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Dolly P. Morey, 85, of McPherson and formerly of Aurora, Colo., passed away Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at her daughter's home in McPherson. She was a homemaker and had been a McPherson resident since 2008.
She was born December 10, 1927, in Sullivan, N. Y., the daughter of Harry A. and Bernice (Cilley) Peterson. On Dec. 27, 1947, she married Theodore Franklyn Morey in North Chili, N. Y. He died Aug. 25, 1983.
Survivors include: her children, Linda Ballenger of Lansing, Mich., Pam Zimmerman (Bob) of Parker, Colo., Judy Shaw (Tim) of McPherson, Glenn Morey (Julie) of Denver, Galen Morey (Tammy) of Bennett, Colo., Gayle Wilson (Steve) of Dubai, U.A.E., and Glenda Morey of Pueblo, Colo.; 20 grandchildren and four great- grandchildren.
A private service and inurnment will take place at the Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver.
Memorial donations may be given to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in care of Stockham Family Funeral Home, 205 N. Chestnut, McPherson, KS 67460. Personal condolences may be posted online at www.stockhamfamily.com.
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Sage Francis wrote: That is outlandish. Ha. I mean...that's all I can say about that. Strangely hilarious at the same time. Might be the lowest rating I've ever ever seen ever. Yet, I'm still listening to this album with delight.
ah well. Pitchfork, you did it again. Kudos. We'll use it as a selling point.
It's like the writer ate an apple and rated it on the kind of things he'd expect from a hamburger.
a whopping 0.2 from Pitchfork Media
haha YES
Bob_ptmfus wrote: For the record they have given 0.0's before.
avatar wrote: They'll give the new Jeezy at least an 8.

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Former Ripley Police Officer George Michale Puskas II, 31, filed bond paperwork in U.S. District Court Wednesday for release from jail on a $10,000 unsecured bond.
Puskas II, 31, was arrested by U.S. Federal Marshals recently in Ripley and lodged in the South Central Regional Jail.
Puskas faces federal charges alleging solicitation of a minor for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of sexually explict conduct, receiving child pornography and possession of child pornography.
As conditions of the bond, Puskas will have to reside with his father and must continue to seek employment or education, avoid all contact with the juvenile female victim or any witness in the federal case against him, not possess a firearm or other weapon, not use alcohol excessively, not possess drugs and submit for testing if required, observe a 10 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew, submit to location monitoring and other rules pertaining to being released on bond.
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Digital Journalist photo blog AUG 26 2008
The Digital Journalist has launched a photo blog modeled after The Big Picture. Well done. I've followed this site on and off for years but always found it too difficult to navigate through to find the photography, which is shot by top-notch photojournalists and is amazing. Nice to see the photography put front and center. Case in point: this wonderful selection of sports photos by Walter Iooss Jr., punctuated by stories of the athletes he was photographing (Tiger Woods, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, etc.). Here's Iooss' account of photographing Jordan at the 1988 dunk contest:
The problem with shooting the NBA slam-dunk contest was that you never knew how the players were going to dunk, especially Jordan. In 1997 [sic, it was actually 1987] he had twirled and dunked with his back to me. But by this time I knew him a little better. As he sat in the stands three hours before the contest, I said, "Michael, can you tell me which way you're going to go, so I can move and get your face in the picture?" He looked at me as if I were crazy but then said, "Sure. Before I go out to dunk I'll put my index finger on my knee and point which way I'm going." I said, "You're going to remember that?" And he said, "Sure." So later, when they announced his name, I looked over to him on the bench and there was his finger pointing left. I got up and moved to the right side of the basket so I could see his face. He went left every time he dunked. On his last two dunks he ran the length of the court, took off from the foul line and slammed the ball through. On the next-to-last one he landed in my lap. On the last one I set up in the same spot. He looked at me as if to say, "Go left a little, give me some room this time." And that was it, the picture was made: 1000th of a second frozen in time.
BTW, I've heard that The Big Picture has spawned a number of copycats around the web, including this one from the WSJ.


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Among items in the Wood County Genealogical Research Center archives is a letter from a Confederate soldier prisoner of war in 1864.
Lt. James G. Blackmon of Company B, 2nd Infantry Battalion of Waul's Texas Legion, C.S.A. was from Hempstead, Texas. He was captured at Yazoo City, Mississippi in July 1863. He was in three different prisons including the last at Fort Delaware where he died of pneumonia on January 1, 1865.
The letter was written from the Officers Barracks at Fort Delaware, December 11, 1864 less than a month before his death. It was addressed to Cousin Beckie.
The following transcription is by society member Sally Allcorn who came across the letter while working in the research center archives.
Officers Barracks
Fort Delaware December 11th 1864
My dear Cousin Beckie
Your very kind and affectionate letter of the 3rd inst came to hand several days ago and would have been answered ere this but cos have been awaiting a reply from the commanding officer here as we had sent out a petition asking to be allowed to receive a box of eatables for Christmas. Which request I am sorry to say was refused and I suppose we will have to be content with our usual daily allowance which consists of a small piece of buffalo bacon and bread. Coffee, tea and sugar we get for greenbacks at the rate of one dollar per pound for ground coffee and sixty cents per pound for sugar. That is almost equal to the starving confederacy is it not. My dear cousin I did not apply for a permit for the blanket from the fact that an officer of my division made a similar request only a few days ago and was refused. I often ask myself this question, why we are this punished. I shall endeavor to obtain permission to receive some stationary and the cough mixture, my health I am rejoiced to say is much better and I hope to be entirely well soon and if you will only write often I will assure you that your dear letter shall lack nothing in interest on that score. So write often. My kindest regards to Cousin Annie. Ever your Cousin,
James G. Blackmon
A copy of the original is available in the members only area at http://wcgs.posterous.com/my-first-blog-post-22939.


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What 'Boyhood' Means for IFC Parent AMC Networks
Richard Linklater's indie film "Boyhood" has knocked critics' socks so cleanly off that it has turned the one lonely naysayer at the Los Angeles Times into a kind of Internet celebrity.
Screenings at some theaters on the country's coasts are selling out hours in advance. Chatter has already begun about an Oscar for Best Picture.
But lest anyone get overly optimistic about the relationship between art and commerce in the American movie business, Josh Sapan, the CEO of AMC Networks, which owns "Boyhood" distributor IFC Films, made clear that the film isn't making anyone all that much money.
"We are very pleased with 'Boyhood,' but we are not going to pop the champagne bottle on the economic side for AMC Networks because of it," Sapan told analysts on the company's second-quarter earnings call Thursday.
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The film's domestic box office total as of Aug. 6 was $8.3 million, according to Box Office Mojo. It had a production budget of $4 million, according to the site.
Sapan said the film "had a couple of good weeks at the box office," is widening its distribution, and "has been sold internationally reasonably well." But he cautioned against analysts giving IFC Films much of a role in its parent company's profit and loss statement.
"We mentioned 'Boyhood' in the materials because it is 'in the conversation' and doing well," he said. "But we shouldn't lead you to believe it has a substantial effect on the aggregate AMC Networks performance."
AMC Networks owns U.S. cable channels such as AMC, IFC and Sundance TV, as well as a growing international pay-TV channel business. Its net revenues in the second quarter were $522 million.
IFC Films is an offshoot of the IFC network, and usually acts as a distributor, Sapan said. Its previous films include "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Frances Ha." In the case of "Boyhood," Sapan said "we are essentially the owners of the film with the filmmaker, so we will enjoy the economic benefits of it."
"For what is a relatively small individual piece of business, it will have very good performance," he added.
Sapan suggested that the real benefits to AMC from the film, which was made over a dozen years and shows a family aging in real time, might be in how it helps the wider company attract top creative talent. This is a particularly important element for the small channel group that has branded itself, through hits like "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad," as the home of smart, upscale dramas.
"Some of the material on the television screen that is commanding a lot of attention domestically and now increasingly internationally was not like it used to be, meaning shows like "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad," "Rectify," are not shows that 10 years ago on television were commanding a lot of attention," he said, adding, "So we think the independent film world has some nexus to this, because people working historically in film are to some degree now interested in TV, and that will provide some benefit to us prospectively and opportunistically."


