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text: I was pretty excited when I discovered "Screamtime", a British horror anthology streaming on Netflix Instant Watch this past weekend. This was one of those movies I have always wanted to check out but never got around to watching until now. The anthology involves a wrap around story in which some young punks steal a bunch of videos from a Times Square video store and take them to a friends house to watch. Each one of the videos represents one of the shorts that are featured within the movie.


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"Bitter Grounds" by Neil Gaiman
The first reaction of all of the students to the story was: "This was boring to read, it didn't make any sense, what is he like some sort of zombie or something, it was stupid." They had already begun work in their groups, and were reading other stories in the book, so they were aware of some common themes and subjects, aware that we weren't in the realm of quotidian reality here, but that didn't help them recognize the merits of Gaiman's tale. "These stories are just too weird," one of my students said. "Can't anybody just write normal stories?!"
It is in such moments that I love being a teacher. I knew that, once I could direct their attentions to a few of the subtleties of the story, they would begin to warm to it. They might not love it, they might not go running out to recommend it to their friends, but they wouldn't resent it as much as they did when they first walked into the classroom and sat around the table, arms folded across their chests, eyes drilling imaginary holes in the floor, certain that what they had read was just another example of an author, or a teacher, trying to make them feel stupid.
Though few of my students came to like "Bitter Grounds" as much as I do, they all came to respect it, and I would never ask for more than that. The book as a whole received mostly positive reviews from them by the time we had finished it, with vastly different opinions of which stories were the most effective. "Bitter Grounds" is the one that has remained most vividly in my mind, and is the one I return to most frequently.
Summarizing "Bitter Grounds" is beyond my capabilities. It is a story about loss, love, carelessness, voodoo, sex, ghosts, and more. The first time I read it, my reaction was, "That's it?" I hadn't paid enough attention. I hadn't been expecting the level of complexity "Bitter Grounds" offers. The first sentence, "In every way that counts, I was dead," is extremely important to every sentence that follows, all of which serve to illustrate the "every way that counts" and how it relates to death. This is a story where what isn't done and what doesn't happen is as important as what is and does.
Virginia Woolf once said, "...I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters: I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth," and that is precisely what Gaiman does as well, though using vastly different techniques. The caves Gaiman digs out are not so much beautiful as they are unsettling and, ultimately, haunting. The various encounters in the story feel random at first, but early on a character says to the narrator, "Remember. People come into your life for a reason," and this sentence proves to be as important as the story's first. Fragmentary moments all take on significance, all loop back to shine tiny glimmers of light into the beautiful cave behind the narrator, the shadow-world of his daily existence.
Once I told my students to look more carefully at the first sentence, at the passages from Zora Neale Hurston, at who disappeared in the story, at how people responded to the narrator -- once they started looking, they didn't want to stop. Everything in the tale connected, there wasn't a loose thread anywhere, even though a quick reading made the story feel random and even inconsequential. Now, having looked at it closely, the students saw how much could be accomplished in a single carefully-crafted short story. They were impressed. Having re-read the story moments ago, I still am.
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Okay, I'm extremely interested in this, for a number of reasons. I really liked that story and yet, I couldn't help but feel as though I had missed the main point when all was said and done. I'll take your advice and look it over a few more times. Wish I'd been in your class when you covered this!
I've been over that story a couple of times and i'm curious to get your analysis on it. I also feel like there's more that i'm not quite getting.ReplyDelete
Matthew, this is consuming me. I love the story, have read it several times over five years and still can't quite assemble the puzzle pieces. Any further insight would be appreciated, although I suppose the mystery might be what keeps pulling me back.ReplyDelete
This story seems to be very Gene Wolfe-like, in a good way.
- Connor Freer6/01/2010 7:40 PM
I have to say, I felt a bit like your students after having read "Bitter Grounds." Upon immediate reflection, though, a small, seemingly interconnected detail has hit me already: He threw his cell phone out the window, hoping that someone else would find it just as he found Anderton's briefcase/wallet. I'm definitely going to read the story over a few more times before I give it my final verict. :)ReplyDelete
Bitter Grounds gets deeper every time I read it (actually, I'm listening to it on a book-on-CD, read by the author. A great way to experience it).ReplyDelete
I don't want the story explained to me, but I would love to read other people's opinions, because it is obvious much, much more is going on in this story than I realized at first. Sadly, this is not a widely discussed story, (at least not in the circles I frequent) but it is amazing how well constructed and deep it is.
Do you know where any further analysis of this story has been set forth online?
I loved the story in large part because it was one of the more challenging among Gaiman's short works. I love Gaiman, but often find him to be something of a 'comfy' choice as a writer: a lot of the short works create an immersive and accessible world with enough twists and kinks to keep you interested but with a solid enough grounding and resolution in the end. Bitter Grounds, however, felt different for the reasons you've just described. There's not that much of a safety net.ReplyDelete
I also find it to be an interesting piece in light of Gaiman's general bibliography... it's like his obsessions with magic, the occult and the subcultures that revel in them are collated here but again: not to be fetishised or as decoration/illustration. The narrator seems to be aware of the cultural underpinnings of the San Francisco context Gaiman plonks him in, but it works on him in subtle, mysterious ways.


