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If it's pitching that wins games, the main goal of Summit High's baseball team is to develop its handful of potential pitchers into a crew that delivers strong results each inning.
Workhorse pitcher Gabe Stuhr graduated last year, leaving somewhat of a void on the mound.
"In a nutshell, it's always all about pitching," head coach Tom Looby said. "Gabe was a workhorse last year; he pitched more than half the innings."
And yet - those other innings gave time to other pitchers. The same pitchers Looby hopes his assistant coaches can develop into stars, like Thomas DeBonville, Luke Egging, Jake Latta and Brian Bossert.
Assistant coaches Justin Green pitched in college and Joe Bauserman in minor leagues, so between the two, Looby is hopeful the centerpiece component will be ready to go by the time league play starts.
"We don't have any single dominating pitcher. We'll be using a lot of our guys, especially early on because we want to be careful with our arms and we also want to scope out who's going to give us the best-quality innings," Looby said, adding that the benefit of community programs targeting youth baseball appears to be paying off, as players with skill - including pitching skill - are now showing up for the high school team.
"It starts with pitching strikes," Looby said. From there, it's developing speed and off-speed pitches.
If pitching develops, another goal will follow: getting the ball in play.
That's because the team has a strong defense, both in the infield and outfield.
Starters are returning at catcher, first base, second base, shortstop, center field and left field. Anton Barlow is providing a strong candidate for third base (though he's contending with Ricky Seltzer and Ben Hall), and though Duncan Biggin may have nailed down one outfield position (the other, even with a returner, is up for grabs), it seems the others will be highly sought-after.
"We're looking really good. For this point in the season ... our infield is looking amazing for this time of year. Very few errors right now. Our hitting is coming along very well. I think our first game will turn out to our advantage," team captain Brian Bossert said, referring to the game against Jefferson, which has been postponed in anticipation of weather Saturday.
The other half of the equation, hitting, has the same potential as pitching - but players will need to step up to the plate, so to speak.
Three of the team's best players are lost, including Jason Looby and Gabe Stuhr (both graduated) and Creed Wilson isn't playing this year. That's three of the team's four best hitters and overall players - all three of whom hit over a .300. DeBonville currently leads the team's lineup after hitting .400 last year as a freshman.
"We're trying to fill those shoes" with the four juniors and five sophomores who saw varsity playing time last year, Looby said.
"We're hoping that their experience getting to start ... will pay dividends this year, because they're that much more experienced," he said.
In addition to boostisng pitching and hitting, Looby is focusing on the team's record.
"We're trying to build a stronger program. We've been making progress over the past few years. Five years ago, we were doing well to win one or two games a year. Last year, we were able to win six games, so we wound up at 6-13. Our hope this year is to win 10 or more, to have a winning season out of 19 (games)," Looby said.
Part of that will come from development programs, and part of it will come from the coach's off-season dedication to the team.
"We've been working hard since January with a lot of the guys. There are about 10-12 who have been training since then," he said, explaining that the idea is to be leaps and bounds ahead of the other competition in the Western Slope, which is a new league for Summit.
Palisade and Delta are perennially strong, with Palisade often topping the 4A division and going far in the state playoffs.
But, the coach is hopeful that with a restructured playoff entry process, Summit could contend for one of the three open spots. In the Jefferson County league, the team could hardly hold its head above water. The coach is hopeful his players can compete better against fellow mountain schools with similar weather and size challenges.
With forecasts of incoming weather, a game scheduled for Saturday against Jefferson has been postponed one week, meaning the team's first game could be Tuesday in Buena Vista. Looby is predicting another delay there due to weather, so the team could have an extra week of practice before it faces Alameda Friday - none of which are league games.
With some things still up in the air, lineups and positions will come down to what happens in the first few games.
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I was playing some Gears last night and not one person was using a mic, so I left mine on mute as well. Then one guy just shouted, "DOES ANYONE HAVE A MIC?!" after about 20 minutes of silent, team deathmatch. I switched mine on and we started chatting. Then, wouldn't you know it, about 6 other people must have done the same and we all started talking and went from getting mopped up to winning!
Do you guys use your mics or do you just have them on your head, listening to everyone else but not saying a word yourself? I know it's kind of weird playing with strangers and just chatting, and sometimes you run into 'those people', but last night was the first time I actually was engaged and using my mic. Normally, I'm guilty of just listening in on everyone else.


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Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz—a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance—from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. 5
When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme—an icon of Paris frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, playboys, and princes—was the only luxury hotel of its kind allowed in the occupied city by order of Adolf Hitler.
Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark from its opening in fin de siècle Paris. At its center, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is an extraordinary chronicle of life at the Ritz during wartime, when the Hôtel was simultaneously headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring, and home to exclusive patrons, including Coco Chanel. Mazzeo takes us into the grand palace's suites, bars, dining rooms, and wine cellars, revealing a hotbed of illicit affairs and deadly intrigue, as well as stunning acts of defiance and treachery.
Rich in detail, illustrated with black-and-white photos, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is a remarkable look at this extraordinary crucible where the future of post-war France—and all of post-war Europe—was transformed.
Established in 1898 in the heart of Paris on the Place Vendôme, the Hôtel Ritz instantly became an icon of the city frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, politicians, playboys, and princes. By the 1920s the bar became a favorite watering hole for F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Lost Generation, including Ernest Hemingway. In June 1940, when France fell to the Germans, Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Third Reich, famously declared that the nation's capital would remain a high-spirited place—or else. Orders from Berlin specified that the Hôtel Ritz would be the only luxury hotel of its kind in occupied Paris.
Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark from its opening in fin de siècle Paris to the modern era. At its center, The Hotel on Place Vendôme chronicles life at the Ritz during wartime, when the hotel simultaneously served as headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, and home to wealthy patrons (and to the spies among them) who stayed on in Paris. At Coco Chanel's table in the dining room on any given evening, one might find the playwright and screenwriter Sacha Guitry, the lithe Russian ballet star Serge Lifar, or Jean Cocteau and his handsome boyfriend.
Mazzeo takes us into the grand palace's suites, bars, dining rooms, and wine cellars, revealing a hotbed of illicit affairs and deadly intrigue, as well as stunning acts of defiance and treachery, in which refugees were hidden in secret rooms, a Jewish bartender passed coded messages for the German resistance, and Wehrmacht officers plotted to assassinate the Führer. By the spring of 1944, as the tides of the war shifted, these stories were all coming to their dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking conclusions. There were celebrations as well: when Ernest Hemingway returned in the last hours of the occupation with his rogue band of "irregular" troops to liberate the Hôtel Ritz, they also liberated many bottles of vintage wine from its cellars.
The result is the story of The Hotel on Place Vendôme—a singular season at the world-class hotel, an intimate and riveting portrait of the last days of the Second World War.