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THE NATION//LIVE Exhibition Catalogue 10" LP - including Catalogue, DVD & Download Code
Various artists
This limited edition 10'' vinyl features music by Wounded Knee, Davno, Do the God's Speak Esperanto and others, created in the Roots section of THE NATION//LIVE. THE NATION//LIVE catalogue and exhibition presents a dramatic vision of Scotland's story. The project has drawn participants from across Scotland and is one of the Galleries' most ambitious community outreach projects to date. This new interpretation of past events asked people to examine their own life stories by engaging with historical works of art. It captures these encounters between the past and the present, the national and the regional and links local heroes and events to the works in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery collection.
The package includes a project catalogue, DVD and download code for mp3 versions of the music.
Find out more about the project here
The exhibition runs from 4 Oct 2013 – 6 May 2014 at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
10'' vinyl LP plus Exhibition catalogue, DVD and download code 44pp , 48 colour illustrations, Hardback October 2013


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NEW ORLEANS -- There is Denzel Washington's speech in "Remember the Titans" and Gene Hackman's talk to his squad in "Hoosiers."
And then there's the postgame oration Jermaine O'Neal gave Tuesday after his improbable performance to lift the Warriors to a much-needed 102-101 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans.
"I keep telling these guys that trials and tribulations will build character for a true championship team," O'Neal said. "It may not look good all the time, but we keep fighting, we keep fighting. It doesn't matter who's on the court in a Warriors uniform, we always feel like we have enough. Hopefully these lessons we're learning early, all the injuries ... is teaching us a lesson. I truly believe at the end of the year, we're going to be rewarded for these lessons that we've learned."
Leave it to the 35-year-old, 18th-year veteran to lift the Warriors when they needed it most. The Warriors were without Andrew Bogut, suspended for a game for his role in the altercation with Portland on Saturday. Swingman Andre Iguodala (strained left hamstring) didn't make the trip. But O'Neal, a former All-Star turned backup center, pulled off a timely throwback performance.
He finished with 18 points and eight rebounds in his first game back after missing the previous four. He was out with a bruised right knee and strained right groin. O'Neal revealed Tuesday that he also had a sore wrist and a viral infection that left him barely able to speak Sunday.
But when the Warriors' needed buckets, he provided them, making 9 of 12 shots. His biggest came at the 2:12 mark, a putback that proved to be the eventual game-winner.
"That's why we went and got him," coach Mark Jackson said. "He plays similar defense as Bogut. He anchors our defense and is a presence in the post. He came ready to score. We missed Bogut, but Jermaine did an outstanding job at carrying us at times."
Adding to the inspirational performance by O'Neal was the reality it was inches from not happening.
New Orleans guard Eric Gordon, who had 16 points and had hit half his four 3-pointers, had a wide-open look for the game-winning 3. But it rolled around the rim and out.
Klay Thompson secured the rebound and dribbled out the clock, snapping a three-game losing streak.
"Hey, 9-6 is better than 8-7," Thompson said after totaling 22 points and a career-high-tying eight assists. "It may be only November, but these were wins you need throughout the season. You never know what will happen down the road. But in March and April, you need these wins."
The Warriors head to Dallas for a Thanksgiving Eve showdown with the Dallas Mavericks and former Golden State star Monta Ellis. They certainly feel much better about themselves after Tuesday's nail-biter.
The Warriors looked as if they were headed for a fourth straight loss, having squandered a 15-point lead and trailing 77-76 to start the fourth quarter.
The game was tied at 93 inside of four minutes left, and the Warriors, instead of folding as they had in three losses, summoned some of the fight that led to their 8-3 start to the season.
O'Neal hit a jumper, and after Anthony Davis missed a dunk, Thompson drilled a 3-pointer to put Golden State up 98-93 with 3:09 left.
Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday answered with a 3-pointer, cutting the Warriors' lead to two.
David Lee followed with two free throws, but Davis responded by converting a three-point play inside -- catching a lob from Holiday as he'd done multiple times in the game. Davis was fouled on the play, and his free throw cut the Warriors' lead to 100-99 with 2:25 left.
O'Neal gave the Warriors a three-point lead with a put back, then Davis dunked home a missed jumper to make it a one-point game again.
Needing a bucket with inside a minute left, the Warriors went back to O'Neal. But he missed the fadeaway, giving the Pelicans the ball with 22.9 seconds left. Golden State didn't play great defense, as no one covered Gordon after Holiday drove to the basket.
But this night, they didn't need to be perfect. They were fortunate.
"This team has enough," O'Neal continued. "The difference I think with this team and my Indiana team ... everybody really loves each other. When you have a group that loves each other, and has no envy about anything we're doing, the sky's the limit. I keep telling these guys, do not let this moment pass us by."
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Trent Reznor and Jimmy Iovine Discuss the New Beats Music Service
Seven years ago Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor parted ways with his record label, Vivendi's Interscope Records, determined to find a better way to get his music to fans as CD sales plummeted and downloads were failing to ramp up fast enough.
His wild – and often successful – experiments included selling $300 deluxe editions of new albums. On his 2007 European tour he created an elaborate treasure hunt that led fans looking for his new music to concert-venues bathroom stalls, where he'd hidden flash drives.
Finally, Mr. Reznor thinks he's found the answer: He's rejoined forces with the head of his old label, Interscope Chairman Jimmy Iovine, to launch Beats Music, an on-demand music streaming service that will offer unlimited access to a catalog of 20 million-plus songs for about $10 a month.
The basic model is hardly cutting edge; Spotify AB, Google Inc.'s All Access and Sony Corp.'s Music Unlimited are just a few of the companies offering roughly the same deal.
But Beats Music executives including Mr. Reznor, the "chief creative officer," believe their combination of music-industry savvy and aggressive marketing could make their service the first to hook mainstream America on music streaming and theoretically generating significant revenue for musicians and their record labels.
Mr. Reznor signed in 1991 with Interscope, which released the bulk of the 13.6 million albums he's sold to date, and left in 2007, shortly after the release of his album "Year Zero," which he promoted with an alternate reality game reflecting the album's fictional storyline, leaving clues for fans in murals, websites and phone messages and hiding music on flash drives in concert-venue bathroom stalls.
"I arrogantly thought if I was free of a record label, I could figure it out," said Mr. Reznor, 48. "There was about five minutes of celebration followed by a kind of hollow: what are we going to do now? Including your album on 60 million flash drives in Russia sounds like a good idea – until when you really get down to it." Then, he added, "It's kind of stupid."
He tried more run-of-the-mill direct-marketing techniques that included bundling records with concert tickets and giving albums away in exchange for email addresses, but also tried bolder schemes.
His results varied: $300 collectors editions of one album sold out over a weekend. But when he gave fans in his database the option to either download an album he'd produced for free or pay a discounted price directly to the artist, his friend Saul Williams, only 18% of his fans opted to pay.
"I'd find myself furious at fans because why? Because they were excited to listen to my new music over here instead of over here," Mr. Reznor said. "At the same time I could put myself in shoes of the consumer."
In the end, he said of his marketing experiments, "all of it was a lot of work, and all of it felt piecemeal. It was such a quickly evolving landscape that there wasn't any real business model to be found."
Then Mr. Reznor tried Spotify. After the initial thrill of finding his own music, he said the service "didn't suck me in – I had to remind myself to keep using it." So he began to dream up his own version designed primarily for smartphones that could "magically" play the right song for every moment. When he heard Mr. Iovine was already working on a service to do the same, he said he insisted on "a seat at the table."
Mr. Iovine said he was encouraged about their curation-focused strategy after trying a popular streaming service and creating a custom channel based on Bruce Springsteen. First, he said, John Fogerty's "Centerfield" came up, which he thought was "clever." But the next song, Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine," appeared to relate to Mr. Springsteen for only a superficial reason: the song is from an album called "New Jersey," the state heavily identified with Mr. Springsteen and home to Mr. Bon Jovi.
"I said, we're going to be rich," said Mr. Iovine. "I know exactly what this thing does."
The service will be promoted in Target Corp. stores across the country, and will be featured on Ellen DeGenere's talk show. AT&T will offer the service to family-plan subscribers for $14.99 for up to five people.
Unlike most existing music services, Beats' home screen doesn't include a blank search box where users enter an artist, song or album title.
Instead, a tab offers a list of options about where users are, who they are with, what they are doing and what they're in the mood for. After the last selection is made, a Beats serves up what it has determined is an appropriate song.
Another tab allows users to browse hour-long playlists, listed by activity. Beats promises to regularly update the playlists, which are compiled and vetted by an in-house team of music experts and stringers.
(Users with definite ideas about what they want to hear can click over to a search screen and choose a song, album or performer.)
Beats is certainly not the first to attack the what-to-listen-to problem: Songza offers playlists designed to accompany various activities, while Sirius XM Radio Inc. has artists and other tastemakers curating music in dozens of genres on its 70-odd music stations. And Pandora Media Inc. relies on what it called the "music genome project" to create its signature custom radio stations.
Music-streaming services have become relatively mainstream in parts of Europe – they are used by the majority of consumers in Scandinavia – but they have struggled to amass significant numbers of paying subscribers in the U.S., and few have spent the marketing dollars necessary to target one of the biggest segments of Americans: fans who have no idea what they want to listen to – or how to stream music at all.
Spotify, for example, has focused the bulk of its investment instead in international expansion, launching in 20 new countries in December bringing its total to 55, while services like Rdio and Rhapsody have marketed their products to relatively tech-savvy and music-savvy fans.
Beats Music, on the other hand, a division of Beats Electronics LLC – the high-end headphone company founded by Mr. Iovine and rap star Dr. Dre – wants to make streaming converts out of everyone. Ms. DeGeneres will essentially teach fans how to use the service on her show, said Beats Music Chief Executive Ian Rodgers, while Beats' core team of playlist editors includes terrestrial-radio veterans with experience hooking mainstream audiences. The key, according to Mr. Iovine: knowing not just which song a listener will like, but knowing which song should come next.
"That's what the popular music business is," said Mr. Iovine, adding: "Your friends on Facebook don't know what song comes next."
"When you get all the music in the world, what are you supposed to do with it?" he asked. "With the album slowly disappearing, someone's got to make sense of all this stuff."