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House GOP Whip Expects Paul Ryan's Budget to Pass
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"It'll pass," the California Republican said of the budget released Tuesday, which purports to eliminate the deficit and cut $5.1 trillion in spending over 10 years.
Passage of the budget would represent a political victory for Mr. Ryan, given that 62 House Republicans voted last year against a deal incorporated in his new 10-year blueprint. The spending level set for the budget's first year was agreed to by Mr. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D., Wash.) in a two-year budget deal reached last December. Some GOP lawmakers voted against that deal because they objected to increasing spending in the near term, in exchange for future spending cuts.
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Seems sort of counterintuitive, doesn't it? The sweeteners that have been developed to help people control their weight and avoid diabetes that are featured in diet soda, yogurt and other foods can raise the blood sugar level instead of reducing it, according to new experiments in mice and people.
The provocative finding—made possible through a new avenue of research—is likely to stoke the simmering controversy over whether artificial sweeteners help or hinder people's ability to lose weight and lower their risk of diabetes.
The research shows that zero-calorie sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose and aspartame can alter the population of bacteria in the gut and trigger unwanted changes such as higher blood glucose levels—a risk factor for diabetes.
"The scope of our discovery is cause for a public reassessment of the massive and unsupervised use of artificial sweeteners," said Eran Elinav, a physician and immunologist at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science and lead author of the study, which appeared Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Though many people consume artificial sweeteners instead of sugar to control their weight, the scientific evidence that they work is mixed. Some studies have indicated that the sweeteners can help lead to weight loss, while others suggest they contribute to weight gain.
One reason is that it isn't clear whether people who consume artificial sweeteners are overweight because of what they eat—or whether overweight people are the ones who typically gravitate to such products.
Based on existing evidence, guidelines jointly published in 2012 by the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association noted that artificial sweeteners "when used judiciously…could facilitate reductions in added sugar," and thus influence weight loss.
The new Nature study marks a significant advance because it brings together two separate areas of research—the role of sweeteners in raising blood sugar levels, and the complex workings of the vast colonies of bacteria that inhabit the gut. Individuals can have differing bacterial colonies in their gut, meaning people respond differently to what they consume.
In one experiment, the researchers found that mice whose diets included saccharin, sucralose or aspartame had significantly higher blood-glucose levels than mice whose diet included sugar, or no sugar at all.
They next wanted to test whether the fake sweeteners caused that metabolic change by altering the balance of microbes in the animals' gut.
They transplanted bacteria from artificial-sweetener-fed mice or sugar-fed mice into other mice that were bred to have no gut bacteria of their own and that had never consumed a sweetener product. They found that the bacterial transfer from the sweetener-fed mice raised the blood sugar levels in the transplant recipients—suggesting that the gut microbes had triggered the higher sugar levels in mice fed fake sweeteners.
Was the same link true for people? Dr. Elinav and his colleagues examined the relationship between long-term consumption of artificial sweeteners and various metabolic measurements in some 380 nondiabetic people.
They found that the bacteria in the gut of those who regularly ate fake sweeteners were notably different from those who didn't. In addition, there was a correlation between the sweetener consumption and a susceptibility to glucose intolerance, which is a disturbance in the blood glucose level.
Correlation, however, doesn't necessarily mean causation. In the next experiment, seven volunteers who normally didn't consume fake sugar were asked to consume products high in the sweeteners. After four days, four of them had significantly higher blood-sugar levels as well as altered populations of bacteria in their gut—an outcome similar to what was seen in mice.
"This susceptibility to sweeteners [can now] be predicted ahead of time by profiling the microbes in the people," said Eran Segal, a co-author of the study and computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute.
The results need to be corroborated through a study with many more participants.
In a statement, the Calorie Control Council, a trade group that represents makers of artificial sweeteners and other food products, said the Nature study suffered from several limitations. It said the results from the mouse experiments may not apply to humans, while the human experiments had a small sample size. It said further research was needed.
FoodFacts.com has never had anything good to say about artificial sweeteners. Reports of negative health effects have far outweighed the marketed benefits. Research like this points straight to the idea that artificial sweeteners are not only unnecessary, but actually harmful — harmful enough that Dr. Elinav, the study's lead author, stopped using them completely once he saw the results. That should certainly tell us something.


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Many Indians Still Parfar Commodities Over Feed Stamps Dixon: August 23 is the target date for mailing $750 per capita checks to some 5 460 members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The Tribal Council during the third quarterly meeting in Dixon July 5, voted to distribute 90 percent of the 1974 reservation revenue to members enrolled before August 1. Total receipts for the year amounted to a record $6,356,252. The fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends June 30. The actual income from tribal programs for fiscal year THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SALISH, PEND'd ORIELLES 1974 was nearly $1.5 million over estimates. The projected income for the year was 4,943,511. Soaring stumpage prices for the forestry program accounted for most of the increase ....estimates for the year's returns on forestry were $3,528,000 while the actual forestry income amounted to $4,628,5 40.29 by year's end. The Tribal Operating budget for 19.74 was $490,637 ....or a little more than eight percent of the actual returns. The PER CAPITA...(Cont. on page 19) AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION 15 C HARKÖOSTA Volume 4 - Number 7 NEW MOON OF THE WILD ONION August 1,1974 *750 Per-Capita Checks To Be Mailed August 23 St. Ignatius: Some 200 Indian families had shown up at the Commodities Warehouse in St. Ignatius for monthly issues early last month. In the meantime, Lake County Welfare in Poison reported that 143 persons had been certified to receive Food Stamps. The two nutritional aid programs....commodities which were given an apparent three year new life in June...and Food Stamps, a program designed to replace commodity food distribution by selling food coupons to needy persons at a discount....are now operating separately on the reservation. The tribally operated Commodity Program had been given the axe last year and was to be replaced on July 1 by Food Stamps. Howevr . late in June, Congress responded to appeals by Indian tribes and states with Indian populations and extended the surplus food distribution plan for three years. During the first two weeks of July, Tribal Commodity Manager Charlie McDonald and his staff managed to scrounge up enough surplus items from commodity warehouses throughout the northwest to make a July issue. Distribution began on July 15 and by July 17 some 200 Indian families had received issues. McDonald speculated that by the end of the distribution period, July 19, most of the 400 Indian families from Lake and Sanders Counties who had been using commodities might continue with the program. The commodity issue for July included 15 items. They were: —Dry Beans . ---Egg Mix —Margarine —Orange Juice —Bulgar (a cereal) —Canned Chicken —Rolled Wheat —Lunch Meat —Macaroni ------Instant Milk —Peanut Butter -----Rice —Syrup ------Flour —Corn Meal McDonald said he did not know what items would be available for the August issue. He said the program would be operating on a hand to mouth basis for the next several months, but urged Indian people who wish to continue receiving com- modities to keep in touch with his office. Lake County Welfare Director, Bonnie Mueller, said that there was no way of telling how many of the 143 persons who had been certified for food stamps were Indian. She said that the food stamp certification and distribution process will be the same in August as it was in July. Persons wishing to receive food stamps must be certified at the County Welfare Office in Poison and pick up their stamps at the Poison Head Start Center. As things stand, needy Indians living on reservations in Montana will have a month-to-month option of using either county food stamps or tribal commodities. That means that a person who received food stamps in July may switch over to commodities in August and then return to food stamps in September. The Tribal Council and the Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board hav e both endorsed the dual food assistance programs on reservations. The following is an exerpt from a letter written by the Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board explaining their position on the Commodity-Food Stamp situation to the Montana Economic Assistance Division: ..........."The Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board has in the past opposed the imposition of the Food STamps Program, and the involuntary curtailment of the Commodities Distribution program. It is conceivable that some Reservations may still be adamantly opposed to the Food Stamp Program. However, we feel this should be a decision made by the individual respective Tribal Councils involved. However, at the June 28,1974 meeting, it was decided that dual issuance (that is, both Commoditis and Food Stamps) would be requested and made an available option for at least a one year's period of time for all Reservations in the State. In behalf of the Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board, we see no reason at this time to change, disagree or alter in any way the understandings reached at the June 28,1974, meeting."...........
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It Finally Happened: Suzuki Dies in America
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We kind of knew it was coming, but still the news arrives as something of a shock: American Suzuki has filed for bankruptcy and will cease selling vehicles in the U.S. as part of its restructuring plan. When current inventories are gone, new Suzukis will vanish from U.S. shores.
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Until now, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, was focusing all their efforts on the Gulf Coast. Now they're fanning across the county, including Augusta. News 12 talks with agents as they answer to a room full of evacuees.
It's a hotel lobby turned classroom. The students are evacuees in need of jobs. The teachers are two FEMA representatives called in special by the city.
"That's all I know. We've been going from one place to another for the last nine days," said Linas Cernius, FEMA.
And it's been a very long nine days of answering the same questions in different towns. It's the first time since Katrina hit that FEMA has visited Augusta. This session is held at the Ramada Inn where more than one hundred evacuees are living temporarily.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Leah Remini is expressing appreciation to fans and others following word of her decision to leave the Church of Scientology.
In a statement issued Thursday by her talent agency, the former "King of Queens" star said she was grateful to the media, her colleagues and fans around the world for their "overwhelmingly positive support."
The statement made no mention of Scientology, and the APA talent and literary agency said Remini had no further comment.
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"I love to make people laugh, entertain them. That other thing is something that is not even part of my discussion," said Remini, who was with "The Talk" for a season.
She co-starred in the freshman sitcom "Family Tools," which ended a brief run this week, and in the 2007-08 comedy "In the Motherhood," and starred opposite Kevin James in the long-running "King of Queens" that aired from 1998-2007.
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The Year in Sports: Most Popular Articles
The Journal presents its most popular sports articles from 2013.
The Slowest Generation (Sept. 19)
A generational battle emerges in endurance athletics: Younger athletes are racing with less concern about time. –Kevin Helliker
The Other Half of Team Saban (Nov. 25)
Alabama coach Nick Saban's wife, Terry, says Crimson Tide fans aren't so appreciative but the Sabans aren't going anywhere. –Sharon Terlep
Behind Lance Armstrong's Decision to Talk (Jan. 15)
The inside account of why Lance Armstrong sat down for a private conversation with the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency from the authors of "Wheelmen." –Reed Albergotti, Vanessa O'Connell
An Early Warning in Aaron Hernandez's Profile (July 3)
Before the 2010 NFL Draft, a personality test raised a red flag about New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who had the lowest possible score on "social maturity." –Jonathan Clegg
College Football's Grid of Shame (Aug. 28)
Our annual rankings of how good all 125 teams are and how embarrassed their alumni should be. –Rachel Bachman
The Exercise Equivalent of a Cheeseburger (May 24)
New research says endurance running may damage your health. –Kevin Helliker
Where Have All the Students Gone? (Sept. 26)
At campuses across the country, there are more reasons than ever to skip college-football games. –Ben Cohen
Who's Your Favorite College-Football Team? (Aug. 29)
New Facebook data reveals the teams that are winning the hearts and minds of America. –Darren Everson
A New Twist in the Armstrong Saga (Jan. 17)
The investment banker who also managed assets for the head of cycling's governing body. –Reed Albergotti, Vanessa O'Connell
The 40-Year Secret Behind Basketball's 'Hershberger' Award (April 4)
Meet the hoaxers behind an All-American basketball team from 1973. –Rachel Bachman
The King of the Accidental Phone Call (March 24)
The Mets have a derrière distinction of their own in PR guru Jay Horwitz: the butt dialer. –Brian Costa


