and publishing industries because they have the education, skills and work ethic expected of them in America.
Personally, as a strong advocate of life experience, I think every university student in Ireland should be open to the idea of going to work abroad for a few years. Depending on your sector, it can greatly enhance career prospects for the future.
Don't get me wrong. There is nothing bad about wanting to stay and work in Ireland if the job is there to suit your needs, but do you really want to look back in thirty years and regret never leaving the bubble and setting yourself a challange to work abroad?
Prior to coming to New York I worked as an English teacher in Barcelona and a waiter in San Francisco. I experienced the American educational system through my studies in Boston as a communications major. It all led to one thing after college – I wanted to emigrate and pursue my journalism career in New York.
And I am not alone. Two young Irish men talked to me about their decisions to leave Ireland and experience corporate America. Like me, they feel it was their choice to leave and experience the New York side of life.
Nick Sainsbury is a 21-year-old Economics and Finance graduate from University College Dublin. He decided to emigrate for the experience of living in a vibrant city. He took the opportunity offered by the J1 graduate visa "to get some great experience under his belt having just graduated from UCD."
A native of Dublin, he is now working in New York for The Vision Lab, a company founded in 2012 by fellow Irishman Trevor Madigan.
"My role is leading product management, but I am also involved in all aspects of the business." Nick says he has been fortunate enough to meet and work with some interesting and successful individuals, both Irish and American.


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This meditation is said to redeem all negativity of the past and present, smooth out your day-to-day problems and create a positive tomorrow. It will change your luck and allow prosperity to flow.
Posture: Sit in Easy Pose, with a light neck lock.
Eyes: The eyes are 1/10th open. Concentrate at the Third Eye Point.
Mudra: Place the wrists over the knees, hands in Gyan Mudra, with the arms and elbows straight.
Mantra: Saa-Taa-Naa-Maa- Raa-Maa-Daa-Saa- Saa-Say-So-Hung
Part I
Chant the mantra on a single breath, as you press the fingertips of each hand sequentially (thumb to fore finger, thumb to middle finger, thumb to ring finger, thumb to little finger) with each syllable. Use a monotone voice. Continue for 11 minutes.
Part II
Inhale deeply and hold the breath. Move the body in a slow twist and stretch motion. Move each muscle of the body. Move the head, torso, arms, back, belly and hands. Then exhale powerfully. Repeat this 5 times.
Part III
Immediately sit straight. Look at the Lotus Point, the tip of the nose. Become totally calm, absolutely still. Meditate for 3 minutes.
To End: Inhale and hold the breath for 30 seconds as you physically move and rotate your body as if it is going through spasms. Every muscle must be stretched, squeezed and turned around, from the muscles in your face, head and neck, down to your toes. Exhale. Repeat this 3 more times. Then inhale, sit calmly and concentrate on the tip of your nose for 20 seconds. Exhale, and relax.
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We're going under the bun with the latest from Dunkin Donuts — the Chicken Apple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich. The big attraction here is the chicken apple sausage. It not only promises fast food consumers more flavor, it also holds the added benefit of a more healthful selection than regular pork sausage. But is that just a perceived benefit? And, more importantly, are the ingredients in the chicken apple sausage — and the entire sandwich, for that matter — worth that benefit?
We'll start with the nutrition facts for the sandwich:
Calories: 360
Fat: 11 g
Saturated Fat: 4 g
Cholesterol: 120 mg
Sodium: 1240 mg
Sugar: 7 g
If all you're simply concerned about calories and fat, this may not appear to be the worst choice you can make at Dunkin. If you compare it to the Sausage, Egg and Cheese Bagel sandwich at Dunkin, this new option contains 260 fewer calories, 15 fewer grams of fat, and 7 fewer grams of saturated fat. There's also less sodium and a bit more cholesterol in the Chicken Apple Sausage sandwich.