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Another fun installment...
Houston. Only.
We shape our Cities, thereafter they shape us.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. - Plato
Okay, not yet!
(By the way, I didn't take these photos.)
New York city or chicago?
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The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit.
Following rules that we need to get back to, you'd be the next to start a thread I-275 (welcome to forum, btw) but, you already did one while this was active. Feel free to go ahead and start another one, though.
How 'bout some rules recapped:
Guess it. You start next one. If you don't start next one within 2 days, it's wide open - just to keep things moving along. Let's try to keep only one guess-it active at one time. If no one guesses/if everyone gives up/if there is a several day delay in answers (which probably means no one knows) - end it and start a new guess-it thread. Photoshopping allowed.
I figured it was a northern or east mid west because of the 1st picture with the brick apartments
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Reporter Finds He's Allergic to Newspaper Ink
You think your job is killing you? A longtime journalist at the Baltimore Sun has learned he is allergic to newsprint.
Michael Dresser, who covers state government in Annapolis, told colleagues about his recently discovered allergy to pine resin—a component of newspaper ink—in a memo to the paper's staff last week. In the note, he warned his colleagues that he will be wearing rubber gloves around the office to avoid contact with the irritant, which has been linked to persistent eye and skin troubles.
"People have been more amused than sympathetic, which is exactly what I would probably be," Dresser said in an interview. "The irony just overwhelms anything else."
In addition to the gloves, Dresser has been advised to wear light-colored clothing, since the test also revealed an allergy to a dye used in dark clothing. He'll also have to adjust to reading digital versions of the newspaper as opposed to the print edition, a departure from decades of routine.
"I used to complain that we didn't get delivery of the print edition" at his office in the Annapolis statehouse, he said. "But now I'm not complaining so much."
Read Dresser's staff memo below.
From: Dresser, Mike
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 3:41 PM
To: TBS-News BaltSun
Subject: Weekly World News item
Veteran reporter finds he's allergic to newspapers
I though this deserved a headline.
The next time you see me in the newsroom, you may see me wearing the type of rubber gloves used by a doctor or a crime scene technician. Don't worry, I won't be administering any uncomfortable examinations or looking for blood spatter. It's just that I found out this week after nearly 38 years at The Sun that I am allergic to newspaper ink.
Seriously. Any sympathy is appreciated, but feel free to laugh. The irony is not lost on me.
The gloves were recommended as a way to continue to work around newspapers without causing the kind of symptoms I've been dealing with for years without any idea of why they were occurring. A patch test this week found a number of interesting allergies, including a strong reaction to pine resin, a component of newspaper ink. That allergy has been specifically linked to the eye trouble I've been having, as well as other skin conditions.
You might notice another change that will no doubt odd to a certain reputation for eccentricity. Because of an allergy to blue textile dye No. 106, which is in wide use, I have been advised to avoid clothing with dark colors – not just blue but also blacks, greens and purples. (There goes Ravens Friday.) So if a new colleague asks why the old guy always wears white or cream even in winter, that's the reason. This transition may take some time because of the expense involved. I'm looking at Mark Twain as a possible role model.
I make this public for three reasons:
1. Because you all deserve a good laugh.
2. So that I can limit the number of times I have to explain my apparent weirdness.
3. In case one of you or some newspaper-handling person you know has been dealing for a long time with severe puffing and irritation around the eyes and hasn't figured out why. You or your friend should see an allergist or dermatologist and get patch-tested for pine resin allergy. Mr. Google tells me newspaper allergies more common that you might think – and not just among politicians and police spokespeople. And, yes, allergies can develop late in life.
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Sure, a little pressure is hot sometimes, but constant force hurts. Run your fingers through his hair and pull his head back a bit so his lips are lighter on yours. Then say something like, "Mmm. I like that."


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ST. LOUIS -- The second half of the Sharks' abridged 48-game schedule begins Tuesday night at the Scottrade Center against the St. Louis Blues, and if you want a damning statistic that reflects their worrisome season to this point, this is it:
Of the Sharks' last 19 games, only two ended up as regulation wins.
What do you say to that, Todd McLellan?
"We're taking wins any way we can get them," the Sharks coach responded Monday before floating out a stat of his own. "You can say two wins in the last 19 games and I can say seven regulation losses in 24 games. One sounds great, the other one sounds awful."
He wasn't finished dissecting his team's 11-7-6 record.
"It's the six number that's tough -- the six shootout and overtime losses," he said. "If you can find a way to win those, you're sitting at a 17-7 record, which isn't bad. We're that close a lot of nights."
True enough. Still, if it weren't for the team's 7-0-0 start that included five more regulation wins, the Sharks would be on the outside looking in as far as the playoffs. Instead, San Jose continues to be in the mix -- part of the tight Western Conference pack forming behind the Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Ducks.
The Sharks have accomplished their main offseason goal by tightening up a penalty kill that finished 29th in the NHL for 2011-12 and now is the league's third best with an 86.8 success rate. And goaltender Antti Niemi has improved his play, shaving nearly a half-point off his goals against average to 1.96 and boosting his save percentage from .915 to .932.
The problem is that two weeks into the season, the Sharks lost their offensive touch. They averaged 4.6 goals a game to that point -- and haven't scored more than three times in one game since.
Breaking down those offensive numbers further:
"It's frustrating," acknowledged Clowe, who does have eight assists. "Anyone on the team who has no goals right now will tell you the same thing." Still, he added, "I think my game is where it needs to be without any goals -- whatever that means."
McLellan offered a similar assessment but didn't let Clowe off the hook.
"We need him to score goals. I'd be an idiot to answer it any other way," McLellan said. "But he can bring other ingredients to the game -- he's physical, he finishes checks, he takes care of teammates, he's an emotional guy -- you know, sometimes too emotional. He certainly brings some energy."
Overall, the Sharks have only six goals from their blue line -- a drop-off from years past.
Those first five games of the season turned out to be a false positive. The reality of life in the Western Conference this season is that teams are playing tighter defensively than in the East. And so far, the Sharks are buying McLellan's message that they can't slight defense to pursue offensive chances.
"If you're cheating and pressing because you think you have to score more goals, you give up more goals," defenseman Brad Stuart said. "And that's not how we're going to win."
General manager Doug Wilson said he does recognize that lack of offense is a problem but publicly treats it as a collective situation, likening team offense to team defense.
And he has until the April 3 trade deadline to figure out if the answer lies outside the organization.