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News 12 at 6 o'clock, Tuesday, April 3, 2012
AUGUSTA,Ga -- Fire officials are fired up about staffing being watered down. We are learning the fire department is short firefighters as thousands of people descend on the city for Masters week.
"We're left in a mess," said Charles Masters who is president of the Augusta Firefighter's association. "We were left in a mess."
We are learning the city is facing a firefighter shortage as thousands descend on Augusta for Masters week 2012.
"The past administration failed to hire, they failed to promote, they failed to fill ranks," said Charles Masters. "It has left our department depleted."
We went straight to Augusta fire chief Chris James.
"It is a very serious issue," said Chief James.
It turns out the department is using overtime to cover several vacant positions.
"We are 40 people short," said Chief James. "The lesson for us to learn is to assure that we never get that short again."
The department called in 10 workers for overtime on Tuesday.
"My number one concern is the safety of the men," said Masters.
Overtime hours often amount to firefighters working two days straight.
"Our first duty is to protect the citizens," said Chief James.
The annual overtime budget sits at $600,000.
"The first quarter," noted Chief James. "We have spent almost half of that."
The long hours coupled with Masters week has some firefighters calling out sick.
"We need you to come to work," said Chief James. "We don't need to have firefighters calling in sick so that they can go work at the Masters."
We pulled the personnel policy on sick leave.
"If you're engaged in outside employment activity while on sick leave," noted Chief James. "That is an ethics violation. That means a person that is in violation of that policy will be terminated."
The fire chief says this is a temporary problem. They have more than 30 firefighters in training, but the training takes 90 days.


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Preparations are being made to elect a new sheriff in Jasper County.
Earlier this month, Sheriff Keith Murphy abruptly resigned after just six months in office. County officials say his resignation was due to personal reasons.
The interim sheriff is 66-year-old John Keenan.
"I was kind of caught off guard. It kind of caught me off guard," Keenan said.
Keenan is a retired captain from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. He says he has no plans of seeking the office on a permanent basis.
"I told the board of supervisors that I'd serve the four months and that's it. I'm fixing to be 67-years-old and I've had 35 to 36 years in law enforcement and I'm drawing retirement," Keenan said. "I'm going to go back and draw that after this is over with."
Between now and the upcoming special election for the position, Sheriff Keenan says not many changes will be made.
"We're going to continue basically on the policies that were in place," said Keenan. "I have no intentions of changing anything for four months."
So far, election officials say more than a half dozen people have taken steps to qualify for the election.
'The phones have been ringing off the hook,' says Jasper County Circuit Clerk Billy Rayner.
As of Friday, Rayner says three candidates had qualified and five additional packets had been requested. One of the individuals who has picked up needed papers to qualify is former sheriff, Kenneth Cross. He was defeated for the position last November.
For people seeking the office of sheriff in Jasper County there's something to keep in mind. A new law took effect July 1, which spells out more requirements for anyone seeking the office of sheriff anywhere in Mississippi.
"Before taking the oath of office the winner must have served four years as a sheriff or have five years of full-time law enforcement experience," said Rayner. "If he doesn't have any of that, he must attend the Mississippi Law Enforcement Academy or Jackson Police Academy before taking the oath of office."
All candidates vying for the seat must run as an independent candidate. The special election for the sheriff's position in Jasper County will be held
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U.S. Lawmakers Criticize Malaysia on Plane Hunt
Lawmakers criticized Malaysia on Sunday for what they described as lackluster cooperation with the U.S. in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
"I think across the board people are looking for more in the way of openness from the Malaysian government in terms of sharing the information they have in a timely manner," Rep. Patrick Meehan (R., Pa.), a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said on CNN's State of the Union.
"The reports I'm getting are frustration," Mr. Meehan said. "We're invited in only a little bit."
MH370 disappeared on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and searches so far have failed to turn up evidence of the fate of the Boeing 777 or the 239 passengers and crew aboard.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the committee chairman, accused the Malaysians of fumbling the initial search. Mr. McCaul told Fox News Sunday he believes the plane is in the Indian Ocean.
"I think the Malaysian government spent way too much time focusing on the northern route in the Gulf of Thailand, Kazakhstan," Mr. McCaul said. "It would have been picked up by radar and we knew that. I know satellite imagery given to the Malaysians established that, and we wasted a week of precious time up in that region when all along it's been in the southern Indian Ocean."
President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, Tony Blinken, however, praised Malaysia, China and other countries for cooperating in the search. "You have countries working together in ways they haven't done before," Mr. Blinken told CNN.
That said, Mr. Blinken noted that more than two weeks into the search, there is still "no prevailing theory" about what happened to MH370.