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"This gorgeously written (and photographed) book is a feast for readers wanting to be swept away this summer. . . . Tracing the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz, Mazzeo reveals a hotbed of illicit affairs and deadly intrigue, as well as stunning acts of defiance and treachery." — Brad Thor, The Today Show Summer Reads
"Stolen art, double agents, a legendary bartender passing notes to the resistance: This is a rich, messy history." — Kirkus Reviews
"Mazzeo pulls back the heavy curtains of the Ritz in Paris to reveal a steamy world of sex, drugs, partying and political intrigue." — Alan Riding, author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
"Mazzeo enthrallingly depicts a hotbed of both the magnificent and the mundane. . . . Readers will enjoy Mazzeo's fascinating collection of secretive, scheming historical characters, all under one elegant roof." — Publishers Weekly
"Fiction could not write betrayal, resistance, collaboration, or celebration with more robustness or with a more alluring who's-who of writers, artists, and military powers than history did in this single hotel. " — Booklist
"Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the tale of the Hotel Ritz, a landmark so imbued with glamour that it was the only hotel in Paris the Nazis ordered to stay open during the war. The antics at and around it during World War II were often shocking." — New York Post
"Must read. . . . Mazzeo artfully transports readers to the Nazi occupation of World War II . . . The Hôtel on Place Vendôme contextualizes the opulence of 1940s Paris, making for a work of history that reads as enticingly as a novel." — Harper's Bazaar
"An illuminating history of the intrigue and drama taking place inside its elegant façade. . . . The narrative reads like fiction, with the difference being accurate testimony from well-researched documents and interviews." — Bookreporter
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Negative reviews from watchdogs like PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and the Washington Post are dogging one of the nation's biggest political donors, a former hedge fund manager who ditched his ties to fossil fuels and presented himself as a transparent antidote to the conservative Koch brothers' semi-clandestine funding network.
Playing fast and loose with the facts is "unwise simply because you're handing a bat to your opponents to use squarely over your noggin," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "It sounds to me as if they need their own fact-checkers on staff."
Steyer, 57, of San Francisco, was unavailable for an interview this week. But Bobby Whithorne, spokesman for Steyer's NextGen Climate Action super PAC, said: "We stand by our ads."
The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog in January, however, awarded its dreaded "four Pinocchios" rating to a NextGen ad citing Chinese investment in Canada's tar sands and claiming the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would produce oil only for other countries. The Chinese investment is small, the Post found, and NextGen took an oil executive's words out of context to imply that no oil carried by the pipeline will remain in the U.S.
The ad "relies on speculation, not facts, to make insinuations and assertions not justified by the reality," the Post said.
Last October, PolitiFact -- a renowned fact-checking project run by the Tampa Bay Times -- gave its "pants on fire" rating to a NextGen ad claiming Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, then running for governor, wanted to "eliminate all forms of birth control." Cuccinelli has repeatedly said he has no interest in restricting contraception, PolitiFact noted.
This month, PolitiFact gave "half-true" ratings to a pair of NextGen ads attacking Florida Gov. Rick Scott's ties to energy companies and polluters. FactCheck.org, a project of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, said it didn't dispute the statement of critics that one of the Florida ads was "total fiction," though the GOP response had "glaring factual problems" too.
And PolitiFact this month deemed "false" a NextGen ad accusing Iowa U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst of having signed a pledge that "protects tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." The pledge was a broad vow to oppose all tax hikes.
But Whithorne, Steyer's spokesman, noted that an Iowa television station had determined that the ad was "mostly true."
And he is quick to defend all of NextGen's ads: "The facts are there, and we provide extensive backup to substantiate the claims. With less than 80 days until the midterms, we'll continue to keep the pressure on the anti-science candidates and highlight their extreme positions."
Steyer is used to political battles. He took lead roles in California ballot-measure campaigns to defend the state's landmark greenhouse-gas emissions law and to close a $1-billion-per-year corporate tax loophole.
Two years ago, he announced he would step down from his business and turn to public policy. He founded NextGen and said he hoped to spend $100 million -- half from his own pocket, half raised from others -- to challenge candidates across the nation on climate-change issues. Steyer says the Koch brothers are out to enrich themselves, while he's putting the planet first.
In Iowa, Ernst's campaign is urging television stations to take down NextGen's ad. In Florida, Scott's legal counsel issued cease-and-desist letters telling stations to stop airing one of the ads; at least one, in Fort Myers, complied. And Californians Against Higher Oil Taxes, founded earlier this year by oil-industry trade groups and other business organizations, says Steyer's ads help make a case against him.
"It just goes to show that if the public understands the truth about his policies, they're not going to support it because it's going to drive up their cost of living," spokeswoman Sabrina Lockhart said. "So it seems he's pivoted to lies and distortions of the truth to sell the public on something they're not buying."
Sabato, however, said the ads are meant more to mobilize already-sympathetic voters than to change minds. And Tom Hollihan, a University of Southern California political communications expert, agreed.
"For the people for whom the ads are the primary audience, the fact-checking might not have much consequence," Hollihan said, adding that the fact checks have more effect in correcting the record for media and policymakers.
Steyer doesn't seem to have raised enough money to reach his $100 million spending goal but has spent more than $20 million so far in this election cycle.
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Painting with a Twist is holding a Vera Bradley session, and half of all proceeds go to the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer.
Each attendee will get a free shopping tote and have the chance to win door prizes.
The session runs from 4-6 p.m. Saturday at the store, 488 Corporate Drive.
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Your tax dollars: Hypocrisy in the heart of Texas?
The liberal Center for American Progress is calling out Texas lawmakers who voted against the $819 billion stimulus in January – and are now asking the Obama administration for $3 billion in stimulus funds to bolster the budget of NASA, a major Texas employer.
This comes on the heels of a September audit that questioned the use of federal tax dollars by another Texan who scorned the stimulus: Gov. Rick Perry. The federal audit found that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission under Perry had billed the Medicaid program for nearly $300,000 in care and prescription drugs it shouldn't have given legal and illegal immigrants.


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Friday night is the first home game for Augusta's newest pro sports team: the Augusta Spartans.
The arena football team organized in about two weeks, and the question is already surfacing: will they make it?
The Spartans' first game starts at 7:05 Friday night against the Florence Phantoms.
Tickets start at seven dollars.
Fans really will determine if the Spartans stick around.
Bill Lesshafft, marketing director for the Spartans, says, "Expect a wild, woolly two and a half hours of football."
The Augusta Spartans will play their first home game on borrowed astroturf.
This borrowing of a field is making some wonder if the Spartans will need to borrow fans.
General Manager Robby Wells says no way.
"There's been people all over the place that said 'You can't get it done. You can't do that.' I love it when someone tells me I can't do something, because then I want to go out there and prove them wrong," he says.
It's been four years since Augusta's seen arena football.
The Stallions played for three years and reportedly left after they couldn't reach an agreement with the Civic Center.
The Civic Center's current general manager, Larry Rogers, wasn't working for Augusta at that time, but thinks this go round will work for the city's pockets.
"It's certainly going to be an added economic impact. We just don't know how much," says Rogers.