FoodFacts.com wants to get to the "meat" of the situation — the ingredient list. For us, that's the defining factor for any product, fast food sandwiches included. So let's take a look:
Sausage (Chicken, Water, Corn Syrup, Sugar Brown, Apples Dehydrated, Contains 2% or less of the following: [Salt, Sodium Lactate, Dextrose, Sodium Phosphate, Parsley, Sodium Diacetate, Flavors Natural, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrate Nitrite] ) , English Muffin(Wheat Enriched Bleached Flour [Wheat Flour, Barley Malted Flour, Niacin Vitamin B3, Iron Reduced, Thiamine Mononitrate Vitamin B1, Riboflavin Vitamin B2, Folic Acid Vitamin B9] ,Water, Wheat Starch, Yeast, Sugar Cane Fiber, Contains 2% or less of the following: [Corn Syrup High Fructose, Chicory Root, Corn Flour Yellow Degerminated, Corn Meal Degerminated Yellow, Wheat Durum Flour Whole, Wheat Gluten, Vinegar, Calcium Propionate,Salt, Dextrose, Soybeans Oil, Calcium Sulphate, Fumaric Acid] ) , Eggs (Eggs Whites, Water,Eggs Yolks, Corn Starch Modified, Flavors Natural Sauteed [Soybeans Oil, Triglycerides Medium Chain, Flavors Natural] , Salt, Flavors Artificial Butter [Propylene Glycol, Flavors Artificial] , Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid, Peppers Black Coarse Ground) , Cheese Cheddar Reduced Fat (Milk Pasteurized Part Skim, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Annatto Color)
While the chicken apple sausage does, in fact, contain less fat than traditional pork sausage, it's important to point out that it still contains sodium nitrate. So the benefits consumers may perceive are limited to fat content and don't extend to the ingredients. Add to that some high-fructose corn syrup, natural and artificial flavors plus propylene glycol and you've pretty much got a very typical fast food breakfast sandwich.
Our conclusion for Dunkin Donuts Chicken Apple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich is simple. We can come up with more than a few better ways to spend 360 calories for our morning meal. This one is lighter in fat and calories than some other choices, but the ingredient list is a definite turn-off.


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Angel Cabrera, 43, has made the most of his two career wins in 187 starts on the U.S. Tour, carting away prized trophies with his victories in the 2007 U.S. Open and the 2009 Masters.
Sensing another chance to feed his appetite for majors at the Masters, Cabrera went to work on Saturday.
The man nicknamed "El Pato" (The Duck) for his distinctive walk, collected six birdies to offset three bogeys for a 69 that lifted him into a tie with American Brandt Snedeker for the lead at seven under par heading into Sunday's final round.
As the only player among the top six on the leaderboard with a major title to his credit, Cabrera could have an edge in the pressure cooker of Masters Sunday.
"It's definition time,," he told reporters through an interpreter. "Tomorrow it's more about execution and about patience.
"I think it's important that you know where to miss. That's very important. And when you've played so many times or many years this tournament, it really helps just the fact that you know where you can miss a shot," said Cabrera, competing in his 14th Masters.
A ferocious competitor, Cabrera has battled back from a string of injury-riddled seasons and showed his tenacity once again at Augusta National, where he won a three-way playoff for the green jacket four years ago.
Following that victory he had to confront dental problems, needing to have 10 teeth replaced. He suffered from tendinitis in his left wrist in 2010 and had minor surgery in 2011 to repair a small tear in his lower digestive system.
Still, the man from Cordoba grinds relentlessly on.
He began the sunny, breezy day on four under par, but midway through the round had grabbed the lead at the 10th with his fourth birdie of the day.
Cabrera temporarily lost his touch with back-to-back bogeys from the 12th, but got back on track when he birdied the par-three 16th with a six-foot putt and then seized a share of the third-round lead by sinking a 12-foot putt at the last.
With his son, Angel Cabrera Jr., who made his first start on the PGA Tour earlier this year in the Puerto Rico Open, caddying for him this week, the Argentine is set for grand finale.
"In 2009, I was nervous, anxious," he said, recalling his tension-filled victory at Augusta National.
"But now I'm very comfortable. I know what I've got to do tomorrow to be able to get the win."
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Stephen Curry bought enough food to feed 400 families and was there to greet them at a church in North Oakland the day after Christmas. A rep from the Oakland Fire Department came to retrieve a bounty for delivery to families in need. So Curry loaded several boxes onto his arms and walked them out himself. And he was giddy about it.
"I love helping out. There is no better feeling than doing something for others. It's a great thrill just to be able to assist in any way I can."
He's talking about charity. But he's also talking about basketball. And if you're too mesmerized by his jumper, or too irritated by his turnovers, you may be missing this element to his game. If so, you're missing something special.