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For all the hooey he regularly peddles, conservative pundit George Will occasionally comes up with something worthwhile.
And such is the case with THIS COLUMN, wherein he throws around a few political statistics.
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[S]ince the Civil War, the average turnout in presidential elections has been 63 percent and in midterms 48 percent. The decline comes mostly from the party holding the presidency, and analyst Charlie Cook says three crucial components of Obama�s coalition � unmarried women, minorities (more than 40 percent of Obama's 2012) and young people � are especially prone to skipping midterms. In the seven ...
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'Voice' Finalist Tessanne Chin Won't Get Jamaica's Votes But Has Its Support
Jamaicans are passionate about music and elections. So of course we're in a frenzy about Kingston-born Tessanne Chin's chances of winning "The Voice." We want her to win. We think she will win (her version of "I Have Nothing" reached No.1 on the iTunes charts). But only those of us who live in the fifty U.S states, including Puerto Rico and D.C., are eligible to vote (phone, text, online and iTunes voting is open only to people and accounts in that geographic area).
The last time I saw my people this crazed about elections was in 2008, when Obama got their overwhelming support (Jamaicans couldn't really cast a ballot in that contest either). To us, Tessanne is more than her talent, more than an exemplar of range, timing, and vocal control. She represents an idea that is deeply emotional. It's the sense that we've always been good, great even, but have often had to accept second or third position, because that's just the way of the world.
"The Voice," like all talent shows that involve fan voting, is a populist revel. And it's easy to dismiss such programs. Mostly I do. In fact, when I'd read in the Jamaica Observer some months ago that Tess had auditioned for "The Voice" I was a bit annoyed. My sense was, "Why is this news?" I slipped into an automatic position against her. I wanted and expected her to not go very far in the competition. I'd written her off as "an uptown singer," good enough but able to have a moderate career because of privilege, because of Jamaica's only partially dismantled connection between what you get to do and how you look.
To some Americans, Tessanne may be seen as a Jamaican, or a Jamaican with some Chinese ancestry and other ethnic links. In Jamaica, some people who view the world through a racial prism see her as a "browning"–a lighter skinned Jamaican whose color translates crudely into class privilege.
Popular music in Jamaica is one of the few spheres dominated by the black majority, downtown people. So uptown "brownings" in Jamaica have a complicated station in the local reggae/dancehall scene. Perhaps because of this those who've been successful like Tessanne, Sean Paul, Shaggy and Junior Gong, have had to work through suspicion, insults, slights.
What the world saw on stage last night, and has seen for the last three months, is a brilliant, diligent singer, who has served a tough apprenticeship in one of the most competitive music industries in the world. She's come through trenches dug by machismo. She has sung reggae, dancehall and commercial pop as if all of them are her birthrights. And they are. She has amazed all who've heard her, shamed all who've judged her background and graciously ignored those who'd like to make her some unclassifiable extra-ethnic exotic for their own needs and reasons.
She's great and she's Jamaican and is confident but not arrogant about her talent, for she was raised right, is a good girl from a solid family, and knows that pride is not the same thing as boasting. She is proud in the sense that she knows what she can do—reach any note she can imagine via thousands of routes. But she is not boastful. She is down to earth, what we call in Jamaica a roots (and yes, it's always in the plural).
Yes, people, Tessanne is a roots. Bob Marley was a roots. He was also a browning. And his voice started in Jamaica and reached out to make a soul connection round the whole wide world.
Tessanne, 28 year-old woman with the baby face and mummy arms, the voice you sing in means as much to the planet and your people as the one in which you speak.
Jamaican-born novelist Colin Channer is the father of Addis and Makonnen. He's also a professor of English, the founder and artistic director of a literary trust, and the author of such books as "Waiting in Vain" and "The Girl with the Golden Shoes."
UPDATE: Go to Tessanne Chin Wins "The Voice."
UPDATE: Many readers have questioned whether NBC really did bar voters outside of the U.S. and Puerto Rico from voting. Here's what Nikki Lichterman, Senior Press Manager, NBC Universal Television, had to say after the finale: "There are safeguards in place to ensure that people outside the US and Puerto Rico are not able to cast votes, and if someone outside of these regions is somehow able to cast a vote, there are additional safeguards to ensure that their votes are not counted."