Fans, of course, are the real key to the Spartans' success.
The city's other sports team, the lynx, is having trouble finding them.
"I want to bring my kids to see the Augusta Spartans and support the Augusta Spartans," says Mike Wade. He bought three tickets today and is thrilled to see football back in town.
"You think it will survive? I hope so, I really do," Wade says. "Augusta needs something like this."
"We're going to win," says Wells. "We just need your support and we need everybody to come out and make this the home of the ninth man."
The Spartans tell me they've ordered their own field and it will be here for the next home game, which is March 24.


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Grand Central: Cooler Winds From Overseas
The Wall Street Journal's Daily Report on Global Central Banks for Thursday, Jan. 23
Manufacturing activity in China contracted in early January, according to the latest reading of the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index. Meanwhile borrowing costs in China's short-term lending markets have been popping higher. India's central bank is setting out to tame consumer price inflation, which could dent economic growth.
The International Monetary Fund has raised its growth forecasts for Japan, the U.S. and Europe, but reduced them for Latin America and Russia. Argentina's currency is hitting record lows against the U.S. dollar. Job growth in Brazil was the slowest it's been in a decade, even as the central bank confronts above-target inflation.
The gears of the global economy are shifting, and they appear to be shifting toward turbulence in developing economies in 2014 – and deepening challenges for their central banks – as growth in the developed world stabilizes.
- By Jon Hilsenrath
Bank of Canada Holds Rates But Signals Concern About Low Inflation. The central bank held its key overnight interest rate steady at 1% Wednesday and said risks of lower inflation "have grown in importance." Inflation is expected to remain well below the central bank's 2% target "for some time," it said. http://on.wsj.com/1c3kgYX
Turkey's Central Bank Intervenes. Turkey's central bank intervened directly in the currency markets Thursday in an effort to slow the lira's free fall, selling dollars as the lira hit a record low of 2.2973. The lira bounced back somewhat in response, but didn't immediately recoup all the day's losses. http://on.wsj.com/1mKmXCF
What Happens to BOE Forward Guidance Now? Another tumble in the U.K. unemployment rate–to 7.1%, within a whisker of the Bank of England's 7% threshold for considering an increase in its benchmark interest rate–presents bank officials with a problem familiar to the Federal Reserve: what to do with its forward guidance? http://on.wsj.com/LV7F0d The BOE's executive director for markets Paul Fisher said that with inflation subdued, central bank policy makers must not be hasty in raising the benchmark interest rate. http://on.wsj.com/1mKkesP
Draghi Upbeat But Cautious. In an interview with Swiss daily Neue Zurcher Zeitung published Thursday, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said there are some encouraging signs for the euro-zone economy, but risks remain. Inflation expectations are anchored, he said, and risks of both inflation and deflation are limited. http://on.wsj.com/19Q17dv
India's Central Bank Set to Test Its Influence Over Inflation. India's central bank is likely to start targeting consumer price inflation soon, raising questions about how much control it has over price increases. http://on.wsj.com/1dv1jdg
- BOE Governor Mark Carney will be interviewed on BBC Television's Newsnight program (2030 GMT)
- ECB executive board member Benoit Coeure speaks at a conference at the U.S. Treasury Department at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) Thursday. The conference is on "Mapping and Monitoring the Financial System: Liquidity, Funding, and Plumbing."
Markets price in Fed rate changes long before they happen, says a new NBER paper. http://on.wsj.com/1jALyqW http://www.nber.org/papers/w19814
Claudio Borio, the economics head of the Bank for International Settlements, has written an essay on the challenges for global central banking, concluding: "Policies would lean more deliberately against booms and ease less aggressively and persistently during busts. And during busts they would tackle the debt-asset quality problems head-on." http://www.bis.org/publ/work440.pdf
The FT's Martin Wolf says Bernanke saved the day but made mistakes. http://on.ft.com/1dRtaKO
Cato Institute's Steve H. Hanke gives Bernanke a failing grade. http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/bernankes-monetary-mess
- The ECB's governing council proposed the appointment of Sabine Lautenschläger as vice chair of the supervisory board of the single bank supervisor for the euro zone. http://on.wsj.com/1hMeHz5
- The euro-zone economy started the year on a stronger note, with Germany leading a January pickup in business activity, making it less likely the ECB will soon take further action to stimulate growth and elevate an inflation rate that is well below its target. http://on.wsj.com/19Q17dv
- The International Monetary Fund Wednesday, in unusually strong language, questioned South Korea's currency policy, telling Seoul that it should only intervene in exchange-rate markets to prevent volatility that might damage the economy. http://on.wsj.com/1c6AGzK
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, said he would act like a "drill bit" to cut through red tape and break down obstacles to growth in Japan, a "third arrow" to accompany the Bank of Japan's pronounced monetary easing and heavy government spending. http://on.wsj.com/1eUT0tM
- ICYMI: Watch Jon Hilsenrath answer viewers' questions about his story previewing the upcoming Fed meeting. http://www.spreecast.com/events/hilsenrath-reddy-on-next-fed-meeting.
- Rapper Cam'ron and Canadian DJ A-Trak are releasing an EP titled Federal Reserve this spring. No word yet on the content. http://www.complex.com/music/2014/01/cam-ron-a-trak-federal-reserve-ep-announcement
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Last Call for Nominations: Oracle Excellence Awards for Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation 2013 submissions - Only 2 weeks to go
By Lionel Dubreuil-Oracle on Jun 04, 2013
You have less than 2 weeks left (June 18th) to submit Oracle Excellence Awards for Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation 2013 nominations.
As a reminder, these awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Either a customer, their partner, or an Oracle representative can submit the nomination form on behalf of the customer.
Please visit www.oracle.com/us/corporate/awards/middleware/index.html for more details and nomination forms.
Our "Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture & Business Process Management" category covers Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM Suite, Oracle Event Processing, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle B2B Integration, Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA), Oracle Enterprise Repository...
To submit your nomination, the process is very simple:
- Download the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture & Business Process Management Form
- Complete this form with as much detail as possible.
- Submit completed form and any relevant supporting documents to: email@example.com
- Email subject: <Category_CompanyName_InnovationAwards2013> when submitting your nomination.
- Name all supporting documents with "companyname_solutionname_filename.xyz"
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Reportedly causes Blue Screen of Death under Leopard, and takes some hacking to remove before you're able to boot again. Probably caused by Application Enhancer - see my comment here about this.
I experienced strange Dock and Exposé bugs after installing v1.5b: quit app from dock didn't work, Dock showed on full screen mode (eg: wth mplayer), exposé showed all windows instead of only windows from the current app... :(
I use the ClearDock module in Application Enhancer, so maybe there's a conflict. Anyway, with menufela disabled, everything is back to normal. :)
Perfect for MacBook users and others with screen space considerations. I'm all about Iceland, too.
Note to the maintainer: It should be "lets."
Brilliant idea. And so simple. And by Icelandic guys. Wonderful. My other favourite is WriteRoom. But Menufela together with TextEdit is just simple and perfect.