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MARTINEZ -- After hours of debate, Contra Costa supervisors voted Tuesday to shutter four fire stations in Walnut Creek, Martinez, Lafayette and Clayton in an attempt to keep the county's financially struggling fire protection district afloat.
The four stations will go dark next month and save the district about $3 million a year from its $102.4 million annual budget.
Mayors, firefighters and concerned homeowners spoke out on all sides of the lengthy meeting, which lasted more than five hours, but in the end, the supervisors said they had no choice. The vote was 5-0.
"We have to close stations. It's not what we want to do," Supervisor Federal Glover said. "But we have to live within our means."
The drastic cuts would come more than a month after voters shot down the fire district's Measure Q, a seven-year parcel tax that would have raised enough money to keep the district's 28 stations open.
Contra Costa Fire Chief Daryl Louder explained that the stations selected for closure were picked taking into account response times, mutual aid availability and what would help the district's entire system maintain service. He added that ConFire would need to close an additional one or two stations by next fiscal year if no new revenue is found.
The district has left firefighter positions empty and has been covering shifts through overtime, and the station closures will not cause layoffs, Louder said.
The meeting was often contentious, with supervisors getting heated over what a future fire service should look like and how response times should be evaluated.
"I see this as a short-term decision to stop the bleeding," Supervisor John Gioia said. "We're not happy to have to make this decision, but this is what we must do."
Elderly speakers at the meeting expressed concern over increases in medical call response times and disaster coverage, particularly at the Shell refinery in Martinez near one of the stations identified for closure.
If closed, the stations would go dark in early January, and the fire district would work with the county's ambulance services to tweak coverage areas to make sure medical calls are still responded to in a safe manner.
Fire union President Vince Wells predicts the station closures will have a direct impact on public safety. He said he has already been in situations where crews arriving just a few minutes earlier might have prevented the spread of fire to neighboring homes.
"This is only going to add to that and increase response times even more," he said.
Representatives from Lafayette hoped to save their station by reducing their crews to two for each of their three stations. "It would give the district an opportunity to try this innovative approach on a limited basis," wrote Lafayette Mayor Mike Anderson, adding in his letter to the board that the city's property taxes provide about $1.2 million over what it costs to run Lafayette stations. "Given ConFire's bleak long-term financial forecast, such a trial might prove valuable if and when the District is forced to down-staff in other communities."
Firefighters spoke out against the plan.
"With all due respect to the city of Lafayette, we're not supportive of a two-person engine company," union chief Wells said. "There are serious ramifications to the public and firefighters with that type of model."
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VAIL, Colorado - The members of a local group that aims to bring air service to the Eagle County Regional Airport are trying a new strategy to raise more money from the community: peer pressure.
The EGE Air Alliance has been responsible for countless flights to the Eagle airport over the years - flights that never would have existed without revenues the alliance has guaranteed to airlines. And with roughly 20 local businesses on average contributing to the pot each year - out of more than 3,000 businesses in Eagle County - the alliance board members have come to the harsh realization that the program isn't sustainable under the current model.
In order to continue to bring flights to Eagle and to compete with airports in ski destinations like Jackson Hole, Salt Lake City, Montrose, Aspen, Yampa Valley and Gunnison, the alliance needs a lot more than 20 local businesses to contribute to the pot. If the community doesn't get serious about raising money, alliance members fear the community will be left in the dust by competing resort communities.
And that competition is stiff. The Eagle County community, via the alliance, subsidizes $2.74 per available flight seat while communities like Jackson Hole, Gunnison/Crested Butte and Montrose/Telluride are subsidizing flights at rates as much as 10 times that amount.
"Other communities are spending incrementally more to move the needle forward. Our needle is dropping," said Chris Romer, executive director of the Vail Valley Partnership, which now oversees the alliance. "We need to step up together across all the different business and market segments in order to build a long-term sustainable plan."
Romer put it bluntly at the group's Tuesday afternoon meeting when he described businesses in the community who haven't been contributing to the cause. Because every business reaps the economic benefits from flights into the Eagle airport, the number of businesses contributing to the pot needs to rise, he said.
"(They're) what we lovingly call the freeloaders - the people who say, 'We're doing fine, we don't need this; It's going to happen anyway, someone else is going to do it; Vail Resorts will solve my problems; Eagle County should do that, it's their role,'" Romer said. "Everyone benefits, we can't have any freeloaders. There's tiers and opportunities for businesses - regardless of size, scale, scope - to be a part of the solution and not the freeloader (with the) 'someone-else-will-solve-my-problem' attitude."
Romer, aviation consultant Kent Myers, of Airplanners, LLC, and alliance board members have created a new way to raise funds. They've divided up the contribution levels into tiers based on industry. Examples include restaurants, lodging, transportation providers, retail and banks, among others, and contribution levels range from $500 to $15,000.
With a trend showing declines in flight service at the Eagle airport since the 2009-10 winter season, the alliance also realizes that its future will have to include a public funding source, Myers said. But in the immediate future, the funding source needs to come from the business community.
"People get complacent with this," Myers said. "(They'll say) it's Vail Resorts' problem. Well it's not their problem, it's our problem, and it's a challenge. And it's risky business - I'm the first one to admit it."
Making deals
Bringing flights to markets like this requires deals made possible through relationships with the airlines - relationships that Myers and Vail Resorts' Airline Marketing Manager Gabe Shalley have cultivated over the years - but more importantly, the deals are made possible when there's money to back them up. Vail Resorts funds and markets 100 percent of the winter flight service.
The way it works is that in order for an airline to add a new flight to this market, they need to feel comfortable that the flight won't lose money. There's no way to guarantee that a new flight will make money, so the alliance and the airline strike a deal on what the guaranteed revenue needs to be for that flight. The alliance puts up the money to bring in the flight, and whatever money it makes determines how much of that contributed money, if any, if refunded back to the alliance at the end of the flight season.
If the flight bombs, the alliance could pay the entire negotiated sum. If the flight is successful, the payment will be much less. In a perfect scenario, the flight is a screaming success in its first season and makes enough money to cover the airline's guaranteed revenue, and the alliance pays nothing. In the cases of successful flights, the airlines also eventually stop requiring the revenue guarantee and simply bring in the flights thereafter. The Dallas summer flight on American Airlines is an example of a flight that the alliance subsidized in the beginning but no longer has to.
The alliance is currently looking at bringing in a United flight from Houston for summer service, five days per week. They strategically chose Houston because it's a major United hub, meaning folks coming in on the nine daily flights from Mexico City, for example, could connect in Houston on a nonstop flight to Vail.
United won't start loading those flights until they have a revenue guarantee from the alliance. The alliance can't release those specific figures, but in order to guarantee that Houston flight and cover some other costs this summer, the alliance is looking to raise roughly $500,000. And they need to do it fast.
Beth Slifer, owner of Slifer Designs, said Tuesday she'd put up the $500 on behalf of her business. It's a small price for such a large economic benefit, she said.
"The (alliance) board has put in so much research and consideration. I trust the board," Slifer said of the decision to pursue a Houston summer flight.
And many through a little persuasion and peer pressure, other businesses will follow suit. Myers pointed out the attitude in Jackson Hole surrounding its airport's flight program.
"If you don't give to the air alliance up there, your kid doesn't play on the hockey team," Myers said. "There's got to be a little bit of peer pressure here, folks. ... It's amazing what (Jackson Hole does) as a community, and we've got to shift to that kind of positioning."
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Today was one of those days. In true Mag-math fashion, I calculated the amount of cream cheese incorrectly for these mini pumpkin toffee cheesecakes, but by the time I'd figured it out, the cream cheese was already creamed with the brown sugar and I had to refigure the entire recipe to make it all come out correctly. It was no big deal except that there was leftover cheesecake batter to deal with. I decided to see if I could use the extra batter to make these mini-cheesecake tarts.
They turned out beautifully and I'll keep this in mind for future cheesecake recipes because each one of these mini tarts is just enough for hubby and I for dessert. I store all my individual cheesecakes in the freezer and thaw them as needed. They take only about a half hour to thaw and are great to have on hand when company drops by, or in the event that you have a late night emergency craving for cheesecake. (Not that this has ever happened to me, of course.)
Mini Pumpkin Toffee Cheesecakes
1/2 cup gingersnap crumbs (I used the food processor)
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 TBSP unsalted butter, melted
2 TBSP sugar
12 ounces of cream cheese, room temperature
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup milk chocolate toffee bits
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Lightly spray the wells of the miniature cheesecake pan with cooking spray.
Combine ingredients for crust, mix well, divide among the mini cheesecake pans and press into the bottom. I used a shot glass to do this. Bake crusts eight minutes, until set. Transfer to a wire rack for cooling, and lower the oven temperature to 300 degrees.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together cream cheese and brown sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla and beat well. Add the pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice and beat well until fully mixed, about 1 minute. Stir in the toffee bits. Pour the batter over the crusts, dividing it evenly among the pans.
Bake until filling is set, 20-25 minutes. Cool on wire rack, and then refrigerate at least three hours before unmolding and topping.
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup marshmallow Fluff
1/4 tsp vanilla
tiny pinch of salt
Whisk topping ingredients until smooth. Dollop a rounded teaspoonful in the middle of each cheesecake. Sprinkle milk chocolate toffee bits on top if desired.