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Stanley M. Septon, 59, of Grand Forks, N.D., formerly of Devils Lake, N.D., passed away on Wednesday, March 14, 2013 at Altru Hospital, Grand Forks, ND.
Funeral services for Stanley will be held on Tuesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. at the Gilbertson Funeral Home, Devils Lake with burial in the Devils Lake Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. until time of service.
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The cause of a pair of power outages in Hannibal Monday and Tuesday could not be determined, according to the Board of Public Works.
Monday's outage on Saturn Drive happened at 12:30 p.m. and lasted 30 minutes.
On Tuesday, the outage hit the Cardiff area at 4:57 a.m. The lights were back on in 31 minutes.
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Liberty Gridders to be guests of Lions Club: A real championship celebration is in prospect for Monday evening when the Brentwood Lions play host to the Liberty Union High School football squad and coaches.
The Liberty Lions have won the EBCAL gridiron title for two years in succession, an accomplishment which will add zest to Monday night's dinner. The annual Lions football dinner has become a custom, and is given regardless of the record of the team.
This year, as usual, the dinner will be served at Veterans Hall with Joe Silva in charge of arrangements and Bill Stanford planning and serving the dinner. More than 300 persons are expected to the tables, including the entire football squad, the Lions and their wives and invited guests.
The highlight of the evening will be the awards. To fill in the gaps, Silva has rounded up a number of acts to be presented while dinner is being served. Artie Honegger, former University of California grid star, will be master of ceremonies as president of the Lions.
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Working sheep ranch gives 4-Hers real experience: You're 13 years old and you're lying in a sleeping bag, on the hardwood floor of a rustic farm building, awaiting your turn to tend to a sick lamb. How do you feel? If you are one of Marianne McGill's 4-H kids, you probably feel like you and your friends are running a working sheep and cattle ranch all by yourselves.
That feeling, McGill said, is the "charm" of spending three nights a year, in the spring lambing season, at the University of California's Elkus 4-H Ranch just outside of Half Moon Bay.
Of course, there is not always a sick lamb to tend, but there was the first time McGill took her group to Elkus.
"We had to feed it every two hours, so we set up a schedule where two kids would go out with an adult every two hours. Some of the kids got so involved that they went out each time, even though they were not scheduled to go, so they didn't get much sleep."
-- Brentwood News files
"In spite of the hard work, the kids really did thrive on it, and they wanted to go back," McGill said. In fact, they love the ranch experience so much she said, "that at the beginning of each year the first thing they ask me is, are we going back to the ranch this year?"
McGill also shared memories of her mostly-city kids patiently waiting outside sheep pens to watch the birth of a lamb. The youngsters also get involved in sheep clipping and other routine farm activities.
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A federal judge agreed to give former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard another month to report to jail.
Federal Judge Hayden Head made the decision Wednesday.
Broussard had been ordered to report to jail on Monday, April 8, but the judge will now allow that date to be moved back to May 6.
The Bureau of Prisons has not yet selected the facility where Broussard will serve his time.
Additional details supporting the request were not provided.
Broussard is facing a 46-month sentence stemming from his guilty plea last year on payroll fraud and bribery charges.
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Share your experiences with the The Challenge Mud Run: Miami below Back to event details page.
This was the most unorganized run I have ever been to. It was not 5 miles, and, despite the name, was not challenging in any way. A lot of the obstacles advertised did not exist. Course was also not properly marked, leading to much confusion.
Such a waste of money and time. I have participated in many obstacle races, but this was by far the worst. First off it was unorganized from beginning to end, it did not start on time , we waited in line to get our race number and bibs forever, they advertised 5 miles and the race wasn't even 4 miles. And wait.... The obstacles.. What obstacles? And that thing at the end that was called the beast. Ha! What a joke you waited in line forever and most people were tired of waiting and just walked to the finish line. I'm mad I spent the money.
I too feel like this was a waste of time, effort, and money!
I was in the competitive wave/heat and when I got to the trails there was no race personnel inside or out of trails to properly direct you (horrible experience) when we came out of the trails over 100 people were now ahead of us and thus We had to work to achieve our respective place around people that should not even be in the competitive heat/wave! Come on people you know if you should be in this field of runners or not.
Garfield you get a D for planning and organizing this race. I tried to find the race director the infamous "Garfield" no where to be found
I doubt I will do another Challenge Race and guess what most likely there will be another race that same weekend next year so I will have an option!!!
Horrible Xperince for the Money - Brian
The event on March 30th was a blatant money grab. Every conceivable aspect was cheaped-out on. This included parking, registration, wave control, obstacles, length of course, safety precautions, water stations, beverage sponsors (Sapporo?), t-shirts, entertainment, the Gryphon 'after-party'... It was just sad (and often funny) all the way around. For the reputation of Active.com, I suggest removing "The Challenge" from your site.
This was definitely a waste of money and one of the most unorganized events I have ever participated in. I will not be doing this one next year. They were missing 3 obstacles and there was an hour wait for the last obstacle.
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When can a batter step completely out of the batter's box and not violate being completely in the box?
The batter starts out legal but then the following happens:
1) During the windup or stretch the batter edges closer to home plate with part of his foot out of the box
2) During the windup or stretch the batter steps on the plate but does not contact ball and jumps back on release (obvious attempt to distract pitcher)
3) During the windup or stretch the batter squares to bunt with foot completely out of the box but no bunt attempt, we could even add that the foot is completely on the plate.
Would any or all of these be legal even though they are intended to distract the pitcher with no intent of contacting the ball?
Let's starty with the basics. The umpire should not allow the pitch to start if the batter does not have both feet completely inside the batters box. (The lines count as being compliant.)
In your example #1, it's nothing. But if he hits the ball, the umpire must judge as to whether the foot was COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BOX ON THE GROUND! If contact is made, fair or foul, if any part of the foot is still in the box (including the lines), it is all legal!
In your example #2, I suggest that the correct answer depends on what level you are playing. For ball players who shave, I would just ignore it, but I would be ready to handle the next pitch which could be a "purpose pitch". [Rawlings McMuffin?] For ball players who do not shave, I would NOT rule a balk (or illegal pitch in LL) if I felt that the batter intended to confuse or distract the pitcher. (Probably a no-call.) And if the pitch comes in normally, my strike zone might enlarge a teeny bit.
In example #3, as long as contact is not made on the pitch, it's nothing.
You have to be careful how you judge "intent to distract". There are some accepted cases--and it really does depend on the guidance you get for the level you ump.
For instance, if the batter comes way across to the plate in a bunt stance, a smart pitcher would deliver some heat down Main Street and hope that the batter gets hit! It will be a strike, and he will stay there! And he will think twice about being a geek!
Hope that helps.
Mike CVUA
6.02(a) says, "The batter shall take his/her position in the batter's box..."
6.03 says, "The batter's legal position shall be with both feet within the batter's box."
6.02(b) says, "The batter shall not leave that position in the batter's box after the pitcher comes to the Set position, or starts a windup."
So, once the pitcher has come Set, or he/she starts his/her windup, I won't allow the batter to intentionally step out of the box. If he/she does away from the plate, I'll allow the pitch to come in and rule it a Ball or Strike as the Penalty says in 6.02(b). But if he/she steps towards home plate intentionally, I'll call "NO PITCH!" and then warn the batter to stay in the box.
Again, I have to judge that the batter is leaving his batting position intentionally. In your 1 and 2, it should be pretty easy to judge the batter's intent. In 3, I won't do anything since some batters do square improperly to bunt with no intent at shenanigans.
That said, the batter is allowed to distract the pitcher as long as he/she does so legally. By "legally", I mean the batter isn't doing something that is clearly against the rules. Bat waving, for example, is not prohibited by rule, so I wouldn't make a big deal out of that. But leaving the batter's box is a violation of 6.02(b). And if he/she does so towards the plate, not only is it a rule violation, but it is also a dangerous act that I feel needs to be stopped.
But that's just me.
Just a "teaser" question----because I had the experience of an umpire, and both managers, same game, not knowing the correct answer.
I know Manny knows the answer...as he cited the rule number on another thread...altho not citing the rule verbiage at that time.
In Little league, would that pitch be counted/charged to the pitcher?
Okay, anyone to the question!?!?
BTW---those bold enlarged letters in my OP, were not intended.
I don't what I "hit" that caused that to happen...and reverted, without me doing anything, to normal in the sentences following.
Hopefully no offense taken by readers here.
I will bite without grabbing the rule book and take the risk of being wrong.
When a player becomes set, say from stretch, and takes an overly long time to deliver, I allow the batter to step out as a stress relief. IF the pitcher finishes I call time, and declare No Pitch.(Mostly while it is on it's way. That pitch IMHO does not go against pitch count as I ruled it No Pitch by me.
Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it!
Make the player request time, don't just grant it on your own.
If the batter steps out without asking for time and the pitch is delivered you just call it as you see it. 6.02(b )
If the batter steps out and the pitcher stops it's a do-over.
Good effort NELL....i.e.....your IMHO bears fruit. A declared pitch deemed a "no-pitch" for whatever reason by the umpire, is not counted in a pitcher's total pitches, in Little League, albeit thrown.
Also, if you did grab the LL rulebook looking for the correct answer it would of been an excerise in futility; altho not counting the no-pitch is a LL Rule---but appears only in the 10.00 series----Rule 10.22, added as an addendum in 2007.
The subject LL publication/series is entitled.."What's The Score."
10.22 also contains other excerpts of interest---in regard to "pitch-counts."
Manny mentioned Rule 10.22 in one of his past posts; absent any detail which wasn't needed at that time.
Not counting a thrown no-pitch brought forth some discussion locally-----led by me.
Point was, the pitching arm/shoulder (physically) knows no difference as between a pitch thrown and counted; and one thrown with the same wear and tear on a kid's arm/shoulder---and not counted.
Ahhh, my rule book is in the downstairs "library"! But I appreciate you detailing it for me.
As for calling time when the batter steps out, sometime they do it as stepping back, right? Assuming you are going to grant it. If the pitcher has a inordinary delay between set position, which I can guage from his past pitches, I usually will grant, and I have seen a pitch or 2 on the way as I do.
Have you ever had a pitcher throw right to the catcher before you are set?(Maybe with mask not on?) I have, it's like they don't see you back there standing with hands up.
Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it!
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Not counting a thrown no-pitch brought forth some discussion locally-----led by me.
This brings up something that kinda sorta bit me in the butt during tournament play last week. I was PU for the 9-10 winner's bracket final in our district, and one team had a pitcher who wasted no time between pitches. There were a couple of occasions where I had to tell him to wait until I put the ball in play before he started his delivery.
In one case, he went ahead and delivered the pitch anyway, and I called "No Pitch". What I failed to do was turn back to the official pitch counter and verify with him, "You didn't count that pitch, did you?" I had (wrongly) assumed that he knew that.
It was only between innings when there was a 3-pitch dispute between the official counter and the team's scorebook that I asked him if he counted pitches that were thrown when I said, "No Pitch." He said he did because the the pitcher did add wear and tear to his arm. Ummm, no, sorry.
So you may want to have a pre-game with your official scorer to make sure he/she knows better.
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7/4/10 was my first show back, and I brought my wife who is not a fan but I wanted her to see what it was all about. The lot scenario was the best I've ever seen at a show - we had Lot A tickets and pulled into our spot within 5 minutes of getting in line. We chilled with some good folks and enjoyed the friendliness - it reminded me of when I was 16 and saw my first Dead show in 1994 and all the older folks who were so kind and generous. On a side note - there were so many young kids out there that it was kinda shocking!
A bunch of ticketless people out and about when we approached the venue at around 7:45.
We got in and sat on the lawn with some friends - what a gorgeous venue it was! Reminded me most of Merriweather with the open air and woods-like setting.
Star-Spangled Banner was not unexpected, and the PYITE was really well played. I've always been a huge fan of that song as an opener.
The Forbins-Mockingbird was unexpected, relatively. It didn't surprise me that they'd pull a narration song on this Independence Day, but the straight Forbin-Mockingbird was a shock sans narration - when was the last time that happened? And to be honest, I called the Harpua when they failed on the narration in Forbins.
Camel Walk was next and this was killer - what a great start to a show! Seriously... this was classic stuff. I thought I heard a little Jimmy Page jam in the Walk, but maybe I'm wrong on that.
The middle part of the Set was cool - Ocelot is a really catchy tune - I'm not too familiar with all the newer songs but this one is a keeper in my book. I think we had a Lawnboy in there, which was fine.
I hadn't seen MFMF live since 1996 and it's always been one of my favorites... can't argue with the execution here either.
I thought the Bowie would close the set. It wasn't anything to write home about, but always fun to get the thrills at the end.
The Jiboo was the jammiest part of the set, and Trey really soared on this one. It was hard groove and a welcome closer to a really above average set to be honest.
Disease to open was stellar - I'm of the old school and familiar with DWD openers... this one wasn't anything that would rank in the upper echelons of Disease, but toward the end of the jam Trey really started to crank that industrial guitar and it reminded me of the great jams of the 2003/2004 period. It was short-lived as Piper began... which I read people are saying was botched? Huh? That song is loose dude - it's not a composed intricate song. It's undergone some revision it sounds like with less fooling around and more bring the heat.
The entry into Ghost was predictable, and welcome! Disease->Piper->Ghost is a great start to a second set! None of the jams would rank highly in my book, but a great three song run. Trey's tone just isn't very strong anymore - but Mike and Fish were really crunching in this section.
Waste flub was what it was... and I don't take myself serious enough to get angry with it. Julius seemed to rage - I've never been a huge fan of the song but they really got it on there. Mikes is usually my favorite part of the show, but I know it's just not even close to as fun as it once was. I was so happy that they didn't go into Hydrogen, and was fine with Tela. Tela's never been my favorite and it's a little cheesy, but anything other than Hyrogen (within reason here) was welcome. The Harpua was played really well to start - good thumping groove.
The narration was entertaining - they're almost all entertaining really! Not sure what the message about lying textbooks was about... was it a political message? It's the kind of thing you hear on conservative talk radio... but was playful.
THe intro into the Killing in the Name Of was just classic - reminded me of the 1995 New Years run with Shine. I thought maybe a guest appearance but nobody had ever walked out with mics or anything.
I'm not a Rage fan, but I'm not gonna lie on this - it was easily the highlight of the set. They freakin' NAILED it! Such adrenaline pumping. For those that witnessed the Sabotage outbreak at Merriweather summer 1998 - you'll know what I mean. It wasn't a stupid Fish hip-hop cover. It was balls to the wall slamming music that had the entire shed pumping fists and banging heads - all splashed in white light. It was so energizing it was insane!
I'll be honest - halfway through the Groove we headed for the door. I love a good Groove but we'd seen the good stuff.
We heard First Tube as we walked to our car and I couldn't have been happier with the show. I'm not jumping on tour or anything, but it's safe to say that any doubts I had about Phish's ability to put on a killer show were put to bed.
It's a whole different ball game to attend these shows. I wonder now what 90's Phish would have been like with the instant access to recordings. Part of what made the classics classic was the word of mouth that was able to spread as we all searched for good quality tapes. It sometimes took months to get your hands on shows, and those who were there set the bar. Finally hearing the tapes was an event... now it's just a tool for people at home to sit back and nit-pick every little mis-step. Phish doesn't jam as well as they used to - that's pretty obvious. But nothing should be taken away from a killer show, and those that were at 7/4/2010 know they got a killer show, no matter what anybody listening to LivePhish says.