Quite lovely -- helps me achieve computing Zen, especially combined with:
- A plain-color Desktop picture
- hiding the Dock, as diggmacs mentioned
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- MegaZoomer for full-screen goodness in most Cocoa apps
Using this app while also hiding the Dock makes my screen look so much cleaner and bigger to me--and the menubar comes back when I put the cursor at the top, like the Dock does for me at the bottom. Perfect!


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Witness Statement of Deborah E. Lipstadt: Electronic Edition, by Deborah E. LipstadtTable of Contents
The Holocaust as a Historical Fact
110.In writing this book I approached the topic of the Holocaust in no different a fashion than if I had been writing a book about some other aspect of the war. The book is not, for the most part, a direct response to the deniers in which I disproved their falsified findings. I have long maintained the position that it is not only counterproductive to enter into a debate with deniers but intellectually dishonest to do so. It would be to suggest that this is a "debate" about which there are two sides.
111.My approach is akin to a scholar who writes about people who are flat earthers or "conspiracy theorists." That scholar would devote herself to trying to understand how they reach their "conclusions," assess whether they truly believe their arguments to be accurate, and analyze the public's reaction to them. She would not spend time proving the earth is round or disproving their conspiratorial claims. For example, such a scholar would not "prove" that, contrary to the conspiracy theorists' claims, there really was a moon landing and that it did not take place in a studio stage in Nevada. Similarly, historians who write about the invasion at Normandy may do one of the following. They may:
- (a)laud it as technically brilliant;
- (b)criticize it as poorly planned and costing a disproportionate high number of Allied lives;
- (c)or acknowledge that it cost many lives but contend that those deaths could not be avoided.
The do not, however, feel it necessary to prove that it indeed happened and was not staged on some beach in Hawaii.
112.Accepted as a given: In the course of writing my book I did not believe it necessary to research or prove various aspects of the Holocaust. I accepted them as a "given." They included, among others:
113.Accepted as a given: The Third Reich devoted significant resources to the persecution and annihilation of European Jewry.
- (a)Accepted as a given: Antisemitism was a central motivating factor of National Socialist ideology and for the Third Reich the war was, at least in part, a war against the Jews.
- (b)Accepted as a given: Hitler knew about the annihilation of the Jews. This action would not have taken place without, at least, his approval if not on his explicit orders. Recent historiography agrees that this approval was probably never written down.
- (c)Accepted as a given: The persecution of the Jews occurred in incremental steps beginning in 1933.
- (d)Accepted as a given: The number of Jews killed was on the order of magnitude between 5-6 million.
- (e)Accepted as a given: Along with the Jews an unspecified number of Gypsies were murdered.
- (f)Accepted as a given: A portion of the Jews who were murdered were murdered by "mobile killing units" composed of German forces together with individuals from countries occupied by the Germans.
- (g)Accepted as a given: A portion of the Jews were murdered in gas chambers located in death camps [most, though not all, of which were in Poland or areas formerly controlled by Poland]. These gas chambers were built or converted from existing buildings for the sole purpose of killing people.
- (h)Accepted as a given: Many Jews were imprisoned or worked to death in concentration camps. They were used as slave labor in barbaric conditions. This resulted in their death. Jews were not the only ones to be used for this form of slave labor.
114.In writing my book I acknowledged that there is serious debate among historians over many aspects of the Holocaust, including the following:
- (a)Debate concerning: The Origins of the Final Solution: Did the Third Reich intend from the very outset of its rule or from the outset of the war to engage in the annihilation of the Jews? Was the annihilation a function of the course of the war, i.e. as the Germans occupied territories with more Jews it became increasingly difficult to incarcerate them therefore murder was instituted?
- (b)Debate Concerning Hitler's Role: What was Hitler's precise role in the conception and implementation of the Final Solution? Did he initiate the program and to what degree?
- (c)Debate Concerning the Military Situation of the Third Reich in the Summer of 1941 and its Connection to the Final Solution: Was the Final Solution begun at a time of euphoria over military victories or resignation at military setbacks? And what connection, if any, did this military situation have with the genesis of the Final Solution?
- (d)Debate Concerning: The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: Is the Holocaust the same as a variety of other acts of persecution and genocide, e.g., the massacre of Armenians by Turkey in 1915 or the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia? Or, as state-sponsored genocide against an entire people who lived in many different lands, does it stand as something unique and apart that is quite different from other forms of persecution?
- (e)Debate Concerning: The Role of the Ordinary German: Historians differ on the degree to which ordinary Germans were aware of the killing and how many played ancillary roles in the killing process.
- (f)Debate Concerning: Eliminationist Antisemitism- A Unique form of German Antisemitism: Historians differ on whether Germany was home to a long standing form of antisemitism which called for the elimination, i.e. killing, of Jews and that this antisemitism had been prevalent since the 19th century. This debate has been engendered by the publication of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.
- (g)Debate Concerning: The Response of the Jewish Victims: Could Jews have resisted the Nazis more effectively? Were the Judenrate, the Jewish councils installed by the Nazis in many ghettoes in order to supervise ghetto life, too compliant with Nazi demands? Was a Judenrat's refusal to alert the ghetto population to the fate awaiting it an act of betrayal or an attempt to ease the victims' mental anguish during their final days? Were these people complicit, however unwillingly, in the Jews' destruction or were they placed in such an untenable and unprecedented situations that ultimately there was little if anything they could have done to relieve Jewish suffering?
- (h)Debate Concerning: The Response of the Bystanders: In this arena there are many matters which are vigorously debated including the role of the Allies and of NGOs such as the Red Cross.
- (i)Debate Concerning: The Allies: What could the American and British governments have done, if anything, to stop the killing or warn the victims? Is it valid to have expected them to do anything other than wage a conventional war against Germany? Was it not in their best interests to leave all rescue initiatives until after the war? Were there actions that could have been taken -- and were taken for other captive peoples -- to help the Jews? Could Auschwitz have been bombed? If camps adjacent to it were bombed -- why were the gas chambers, which Allied reconnaissance planes had photographed, not bombed?
- (j)Debate Concerning: The Response of American Jews: Could American Jewish organizations have had a significant impact on the course of the Holocaust if they had been more organized and less engaged in internecine warfare? Did they fail to heed the cries for help from their fellow Jews? Was American foreign policy so fixed on rescue through victory and were the bureaucrats determining the policy so entrenched in their view that nothing could be done to help the Jews that no organization, of Jews or any other people, could have rendered a change in those policies?
- (k)Debate Concerning: The Vatican: What might the Vatican done, from both a strategic and a moral perspective, to assist Jews? Is there reason to assume that if the Pope had admonished Catholics against cooperating with the Germans in the killing process, more Jews might have survived?
115.Rejected as false: In my book I have treated the following claims as incontestably false. They do not require prior refutation before considering the motives of the people who advance them. In this case motive is the primary matter for investigation because facts are nowhere to be found.