He is known for his ability to shoot the ball, a craft passed down from his sharpshooting father. But Curry's parlayed that one trick into a basketball magic show.
The talented shooter has evolved into a premier facilitator producing at ridiculous levels. As a result, before our very eyes is blossoming the caliber of player the Warriors haven't seen since Chris Mullin left to play for the Pacers.
Curry is a virtual lock to make the All-Star game, possibly as a starter. When's the last time you said that about a Warrior?
He is second in the league in assists at 9.6 per game, nearly three assists above his career-best average. He has assisted on 38.8 percent of his teammates' baskets when he is on the court, the third-best assist percentage in the league.
Only Chris Paul, widely considered the NBA's best point guard, tops Curry in both categories. That's crazy considering just in October, the annual general managers' survey had Curry tied for third-best shooting guard in the NBA.
Curry, finally, confessed how he really feels when people say he's not a point guard.
"I get salty," Curry said. "That's the position I've envisioned myself playing since my junior year in college. I knew I was going to be able to make an impact in the NBA -- whether they think I do it in the stereotypical way or whatever. In any situation, when anybody sees you in a different way than you see yourself, it's frustrating."
That's why his turnovers -- his 4.1 per game is tops among qualified players -- bother him so much. He knows they only play into the slight he fights so hard to disprove.
He said one time he got so mad at his turnovers he launched his mouthpiece into the crowd. He acknowledged after a bad turnover game it usually takes the ride home for him to simmer down.
That area of his game is a must to develop. But lingering on that element is like being too mad about the salad at Morton's to enjoy the steak and asparagus.
Despite lacking in athleticism, Curry has learned to use wizardry to get in the lane consistently and set up teammates. Seemingly every game, he pulls off at least one pass that makes you wondering how he did it. And he's doing it despite defenses determined to nullify his production.
The craziest part about Curry's growth as a passer and playmaker is that it hasn't taken away from his production as a scorer. He is less efficient a shooter, down to 44.9 percent from the field, which is on pace for a career-low. But his 23.4 points per game ranks seventh in the NBA.
Curry has a chance to become the first player since Hall of Famer Tiny Archibald to finish top five in scoring and assists.
"A dynamic scoring point guard with incredible range and skills," is how Miami coach Erik Spoelstra described him Thursday.
In many ways, this development in Curry's game is a basketball prophecy coming to fruition. Basketball minds such as Don Nelson and Steve Kerr said when Curry was drafted they saw another Steve Nash, a two-time MVP and future Hall of Famer.
Such was evident his rookie season, when Nelson gave him the keys to the Warriors late in a lost season and Curry started putting up numbers that drew Oscar Robertson comparisons. Since then, it's been a constant fight for him to get back to that player.
Now, Curry is that player. He is vindicating himself in historic fashion. And if you're not paying attention, you're missing it.
"I still feel like I can get better," said Curry, who said his best feeling as a basketball player is completing a long alley-oop because it requires a nearly perfect pass. "I haven't mastered anything."
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Warriors point guard Stephen Curry is having a career season in assists. Here's how he stacks up with league leaders and other All-Star caliber
backcourt players:
Player, team Assists
1. Chris Paul, LAC 11.3
2. Stephen Curry, GSW 9.6
3. John Wall, WAS 8.9
4t. Brandon Jennings, DET 8.3
4t. Ricky Rubio, MIN 8.3
Notables Assists
10. Russell Westbrook, OKC 7.0
11. LeBron James, MIA 6.6
14t. Kyrie Irving, CLE 6.1
14t. Tony Parker, SA 6.1
17. Damian Lillard, POR 6.0


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The customers, staff, and management of Chicken Bones Party Bar and Grill donated $735 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure from a special event, "Cocktails for a Cause – Little Black Dress Night." This was the first of a series of "Cocktails for a Cause" events with a goal of raising a total of $5,000 for women's charities.
The first of the "Cocktails for a Cause – Little Black Dress Night" was held Saturday, Dec. 1 and was attended by more than 300 people from around Mid-Missouri. Held in association with corporate sponsor Little Black Dress Vodka, these are a series of events to dress up and step out.
"We are extremely excited and thrilled to have the corporate sponsorship of Little Black Dress Vodka committed for six Little Black Dress Night events with us," said Director of Operations John Randles. "The Susan G. Komen foundation is the perfect match for our first Cocktails for a Cause event. Everyone knows someone or has had cancer impact their own life, so it is fitting that our first donation go towards an organization that benefits research, education, and a search for a cure not only here in America but worldwide."