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Teachers are not fleeing
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 6:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 6:06 p.m.
The number of teachers who retired last year was up from the year before.
That has caused some school officials across the state to register concern about the teachers leaving their systems. It has even led some to speculate that more teachers than usual could be leaving because of the new education reforms enacted last spring.
Those reforms restructured the way tenure is awarded to teachers. It also put in a whole new system of evaluating teachers that relies more heavily on student performance.
While there have been some worries among teachers about the new systems being implemented, the numbers do not suggest a large exodus from the teaching field.
"There is not any cause for concern regarding overall attrition of teachers," state Education Superintendent John White said on Monday. "The idea that the reforms are pushing out top teachers is simply untrue."
The number of retiring teachers went from 2,598 in the year ending in June 2011 to 3,295 in the year ending in June 2012.
That is a big increase, but there is no hard evidence that the one-year spike can be blamed on the new laws rather than just being a one-year phenomenon.
There is also no reason to think that the increase will necessarily continue this year or into the future.
With that said, though, large deviations one way or the other from the norm bear watching in future years to see if there is a valid connection.
At the same time the retirements were going up, so was new-teacher hiring. The state's school systems have been able to keep pace with teachers leaving by hiring new teachers to take their places. That creates challenges as well because we lose experience in the process. In the long term, though, it is an inevitable process. And while there is a loss of experience, there is also an influx of new blood into the schools.
There is no easy way for school systems to know from one year to the next exactly how many employees will leave — through retirement or other means. It is a problem that must be faced each year, with some variations from one year to the next.
The statewide retirement numbers might give opponents of reform a platform for their complaints; there is no reason to think that had any effect on the numbers.
It is more important for school officials to concern themselves with creating the best performance among the teachers and students who are part of their systems.
If that part of the equation can be improved — and it is still too soon to know whether that will come about either — the raw number of retirements in one year or another will be just another statistic.
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I have a lot of things I like to do. I like to take baths, read books and take naps in various locations such as my bed, my couch, any other available couch, airport terminals and hotel rooms. Occasionally I'll combine several of my favorite activities by reading a book in the bathtub until I fall asleep. I have awoken, many times, with my wet book on my chest while lying in what is now room-temperature water. Don't worry, no book is at risk for permanent harm, I only take the cheap paperbacks into the bath with me and later lie them fanned out in the sunshine to dry, competing for windowsill space with my cats.
My boyfriend, Eric, has very different hobbies than I. And usually his hobbies are things that involve other people. Along with car racing, University of Oregon football, golf, fishing, and barbecuing, Eric also is in a bowling league. On a recent weekend, his bowling league had its final weekend of bowling in Reno, Nev., and I tagged along for the trip.
We left for Reno after I had finished my workday, meaning we didn't hit the road until after 8 in the evening. I didn't do any of the driving because I have a history of wrecking cars and Eric was understandably concerned for my safety because he's wonderful and sweet like that. No, actually he's just one of those people who keeps his car clean and dent-free and wants me as peripherally involved in the life of his car as possible. So, although I wasn't driving, I knew it would be rude to curl up and nap in the backseat for the entire five-hour drive, so I sipped my energy drink, made conversation and sang along to the radio. By the time we arrived in Reno it was after 1 in the morning.
We checked into the hotel, I gazed longingly at the bed and started to take off my shoes in preparation for my longest and most favorite nap of the day, bedtime.
"What are you doing!?" Eric asked. "Go brush your hair. We're going out!"
Eric was so excited to show me around the hotel and casino. We looked at the shops, Eric played a hand of blackjack, and we walked up and down hallways filled with people who were also awake. I was shocked. Eric proudly announced that the last time he was in Reno for a bowling tournament he didn't sleep for two days because there was so much going on. "We can't go back to the hotel room, we'll miss something!" was his constant refrain. Uh, we're obviously missing something, we're missing my required 16 hours of sleep that I need daily.
In the end we had a good weekend. I lost exactly $2 playing the nickel slots and ate bubblegum ice cream. We spent one day in Virginia City, Nev., which was built around several old silver mines and we rode on a train, which was nice, though the hard, wooden benches didn't make for very good napping conditions. We ate food, saw friends — and I didn't take a single bath.
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Jade Holder, 19, died after being attacked in the Augusta Youth Development Campus. (WRDW-TV / Nov. 9, 2011)
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A recent internal report of the Augusta Youth Development campus identified a number of "deficiencies" that need to be corrected by the staff.
This audit, conducted by the Department of Juvenile Justice Office of Continuous Improvement, was completed before five of the inmates escaped in October. Since then, all of the inmates have been taken back into custody and are facing additional charges. Click here to see News 12's coverage of the escape.
Newly-appointed DJJ Commissioner Avery Niles called the audit "unacceptable" and said changes need to be made.
"As a result of the escape, DJJ failed to protect the community," he said in a news release. "Audit reports like this compromise our agency integrity."
Here is the list of the security improvements that the audit says needs to happen at the YDC:
- Ensure detainee movement and population counts are conducted properly
- Ensure dorms are managed in a manner which prevents safety and security issues
- Ensure staff frequently practice emergency drills in preparation for real crises
- Ensure perimeter checks are conducted as outlined in policy
- Ensure all staff members are familiar with the escape prevention plan, and
- Ensure the emergency notification process for local law enforcement is structured to accurately reflect when notification times or attempted contacts are made to the Sheriff's Department
Currently, the search is on for a full-time director at the YDC. Niles says he plans to fill the position by mid-December.
The position was most recently filled by Ronald Brawner, who announced his resignation on Oct. 29. Brawner was suspended after the inmate escape. A personnel file reveals "significant problems with his inadequate supervision." Director of Security Melvin Womble is now the acting director.
The DJJ says perimeter safety measures have been put into place and state-of-the-art stadium lighting will soon be fully functional at the YDC.
But just because some changes have been made doesn't mean there aren't additional ones coming in the horizon. Niles says there could be additional staffing changes as the investigation into the escape continues.
While the spotlight was most recently on the YDC after the inmate escape, the YDC has had problems since 2011 when 19-year-old inmate Jade Holder was fatally assaulted. That death prompted an investigation by News 12 into the facility and the DJJ made some staffing changes after multiple allegations of corruption among employees at the facility. Click here to see News 12's coverage.