- (a)Rejected: The claims made by deniers about the numbers of Jews killed and the cause of their death. Though different deniers given different estimates, the numbers generally range from 600,000 to approximately 1 million and the contention is that they died only because of war related privations.
- (b)Rejected: The claim that the Germans placed Jews in camps for their own protection.
- (c)Rejected: The claim that the gas chamber facilities were morgues or delousing units for clothes.
- (d)Rejected: The documents which discuss the number of victims and/or the means of killing those victims are forgeries or falsifications.
- (e)Rejected: The claim that Jewish groups conspired after the war to forge documents and place them in the archives and files of different German army and SS units in order to create the impression that the Holocaust was a hoax..
- (f)Rejected: The claim that The Diary of Anne Frank is a falsification written after the war.
- (g)Rejected: The claim that the Holocaust was a myth invented to win support for the creation of the State of Israel and to extract financial reparations from the Germans after the war.
116.Because this book was concerned solely with the deniers' history and modus operandi, I did not explore the items that I accepted as a given or analyze the items that are currently being debated among scholars.


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Family members said goodbye to their soldiers as they left for the Middle East from Fort Gordon. (WRDW-TV)
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It was an emotional day at Fort Gordon as nearly 300 soldiers said goodbye to loved ones.
It was one of the largest deployments Fort Gordon's ever seen. Now that the holidays are over, it's back to work for these troops as they head overseas.
It's the day many of these families have been dreading as they said goodbye for the next nine months.
"It has been emotional because it's nine months to your deployment and my son, he's 5, so he doesn't quite understand that daddy's going to be gone for a while but I'll be alright," said Veronica Bradley.
She and husband, Spc. Chase Bradley, have baby number two on the way.
"I'm due in July. We actually just found out I'm pregnant, so I'm like 11 weeks pregnant," Bradley said. "He won't be here for the birth of our second child, so that's kind of hard on him, but again, it's his job and there's Skype."
It's not the first deployment for Brianna Carter, but it may be the hardest.
"I grew up military, so I was used to it with my dad, but it's a totally different set of emotions with him," said Carter about her fiance. "It's the life they picked, and you're with them, so you have to stand by them no matter what, but it is hard and it gets very lonely."
Despite the cheerful music, 287 soldiers with the 67th Expeditionary Signal Battalion marched out, hugged their families and boarded the bus.
"Of course you're feeling a certain way about leaving your family behind, but also there's a pride and honor of going out and defending our country," explained Spc. Demontrae Dorrough.
"I think it's just nice to be a part of the ceremony just to let him know that we do support him, we wish him well and a safe return," said Angela Dorrough about her son.
The unit will be helping to set up worldwide communications in the Middle East.
"There's always a worry, no matter how safe we assure our family members we're gonna be, there's always that sense of danger because it's a reality of the job," Carter said.
"You worry about them and you try your best to keep busy and keep the kids busy and not think about it, and you find other wives or other girlfriends that are going through it so you guys can go through it together," Brianna says.
A last minute salute to the men and women who protect our freedoms. "We don't like to say goodbye, we say we'll see you later," says Veronica.
"Are you going to miss him?" News 12's Katie Beasley asked Bradley's son, Colby.
"Yes. I love you, Daddy," he replied.
This unit last deployed in August of 2009 and returned in July 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.


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Too many(?) foul calls during the Wildcat boys' Friday night home game against Clinton had some fans and even coaches in a "foul" mood (or at least an introspective one) by the end of the matchup.
There were reportedly 44 fouls called in the first half alone, according to one count, while another Oak Ridge fan pointed out at least two "phantom calls" forced the Dragons' top player out of the game before the half and yet another remarked how so many foul calls makes for "very looong games."
That being said, Oak Ridge started out with a trey against visiting Clinton and never looked back en route to a 95-58 rout in the Wildcat Arena.
Facing a 21-point deficit toward the end of the first period, the Dragons tried to make the most of a technical foul against an Oak Ridge player but still found themselves behind 59-25 at the half.
Leading scorers for the Wildcats were Kevin Steen with 16 points, Isaac Merian with a dozen, and noteworthy off-the-bench performances from Seth Davis with 11 points and freshman Tee Higgins, 10.
The Lady Wildcats took a 19-point lead into the fourth period on Friday night and ended up with a 73-59 victory over the visiting Lady Dragons.
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- May 15:
- TV's killing season: Which shows got canceled?
- The CW lineup: 'The Flash' paired with 'Supernatural'; new night for 'The Originals'
- May 13:
- ABC lineup: 'Scandal,' 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' are on the move
- May 12:
- 'Glee' bumped from Fox fall lineup
- Fox lineup: 'Gotham' paired with 'Sleepy Hollow'
- 'American Idol': Show gets downsized; auditions set for San Francisco
- NBC fall lineup: New night for 'The Blacklist'; final seasons for 'Parenthood,' 'Parks and Recreation'
- May 9:
- NBC cancels 'Community,' Revolution'
CBS on Wednesday unveiled a fall lineup that features five new shows, including another "NCIS" spin-off, and the debut of NFL football on Thursday nights, with a total of eight games.
The addition of football means that most of the network's regular Thursday-night schedule will be put on hold until Oct. 30. The exception is TV's No. 1 comedy, "The Big Bang Theory," which will air on Monday nights and then shift to its regular Thursday lead-off spot when the games conclude.
Of the five new shows, four are dramas. They include "Madam Secretary," starring Téa Leoni as the newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State; "NCIS: New Orleans," a spin-off led by Scott Bakula; "Scorpion," about a team of "brilliant misfits" battling high-tech threats; and "Stalker," a psychological thriller starring Maggie Q and Dylan McDermott as detectives who investigate stalking crimes.
The lone new comedy is "The McCarthys," about members of a sports-crazed Boston family. The cast is led by Laurie Metcalf.
The Thursday night NFL games will kick off on Sept. 11 with a Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens matchup in Baltimore.
Also of note: "NCIS: Los Angeles" is relocating to Monday nights, "The Amazing Race" to Fridays and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" to Sundays. In addition, the "CSI" franchise will spawn yet another spin-off, this one called "CSI: Cyber," headed by Patricia Arquette, who plays a "cyber-psychologist" crime solver. The spin-off will air at midseason.
Other new midseason shows include "Battle Creek," a crime drama from "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan, and a fresh take on "The Odd Couple," starring Matthew Perry in the Oscar Madison role. Returning shows set for midseason debuts include "The Mentalist," "Mike & Molly," "The Millers" and "Undercover Boss."
Among the shows not returning are "Hostages," "The Crazy Ones" and "Intelligence." And in somewhat of a surprise move, CBS passed on "How I Met Your Dad," a reboot (with a fresh cast) of "How I Met Your Mother," which ended its run earlier this season.