The next "Cocktails for a Cause – Little Black Dress Night" will be held at Chicken Bones Party Bar and Grill Saturday, Jan. 19. Ladies wearing a little black dress receive free admission and a special cocktail menu. All door proceeds will go to a women's charity.
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STANFORD -- It wasn't the second seeding that surprised Stanford's women Monday.
But being sent to Ames, Iowa, to open the NCAA tournament came as a jolt as the sixth-ranked Cardinal begins its bid to reach the Women's Final Four for the sixth time in seven years.
Stanford (29-3) kicks off the tournament Saturday at Hilton Coliseum in Ames against No. 15 seed South Dakota. Barring upsets, Stanford will have to defeat seventh-seeded Iowa State on the Cyclones' court to reach the Sweet 16.
"If you've done this enough, be expected to be surprised," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "We could have helped the draw at UCLA or Seattle. The people who are punished the most are our fans in the first- and second-round games.
"We just cut out 3,000 of our" fans.
The Cardinal, which had the country's third-best RPI ranking, was expected to open the tournament in a subregional at UCLA or Seattle. But a stinging defeat to USC in the Pac-12 tournament semifinals March 8 seemed to hurt its standing.
Instead, the Cardinal is being sent to the Midwest in its 27th consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament. Stanford failed to earn a top seed for the first time in five years.
The Final Four is scheduled for April 6 and 8 in Nashville, Tenn.
"The seeding doesn't really matter to me," VanDerveer said. But "if this is a slap in the face, let it be a chip on people's shoulders. It can all be good for us. Hey, let's show people."
Senior Chiney Ogwumike agreed.
"You want as much fuel" added "to the fire, proving we are a top team in the country," she said.
If it wins twice in Iowa, Stanford will advance to the regional semifinals at Maples Pavilion, where it is 14-0 this season.
South Carolina (27-4) earned the top seeding in the Stanford regional despite losing in the second round of the Southeastern Conference tournament. Penn State is seeded third in the region and North Carolina fourth.
"We have played great basketball, then we had some missteps, but so has everyone else" except UConn and Notre Dame, VanDerveer said. "If you want to take care of business, you don't lose any games."
Iowa State (20-10) enters the tournament with a two-game losing streak, including a second-round defeat to Oklahoma State in the Big 12 tournament. But it could have a big following in a second-round matchup Monday against Stanford.
That's OK with Ogwumike, a college player of the year candidate who averages 26.8 points and 12.3 rebounds per game. She just wants another chance to play at Maples before her record-setting career ends.
"I'm just itching to play," Ogwumike said. "I don't care where we play."
First round matchups
Saturday at Ames, Iowa: Stanford
(29-3) vs. South Dakota (19-13), 3:30 p.m.
Saturday at Waco, Texas: Cal (21-9)
vs. Fordham (25-7), 1 p.m.
TOP Regional SEEDS
LINCOLN: Connecticut
STANFORD: South Carolina
NOTRE DAME: Notre Dame
LOUISVILLE: Tennessee
For more on the tournament, go to http://www.mercurynews.com/college-sports


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A deputy was on westbound Interstate 70 near Wolcott on Nov. 6 when he saw a van backing up in the eastbound lanes. Another car and a semi truck had to brake hard and stop in the middle of the highway to avoid hitting the van.
The officer used an emergency turnaround and contacted the driver of the van. The 36-year-old smelled of alcohol and said he missed the Wolcott exit. He thought he was safe to back up to reach the exit.
The man agreed to perform voluntary roadside sobriety tests and failed. He was arrested for further investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol. He was cited for driving while his ability was impaired (DWAI) and backing a vehicle on the highway.
A deputy stopped a car for speeding in Edwards on Nov. 7.
The 29-year-old driver said he didn't have a license and only drives from Eagle River Village to Lake Creek Village to pick up his friend who drives from there. He pointed to a man coming over to the car.
The deputy checked the second man's license and found it had been suspended. The 29-year-old's license had nine restraints on his revoked license.
The 29-year-old was arrested for driving with a revoked license and warned for careless driving.
An Edwards resident reported that a softball-sized rock was thrown through her back windshield on Nov. 7 and that she had an idea who was responsible.