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ART SALAD - Fall 2013
Thursdays • Noon - 1 pm
Art Salad is a free lunchtime discussion forum. Artists, historians, educators, and curators share multi-point perspectives into the world of contemporary art. You are welcome to bring a lunch or order from our visiting food truck partners. Offered jointly with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Visit: http://thedcca.org/content/art-salad for full details.


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Ontario County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who had what appeared to be a gun inside the College Suites on the Finger Lakes Community College campus late Thursday night.
Messenger Post news partner News10NBC reported that no shots were fired and no one was injured.
Deputies are looking for a white male wearing a red winter-style cap and a grey sweatshirt.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911.
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ATLANTA -- At least 15 minutes had passed since the game ended, and Arthur Blank, slumped in a chair in the Atlanta Falcons' postgame interview room, was struggling to process what he had just seen.
"I haven't started to breathe again yet," the Falcons' owner said. "Seriously, I can't breathe."
The Falcons seemed determined Sunday to ensure that everybody watching (and playing) experienced every emotion -- excitement, shock, euphoria, fear, paranoia, nausea, relief, joy -- before giving Atlanta what it hadn't had in eight years: a playoff win, 30-28 over the Seattle Seahawks.
It started with the Falcons building implausible leads of 20-0 and 27-7. It unfolded with a folding -- blowing their 20-point lead.
And then came an even less likely finish. With 31 seconds remaining and the weight of a city and a franchise on him, quarterback Matt Ryan completed consecutive passes to Harry Douglas and Tony Gonzalez, setting up Matt Bryant for a winning 49-yard field goal with eight seconds remaining.
And now the Falcons are in the NFC title game for only the third time in franchise history and for the first time at home, Sunday against the 49ers.
We saw the best and the worst of the Falcons against Seattle.
We saw why they won 13 games. We saw why so many thought, "How did they win 13 games?" We saw them look like a Super Bowl team early, running the ball, capitalizing on Seattle mistakes, building a seemingly insurmountable advantage.
Joy, excitement, euphoria ...
Then they smacked into a concrete wall. The Seahawks drove to touchdowns on their first three possessions of the second half and four out of five. The last touchdown, on a 2-yard run by Marshawn Lynch, gave Seattle its first lead at 28-27.
Fear, paranoia, nausea ...
"It was," Falcons cornerback Asante Samuel said, "a little stressful."
The Falcons had been here before. Ryan had engineered five comeback wins with less than 65 seconds remaining since 2008.
He did it again.
First came the 22-yard sideline pass to Douglas at the 50. Then the 19-yarder to Gonzalez over the middle. The Falcons sent out Bryant. The Seahawks called a timeout in hopes of freezing the kicker -- and it's a good thing they did because Bryant kicked anyway and missed wide right.
The next one was perfect.
The Seahawks had a Hail Mary pass in the end. Wide receiver Julio Jones, shagging flies in the end zone, intercepted it.
Shock, relief ...
An unlikely ending to an unlikely sequence of events.


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It was the Coachella closer to end all Coachella closers.
Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, 50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa, Warren G, and Kurupt, all sharing the same stage at some point during the one-and-half-hour grand finale of Weekend One.
But the set's true showstopper was none other than presumed-dead rap legend Tupac Shakur, who was resurrected for the concert by way of hologram.
Tupac, who was gunned down in Las Vegas sixteen years ago this September, picked up where he left off, swaggering on stage like tragedy never struck.
Snoop and Pac went back and forth on two tracks — "Hail Mary" and "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" — before the reanimated rapper was put back in storage until next weekend, when he is expected to grace the Coachella stage with his presence yet again.
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi softball team fell 6-0 to Stephen F. Austin Sunday in the series finale at Ladyjacks Softball Field. The Islanders outhit the Ladyjacks for the third straight game but a tough four-run bottom of the fifth by SFA helped seal the victory for the home team.
Laura Phillips went 2-for-3 to lead the Islanders' (9-35, 4-17 SLC) offense while Mickayla Cochran, Lindsey Lyles, Valerie Perez, Meagan McKinney and Dani Tefft each tallied one hit apiece.
Elizabeth Arana went 2-for-4 to chip in two of the Ladyjacks (14-28, 7-14 SLC) six hits while Angela White picked up the victory in the circle for SFA in seven innings.
Lyles hit a single with two outs through the left side for the Islanders' first hit of the game in the opening frame. Phillips followed with a dropper with two outs to center field in the top of the second before the Islanders' bats tallied two hits in the top of the third. Tefft led things off with a single to shortstop and landed on second after Cochran reached on a bunt single in front of home plate. Hayley Galloway then advanced Tefft to third and Cochran to second on a sacrifice bunt to third base. However, SFA's White retired the next two Islanders to pull the Ladyjacks out of the frame.
Constance Brandenburg held the Ladyjacks without a hit through two innings. SFA got on board in the bottom of the third with two runs on three hits. After back-to-back singles to start the frame, Shalie Day hit a two-run double to right center to give the Ladyjacks a 2-0 lead.
Stephen F. Austin extended their lead in the bottom of the fifth with four runs on three hits and a couple Islanders' mishaps to take a 6-0 lead. Lindsay Campell reached on a fielder's choice to plate Heather Hollingsworth, in to pinch run for Day, who reached on a walk. Bethany Brown then followed with a 2 RBI single up the middle to score Shanice Love and Lindsay Campbell and give SFA a 5-0 lead. Love reached on a single through the left side and Campbell reached on a fielder's choice. The Ladyjacks plated their sixth run after Brown scored on a Arana RBI single to right field.
Brandenburg (6-14) took the loss for the Islanders. The junior allowed six hits and six runs, five of them earned, while walking six and striking out two in six innings.
White (5-14) earned the win for the Ladyjacks in seven innings. She allowed seven hits, and didn't give up a run or a walk, while striking out three in seven innings.
The Islanders will return home to Chapman Field for its final six conference games. First up is a three-game series against Nicholls State on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28.
For the latest on Islanders Softball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Softball), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersSball) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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Rock salt contains chemicals that are harmful to pets and children.
Rock salt burns the pads on the animal's feet, then the animal licks its paws resulting in burns to its mouth and throat. This ingestion can result in damage to the kidneys and pancreas. Large dogs are at a greater rick when rock salt is ingested because they tend to drink excessive amounts of water, which leads to a condition called bloat that requires immediate emergency attention.
There are several pet-friendly ice melting products, which can be found on-line, at a veterinarian's office or a pet supply store.
— McPherson County Humane Society
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This week we are giving away a copy of Core Python Programming by Wesley J Chun AND a copy of Moving to Ubuntu Linux by Marcel Gagne.
All you need to do to enter is:
1) Read our terms and conditions.
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Please remember we are more likely to pick what we consider to be an informative, well thought-out, interesting, funny or insightful comment as the winner.
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This is an excellent way to get people to participate, heck I didn't even know you *could* comment until now!
Free books are better than free software
I thought free software giveaways were the ultimate thing (www.giveawayoftheday.com)
Then I get a chance to win a free book every month. And I'm thinking about what smart alec comment I should write to win one of these. Any ideas, people??