Here's a rundown of the CBS fall lineup with new shows in CAPS (except for "NCIS"):
8 p.m. "The Big Bang Theory"/"2 Broke Girls
8:30 p.m. "Mom"
9 p.m. "SCORPION"
10 p.m. "NCIS: Los Angeles"
8 p.m. "NCIS"
9 p.m. "NCIS: NEW ORLEANS"
10 p.m. "Person of Interest"
8 p.m. "Survivor"
9 p.m. "Criminal Minds"
10 p.m. "STALKER"
8 p.m. (5 p.m. PT) "THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL"
8 p.m. "The Big Bang Theory" (As of Oct. 30)
8 p.m. "The Millers" (As of Oct. 30)
9 p.m. "Two and a Half Men" (As of Oct. 30)
9:30 p.m. "THE McCARTHYS" (As of Oct. 30)
10 p.m. "Elementary" (As of Oct. 30)
8 p.m. "The Amazing Race"
9 p.m. "Hawaii Five-0"
10 p.m. "Blue Bloods"
8 p.m. Crime show repeats
9 p.m. Crime show repeats
10 p.m. "48 Hours"
7 p.m. "60 Minutes"
8 p.m. "MADAM SECRETARY"
9 p.m. "The Good Wife"
10 p.m. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"/"CSI: CYBER"
("CSI: CYBER" will move into the slot later in the season).
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Hi guys,
I'm running into a problem where after I restart the computer, the following happens. Note, I am using happy.neko's PPA and running PMS as a daemon, on Ubuntu 12.04. So, once Ubuntu fully loads, the media server appears on the PS3. I select the Media Server on the PS3, and it just shows a message saying no files found or something like that. I have done tests and confirmed that it is the fault of PMS and not the PS3. The fix I am having to apply every-time is to open the terminal and stop and start the daemon, using: sudo /etc/init.d/ps3mediaserver stop , then: sudo /etc/init.d/ps3mediaserver start. After doing this, everything works fine and great. Until I have to restart... I set the daemon on purpose so that it would not require user intervention after Ubuntu has loaded. So if someone could help me fix this... I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.


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Iggy Pop has got a lust for life ... in Wonderland.
The punk icon has joined the cast of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as the voice of The Caterpillar, TVGuide.com has confirmed. He'll replace The Who's frontman Roger Daltrey to play the insect.
Never miss an episode! Add new fall shows to your Watchlist
Daltrey voiced The Caterpillar in a previous episode of Once Upon a Time but was unavailable to reprise the role, according to Entertainment Weekly, which first reported the news.
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland premieres Thursday, Oct. 10 at 8/7c on ABC.
View original Once Upon a Time in Wonderland Casts Iggy Pop at TVGuide.com
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Nepalese woman mountaineer Chhurim who has been recognized by Guinness World Records for climbing Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season poses with the certificate issued to her in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. 29-year-old Chhurim scaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit on May 12, 2012, and again a week later on May 19. (AP Photo)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim has entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season. In fact, she did so a week apart.
Nepal's Tourism Minister Posta Bahadur Bogati handed over the Guinness World Records certificate issued to 29-year-old Chhurim on Monday. She scaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit on May 12, 2012, and again a week later on May 19.
Chhurim says she plans to climb other high peaks in the future. She uses only one name like most Sherpas.
The Nepal Mountaineering Association says the world's highest peak has been climbed by nearly 4,000 people since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal did so in 1953. Women are a small number of them.


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Jones successfully defends title at UFC 152
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SANTA CLARA -- Veteran cornerback Chris Cook has been making the most of his first-string opportunities to replace Carlos Rogers, even wearing the same No. 22 jersey in the 49ers' backfield.
Cook nearly intercepted a Colin Kaepernick pass in the end zone to finish Tuesday's practice.
"I'm doing everything I can to put myself in the position to be out there with the starters, whether it being in nickel or base," Cook said.
Cook is lining up at right cornerback while Tramaine Brock is on the left side. Potential starter Chris Culliver is being limited to individual drills while he returns from a 2013 knee injury. First-round draft pick Jimmie Ward is also being kept out of team activity while he recovers from March foot surgery.
Cook played his previous four seasons with the Minnesota Vikings before signing a one-year deal with the 49ers.
"I like this defense a lot and feel it fits my style of play," Cook said. "I like to man up, and a lot of things we do ends up being man coverage."
Coach Jim Harbaugh called Cook an ascending player, adding: "He's showing up and making plays. He's getting his hands on the ball, he's made interceptions and he's done a good job."
Cook credited his coaches with enhancing his development in the 49ers' scheme.
"The coaches here really take care of players, especially (secondary coach Ed) Donatell, who puts in a lot of extra time with me working on my craft, and I appreciate it a lot."


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Yesterday, Juan James Rodriguez streaked in front of President Obama in Philadelphia in order to win a $1 million prize from billionaire Alki David. What exactly went down? Find out inside by watching this new, close-up video of the incident.
While not easy on the eyes, the video is in fact safe for work, as Rodriguez's a$$ets have been pixelated:


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STOCKTON - The federal government is offering $1.5 million to San Joaquin County farmers to protect water quality and improve efficiency.
The deadline to apply for funding is Feb. 15, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The money should pay for dozens of projects over the next five years in the French Camp Slough, Duck Creek, Long Tree Creek and Littlejohns Creek watersheds.
For details, call (209) 472-7127 or stop by the NRCS Service Center at 3422 Hammer Lane in Stockton.
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6495 Caroline St, Suite M
Milton, FL 32570
LMS Steering Committee Officers
The purpose of the Santa Rosa County Local Mitigation Strategy Task Force is to decrease the vulnerability of the citizens, governments, businesses and institutions of Santa Rosa County to the future human, economic and environmental costs of natural, technological, and societal disasters. To this end, the Task Force develops, monitors, implements, and maintains a comprehensive plan for hazard mitigation. Funding for the prevention and recovery from disasters from the state and federal government is directly linked to the existence of this Task Force and the work that it accomplishes throughout the county to mitigate the impact of disasters.
Membership in the Task Force is open to all jurisdictions, organizations and individuals
supporting its purposes. Membership is accomplished through the completion of a Member
Information Form. The Member Information Form should be submitted to the Task Force
support staff for a signature of acknowledgement by the current Task Force Chair. A database
of members and contact information will be maintained by the Task Force support staff.
Hardening/Mitigation Grant Information:
For information on hardening your home (shutters, elevation, roof strengthening) please contact the Santa Rosa County Special Projects/Grants Department at (850) 983-1848 or email us: Mitigation Task Force. The County does not currently have a grant to harden homes. We do maintain a waiting list and when a grant opens we work with the individual homeowners to help them submit applications. Most of these grants require a minimum of 25% from the homeowner. If you would like to be placed on the Residential Hardening Waiting List please complete one of the residential proposal forms. Residents may also contact Rebuild Northwest Florida at 497-7024 to check the availability of grant funds. If you are a low to moderate income resident and need help repairing or hardening your home, please call the Santa Rosa County Housing Program at (850) 981-7075.