She said one of her former employees smoked marijuana in her car as a joke when she left it unlocked three months ago. She reported him to their superiors and the 40-year-old man was fired after an investigation. She said during the investigation, the man claimed that she sexually harassed him but no basis to that claim was ever established.
Since his termination, the woman had seen the man around. He would smile and flip her off and she felt threatened by him. She saw him the day the rock was thrown through the window of her car.
She told deputies not to speak to him, however, because she feared further retaliation. Officers gave her information for getting a restraining order against the man but she said he is powerful and could get someone else to do things for him.
The damage to the car was estimated at $1,500.
Deputies investigated a disturbance at an Edwards home on Nov. 11.
They met a 24-year-old man outside the residence who said his roommate punched him. There was a cut above his eye. He said his 25-year-old roommate punched him after he told him he didn't like his girlfriend. The officers noted that the man was intoxicated and had an ambulance examine his injury.
The 25-year-old said he and the 24-year-old were going to a job fair in the morning and the 24-year-old was drinking heavily. He said the 24-year-old has been having lots of problems and was drinking too much lately. He confronted the 24-year-old about the drinking and the man got upset, started spewing insults and then tried to punch him but missed. The 25-year-old said he reacted by punching the 24-year-old. The 25-year-old's girlfriend saw the incident and confirmed the story.
The 24-year-old declined to press charges and arranged to stay somewhere else for the night.
A 19-year-old Gypsum store clerk called deputies on Nov. 13 about two young men who were trying to buy alcohol without their IDs and past the time when the clerk was permitted to sell alcohol. The men wouldn't leave the store and tried bribing the clerk to sell them alcohol.
Deputies arrived and found the men sitting in a car that had just pulled into a parking space from a gas pump. The 20-year-old driver rolled down his window to talk to the officers, who noticed the car smelled of burned marijuana. The deputies recognized the 22-year-old passenger in the car from previous encounters they had with him.
The officers asked the driver why they were trying so persistently to buy alcohol. The 20-year-old man said they just forgot their IDs. The deputies asked the man to get out of the car and walk behind it. The man complied but appeared to be intoxicated as he leaned on the car for support to walk.
A pat-down search turned up a lighter that appeared to be stolen from the store, an apple with three holes in it that were filled with burned marijuana and an electric scale. The man confirmed the apple was used for smoking marijuana and said he carried the scale "so I don't get ripped off when I'm buying my stuff." The officers asked what he meant by "stuff" and he said marijuana. The man said he smoked about 90 minutes earlier.
The man agreed to perform voluntary roadside sobriety tests. He said he knew how to do them because he was arrested last month for DWAI. He failed the maneuvers and was arrested for further investigation of DUI. He submitted a blood test to check his system for drugs.
The store clerk said the men had yet to pay for $60 of fuel they pumped. The 22-year-old offered to pay for it with his bank card but it was declined for insufficient funds. The 20-year-old said to get money out of his wallet but it only contained $20. The clerk said the he wouldn't charge the men for fuel piracy if they paid in the next 12 hours.
The store clerk also was sure the lighter found in the man's pocket was stolen. There was one empty space on the rack that had been full before the men came in. Surveillance video also showed the man standing near the rack but there was no definitive proof he stole the lighter. He said he bought it in Eagle.
A deputy called the store 12 hours later, after the 20-year-old was booked into jail, to see if the men managed to pay for the gas. They hadn't. A store manager said the man is now banned from the store.
The 20-year-old was charged for DUI, possession of drug paraphernalia and fuel piracy.
Deputies investigated a report of drunken driving on Nov. 19 and found the suspect sitting in her car parked in front of an Eagle-Vail residence.
The officers noted there was vomit near the car and the woman didn't respond to most of the questions they asked her. They asked to see her license and she said it was in the house. They escorted her to the front door and she went inside and locked them out.
Deputies persisted to knock on the door and a man answered. He said he didn't know who they were talking about and tried to close the door. An officer put her foot in the door and said she had the right to enter and look for the suspect based on the information they had but she hoped the suspect would come to the door on her own. The man went upstairs and the deputies heard talking but the man came back and said the woman was passed out. Deputies said they needed to call an ambulance. The man went back inside and the woman came to the door.
She couldn't explain the vomit and denied that she had been drinking. She said she had been at her boyfriend's in Avon and then she said they couldn't prove she had been driving. The officers said they had plenty of evidence and asked her to perform voluntary sobriety tests, which the woman refused.