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February 20, 2006
If an unmarked deputy car pulls you over late at night, how do you know it's a real officer? That question has people talking after an Augusta woman was pulled over by an impostor Friday night.
There are a few standard things that you should look for on routine traffic stops. It's information that could keep you from becoming a victim.
"Sir, the reason I stopped you is you have an expired tag. Did you realize that?"
It's another routine traffic stop for Lt. Andrew Shed. The first thing he usually does is explain the offense and gets the drivers license and insurance information.
Fifteen-year-old D.J. Morris is about to get his drivers license. He would be reluctant to pull over on a dark road.
"I'd be scared, I wouldn't know what to do. I'd just be all shaky and stuff," Morris said.
But D.J.'s dad and uncle aren't quite as cautious.
"I would probably think he was a cop if he pulled me over."
"What do we look for?" They asked.
Always look for the uniform, official ID and badge. No officer should ever be without it. Also, check for the Gun.
Sometimes the officer will ask the driver to get out of the vehicle. It all depends on the situation. This driver didn't have to get out, and the stop happened in broad daylight.
"If it wasn't a real cop, I'd be pretty mad," said D.J. Morris.
And from now on, he and his family know to call 911 or drive to the nearest law enforcement center if something doesn't feel right.
Officers are still looking for the male suspect, he could face felony charges.