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U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson has given the Alabama Secretary of State's office the responsibility of transmitting, receiving and counting military and overseas ballots in the 2014 Republican primary and potential primary runoff election for the 6th Congressional District.
The Court Order, which was issued on March 4, 2014, follows a similar plan conducted by the Alabama Secretary of State for the recent special election in the 1st Congressional District.
A federal lawsuit had been brought by the US Justice Department due to the inability of several counties to timely transmit military ballots in both 2010 and 2012, thereby jeopardizing UOCAVA voters' right to have their ballots counted.
Under the new plan, which covers the June 3rd Republican 6th Congressional District primary and potential July 15th runoff, UOCAVA voters will cast their ballots by using an instant primary runoff ballot that allows them to vote for their first choice and then rank the remaining candidates in order of preference. That way, a second primary runoff ballot will not be needed for UOCAVA voters voting in this Federal election. When the instant primary runoff ballot was used in the 1st Congressional District special election, Alabama had 100% compliance with UOCAVA ballot transmission deadlines.
This plan comes as a result of Judge Thompson's decision that the UOCAVA 45-day ballot transmission deadline applies not only to Federal primary and general elections, but to Federal primary runoff elections as well. The Republican primary election for the 6th Congressional District is the only Federal election that has the likelihood of a primary run-off election.
Military and overseas voters will be allowed to vote what is called an "Instant Primary Runoff Ballot." The Instant Primary Runoff Ballot will allow UOCAVA voters to rank all candidates in the Republican 6th Congressional District primary election in order of preference. In the primary election, each validly cast vote will be counted for the first choice candidate. In the event of a primary run-off election, each validly cast vote will be counted for whichever of the run-off candidates is ranked higher on the ballot.
"These changes were made in order to give our military and overseas voters enough time to vote in this upcoming election," said Secretary Bennett. "We are providing more resources in order to make this a reality. We will continue to do everything we can to make sure every voter who wishes to cast their ballot is able to do so."


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Two people, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed and several other teenagers were wounded in an unusual spate of shootings in East Contra Costa County over the past 24 hours, shaking residents and leaving community leaders scrambling to stop the wave of violence.
Three separate shootings, two of them fatal, were reported in Brentwood, Antioch and Pittsburg on Monday, including a drive-by shooting in Brentwood that injured four teenage boys.
Because of the victims' ages, the shootings have been especially tragic.
On Monday, 16-year-old Pittsburg resident Steven Rosalez was shot in the back about 7:45 p.m. during a fight on the 100 block of West Eighth Street. The teen, who had "a lot of potential" and was "a good kid," according to friends and family, died at a hospital. Another 16-year-old boy was also shot during the melee, and he was treated and released from the hospital.
Less than two hours before Rosalez was shot, four Brentwood boys between 13 and 16 years old were wounded in a shooting in the 1100 block of Breton Drive, possibly because their shoes were mistaken for denoting gang affiliation, according to police.
And in Antioch, police found the body of 36-year-old Pittsburg man Albert Masalinto Calceta in the 4500 block of Delta Fair Boulevard, next to a bicycle, early Monday morning. Few details were released in that death.
The slayings were the first homicides of the year in Pittsburg and Antioch.
Speaking about his son Tuesday afternoon, Joe Rosalez said Steven had attended Pittsburg High School, but most recently was enrolled in an independent study program. Rosalez said his son had been involved in sports since a young age, playing baseball and Pop Warner football.
He said he'll remember "a kid that was energetic, had a good outlook and a big social circle -- well-liked, with a positive attitude."
Steven was "good at working with his hands" and did well in classes like workshop, Rosalez said.
Pittsburg High School Principal Todd Whitmire said Steven "had a lot of potential," and had "great parents" who met with Whitmire frequently to try to keep Steven on the right path in school.
Some of Steven's former coaches visited the family's home on Tuesday to pay their respects. They told Rosalez that Steven "was a good kid and it shouldn't have happened to him," he said.
Pittsburg police arrested a 23-year-old man Tuesday morning in connection with Steven's death, yet questions linger about what would lead a man to shoot two boys. Police did not release the suspect's name but said the shooting stemmed from a scuffle that escalated; they did not release the cause of the confrontation.
"Why does anyone think they can solve a problem with a gun?" said Pittsburg Mayor Nancy Parent. "We just had people march on Monday carrying signs that said something about violence being immoral. You just shouldn't do it."
Over the past 10 years, Pittsburg crime rates have dropped, Parent said, noting that the city was doing better than some neighboring cities in holding down violent crime.
"(Police) have done an outstanding job keeping it down," she said. "But we have had 2,013 years where people act violently against each other. It is not going to go away overnight. But police have already arrested someone for this crime; that says a lot."
Possible avenues for explanation in the violence spike could be truancy and student disengagement, said Iris Archuleta, co-founder of the Antioch-based Youth Intervention Network, a partnership of Antioch police, school district officials and 30 county agencies.
She cited a study of students between the ages of 13 and 18 years who attended Antioch schools. The 2008 study identified those two factors as the leading indicators of students who commit crimes or become victims of crimes.
"It is not about ethnicity, it is not about socioeconomics, it's not about one- or two-parent families," said Archuleta, who is also a member of the East County Gang Task Force. "What frustrates me is that we are behaving as if (youth violence) is new, and we are not employing the best practices needed to mitigate (violence), and we are not giving the police department the credit they should be given."
In Brentwood, neighbors struggled to make sense of the drive-by that wounded the four young boys, none of whom were affiliated with gangs, police said.
The teens were standing on a sidewalk in front of a home about 6 p.m. when they were hit by bullets from a passing car with three or four men inside.
But why these four teenagers?
A good question, said neighbor Jonathan Chavez.
He described the neighborhood as a "pretty decent area" made up of four- and five-bedroom houses.
"The neighborhood actually is really quiet," he said. "Usually cops don't come around here that often."
And though the Brentwood police chief said the shooting was tragic, he said even the city of roughly 51,000 is not immune to violence.
"We all touch borders. Crime isn't unique to one city over the other," said Antioch police Chief Allan Cantando. "One city does not have a monopoly on crime, but we are all trying to deal with it collectively. We all recognize that crime moves around."
That may not be enough for some, however.
Brittney Gougeon, founder of the Facebook-based community group Take Back Antioch said the violence Monday is "obviously the symptom of the greater problem."
"This is in an emergency situation," she said. "Hopefully this acts as a catalyst for the cities to work together."
Staff writer Eve Mitchell contributed to this report.