She was arrested for further investigation of DUI and submitted to a blood test. She was charged for DUI and obstructing a police officer, and released into the custody of her boyfriend's mom.
Four tires were stolen from a Beaver Creek Resorts storage room around Nov. 15. Beaver Creek security officers suspect the thief is among approximately 20 employees who have the combination for the lock on the room. The tires are worth $1,000 and were labeled "vehicle 214" with yellow spray paint.


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text: 30 September 2011 archive See all show photos THERE was a distinct lack of clapping at this afternoon's Dior show - the first ready-to-wear collection to be presented by the house since Galliano's departure - but that may have been more due to us wilting in the heat than it was due to disapproval. (It's 33 degrees now and Net-A-Porter has just sent an email to all editors telling us that we can buy emergency summer clothes and have them delivered free to our hotels by Sunday should we need to.) In fact, the collection - created by the Dior team headed up by Galliano's former right-hand man Bill Gaytten in lieu of an official announcement about who, eventually, will take up the headline job - went down rather better than we thought it might after an outraged and universal panning of the Dior Couture show in July. READ THE REPORT HERE "I thought it was really pretty: wonderful light eveningwear - it was a great leap forward from the couture show, particularly with the light treatment of lace and chiffon," said Lucinda Chambers afterwards. "I could see it all on the red carpet." It played very, very safe - the long white glossy catwalk was surrounded by a few white LEDs - a world away from the pomp and ceremony of a Dior-by-Galliano show - with full skirts and boat-necked, collarless jackets of frayed tweed belted in narrow leather or chains over them. Demure, proper, grown-up and understated, this was no bid for big stories. Full tweed coats, leather cloche hats by Stephen Jones and organza skirts in palest blue and grey had a classic demeanour - it was Fifties glamour unsullied by bad behaviour - or fun, in fact - and uncompromising in quality. There was lots of leather - for red sleeveless tops or jackets over tailored trousers that stopped short of the ankle to show off chain-embellished heels. The eveningwear was much more light-hearted and relaxed the atmosphere with red chiffon party dresses, vertical ruffles of light nude wool that skimmed the body and light-as-air gowns of pale green, black and white or nude that featured lace under layers beneath multiple layers of chiffon that were as sexy as they were romantic. The girls - including Karolina Kurkova, who opened, Karlie Kloss and Hollywood wife Miranda Kerr - had soft chignons and were perfectly preened, just as you'd expect them to be. Gaytten took a shy bow at the end and that was that - Dior without Galliano lives on, while we wait for the next story to break. READ THE LATEST ON THE DIOR SAGA SEE THE CHRISTIAN DIOR SHOW ARCHIVE Dolly Jones Continue reading Back to top


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FREMONT -- A 48-year-old man fatally shot last week inside his Fremont home was killed by his son in self-defense and police are calling the death a justifiable homicide, authorities said Tuesday. A preliminary investigation by police and the Alameda County District Attorney's Office revealed that the man's 27-year-old son, who also lived in the home, shot him one time in the chest with a handgun, killing him in self-defense during a dispute, said police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques.
The 48-year-old's identity has not been released by the county coroner or the police.
"At this time (the son) is not being charged," Bosques said. "It was a family dispute between the father and two sons and other family members were present."
She did not say what the fight was over.
Police are not releasing the identity of the son, who turned himself in following the 5:25 p.m. Thursday shooting in the 39500 block of Pardee Court.
Bosques said that this was not the first time officers have responded to the family's home.
"We have had contact with the (father and son) in the past, including drug-related incidents," she said. "We do not know if drugs are a factor at this time. But the case is not closed as we are awaiting results of toxicology tests and an autopsy report."
On the night of the fatal shooting, officers arriving on the scene found the older man dead of a gunshot wound. The son had already left the home by the time police arrived.
About two hours later, at 7:20 p.m., the son walked into Fremont police headquarters, identified himself and surrendered the weapon he told police was used in the shooting, police said.
Investigators interviewed him and released him Thursday night, according to Det. Bill Veteran.
Anyone with information about this incident can call police at 510-790-6800 or at the anonymous tip line at 510-494-4856.
Contact Natalie Neysa Alund at 510-293-2469. Follow her at Twitter.com/nataliealund.