If you are a non-profit, municipality, school or healthcare organization and wish to submit an LMS application for consideration of a hazard mitigation project, please complete the LMS Initiatives Proposal Form. Please be sure to read all of the instructions. Submission information is on the form. To view the list of current LMS Initiatives, please view Table 6.2 in Section 6 of the LMS Plan.
The Santa Rosa County LMS 2016-2020 Plan Draft is posted below for public review. A public meeting will be held on Thursday, January 9, 2015 to present the plan and solicit public comment. Click here for details. Comments may also be submitted through January 31, 2016 to email@example.com. Upon approval by the Santa Rosa County Board of Commissioners and completion of all plan edits, the plan will be submitted to the Florida Division of Emergency Management for Review.
Due to the large file size associated with the plan including appendices, we have provided individual sections below for your convenience.
Over the past several years, Santa Rosa County has made significant progress in its
efforts to address flooding problems in the county. Seeking to build upon the progress
that has already been made, a Flood Mitigation Plan Task Force, comprised of both staff
members and community residents, has been assembled to develop a plan to address
flooding issues.
The Flood Mitigation Plan was prepared according to a standard planning process
regulated by FEMA, by following the 10 steps listed below:
Local Mitigation Strategy and Flood Mitigation Plan Task Force Agendas & Minutes:
Agendas and minutes for meetings held prior to January 27, 2011 are included as Appendix C & D in the 2011-2016 Local Mitigation Strategy Plan document.
Please read the following information carefully and see further instructions below.
On Thursday, May 15th, Santa Rosa County will host a meeting for residents to learn more about the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program and potential grants. County Staff with the assistance of Mr. Don Ward, Consultant to the County, will provide an overview of the program and answer any questions. Representatives from a local House Elevation company will also be on hand to provide general information regarding the elevation process.
Properties that have been classified by FEMA as being a Severe Repetitive Loss Property or that have experienced reoccurring flood losses may be eligible for mitigation grants under the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMAP). This program provides potential grants that help to avoid future flood damages by taking one of the mitigation actions described below:
Please contact Sheila Harris, Santa Rosa County Grants Director at (850) 983-1848 or by e-mailing email@example.com to confirm your attendance or if you have any questions.
If you plan to attend the workshop, please carefully review the following brochure and complete the required forms below. The deadline for this opportunity is June 6, 2014 and it is very important to bring as much documentation as possible to the workshop. Those that can not attend the workshop can complete the following documents and send any documentation to email@example.com.
You should also bring with you your Flood Declarations Page, an Elevation Certificate, proof of prior or current flood losses including any flood claims documentation, pictures, receipts for repairs, etc. For more information regarding the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program, please visit the Florida Division of Emergency Management's Mitigation website at: http://www.floridadisaster.org/Mitigation/FMAP/index.htm


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How to Say "I Love You" — Without Being Cheesy
Star sweetheart Ryan will spend his time circulating the Cosmo offices and doling out hugs to staffers in need (we anticipate being in need a LOT).
Think you've had a crappy day? R-Patz sitting in the corner brooding will remind you it's not so bad after all.
10 Naughty Kissing Games


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Work begins on City Heights skate park
After nearly ten years of hoops-jumping and opposition
Marty Graham 5:30 p.m., Aug. 29
Michael Crain Grandys pleads not guilty. Photo Weatherston.
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012
AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. -- Ray Grice of Aiken has seen his son, Jeremy, grow up over the years. He has photos from when Jeremy was just 3 and 4 years old. He also has two from when Jeremy was 24 years old and 29, too.
However, the latter two portraits of a smiling Jeremy weren't taken with a camera. They're just a guess of what Jeremy could look like. He went missing in 1985 when he was just 4 years old.
"I've never felt to this day that he's dead. I mean, it's always just been to me that he's out there somewhere," Grice said.
Grice has spent 27 years -- half of his life -- searching for a son and answers he has yet to find.
"I still, you know, pray every day that, you know, someone will come through that knows something, you know, about it, because there's somebody out there that knows exactly what happened," he said, holding back his emotions.
Thanksgiving Day marks the 27th anniversary of Jeremy's disappearance. He was last seen by a neighbor outside his mobile home near Beech Island. They say he was standing near a mailbox wearing pajamas and waiting for a bus, even though he didn't have school that day.
Grice got the call from his wife, Donna, when she realized their son was gone.
"I got in the truck and drove over to her house and all, and she was in the yard, and the first thing I asked her was, 'Have you called the police?' She said no. I said, 'Well, that should have been the first thing call you made,'" he said.
Deputies arrived and searched for days. A pond nearby was drained and divers even searched Langley Pond after a tip from a psychic. All of that revealed nothing.
"Put your faith in God that things will work out. Like I said, whoever's responsible, their judgment day will come," Grice said.
Grice says his son could have been kidnapped and raised somewhere else, forgetting his real family since he was still so young.
However, Grice still embraces the belief that his son is still alive -- 27 years after the search began.
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office tells News 12 that an investigator is assigned to this case, so it is still open. Grice says the last serious lead he knows of was in the late 80s and that he hasn't heard from the Sheriff's Office in years.
If you have any tips, call the Aiken County Sheriff's Office or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.


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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
Monitor the location-specific variation in scab resistance of potato breeding material and newly released cultivars by field testing (national trials).
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
A total of 20 newly-released potato cultivars and advanced breeding selections plus four popular cultivars as checks (Atlantic, Ranger Russet, Russet Burbank, and Superior) will be tested in common scab nurseries in four locations, embodying a range of environmental conditions and different pathogen populations. Locations are in Aberdeen, ID, Becker, MN, E. Lansing, MI, and University Park, PA. A randomized complete block with three replications of four hills will be planted for each clone. At harvest, each tuber will be rated for percent surface area covered with lesions and type of lesion. Data from cooperating sites will be analyzed by our investigator. The resulting comparison and ranking of susceptibility to predominant Streptomyces isolates will be made available to growers to help them select the most scab-resistant cultivars for their region.
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Students hear blunt talk about violent behavior at Westlawn Middle
Anti-violence summit kicks off planned annual event
Published: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 10:54 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Cassius Lanier, co-founder of Community Unity, a grassroots organization that advocates nonviolence, asked hundreds of students gathered in the gym at Westlawn Middle School on Thursday if they were bored.
Most raised their hands and yelled, "Yes!"
Lanier said that when he was a child, he was bored, too. To alleviate his boredom, he joined a gang and sold drugs. The choices eventually landed him in prison.
"Guess what?" Lanier said. "It's really boring in that two-man cell ..."
Lanier was speaking at the first of what school officials say will be an annual anti-violence youth summit.
Other speakers were Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steve Anderson, local parent and Masonic lodge member Rodney Pelt, homicide investigator Bryant Short, Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Detention Center Chief Ricky Thomas, New Light Missionary Baptist Church pastor the Rev. Curtis Gosa and Rollins Funeral Home Director Paul Rollins.
Westlawn Assistant Principal Monte Linebarger told students the event's purpose was to identify the problems and figure out how to combat them.