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Week of Sept. 20, 2007
ECO Trails' new Eagle-to-Gypsum bike path opened. The trail was accessed via Violet Lane in Eagle and continued to the Cooley Mesa Road intersection in Gypsum.
Ground-breaking ceremonies were held for the new Seniors on Broadway project. The 14-unit addition to the Golden Eagle Apartments was slated for completion in April.
John and Charity Batson were the new owners/operators of the Eagle Pharmacy. The couple purchased the pharmacy operation at the Nearly Everything Store from longtime owner Al Hoza.
The Juan Pablo car - a chili pepper-themed vehicle built by CHC Mountain Structures - took first place in the Eagle Valley Homebuilders Association Outlaw Derby. The event features soapbox derby style cars racing through The Highlands neighborhood in Eagle Ranch.
Week of Sept. 19, 2002
In response to a reader question about the wooden cross atop the red cliffs west of Wolcott, the Enterprise offered a story about the local lore surrounding the site and the nearby abandoned quarry. Jeane Dice, who grew up on the property when it was owned by her father, Leonard Horn, said red sandstone from the site was used to build the famed Brown Palace Hotel in Denver.
A foursome from Eagle Valley High School, including Dylan Barkman, James Ewing, Kyle Lottman and Skyler Hootman, traveled to the regional golf tournament in Steamboat Springs.
Longtime local Lucille Riggle passed away. Riggle worked as a nurse at the Gilman hospital for a number of years and was also a familiar face from her years of working at the Eagle Post Office.
A homicide trial in Eagle was delayed when the star witness for the defense showed up drunk.
Week of Sept. 24, 1992
Newly hired Eagle County School District Superintendent John Lange announced plans to launch a broad public service/information campaign regarding school operations.
Eagle County Commissioner candidates Rod Slifer and James Johnson Jr. planned a series of three campaign debates.
Castle Lodge No. 122 AF/AM planned to lay cornerstones at Eagle Valley High School and Gypsum Elementary School.
The EVHS football team beat Meeker, 27-7, and was in a four-way tie for first place in the High Country League.
Week of Sept. 23, 1982
The town of Eagle's proposed budget for 1983 was $1.3 million - an increase of 44 percent over the 1982 spending plan. The budget increase reflected a 40 percent increase in water fees.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management appealed to Eagle County officials to create zoning regulations that would prohibit "squatters" from living on public lands for extended periods of time.
Voters in Gypsum overwhelmingly approved a home rule charter. The final vote was 116 in favor and 17 opposed.
Fred Kummer, president of HBE Corporation, took out a full-page ad to thank residents of Eagle County in the wake of the county's sketch plan approval for the Adam's Rib Recreation Area.
Week of Sept. 21, 1972
The Eagle Town Board discussed a report from Eldorado Engineering Co. regarding problems with the community's water system. A proposed fix carried a $25,479 price tag.
The American Legion Post 195 held its annual barbecue and raffle at the Lake View Bar and Cafe. Recording artist Chris Roberts performed and Bertha Collett of Gypsum won the first prize - a $340 saddle.
Eagle Valley Junior Senior High School placed a classified ad seeking "Tennis balls and old golf clubs" for the physical education program.
A proclamation from President Richard Nixon and Colorado Gov. John Love declared Sept. 23 was national Hunting and Fishing Day.
Week of Sept. 20, 1962
Eagle Valley High school was celebrating Homecoming week. The Devils were set to face Roaring Fork High School for the Homecoming football game.
Wayne Schuyler of Eagle participated in a Brahma bull riding event at the Carl Tibbs Rodeo while it was on tour in Japan. "Many a young man, upon receiving orders to Japan, is filled with excitement as to the adventure ahead. But riding vicious Brahma bulls in Tokyo - this is too much for even the wildest imagination to comprehend," reported the Enterprise.
Bob Shelton was elected chairman of the Eagle Citizens Council for Public Schools. Vice chair was Alice Koonce and the secretary was Bonita Eaton.
Specials at Stanley's Cash Store included a pound of Butternut Coffee for 60 cents.
Week of Sept. 18, 1952
A 4-year old McCoy boy, Danny Wilkins, died in a fire that destroyed his "box car bedroom." The Enterprise noted the child's uncle, Vern Seaman, and his cousin, Terry Seaman, both sustained burns in their heroic attempts to save him.
Eagle was set to host a Truth for Youth meeting as part of the Independent Baptist Church's young people's program. The event was expected to bring in 150 youth from Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. A free fried chicken dinner was promised to all who attended the morning services.
Koonce Chervrolet announced that all car prices had been reduced. Additionally the Eagle dealership listed a group of "O.K. used cars" and a group for "good value cars."
Week of Sept. 18, 1942
A map of the state detailed the war bond sales quotas for all Colorado counties. Eagle County's quota was $15,750. That compared to only $4,800 in Summit County and $4,400 in Pitkin County. However, Lake County had the biggest quota in the area at $31,500.
John Greeve, owner of the Western Theaters in Eagle and Minturn, was doing his part for the bond drive. Greeve announced every person who purchased a war bond would receive two free tickets to the movie "Mr. V."
The Enterprise reported that Riley Brown, 21, formerly of Minturn was the first Eagle County fatality in the World War. "Mr. Brown had enlisted in the U.S. Navy prior to the outbreak of the war and met his death in the dirty attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941."
To meet a statewide shortage of teachers because of the war, Colorado was issuing emergency teaching certificates.