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Prescribed Opioids: Overdoses Not Uncommon
Jan. 19, 2010 -- Overdoses and drug-related deaths are not uncommon among people taking opioid drugs that have been prescribed by a doctor for chronic pain, a new government-funded study finds.
The finding suggests an urgent need to more closely monitor patients who are prescribed drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, and methadone for long-term use, as well as the need to reassess current prescribing practices, an Obama administration official noted.
"The threat to patient safety is too great to allow current pain management and opioid prescribing practices to remain as they are," White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Deputy Director A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, writes in an editorial published along with the study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
CDC: Opioid Deaths Have Tripled
Opioid drugs are increasingly prescribed long term for the treatment of non-cancer-related pain such as back pain and degenerative arthritis.
Prescriptions for methadone alone have increased by more than 800% in the United States in the last decade, and methadone-related deaths have risen more than sevenfold.
According to the CDC, deaths from opioid use more than tripled in the U.S. from 1999 to 2006, from 4,000 to 13,800.
It is widely believed that most opioid-related overdoses and deaths occur among people who abuse the drugs, either by obtaining them without a prescription or by "doctor shopping" to illegally get the drugs from multiple providers.
Little research has been done to examine overdose risk among patients taking medically prescribed opioids.
In an effort to better understand the rate of fatal and nonfatal overdoses among patients taking prescribed opioids for chronic pain, researchers studied nearly 10,000 such patients enrolled in a Seattle-based health cooperative.
All the patients had received three or more opioid prescriptions within a period of 90 days for non-cancer pain between 1997 and 2005. The patients were followed for an average of 42 months from their initial 90-day exposure.
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But most of the overdoses occurred in patients taking under 100 milligrams per day because higher-dose prescriptions were not as common.


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November 16, 2011
California Passes 1 Gigawatt Rooftop Solar Milestone: Study
The Environment California Research & Policy Center has released a new report documenting that California has installed more than 1 gigawatt of rooftop solar power. To put that figure in perspective, only five other countries worldwide have achieved that amount of rooftop solar power. The study also notes that the state's Million Solar Roofs initiative is on pace to meet its goal of installing its legislatively mandated 3 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2016.
The 2006 Million Solar Roofs Bill was the first unified state effort to turn solar power into a commonplace and affordable energy resource. The law established a 10-year, statewide interagency effort, now called the Go Solar California campaign, which includes programs that fund solar projects on homes, commercial businesses, farms, as well as government and non-profit buildings. More than 100,000 rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems have been installed since the program began. Since the first solar panels under the Million Solar Roofs Initiative were connected to the grid in 2007, California has installed nearly 800 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic power, the equivalent of powering 600,000 single family homes.
The potential for solar power looks bright in the Golden State. According to estimates by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the state could host more than 80,000 MW of rooftop solar capacity, which could generate more than a third as much electricity as California uses in a year. Findings are contained in the first analysis of the state's solar incentive program, "Building a Brighter Future." See the Environment California Research & Policy Center press release and the Building a Brighter Future report .


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Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures, as he speaks during a conference about water management in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Hamid Karzai. Karzai spoke Tuesday at a conference about water management, where he first talked about the need for clean water systems and then broke off to address what he described as a "very important issue" -- the varied attempts at peace talks with the Taliban -- warning against peace talks with the Taliban without the Afghan government's involvement. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)


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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
Is this board now dead after yahoo link removed - or is anyone still out there?
Seems like the board may still be active but the links to it have (from my perspective) disappeared.
Anyway, we play Sunderland this morning - no Bale from what I read though, as he's carrying a slight injury.
Hopefully Paulinho will play and we can get some idea of what he'll be like and where he'll play.
Dembele,Parker,Sandro,Holtby,T'Hudd,Lemmon,Bale,Glyphi,Dempsey,Paulinho, Chadli,Townsend...wonder who will play in goal and who'll be sub? We seem to have enough 'midfielders' to start a new team.
At least it looks like Bentley has finally gone - where to - anyone know?Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
man i sturggled to get in here all the links to it have gone #$%$? yahoo
Roger Mellie Roger Mellie Aug 2, 2013 17:07 Flag
Im surprised they didnt bomb it out completely due to the trolling fuckwits. I blame that slayer #$%$
Lost it....1-3 .....not good - but 1st half looked better than 2nd for us. We still seem to lack a threat - I still think we need a no 10 - that creative spark behind the striker(s).
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FABONGRASS FABONGRASS Jul 31, 2013 21:11 Flag
Crikey....the most exclusive football message board in the world!?!?!
Only able to reach it myself as I happened upon a link from 3 weeks ago in my history, you lucky lucky Yiddish folks.....erm....folk? Oh dear. Tiss a shame Yahoo. A great and sorry shame. A stain upon your name. A skid mark through your domain.


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Meet Your Islanders: Cross Country's Christoph Hintz
Christoph Hintz, a native of Schwerin, Germany, is one of six newcomers on the Islanders Cross Country team. After garnering the 5k title at the under-20 Championship in Germany and placing third in the 3k at the German Championships in 2009, the freshman is contributing to Texas A&M- Corpus Christi's recent rise in the regional rankings.
As the 2011 season continues, the men's cross country team has seen great improvement. The squad has moved up four spots to sixth in the South Central Regional poll within its first month of competition.
Hintz is next up in the "Meet Your Islanders" series for GoIslanders.com, a unique way to get to truly know your Islander athletes. Media Relations Intern Amy Carrizales will conduct the weekly in-depth feature on Islanders athletes.
Amy Carrizales: As a native of Schwerin, Germany, what would you say is the biggest cultural change you have experienced since you have been in Corpus Christi?
Christoph Hintz: The number of different ethnicities and cultures in one place.
AC: What are you most looking forward to this season?
CH: Winning the Southland Conference title with my team.
AC: What is your favorite thing about Coach Flanagan?
CH: His humor and his helpfulness.
AC: Who has been the most influential person in your life?
CH: My parents, because they support me in everything that I do.
AC: What is something about you that most people don't know?
CF: When Coach Flanagan called me for the first time from the United States, I didn't understand anything he was saying. He seemed to be kind, so I was saying yes to everything he said!
AC: Do you have a certain "pump up song" before your running event?
CF: " All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled.
AC: What is one thing about Corpus Christi that you find intriguing?
CH: Both the weather and the beach intrigue me.
AC: If you could have anyone run along with you during competition, who would it be with?
CH: Rocky Balboa
AC: If you could offer someone wanting to run cross country at the collegiate level a piece of advice, what would it be?
CH: "You sure you really want to do this?In order to run cross country at the collegiate level hardwork and dedication are a necessity to accomplish season goals."
AC: What is the best advice you have received, in pursuing your future career as a Mechanical Engineer?
CH: My Introduction to Engineering Technology professor once stated " First you have to learn how to phish a Facebook account".
AC: What was a major influence on your decision to attend Texas A&M- Corpus Christi?
CH: Coach Flanagan and my roommate, teammate and friend Philipp Baar.
AC: Aside from cross country, what are some of your hobbies?
CH: I like to hang out with friends, drive cars and act crazy!
AC: Who on the men's cross country team has the wildest personality?
CH: Philipp Baar and Dirty Dan, aka Daniel Barlow.
AC: What is one of your biggest accomplishments thus far?
CH: One of my biggest accomplishments has to be when I was named the fastest German guy under 20 years in the 5k and to be part of the national team at the European championships under 20, which both took place in 2009.
Quick Hits: Favorites
Food: Italian food, homemade food and Philipp's pancakes!
Car: Porsche and the car I will get next year
Movie: I have several, but I would have to say NewKids Turbo.
Quote: "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." – Lance Armstrong.


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