"How are we going to stop the murders, the violence and the dropouts?" Linebarger asked. "The only way we're going to do that is for you to talk."
Thomas said he's seen a lot more kids come into the detention center on armed robbery charges lately. He told students that if they have a gun in their hands and commit a crime, it's considered a violent crime whether they use the gun or not.
He also said that if they're 16 or older and commit a class A felony — murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, first-degree domestic violence, first-degree burglary and first-degree arson — they're going to adult prison instead of the juvenile detention center.
"We can't help you then," Thomas said. "And if you're with someone who robs someone, you're going to be caught up, too. Everyone who was standing there when the robbery happened is being charged."
Thomas asked how many students had been present during a fight at Westlawn. About 80 percent raised their hand. He asked how many had been in a fight. About 60 percent raised their hand.
"Why are there so many fights at Westlawn?" he asked.
Students said because of jealousy and "mess" that starts on Facebook. About 95 percent indicated they had Facebook accounts.
One student said you have to hit the people who talk about you.
Pelt said it's easy to walk away from a fight. They just have to do it.
"We don't come here to change your environment. We come here to change your mindset," Pelt said. "And when you change your mindset, you can change your environment."
Pelt said that when he was growing up, he dreamed of being the ultimate soldier. When he joined the Army, he aspired to become a Green Beret and eventually a general.
But when he was being screened for a security clearance, he failed the test because military screeners found out about an illegal choice he made when he was 19. Without the security clearance he couldn't achieve his goals.
"I still had a stellar military career, but that one choice killed my dreams," he said. "God forgives, but the law doesn't. Real talk."
Anderson said most acts of violence can be traced back to nonsense or "mess." He told the students there will always be people that don't like them, but they can't fight everybody.
"We're so eager to show people how tough and bad we are," Anderson said. "I got news for you, there's always someone a little tougher and badder than you."
Anderson said the trend in school violence is shifting. Where it used to be boys getting into most of the fights, it's swiftly becoming girls.
"Stop fighting over these boys," Anderson told female students. "They're not worth it. Why mess up your pretty faces over a boy who won't be with you anymore in two weeks?"
Students applauded.
Lanier said lately he's been hearing kids use a new phrase, "I'm about that life," which indicates the speaker is living a street life.
He asked the students who were "about that life" to raise their hands. About 15 percent did, many of them smiling and laughing.
Lanier asked the ones who were seriously "about that life" to come to the podium and stand before their peers. Eight students came up.
He looked the first student in the eye and asked if he was seriously "about that life." Frowning, the student said, "I ain't scared of no one."
Lanier asked him what he was willing to do to prove it. The student told him "anything." Lanier asked him would he be willing to kill someone. The boy shrugged.
"If you're not willing to kill, you're not about that life," Lanier said.
He told students that if they're trying to live "that life," they'll only have one chance to prove it when a person who really is "about that life" approaches.
Rollins told the students that if they don't stop the violence, he'll be the last person who sees them before he puts their bodies into a casket and lowers them into the ground.
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Customer Spotlight:Raymond James
By Irem Radzik-Oracle on Jan 11, 2013
Back in October we announced that Raymond James is a winner of 2012 Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards in the Data Integration category. As I mentioned on this site before, Raymond James used Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate in an integrated solution for its operational data store that supports the application services across the enterprise. By using Oracle's real-time data integration solution from heterogeneous systems into a centralized ODS, the team achieved higher application performance, reduced complexity and cost, and up to 50 percent faster time to market.
I had a pleasure meeting the team, Ryan Fornett, Tim Garrod, and Michael Wells, from Raymond James at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. In addition to hearing from them during their presentations, we had a chance to record interviews with Tim and Ryan while at OpenWorld. You can find the links to their videos below:
Yesterday, with their permission we posted a detailed blog on the FMW blog site about their implementation:
Data Integration Customer Spotlight: Raymond James Financial
I highly recommend reading it to see Oracle Data Integration products in action.
Many thanks to Ryan, Tim, and Mike for sharing the details of their innovative solution with us.


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Xtreme DeMarini Fastpitch Softball 14U is announcing tryouts for the 2013-2014 season. Our team will continue representing Wilson and DeMarini as we compete in tournaments throughout the Tri-State area. We have already accepted an invitation to the 14U Futures Divisions of the 2013 Fall Southern Force Alabama Belles College Showcase in Cullman, Alabama. We will focus on ASA, USSSA, USFA, College Exposure and College Showcase tournaments.
Tryouts will be held over the course of two days and will consist of an individual skills evaluation as well as a live scrimmage evaluation. In order to participate in the live scrimmage evaluation, each girl must have participated in the individual skills evaluation at tryouts or during a scheduled private workout. Tryouts will be held at the Arlington Sportsplex, 11307 Memphis-Arlington Rd, Arlington, Tn 38002 on the following days:
Saturday, August 10, 2013: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (Individual Skills Evaluation) *Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, August 11, 2013: 2 p.m.-4 p.m. (Live Scrimmage Evaluation)
If you plan on your daughter attending tryouts, send an email for a pre-registration form. Once pre-registration forms are returned, you will receive an email containing a Xtreme DeMarini tryout itenerary and placed on the inclement weather contact list.
For additional information, feel free to contact Jim Lewis: 901-581-4205 or email: email@example.com
Visit our website at www.xtremedemarini.com.
If interested in attending tryouts, send an email request to email@example.com for a pre-registration form.
Visit our website: www.xtremedemarini.com.
In order to receive a pre-registration form and to be placed on the inclement weather email contact list, email:
For updates on tryouts, visit our website: www.xtremedemarini.com.
In order to receive a pre-registration form and to be placed on the inclement weather contact list, send email to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
For additional information, refer to our website: www.xtremedemarini.com.
If you would like a pre-registration form and placed on the inclement weather contact list, send an email request.
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Hi all,
First off, the basics:
PC: Dell Optiplex GX620, 2GB RAM
OS: Scientific Linux 5.2 (RHEL rebuild, a la CentOS)
IP address (server): 192.168.1.1
IP address (PS3): 192.168.1.65
PMS: version 1.10.5
mplayer, ffmpeg, and mencoder all installed via yum via the DAG repo
Server (192.168.1.1) can successfully ping the PS3 (192.168.1.65)
Created a launcher in gnome: /home/myusername/pms-linux-1.10.5/PMS.sh
When I run this this launcher, the Java screen comes up fine, but hangs on "Contacting PS3..." on the main page. The TRACE tab shows the following info:
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.809 Starting Java PS3 Media Server v1.10.5
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.811 by shagrath / 2008-2009
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.812 http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.812 http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.813
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.821 Java 1.6.0_12-Sun Microsystems Inc.
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.822 OS Linux i386 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5
[main] TRACE 19:16:27.822 Encoding: UTF-8
It never gets past that Encoding.... line.
Anyone have any ideas why this is not continuing on, registering the transcoders and connecting to the PS3?