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Upstate prevails in inaugural SC All-Star Bowl, 23-10
Published: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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TRAVELERS REST — It was a fitting end to an inaugural South Carolina College All Star Bowl dominated by defense.
Byrnes product goes out a winner
Former Byrnes and Gardner-Webb offensive lineman Jamie Dunaway understood Saturday could well be the last time he plays in a real football game and enjoyed the experience to the fullest, especially being on the winning side.
"You've got the best from all the local college teams here in this one game and obviously we're all natural born competitors so it was great to win," Dunaway said. "And there is the potential this will be a lot of guys' last football game.
"It was just great to be able to strap the pads on one more time especially getting to play with some of my college teammates. Just that excitement of being able to do it all again and to be a part of the first game was great. Maybe we will be able to look back 10 years down the road when it could be on ESPN or something like that."
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With the Low Country looking to mount one final drive to try and tie the game with the Upstate, Furman's Ricky Lang instead returned an interception 27 yards for the 23-10 final margin. Newberry's Taniel Massey added another pick in the end zone for Upstate in the final seconds at North Greenville University.
"I had the tight end and dropped into coverage and the quarterback threw it right to me so I just had to catch it," Lang said. "The receiver he was throwing to didn't know where the ball was and I just took it to the house."
The game was participants that had exhausted their collegiate eligibility who were either from the state or played for an in-state college. It served as a fundraiser for Mobile Meals. With only two days to practice together and only basic formations allowed points and yards came at a premium.
The two teams combined for only 80 rushing yards on 49 attempts and 297 passing yards on 51 throws. North Greenville linebacker A.J. Jones (Upstate) was the game's defensive MVP with 13 tackles including 6½ for loss and one sack. University of South Carolina quarterback Seth Strickland (Low Country) was the offensive MVP after completing 11 of 15 passes for 93 yards. Both players received $3,500 watches as a prize.
Former Newberry quarterback Brian Ehrlich, who played his final season at Texas A&M-Kingsville, completed 5 of 14 passes for Upstate with two touchdowns and zero interceptions. Upstate's Lance Byrd (Presbyterian) was the day's leading rusher with 48 yards on 13 carries.
"Getting the win was the best part because that's what we came out here to do," Ehrlich said. "It makes it real easy when your offensive line plays as well as ours did. Everybody wanted to win and you could tell by some of the hits I took."
As for trying to form a cohesive offense on only two days of practice, Ehrlick added, "If you saw our wrist cards — 64 plays in two days — it was pretty difficult. We had a great couple days of practice and ended up having very few missed assignments so everybody did a good job."
Upstate took a 10-7 lead after one quarter on a 2-yard touchdown reception by Western Carolina's Jacoby Mitchell and a 30-yard field goal by Presbyterian's Patrick Morgano. Low Country scored on a 6-yard run by Navy's Gee Gee Greene.
The score remained that way until the fourth when Newberry and Winston-Salem State product Jameze Massey bolted down the right sideline and caught a perfect 60-yard touchdown from Ehrlich. Low Country added a field goal before Lang sealed the deal with his pick-six.
"We ran a streaks play and I just outran the corner," Massey said. "Me and Brian had some good chemistry from playing together for a little while."
Massey was also happy to be part of the game in hopes of catching the eye of a professional scout.
"I really needed it being 5-foot-7 and being from a Division II school to get out here and play against some good names."
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Sophia Nash's clever, witty, and wonderfully romantic novels have already won numerous accolades and prizes—including the RITA® Award, the most prestigious honor the romance genre has to bestow. In Secrets of a Scandalous Bride, the incomparable Nash returns to Regency England for the fourth in a connected series of books featuring the notorious Widows Club. If you haven't already experienced Sophia's "warm, romantic, and sensual" (Mary Balogh) and "warm and wickedly fun" (Julia Quinn) fiction, there's no better time than now!
Her first secret: She is not a widow.
Elizabeth Ashburton has never even married, and at this rate, she never will. But pretending to be a bereaved young wife was the only way she could escape her horrid fate—being forced to marry the man who destroyed her father.
Her second secret: She is not a prim young lady.
Her third secret: She's willing to risk all.
Elizabeth knows she is playing a dangerous game, for her dreaded suitor will not give her up without a fight. Now she needs Rowland more than ever—to rescue her from a life of desperation, to drive her wild with desire, and to make her his scandalous bride.
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"Graced with empathetic characters, emotional intricacy, and unexpected plot twists, this final book in the 'Widows Club' series ties up a variety of loose ends and is a perfectly delicious series finale." — Library Journal (starred review) on Secrets of a Scandalous Bride
"Expertly spiced with deliciously subtle sense of wit, deftly seasoned with a superbly nuanced cast of characters, and featuring a plot brimming with lusciously sensual romance and a dash of dangerous intrigue, Secrets of a Scandalous Bride is Nash's best book yet." — Booklist (starred review) on Secrets of a Scandalous Bride
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Nyotaimori—the practice of eating sushi off a woman's body—is not really a thing in Japan.
That isn't to say it doesn't exist, but you'd probably have an easier time finding a nyotaimori place outside Japan. For example, there's an Italian sushi chain that's apparently happy to help you live out those dehumanizing food fantasies.
According to Japanese site Rocket News, who visited a So Sushi chain restaurant in Italy, there was "THE FIRST NYOTAIMORI KIT" on sale. The kit is really an Italian made poster, which says "Presents Yoshiko" (apparently Yoshiko is the model?). RocketNews wasn't sure if the topless poster was a real model or a CG creation.
The idea is that you are apparently supposed to eat your sushi off this poster. Perhaps, this is a gag item? (Shame the joke is at the expense of Japanese women and Japanese food culture!)
As with other Western depictions of nyotaimori, the motif is tropical and not even Japanese per se. RocketNews ends its report by pointing out that nyotaimori "is not popular in Japan" and that the people of Italy shouldn't be mistaken that it is.
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Dr. Jordan Metzl talks about symptoms, remedies and prevention methods for shoulder injuries common in triathletes.
The Symptoms
If there is an abrupt or sudden tear (an acute injury), you feel a popping or tearing sensation in the shoulder followed by pain in the shoulder and arm. Shoulder movement is compromised, and in severe cases you can't lift your arm. When a tear or inflammation develops over time (a chronic injury), you have pain that radiates into the shoulder and upper arm, worsens gradually, and is sometimes worse at night and impairs sleep. Weakness is common.
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Is this about the cutest little car you have ever seen? It's almost toylike with wheels that look like they came off a golf cart. This is a 1966 Austin Mini Cooper S, the performance version of the Austin Mini built by the British Motor Corporation.
BMC started in 1952 with a merger of necessity between the Austin and Nuffield auto companies. A fuel shortage plus those Germans and their fuel efficient VW Beetles motivated BMC to hire Sir Alec Issigonis to design a competitive vehicle.
The requirements were that it had to use an existing BMC engine. It had to be able to carry four people in reasonable comfort plus some luggage. Passengers and luggage could actually weigh more than the 1,275-pound car itself. It had to be fuel efficient and it had to be competitively priced.
The Mini was a box on wheels. The finished product was introduced in 1959 as Austin Mini and a Morris Mini, the only difference being the badging. It was 10.25 feet long, sat on an 80-inch wheel base and was almost as tall (53 inches) as it was wide (55.5 inches). One way to get the interior space was to have 10-inch wheels so the fender wells were small.
The front side windows slide to open and the rear windows push out to open. There is no upholstery on the interior part of the doors and the dash is a long package tray with a cluster of gauges in the center. It was designed to be basic transportation.
Website roblightbody.com states that initially the Mini was not a big success. It was considered "odd" until Queen Elizabeth was seen taking a ride in a Mini in the early 1960s. From that time on it became a "classless" car and could be seen outside the best restaurants and hotels as well as at more modest locations.
More than 1.5 million were sold in England. The Beatles (all of them) owned one as did Peter Sellars, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman and, since 2006, Danville resident Jim Premore.
Premore's 1966 Austin Mini Cooper S is the performance Mini and there aren't very many. Fewer than 1,300 were imported to the United States.
In 1961, the Mini Cooper was introduced and later the Mini Cooper S.
"The primary differences between the Mini Cooper and the Mini Cooper S is the 1275 c.c. high performance engine (80 HP), front disc brakes, and twin fuel tanks for range and balance," Premore said.
"The car is sort of a garage find," he said. "I was living in Southern California. One of my buddies bought this car in 1968. He had access to the old Riverside International Raceway and learned the hard way of its performance limitations when he blew the engine in 1971. He parked it in his garage with the intention of someday fixing the car but never got around to it. "Through the years ... I would beg him to sell me the car and he never would." Finally, in 2006, he relented. Premore paid $4,000 for it.
"The car was in horrific shape. The engine was in pieces outside the car. I hauled it to Danville and vacuumed out the mouse nests. Because of all the stuff stacked on the car in the 35 years of storage, there wasn't a straight piece of metal on the car. The car club members looked at the car and named it Lumpy," said Premore.
His plan was not to restore, but to rebuild this car to be a daily driver.
"I tore the car apart piece by piece which took almost 2 ½ years. I purchased almost every new mechanical part I could, but then I realized that if it took me this long to tear it apart I needed a better plan to reassemble."
The solution was Jon Becker, a friend who has a shop in Concord called Minipart specializing in British cars, mostly Minis. Becker did almost all the mechanical work. The flawless body work was done by Jimmy Auto Body in Concord.
"I had to replace some of the fenders because of the condition, and those were sourced from the UK," Premore said, "from the original heritage molds."
The original color of this Austin Mini Cooper S was green with a white top and Premore said that if he had had it painted that color scheme, the value of the car would probably be greater. But he didn't like the green and does like red, so it is painted a Mercedes red with a white top and looks great.
The project was finished in June 2011.
The net result is a completely rebuilt British Austin Mini Cooper S with authentic British parts now being driven as a daily driver. As near as I could tell, the only thing that isn't British is the aftermarket cup holder in the driver's door storage compartment. That's definitely an American idea, but probably made in China.
Contact David Krumboltz at email@example.com.


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After Christmas this year, I didn't have any packages to return because all of my gifts were either cash or gift cards. (My family knows me well, so they don't waste their time shopping for me anymore.)
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